Lifestyles: how's your experience?

In my humble opinion the causality of Lifestyles is backwards in the game at the moment. I would love to have my sims to be affected by their lifestyle and not a lifestyle being affected by what my sim does. What I mean by that is since my sim already does all the things to get the lifestyle then there is no benefit for me to even have it... I would like to choose lifestyles for my sims in CAS for example and then for them to affect my sim's autonomy and whims. So as they are now, I see no use for them whatsoever. My sims get them automatically, lose them automatically and I do not notice any difference in my gameplay.

Both of my sims on vacation in MtK got the lifestyle "well traveled" or something, they can share travel stories now...
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?

I got the close-knit lifestyle for two of my Sims. One of them is an actor and she soon got the tense +5 moodlet, which effectively blocked her from any progress in the acting career and whatever I did, it just wouldn't leave. So I turned off lifestyles for the time being.

I wish there was more information on how they work and what to do in these type of situations.

So far not sure how much I am loving those. The single one is a bit annoying, as I like some control of certain things, and a sim being single is not because she wants to be. I would just remove that one, honestly.

I do enjoy the food ones though. For foodie sims, it adds an extra layer. I like having the alternative version for foods when a healthy food sim, using whole wheat and the likes. It probably goes well with vegetarian too. Fun to have a junk food fiend as well, surviving on pizza, quick meals, cake and vending machine food. Also neat to play a rehabilitation bit, which I did coming out of University, given she lived off of junk during that time. Then off to loose the wait and push through eating healthy. She was none too pleased.

I do love the coffee addiction one. I can relate all too well.

The hungry for love I guess adds a few interactions and moodlets for married sims. The sedentary kind of overlaps the couch potato trait, and the outdoorsy with the love outdoors one. I guess it's a way to sort of get an additional trait but that comes with talking interactions.

Little experience to date with the others, or saw very little of them.

It's a little bit buggy, (one of my sims has 6 lifestyles) but overall, I do like what they bring to the game. I feel like they give my sims a little more personality even if it's mostly just a moodlet thing. I like how it more governs their mood though over decor items. It makes way more sense to me that way. Decor items still count, but the lifestyles help give things an extra pull in the personality direction.

I definitely appreciate having them in the game but they aren't worth a full expansion price, they aren't something to buy the pack for or be the sole reason to buy the pack, but they are a fun and welcome addition IMO.

"Soulangel980;c-17730436" wrote:

The hungry for love I guess adds a few interactions and moodlets for married sims. The sedentary kind of overlaps the couch potato trait, and the outdoorsy with the love outdoors one. I guess it's a way to sort of get an additional trait but that comes with talking interactions.

Not sure if a bug or a mod issue, but the married couple in the save I currently play has no progress on 'Hungry for Love' despite doing a decent amount of romantic interactions in their everyday lives.

Some just don’t seem to be thought out enough. My Sim had the one relating to extreme sports (I forgot the name), problem was that she couldn’t do any of the actions for it while pregnant. It was really annoying because she was tense and miserable the entire pregnancy, but she’s a family Sim with a family aspiration, so it just didn’t fit her character at all.

Think they are bugged - both of my sims basically do everything together, yet only one of them seems to be getting lifestyles. They did both get close knit, but only one also got energetic, outdoorsy, frequent traveler, adrenaline seeker.
The moodlets are harsh too - because one has all those - if she is in the house for 5 minutes - she stacks up tons of bored moodlets. She makes flower arrangements outside, yet the game seems to think this is an indoor activity because she gets the indoor bored moodlet. I also think the close knit is odd because they get very tense if the even accidently get more than a couple friends - I had to invite people over just to be mean and destroy relationship to get rid of the harsh tense moodlets - not my idea of close knit. So far, not a big fan of lifestyles.

"AprilDawn;c-17731070" wrote:
Think they are bugged - both of my sims basically do everything together, yet only one of them seems to be getting lifestyles. They did both get close knit, but only one also got energetic, outdoorsy, frequent traveler, adrenaline seeker.
The moodlets are harsh too - because one has all those - if she is in the house for 5 minutes - she stacks up tons of bored moodlets. She makes flower arrangements outside, yet the game seems to think this is an indoor activity because she gets the indoor bored moodlet. I also think the close knit is odd because they get very tense if the even accidently get more than a couple friends - I had to invite people over just to be mean and destroy relationship to get rid of the harsh tense moodlets - not my idea of close knit. So far, not a big fan of lifestyles.

You can use the potion in the rewards store to get rid of the ones that you don't want.

alan650111 Yes, thank you, I am aware of that. There is also lifestyle coaching which I did use on one sim to get rid of that workaholic lifestyle - that one is awful - they constantly just run back to work no matter their needs or anything. Just trying them out to see what they do for now - definitely going to get rid of some of them at least eventually.