Well many of the mercs have some traits that are guaranteed and some that are random and some of the unique slaves have few if any guaranteed traits, with most of them being random. Personally I would agree that I would much rather the uniques have guaranteed traits. The trainable ones aren't a big deal but some of the good ones are not trainable which means if you want them to have those, you have to either save scum or edit the save file to add them. There are quite a few uniques you can pick up who can randomly have no traits at all which I find annoying. It makes them seem less worthy when compared to some random scrub you picked up with better traits.Which unique NPC? A lot of them have fixed traits and can gain random traits on top of it. I think the only ones without any fixed traits are Adora (if you did not choose a slaver level 3 background in character creation), the urchin, Mae, Luckie (she does start with a fixed 105 int, which is pretty high), Farah (starts with a high performance of 90), Zenobia, and Talika.
Ideally I would like the uniques to start off missing some of the good traits and have there be quests for them that guarantee them gaining those traits but that takes a lot of work so I can understand why that's not currently implemented. No idea if there are plans for that but for instance the quest option for Mai Lynn where she starts depressed and completing her quest removes that is the kind of thing I like. You could just as easily add new traits that way.
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