The 4x4 Challenge for Sims 3

"Charlottesmom;14320885" wrote:
I'm not going to take away the claw machine but that magic 8 ball thingie (gotta get in game to figure out it's real name, it's like the orb of answers or something) pays out $50,000 if memory serves....major cheatsville! Yes it is a big chance that you will not get the money even if you do ask it 20 times in a row but there is always the chance you could get the money on the second ask (I got it in 4 asks once). Maybe limits should be put on the claw machine, like only 3 turns per day or something. Making money too fast in this challenge defeats the challenge.

I didn't even know you could make much off either of these until you guys brought it up. My favorite object of abuse is the wishing well, which I made sure NOT to place in DV. You can get cars with values like 85 or 115k from the wishing well. I have what started as an empty town with one couple and tried to fill/build it from there via their kids and funds. I put in the wishing well to find mates for the kids for a few generations and I found it was pretty tempting to go there to "earn" some cash for them to move out of the house, too. Bad suzses.

A great grandson of my original couple lives in their old homestead. He still works it like a little farm, but he has like 1 million simoleons from the family businesses, and he and his family aren't nearly as fun as the original folks who had to scrimp and save. I'm sure he benefited from his grandparents trips to the wishing well. My rationale was it was "work" to go there because you needed to spend all day for a couple days usually to get anything worthwhile. :D I sort of had rules attached to it. If you got one of those cars, you could never go back, and if your parents had enough to set you off on your own with an OK house, you also couldn't go, except to find a romantic partner. Now, I kind of wish I hadn't allowed it at all due to the rich boring generation.