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Jyotai
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

Sim political view. Is there a 'none' or 'Centrist' option?

I've been noticing due to some mods that reveal hidden traits that my sims randomly have a political position:

trait_Hidden_Career_Activist_PoliticalPosition_Right
or
trait_Hidden_Career_Activist_PoliticalPosition_Left

Sometimes it fits my instinct for these stances and sometimes it doesn't and well - that's fine because people are complex.

But just as often I want to set a sim to be 'I hate politics' or 'I don't care' or 'centrist'. The apolitical option that I don't see in there. I "thought" I saw it once scrolling through a cheat menu to add a trait, but have never managed to find that again so I'm guessing I just miss read something while scrolling down too fast.

Or...

Does the option to be a non-political sim exist? ;)

I know this doesn't matter for pretty much any of my sims... It seems to not even impact their ability to like each other (wouldn't that be nice in real life...). But I kind of just want that on there for my own sake for some sims who I mentally envision as such.

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  • EgonVM's avatar
    EgonVM
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    I thought the game won't just put it on sims!

    Anyway, the political position trait only has gameplay when you have a sim in the Politician career.

    Mainly, to win support on the cause or secure votes (Politician branch), the sim has some options to do beforehand so that winning support/votes is more successful. Two of these are "Debate Politics from Left" and "Debate Politics from Right" interactions.

    When your sim does one of the interactions, they'll get one of these traits applies (depending which one you chose). This makes it so that when your sim debates politics from the opposite political view, they'll get embarrassed moodlet.

    I never thought that game would just randomly assign these to other sims. I guess the purpose is with whom is which debate option successful and with whom it isn't. So, if you have sim debate from the right with sim whose view is on the left, it'll fail. Though I don't get how are you supposed to tell which opinion they have.

    So yeah, unless you are doing Politician career, these traits have no gameplay effects.

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