How Much Personality Do You Give Your Sims?
How much personality do you give your sims within and outside of the game's limits? And how do you do it? For example, things within the game limits would be assigning traits and hobbies or getting...
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I usually have a mix of everything, but I always find it interesting when the sims develop their own quirks. I'll watch them as kids, and note that they tend to act like they have more than just the one trait, and usually give them the traits they appear to have as they age up. But I also have more personality for them in my head, which I use to inform what I ask them to do - and a lot of times, the game will pick up on that and have them start doing those things without prompting.
My current family.
Rowen, the father, had the Music lover trait and would play music spontaneously. He also painted a lot, which actually led to the artist aspiration being completed first. Dorothy, his wife, was a musician who turned to blogging and independent songwriting when her music career stopped being satisfying (kept coming home tense even after a vacation.) Their son Antoni also tends to play the violin without prompting - and he doesn't have the music lover trait. He's working on becoming a world famous actor. He's also a bit of a flirt, even without the romantic trait.
Rose, Rowen's half-alien niece, is a genius and book lover, and accordingly would read on her own. She's also now a virtuoso spellcaster and archeologist and working on learning about vampires (it's low priority because vampires aren't usually an issue, but I have caught her reading the vampire tomes without prompting.)
Shae, Rowen and Dorothy's daughter, completed the Scamp aspiration first when she was a kid. She became a sports star, but she's also now the house cook (she was the one most likely to grill rather than get leftovers when she hit teen) and she works out on her own. I also have her working on mastering herbalisim and potions, with the intention of "retiring" from being a sports star when she hits adult and opening a health and wellness shop. (She's also almost done with the Wellness skill.)
Rose's daughter Stormy is just a toddler, but she's probably going to get the genius trait. Not because she mastered thinking quickly (like most toddlers, she mastered movement first, and Imagination is close behind.) but because one of the first autonomous actions I saw her with was going to play the thinking game on a tablet that happens to be sitting in the living room. I may have her go back to space when she gets older, visit grandma's home planet.
(and don't tut to me about toddlers playing with electronics. She's more likely to go play with the doll house or out on the toddler jungle gym than the tablets any time I'm focusing on someone else.)
My current family.
Rowen, the father, had the Music lover trait and would play music spontaneously. He also painted a lot, which actually led to the artist aspiration being completed first. Dorothy, his wife, was a musician who turned to blogging and independent songwriting when her music career stopped being satisfying (kept coming home tense even after a vacation.) Their son Antoni also tends to play the violin without prompting - and he doesn't have the music lover trait. He's working on becoming a world famous actor. He's also a bit of a flirt, even without the romantic trait.
Rose, Rowen's half-alien niece, is a genius and book lover, and accordingly would read on her own. She's also now a virtuoso spellcaster and archeologist and working on learning about vampires (it's low priority because vampires aren't usually an issue, but I have caught her reading the vampire tomes without prompting.)
Shae, Rowen and Dorothy's daughter, completed the Scamp aspiration first when she was a kid. She became a sports star, but she's also now the house cook (she was the one most likely to grill rather than get leftovers when she hit teen) and she works out on her own. I also have her working on mastering herbalisim and potions, with the intention of "retiring" from being a sports star when she hits adult and opening a health and wellness shop. (She's also almost done with the Wellness skill.)
Rose's daughter Stormy is just a toddler, but she's probably going to get the genius trait. Not because she mastered thinking quickly (like most toddlers, she mastered movement first, and Imagination is close behind.) but because one of the first autonomous actions I saw her with was going to play the thinking game on a tablet that happens to be sitting in the living room. I may have her go back to space when she gets older, visit grandma's home planet.
(and don't tut to me about toddlers playing with electronics. She's more likely to go play with the doll house or out on the toddler jungle gym than the tablets any time I'm focusing on someone else.)
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