I have two sims, a young adult male and his new unexpected alien son, who both have a hidden trait with a blank name listed in their status. I'm curious to know what it is, because I can't figure it out. The human has had it for ages, and I can only assume he passed it on to his son. When viewing Advanced/Traits/Change and sorting the trait list alphabetically by name, I see three hidden traits at the beginning of the list that have no name. The one in question is the third one on the list for me.

Is there any way I can figure out what that blank hidden trait is?

I don't remember which ones, but some of the social traits are not discoverable by other sims. Social butterfly is one. There's a list somewhere of all of them but I didn't do the research on it and the lady who did hasn't been able to hang out here in awhile. I'll see what I can come up with for you.

Ok -- another non-hidden but undiscoverable trait is shy but I didn't come up with any others in my search. Maybe someone else will have ideas for you.

Sorry if I was unclear - it's not that the trait can't be discovered, it's that it's an actual "hidden trait," similar to "immune to fire" or "can apprehend burglar." This is my own CAS-created sim that I've played for around 80 weeks, so I know his traits - athletic, genius, computer whiz, brave, handy, graduate trait perceptive, and he's gained the hidden trait "can apprehend burglar."

What I mean is that when I look at his traits list either under Master Controller's Sim/Status or Sim/Advanced/Traits/Change, in addition to the traits I listed above, he has a hidden trait that doesn't have a name displayed.

When you look at the traits list under Sim/Advanced/Traits/Change, do you see three traits at the top of the list that don't have any name or description, or is it just me? Because one of those three is what he has.

I missed that part of your original explanation. Those are probably the DNT (do not translate) traits -- I've never seen anyone who could provide information about those. Maybe one of the code readers knows or can find out.

Thanks for the reply. Now I'm even more curious... If anyone does know, I'd really appreciate the info.

I've never seen anyone before who could provide info about DNT traits either. Google searching was no help, of course. All I found was outdated speculation that the DNT traits are related to Showtime genie wishes, but I had this trait before installing Showtime, this sim has no genie, and MC seems to list the genie wish traits clearly by name anyway.

I checked my town, and only one other sim has any sort of unnamed hidden trait (though not the same one as my sims) - and that's the university mascot. On a side note, one of my other sims has 3 unnamed reward traits, which I think might be a glitch because I also noticed that a few of the lifetime rewards I previously bought for him had mysteriously vanished, and I had to re-purchase them. This household travels a lot and has moved twice, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's some data corruption, even with Traveler installed.

I did chat with the lady who research the undiscoverable traits. She said what I'd been thinking about the traits without images -- they're from EPs that aren't installed. As to why they would be assigned to your sims... that remains in the category of "it's an EA thing."

Well, there are the traits without images (like, I see brooding and night owl, etc. on the list even though I don't have Supernatural, and they don't have images but do have a description), but what my sims have are traits without images OR descriptions - not typical of the other traits from uninstalled EPs.

That said, I guess these could still be from other EPs, even if their appearance is different. I do wonder how my sims ended up with them, then! But I guess you're absolutely right - it's an EA thing. As long as it's not borking anything, I can live with it, or I can just remove the traits, especially if I ever consider installing the EP that carries the actual trait. Anyway, thank you so much for the help.