Talk:List of Traits

Darn no nudist trait. We have "never nude" witch wild be is opposite Chaos Shepherd 14:33, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Inappropriate the opposite of "Never Nude". --a_morris (talk) 03:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * So Never Nudes are Prudes? Thats Lame Chaos Shepherd 11:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Number of Traits
Heh. So, I just got done numbering Gamespot's "full and complete list of the 65 traits in The Sims 3 for you to look over." 1=absent-minded 2=ambitious 3=angler 4=artistic 5=athletic 6=bookworm 7=brave 8=can't stand art 9=charismatic 10=childish 11=clumsy 12=commitment issues 13=computer whiz 14=couch potato 15=coward 16=daredevil 17=dislikes children 18=easily impressed 19=evil 20=excitable 21=family-oriented 22=flirty 23=friendly 24=frugal 25=genius 26=good 27=good sense of humor 28=great kisser 29=green thumb 30=grumpy 31=handy 32=hates the outdoors 33=heavy sleeper 34=hopeless romantic 35=hot-headed 36=hydrophobic 37=inappropriate 38=insane 39=kleptomaniac 40=light sleeper 41=loner 42=loser 43=loves the outdoors 44=lucky 45=mean spirited 46=mooch 47=natural cook 48=neat 49=neurotic 50=never nude 51=no sense of humor 52=over-emotional 53=party animal 54=perfectionist 55=schmoozer 56=slob 57=snob 58=technophobe 59=unflirty 60=unlucky 61=vegetarian 62=virtuoso 63=workaholic. Sorry I didn't get around to formatting it, but you might notice a number mismatch. Did they miss two traits, or miscount the number? Or was it just "meh, let's round to the nearest five. Nobody'd be crazy enough to number the list!" Or did I just plain screw up somewhere along the line? (I double-checked enough to convince myself it's not the last one.) 141.224.224.191 23:06, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I get 63 from GameSpot's list as well. Our list also has Conversationalist, Materialistic, Paranoid, Pizza Lover, Stubborn and Vain, but I don't know where they came from. --a_morris (talk) 23:36, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * In my opinion it's not imoprtant to list the number of traits since it's gonna be hell to update everytime a new expansion comes out so I think we should leave it out. Duskey 18:00, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

Similar Traits
Although there appears to be a problem with the number of Traits on what GameSpot calls a full and complete list of traits, I wanted to get everyone's opinion of what might not be a trait.

Traits on our list that are not on GameSpot's:
 * Conversationalist
 * Materialistic
 * Paranoid
 * Pizza Lover
 * Stubborn
 * Vain

I believe that these traits are duplicates of other traits
 * Conversationalist = Charismatic
 * Materialistic = Snob

--a_morris (talk) 00:14, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I feel fairly confident in saying Pizza Lover was a preference (e.g. Favorite Food: Pizza) misinterpreted as a trait. 141.224.224.191 05:15, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I swear i heard materialistic in one of the sims 3 videos! or maybe it was artistic? i could b mistaken :S Matta jr 21:52, 5 April 2009 (UTC) Yes deffo! Materialistic is in the sims 3 video with Herman and Arnie! Still though they may have got rid of it. But just in case we should leave it be(for now). o and also Convesationalist is in the video :) Matta jr 21:59, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Pyromaniac
I've had a couple sims make children with a Firefighter NPC, including one who was a single mom to make sure it didn't have something to do with the firefighter being controllable or not. But never was Pyromaniac available to choose from for Traits when I was able to choose. Was this feature cut?--Fresherfinch 23:04, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've been wondering this myself. Maybe it's a random trait, like when you don't keep the mood meter at maximum? Anyone confirm? —ErzengelLichtes (Contribs) 21:26, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

OK, I just used a mod to access the hidden traits. In Create-A-Sim, most of them have a description, but a couple basically have placeholder (pyro being one of them). However, when you create the sim with the hidden trait and go into game, the traits have empty descriptions. Even those that have description in CAS. This really makes me think that it is a cut feature. Of course, I could be wrong.—ErzengelLichtes (Contribs) 02:34, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Well but I've had a woman sim make children with a burglar, it didn't had the burglar trait as it should, but when this sim grew up to an young adult, I clicked on the floor by mistake and there was an option that was sneak here, the same with her brother, that is son of a firefighter and my sim, I click on him and had the option set something on fire and it did so. Maybe those traits are not able to chose in the list, but maybe they're hidden in the sims? --190.200.14.1 15:20, September 1, 2009 (UTC)\

PyroManiac is a Hidden trait so you can have the five plus the un-shown pyro trait.

Pimped article
Hey chaps, just added a load of stuff I've researched from my own gameplay and from the Prima guide. Hope this is all ok, this is my first edit and not sure if I'm going to be trampling all over someone's toes.

A couple of points about my edit:

- Things added from Prima guide are all re-worded and I've verified 99.9% of the stuff in my own game.

- I've changed some of the game's trait descriptions slightly, I found some of them a bit strangely worded, and I thought some of the points could do with a bit of clarification.

- I removed a lot of the exclamaction marks from the end of each sentence, it made for awkward reading.

So;

- I'm not sure if the '(taken from the game where possible)' phrase needs to be removed from the beginning of the article

- I don't know how I feel about most of the points beginning with 'Your Sim...', anyone have an opinion?

- I want to stick in a LOT more internal links to things such as moodlets and skills etc. Thoughts?

- Finally, I'm a bit pissed and not sure if I've missed any spelling or grammar errors so please feel free to correct!

Whew. My wrists.

Lardya 19:45, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Maybe we could add the ingame icons for all the traits 83.161.230.43 20:27, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Relationship to Lifetime Wishes
Maybe we could add in what lifetime wishes appear and how often they appear from each trait. Likewise, a list of which traits grant a particular lifetime wish in List of Lifetime wishes page. For example: the lifetime wish "The Perfect Garden" will appear very often with the "Green Thumb" and "Perfectionist" traits. Having both will make that wish appear almost all the time. Both the "Genius" and "Workaholic" traits can make the lifetime wish "Renaissance Sim" appear, but the "Workaholic" trait will make it appear more often than the "Genius" trait.

Hopefully, someone can find the XML file that governs this. 70.23.4.111 03:14, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Added some stuff. Mainly examples of pre-made Sims with certain traits. --Shirviu 20:20, January 2, 2010 (UTC)

what do you think the removed traits would be like
i believe nude sims are AWLWAYS naked wanton sims will get 10 wants every second why dont you add what you think Xxgreenbunnyxx

Unlucky Guy and Grim
I thought the Grim Reaper kept unlucky people alive because he thought their misfortune was funny. 22:05, April 9, 2010 (UTC)

Ambitions
In ambitions, if you create a firefighter will their children have a chance of getting the pyro or immune to fire traits? Or does it only count for NPC firefighters? Thanks, Guffers 12:58, June 2, 2010 (UTC)

New arrangement of traits
I think this list of traits needs an overhaul. I was thinking a table at the top with the trait categories in the rows (mental, social etc.) and the expansions they came in as columns. Every trait in this table index go into their two categories. See below for an example.

Each trait should also be a title so it can be linked to directly from other articles and from this top table.

Any thoughts are welcome. Duskey 09:36, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea, similar to the Skill article. If we give each trait its own page I would suggest moving the table to Trait and keep this page as an alphabetical list only with no descriptions. --a_morris (talk) 18:04, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe instead of the icon of the game on the left column, why not just break it up into sections? (as in, them ==Game version/name/expansion pack...thing== sections)--Reimi~ 21:10, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the skill table is sort of similar. Each trait should, in my opinion, have its own page so it can be discussed and everything the trait unlocks or enables can be added. If we do that, then I'd suggest that we only show the ingame short description of the trait on the lists. On each individual trait page we then list the detailed description also from ingame (when you actually have a sim with the trait) and differ it from what that actually means. At the moment the ingame description is mixed with user comments and observations. I'm not sure what you're suggesting Reimi. Duskey 23:57, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think if 70-some new pages are going to be created (one for each trait), it should be discussed community-wide. I can see positives and negatives to both. LostInRiverview 00:04, June 11, 2010 (UTC)