Traits for new sims to household.

[templesmom]

I was wondering what my fellow simmers do when they add a sim to their ongoing game via marriage or move-in. Do you leave their traits as is and LTW or do you cheat to make them what you want. My Jack just moved in with Lisa Bunch and she has the dropped trait so I have to go in and cheat anyway to give her the full five but now I am wondering if I should give her a make over.

[Saltypaws]

It depends on the traits.  If they are too much off the wall, then I will change them.  There is quite a few traits that I do not play.  I try to be a good sport and work with what is given me, but if they are going to be a family, then I change the ones I do not want.  That is what is hard in wishmasters challenge, can't change anything and those gloves on one of my sims hands are driving me crazy. lol

[templesmom]

Thanks salty. When I saw you on I knew you would come thru for me I am playing pick the LTW out of the basket. Yes I really have a basket with all the LTW's on little strips of paper and I am trying to figure out if I will be picking the LTW for move in sims as well as the ones I created. Adam whose LTW is to be a world reknowned surgeon just married Molly and she also wants to be a world reknowned surgeon so I was gonna do it because I can think of many couples who are both doctors, but now with this Lisa problem of the dropped trait I need to go in and pick a trait for her and that got me thinking so I have to come up with the rule if I am picking the LTW out of the hat or keeping what I am giving. What would you do in my shoes?

[Saltypaws]

If your just playing for your own enjoyment and it is not a challenge or legacy, I would probably change the traits.  I still like to get away from the norm every once in a while and just play what I am given.  When you have a certain game you are trying to play, it is nice to enjoy it, but yet have some kind of a challenge.  

Actually, I don't really think changing traits is cheating, but that is me.  What I do, if I have someone move in, I look at their traits and LTW and appearance.  If I do change something, that is it, I do not change anything else and they will have to live with it and usually if they have kids and something happens where I do not get to choose the traits, then I will go ahead and leave it alone, no matter what the traits are.  I try and give myself rules to follow.  We can't make it too easy, lol.

[templesmom]

Yea I get what you are saying. I am being laughed at by my husband right now for needed a rule for this situation. But if I am playing by rules even if I made them I want to play by the rules. Thanks for posting. I am still not sure which way I am going tonight but having this post sure helped. Thanks!

[Saltypaws]

No problem, I am sure you will make the right choice, just have fun.

[Sarah]

Generally I leave the traits as they are*, but I'll change the LTW if it's one I don't think I can get the Sim in question to accomplish in the lifespan left. If I think the Sim is going to die before reaching their LTW I'll change, unless it's one I've not actually tried it, and so that Sim will become a test run for when I decide to give a Sim that LTW.


*unless I've already decided what I want that Sim to do, and then I may well modify traits to get what I want.

[Slingsby]

We spent a long time trying to find a suitable husband for our lovely talented YA called Olga.  Eventually we decided that a certain guy would be OK ... except that when he moved in we would have to fix the "Couch Potato" trait.  Oh, wow, was he hard work?  Olga took forever to make any romantic progress!  Anyway, eventually it got to the marriage stage, and he moved in.

   The "Couch Potato" was the least of our problems.  We found he had a romantic relationship with another guy, and worse still he has about 5 days before he becomes an elder!!  Regan Benson [now Regan Trotter] is currently walled up in a door-less room and should be dead in another 8 Sim hours.  Olga will be happier as a widow than having him hanging around. 

[samoht04]

Ha ha! Slingsby! 

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We spent a long time trying to find a suitable husband for our lovely talented YA called Olga.  Eventually we decided that a certain guy would be OK ... except that when he moved in we would have to fix the "Couch Potato" trait.  Oh, wow, was he hard work?  Olga took forever to make any romantic progress!  Anyway, eventually it got to the marriage stage, and he moved in.

   The "Couch Potato" was the least of our problems.  We found he had a romantic relationship with another guy, and worse still he has about 5 days before he becomes an elder!!  Regan Benson [now Regan Trotter] is currently walled up in a door-less room and should be dead in another 8 Sim hours.  Olga will be happier as a widow than having him hanging around. 

This is just a question - when you say "worse still" do you mean it was worse because of the gay relationship itself, or because he was already dating someone? Just need clarification, haha

You should give Olga the stone heart lifetime reward so she won't be affected by her husband's sudden death!

[Esther1981]

This is just a question - when you say "worse still" do you mean it was worse because of the gay relationship itself, or because he was already dating someone? Just need clarification, haha

You should give Olga the stone heart lifetime reward so she won't be affected by her husband's sudden death!

I know this wasn't a question for me, but I wanted to answer lol. I had a game where I would age my kids up and move them out. Than I went back months later (sim time aging off) and almost all my daughters were dating females and my sons were dating men. I have no problem with it in RL and if I would've done it it wouldn't have bothered me. What I did was move them back in and got them married to the opposite sex. Just to clarify, I don't have a problem with gay relationships in real life, just when I don't do it.

[LlamaMama]

How does one go about changing the LTW via cheat?

[Esther1981]

How does one go about changing the LTW via cheat?

Only way I know of changing the LTW is the LTR but you can cheat to get more happiness points. Before you choose the family at the main menu, enter testingcheatsenabled true, choose the family, wait til it loads, than go to the lifetime happiness tab, find the spot, it's normally around the middle between the numbers and the treasure box where you can find out how many you've earned. Shift+click and it will add 500 points. Just keep clicking until you have 10,000 than change lifetime wish!

[LlamaMama]

Good to know, thanks.

[Esther1981]

You're welcome!