A musing

[dicreasy]

At the moment, I'm going through and changing the interests, of the sims I've added to the rebuilt neighbourhood, so that they match with what they were interested in in the old neighbourhood.  This is mainly so that sims that got on well there, get on well in the new neighbourhood too and vice versa.  But it got me thinking.  The only thing that interests are good for, is conversations: they don't impact on the sims themselves and their personalities, and I wish they did.  What a person is interested in can impact their character as much as how neat they are, and I think it'd be awesome if your sim who had a mega interest in science fiction, would roll the want to star gaze more than a sim who was really interested in fashion but couldn't care less about sci-fi.  Likewise, a sim who was interested in culture would want to read or play the piano more than one who was interested in animals.

So what do you think?  What do you wish the developers had done better with respect to sims' personalities?