What is the most chaotic combination of traits you can think of?

The time I encountered a Childish and Erratic sim was when my twins went to University. One of their roommates was a Townie the game Generated. She would talk to herself and play with children’s toys in the dorms… The game created her with extravagant Victorian dresses from the Vampire pack…

It doesn't really matter, because all sims behave basically the same. This is probably the biggest reason why I've grown bored with the game

@Nate_Whiplash1 surely you’ve had a few sims do some odd things because of their traits. I mean, those 3 core traits come with quirks unique to those traits.

If a sim doesn’t have the Childish Trait, they can’t play with children toys as adults.

If a sim doesn’t have the Child of the Ocean trait, they won’t mourn the death of a fish if it’s mounted on the wall.

By the watcher, a lazy sim can sleep anywhere and with the Dance Machine trait, they regain energy faster wherever they sleep.

That definitely makes sims different from each other.

What about moodlets that come from their traits too?

Emotions impact sim behaviors and can cause death. Some interactions become available or are stronger if the sim is in the right mood.

Sure, there are minor variations, but I'm talking about the overall personality.

For example; you can give a sim every bad trait there is (evil, mean, hot-headed, etc), yet if you send them to any public function, they will act as the life of the party, chatting everyone up. If I give a sim those traits, I expect them to pick a fight, maybe throw a table or two, and curse at a few people on the way out the door.

And there's the loner trait. Same as above; send them in public and they become chatterbots. I expect them to avoid everyone, but they don't.

Basically, "good" and sociable traits are built into every sim, and override everything else

@Nate_Whiplash1 I must have a different experience, but I don’t look to bring out the worst in my sims.

I have an Evil, Mean, Loner Vampire… He has the Dastardly Trait.

I’ve only experimented with “good” traits, but if you combine core traits with Character Values, Likes, and Dislikes, it does give them more depth.

My Evil Vampire is:

Well-Mannered
Responsible
Uncaring
Argumentative
Controlled Emotions

He likes Mischief.

These Character Value Traits and his preferences do influence his behaviors.

He has Friendly Interactions that upset sims. He can introduce himself to another sim, build high friendship almost instantly, but he doesn’t care about the feelings of anyone. He can’t easily resolve arguments… And, if he does start off on the right foot with any sim, his lack of compassion and argumentative nature can cause a break down in the relationship.

I think it makes him particularly interesting because he can befriend anyone, but he doesn’t have a lot of good ways to maintain a friendship.

I also gave him the Twisted Heart Scenario Trait.

I mostly play sims with “good” traits, and from what I’ve seen sims that like something will do it more often. My merfolk like to sing, so they will sing at times just because.

I suspect that you just have to make a sim dislike certain things to get them to act according to what you want them to do. Unfortunately, sims can’t like to be mean, but you can make them dislike things that make them “good.”

But, the spirit of this thread is to help identify those combinations of traits, likes, dislikes, and etc. that make sims chaotic, peculiar, interesting, and different.

I also know, from playing a pair of twins for a long time, that skills make a difference too. If a sim doesn’t have the skill for it, they can’t do it.

Sims don’t even autonomously free dive if you haven’t gone into the household and given them the means to do so.

There are things you do have to do with a sim to allow them to behave in a unique way.

Even a creative sim won’t paint if they don’t have the skill for it.

One of my twins, Zephyr Zalrian,

Has the Genius, Child of the Ocean, and Geek Traits.

Before the Like and Dislike system, there was a period of time that Zeph couldn’t be trusted around a computer. His Genius and Geek trait helped him develop programming skills that allowed him to successfully hack into the Landgraab Bank accounts and steal money. He did that autonomously.

"Nate_Whiplash1;c-18166546" wrote:
I've tried all sorts of likes and dislikes, but I don't know what the character values you speak of are. Are those different than traits?

@Nate_Whiplash1 they come from the Parenthood Game Pack. Basically, as a sim goes through the Toddler, Child, and Teen life stage, they build and decrease character values based on what they do.

Once a Character Value is maxed in the positive or negative, the sim unlocks a trait they get when they age up to young adult. These character values do impact autonomous behaviors.

A well mannered sim will do their dishes.

A responsible sim will take out the trash.

A sim with bad manners will probably leave messes.

An irresponsible sim will suffer at work and maybe leave the trash for someone else to take out.