Description of App
How will you live your BitLife?
Will you try to make all the right choices in an attempt to become a model citizen sometime before you die? You could marry the man/woman of your dreams, have kids, and pick up a good job along the way.
Or will you make choices that horrify your parents? You could descend into a life of crime, start prison riots, smuggle duffle bags, and cheat on your spouse.
It's all up to you...
Comments
dm
Thanks. Will try again at some point. So I wasted 100k on nothing. Lol. I thought the more money you put in will give you a better chance.
Ornella and dm
Ornella and dm, I'm jealous of you guys lol. I can't get a foot on the political ladder no matter what i do. I think i'm going to cheat and use god mode to give myself perfect stats. So in order to become president/prime minister we have to start as a school board director, then mayor, then governor and so on? Like it has to go in order? Or after you become board director, you can skip a position.
Ornella, I tried the challenge and nothing happened. I was so mad. i worked hard to keep my health. Since it requires to go on the hot cheetos diet. But I think i know why. i kind of cheated because i used a life that i previously saved and I sort of already had a life. So maybe thats why. But i don't think i'm going to try again, too much work lol. Wow thats good that you left both of your exes. One sounds ungrateful and the other sounds like, well, irritating lol. I haven't played since this morning. I was to mad to play lol jk. No I had to do some stuff. I'll play again in a bit.
Same character
I have actually used the same character in multiple challenges, and it works.
me too
I did the wholechallenge and didn't get credit for it again.
X2
You will need to do things in order. Also, you need a bitizenship to run for president.
Challenges
That's why I don't really care much about that no more. You work so dam hard and for what? When you think you got everything its a total waste. The only way I will do one of that in the future is if they start giving out in game rewards which I've suggested to them already. Speaking of, I think they should give daily rewards to which would help out a bit. Like when you open the app 1 day it says here's $1000 to start you off or it could be less. I mean people could cheat and just open the app to pile up their money but it would take a long time to do that. Or, they could give out some free lottery tickets.
Laura, dm, and ornella
Laura, wow really? Thats weird. I've never done that before, this was my first time using a character that I saved a long time ago. I've always made new ones for challenges. I did all the requirements as instructed. I mean, I collected a few achievements along the way but still. I could've been one of the first ones to finish it. Lol. But oh well, maybe next time.
Dm, thanks for that. Yeah, I had a feeling that a bitizenship is needed for presidency. Good thing I have one.
Ornella, I agree. If we had rewards for challenges, then i'd definitely try the challenge again. But no point of getting finger cramps for something that I might not get. Lol. Lottery tickets is a good idea. Same with getting money each day we open the app. But i'm pretty sure people would abuse it. Like change the time on there phones. Just like they would with the train robbery. Also, I think this has already been asked on here, but has anyone won the sweepstakes? If so, how did you win? And what did you win?
X2
Actually i've won the sweepstakes twice and won expensive cars but forgot what they were as it was a few days ago. I believe that one was a Mustang. Anyway, here's how I did it. Abandon bitlife for a day or two And make sure that notifications are on. Eventually, the game will try to call you back With some hilarious notifications. Sometimes, it will say that there's a certain animal at your door That you can take as a pet if you answer the notification fast enough. Other times, it's cash lying on the ground or stupid things like that. If you are lucky, it will be the sweepstakes.
I haven't
I haven't won the sweepstakes as yet but thanks Dm for letting us know how you got it. The reason why I don't abandon the app no more is to see if I get a good heirloom. I don't like to miss out on those because sometimes they help out especially if its good ones. Its after midnight here close to 1 Am. 1969 game ball. Not bad but it could've been worse. Maybe if I collect all the 95 heirlooms I may abandon the app for a few days and not care. I think I have 73 heirlooms. One day when I'm bored I will list everything I have so far so we could probably compare stuff.
Made it in but
So I ran for 2 terms as school board directer or what ever its called and I wasn't eligible to be reelected for a 3rd term. At the end of that whole thing my approval rate was 88%. I wanted it to go up to 100 but didn't happen. Every time I made speeches I only chose to spread awareness and my focus was on education but some times I would mix it up and focus on social issues and people really liked that. When ever I threw a rally I always made it energetic and the reception was always 100%. And the budget was always $1000. Then I tried for Mayer and didn't make it in. I went back to my job as apprentice chef. My character is in his early 50's so I'm not sure what I will do with the rest of that life. I got a random thing that said I injured my heart while jumping. It took 8 weeks to heal. Now why did that make me laugh so much. Haha.
Mayor
To try for mayor you will need a higher budget. It gets a whole lot tougher. Liberal and conservative are the most favorable parties and require the least amounts of cash. Green, socialist and libertarian needs twice the amount of the first two. As for fascist, let's just say it's ridiculous lol.
I beg to differ about doing things in order
So yesterday, I was picking on someone (playing as an actual famous person, using their name as my bitlife character), anyway, I made him run for governor, he didn't run for school board or mayor first, he only lasted one term as governor though. He started out as a lawyer.
At Moopie
You are right. I just did it with another character. I had political science, graduate school and law school. I also needed around $250,000 To get onto the ballad. Only i've had more luck. Got my approval rating sky high, ran 2 terms and endet at 100%. I then ran for president and won with a budget of around $600,000. I was well on my way to become the greatest president of all time, but died of High blood pressure during my second term.
I forgot
I forgot to say earlier that twice something weird happened when I was running for local office. I got offered a sexual favor and I was so tempted to do it but I chose no. It was something about a massage. Then the next time a parent tried to bribe me with a thousand dollars to get her son in to a good university and I refused it. When i'm good at this I will do weird things.
Dm, ornella, and moopie
Finally getting a chance to get on. I was busy all day yesterday and didn't play at all. Anyway, on to bitlife.
Dm, I won the sweepstakes as well. I got a notification saying that i won. When i saw it it had been 5 minutes since i got it and I opened it but nothing happened. I didn't know bitlife would do that to you. Send out stuff to you to get you to play. It makes sense though, since i didn't open the app all day until i got the notification. Thanks for the tip though. i'll probably have to try again sometime.
Ornella, I got donald trump's golden toilet worth 11k. But since it was in horrible condition, I couldn't get it sold. But i'm still going to try. Wow you have 73? I'm right behind you with 72 heirlooms. I'm going to play and see if I can get in on the political action. Lol you made me laugh when you said that you were tempted to accept a sexual favor. I've been on the opposite side of that bribe you got lol. I bribed a college official to let my daughter go to college and he accepted. I paid him 16k. But my daughter didn't even put her degree to use, so it was a waste of money. I mean i was rich but still.
Moopie, thanks for confirming that we don't have to go in order for the offices. I already have a life set up for that. I'm going to go play now. Bitlife needs me. Lol.
My city
I'm a Mayer and my city people hates me. Lol. I had to spend over 200k on my budget to get in. And that's the same life that I'm playing from since the new update. Its moving really slow. I banned a movie called honey and the people didn't like that at all. Then I scared the public and went on television and made a speech and the reception was 1%. I couldn't even afford to host a good rally because the budget was so high and people didn't like that either. I think I made some bad decisions as well. My approval rate is now 43%. I got a diamond ring and sold it. Made a good profit on it but still didn't help. When ever I make another life I'm going to try and get the writer job first and rack up lots of millions and see how far this politics thing could take me. So I have a question about the newspaper. When we read it what are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to do something to change the headlines or brag when making a speech.
Newspaper
I think we are supposed to base the style and subject of our speeches on the newspaper headlines.
Laura is right
You should also check your agenda. The best way to boost your approval ratings is to balance your hours so that they are all equal. For the school board director, I had everything at 15 hours. It's very high I know. You will definitely run the risk of getting high blood pressure, but your approval ratings will be on steroids LOL. Also, rallies won't be needed and you can save allot of cash this way. When you do get high blood pressure, you can always just get acupunctures Until your cured. for mayor, i also got everything at 15 hours. For Governor, i have everything at 10 and for president, everything is at 8 except golf. I leave golf on 0.
Omg
When I was running for school board directer I think it was set to 40 which meant 8 hours for 5 days because I think there was a popup asking how much time I can't remember the exact thing and I think I chose 5 days a week. Didn't get high blood pressure.
Here's a laugher
So i got a choice to pass or veto the following law. Proposed Law: Require criminals give law enforcement a written notice at least 24 hours prior to committing a crime
Advice please
So I finally managed to get on the political ladder. It took a while, but I’ve got it. I ran for state governor but lost the election. I tried that one over and over by closing out the app LOL. But it only worked once, I mean winning. So then, I decided to bring it down a notch and run for mayor. Surprisingly, I won. That one also took a few tries but it was easier. Now my question is, any advice for what or what not to do? I don’t want to mess this up. For example, What do the newspaper headings mean? I opened one and there was one that I thought was interesting. It was about a cougar lounging around a male student college dorm. But when I tapped on it, nothing happened. Is that supposed To happen? Or can I read the actual newspaper. Also, where it says 40 hours, is that what we do a week? Because there are different categories with different hours under them. For example, crime, 10 hours, education, 10 hours, social issues, six hours, etc. Another question is, what do those numbers mean by each category? Like it says crime, 68%, Education, 76%, etc. I am new to all this, well, the update, I mean. So any help is more than welcomed.
Lol dm that was a good one. What did you ever decide to do with the law? Did you pass it. Or veto it.
X2
You must read the headlines and make speeches based on the things you've read. If done correctly, you should be able to get one or two approval points per year. However, before you get to all that, you will need to check your agenda. The number you get next to crime, education, social issues Etc. is the amount of hours you are focusing on those issues. When you double tap on an issue, You will now get a percentage that you can adjust. It's almost like when you have a job and wish to adjust the hours. Only now you get percentages and not the actual number of hours. So, let's say you double tap on crime, You will need to adjust the percentage to a higher number, Then swipe back to see by how much the hours have moved up. When you swipe up and down, the percentage will move up or down by 10. This can sometimes be a pain and you will be forced to double tap and hold the screen, Then move your finger slowly left and right to access the In between percentage numbers. Anyway, I found that law so funny that I just had to pass it. I was penalised by two approval points.
Some more info
On the approval rating screen, it will only show how good you are performing in all those categories. As for the news headlines, they can't be double tapped. Just try to make a speech based on some of those headlines and you may just get approval points. Also, the 40 hours you saw was 40 hours per week. You should try to adjust those hours so that You have 14 to 15 hours per issue. It will be a little bit Unhealthy, but at least it will boost your approval ratings and like I said, you can just get acupunctures Whenever you get high blood pressure. If it doesn't work, just keep doing it until it does. Acupuncture is much cheaper than rallies anyway.
Approval points
If you somehow manage to end a term with a high approval rating, It will help you immensely when trying for another term, or even when you run for something else. Also, when your approval rating is high, you don't even need a campaign budget for second terms. Only when you run for something new, you will need a campaign budget.
Dm
You made me laugh with that one. So its like a criminal walking in to a police station saying oh hey i'm going to rob a bank in 24 hours. I got something about porn And I think I veto it. I haven't played much yesterday. Had a bad headache. I seriously need to finish this life. Lets see what I got first. Hope its something good because I need millions now. A skate board. Like that's going to do anything.
This is crazy.
Age 4 years. You took your parents car for a joy ride. And the thing was to admit that I broke it. Now even for bitlife they shouldn't have that popup at that early stage in the game. It made me laugh though. I'm living in Vietnam. Never lived there before so want to see how it is. Was conceived in the back of a limo so nothing new there. Haha. I want to try and live in all the countries that are in the game. It will take a long time but I want to see how it is. Normally when I don't want to live in a strange country I always try for the US. Got a 1965 television worth a hundred 65.
Dm and ornella
Dm, thank you for all that, it really helps. And about the headlines, and making speeches off of that, I kind of figured but i didn't want to assume. Lol I agree. Rallies are not cheap. I threw one and it was so bad. So i closed the app out, so that it wouldn't affect me in any way. Also, good to know about the approval ratings. Good to know that a campaign budget isn't needed if we run again with high approval ratings. Again, thank you. This helps a lot. Now I need to make some speeches and fix some stuff. So just to be clear, it's good to raise my hours to 15? Or should I only do that for certain agenda items. I don't want to go and raise things and end up messing my health leading me to die at an early age. Also, i forgot to ask, So the salary i make right now, does that stay the same throughout my mayor career? or do i get raises like any other job. I noticed i make lots less as a mayor than I did as a lawyer.
Ornella, lol in the bak of a limo? Your parents must be classy. Lol jk. Well, it's good to start driving at an early age, so that way you have experience for when the real test comes. Let's see what heirloom i get. I need some money after i spent a lot on my campaign. OMg yes! Charlemagne's crown worth 30 million. Now i just need to convert this in to green and i'll be good to go. I've never lived in vietnam before either. Let me know how it is. I'm curious to know.
X2
When playing as a mayor or governor, you can set the hours to 10 for each issue. For president, you will need to set hours to 8 since a president have more issues to cover. I'm not sure if your salary will get higher for the same position. However, I do know that higher positions will give a higher salary. Like I said, don't worry about the blood pressure. Just get acupuncture as many times as needed until you are cured. The reason my previous president died is because I was careless. When I was notified of the blood pressure, I was lazy and didn't want to go through all those acupunctures, So i skipped a year without treatment. Obviously, that was a big mistake LOL.
Politics
Dm, when I was mayer I set everything to 9 because for nothing I wasn't getting to move the item picker to choose 8 hours. I made a lot of money when I was Mayer but when I tried for President I lost all my money. So that's like a gamble. X2, I'm cursed with bad heirlooms this week. If you want you could donate that expensive heirloom you got to get the achievement. Haha. That will be so hard for me to do but I will only do it when I have millions. I almost got the pilot training job. It said I needed a license and I had no cash to get it so now I'm working at an engineer firm. Its kind of boring living in Vietnam. Its kind of like when you live in those type of countries where it cost like $5 to go to the gym so you know how the pay rate is for jobs. At least my parents are nice but I did a stupid thing where I was going to ask them to pay for me to go to graduate school because they payed for my university and I made a mistake and chose to take out a student loan. Even though I took my parents car out when I was 4 years old I still failed my driving lessons. Lol. Speaking of that, does anyone have a cheat document for all the questions and possible answers. Sometimes I forget the answers. I might have to look it up.
Dm and ornella
Dm, o ok I see what you mean. Well, thank you, i'll set all my hours to 10 then and see how that works for me. I won't get lazy, well,, no promises lol. I don't think i'll make it as far as president, but good to know. Thanks.
Ornella, Omg I forgot about that achievement. Donating a million dollar heirloom. O well. It helped me get more money, which means a higher chance of getting elected lol. So i guess it's not all bad. I agree with you. I'll probably won't donate a million dollar heirloom unless i have millions. O man that sucks. Well, the important thing is that you tried to take your driver's test. So at least you have that. Well, at least vietnam isn't expensive like switzerland or france. But then again, you can't really make much money, if that's what you want. I don't have a document with all the driver test answer, but I mainly memorized it. Lol. But thats a smart idea. I should write them down and share it. If you want, you can post the ones you remember, and i can start writing them down. If not, you don't have to. I'll just finish this life and start when I start a new life.
X2
No its okay. I don't think you should write them down either because the questions and answers get randomized and switched around a lot and that will take forever. I do remember some of the answers and some of the questions but its kind of easy to forget.
I don't have every single
I don't have every single right answer but something I've noticed, if there's ever an answer that has crossing in it that's usually the right answer.
Life sucks
Life sucks in Vietnam. For me anyway. I was working as an environment scientist and the money wasn't helping out much at all. My character is still in her 50's and then I was able to buy a car and a house that I didn't wanted. I always like to buy the town homes because it goes up in value but I'm stuck with a tiny house with the condition of 12%. I spent $1000 to renovate it and living there that's a lot of money. In the earlier part of that life I went to prison for drug trafficking. Thought I would've been lucky. I plead guilty because I know that the lawyers wasn't going to help me and that money was wasted which was true when I tried to apeal and lost. Instead of 15 years I got 12. Now I'm a hair dresser and the salary isn't great so I'm going to hurry with this life and live somewhere else. Its so bad I didn't plan my dad's funeral but I attended. Didn't get any money but that was a good decision I made. I got a tool box that no one wanted.
Ornella and paige
Ornella, ok thats fine. Maybe one of these days if i'm really bored, I'll write the answers down for the driver's test. Wow really? I didn't know that town homes go up in value. I never buy town homes. So maybe thats why. Sounds like the cost of living is cheap. When you went to prison, were the lawyers expensive? Also, if you don't want to live there, you can always emigrate somewhere else. I got a 1965 TV. I haven't tried selling it, so will see how that goes. So now i'm in my second term of mayorship. Lol I just made up that word. I ended my first term with 97% approval. I was so happy lol. I didn't get any funny laws like other people did. The only one that was pretty crazy was, everyone has to be a vegetarian. I of course said no. Another one that was pretty crazy was if I should allow people to be tracked by their phones by the government. Again, i said no. Do you know if i can run for governor while still the mayor? or do I have to finish my term first?
Paige, your right. Like for the deer crossing one. The options are, deer crossing, happy hopping deer, and hunters only. Obviously, its deer crossing. Another one is machinery crossing, tractors only, and farmers crossing. But that one is easy. Theres no such thing as farmers crossing. I think its machinery crossing, if memory serves.
Licenses
Does anyone know the answers to the questions to be able to drive our own plane or boat?
You have to wait until your last term as mayor ends in order to become the governor or the president.
X2 And Laura
X2, I said I was going to finish my life and I didn't get to play much yesterday and today. Was occupied with family and other things. I'm just going to open the app and see what I get. A postal horn worth 15k. Not bad. I was planning to abandon the app today but glad I didn't. Its so late in my life I don't want to bother migrating. What I'm doing is to try and live in all the countries in the game. And even though I lived in the US already I'm doing it again when ever. Probably in alphabetical order but I started with Vietnam so backwards. Lol. All houses go up in value as long as you keep renovating and putting money in to it or if you could keep gardening each year depending on the type of house you have. Laura, I don't remember the answers to the pilot's test nor the boating ones. Lol. These things are at the back of my mind so when a question comes up I'm clueless sometimes. Or I forgot, x2, with the options you gave I think that answer is tractors only. Haha.
Laura and ornella
Laura, thanks i didn't know that we had to finish being mayor in order to become governor. Sadly, I'm still not good with the boat and aircraft tests lol. I'm always guessing the answer. One thing you can do is to close out the app if you get the answer wrong. I know this can be repetitive but its worth a shot. It also might save your character's happiness since it goes down if you get a wrong answer for any license.
Ornella, lucky. I got a stupid umbrella. And its not even in good condition. My house that I currently have is expensive to renovate. I bought it at 39% and sunk like 30k into it. And it only went up by 15%. So then the next year I put 40k into it and it went up to 80. Which isn't bad but its not 100, like I like it. Lol. Is it tractors only? I don't even remember. Its been a long time since i've gotten that sign. Wht your doing with the countries, that should be a challenge. It might take a while but it would still be fun. I'm not saying that you should take it as a challenge but it would be crazy if bitlife took your idea and made it into a challenge. Anyway, good luck on your adventure.
My comment crashed
Now I have to redo this whole thing again. X2 I was writing out the birth Scenario for you but I will make it short. I got a thing that said that my mom was adicted to slot machines and she didn't want me interfereing with that so that's how I was adopted. I'm now living in Afghanistan. That life won't be long there because I'm sure I will die by some terrorist. Thank god I finished with Vietnam. I murdered my supervisor by pushing her off a cliff because when I refused to work extra hours she attacked me and I lost the lawsuit. I got the death penalty but didn't die by that. I took drugs but it didn't say how I died so that was weird. Anyway I got a Cumpus that no one wants so the streak of bad luck continues this week.
Yay! Best heirloom EVER
I had the ten carat diamond which was very long ago. Thaat was worth a couple millions. Now I got an ancient stradevarious violin and it is worth 8.8 millions. Just cannot wait to see how much I can get from it.
Sweet
I got six million for it. The year after I died. I had four children and the relationships were low and I chose the one who was highest and I didn't like her because she rejected me. Now I can actually see the relationship bars without having to open the profile every single time.
I have played around with it and am really thankful for the new layouts.
I'm gonna try
I'm gonna try to kick off my political career with a train robbery and see what happens.
Sasha
Wow you got a good heirloom. I don't think I've gotten that heirloom as yet. Dm, let me know how it works out because I have an alarm chime on my phone so as soon as it beeps I could probably try robbing a train.
Orphan question
So My dad died when I was 9 and my mom died when I was 10. I got 100k from her so I'm a rich orphan. I went in to the relationships tab and it says orphanage 3%. So Looks like they don't like me or I don't like them. What can we do as an orphan? I'm not finding anything when I tap on it. I'm 15 now so close to leaving there. Got an alarm clock.
Ornella, Dm, and Sasha
Ornella, wow, it’s not your week, is it LOL. First your heirloom, then the country you’re born in, unless you chose it, and both your parents died. So that must be fun. Being sarcastic, of course. I remember I watched someone on YouTube, I forgot who it was, they were playing in Afghanistan and their partner was murdered by terrorist while running some errands. That’s what it reminded me of when you said that you hope you don’t die by terrorists. I haven’t been an orphan yet. I honestly forgot about that. Is it possible to be born as an orphan? Speaking of being born, so your mom gave you up because she prefers slot machines over you? That’s a dumb reason to give a baby up LOL. Do you have any plans for what you’re going to do with your life in Afghanistan? Or are you just going to play it by ear and see what happens.
Dm, I was thinking that the other day. Robbing a train to start a political career. Since you get a lot of money when robbing a train. Wouldn’t that come back to haunt you though? I feel like if you were bad when you’re young, and you run for any type of office, your opponent finds dirt on you and uses it against you. Speaking of political offices, I am on my second term of state governor. I am hoping to become president of the US. Any tips that I can use? Do you need a lot of money to become president?
Sasha, wow lucky. I could really use 6 million right now LOL. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten that heirloom before. I got a stupid Winchime today. It’s useless obviously. So I threw it out. I’m also glad we don’t have to go into a person‘s profile to see our relationship bar with them. It’s really handy just having it after their name.
X2
That's exactly what I want to find out LOL. I want to know Whether or not the media will bring up my train robbery. Perhaps I can even rob the train while I am president LOL. To answer your question, it will all depend on the party that you are using. I believe that when playing as a Republican or a Democrat, You will need just over 1 million. Green, socialists and nationalists over 25 and a fascist will need over 50. The rest is luck I guess.
Ornella
Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do as an orphan. I feel that they could have done much more with that update. The best you can do is wait for orphanage pop-ups to appear. They say that you can get foster parents, but I haven't been so lucky thus far.
Dm
I'm almost close to leaving that place anyway and I haven't gotten any popups about anything. So when you turn 18 do you automatically leave the orphanage? Or do you have to do something before. X2, I chose that country because it was first on the list. I'm going to live it normal and some part of it will play by ear. When I was 4 years old both my parents retired so they were in their 50's when they adopted me. My mom died from cancer of the rump and I forgot how my dad died. And when I was doing a challenge that I made up 1 of my son did die from terrorists while running errands.
Dm and Ornella
Dm, luckily I was Democrat. So I would’ve needed a minimum of 1 million. I also had that. And the reason I say, was, is because I died. I am mad LOL. I think I was on my third year of my second term. I died from it at least stroke. How? I don’t know, I took care of myself, did acupuncture, went to the doctor, went to the gym, etc. At least, I died with 100% approval rating, so I guess that’s good. LOL I’m sure they’ll bring up your train robbery if you run for office. Let me know how that goes, since I haven’t had The luck you’ve had robbing trains.
Ornella, I think you leave when you turn 18. Since in most countries, being 18 is already an adult. Wow, both parents died because of medical issues? That’s pretty crazy. Well, since my political life is over. I’m going to try for the vampire challenge that came out earlier today. I already started my life in Romania. Let’s see if I can complete this one.
Job interviews I hate
I was so close to getting the pilot trainy job and guess what because of a dumb interview which has nothing to do with the job I didn't get it. The question was which of these can't you live with out. Custard, smores and banana pudding. I chose smores and I didn't get the job. I got so mad and closed out the app and didn't open it for the whole day. I think I will be violent if anyone make me angry. I will kill them. Haha. And got an alarm clock for the second time this week again. I'm really cursed.
Finally and a tip
I got my airline job and got promoted. I think its probably because I hooked up with my supervisor. So here's a tip. If you're in debt, look for a guy with plenty money. Over 50%. Date him and wait till he proposes. Take the ring and the next year break up with him and sell the ring. Keep doing that to guys or ladies till you're out of debt. I wasn't in debt but a guy broke up with me because I like Justin Beeber. I insulted him and sold the ring he gave me. Now my character is in her 40's and got married. My husband's kid was dead before I married him. And got a toaster today that no one wanted.