Sims now correctly gain up to three active Lifestyles.
Fixed in Patch 1.90.358/1.61
If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.
I also have this bug.
1. The potion doesn't work; they don't drink it. The lifestyle disappears from their Simology panel but if you click through to the Lifestyle panel it's still there.
2. They have more than three because it seems to be detecting the number in the Simology panel and ignoring the lifestyles I tried to remove.
3. I turned off Lifestyles completely in game options and was still getting popups about lifestyles being gained or at risk, ugh. Imagine my joy when I was told that one of the lifestyles I tried to remove was at risk! (Workaholic; it's the worst.) I had my Sim not do his WFH tasks one day and then sent him to work to slack off, chat with people, and generally do a terrible job. MAN, that's so not the story I want to tell with this Sim, but also I don't want him to be +3 tense whenever he's not at the office.
4. My Sim I WASN'T slacking off with got a "Panicky Work Withdrawal" +3 tense when she was actually doing all her work tasks!
Right now my strategy is to completely disable Lifestyles in saves that don't have them yet--that seems to work--and in this one, to try to cheat lifestyles I don't despise onto them and to make them suck at their jobs. (I'm also testing some mods that are supposed to fix the problem.) I bought Professional Slacker and Carefree to cope. Because he has the Responsible reward trait, I have to pause whenever he goes to the office in order to change the "work hard" behavior that happens by default as a REWARD for that trait.
<rant>GUYS. Reward traits should not be life-crippling disabilities and punished!</rant>
I usually wait and let the team shake out the bugs before buying. I should have done that this time. Sims team, I love you and I love your game, but new packs are a bumpy ride. I really want Paranormal Stuff--it looks like a lot of fun--and I'm afraid to buy it until some time has passed and you've had time to do bugfixes.
Yeah, I’m still salty about my super crunchy granola family with a merman conservationist who got Workaholic and the only way to get rid of it (until the mods worked) was to make him slack off and suck at his job. A conservationist who doesn’t care and only does the bare minimum? ☹️ On the other hand, I want him to be able to take his family camping or to celebrate Winterfest without +3 tense panicky work withdrawal.
I told myself he had a brief burnout period and got better after the lifestyle went away.
(He also had people person, active, and outdoorsy, if I recall correctly. His dad, another merman conservationist, somehow* got indoorsy and techie, so he was bored at work because there were no computers and it was outside! But workaholic is THE WORST I HATE IT SO MUCH.)
* Somehow: married a vampire without sun resistance.
