Personality

In both games, personality was split into 5 sections: Niceness, cleanliness, outgoingness, activeness and playfullness. Whilst in the sims 1, this did little to the nature of the sim, in the sims 2 it makes quite an impact.


 * Outgoing sims will sometimes walk around naked and often use a mirror autonomously. The social bar of outgoing sims decay rapidly, as they desire social interaction.
 * Mean sims are more likely to cheat in games and react negatively to social interactions
 * Shy sims dislike social activities, and if told to do so, will often grimace at the camera, and walk to the activity slowly with head bowed. Their social bar decays more slowly.
 * Serious sims dislike watching TV and prefer reading. Should such a sim be told to read they will smile at the camera and punch the air.
 * Playful sims can jump of sofas and play in bathtubs.
 * Clean sims like cleaning activities, even gaining fun off them. They may autonomously 'groom self' in the mirror. Sloppy sims dislike such tasks.
 * Sloppy sims prefer to make messes and can also rummage through the trash can for simoleons.
 * Active sims lose energy slower than lazy sims.

Pet's personality
A pet's personality is split into 5 categories: intelligence (Doofus to Genius), activeness (Hyper to Lazy), friendliness (Independent to Friendly), aggression (Aggressive to Cowardly), and cleanliness (Pigpen to Finicky).