Life Hacks/Mods Guide/Adjust Traits

Traits are genetic and environmental factors that not everyone possesses. Recessive traits will also show up in the mod, even when not expressed. While not categorized in the mod, I will list them in categories to make them easier to deal with.

Vision Related

• Blindness: the person's eyes do not function.

• Nearsighted (myopia): the shape of the person's eyes creates a blurred image for distant objects, but does not affect the perception of close objects.

• Farsighted (hyperopia): the shape of the person's eyes creates a blurred image for close objects, but does not affect the perception of distant objects.

• Astigmatism: the shape of the person's eyes creates a distorted image like a funhouse mirror.

• Cataracts: a white film obscures the person's vision. This is more common in older patients, and much more rare in young patients.

• Dark vision: allows the eyes to function under lower levels of light, taking in the extra light to see and make out details in the dark. Note: dark vision uses the "rod" cells in the retina, witch are unable to perceive color in the same way "cone" cells can. As such, dark vision allows a person to see only in black and white.

• Radio Wave Vision: allows a person to see into the radio wave spectrum, adding an extra range of colors associated with radio wave radiation. Note: the Earth is currently super-saturated with radio waves, making for a VERY confusing and problematic visual input while this is in use. In the pre-radio era this ability would be positive, but in modern society it would be neutral at best.

• Microwave Vision: allows a person to see into the microwave spectrum, adding an extra range of colors associated with microwave radiation.

• Infra-vision: allows a person to see into the infra-red spectrum, causing any heat source such as a warm-blooded animal to let off a deep red glow witch the person able to see infra-red can perceive. Note: infra-red cameras take infra-red light and then convert it into the light spectrum humans are more familiar with. Someone with infra-vision will not see infra-red light in the same way an infra-red camera shows us. They will not be able to see any color other than red from the heat source, and the intensity of heat will be perceived as different intensities of this red color. Infra-red light can be seen even in the dark.

• Ultra-vision: allows a person to see into the ultra-violet spectrum, allowing one to see ultra-violet radiation, and also to see the distortion in the flow of ultra-violet light created by the electro-magnetic field that surrounds anything that is alive. Note: a person with ultra-vision will perceive the entire world as being bathed in a soft purple light (intense purple if cancer-causing ionizing radiation is involved,) but they will see jagged and distorted lines where this purple light is interrupted around anything that is alive, regardless of whether it is a plant or an animal. They will actually perceive it as a more intense purple due to the fact that the distorted purple light is running in to other purple light and becoming focused.

• X-ray Vision: allows a person to see into the X-ray spectrum, adding an extra range of colors associated with X-ray radiation. Note: this does not give one comic book x-ray vision, though it does allow one to see through solid objects. The affect would be very similar to an actual x-ray image.

• Gamma Ray Vision: allows a person to see into the gamma ray spectrum, adding an extra range of colors associated with gamma ray radiation.

• Visual Tuning: allows a person the ability to adjust the effectiveness of any and all available photo-receptors in their eyes from full saturation to no saturation. Note: A person with this ability combined with normal human sight and X-ray Vision would be able to get the effect of comic book style x-ray vision. Radio Wave vision is much more beneficial when combined with this ability.

Hearing Related

• Deafness: the person's hearing does not function.

Taste Related

• Ageusia: the person's sense of taste does not function.

Smell Related

• Anosmia: the person's sense of smell does not function.

Touch Related

• Tactile Hyposensitivity: the person's sense of touch is diminished.

Extrasensory

• Magnetic Sense: the ability to sense magnetic fields. Note: on a planet with an electromagnetic field (like the Earth) this give an unerring sense of direction.

Reproductive

• Precocious Puberty: A condition where the individual undergoes puberty much earlier than normal. It is beneficial because it allows for the early production of young allowing for more children to be born in an individual's lifetime which is generally good for the survival of the species. It has the flaw that in females it is extremely hazardous to the individual. Much of the benefit is lost in modern society, and while the flaw is somewhat mitigated by modern science, it has not been eliminated.

• (male reproduction)Egg seeking sperm: A feature that sperm can possess where they can smell the egg through hormones in the vaginal excretions or fluid in the uterus. This will align the sperm to all swim in the correct direction rather than the norm where the 200 million sperm all swim in random directions and due to their sheer numbers some manage to make it to the right place by random chance.

• (male reproduction)Spermicide resistant sperm: Resistance to anything that may damage or kill a sperm cell, such as the acidic environment of the vagina, actual spermicide chemicals in condoms, or even chlorine in pool water. While the uterus is far more hospitable to sperm than most environments, it is still not perfect. Note: Any environment where the spermicide resistance level will render the sperm completely immune to environmental spermicides in that area will support the sperm for that male's male fertility attribute divided by 10, (so 20 days if this attribute is maxed out.)

• (female reproduction)Responsive uterus: The uterus responds better to the hormones let off by a fertilized egg, calming down the walls of the uterus to stop the menstrual cycle from washing out the egg before it can implant. Note: this would also inhibit the effectiveness of hormonal birth control.

• (female reproduction)Irritation resistant uterus: The walls of the uterus can resist their natural reaction to twitch and create an environment hostile to the implantation of a zygote when exposed to physical irritants. Note: this trait would inhibit the effectiveness of birth control methods such as IUDs.

• (female reproduction)Teratogen resistant uterus: A "teratogen" is the medical term for any chemical or hormone in the woman's body, whether consumed (such as alcohol) or naturally produced (such as stress hormones,) that can harm the developing baby. A teratogen resistant uterus can prevent these things from harming the baby.