What does #FixThePersonalities look like to you?

Mostly, I want customizable autonomy. I want to choose, individually on each sim, what kinds of behaviors they autonomously do and to some degree how frequently they are likely to do them.

For example:

Is this sim ever mean to other sims? Always, Sometimes, Rarely, Never
Does this sim like to do creative activities? As much as possible, Occasionally, Rarely, Never

The idea could be implemented in a variety of ways, including traits, sliders, toggles, likes and dislikes etc. But basically, I want the ability to fully craft and fine tune each sim's autonomous behavior.

I will keep this brief. An Emotion System overhaul which revamps the Moodlets, making Fine the prominent emotion instead of Happy.

I do not know how realistic it is to change the trait system into an S2-styled personality system. Still, I think it will be phenomenal if it can be done. Otherwise, I am content with improving the existing system to resemble the S3 one: more slots, more traits.

Whims should reflect what our sims want based on their personalities/traits. Not some generic wishes which everybody somehow has all the time.

More traits, different personalities trigger different emotions based on the situation, making moodlets not just icons but with actual animations in gameplay, also use memories to give every sims a unique biography that inluences what they talk about, think about etc., less goofy smiling all day, make sims want and fear different things based on who they are, make relationships between sims more complex.

fix the personalities: rework the whole system among traits/emotions/whims. add consequences. rework the AI, enhance it somehow because the AI is the most important part. devs say it's impossible, but they CAN, they just don't do it cuz it's probably too expensive for a free update, but they should do it to fix their game. also add more animations regarding sims personalities, not everyone acts the same and the game should at least have the basics of this.
if devs don't know how to do it right, well, they have plenty of inspiration from past sims games.
bonus request: #fixthebugs

Wants and Fears, deeper more meaningful traits, relationship and interest consequences based on traits, memories, a perk tree for human sims similar to what vampires, spell casters and celebrities have, balanced emotions, unique emotional behaviour based on traits, I could go on.

Do I believe the developers will tackle everything that needs fixing? No. But fixing personalities will require more than one thing be fixed, tweaked, altered or added.

More trait slots and more traits. Have traits impact whims better, so that whims reflect sims' personalities more. The traits should make the sims act differently from each other and add more unique interactions depending on traits.

From your list the obvious one is adding a personality point system like Sims 2 that truly helps define the core of the Sim behavior. Now the personality traits we have need a complete overhaul before more useless traits are added so they can enhance the personality point system
they need to up their tiny budget and create new animations to make these traits feel and look different from each other. Also a memory system is needed so things that happen actually matter or having these personalities will be as shallow as it is now. Wants and fears should also return and go along with the traits that were picked and the choices we made for the Sim while playing it.

I do sometimes miss the points system, but I would happily stick with traits if they had more depth. I want traits to be more distinct and to have more impact on emotions and behaviour. I really miss the little touches in TS3 like how only neat and perfectionist sims would automatically make their beds. I also want more traits (e.g. neurotic, cultured, eccentric, brave etc.), a fear emotion, improved whims, and other features to add personality, such as favourites, turn ons/offs, fears, memories etc.

We definitely need more traits, and they need to be made more influential on our sims' behavior and reactions. Ambient emotional effects should be capped at +3 for any one emotion. More negative emotion-triggering events should be added, as well as making Uncomfortable magnify negative emotions and for goodness sake, give us the Fear emotion because Tense just doesn't cut it. Change the moodlet from Guilty Drinker (Vampire Weakness) from Tense to Sad, because it doesn't make any freaking sense. Whims should be revamped to the old wants and fears system from TS2. And, having TS2's personality points system on top of traits would also be nice.

"GlacierSnow;c-17613158" wrote:
Mostly, I want customizable autonomy. I want to choose, individually on each sim, what kinds of behaviors they autonomously do and to some degree how frequently they are likely to do them.

For example:

Is this sim ever mean to other sims? Always, Sometimes, Rarely, Never
Does this sim like to do creative activities? As much as possible, Occasionally, Rarely, Never

The idea could be implemented in a variety of ways, including traits, sliders, toggles, likes and dislikes etc. But basically, I want the ability to fully craft and fine tune each sim's autonomous behavior.

This would be amazing. I am not a good micro manager (I don't like micro managing), BUT I can't stand it when some Sims develop certain skills thru autonomous actions that I totally don't want them to have. (I guess the way to put it here is it's just not part of my story for them.) I've had games where I cheat-erased their skills completely and cheated their skill points back, minus X skill they autonomously gained by using their phone (I am not a fan of the mandatory smart phones in this game.... LOL) or computer. This is NOT how I like to play the game. :tongue:

It would be awesome for autonomous behavior to match personality traits, but I suppose the issue would mean it would require a trait/personality revamp, like you suggested: Always, Sometimes, Rarely, Never.