Traits you Avoid

As a family player: any of the traits that cause autonomous dollhouse smashing. My legacy gen 2 married a hot-headed sim, and there were times she'd wake up just to smash her daughter's dollhouse. I'd make her repair it immediately if I couldn't stop her in time. I really considered getting rid of her, but she was a good mother otherwise.

I avoid jealous, hates children, lazy, slob, and insider. Some of the other traits like mean, evil, or hot-headed I generally avoid but will occasionally use if I'm tired of playing sims with good traits. Vegetarian is fine but I do find it annoying that they autonomously eat food with meat in it and then complain.

"BrainBlasted;c-17436098" wrote:
As a family player: any of the traits that cause autonomous dollhouse smashing. My legacy gen 2 married a hot-headed sim, and there were times she'd wake up just to smash her daughter's dollhouse. I'd make her repair it immediately if I couldn't stop her in time. I really considered getting rid of her, but she was a good mother otherwise.

I couldn't figure out why the dollhouse was always smashed in my Eva Gold household. Turned out it was the mother (her) who hates children and was doing it. I finally, by accident, caught her doing it once. So I locked her out of the toddler/children part of the house. :D

"mia_noelle97;c-17436150" wrote:
Vegetarian is fine but I do find it annoying that they autonomously eat food with meat in it and then complain.

I know! There is like a choice of garden salad, tofu tacos, vegetable dumplings, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cake, coconut cake, and fish tacos. So then they go directly for the fish tacos... Alrighty then. :D

I avoid these 'why on earth do they even exist' traits, such as insider and squeamish, all the while we don't have 'workaholic'. Smh.

This is an interesting discussion. At first I just wanted to blurt out what I thought were my favorite and least favorite traits, but as I thought about it, it turns out I don't really give my sims traits I like or dislike, but traits that I think most fit what I would image their personality would have been (as limited as that is in this game, on the account of, you know, sims having no actual personality). So due to some extra undesired free time as the result of a global event I tallied all the traits from each of the sims I ever made in CAS in the Sims 4 to see which ones I have used how many times. I usually delete all premade and townies that spawn and I've excluded any of the sims I downloaded from the gallery as well as the one child that has ever been born in any of my saved games and the two pets I made in CAS.

Toddlers ♂2♀0 = 2
Children ♂3 ♀3 = 6
Teens ♂31 ♀8 = 39
Young Adults ♂54 ♀8 = 62
Adults ♂7 ♀9 = 16
Elders ♂4 ♀6 = 10
= 135 total sims

As I suspected it turns out my most used trait is Active. 41/135 of my sims have that trait. Also, they are all male and with 7/41 being Teens, and 32/41 being Young Adults. Granted, I play with a disproportionate number of male sims in my games which also tend to be of the sporty or buff type, but I don't seem to associate the Active trait with female or elder sims.

My next most used trait is Romantic. 30/135 have that trait with only one being female (opposite sex relations are clearly a minority in my games, which probably explains the low birth rate).

My third most used trait is Geek, 24/135, two of which female.

Other traits I've used frequently (10-23/135) are: Bro (17 – exclusively used for male sims), Cheerful (12 – equal gender numbers), Creative (19 – most spread out among all age groups and fairly balanced among the two genders), Dance Machine (11 – apparently guys only again), Foodie (16 – apparently more associated by me with Adults and Elders than Teens and Young Adults, and the vast majority are females here), Good (15 – another fairly equal gender ratio), Loves Outdoors (11 – nothing particular about this one), Neat (17 – this one is fairly balanced gender ratio wise, but I've apparently given this trait to more female sims than male sims), Outgoing (13 – mostly male sims), Perfectionist (10 – again mostly male sims), and Self-Assured (19 – and again mostly male sims. Well, I do have a lot of those).

I can't help but wonder if I may have at least partly assigned traits based on a sim's gender, age, and possibly stereotypes.

If I look at traits that I've given to a majority of, or exclusively to, female sims I get: Cat Lover (1), Clumsy (1), Family-Oriented (5/7 Female), Cheerful, Foodie, and Neat (mentioned above), Insider (2/3), Jealous (4), Kleptomaniac (1), Slob (1), Snob (4/8).

Erratic, Hates Children, Paranoid, and Self-Absorbed are Traits I just haven't gotten around to use yet. With Hates Children being the surprise because I really thought I had given that trait to at least one elder. Turns out I just made him Evil and Mean. Unflirty is exactly the opposite of my playstyle in this game. I don't really like playing with children. I only ever made 6 in Cas and they're mainly world filler background NPCs so I don't see why I would want my Teens, (Young) Adults, and Elders to act Childish. I hate vegans, and Vegetarian is close enough so my Sims don't get to have that trait. They are all omnivores or just plain meat eaters in my sim worlds. I guess those last three are the traits I actively avoid in the game then. Although I'm also quite reluctant to increase the number of Kleptomaniacs from the one I have in my worlds now. I don't like being robbed, and neither do my sims.

While I am not actively avoiding any of the traits, there are some that can really get on my nerves, for example cheerful (sims are happy enough as it is), geek and active because of their constant tense buffs. I also rarely use family-oriented for my main sims because I don't really do family play, which would just be a wasted slot.

I don't really get the hate for negative traits like evil or self-absorbed. I once had a sim who was mean and self-absorbed and she was just so fun to play. I also like the unflirty trait and was so happy when they finally included it in city living because I always imagined one of my sims as aromantic asexual, I just didn't have the traits to portray that. Hates children is another trait I like to use on my sims because I just like these types of characters :D And single sims with the jealous trait have been the most relatable I've ever seen haha

Evil, kleptomaniac and slob. I just don’t play with sims with those personalities. They don’t add much to my game.

@Zimz4 That's a good point you made. Other than my main player sims, for other secondary households, I'll often give them what I think fits them, not whatever traits I personally like.

@Admiral8Q @Zimz4 I do the same, even if they're not super useful. Except Active; I just can't stand seeing Sims starting to do workouts mid-conversation (but it's actually the Energized moodlet that causes the annoying bursts of activity rather than the trait itself, it's just Active Sims get the trait often).

The Slob and Glutton traits kinda gross me out, so I rarely use them.