There are rumors that there is possibly a coward trait coming in the new game pack, but this isn't about speculating whether or not we'll get the trait, just what we'd like to see with it.So what makes a coward? Cowards are terrified of almost everything, and their fear is intense. What are some things that cowards should be afraid of? There are certain things that all sims should be afraid of like Ghosts and Vampires. But the fear of ghosts/mummies/simbots in sims 3 was incredibly annoying, I've never met a single person that liked their ques being interrupted when seeing one, or having the whole town distraught while playing one. There should be some adjustments though, maybe a very strong reaction to haunting, but not so much the ghost itself, since I usually pretend the ghost is invisible anyway. Likewise, vampires with the decay weakness make everyone around them slightly tense or fearful, but if a vampire drinks from a prey in front of crowd, everyone gets an afraid buff. This is assuming we get fear anyway) -Vampires -Ghosts -Aliens -Skeletons? -Repairing electronics -fires -adventuring -camping -getting into a fight -bear/raccoon suits/clowns What else should cowards be afraid of?And what makes someone Brave? Honestly, brave sims should jump head first into fires to put them out, pick fights with Vampires etc. I know there's at least one thread discussing the possibility of these traits, but this thread is more about going in depth and what we'd like to see :)

All I know is that I had a particular Sim that had such a trait in Sims3. In the midst of danger, he always fainted. I mean, his fiancée drowned in the pool, but instead of bargaining with Grimmie, he was prone on the deck in a dead faint. :open_mouth: I exited without saving to try to nudge him into consciousness in order to save his beloved, but that proved impossible. He still hit the deck. I had to restart their game save altogether.

"GalacticGal;c-16245980" wrote:All I know is that I had a particular Sim that had such a trait in Sims3. In the midst of danger, he always fainted. I mean, his fiancée drowned in the pool, but instead of bargaining with Grimmie, he was prone on the deck in a dead faint. :open_mouth: I exited without saving to try to nudge him into consciousness in order to save his beloved, but that proved impossible. He still hit the deck. I had to restart their game save altogether. If it wasn't a story save, I probably would have tried to roll with that! I love unexpected surprises in my saves, unless it's a story save where I have a specific story I like to unfold.

So I guess we would expect the tense moodlet when encountering things worth fearing. -Perhaps entering lots with the haunting trait as well as seeing ghosts could cause a tense moodlet. Sims already get tense moodlets when seeing ghosts, why not up the stakes? -Fainting at the sight of a vampire compelling a drink from a sim. -Running away from a fire flat-out, rather than trying to put it out or panic in front of the fire. (maybe this creates a bonus, because I know I get annoyed seeing sims panic instead of running away or putting it out)-Extreme reactions to being around an enemy. Say they're afraid of an enemy, or just an enemy they lost a fight to, and that gives them an uncomfortable or tense moodlet-They can't initiate fights with other sims, the option doesn't exist for them. Others must start fights. Or, they have to reach and extreme level of angry like "infuriated" to initiate a fight

It would be neat if coward sims had exclusive work pop ups like the sims with the irresponsible trait have from parenthood, coward sims are less likely to become angry, more likely to become tense or sad if confronted by an uncomfortable situation, an example would be a sim insults the coward sim, and then the coward becomes sad because they don’t have the will to fight back, which would make mean socials harder to perform. I feel like romantic relationships would be harder to develop as well, not like the unflirty trait, but emotions like flirty and confident are less intense making romantic interactions harder to perform. These are a few of my ideas.

It's in the Sims 3 - one of the Maxis Characters Liam O'Dourke I think is his name has it in one of the store worlds - and is scared of ghosts and a number of other things. His knees knock, he trembles, appears scared and when the fear overcomes him, he faints. Often (I know it is horrible to say this) I totally crack up watching him trying to be brave.

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GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
All I know is that I had a particular Sim that had such a trait in Sims3. In the midst of danger, he always fainted. I mean, his fiancée drowned in the pool, but instead of bargaining with Grimmie, he was prone on the deck in a dead faint. :open_mouth: I exited without saving to try to nudge him into consciousness in order to save his beloved, but that proved impossible. He still hit the deck. I had to restart their game save altogether.
Luckylunayre
New Spectator
7 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-16245980" wrote:
All I know is that I had a particular Sim that had such a trait in Sims3. In the midst of danger, he always fainted. I mean, his fiancée drowned in the pool, but instead of bargaining with Grimmie, he was prone on the deck in a dead faint. :open_mouth: I exited without saving to try to nudge him into consciousness in order to save his beloved, but that proved impossible. He still hit the deck. I had to restart their game save altogether.

If it wasn't a story save, I probably would have tried to roll with that! I love unexpected surprises in my saves, unless it's a story save where I have a specific story I like to unfold.
Modsey
7 years ago
So I guess we would expect the tense moodlet when encountering things worth fearing.
-Perhaps entering lots with the haunting trait as well as seeing ghosts could cause a tense moodlet. Sims already get tense moodlets when seeing ghosts, why not up the stakes?
-Fainting at the sight of a vampire compelling a drink from a sim.
-Running away from a fire flat-out, rather than trying to put it out or panic in front of the fire. (maybe this creates a bonus, because I know I get annoyed seeing sims panic instead of running away or putting it out)
-Extreme reactions to being around an enemy. Say they're afraid of an enemy, or just an enemy they lost a fight to, and that gives them an uncomfortable or tense moodlet
-They can't initiate fights with other sims, the option doesn't exist for them. Others must start fights. Or, they have to reach and extreme level of angry like "infuriated" to initiate a fight
filipomel
New Spectator
7 years ago
It would be neat if coward sims had exclusive work pop ups like the sims with the irresponsible trait have from parenthood, coward sims are less likely to become angry, more likely to become tense or sad if confronted by an uncomfortable situation, an example would be a sim insults the coward sim, and then the coward becomes sad because they don’t have the will to fight back, which would make mean socials harder to perform. I feel like romantic relationships would be harder to develop as well, not like the unflirty trait, but emotions like flirty and confident are less intense making romantic interactions harder to perform. These are a few of my ideas.
Writin_Reg
7 years ago
It's in the Sims 3 - one of the Maxis Characters Liam O'Dourke I think is his name has it in one of the store worlds - and is scared of ghosts and a number of other things. His knees knock, he trembles, appears scared and when the fear overcomes him, he faints. Often (I know it is horrible to say this) I totally crack up watching him trying to be brave.
Writin_Reg
7 years ago
"stilljustme2;c-16249217" wrote:
"filipomel;c-16247707" wrote:
It would be neat if coward sims had exclusive work pop ups like the sims with the irresponsible trait have from parenthood, coward sims are less likely to become angry, more likely to become tense or sad if confronted by an uncomfortable situation, an example would be a sim insults the coward sim, and then the coward becomes sad because they don’t have the will to fight back, which would make mean socials harder to perform. I feel like romantic relationships would be harder to develop as well, not like the unflirty trait, but emotions like flirty and confident are less intense making romantic interactions harder to perform. These are a few of my ideas.

Maybe increased chance of bladder failure/embarrassment if in a scary situation.

If we do get the coward trait, I'd like the brave trait back as well -- they'd laugh at the idea of danger, no bladder failure in scary situation, etc. Moodlet that would keep motives from decaying when on an adventure -- maybe something like Adrenaline Rush moodlet.

In Sims 3 brave sims will beat up the burglar, put out fires, and usually like to have jobs like fireman, soldier, police, and life guard. I like that trait a lot.
astridentanja
7 years ago
"Writin_Reg;c-16248314" wrote:
It's in the Sims 3 - one of the Maxis Characters Liam O'Dourke I think is his name has it in one of the store worlds - and is scared of ghosts and a number of other things. His knees knock, he trembles, appears scared and when the fear overcomes him, he faints. Often (I know it is horrible to say this) I totally crack up watching him trying to be brave.

And when there has been too much stress (in a tomb for example) they get too stressed-out and can't do anything aggravating for a while (the options are greyed out).
OneAdorkableGirl
New Spectator
7 years ago
EEP! I know it's not 'confirmed', but I hope this is the case for the gamepack; as I've been wanting/asking for the coward trait to come back for so long now! D; The bad thing is there's a lot of things that a coward could be afraid of and I hope that if the trait is being released in this pack that they'll add additional things that a coward can be scared of when future content is released. (Witches, magic, dark/spooky places.. or even maybe a haunted house (if we get a Seasons expansion pack with festivals again).

With that said, I would LOVE it, if a coward (also as a frugal Sim; as I've been wanting this feature since Sims 3), was afraid of the dark after turning off their lights to "save" money, or if their bills were too high and their electricity got shut off; and they ran out of their house, hands over head, screaming. This would crack me up. It doesn't have to happen. Every. Single. Time, but I would definitely love this if it was occasional.
J_Morris97
7 years ago
It'd be nice to have a coward trait or fear emotion but it not being an overly general one. Like they could be scared of different categories like supernaturals or animals. It would just feel more fleshed out because people are scared of different things and a catch-all trait could be more annoying than useful with gameplay.
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
Well for starters, there needs to be a FEAR emotion in the game first before any kind of coward trait could ever exist.