Unlucky trait, a curse or a blessing?

[banded]

I just wanted to know what peoples opinions of the unlucky trait are. do you think it is a positive or negative trait?
bearing in mind the mood reductions, presumable worse performance at chess but also the "accident immortality" it grants.

[Asleep]

In my opinion it's both. It can lead to burglars, and fires that can take the lives of other sims. On the other hand, it also protects them from every death but old age.

[revolution724]

To be honest with you, I don't think I've ever lost a sim to fire, electrocution, or drowning, so I haven't seen a need for the "accident insurance" benefit of the unlucky trait.  The negatives are more commonly visible.

[MasterSiwel]

To be honest with you, I don't think I've ever lost a sim to fire, electrocution, or drowning, so I haven't seen a need for the "accident insurance" benefit of the unlucky trait.  The negatives are more commonly visible.

Agreed, it's useful but has its faults.

[banded]

To be honest with you, I don't think I've ever lost a sim to fire, electrocution, or drowning, so I haven't seen a need for the "accident insurance" benefit of the unlucky trait.  The negatives are more commonly visible.

I agree with you that it is rare to be killed by an accident and that it can get annoying having a negative moodlet randomly popping up but I normally turn ageing off on my sims because I don't see the point in perfecting a sim just to watch them die a few weeks later. what would be even more annoying for me would be to lose them to an accident. Then again, I'm sure a death flower would do the trick anyway.

[Alexandria_]

I find that almost all deaths are avoidable somehow - don't let singed sims repair things, don't have non-skilled sims cook on a cheap oven, get out of the shadows when a meteor is coming and there's a negative moodlet that tells you that your sim is drowning that last for almost an hour before they actually drown.

For this reason, I consider unlucky a trait as fairly useless in my gameplay.

[em1993]

 I think it's a curse, to be honest. I've never had an accidental death and my unlucky sims just go around breaking everything. Having my one handy sims running around after his unlucky sibling trying to repair the damage = not fun.

[sdinger70]

Having my one handy sims running around after his unlucky sibling trying to repair the damage = not fun.

That could be useful for completing the Handiness skill challenges, though.

[RJ]

That could be useful for completing the Handiness skill challenges, though.

I would at least choose clumsy instead of unlucky for that purpose, it doesn't seem to have as many 'side effects'.