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Lifestyles: how's your experience?
texxx78
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I can't get SE soon but i'm super curious about Lifestyles. Can you share your experiences with it? Thanks in advance 
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The moodlets are nice, though. Simple emotion play, sure, but much more impactful than the traits. More of a challenge to them, too. Energetic lifestyle beats the active trait hands down, for example. My main problem is really that they are too few. It is a good start and they have potential, but they need to add more with new packs, plain and simple.
They could use some fine tuning right now, admittedly. My energetic lifestyle sim got a +3 uncomfortable moodlet due to lack of exercise. Unfortunately, you cannot exercise when you are very uncomfortable. I had to eliminate all her other contributing moodlets before I could fix it.
Plus my health food nut lifestyle sim still autonomously ate certain snacks, like popcorn from the popcorn popper, all the time despite the negative moodlet. She nearly removed the lifestyle on her own and I had to start watching what she ate. On that note, it certainly helps when all your sims have similar lifestyles, but I think it is fun when they conflict. I found it hilarious when her junk food fiend sister added bacon or sugar to the low fat chilli she had made.
Anyway, can people please try to be as detailed as possible with what each lifestyle they've experienced actually does?? I want to know so much more about this feature.
Okay. Beyond the short summaries of of the lifestyles page in game, my limited experiences have been with the energetic, junk food fiend, health food nut, adrenaline seeker, frequent traveler, hungry for love, and people person lifestyles.
Eldest sister is an adrenaline seeker and frequent traveler. The latter had her energized pretty well the entire time is Selvadorada. When she got home, she got a bored moodlet in what felt like just a few days from wanting to go on another trip. She can talk about her travels with it, too. Adrenaline seeker allows her to talk about her adventures, gives her a boost and positive moodlets from her secret agent career, and seems to be helpful with active stuff in general. Being honest, I saw no negatives, but that is probably how I played. Adrenaline seeker overlaps pretty well with energetic, so it is easy to earn both.
Second oldest sister is the health food nut that nearly ate herself out of her lifestyle. She autonomously cooked, but I could not tell if it was related to her lifestyle besides it being the new healthy recipes. Supposedly it is supposed to give her workout bonuses after, but I never messed with it. Oh, she can talk about health food, too.
Middle two twin sisters have the junk food fiend lifestyle. They are supposed to prefer quick meals and junk food, but I could not really tell if the autonomous quick meals were a part of it. I did not have a problem with them eating anything they did not like and they can add bacon or sugar to just about anything. Oftentimes to their older sister's cooking since I don't make them cook. Then they can talk about junk food.
Younger twin also has the energetic lifestyle, mentioned earlier with the uncomfortable emotion exercise paralysis. She was on vacation at the time, so I was kind of annoyed, but otherwise it matches up well with her active lifestyle. She has high fitness skill and is energized pretty often. The thing about energetic is I am not always sure what counts. For example, she was exploring the ruins in Selvadorada and got the negative moodlet but was fine on a mountain excursion.
Youngest sister I cheated hungry for love. I wanted to see the negative effects of pining for a partner. Honestly, it was less extreme than the jealous trait from what I remember in making her tense. Anyway, the lifestyle faded away at a decent pace.
As for people person, I have not been able to tell much with this. My household is large and celebrities and aspiration rewards mess with the relationships I would need to monitor.
That is what I have for right now.
Another sim got the single and loving it lifestyle just after I had her get involved romantically with another sim. Surely if she has just become involved romantically with another sim she is no longer single and loving it but some how she still was given that life style.
I’ve been considering turning the lifestyles off until improvements are made.
Thanks so much for that detailed summary! These definitely seem to add much needed consequences. I really hope they fix the whole uncomfortable thing when it comes to exercise because that seems like an oversight. I definitely will aim to see if I can get my sims more lifestyles in my game to mess with them myself.
I'm afraid that it will be too easy, seeing how some have ended up with the peoples person lifestyle without aiming for it. I would probably only like one or two lifestyles per each sim and it worries me that I would have to concentrate a lot to prevent them for gaining more. Like with parenthood character values some are super easy to increase, but hard to decrease. I have households where my playtime revolves around adjusting those values, especially lowering them. Because of this it's such a relief when teens grow up and the values are done. I'm worried this will pack will expand that "gameplay" to older sims as well. Still I'm really curious about lifestyles and keep hoping they work well.
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Interesting! I guess they really are going to have to examine each trait to see how they can balance it out with the new lifestyles. I really hope they don't end up lessening effects of the lifestyles in the process. I really enjoy that I felt I actively have to work towards a goal to get the lifestyles. They aren't super quick to get which is a thing I was worried about. I was afraid that all my sims would be techies or something.
Same.
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The other sims who went on hikes instead, only got the outdoors lifestyle. I haven't observed any negative moodlets from being back from vacation on them, just on that one sim. Maybe it's becase all those sims have jobs outside the home or school, so they do get out of the house everyday, whereas the one sim that gets the negative moodlets works from home.
Back home, after my politician sim talked to many many sims to collect funds for his campaign, he got the social lifestyle - but I haven't experienced any negative moodlets from it and haven't observed that he does stuff autonomously, maybe he is better at maintaining conversations autonomously than other sims, but I can't tell.
So far I am not very impressed with the Lifestyles, the ones they chose to make seem odd to me and not very versatile, there are no "negative" ones for one, like one for evil sims and the others all seem like things we already got as traits in game.
The only one I am interested in is the coffee one, I SO wanna get one of my sims addicted to coffee and I love that they added that.
But tbf I only have one active lifestyle in my game atm, so maybe in time with more of them I'll see the point?