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I have such a hard time giving my sims flaws, so I’ve never tried doing that. I will give it a go next time i play :D

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17313167" wrote:
Nope, but I am not a perfectionist. There are some sims I want to turn out bad for story purposes.

Wow, you're also good at judging character, too, I see. ;)

"Faberries;c-17313146" wrote:
I have such a hard time giving my sims flaws, so I’ve never tried doing that. I will give it a go next time i play :D

Back in Sims3 I was very glad we could give our Sims five Traits. Made it so much easier to help round out their personalities. A character is only interesting if they have a flaw or two. It should be noted that one of my Child Sim's older brothers is clumsy.In Sims 3 he was also childish. Not bad for a genius, World Renown Surgeon. ;)

"GalacticGal;c-17313170" wrote:


Back in Sims3 I was very glad we could give our Sims five Traits. Made it so much easier to help round out their personalities. A character is only interesting if they have a flaw or two. It should be noted that one of my Child Sim's older brothers is clumsy.In Sims 3 he was also childish. Not bad for a genius, World Renown Surgeon. ;)

I miss having 5 traits so much! A lot of the Sims 3 traits we’re so unique as well and i miss them a lot. I do try to give my sims a “negative” trait, but it usually ends up being squeamish, clumsy or hot tempered. I’m too scared of hurting my other sims feelings if i pick something like ‘mean’ haha

Well there was the time I accidentally turned a family sim into a supercharged female equivalent of Don Lothario because I wanted to play a Sim with a high Charisma for a change. I never play romance sims and never bother getting Charisma aboth 4 normally.

But I do enjoy imperfect sims, they are much more fun then perfect ones.

I once had a lazy sim with the irresponsible-trait from the parenthood-pack. Now that was a challenge! Had a quite expensive house and it was so so difficult to keep it floating. Fun!

I often use the “bad” traits from the parenthood-pack to round out sims. Several of them have fun consequences ingame and they don’t take up a trait-slot. There are cheats on the web to give them to a sim.

I have an example:

Normally, when my Sims discipline their children, I have them, shall we say, be "reasonable" and rational about it. But currently, I play my vampire who is hot-headed and it will much more like him to be a person who yells when met with opposition and defiance. So I have him yell at his fussy toddlers - they take after him! Although I would never lose my temper like that with real toddlers, it feels liberating and awesome to immerse myself in roleplaying =D

I always aim to go for that roleplay element, because my life as a gamer started out with roleplaying games (text-based MUD) and my fondness for it has never left me.

Yes, this game allows the player to play it anyway they wish. I love that it's open-ended. I set my own goals for my Sims. The fun is in seeing they achieve it, or fail miserably. ;)

I've challenged myself in my current save to give each of my sims one less than positive trait as their teen choice, just to make me use the ones I never get around to. I'm also trying to max variety with my toddlers by not using a trait again until I've used all of the others. Fussy toddlers are a pain! So are jealous adults, honestly. So far I'm adapting ok to Unflirty and Self absorbed.