Personality System / Do we need "personality traits"?

That’s brilliant! I hope something like this is added in the final game!

Something like the sliders would be way better than selecting traits.

I would love to see this, I feel like a points system will do nicely

i’d love to see characters develop certain traits depending on how they act! this is a great idea and hope a system like this gets added into the game eventually.

I think that would be cool but I would also love traits like rebellious, kleptomaniac, Clumsy:etc

I like the idea of a mix of personality points and traits, it adds more granularity and uniqueness to the characters. And I definitely like the idea of their personalities developing based on their experiences, especially their experiences growing up.

That would be great.

There should probably still be at least a few really general traits that don’t change, like “good” and “evil” and things like that, like core personality traits that either don’t go away once earned or are chosen like the Sims system.

I always preferred the Sims 2 style of personality sliders. The current thinking is there are 5 major personality traits:

Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Openness
Extroversion

Having sliders or allocating points on a 1 – 10 scale would allow for a greater degree of difference in my opinion. You can then add character traits (on the same slider basis as personality) which could be learned in the game via chance cards as well as specific game play actions. (ie being mean would lower kindness). Adults could begin with some points in the various categories as part of the creation process so they are not a complete blank slate when starting out. As well as that you could also add “Interests” and/or “Pet Hates”. Just what those would entail would be decided to some extent by the available game play. (ie no point having something like Archery as an interest if it’s not in the game)

I like the personality traits, but I would stick to a 3 or 5 step slider and keep them dynamic.
Sloppy | – – – – Neat = A swine
Sloppy – – – – | Neat = OCD Neatfreak
Sloppy – – – | – Neat = More than average, but not scrubbing the toilet on a daily basis.

Example:
You have a working couple, both are 3/5 Neat. They live together with no kids, both do their fair share of tasks around the house. They get a kid, the man starts working more hours so the mom can stay at home. The mom would gradually become Neat 4/5 because she spends much more time cleaning around the house now, but most likely never a 5/5 because there is simply no time for that much cleaning with a kid 😀 And the man would gradually become a 2/5 Neat because he’s working more so less household activities for him, but he would never become a 1/5 because he still has the decency of cleaning up after himself.

Keep an optional system or cheat to lock those traits, in case you really don’t want your people to loose/gain a certain trait. Or maybe even lock it per slider step. i.e: Only allow Neat 2/3/4 but never 1 or 5 so you can avoid over-exaggerated effects.

quote sawdust post_id=153 time=1563609696 user_id=153:

I always preferred the Sims 2 style of personality sliders. The current thinking is there are 5 major personality traits:

Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Openness
Extroversion

Having sliders or allocating points on a 1 – 10 scale would allow for a greater degree of difference in my opinion. You can then add character traits (on the same slider basis as personality) which could be learned in the game via chance cards as well as specific game play actions. (ie being mean would lower kindness). Adults could begin with some points in the various categories as part of the creation process so they are not a complete blank slate when starting out. As well as that you could also add “Interests” and/or “Pet Hates”. Just what those would entail would be decided to some extent by the available game play. (ie no point having something like Archery as an interest if it’s not in the game)

I think most of those are good scales to have for personality points and then you have traits on top, and you could do interesting things like have an introvert with the “charismatic” trait which means they don’t like being around people that much but people tend to like them (which might cause them some trouble with people wanting to be around them when they don’t want to be around people!), or a “shy” extrovert who needs plenty of social interactions but has trouble dealing with new people.