Lifestyles: how's your experience?

My experience with lifestyles is not such an appealing one at the moment. Especially with the traveler one. One of my female sims, Kalin had the traveler lifestyle. That was until I had disabled them through gameplay in option. I disabled lifestyles for a reason. And that reason was because Kalin was becoming bored much to often, like every hour or two often. Because she wasn't getting too travel to other worlds as often. And she can't spend every waking minute traveling because I want her too max out the rock climbing skill. Plus she works as a lifeguard on the weekends. And other things as well, like tending to the plants that she has in her little garden and other stuff like paying attention to her cat Romeo. She can't do a lot of this stuff plus visit worlds at the same time.

I’ve turned them off. I’m not seeing any positive benefits to having them and they seem to just make my sims unhappy.

People Person lifestyle is too common considering sims in Sims 4 are rather intrusive when your sims just wanted to talk to his friend and then somebody else joining the conversation and thus adding them as an acquintance to my sims contributing to the points gained for the aforementioned lifestyle.

I don't think that Lifestyles is bugged. You can have more than 3 lifestyles in progress, but active is limited to 3. My Sim's Close Knit lifestyle just became active, and there are only 3 spaces.

I just downloaded this weekend, but so far I find it a bit disappointing. Hopefully, it will improve, but so far I only noticed a few small changes. I admit it was nice when the right sim called about a date as opposed to the way the wrong Sims used to always call.

I like the new pack, and so far my game is running fairly smooth, but I have noticed my Sims are no longer changing into seasonal clothes on their own, sometimes they do and sometimes not.

Also, I noticed that in the island living world less Sims were in the water, or sun bathing, instead they were mostly hanging about the shore.

"MVWdeZT;c-17732085" wrote:
I don't think that Lifestyles is bugged. You can have more than 3 lifestyles in progress, but active is limited to 3. My Sim's Close Knit lifestyle just became active, and there are only 3 spaces.

I have 6 ACTIVE. It looks like there isn't space but they just go below and cover up that lifestyle button. :D They're all affecting my sim too. For sure it's bugged. I don't mind that he has 6 to be fair, however, it isn't supposed to be like that.

"sunman502;c-17731826" wrote:
My experience with lifestyles is not such an appealing one at the moment. Especially with the traveler one. One of my female sims, Kalin had the traveler lifestyle. That was until I had disabled them through gameplay in option. I disabled lifestyles for a reason. And that reason was because Kalin was becoming bored much to often, like every hour or two often. Because she wasn't getting too travel to other worlds as often. And she can't spend every waking minute traveling because I want her too max out the rock climbing skill. Plus she works as a lifeguard on the weekends. And other things as well, like tending to the plants that she has in her little garden and other stuff like paying attention to her cat Romeo. She can't do a lot of this stuff plus visit worlds at the same time.

You can also drink a potion in rewards store to remove the traveler trait if you wanted to keep them on but lose that one and develope others instead of the one making your sim bored. Or you can just turn off the whole feature like you did, it works too, but just in case you still wanted it and didn't know, there is a potion that fixes your issue. :)

Lifestyles are definitely bugged in the sense that the game will assign a sim more than 3 lifestyles. And removing them only removes them from the sim info panel, it's still listed as active under the lifestyles button.
Personally, I know I'll turn them off in any further saves. They have too much impact on a sim's mood if you ask me (I'm the micomanaging control freak type of watcher).
While I appreciate the idea, it's too dominant in gameplay. Besides, it most of the time doesn't make sense.
I think it would have been more enjoyable if they had been interests, activities that sims naturally gravitate towards. Not something they crave so badly it ruins their whole day.

I find them to be a mixed bag, right now one of my sims who is supposed to be active is close to getting the low-energy lifestyle because I wanted him to focus on his job and level up his logic skill. I'm not a huge fan that I have to pick another job or get him to not focus on his job just because he is supposed to follow a specific lifestyle.

Luckily, they warn you with messages early so you can prevent them from getting a lifestyle that you don't want. You can apparently remove them by using the computer as well, but I have heard that removing them could be bugged.

"MDianaSims;c-17732187" wrote:
Lifestyles are definitely bugged in the sense that the game will assign a sim more than 3 lifestyles. And removing them only removes them from the sim info panel, it's still listed as active under the lifestyles button.
Personally, I know I'll turn them off in any further saves. They have too much impact on a sim's mood if you ask me (I'm the micomanaging control freak type of watcher).
While I appreciate the idea, it's too dominant in gameplay. Besides, it most of the time doesn't make sense.
I think it would have been more enjoyable if they had been interests, activities that sims naturally gravitate towards. Not something they crave so badly it ruins their whole day.

This is really the issue, the moodlets are too strong. My Sim can love the outdoors and skiiing, but not to the point she dislikes everything else. The way it’s currently implemented is causing obsessions not lifestyles.

@Kita5399 Exactly! The moodlets are very strong and they all start to center around appeasing a lifestyle - they end up very one-dimensional.

And they are indeed bugged because one of my sims has 5 lifestyles and they are all active - not just in progress.