I can't get SE soon but i'm super curious about Lifestyles. Can you share your experiences with it? Thanks in advance :)

It doesnt change my Sims behaviors as far as I observe, it's basically moodlet play (tense when don't xyz) with new interaction using the same animation. I only have close knit and people person lifestyle though.

I would not call them groundbreaking, but there seems to be plenty of potential there and I Iike playing with them. To be honest, though, I cannot really tell if they have changed autonomous actions. I am a bit of a control freak with my sims, so even with a household of eight I have not sat back and observed enough to really talk about that.The moodlets are nice, though. Simple emotion play, sure, but much more impactful than the traits. More of a challenge to them, too. Energetic lifestyle beats the active trait hands down, for example. My main problem is really that they are too few. It is a good start and they have potential, but they need to add more with new packs, plain and simple.They could use some fine tuning right now, admittedly. My energetic lifestyle sim got a +3 uncomfortable moodlet due to lack of exercise. Unfortunately, you cannot exercise when you are very uncomfortable. I had to eliminate all her other contributing moodlets before I could fix it.Plus my health food nut lifestyle sim still autonomously ate certain snacks, like popcorn from the popcorn popper, all the time despite the negative moodlet. She nearly removed the lifestyle on her own and I had to start watching what she ate. On that note, it certainly helps when all your sims have similar lifestyles, but I think it is fun when they conflict. I found it hilarious when her junk food fiend sister added bacon or sugar to the low fat chilli she had made.

I was about to make a thread asking about what lifestyles actually DO. My sim has developed the Outdoorsy lifestyle and I haven't seen a single new moodlet or change and it's bothering me because I was actively pursuing that and it seems like a waste of time if it does nothing. He also has the "People Person' lifestyle and so far I've seen him get a moodlet about being happy being around people since he was a people person. This same sim has "Single and Lovin' It" in progress. What is great is that all of these lifestyles actually fit his character perfectly. I just was hoping to see more noticeable change. Then again, he's only had the lifestyles for one play session. Anyway, can people please try to be as detailed as possible with what each lifestyle they've experienced actually does?? I want to know so much more about this feature.

So far I like the feature, unfortunately mine are bugged causing my Sim to earn 5 lifestyles (the cap is supposed to be 3). I play with autonomy off, so I have no clue what they may do on their own. I have the outdoorsy, single and loving it, and people person (I used a reward item to remove the extra two). So far there are options when socializing to give lifestyle tips to others, and that gives you a positive moodlet. The outdoorsy one gives you a negative moodlet if you spend too much time inside, and a positive one for outdoor activities. People person says they get upset when they have less than 4 friends, it also says they keep low level friendships well, but struggle with keeping high level friends (I just got that one, haven’t seen it work yet). Single and loving it causes a tense mood if they start a committed relationship, and sometimes they wake up with a positive moodlet if they stay single. I have only played with them twice, and my Sim was working on her aspiration, so I haven’t paid too much attention to them yet.

"alan650111;c-17727236" wrote:I was about to make a thread asking about what lifestyles actually DO. My sim has developed the Outdoorsy lifestyle and I haven't seen a single new moodlet or change and it's bothering me because I was actively pursuing that and it seems like a waste of time if it does nothing. He also has the "People Person' lifestyle and so far I've seen him get a moodlet about being happy being around people since he was a people person. This same sim has "Single and Lovin' It" in progress. What is great is that all of these lifestyles actually fit his character perfectly. I just was hoping to see more noticeable change. Then again, he's only had the lifestyles for one play session. Anyway, can people please try to be as detailed as possible with what each lifestyle they've experienced actually does?? I want to know so much more about this feature.Okay. Beyond the short summaries of of the lifestyles page in game, my limited experiences have been with the energetic, junk food fiend, health food nut, adrenaline seeker, frequent traveler, hungry for love, and people person lifestyles.Eldest sister is an adrenaline seeker and frequent traveler. The latter had her energized pretty well the entire time is Selvadorada. When she got home, she got a bored moodlet in what felt like just a few days from wanting to go on another trip. She can talk about her travels with it, too. Adrenaline seeker allows her to talk about her adventures, gives her a boost and positive moodlets from her secret agent career, and seems to be helpful with active stuff in general. Being honest, I saw no negatives, but that is probably how I played. Adrenaline seeker overlaps pretty well with energetic, so it is easy to earn both.Second oldest sister is the health food nut that nearly ate herself out of her lifestyle. She autonomously cooked, but I could not tell if it was related to her lifestyle besides it being the new healthy recipes. Supposedly it is supposed to give her workout bonuses after, but I never messed with it. Oh, she can talk about health food, too.Middle two twin sisters have the junk food fiend lifestyle. They are supposed to prefer quick meals and junk food, but I could not really tell if the autonomous quick meals were a part of it. I did not have a problem with them eating anything they did not like and they can add bacon or sugar to just about anything. Oftentimes to their older sister's cooking since I don't make them cook. Then they can talk about junk food.Younger twin also has the energetic lifestyle, mentioned earlier with the uncomfortable emotion exercise paralysis. She was on vacation at the time, so I was kind of annoyed, but otherwise it matches up well with her active lifestyle. She has high fitness skill and is energized pretty often. The thing about energetic is I am not always sure what counts. For example, she was exploring the ruins in Selvadorada and got the negative moodlet but was fine on a mountain excursion.Youngest sister I cheated hungry for love. I wanted to see the negative effects of pining for a partner. Honestly, it was less extreme than the jealous trait from what I remember in making her tense. Anyway, the lifestyle faded away at a decent pace.As for people person, I have not been able to tell much with this. My household is large and celebrities and aspiration rewards mess with the relationships I would need to monitor.That is what I have for right now.

Lifestyles: how's your experience?

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TomasGrizly
5 years ago
Some of the lifestlyes can get way too powerful as well. +5 energized after a vacation for two days?
https://i.imgur.com/yZN5aBa.jpg
She would probably manage to stay awake for the whole two days as she remained in Very Energized for most of the time and I sent her to sleep pretty much only for realism.
https://i.imgur.com/gXqLnwg.jpg
I like the idea in default, but TS4 has a problem with way too many and way too strong positive buffs. This was also the case with TS3 (+75 happy from food, lol) so it's nothing new.
What that game would need is to make buffs decay in strength with time - for example, the +3 food buff wouldn't be +3 for 8 hours, but +3 for 2 hours, then +2 for next two hours, and +1 for the last two hours. Same with new kid/wedding - if it was +3 first day, +2 second day, +1 third day, that'd make more sense than 3-day +3. Decay over time.
And also to revise the strength. Many are +2 when +1 would be enough. It's way too easy to override any stray bad mood this way with little danger (as long as you don't get playful and die from laughter).
Harukotyan
5 years ago
My only experience so far was horrible. My sim went to Uni and gave a tutor session there to complete Academic aspiration. Immediately after it she got "People's person" lifestyle. Though she's actually almost a loner. She was cramming in Uni and nether was friendly with another sims in the dorm. She has zero notifications about working towards lifestyle and then bam... "People's person". Then she immediately became sad about losing a friend but she had a very few to start with and all of them were still friends with her. And then I was receiving non-stop notifications that all her family members were receiving the very same lifestyle "People's person". I'm sorry how another uncontrolled household is supposed to receive them? I've tried to turn this thing off. I received notification that all current lifestyles will be deleted. Great. I've changed the settings, saved and in several minutes received notification that another one of my sims received "People's person" lifestyle...

In the end I have to roll back to backed-up version before lifestyle was received. Turn them off there and go on pretending nothing happened. I think this feature need even more tuning and testing than NAPS. Also I have a feeling the design is badly thought. Why no lifestyles connected to crafting/creativity/music??? Too bad I have to disable and dismiss a new feature showed as innovative and game-changing from the start.
indiasparks
5 years ago
Does anyone know what the hidden lifestyles are?
alan650
New Spectator
5 years ago
"Harukotyan;c-17735917" wrote:
My only experience so far was horrible. My sim went to Uni and gave a tutor session there to complete Academic aspiration. Immediately after it she got "People's person" lifestyle. Though she's actually almost a loner. She was cramming in Uni and nether was friendly with another sims in the dorm. She has zero notifications about working towards lifestyle and then bam... "People's person". Then she immediately became sad about losing a friend but she had a very few to start with and all of them were still friends with her. And then I was receiving non-stop notifications that all her family members were receiving the very same lifestyle "People's person". I'm sorry how another uncontrolled household is supposed to receive them? I've tried to turn this thing off. I received notification that all current lifestyles will be deleted. Great. I've changed the settings, saved and in several minutes received notification that another one of my sims received "People's person" lifestyle...

In the end I have to roll back to backed-up version before lifestyle was received. Turn them off there and go on pretending nothing happened. I think this feature need even more tuning and testing than NAPS. Also I have a feeling the design is badly thought. Why no lifestyles connected to crafting/creativity/music??? Too bad I have to disable and dismiss a new feature showed as innovative and game-changing from the start.

This sounds like a bug! I don't know why your family would be receiving the lifestyle when unplayed. However, People Person is by far the easiest one to get unfortunately. I really hope they decide to raise the amount of friends for a people person to have in order to receive it as a lifestyle. It's far too low now. I downloaded a mod to make it be 10 friends at least which makes sense.
pepperjax1230
Rising Novice
5 years ago
Is there a reason why the game thinks you are eating junk food when you eat quick meals in the lifestyles? I mean that is basically all he could eat and he was close to getting the junk food lifestyle.
Shetorow0715
5 years ago
Since this an adult game.. we should be allowed way more options throughout the game. We should be able to have way more career and lifestyle options to make the game less boring even though we buy many expensive add one. The life styles should vary from stripping etc and also we should be able to smoke cigarettes and etc. I also this they should bring cars back. The color schemes should be like in previous games where you have the wheel color charts for variety of colors. For all the add ones we spend money on the contents of each pack should be re updated monthly because the same items over and over tends to be boring. We should have more food choices and things should be more animated so the games won’t get so boring. We should have more college choices and also more things that we can interact with. It’s also the block out contents when having sex or taking a bath for me, the blocker should be taken off... we’re not kids. We should also have way more options of things to do like threesomes etc and food choices should be updated constantly. We pay a lot of money for this game but get pg-13 graphics. It would also be more fun if things we buy our sims were like a catalog .. sorta like the imvu simulation games. It should also let us go online with our friends and new people so we can chat . I think we should be able to get our nails done also create nail salons & buy weaves or wigs. Those options also create new career fields. It’s basically like we pay so much money for so little content coming from an active fan from the sims first game, to sims 2, sims 3 etc.. any that’s came out. The game gets so boring after a while of playing because it’s nothing really fun to do. Should be more live like. Especially with the variety choices I think it would bring out the potential in the game. I have bought literally every add on but 3 but I feel I wasted my money for nothing. We should have bunk beds etc furniture choices in catalog point of view as well as all careers you should be able to go to work with your sims .
TomasGrizly
5 years ago
"TaraTara;c-17736520" wrote:
Since this an adult game...

Actually, it's a 12+ game. The fact that 18+ mods exist doesn't make it an adult game on its own.
If it's possible to create custom lifestyles/sentiments with mods, I'd say it's inevitable for the big modders to get into this. And I wouldn't be surprised if that included the major 18+ mods.
DizzyDi33
5 years ago
as people have said here im thinking of turning lifestyles off the negative moods are too strong and i feel like im constantly having to play towards getting them off again, the good moodlets are great but it ends up being not very realistic if your sim constantly wants to go to work when its not her work hours :(
Echo17121
5 years ago
My one Sim was constantly plus (3 or 5 I can't remember but high enough to be the lead emotion) tense because of a lifestyle slipping away. He was miserable for days before I started using ui cheats to delete the mood. That is insanely annoying. If it's slipping away it needs to happen faster, he was tense for a week at least. I might end up turning them off, I don't really care about them. Most just help with jobs and nothing else. Also most of my Sims end up with the indoorsy trait since there's really nothing to get my Sims out of the house for. ??‍♀️
Shetorow0715
5 years ago
"TomasGrizzly;c-17736712" wrote:
"TaraTara;c-17736520" wrote:
Since this an adult game...

Actually, it's a 12+ game. The fact that 18+ mods exist doesn't make it an adult game on its own.
If it's possible to create custom lifestyles/sentiments with mods, I'd say it's inevitable for the big modders to get into this. And I wouldn't be surprised if that included the major 18+ mods.

...
well it started off as an adult game... not 12 plus. And mods only benefits computer based sims the ones on console don’t have mods. Which makes the game VERY BORING .

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