Reply To: Personality System / Do we need "personality traits"?

[Fiona]

I don’t think we need traits at all. Just interests, turn-ons and offs, and skills. That would leave us with a pretty flexible system to build upon with the gameplay.

So, a polk who preferred a mate with high fitness/beauty and low mental skill (logic in the sims) would be the equivalent of a serial heartbreaker. If he himself has these features, he could even fall victim to a better heartbreaker.

I’m all for favorite foods, music, book genre, turn-ons and offs, job, and a long term goal to guide that polk life. But I think character traits/values have been overdone by now. Paralives needs to set itself apart from the competition if it was to shine.

[Fiona]

I don’t think we need traits at all. Just interests, turn-ons and offs, and skills. That would leave us with a pretty flexible system to build upon with the gameplay.

So, a polk who preferred a mate with high fitness/beauty and low mental skill (logic in the sims) would be the equivalent of a serial heartbreaker. If he himself has these features, he could even fall victim to a better heartbreaker.

I’m all for favorite foods, music, book genre, turn-ons and offs, job, and a long term goal to guide that polk life. But I think character traits/values have been overdone by now. Paralives needs to set itself apart from the competition if it was to shine.