Paralives Personality Guide: How to Evolve Your Traits and Talents
You can't just buy a better personality. You have to earn it by completing specific tasks to collect Personality Experience Points.
To hit your very first level up, you need to collect exactly 30 of these experience points. Every single task you successfully finish drops one point into your progression pool. You earn these points through two different gameplay loops, which require totally different strategies to manage.
Completing Daily Wants
The game constantly throws temporary wishes at you, which are called wants. You generate new wants by clicking on emotion cards marked with a tiny exclamation point reaction icon. From there, you just pick an available wish for the day.
You can juggle up to four active wants at any given time. These are usually simple tasks, like forcing your character to watch TV for two hours, flirting with a neighbor, or practicing a dance skill. You have to finish these before the day ends, or they completely reset at midnight (unless you manually pin them to your screen).
Conquering Life Goals
While wants are fleeting, life goals are massive long-term objectives handed out by the storyteller system. Every morning, the game hands you three Story Cards. These packs occasionally include a Life Goals Pack.
When you select this pack, you get a fresh set of massive objectives to work toward, like starting a family or owning a massive house. These goals sit in your Goals menu indefinitely, so you can tick them off at your own pace. Just be prepared for a grind. A single life goal usually includes multiple smaller checklist challenges. For example, the big house goal forces you to buy 1,000 Paradimes worth of decorative items and secure over 40,000 Paradimes worth of real estate.
Cashing In Your Upgrades
Once you finally hit that magic number of 30 points, the game throws a massive "Personality Level Up" notification directly onto your screen.
To actually apply the upgrade, open your Profile menu by clicking the person icon on the left side of your screen. Right next to your character's name in the top left corner, you will see a large number indicating your current level. You can actually hover over this number at any point to track your exact point progression. Once you qualify for an upgrade, a green "Level Up" button spawns right next to it.
Clicking that button lets you pick exactly which aspect of your character you want to evolve. You can only pick one reward per level, so you have to choose carefully.
Once you lock in your choice, your experience pool resets, and you have to start grinding out daily wants all over again to reach the next tier. I highly recommend focusing on social perks early on, just so your character stops being an awkward mess every time they talk to a cashier.
