Now, I really adore the thought behind the new Personality update. It makes us concentrate on a lot more things, gives more uses for toys and gives us yet another goal. To get those uncommon awesome Personalities. It gives yet another awesome use for karma.

However, it still needs a bit of tweaking.

Some personality categories need some work, need a good rebalance because some are worth a lot more than the others, and -according to the news post- now personalities can change slightly according to the main lion’s karma and so the promised boost of mood could be trashed just because the new cub had the awesome luck to have a Good Personality, while the rest of the pride is Kind...

So, let me introduce you to the problems and suggest a few ways to solve them.

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1. Good should also boost kind, kind should also boost good AND evil should also boost snarky, snarky should also boost evil.

Why? Because apparently there is some chance that your cubs will end up with either evil or good personality if your lion’s karma is high or low enough. This way it would unfair to have people suddenly lose the boosts just because their lion bred an uncommon personality, although they are still in the same ’category’. Otherwise the ‘uncommon’ personalities will be hated instead of wanted.

Kind is still good and snarky is still evil, and vice versa.

2. Swap around or change some of the personality effects. Some of them are generally useless, while some personality groups are clearly displaying an advantage over the others.

Let us see what rewards are given by category:

Kind:
+3% energy upon claim (cool) - Basically no energy loss from claiming.
+1 impression upon claim (cool) - Awesome impression boost. More imp=more stats
+5 SB/battle (cool) - More money is always cool.

VS

Snarky:
+5exp/battle (meh) - Good but highly limited by energy.
1x quest switch daily (cool) - Stuck at a quest? Be not afraid!
1x 30 energy/day (cool) - Awesome feature that gives you more gameplay time.

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Good:
boosted battle damage during day (cool) - Boosted damage is always welcome.
1x quest switch daily (cool) - Stuck at a quest? Be not afraid!
+2exp when chasing (meh?) - Only useful if you mass-chase lions.

VS

Evil:
0 energy loss when killing lion (useless) - For what? More evil karma? You already have Evil personality...
+1 impression upon claim (cool) - Awesome impression boost. More imp=more stats
1 carcass/day upon unsuccessful hunt (useless) - But all my hunts are successful... and carcass doesn’t seem to be so tempting...

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1. Any and all boosts that give these miserable little exp is useless (The one at Good is kind of can be useful if you have the patience to chase 300+ lions a day, whereas the one at Snarky is highly limited by energy). Especially when you reach higher levels they are nothing worth. Giving this ability to Good personality especially is a ripoff, since it is an uncommon one. But the one at Snarky is just as worthless if not more.

2. Since Good uncommon personality has boosted battle damage during daytime, one would expect that Evil uncommon personality offers the same during the night time. Why doesn’t it? It would make more sense (since it is a pretty good reward) instead of giving the nighttime one to neutral. It would balance things a bit more.

3. Those who get Evil personality are punished very hard by useless or worthless effects. The +1 impression is also available at the common Kind personality. Not much of a reward. The 1 carcass/unsuccessful hunt daily is extremely useless and worthless, due to 99% of all hunts being successful. So please, give them better effects, thanks, let us not even talk about the lion killing.

4. Kind and Good seem to be mostly awesome abilities for NPC fights, claiming and quests. Whereas Snarky and (especially) Evil concentrate almost solely on hunting(???) and quests and killing pride lions for even more bad karma, which will only net you the useless Evil personality. Oh wait, it doesn’t have anything worth your time, so why is that a reward in the first place? Shouldn’t they be balanced? Giving us the choice of effects that speak for our gameplay style? Especially seeing the uncommon Good VS Evil personality effects, one can tell which one is worth more. Balance it, please. Make it worth it to have an Evil lion as well.

As for Xylax’ explanation:
“Just like in games, let's say WoW, you want to play a Worgen but have a Dwarf race trait. But you can't.”
There is a tiny difference. That in WOW, all gameplay effects and traits are given and we can weigh the situation BEFORE choosing a path. In that case, if I wanted the Dwarf race traits, I would choose the race that gives me this trait. Unlike Lioden, where you let us choose our gameplay paths before introducing effects, which can make our chosen path disappointing. This is why we expect changes and balance in the effects.

“I don't think the mood loss is something that punishes you so bad for picking a Good personality while having evil lions ;) Just a bit more toys.”
Considering the fact that most of the awesome effects are at the Kind or Good personality, many people would love to get those, even if their lion has a major evil karma. Oh wait, their male lion has extra low evil karma and their cubs will end up evil because of this karma and now they lose their bonuses? Sure, let them just use more toys. They deserve it after all for having chosen bad karma all this time unpunished.

And if you have a large pride I'd assume you already use Play All.
So you made this feature, expecting everyone who has a large pride to have a GB feature already? Isnt this a disappointing train of thought?
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Anyway, thanks for reading.