The Sims FreePlayHow to Get the Most Free Simoleons in The Sims FreePlay
Lifestyle Points are the premium currency of The Sims FreePlay and they are earned by playing, not only by paying. Here are the verified routes to build them up and to keep your Simoleons from running short.
What is the fastest and most efficient way to get Simoleons in The Sims FreePlay?
The Sims FreePlay runs on two very different currencies. Simoleons are the everyday money: they pay for furniture, houses, cars and businesses, and they come in on their own while your Sims work, cook or garden. Lifestyle Points are the scarce currency: they unlock exclusive items and speed up actions that would otherwise take real hours or days. The game hands them out in dribs and drabs through hobbies, level-ups, town value and task rewards, so the real pace depends on how many Sims you have working at once.
Every day
- 1 LP per finished hobby; some collections give between 2 and 6
Complete hobbies up to level 6
This is the steady source of Lifestyle Points. Every time a Sim reaches level 6 of a hobby and closes the badge collection, you receive Lifestyle Points; depending on the hobby, the reward runs from 1 to 6. Cooking is the fastest to repeat because it only needs a kitchen and does not depend on map buildings. The key is volume: the more Sims you assign to the same hobby, the sooner the collection is completed, because the badges each of them earns count towards the same group. A Sim can only have one active hobby at a time.
- Simoleons daily and Lifestyle Points occasionally
Let cats and dogs dig
Pets with a collar can hunt for treasure around the house and garden. Most of the time they dig up Simoleons, but every so often they turn up Lifestyle Points, and it is one of the few sources that does not depend on completing anything. Since the action is short, it fits well into brief sessions: you log in, send each pet to dig, collect the town income and log out. With several pets spread across different houses the trickle shows over the week without demanding extra time from you.
- The bulk of your Simoleons for the day
Collect town income and wages
Simoleons come in through four routes worth chaining together: career wages, the takings from map buildings, what the garden and the oven produce, and selling furniture you no longer use. None of them requires Lifestyle Points. Sending every available Sim to work before you close the game and collecting the takings when you come back is what sustains the economy long term. If you leave the game untouched for a week or more, on your return the game compensates you with a welcome-back payment.
Every week
- 5,000 Simoleons guaranteed a week, plus Lifestyle Points and keys
Close out the weekly task bar
The weekly tasks fill a bar with prizes spread across tiers. Two of those tiers always hand out Simoleons (2,000 and 3,000), and the rest mix Lifestyle Points with keys for the Mystery Boxes. The tasks are small — buy a particular item, get a Sim's fun to maximum, cancel an action — and some require a specific moment of the real day. The game lets you skip a stuck task for 10 LP: it almost never pays off, because you would be spending the scarce currency to earn the cheap one.
One time only
- A pinch of Lifestyle Points at every milestone reached
Level up and raise your town value
Every town level-up hands out Lifestyle Points, and total town value works as a second counter: passing certain thresholds of accumulated value also releases Lifestyle Points. Since value rises when you build houses, place expensive furniture and put up map buildings, spending Simoleons on decoration is not an indulgence, it is how you push that counter. These are one-off rewards, so it is worth planning the big purchases for when you have Simoleons to spare rather than nibbling away at them.
Events only
- Lifestyle Points, exclusive items and prizes that do not come back
Discovery quests and live events
The game schedules live events and discovery quests with an expiry date. They hand out Lifestyle Points, furniture that is not in the store afterwards and unlocks for new hobbies. It is worth going in on day one to see the full list of objectives and work out whether you have time: many require long chained actions and, if you start late, you end up tempted to speed them up with Lifestyle Points. Keeping a few Sims free before an event starts is the best preparation there is.
What does not work
No generator can add Simoleons to your The Sims FreePlay account: the balance is handled on the game’s servers and there is no way to touch it from outside. If you arrived looking for one, we explain in detail how they work on the inside and why they always end the same way.
See why Simoleons generators are a scam →Frequently asked questions
How do you get Lifestyle Points without paying in The Sims FreePlay?
Through four routes: finishing hobby collections, levelling up the town, passing town value thresholds and completing tiers of the weekly tasks. On top of that come the limited-time events and the odd loose find from pets digging. None of these routes is fast on its own, but combined they leave a steady trickle if you log in a couple of times a day.
How long does it take to complete a hobby collection?
It depends on the hobby and on how many Sims you dedicate to it. A short collection like Cooking closes in one session if you have several Sims cooking in parallel, because they all add to the same collection. Hobbies tied to map buildings, such as skating or diving, are slower because you have to move the Sims around. Assigning one Sim per hobby and going through them all each day is the most efficient approach.
What should you do with Simoleons in the first few weeks?
Prioritise what generates more income and more town value: the map buildings that take money, new houses to hold more Sims, and workplaces. Decorative furniture also counts towards town value, so it is not money thrown away. What almost never pays off is emptying your wallet on luxury items before you have enough Sims working and hobbies under way.
Why is it not worth spending Lifestyle Points on speeding up actions?
Because Lifestyle Points come in very slowly and the long actions finish on their own if you organise your session in advance. Speeding up an action of several hours costs an amount that would take you days to recover through hobbies. The reasonable exception is a limited-time event about to expire where you are one specific step short. Outside that case, it is better to save them for permanent unlocks.
