Lifetyles and Sentiments System... on the fence!

Just wait for the livestream, player reviews, etc and then decide if you want it.

I’ve seen others share this concern. It’s hard to say until we have more info and some examples of what they actually mean. I did not buy Eco Lifestyle and never planned to, and when they described the NAPs I could sense right away that they would be a problem. Why would anyone want everyone in their neighborhood to act the same, or to let the neighborhood dictate so much about what they did? What sounded so great about Sharing Is Caring to begin with? Or the bags on heads?

Here’s hoping the Lifestyles and Sentiments are nothing like that. From what we know so far, I’m optimistic because any autonomy changes (specific to a sim) would be an improvement.

Personally, I see this change in the game as a rather special dynamic. Currently, I've been using the Slice of Life mod that augments our Sims' personalities like nobody's business. If Lifestyles and Sentiments does anything close to this mod, I'm excited for it. I can well understand your reticence. I have an innate fear of patches, myself. The past three have really done a number on my game saves. I did finally, figure out that it wasn't altogether necessary for me to start a brand new game save to 'fix' the problem. But, rather, I needed to pull my mods/cc out and redownload them, anew, one at a time. (After they were updated, of course.) Playing the game for a bit, checking the mods out individually. This saved my current game. I am the Queen of Restarts, but I had just restarted, as it were, and taken my four siblings through Uni. All but one is married at this point, but the lone hold out just got engaged. Hey, he's in Med School, or was, and just made Chief Resident and is now drawing a paycheck. His sweetheart has also taken a job to help them out. I have not planned the wedding, yet. The point is, I was able to save this game. We live and learn.

But, I just restarted my Ancestral game save. Here we sit waiting for that other shoe to drop. Oi. But, I can't wait until I can see what this new system will bring. As always, I will backup my game folder, especially my saves and Tray, pull my Mods folder and hope for the best. At least I'm not staring down a hurricane or anything. Although Zeta is on a path that would threaten where my sixth great-grandfather was laid to rest. I haven't been there, yet, either. :open_mouth:

My advice, never buy packs on release day.

Wait at least a couple of days so you can read feedback from other simmers, not enough resources are put into preventing bugs and fixing bugs that currently are in the game.

I'm interested to learn more about lifestyles and sentiments but I hope that they will not involve our sims doing the same animations over and over again.

I will probably buy this pack before the december update which will update skin tones, I would like to play the pack but I don't think that I will update my game in december because the december update will most likely break custom skins, and I would like to wait to download that update until custom skins will eventually be updated by the modders, which means that I have to buy the pack before the december update.

I struggle see anything that adds more personality to the sims as a bad thing. The lifestyles and sentiments are what I'm looking forward to the most. I very much hope that they won't turn out to be another N.A.P type disaster.

I was actually quite excited for Eco Lifestyle originally but now sadly I play with it's main feature turned off. The N.A.P's are actually awful and so incredibly pointless at the same time. The Eco Footprint does whatever it wants. My current family has done nothing towards improving the environment and the meter is still moving up and down as it pleases.

I have a feeling these lifestyles and sentiments are just gonna be GF quirks. Things you acquire after doing something frequently and that might make your sim do something once in a while and get moodlet.

Lifestyles looks exactly like Get Famous quirks sad to see I doubt they will have any true impact now. But if it does its always going to be one extreme or another how I miss the point system.

I see where you are coming from. I don’t have eco living so luckily don’t have NAP but hopefully if it is not right modders will fix it.

I actually feel like the lifestyles are more likely to not make a big difference. The whole autonomy in the sims 4 is lacking and I use several mods to help.

Hopefully we are both proven wrong.

Most of them are like traits we already have
sedentary - lazy
energetic - active
outdoorsy - love outdoors
indoorsy - ? loner perhaps
people person - outgoing
close knit - family oriented
health food nut - vegetarian
junk food fiend - glutton

Seems like all they will do is make moodlets/buffs even worse. Like, active sims already only seem to want to exercise 24/7 so adding energetic would only make that worse.

I'm very interested to see how Sentiments will play out. It looks like a memory system, something the game needs. I want to see how bad of a grudge my Sim will hold to a bad sim with an already atrocious reputation.