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Re: [FIXED] Adding new sims/pets to existing households resets household funds

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.55.105.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Cats and Dogs, Get to Work, City Living, Get Famous, Jungle Adventure, Laundry Day Stuff,
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? ?
What happens when the bug occurs? Simoleons will disappear out of my funds. No reason that I can discern.
What do you expect to see? My money to still be in my funds
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. It seemed to happen after I installed one of my bundles

After I downloaded Cats and Dogs I was excited to start the Vet career. I spent a lot of time building it and running it. I stopped doing a lot of the odd jobs my Sims use to do (i.e.: writing for royalties, making apps, games, selling from my garden, etc.) because this Vets office consumed me. I look at my account one day and I went from over two million simoleons to a little less than 100,000. No idea how it happened. I thought it was because I moved some of my other Sims out (extra income) and stopped other money incomes (my garden was a huge bulk of my income). Thought maybe my bills caught up to me. I was in a pretty big house. I was suspicious but no big deal. I moved into a smaller house. Worked on getting my money back up. I watched it almost religiously. Had over $900,000 almost back up to a million. Finally let my guard down. I look back at my funds and it's back down to a little over $100,000. My last bills before this was $19,000. Steep, I know, but that just one day income from just my garden. There's no way this could have happened. I looked at my notification wall to see if there was anything I could have spent it on and nothing. I have never used mods of any kind. So there's nothing to take off. I looked all over the forums and no one has reported a similar issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 years ago
    @Megspelliarmus Only known issue for funds loss is if you add a Sim/Pet to your household. Maybe it also happens if you remove one ?

    Did you add/remove a Sim the second time as well ?
  • simvasion's avatar
    simvasion
    Hero
    6 years ago

    Are you sure you just aren’t telling the difference between the vet clinic funds and your home funds?

    Businesses have separate money and you can transfer money between them with the transfer funds button.

  • Yes I’m sure. I put a large amount into the vet clinic but it did not mess with my funds. I know how the transfer system works. Thank you =)

  • Oh wait. I did add a new pet via CAS. Is that what’s causing this? How do I stop that from happening?

  • Yes I do. I used CAS in the beginning to get a dog and again recently. I just didn’t put it together until you said something. Thank you. I’ll follow the forum ☺️

  • ShinyGeodude's avatar
    ShinyGeodude
    6 years ago

    @MegspelliarmusHere's how to restore your amount of money: Let's say your household had 50,000 simoleons before this bug reduced it. So with testingcheats on, type in "Money 50000" without the quotation marks, and it will change back.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @Megspelliarmus It's a kind of reset :D Just reset the money to what it was. It's a bug, not your fault so you can look at it as just getting what you should have.

  • 87Christichicc05's avatar
    87Christichicc05
    New Rookie
    6 years ago

    Agreed! I play legacy, and don’t like to use cheats, but in this case it’s like fixing an error. So using the money cheat to fix things isnt really cheating. It wont mess up your game or anything 🙂

  • d9ccc1ad4410e426's avatar
    d9ccc1ad4410e426
    Seasoned Newcomer
    6 years ago

    Created an account just to post a workaround I discovered working through this. Transfer the funds to a business you own (I did restaurant) before you go to Edit Household and when you go back live you can transfer it back into your Houshold Funds.

    Was really bummed when I tried to add our cats and lost $100K! 

    Hope that helps—-I didn’t want to use cheats either. Console: PS4

  • 87Christichicc05's avatar
    87Christichicc05
    New Rookie
    6 years ago

    Wont this still mess up your funds though? The starting amount changes, so even if you transfer all your funds over, or all but 24k (just an example), it may still change the total amount, right? I think the money cheat is still more accurate, personally. That way you wont accidentally add money to your total. 

  • PriestWiz's avatar
    PriestWiz
    6 years ago

    I use the money vault from Get Famous against this bug. Every time I get over 100K I dump my money in it, so I don't lose any major amount when I shuffle household members around.

  • d9ccc1ad4410e426's avatar
    d9ccc1ad4410e426
    Seasoned Newcomer
    6 years ago

    It does, however I’ll just move the amount minus $24,000 to cover what happens when it resets. So if I had $124,000 in household funds I would move $100,000, make my changes and then when I went back Live I would transfer it back to get as close to that $124,000 as I could. It may be +\- a few but better than losing it and I didn’t want to lose ability to earn trophies by using cheats.

    You could also exploit this to make money by just going back and forth as many times as you wanted.

  • HayesKerr's avatar
    HayesKerr
    Seasoned Traveler
    6 years ago

    @crinrictHi again! Just wanted to ask if there’s a fixed amount of money you get when adding new sim/pet to an existing household? If not , how does the amount vary?

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 years ago
    @HayesKerr With the bug, it basically resets to what you would get when creating a new household. Which is 20000 + extra for every household member (not sure how much that is).

    without the bug, I'm not sure if you get extra money or not
  • HayesKerr's avatar
    HayesKerr
    Seasoned Traveler
    6 years ago
    @crinrict Ok thank you! Side note:I think you do get it without the bug. I’ve tried with a clean game

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