negative Traits in game play

"loubyloulou;c-16319702" wrote:

"lesliemhunter;c-16319700" wrote:

"loubyloulou;c-16319697" wrote:
I'm currently playing a challenge where the gen 6 heir has to have the 'evil' trait and it's definitely having a marked effect on his relationships with his wife and kids (I have autonomy on full) to the point where he has a bad relationship with his kids as he's always yelling at or nagging them, and his relationship with his wife is way in the red (both friendship and love) - she has embarked on an affair with one of his friends and will divorce him as soon as the gen 7 heir ages up to YA >:) What I really wish would happen (and hasn't so far) is that the wife would get a whim to divorce him - instead of which she keeps getting romantic whims for him, which is bugging me as she no longer loves, or even likes, him :s

Autonomy! I think that's a key to having traits on anyway. I think a lot of people turn Autonomy off, or lower it, so of course your sim doesn't have any type of personality when you are micromanaging them.
Turn autonomy up a bit. Like, all the way. lol. It makes my game interesting anyway.

Absolutely! I always play with autonomy on as I enjoy the randomness of my Sims' actions, particularly when you have a Sim with negative traits - makes for more chaos :p

This! In my current legacy, the Gen 4 sim grew up in San Myshuno but moved to Oasis Springs for a quieter life to start a family. I thought that generation would be the sterotypical family type, but his brother and wife ended up having an affair autonomously. Gave me an interesting turn, because the heir died of anger!

I like it, and I am trying to collect all sort of negative traits like mental disorder and other criminal traits, they will live in a prison or survival camp , also will kidnap npc to see how he will survive.

Never.

all the time

neat and squeamish - heart breaking to watch :cry:

I havent explored all the "negative" traits yet but so far it's not to bad. My sim is married to an erratic/insane sim and the first time i saw him hiss and talk to his "friend" aka the dining table I thought it was so funny and decided not to give him a different trait cause i wanted to see more. He has mood swings almost every day, for my game the mood swing Angry comes up the most..only had flirty and sad a few times but like others say before it kinda doesn't matter if your sims is well fed and in a nice environment, cause the buffs you know?
I also like how kinda realistic it is in terms of relationships. When my sims first started dating him he would sometimes be mean to her or cause mischief once in awhile but as the relationship got stronger in both the normal and romance bar he barely does that at all unless the anger mood swing is dominant at the time.

The lazy trait is okay too, i didn't notice much with this trait besides happy moodlets after a nap or sitting on a comfortable chair while watching tv..They also fall asleep when taking a bath sometimes.

My current sim has the jealousy trait which is kinda annoying for me at the moment (lol) but only because she hasn't been able to go to work in the right mood from being tense cause her hubby isnt near or talking to her- It bothers me cause being promoted takes forrrevverrr when shes that way. Before that I had her partner throw her a big wedding at a park and i had the man greet and talk to his female friends he invited and my sim stopped eating and told the girl off which was surprising but i had to stop talking to her after that cause she would've continued and there probably would've been a fight at the wedding. She also got jealous before when he was taking care of their toddler but that only happened once so i wonder if that was a glitch? And another time he had some guy friends come over and they were hanging out at the bar and she went to where they were and was doing the action "be jealous" (i accidently canceled it so i didnt get to see what she was going to do :# )

I love all "negative" traits for sims and I don't understand people who shy away from them. Isn't your gameplay boring ?
I'm not sure what qualifies as negative though, lazy definitely isn't in my game, while materialistic is but apparently only for me.
Jealous/Gloomy/Hot-headed are my favorites and the easiest to play.

Regarding negative traits though: why can't children be clumsy ? What is this travesty EA ? I know it's because you didn't want to make the clumsy animations for children but that was a stupid decision.
Let children be clumsy !

I use evil, and hothead pretty often. I like the insane erratic trait also.
Lol... I love to use neat and squeamish together on a helper sim @ModerateOsprey ... It's usually on one I don't play but just let clean up the house. I found that neat sims will just complain about it but squeamish sims tend to want to get rid of the messes. They just work, work, work.

I do avoid jealous (pain in the butt) and lazy (do you have to walk frickin' everywhere!) they both tend to make me yell at the screen.

I'm about to start playing on and off with a klepto sim and I'm kind of nervous I wasn't thrilled with it last time I played but they have to be a klepto with the backstory.

Back in TS3, I gave negative traits to my sims all the time! I liked to think it made them well-rounded. However, I am still with my starter family on TS4 (I got attached, whoops) and...I am finding it difficult to give my sims flaws. Alice Spencer-Kim, a pre-made sim that I hooked up with my custom sim, originally had the childish trait. Which isn't necessarily a flaw! It was admittedly adorable to find her in Olivia's (new) room, playing with her daughter's toys.

And admittedly annoying when she would put Olivia's toys in her inventory, or be too focused on playing to ever take care of the house. I recently gave in and got rid of her childish trait. Oh, well.

However, I DID give my toddler the clingy trait. So, that counts, right?

"feetinstockings;d-934918" wrote:
Does anyone play with the negative traits, be it for sims or lots?? and what is your game play like???? does anything interesting happen in your game???? is it more of a challenge ???
please post pics of things that happen because of the negative traits.
I don't yet. But I'm seriously thinking of making a couple, one who is a slob, the other with a neat trait, in a house that is grungy with earth quakes.
please share your experiences in your game play.

I have created a few evil Sims as needed for Scenarios and objectives put them into different areas (near the Goths, Landgraabs or other NPCs to add chaos to the game).