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Amuni50
6 years ago
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[FIXED] Sims downloaded from my gallery catalog do not have enough money

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.59.73.1020 What...
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    13 days ago

    Money matters sorted! Whether you’re pulling a family from the Gallery in Create a Sim or placing them directly in the world, your Sims will now enjoy the best of both worlds

    Fixed in Patch 1.113.277/2.08
    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues

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CGrant56
Hero+
6 years ago

@Amuni50  Where and when in the process did you try to use the freerealestate cheat?  From what I can tell, it only works if used on a map screen and only for a limited time.  Not the manage world screen where you pick your world.  It also doesn't appear to work if you are in live mode on a lot but that actually makes sense to me.  It will work both if you enter the cheat before going to manage households or after you have selected your household and get back to the map in the actual placement process.   You can tell if it works if the outlines of all the lots are green or turn from yellow to green when you go to place the sim.  You can turn it off afterwards by using "freerealestate off" but it seems to turn itself off later when you go into live mode on a lot so I don't usually bother turning it off.

And you are very welcome!  I too appreciate it when somebody takes the time to help me with my own problems with the game.  We're all a community here and that's what I was taught as I was growing up, good neighbors help each other when and how they can.

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Amuni50
6 years ago

I can see how the free real estate cheat would work if you had already started a game, but I am talking about starting a brand new game and using one of my gallery sims as your very first sim in that new game. The sim does not have enough money to buy anything - not even a lot - so there is no way to get past the world screen. I have also tried it in the map screen, but again, it tells me I cannot use the cheat, so I still cannot place my sim for the first time in a new game. 

  • CGrant56's avatar
    CGrant56
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    Wow, I didn't know you couldn't use it in that circumstance.  I tested in my current game to make sure it works but not in a new game.  I already grabbed a few of your sims from the gallery a few days ago and I'll start a new game with one to see what happens tomorrow if I have time.  Might have to wait until the day after but I will give it a go and see what happens.

    But in the meantime, did you try adding another sim to the household before you tried to place them and then deleting the sim you added?  From what I've read, that's supposed to give you the 20K as before.  I haven't tried it so I don't know if it really works.  I'll try that too when I do the other.

  • CGrant56's avatar
    CGrant56
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @Amuni50  Well, I tried it this morning in a couple of new games and was able to successfully use the cheat to place the sims.  Learned something too.  I didn't know that you could load from your library directly into CAS.  I'd never tried doing it that way.  Always went from library to lot.  Used your sims when I was trying.  Anyway, I tried both merge in one new game and replace in the other.  When I went to place them, they had absurdly low money.  $1400 for the single sim and $2900 for the couple.  After picking the season and getting to the world screen, I chose Willow Creek.  After getting to the map screen, I opened the command line window and typed in "freerealestate on" and the outlines of all the lots turned green and I placed the sims on a lot.  No problem whatsoever.  Also tried it in my current game.  The one I tried there had 20K when I went to place him.  So there is a difference between a brand new game and an existing one for sure. But in the end, it worked for me in either case.

  • Amuni50's avatar
    Amuni50
    6 years ago

    Thank you so much for going to all that trouble! I will try following the same steps you outlined for using the free real estate cheat; I must have done something wrong when I tried it. 😕

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