Life styles can be annoying at times. As a matter of fact, all of the time. I mean I'll be outside, but my sim is the indoorsy type and I'll get the go inside buff. Or vice versa. It's 200 simoleons to rid yourself of an unwanted lifestyle but I don't think I should have to spend 1 simoleon. Either/or, whats your opinion on life styles? Hmmm!!!
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Yeah the workaholic is a do-sy if I say so myself.
Close-knit/people person would need some tuning with the amounts of friends you need to gain them, though, and not include family members + pets. I use a mod to increase the number for now...
You can also buy a potion from reward store to get rid of a lifestyle, no need to use simoleons. And it was small amount of satisfaction points required, so quite an easy solution IMO. 😊
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I like that you often get notifications if you are about to unlock a lifestyle but with some lifestyles it feels like you are not getting any notifications and they will instead just trigger too often, like People person and Close Knit.
My favorite lifestyles are workaholic and techie, I like that workaholic allows you to go to work whenever you want, which is something that I have wanted for a long time.
Other lifestyles are fine and sometimes I even try to gear the Sims towards some unusual lifestyles.
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Single and loving it is my second problematic lifestyle as it crops up far too quickly, especially in teens. Realistically I get that some people don't even get an awakening to feelings about other people until their late teens, but in the sims, I feel like some lifestyles shouldn't activate until they're Young Adults.
The others can be mildly annoying - my Sims usually get the 'outdoorsy' from gardening, which makes them a bit whiny when I want them to knit or read. I don't mind the 'workaholic' much, since my Sims usually get it when I'm trying to complete the Renaissance aspiration, and it helps them to move up in their careers.
'Close-knit' and 'single & loving it' are also pretty common for my Sims, and they don't have much affect on my Sims.
The one I like is the 'healthy eating' lifestyle, unless my Sim is off-the-grid. They get some new healthy foods to make, but they don't work off-the-grid.
@halloweenchild : My Sims have got the 'close-knit' when they lived completely alone and had no Sim friends or family - they got it from their animal friendships!
Then even after turning the lifestyles off, I had to remove them manually and I continued to get notifications about them, and some sims continued to get the moodlets! It finally stopped after moving them to a different lot, so if anyone has this problem just try moving them out and back in again.
For me, it was just more trouble than it was worth!
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
The single and loving it is cool until I want a girlfriend. lol
Maybe it's me but I didn't think the outdoorsy lifestyle would apply to gardening. I took my sim fishing right behind his house and still got the trapped inside buff.
The straw for me was when I had a mermaid become a vet - halfway through her day she’d get tense from being indoors, which would be fine if it didn’t also mean she would only be mean to clients. It wasn’t worth the frustration to me.
How do you turn them off. Didn't they come with Snowy Escape?
Cool. I'm on my way now. Thx!!!
I do like some aspects of lifestyles, and I like the concept of the idea, but it could definitely use some updates to the execution before I feel like it's something that really functions and adds something to the game.
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The Energetic one (I forget the name) can also be disruptive of tasks that require time and stillness, especially annoying when I achieve it because my sims are practicing yoga - which sure they do to keep in shape, but it's really about body-mind harmony, not about being a get-up-and go activity nut.
The only real downside I've noticed lately is the third Teen in the household was suddenly holding a grudge. Turns out his father's Workaholic lifestyle made him feel neglected. I felt badly for Joey. This new game save, however, I've noticed that Joseph is going out of his way (I play will autonomy on) to engage Joey in conversations. Could it be my Sims really are smarter? Or am I just noticing what he's likely been doing all along because Joey was sulking? At any rate, I do find the lifestyles add a layer of fun to the game.
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