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'm a character designer and personality is very important to me. Sometimes I go in with an idea, sometimes I randomize in CAS until get a feel for the sim based on how they look. Same for kids born in game, I might use the randomized outfit they age up in as a base and sometimes I base it off their parents, if I don't already have an idea.
In game, it's very hard because of the game's limits. For instance, I wanted to make a family with very strict parents who don't really care for their children, but their kids are best friends and stay happy despite it all. There aren't any traits to really make a strict parent (I don't want them to hate their kids and Perfectionist is only about the quality of products and nothing like whether or not their child gets good grades...) and there's no Grumpy or Serious or No Sense of Humor trait. It didn't work out because the parents autonomously cared for and were super friendly to their kids and would dance and play video games anyway and I ditched the idea.
I also tried a super cheerful/super gloomy roommate situation where one was Romantic and loved bright colors and was always smiling and the other was very goth with dark colors and Gloomy and Unflirty (she still smiled too much because that's how the game works). They ended up getting along just fine (because that's how the game works).
I have a number of mods to try to create the illusion of personality. One gives you the ability to set what emotion an interaction gives sims so I can make individual sims get focused when they play guitar regardless of traits. Another lets you assign what your sim likes and hates doing, so I can make a sim love listening to music but hate watching TV and they'll autonomously listen to music but stay away from TV.
In game, it's very hard because of the game's limits. For instance, I wanted to make a family with very strict parents who don't really care for their children, but their kids are best friends and stay happy despite it all. There aren't any traits to really make a strict parent (I don't want them to hate their kids and Perfectionist is only about the quality of products and nothing like whether or not their child gets good grades...) and there's no Grumpy or Serious or No Sense of Humor trait. It didn't work out because the parents autonomously cared for and were super friendly to their kids and would dance and play video games anyway and I ditched the idea.
I also tried a super cheerful/super gloomy roommate situation where one was Romantic and loved bright colors and was always smiling and the other was very goth with dark colors and Gloomy and Unflirty (she still smiled too much because that's how the game works). They ended up getting along just fine (because that's how the game works).
I have a number of mods to try to create the illusion of personality. One gives you the ability to set what emotion an interaction gives sims so I can make individual sims get focused when they play guitar regardless of traits. Another lets you assign what your sim likes and hates doing, so I can make a sim love listening to music but hate watching TV and they'll autonomously listen to music but stay away from TV.
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