How are your sims doing financially?

In my Frio game, they are comfortable. But that game has been going for several Sim years, so they have amassed a good account. Just from being self-employed writers. Earlier, it had gotten tight, and Connor got a bank loan, but it's been paid off since, and they are doing better. I think they have about 70K.


But in my current game, I just started, and Jason is pretty poor right now, working part-time as a waiter while waiting for his big break into acting. He's got less than 2K. Eventually though he will grow funds and rise up a few levels when his career picks up.



Back on Sims 1, when I reached the top tier of careers and the Simoleons piled up, and I had their homes just the way I wanted them, I never knew what to do with them... so all the families were pretty rich in the end lol.



I honestly prefer them to have lower bank accounts instead of wealth beyond belief. (Unless a story calls for it).

Although I've been playing with Fern and Preston for six months now at least, I've only played two in-game weeks. This is due to a combination of building their town almost from scratch, to figuring out the best mods and best settings, sims being my secondary hobby to reading and lastly to really, really wanting to document every single part of their lives. After I play a few days, I need to crop the pictures, print the pictures, cut them out, write my draft, edit that draft, and finally copy it into my sims journal, taping each picture in. It's a lengthy process, but really rewarding and it's fun to look back on what I've done.

Sooo... anyways, I'm playing pseudo-legacy style, and I want my sims to struggle. I want each generation to make a contribution to the house and I'm worried that if my sims are too rich, my game might get boring. Fern and Preston just graduated from Sims University, where they were renting a house. Awaiting them back home is... an empty lot. I'm probably going to take their money away, too. It's winter, so they're going to have to live in an igloo and I found a cute cc dog house that looks like an igloo for their pets. They're going to go dumpster diving for furniture and visit the laundromat and live off chocolate bars from vending machines, the whole bit. It'll be interesting! Hopefully their living situation will have improved by the time they are elders.

"LunBeauty;c-16591923" wrote:
My current household, which is my legacy family has a little over 100k. Their home is a simple one story ranch style with 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. I do have more than enough money to add nicer stuff, but I'm very lazy when it comes to decorating and I want to avoid too much clutter because of sims getting stuck. I want to redo the garden area and move it more towards the back. I have a rule where sims living in the house aren't allowed rabbit hole jobs. So, they either have to work in a profession or be self-employed in something. Teens can get part-time jobs to help out, but when the heir grows up, he or she will start following the job rule. Family members that move out don't have to follow the job rule. The founder/matriarch of the family is a Horsewoman right now and at level 8 of her profession. Her husband works in the Paranormal Profession, so they both bring home quite a bit.

Everyone's idea of "comfortable" certainly covers a broad range! My sims are comfortable living a very basic life with a couple thousand in cash, one toilet, one shower, one fridge and counter for all eight of them! :smiley: They don't have a stove, but they do have a scooter!

See here: https://2sim3.wordpress.com/other/tots/

'Other', because it varies ;) From having nothing to being filthy rich.

"Rhiannon58;c-16591902" wrote:
Seeing as I'm playing the Pinstar 10 generation challenge where you spend all but 1800S on a blank lot with one Sim, and my second gen is a child, they have around 13,000 I think. Each time they get around that much, I add to the house, which started as a blank wall with a toilet and shower on one side and bed on the other. I can only play a few hours on the weekends. Last weekend, the daughter got her own room finally and the outside of the house got painted. Oh and I added a fence around the garden after discovering zombies eat gardens. We're about to lose the dad who brings in around 6k a week with his job (he's a senior nearing the end of his lifespan). Mom has a nearly perfect garden which brings in a good amount of simolias each day. It will be a long while before the family is comfortable but they'll make it. :wink:

@Rhiannon58 I always loved the beginning of the legacy challenge. The huge plot of land, the one little wall separating the toilet from the other side of the yard "camp". I think the Sims 3 version is so much easier than the 2 version because at least when they need to eat or shower, they can just go to the park to eat for free and the gym to take a shower (or the pool). In the Sims 2, well, it was hard. I hate when the elder dies when they are the ones bringing in all the income! That just happened to me. Good luck with yours though! (And keep those pesky zombies away!)

My lucky sims get to take out loans (with use of mods) if they wish to purchase a lot beyond their means. I kind of regret doing so because they've been living this way since Gen: 2. All though, it has made bills harder and I like the added challenge. I've been thinking to take away all family fortune at some point.

"MKSizzle;c-16592632" wrote:

@Rhiannon58 I always loved the beginning of the legacy challenge. The huge plot of land, the one little wall separating the toilet from the other side of the yard "camp". I think the Sims 3 version is so much easier than the 2 version because at least when they need to eat or shower, they can just go to the park to eat for free and the gym to take a shower (or the pool). In the Sims 2, well, it was hard. I hate when the elder dies when they are the ones bringing in all the income! That just happened to me. Good luck with yours though! (And keep those pesky zombies away!)

Second full moon and all they got to munch on was an aging apple tree (everything else was inside a fence). They finally took off I’m their cars at dawn. Kinda funny.

The legacy works for me as it gives me a focus. I’m an old TS2 player so without rotational play. I needed something to work towards.

In my "game of the week" (I'm having trouble sticking to any one thing just lately), my sim is already a millionaire. I hadn't really played ITF at all, except to check it out one day right after I bought it, and had a hankering to go look at things. I've also been thinking about Sunlit Tides lately, where I haven't been in quite a while. Solution: I grabbed Pearl Yang, changed her up a bit, and took her straight to Oasis Landing. After not being able to do what I wanted (have a romance with Emit LOL), I settled for playing the lotto, and then grabbing another future sim guy for her. She has the philanthropist statue, 1.3 million in the bank, owns a bar, and has two nice residences in Sunlit Tides, as well as a few cars.

Since I really don't like playing rich sims, my guess is she'll acquire a few more things, and I'll move back to one of my other saves. Usually, when one of my sims families reaches close to the million mark, I become totally bored with them and start over with a sim or two in a tent on an empty lot, and then I'm happy.

I tend to give them extra money at the start because I don't I the patience to build from scratch and wait until they earn enough, but they close the gap anyway really quick and than I tend to reduce their funds. The financial system in game is kind of over-simple.

"Emily4331;c-16591980" wrote:
@dorcsyful How do I make this glitch happen in real life? :lol:

Oh, I wish that glitch would work in real life. :D or even better... :D I want the family funds.

Transfer familyfunds Rothschilds to Chikamori $50,000,000,000 Thank you very much. :D

or just straight family funds Chikamori $500,000,000,000. Welcome to never having to worry about a darned thing ever again. :D