The Sims 3: I can’t modify my Sims Traits! [Possible Solution]

Due to one of my readers [xtina] and a lot of others who have had this problem, I decided to give out this little piece of information that might help people in the future when they can’t modify their Sim‘s traits when they’re in CAS.

Usually you can actually save a copy of the Sim to the computer before modifying the traits [make sure you make it the way you want as far as favorite color, food, music and your Sims, voice, appearance before doing this because you're limited once you select the check and you want to go back and change anything by going to a mirror]. There is the cheat [testingcheatsenabled true] that you can use to modify your Sims traits later on in the game. You will have to of course make that [Sim or Sims] an active household.

Click on her/his picture at the bottom of the screen where it looks like this “…” [while you're in CAS mode] and  where it says, “save Sim to bin” click that and your Sim will be in the bin. So now that its in the bin you can restart the game, go into edit town mode, put the Sim in a house [that you just made]. Then click “Choose Household” [make sure you remember where you put your Sim] and she/he should be on the right of the screen. Click the check mark at the bottom right and that Sim will be your Sim to play with. Now type in the cheat I just mentioned exactly the way it is minus the “[]” by selecting Ctrl+Shift+C, press enter then hold Shift+Click on the Sim and there should be something that says, “modify traits for Sim”. Select whatever 5 traits you want your Sim to have. Then whatever your Sims traits are now [if it worked] your Sims Lifetime Achievement should pop up in your wishes, eventually.

I hope this has helped someone. I know how frustrating a flawed game can be. To download individual patches for The Sims 3 click here, for list of Sites for Mods click here.