Can you add, uh... "incontinent", "pedobait", "narcolepsy", or "tealdeer"? If none of those work (disclaimer: I'm not sure whether any of them might have been removed, because some of the traits were never fully implemented, although I think those all were) then you probably don't have any of the Awesomemod traits, and you should check your config first and then check for possible trait list conflicts.
I actually think there's a command you can use to list traits, but I'm not sure what it is. Try "traitinfo"? That might just be for info on specific traits though. (You should still use it to test out specific traits to see if that might give more useful information.)
If one or more of those DO work, then you have at least some Awesomemod traits, but you might be missing the Administrative traits (which is what sacred and radar are) in particular. I've asked Pescado if there are any others that you can try to confirm; I'll let you know.

Just to be totally sure, try using addtrait on a basegame trait you know exists, too, to make sure it isn't trait-adding that's broken somehow.

(And, to be clear, it's definitely "sacred" and not "blessed", that one I have seen in the game specifically.)

The trait for sacred is 'sacred'. It looks like the trait for radar is 'radar', but I didn't confirm that in game or by looking in the package. The command actually just applies the trait, so it's exactly the same - doing it for the whole household just means applying the trait to everyone in the household. Well, I guess it's possible it could be doing something extra I don't know about - ask Pescado.

For the record, witch's advice here is completely unrelated to anything that could reasonably be the problem.

UberCuber: my game resets itself to default options when I swap out an AM. I have to go into game options and set everything the way I want it.

ETA: Try clearing all leftover caches from previous games. I made a batch file.

del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\CASPartCache.package"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\compositorCache.package"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\scriptCache.package"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\simCompositorCache.package"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\socialCache.package"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\DCCache\missingdeps.idx"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\DCCache\dcc.ent"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Downloads\*.bin"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\SigsCache\*.bin"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\SavedSims\Downloadedsims.index"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\IGACache\*.*" /q
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Thumbnails\*.package"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\FeaturedItems\thumb_*.png"
del "C:\Users\witch\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\WorldCaches\*.*" /q
exit


ETA2: Make sure you are using AM's story mode drivers. Check your AM config file. You may have to turn off NRAAS storydriver in its own interface. There's also a way to turn off the command line feature if you don't use it, so check that it's on. (Testing cheats enabled true?). There is a setting in NRAAS that by default disables the command line.

STORY MODE FEATURES:
1.  Awesome Story Driver [Optional - Default: Enabled]
     Enables the experimental AwesomeMod Story Driver, replacing the EA driver.
2.  God's Chosen People
     Control-Clicking a sim/house will offer the option to "Make Sacred" or
     "Remove Sacred", giving that household or sim immunity to StoryProgression
     and other assorted random toadings. The Chosen receive a gold halo on
     their house and on their tracking tags when tracked on radar. You may
     switch instantly between the Chosen household with CRTL-RClick. This
     feature will only function if you are using the EA-based or Awesome Story
     drivers. Other third-party drivers do not use this.


ETA3: Blessed is the only other word that Sacred ever used, to my knowledge.

Can you add traits to the sims using the command?

Can you add those specific traits to sims using the command?

I have tested the new Awesomemod with my game and Sacred works as normal. Did you reset all your options in the game and then restart before loading a game?

It's an action with very little in the way of any prerequisites, so if it fails to take effect when clicked, and the turn on/off option change, something is interfering with the game's very basic command pathways. Do OTHER actions do anything?

If you're having trouble making sims sacred, ctrl-click on another sim and choose sacred. From Map view I think it might be ctrl-rightclick on the house, but just experiment.

Sacred SHOULD prevent the game from making destructive alterations to the sim, yes.

Do you have the same trouble with butlers and also sometimes with maids?

The houses are households the active sim knows. Orange (that's orange) tags with sim faces are missions. Under certain circumstances the tags may also be red (low-detail mode, I forget what this ultimately means) or yellow (sacred). I've never seen them blue.

Apparently that's Awesome Mod story progression. I always thought the brown houses were friends of the active sim. I don't know why they only sometimes show. I don't recall if they can be turned off, I'll ask Pescado. NRAAS has 'Tagger' which allows you to assign tags, but don't know if they can unassign them or whether that would cause a conflict between the control mods.

ETA: Those tags are brown to me so that's where some confusion arose.

Those are the sims that your active sim knows.

That's the color of a sim that's doing the thing. Story Progression in action.

There shouldn't be any problems with appending to it, far as I know, although I don't know what "autoupdate!" is.

Okay, I attempted a fix for this particular weird case, see if it helps.

Story progression is not responsible for creating performers, that's normal NPCgen, which is not prevented. However, any number of obstacles coudl have prevented them from arriving.

Err...I'm not familiar with this interaction. Can you explain what it is, what it does, and how you triggered it?

I run both Awesome mod and NRAAS. I have paedophilia disabled also. My simfests work with performers and my adult sims can romantic all they want. One of the issues is making sure the Awesome mod kicks in before NRAAS. I have AM up a level from NRAAS in the directory structure. In NRAAS settings I have story progression turned off. In the main EA game you must have story progression turned on so AM can use it. If that still doesn't help I can export my NRAAS settings to you.

I've been sorting content practically since the Sims 3 came out. I get random doubles and some misses altogether whenever I decide to start the .dbc files afresh. I don't know why it happens, but it nearly always does. You might want to find a tutorial, maybe Mod the Sims has one, to turn your .sims3pack files into .package files. I get less errors that way.

I doubt there'd be just one spot, I find I get real lag by about 300. I get better results by leaving the population set at zero and just concern myself with my sims.

ETA: Of course it is related to what your computer can handle.