Whats your favorite trait, and why?

[dethdukk]

Mine is Music Lover.  It used to be perfectionist, but the crafting time negative is huge, and you end up taking so long to make stuff like books that it isn't worth it in m opinion.  Still amazing for paintings though!

Music lover gives you +1 happy for listening to music.  Any sim can get this, but for normal Sims it's not a a for sure thing, whereas music lovers get the +1 no matter what.  In addition, they can get a +2 happy moodlet for 4 hours by playing on any instrument.  It takes a while to get it, but its +2.  In addition, all the benefits of this trait provide "happy" bonuses, meaning they are good for sims that don't want to be inspired!

[dinodymo]

It took a while for me to decide, but I like the 'loves outdoors' trait. It's helpful because whenever your sims is outdoors, they always get a happy moodlet.

[Playalot]

Loves The Outdoors, its such an easy way to grant a boost to any other emotion. All skills can be done outside so it's always a go-to trait for me. (And yeah, I've taken the roof off my chefs kitchen!  It goes back on once they've topped their career and aspiration)

[marwolfer]

I like Creative and Cheerful. My sims are usually artistic, so the Creative is a big boost. And Cheerful sims stay happier longer.

[Trip]

@Petra: This discussion is meant for favorite traits in the game.

[Ciosa]

Insane.  Insane sims have humorous interaction, their mood shifts are usually amusing, and I don't think I've ever seen my sim's social bar fall below fifty percent.  "Oh, I'm feeling lonely.  Time to strike up a conversation with the desk.  Hello, desk!"

Loner has a lot of negatives associated with it when you DO want to socialize.  But insane sims are perfectly happy to socialize with people, AND don't mind being alone.

If I have a sim I know is going to be making a lot of friends, Family Oriented.  I don't know if it's mis-tuned, but the 'Boast About Family' interaction is a HUGE friendship boost.  I think my charisma 10 sim could get to friend status with three uses of it, and good friend was 7 or 8 uses of it.  (The conversation has to be cancelled and re-opened to avoid the 'boring conversation' flag, but really- it was well worth it to make pals with anyone I wanted so quickly.  Friend of the World flew by.)

[dharmagoddess]

I always loved Bookworm because sims read faster-great for reading skill books. Genius was a favorite for a while for similar reasons.
I've finally tried out "Insane" and I'm really liking it so far, though it does add some really interesting moods with the new emotions in Sims 4. I do like that my Sim can raise her social level talking to herself, LOL. Social is always a struggle for me because I tend to be less social, and so are my sims by extension. I don't want to always choose the loner trait, LOL.

[MissTrips]

I really like cheerful and good.  Cheerful doesn't pop an emotion that might ruin a skill building segment, but reinforces the one you're trying to achieve.  And good builds on happy vibes so two good, happy people will feedback into each other, keeping positive moodlets all day long.

[karlissa]

I have a few favourites.

Loner- Stops my sims from complaining about being alone and keeps them happy when they are, perfect for one sim households. I don't usually make my sims socialise and the negatives during socialisation don't cause me too much trouble, though the embarrassed moodlet could be problematic.

Loves the Outdoors- Benefits the way I play early on when I make sims live partially outdoors and gives me happy moodlets to combine with the sims 3 mood lamps to get the emotion I want.

Music Lover- Music is really helpful as you can have your writer/programmer listen to it while writing/programming and gain fun and get another happy to boost the emotion you need.

This is what I found when I played the 48 hour trial of sims 4. Needless to say I got the achievement for not having a sim socialise for 24 hours.

[CaptainSauce]

I have a pretty fun time watching my sim talk to himself during breakfast since he's insane.

[Playalot]

@CaptainSauce I have to agree! I've only just recently got around to paying some insane sims and their actions are pretty funny! Welcome to the forum too. 

[officialghosts]

Since most of my favorites have been taken (Loner, Loves the Outdoors, Perfectionist), i'll actually have to go with Bro. Like most, I thought it was pretty dumb at first, and it's pathetically useless if you don't have another Bro, but if you do, the extra interactions and moodlet are nice.

[Miravlix]

Music Lover, Cheerful, Bookworm and perhaps a few others that has no negatives.

The ones with negative moods, seems really harsh, tried a foodie, neat cook once, but oh my, he was very unhappy, either because the food was bad or something wasn't clean enough.

Insane has a downside, since talk to self is a secondary concurrent item and it is something the sim will queue autonomously a lot, it can really slow down whatever main activity you want them to do (They eat slowly because of it). Even creating a nice looking desk with a computer has this problem, since the sim will use the computer and then also look at all the nice art items, slowing down the computer use, add Insane and they will look at art, talk to self autonomously, while your trying to get them to read a web site to make them focused.

[thelittlepakeha]

Oh god, foodie. I had real problems with that and bars - for some reason my foodie sim was ALWAYS disappointed by drinks made at the bar, even if they were excellent quality. Since there was a lot of autonomous drink making it was a real pain.

The family I'm playing now, the two kids have self-assured for one and bookworm for the other - they were adopted so they were random traits. I'm not that keen on self-assured because there aren't many careers that require a confident mood (she might end up staying home and making a million friends - her mum got 3/4 into the popularity aspiration that gives you a never-decay relationship trait and I just couldn't bring myself to try to maintain 20 friendships while becoming a pro-astronaut) but bookworm is pretty good. I suspect she's going to do something creative, maybe author or musician. I know in Sims 3 bookworm helped when writing, anyone know if that's still the case?

Otherwise... neat is good for the cleaning moodlet, but best if it's only one sim in the house, that way you get better use out of the magic rubbish bin. I let him wash his dishes but everyone else I'll bin them.

[Tixxis]

I really like the Childish trait. Sims can get up to two moodlets from hugging a teddy. They can play with a dolls house or watch Kids tv in a very short time to get good moodlets from that too.