Hello all, I noticed today one of my sims has an extra trait "home turf" which I don't recognize. Looking it up online, it seems this trait is related to a location aspiration, but my Sim has the nature/angling ace aspiration. Online I read that the home turf trait came with the packs strangerville, island living or city living- but I don't have any of them. Is there any other way how my sim got it? It's not a big issue, but seems strange for me.
@crinrict thanks for your response! I created the sim by myself totally with the angling ace aspiration, with traits assured, loves outdoors and bookworm. I don't have any mods or custom content. Could this trait have come with any stuff pack I purchased? Until I reported this matter, I had the following packs:
And just yesterday I purchased another 3 packs, Get Together, Outdoors and Fitness. I tried restarting the game a few times, but the home turf trait stays and works. My sim is veeeeery happy at home.
You don't actually have to have the pack to get the trait.
They always release a patch before releasing a game pack. Sometimes these "patches" will contain new items or game functionality.
A good example is ECO Lifestyles. A patch came out a week before it was released. The patch contained among other things, a re-design (although a BROKEN redesign) of the household billing system. This "updated" billing system was provided to everyone who has the base game. You don't need ECO to take advantage of the new billing system.
Likely the same thing happened with that sim trait. Probably whichever pack came out earliest, City Living I think, They probably released a patch a week before that included that trait. You probably got it for free in a patch that came out before one of those packs.
ThePsycho
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@Psychotps I think city living was released ages ago? I only started actively playing this year, since a few weeks and I created this sim a few weeks ago as well. Maybe 3 months ago at most, so it would have to be a recent patch. I had the base game, cats&dogs and romantic garden stuff since 2018 I believe, but all other packs I listed in my earlier post I got in the last 3 months.
@crinrict I am not familiar with "create a story" (not sure what this is). I just created the sim from scratch in create a sim, I selected the 3 traits bookworm, self assured and loves outdoors and that's it. I played with that family, later I created more people in the neighborhood (all from create a sim). Later when I checked back on this one I saw the extra trait.
By the way, this is my sims' aspiration progress. I really haven't played much with her yet. I assume "angler's tranquility" that's mentioned in this screenshot is the reward trait for completing the angling ace aspiration, just like "home turf" is also an award trait for something?
No, "Angler's Tranquility" is a special trait you will get after completing all of Angling Ace. These special traits are usually quite powerful. Just like "Fresh Chef" comes with completing the cooking aspiration and allows your food to never spoil.
By choosing to play Angling Ace, you immediately got the "Collector" trait. You only get that reward trait when you first create the sim in CAS. This is normally how you get "Home Turf". You have to select either "City Native", "StrangerVille Mystery", or "Beach Life" as a lifetime aspiration when you FIRST create the sim in CAS.
You have your initial 3 chosen ones, you have the reward "Collector" from choosing Angling Ace, not sure how you got home turf. It's not possible to get both "Collector" and "Home Turf" at the same time without either using cheat commands, mods, or it's a glitch.
Even if you have say Strangerville and choose "Strangerville Mystery" when you first create the sim, that will give you the "Home Turf" reward. However, you'll never be able to get the Collector trait because you have to choose it when you first create the sim. Even if you change aspirations later, you won't get that new reward. Getting both can only be done with cheat commands, mods, or it's a bug.
The trait is in your game just fine. Just because the trait is normally given on those 3 packs doesn't mean it's not in the game. It was likely released like I said, in a patch that came out before those packs. They just included the actual aspiration functionality in the pack but the reward was likely in the base game update. Just no way to give it to yourself without mods or cheat commands, which is simple.
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