What's your favorite trait to give as a personality flaw?

High maintenance makes sims angry over stupid things! They can get “butt hurt” because the seat isn’t comfy enough. Or if the sun is being too much they’ll get angry. My sim is constantly chipping their nails too ?

I chose recycle discipline, and I didn't even know it was a negative trait, lol. Many of my sims have this trait as I do love Eco Lifestyle. <3

I also would've loved to check mean, it's just so watered down and senseless I hardly ever choose it anymore. Mean sims who have many friends...I don't think so.

These are both fun and insightful to read :)

@Simmingal I forgot Paranoid since I don't have that pack. I see how it could be negative.
@bshag4lv I guess it depends on how you play the Recycle Disciple. I don't like how they swipe things autonomously if they haven't recycled in a while. It's a lot like kleptomaniac in that way.

I chose Jealous since it makes a sim feel flawed in a way you can't look past in gameplay. It really made an impression on me when in my game Akira and Miko were together in my game, Akira caught Miko flirting with someone else, came at her and hit her in the face. It ended up being a big plot point. Even now that he's married to a wife who is a much better partner for him, there are still issues, like they can't hang out with friends as a couple because Akira blows up. On the other hand he's the only sim who has ever expressed to a spouse that the amount of time they spend on childcare makes him miss the spouse. Which is real, and actually kind of sweet.
I feel like it's easy to look past some of the "flaw" traits like Evil and Mean in gameplay, but there's no getting around the Jealous reactions unless you mod them out or something.
@Babykittyjade Goodness, I wonder what it was like before the nerf.

Honestly, I don't know if I consider it a personality flaw, but my favorite is erratic. They're just delightfully different and see the world in a wholly unique way. Sometimes they are frustrating. (like when they insist on wearing their winter wear in the middle of a super hot summer and nearly die on the lawn, or wear their bathing suits in 2 feet of snow.) But its worth the work of keeping them alive during their erratic spells just to see what new thing they will come up with next.

I tend to lean toward childish or clumsy, even though I don't always see them as flaws. I also use loner a lot, again not always a flaw.

I rarely, if ever, use the hates children trait. I'm a family player so that doesn't fit in with my playstyle. Unless I play an evil stepmother/father household one day.

I don't really think of them as flaws for me they're just characters that show certain personality. It's part of them, don't know, I'm just really not into the flaw thinking and categories. For example I absolutely love mean trait, but then again outgoing can be annoying as then the sim requires plenty of socialization. So from my player perspective outgoing is more of a flaw than mean.

In my experience, high maintenance has the most impact on gameplay. They are constantly angry and/or tense about the most ridiculous things and then are pretty much unable to accomplish their normal tasks. I've had two die of cardiac explosions since implementing this trait. While it might be a tad overboard, it does make navigating their lives more interesting.

That's interesting @grassharp . I wish hot-headed had that much of an impact honestly. I don't have Spa Day-- what about high maintenance makes it more consequential than hot-headed? Are the angry moodlets stronger than +1, or do they stack?

"mightysprite;c-18173468" wrote:
That's interesting @grassharp . I wish hot-headed had that much of an impact honestly. I don't have Spa Day-- what about high maintenance makes it more consequential than hot-headed? Are the angry moodlets stronger than +1, or do they stack?

I'm not at home and able to access the game right now--but when I am, I'll check out how the moodlets stack and let you know! :)

I do have a major tendency to give each of my sims some sort of flaws, whether via traits, gameplay or other means (like a spellcaster curse I refuse to get rid of), but I can't really name a favorite. I just kinda pick whatever I find fitting or interesting for the character, nor do I like to repeat certain ones too many times and instead explore other combinations. Though it does seem like my evil and mean ones kinda manage to grab my attention a lot. Perhaps with these characters it's the combination of traits and roleplay but I just find them funny... although they can occasionally get frustrating too because of my mods which make them really aggressive. Kinda became a must to also get a mod which tones down their shenanigans once they actually like a sim enough. Otherwise (unless they have some other traits or rep or such to balance it out) they'd just manage to sabotage all their relationships lol.