Choosing a skill over a trait

[Janna]

I'm not sure if this is the correct section, sorry if it wrong one, please move it if so.

I was wondering as I have chosen a skill for one of my sims and realizes that the sim also had it as a trait, so why bother in getting it as a trait.
So, can we replace that trait by using it as a skill, or does it need to be as a trait for the LTW?  Wouldn't a skill serve the same purpose?

Example:  Skill/trait
Athletic/Athletic
Handiness/Handy
Charisma/Charismatic
Logic/Logic
Writing or Painting/Artistic


So, why should I waste using the selection of a specific trait when I can master it up as a skill instead?

Edited to add: I am sure that there are other skill/trait sets but I don't know those, so didn't list them

[Sportsfan]

Actually it's best to choose a trait that matches the skill because it will increase the skill faster.

[Ricalynn]

Traits are used to help gain the skill faster not to take place of the skill.  It also has bonuses when working with that skill.   Examples: Athletic sims take longer to become fatigued when working out than non athletic sims.   Handy Sims will fail an upgrade much less often than a non Handy Sim.   

Plus traits help you with the ability to get LTW choices that you want.   A Handy, Athletic, Brave Sim will almost always have the astronaut LTW as a choice when you go to choose one.    There was a time when you had to choose traits to get specific LTWs to spawn because there wasn't a choice to choose any LTW.

[Leto85]

And even when you have fulfilled all the skill bonusses such as all the athletic one, that sim still has a bonus with wining a spar tournament, if you have World Adventures installed.
The same count for a Logic Sim with everything unlocked vs a sim with the same skill and bonusses. The one with the Logic trait wll overwin the one without it in a chess match most of the time.

Artistic doesn't have a true benefit when you have the Painting skill at level ten already. Although it influences the painting style (just like other skills_ and perhaps the price of the painting.

[Janna]

Thanks,

I guess I had forgotten that aspect; I read a lot of the articles and info here, sometimes too much info can get in the way.  I am making a list of careers and the best and okay traits and skills needed to obtain them.   Ones that sound interesting to me, that I want to check out and see what I like.   And it does make a lot of sense,  of the relationship of the two; one insuring the succession of the other in a faster rate.

Thanks for the input.

[Pam]

Thanks,

I guess I had forgotten that aspect; I read a lot of the articles and info here, sometimes too much info can get in the way.  I am making a list of careers and the best and okay traits and skills needed to obtain them.   Ones that sound interesting to me, that I want to check out and see what I like.   And it does make a lot of sense,  of the relationship of the two; one insuring the succession of the other in a faster rate.

Thanks for the input.

Hi Janna.

Carl has already done a list of careers and the best traits for them.  Click here and then click on any career to see the best traits for it.