As your Sims grow and change life stage, becoming young adults, they gain traits. Up to five traits in total can be assigned to your Sims, this leading to your Sims developing different wishes and behavior. Depending on how successful they were during the previous life stage you may be able to choose the traits you want, while being not-so-successful or having miserable experiences will lead the game to assign randomly some traits... most probably negative ones.
So if you wish to pick up the traits for your Sims, for good or for bad, make sure you keep them happy and successful as the time for the age transition approaches.
The Sims 3 original Traits
- Mental: Absent Minded, Artistic, Bookworm, Can't Stand Art, Computer Whiz, Excitable, Genius, Green Thumb, Handy, Insane, Natural Cook, Neurotic, Virtuoso.
- Physical: Athletic, Brave, Clumsy, Couch Potato, Coward, Heavy Sleeper, Hydrophobic, Light Sleeper, Lucky, Neat, Never Nude, Slob, Unlucky.
- Social: Charismatic, Commitment Issues, Dislikes Children, Easily Impressed, Flirty, Friendly, Good Sense of Humor, Great Kisser, Grumpy, Hopeless Romantic, Inappropriate, Loner, Loser, Mean Spirited, Mooch, No Sense of Humor, Party Animal, Schmoozer, Snob, Unflirty.
- Lifestyle: Ambitious, Angler, Childish, Daredevil, Evil, Family Oriented, Frugal, Good, Hates the Outdoors, Hot-Headed, Kleptomaniac, Loves the Outdoors, Over-Emotional, Perfectionist, Technophobe, Vegetarian, Workaholic.
Examples/Tips:
- Artistic Sims learn skills related to arts (painting, writing novels, playing guitar) faster than other Sims.
- Bookworm Sims read more quickly and write better novels.
- Computer Whiz are great at tinkering the computers and can make some money by becoming hackers.
- Green Thumbs are great gardeners!
- Sims with the handy trait are good in tinkering and upgrading appliances.
- Lucky Sims tend to avoid "misfortunes" in their lives thus most likely they won't burn the food or get robbed. On the other hand, with their luck, career advancing and money making will probably be not so hard for them.
- Natural Cooks learn to cook quicker and don't burn the food so much while they are learning. Boost your Sims mood with some good quality food!
- Perfectionists tend to perform the same task much better than other Sims, though it will probably take them a bit longer to complete it.
- A Virtuoso will learn quicker to play the guitar and make more money when playing for tips as Sims love their playing.
- Loner and Outdoors are probable two good traits to assign to a professional fisherman; will love every minute spent outdoors and won't mind for not socializing so much while fishing!
Keep in mind:
- Sims having at least one common trait tend to get along better with each other.
- Sims will not pass only their appearances to their kids (hair color, etc.) but also some traits when these are randomly determined!
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