What are your favorite traits to play with on the sims 3?

[jeanamariex3]

When does the relationship with the car happen?

The trolling aspect just fascinates me for some reason. I love to buy my evil grumpy mean-spirited and inappropriate sims a laptop simply for the trolling sake. Sadly, The Sims 3 official forum, as well as my cousin's boyfriend, who has been an avid Simmer take my love for sim-trolling too literally, and threatened to report me. They understood, when I explained the moodlets and amusement of the responses on the upper right hand corner.

Trolling is just funny. I die of laughter at the responses I get in the upper right hand corner.

[ratchie]

They don't even have to be a vehicle enthusiast to develop a relationship with a vehicle.  They just have to use it regularly.  Vehicle Enthusiasts will develop that relationship faster.

This is one trait that had potential, that they just did absolutely nothing with.  It's like they just abandoned the whole idea after coming up with the name.  Vehicle enthusiasts should be able to wax their car to give it back that "new car smell" moodlet, and if their relationship gets high enough, they should be able to give their car a name.  Possibly even tinker with it to increase it's speed.

But instead, it's pretty much a wasted trait slot.

Sims can give their car a name. Eskarina Smith named her scooter Clive. She did this by herself too I was quite surprised when she got the wish to hang out with Clive with a picture of a scooter popped up.She had the insane and vehicle enthusiast traits if that makes a difference.

Rachel

[jeanamariex3]

I've never played with a vehicle enthusiast or a sim that's never nude.

[Seabody]

Sims can give their car a name. Eskarina Smith named her scooter Clive. She did this by herself too I was quite surprised when she got the wish to hang out with Clive with a picture of a scooter popped up.She had the insane and vehicle enthusiast traits if that makes a difference.

Rachel

I'd say that's insane coming through. Not all their wishes make sense. Take Clive for a spin and that might fulfil the wish.

[Ellenser]

I've never played with a vehicle enthusiast or a sim that's never nude.

Yes, these two traits are literally pointless in my opinion. There's no real purpose to them.

[Pam]

I don't know why Carl and Pam are so against the snob trait.

Where did you get this idea?

[jeanamariex3]

I got it from your Sims 3 trait guide. "I will never ever curse a Sim with this trait."

If only I knew how to post a link.

[CSquared2]

I absolutely agree Hofsac about the vehicle enthusiast trait.  They should be able to show affection for their cars with a tune-up, too, that would be cute.  My sim named his car, a Big Lemon, Big Plum instead because it was the purple recolor.   

[Katluvr]

I think my all time favorite trait is kleptomaniac.  I gave it to my dynasty founder and sent him to the Alto's house every night until Nick left his Margarete Vaguester in the driveway.  I'm on my 3rd generation and my family still has that car. 

I haven't played a neurotic sim, but I suspect I'll like that trait a lot, too - I have years of experience in real life!

Rounding out my top picks are handy (guarantees you won't die while fixing appliances), natural cook (trade kitchen secrets), and unlucky (Grim won't take you if you die by anything other than old age).

My least favorite trait is mean spirited for no other reason than I just don't like mean people and have no desire to play one.

[jeanamariex3]

Mean people are only useful when they have a lap top.

[Pam]

I got it from your Sims 3 trait guide. "I will never ever curse a Sim with this trait."

If only I knew how to post a link.

Please be careful about quoting something to me.  If that's part of the traits guide, then Carl wrote it.  Did you actually see my name anywhere around it? 

[jeanamariex3]

Oops, I apologize. 

[CSquared2]

For me, the mean-spirited trait is one of the least useful not because it's bad or unpleasant but because it's not expressed very well.  I've had several mean-spirited sims where the trait got shoved into the background and I forgot they even had it.  Other than the outbursts of random anger which affect neither the sim nor those around them, you can't even tell a mean-spirited sim from who isn't.

[jeanamariex3]

I never noticed that. However, I find it odd that a mean-spirited Sim can be good or family oriented. I thought that the mean spirited trait clashed with the family oriented trait until I played with the Alto Family, as Nick is both mean and family oriented. The same thing with loner and friendly. I thought loner and friendly clashed, until Claire Ursine's daughter was born.

[Hosfac]

I could see a family oriented person who's mean-spirited.  Just because someone's mean doesn't necessarily imply that they don't like raising or having children around.  Actually, that would give them more people to be mean to. 

However, I do find the friendly and loner traits to be a bit at-odds with each other.  I keep trying to piece together a way to justify it, but as soon as I start to get it all arranged in my head, it evaporates.  I can see a loner making a few friends and knowing how to keep them, but if they were friendly, would they really be a loner?  It's kind of a paradox.