I'm marking this one as fixed!
It's my understanding, from another thread on here (sorry, can't locate it quickly), that duplicate items don't give Lifestyle points. Could that be what's happening here?
I found this out when I spent a lot of my Sims' hard-earned cash on three additional Modish Chairs, to go with the one I'd aready got... and the Lifestyle meter didn't budge.
It's frustrating, given that items increase in value each time you buy them (at least those chairs did) and everything is so expensive at the higher levels anyway. My Sims certainly won't be getting any more chairs for their dinner table just yet. 🙂
Wow, if that's the case then that must be the issue. I was definitely getting lifestyle points from dupe items until recently. I can't test it because I have literally bought every unique item (excluding simcash items). Sad. Now I can't get more rooms/increase plot just because I've been playing since beta when lifestyle levels took so much more spending to increase, and I doubt the devs have the time or ability to adjust them in accordance. I will contact support with this query just in case. Thank you so much for the responses!
