"Corwim;15553706" wrote:
Great sim (love his outfits, espeically his party wear!) and fantastic story @Ashkevron ! I have a similar story going on in my game where my sim Jordan starts out with nothing, sells his paintings to get a little money going and plans to buy an abandoned warehouse in the neighbourhood to eventually convert it into a fancy restaurant/night club. :)
Thanks! I was at the flea market event and when there discovered "The Street Gallery". It's basically a portable retail gallery. Buy it, pop it in your inventory, paint a couple dozen paintings and put them in your inventory. Then go to a park or the center area of a neighbourhood in the city, put up the Street Gallery, click on it and stock it with all your paintings then click on it again and start a street sale, don't forget to mark up your paintings. A 50% markup I managed to sell all 12 of the large paintings I had before street sale ended, made a small fortune.
The Salt Factory I basically gutted it, took out everything except the outside walls. I let my sim buy any of the camping gear from the outdoor retreat pack, but nothing that requires electricity. I have a tent, a table, a chair, a couple of lanterns, a cooler for quick meals and one of the portable showers. I also added a trash can just outside.
I wake up and eat a couple quick meals, take a shower then hit the city for the day, painting at the arts center and socializing. Some friends will invite me out and I usually go ahead and go and will sometimes splurge and buy something to eat when I am out. Each night before going to bed I subtract 20 simoleons from my current cash, this simulates the money I spend refilling my cooler of quick meals.
When the bills come due I pay them but then use the cheat to add the cash back to me. The landlord is still paying the bills so I don't have to pay that cash out. I have set the price of the building to buy at 48000 simoleons, this will buy the land, the building and get power and water turned on.
At that point I can start building, adding windows, toilet and shower and so on. After my big flea market sale of 12 paintings I ended up with just under 20000 simoleons, so I am now working on getting another dozen paintings and hopefully in a couple sim days should be able to buy the place.
I am also working on getting a few aspirations completed for those points to spend, things like frugal, hardly hungry, steel bladder and so on. Those are super helpful and as a starving artist making it on his own I figure I would have learned how to scrimp and save a bit, make do with little food as well as being able to hold it for a bit longer as I have to use public restrooms, so that all fits into the story with a reasonable explanation as to why I have those rewards.