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There's a good explanation of why this happens and a fix mod for this here, if that helps: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45576247 Still something EA should tidy up themselves, but that could take a while!
- elfinpcc4 years agoNew Scout
One of my sims is a loner sim who likes to write. When Country Living came out, I moved her to Henford to a small cottage to give her a more simple life. She developed the outdoor trait, which caused her to become bored while writing (I forgot to try to give her the likes of writing to try to offset earlier). I even got her a laptop so that she could write outside. So I had her go to a lifestyle coach to remove the outdoor, but because I also have her caring for chickens, it keeps coming back. The opposite extreme is many of my sims who live in colder worlds are all indoors by the end of winter or have at least lost the outdoorsy trait I worked hard to give them.
I honestly feel like some lifestyles are way too easy to get and others are too hard, or they didn't think it through carefully. Most of my teen sims are single and loving it by the time they are adults, and I usually don't pair them off until they are YA, I play rotational, and most of the teens are now related to each other as either first or second cousins, so it is easier for me to find them love when they have access to a larger dating pool. The only exception I make is if they are romantic sims and not even all of them. Just because you are single doesn't mean you love being single and wouldn't be equally happy in a relationship. Yet none of my sims, not even the ones who are romantic and have completed one of the two love aspirations, have managed to come even close to unlocking the hungry for love trait.
Similarly, most of my sims have the trait likes to have a lot of friends because it is just too easy to gets, but it is really hard to get and maintain the close-knit one.
I just honestly feel like many lifestyles that have an "opposite" lifestyle have one side that is too easy to get and the other side that is too hard to maintain. It needs more balance.