Lifestyles, Big Families, and Rotational Gameplay

I finally turned them off. I didn't like them.
The box is under options gameplay settings.

I've got 7 sims in my current household, I always forget that we even have lifestyles so I just leave it to give them whatever they get.

I play 12 households for about 10 days each, and it took a while to see how these lifestyles would play out. After giving them an honest chance, I am tempted to turn them off, but it could just be that I’m tired of certain ones. My sims tend to get Frequent Traveler and it’s too quick to give them the bored moodlets. Like they’re on vacation for 2 days and they’re already bored that they haven’t traveled. So I bring them to a community lot and that’s all it took. Then when they go home from vacation they’re energized for days and it’s hard to get them inspired so they can make decent meals or drinks. Then as soon as that’s over, they’re bored and want to travel again. It’s not what I had in mind at all. Yeah, I think I will just turn them off, that’s just one Lifestyle and I’m already annoyed thinking about the other ones.

I just focus on lifestyles for my main sim. She currently has outdoorsy and people person and is working towards health food but. I'll probably switch it up once I experience the benefits of those three.

Yeah I play through 5-15 days in a household and it takes about 10 days if I'm really pushing a certian lifestyle, (my tech nerd got techie real quick alongside her outgoing sister for people person). And man did that techie overclocked computer now gives me a a 2-day focused moodlet, with the Meaningful Stories stories mod, which oh boy. Bit overpowered there.

I've never actually tried to pursue a lifestyle (I play rotationally as well) and I just tend to ignore the feature, but haven't turned it off, and my sims end up getting random lifestyles sometimes without me even trying

"babajayne;c-17818151" wrote:
I play 12 households for about 10 days each, and it took a while to see how these lifestyles would play out. After giving them an honest chance, I am tempted to turn them off, but it could just be that I’m tired of certain ones. My sims tend to get Frequent Traveler and it’s too quick to give them the bored moodlets. Like they’re on vacation for 2 days and they’re already bored that they haven’t traveled. So I bring them to a community lot and that’s all it took. Then when they go home from vacation they’re energized for days and it’s hard to get them inspired so they can make decent meals or drinks. Then as soon as that’s over, they’re bored and want to travel again. It’s not what I had in mind at all. Yeah, I think I will just turn them off, that’s just one Lifestyle and I’m already annoyed thinking about the other ones.

Is that where the bored moodlet springs from? And here I thought it was one of the mods I use. Kayleigh is mostly bored. She has six children, too. No time for boredom in that household. LOL Three teens, two child Sims and a Toddler. How on Earth can she be bored. Although, I do believe it is a mod because this mod also gives them personalities and when I hover over the bored it suggests checking what the personality is to help relieve the problem. But, that doesn't always 'fix' it. So, perhaps, it's a bit of both? Oi!

I have lifestyles turned off. I play rotational but each family I play for a sim year on the calendar with my seasons set at 14 days so my family members do have time to gain some lifestyles. However they all get the same ones, people person is a given for every sim and all it does is make them miserable as the many friends they made while I wasn't playing with them start peeling off one by one because I can't be bothered to keep up with so many friendships.

My experience with them is that they just put sims in bad moods and I can't really see any reason to keep them on. I wish they could be improved at some point to make more sense. Even loner sims will get the people person lifestyle.

"GalacticGal;c-17818210" wrote:

"babajayne;c-17818151" wrote:
I play 12 households for about 10 days each, and it took a while to see how these lifestyles would play out. After giving them an honest chance, I am tempted to turn them off, but it could just be that I’m tired of certain ones. My sims tend to get Frequent Traveler and it’s too quick to give them the bored moodlets. Like they’re on vacation for 2 days and they’re already bored that they haven’t traveled. So I bring them to a community lot and that’s all it took. Then when they go home from vacation they’re energized for days and it’s hard to get them inspired so they can make decent meals or drinks. Then as soon as that’s over, they’re bored and want to travel again. It’s not what I had in mind at all. Yeah, I think I will just turn them off, that’s just one Lifestyle and I’m already annoyed thinking about the other ones.

Is that where the bored moodlet springs from? And here I thought it was one of the mods I use. Kayleigh is mostly bored. She has six children, too. No time for boredom in that household. LOL Three teens, two child Sims and a Toddler. How on Earth can she be bored. Although, I do believe it is a mod because this mod also gives them personalities and when I hover over the bored it suggests checking what the personality is to help relieve the problem. But, that doesn't always 'fix' it. So, perhaps, it's a bit of both? Oi!

The bored moodlets I see from lifestyles describe themselves pretty well, so it sounds like yours are coming from a mod.

I experimented with lifestyles for a while, but now it's time to turn them off, because I am so very tired. Everyone keeps getting close-knit, which makes them upset when they interract with their siblings and friends, because now they suddenly have too many friends, what a tragedy, or health-food nut, which makes them hate everything but a small number of foods. My sims are better off without this nonsense.