Has anyone learned the Night Owl trait randomly?

[Seabody]

I was poking about in the code and noticed something interesting. It appears that Sims can learn the Night Owl trait randomly. I've never had it happen in my game, and I've no clue how to go about doing it, but I'd like to confirm if it's just a mistake in code that's not used, or if  it really is able to be learned.

(For the record, it seems to be the only trait that can be learned randomly.)

[Pam]

Do you mean it will be added to the five original traits?

[Seabody]

Do you mean it will be added to the five original traits?

By the looks of it. I'll keep digging in the code and see what I can find.

[Pam]

I've played the Night Owl trait.  All it does is give a positive moodlet for staying up after 11:00 p.m. and a negative moodlet for getting up before 10:00 p.m. (I think).  It fires some wishes to stay up late, but I don't remember it doing anything else.  It seems that if there's a hidden way to earn the Night Owl trait, it might be from staying up all night.

[Seabody]

Maybe my initial interpretation of it was wrong. I checked the scripting, it looks like the code is "if this sim hasn't learned that this sim has a trait, and the trait can be learned randomly, ensure that it is learned". So if a Sim has the Night Owl trait, and another Sim learns a trait from them, it will be the Night Owl trait that is learned. Which doesn't really make sense at all - unless it's 2AM, surely more obvious traits, like Athletic or Genius, would be learned - the sim is more muscly, or speaks a mile a minute in jargon. Or even Snob or Diva. Or just Absent-Minded.

In turn, it also looks like this is only applied to celebrities, so only if the Sim who has the trait being learned is a celebrity, will this happen.

All in all, the scripting is now confusing me.

[Pam]

Don't feel bad.  It's confusing me, too.

[LemonBonBons]

That's strange, I've never known that can happen. I'm all confused now.