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As part of the Growing Together DLC, you’re able to now further expand your personality traits inThe Sims 4with the new Self Discovery system - giving you the chance to have more traits instead of just the ones given at the creation stage. This system is unique and can be used to evolve your Sims personalities as they grow in SimNation, whilst also allowing them to discover new skills.
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Expanding traits can be really beneficial in helping your Sims find new jobs and interests, and helps build relationships. In this guide, we go through how the Self Discovery system works, and how you can use it to give your Sims even more personality.
What Is Self Discovery?
TheSelf Discoverysystem in theGrowing Together DLCis reactive to what your Sims are doing, and will provide a new trait for you toaccept, decline, or swap outfor one of your current traits. For example, if your Sim is doing something that is abnormal for their current traits, apopup may appear prompting you to consider a new traitfor their lifestyle.
These popups are generally triggered by what you are getting your Sims to do as a player, but sometimes they canhappen naturallywhen exploring.
This update allows you to give your Simsextra traits, on top of the initial ones given at the character creation stage, which can be earned as they go through their lives.AdultsandYoung Adultswill have the option to have up tosix traits. The traits won’t all come suddenly when you start playing the game, so try and get your Sims to do a variety of tasks in order to gain these additional elements of their personality.
By accepting these new suggested traits, your Sims will bedeveloping much more extensive personalities, making for more exciting opportunities through gameplay. These are only gameplay suggestions, so do not feel pressured to accept them when the popup appears.
However,you may decide that you want to ignore all trait suggestionsaltogether and play the game normally. To turn off the Self Discovery popups, find theGame Optionssection of thePause Menuand click onPack Settings. Scroll through until you find theGrowing Together pack, andclick on the box next to Self Discoveryto turn it off in game.
Trait Additions
If one of your Simsdoes not have all of their trait slots filled, the game willperiodically prompt you with new personality traits to add. When playing, your Sims may encounternew skillsthat they become fond of, or theymay not be as good at things as they want to be, so here you can add your additional traits to reflect these changes.
For example, if you gave your Sim theActive traitin the initial creation stage and they stumble a lot when working out, the game may suggest that you add theClumsy traitto your existing set. This way your Sim can findhumor in the clumsiness instead of embarrassment- giving them a massive boost in mood.
The additional trait options are mainly there for you toexpand your Sim’s personalitiesas each character is unique - so their stories and gameplay options should be unique too.
Trait Swapping
On top of the additional trait popups, you will occasionally get prompts toswap a trait outfor something that reflects your Sims' actions a bit more. This part of Self Discovery gives you the option tochange one of your traitsif your Sim is contradicting something in their actions.
A good example of this is if your Sim initially has theActive trait,but has not been enjoying or doing any workouts, you may be prompted to swap this out for theLazy trait- or vice versa.
Whilst some of these traits available to swap seem negative, there are many different ones that can come up for you tochange your Sims personality for the better.
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