Operation Manual

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UNIQUE SIMS
Customize your Sims more than ever to create a wide variety of Sims, each with their own distinct
personality. Choose up to five traits from dozens of personality traits, choose favorite foods, colors, and
music, and even adjust your Sim’s voice tone and pitch.
Traits
Your Sims can have up to five traits. Their traits influence what they want, how they feel, and how they
behave. For instance, Sims who love the outdoors are happiest when they’re outside. Bookworm Sims can
read more quickly and write better novels. Sims also tend to get along better with other Sims with whom
they share at least one trait.
As Sims mature from babies to young adults, they gain more traits. If your Sim was very successful and
happy in their last development stage, you may even get to pick the traits. However, if your Sim was only
moderately happy, their new traits may be randomly chosen; if your Sim had a miserable experience at that
life stage, they may be assigned negative traits.
A Good Personality
Erica has the following traits (in bold), which all impact her personality in different ways and help
determine how she interacts with the world around her:
Because Erica is a loner, she doesn’t need to socialize as much as other Sims and prefers spending
time alone. As a workaholic, she loves going to work (she even has fun there!) and she can also work
from home on a computer. Erica is also a bit of a perfectionist, which means that though it takes her
longer to do some things, she generally does them better than other Sims. An artistic Sim, Erica learns
artistic skills such as painting, writing, and guitar playing faster than other Sims. She also loves to visit
the art gallery. Because Erica is ambitious, she often gets raises and promotions faster than other
Sims, but she also worries more if it’s been a while since her last promotion.
These are the traits from which you can choose.
menTal pHysiCal soCial lifesTyle
Absent-Minded Athletic Charismatic Ambitious
Artistic Brave Commitment Issues Angler
Bookworm Clumsy Dislikes Children Childish
Can’t Stand Art Couch Potato Easily Impressed Daredevil
Computer Whiz Coward Flirty Evil
Excitable Heavy Sleeper Friendly Family-Oriented
Genius Hydrophobic Good Sense of Humor Frugal
Green Thumb Light Sleeper Great Kisser Good
Handy Lucky Grumpy Hates the Outdoors
Insane Neat Hopeless Romantic Hot-Headed
Natural Cook Never Nude Inappropriate Kleptomaniac
Neurotic Slob Loner Loves the Outdoors
Virtuoso Unlucky Loser Over-Emotional
Mean Spirited Perfectionist
Mooch Technophobe
No Sense of Humor Vegetarian
Party Animal Workaholic
Schmoozer
Snob
Unflirty
Favorites
You can also set a few favorites for your Sim. Choose grilled cheese sandwiches as their favorite food,
orange as their favorite color, and pop as their favorite type of music. Your Sims will tend to choose their
favorites when they can.
Voice
Choose a voice for your Sim and then adjust the pitch.
Skills
There are ten different skills that your Sims can develop throughout their life. The higher their skill levels,
the better they are at performing certain tasks and activities. Additionally, as your Sims’ skills improve, more
activities are available to them. Lastly, higher skill levels help your Sims advance in their careers. The skills
your Sims need most depends on the career path they choose. For the most part, the skills for a certain
career are fairly logical: to become a world-renowned chef, for instance, your Sim must excel at cooking.
Other required skills may seem less obvious: on the law enforcement track Sims need logic skill (solving
crimes may be elementary, but it takes some brain power!). For more information, see Careers on p. 12.
Your Sim can obtain a skill by reading books, practicing that skill, or taking a class at one of the buildings in
town. To read a skill book, check out your Sim’s bookshelves, buy a book at the book store, or visit the library.
TIP: If your Sim is in good mood, they build skills faster than when they’re in a bad mood.
Class Locations
Below is a list of each skill and where classes are offered to help your Sim learn it.
skill WHere To Take a Class
Athletic Stadium
Charisma City Hall
Cooking Bistro or Diner
Fishing Grocery Store
Gardening Science Lab
Guitar Theatre
Handiness Military Base
Logic Science Lab
Painting School
Writing Business/Journalism Office
Skill Journal
The skill journal gives an overview of each of your Sim’s skills, including the level to which that skill is
developed, statistics pertaining to that skill (such as how many recipes a Sim has prepared), and the
opportunities associated with it.
To bring up the skill journal, press  J or click the skill journal button in your Sim’s skill panel.