@vadish3825 Great, I'll wait. I think Outstanding is the same as Excellent, but Excellent is the term used for the Painting's UI-text. Please add to this if shown otherwise.
Among other things, I think the price is influenced by the quality. When I previously placed the copied paintings, that in inventory initially are labelled Masterpiece, onto a wall; the quality then reads as Normal, but the price value didn't change. The same when travelling to another neighbourhood.
Examples:
Existing sim with painting skill level 10 and traits: Art Lover, Perfectionist, Creative, Marketable, Creative Visionary, Muser, Expressionistic.
Makes a copy of an original Figure Painting with quality Masterpiece and original value 8.438. Making a copy costs the same as the original's simolean value. The money is drawn from the household account upon making a copy.
The painting's copy, with the star on it signalling new in personal inventory, shows as quality Masterpiece, with value: 1.368.
If I click on it in inventory, and drag it within inventory, it looses the label Masterpiece, and instead shows as Normal. The same if I don't touch it, and exit and reload the game. The simolean value doesn't change. Selling it from inventory gives the amount 1.368.
New sim in new folder and save, quickly levelled up to be able to make painting of quality Excellent and Masterpiece. Traits: Art Lover, Creative. No reward traits.
Make a copy of small Classic painting, Masterpiece, value 899. The copy costs 899.
In inventory it is labeled Masterpiece, and with value 155. Clicking and dragging it, within inventory, changes the label to Normal. Value doesn't change. It sells for 155.
As a rhetorical speculation, it is after all a copy. Is there any info anywhere that states that "copies" made in gameplay are supposed to be actual duplicates; or is it a game feature, and therefore possibly with the intent of instead mimicking a notion of "copies" being unequal to originals? When was the feature added, and why?
Also, considering the price of making it, it is not profitable to do so for selling it.
And, also, the price it gets in inventory, and sells for, seems closer to the label Normal, than to Masterpiece; and so perhaps the label itself is the mistake, and not the fact that it comes out as Normal/lower quality than the original.
The moodlet Decorated, from environment scores, has a bug report right now, and so I didn't test any effect the copies of different qualities, when placed in a room, has on a sim.
@dragancaor Paintings can be put in Build mode into the storage chests from DU and EL: ICYA - Chest and Sticker Storage Box.
@crinrict Thanks very much, I removed it as a solution. @DonroaAkashu I am in agreement with you that the image doesn't change, it doesn't revert from, say, a Masterpiece painting that looks like one, to looking like a Normal painting in your inventory. I agree that only the label seems to change. That's an interesting idea as to if the game makers intentionally made it so that copies aren't the same quality as the originals because "copies" are just that...they aren't the original. They do like to do tongue-in-cheek stuff like that. I tried to look up info on the original description of the Painting skill on sites like Carl's Guide and SimsVIP, but I wasn't able to find anything about copies. I would think that the feature has always been there, or maybe it was added with City Living as you could now sell paintings at several events. Or, perhaps GTW since you could run your own business? I'm sort of tempted to uninstall one of those to see if the feature is still there...I'll do my testing as soon as I can, and get answers to the rest of your questions.
