Mooch off your Neighbor Challenge! :)

"Terrylin;12916869" wrote:

"SimPoseyYum;12916840" wrote:
Ok, now I'm certain I have a bug. Latest bills were just delivered.

23,848.

House = 5,500. Inventory = 1,950. How can her bills be more than 3 times her net worth??? Makes no sense.

In doing my research, I found an interesting workaround, though. If you switch to an alt household right before the bills come in, your main household doesn't get ANY bills (sounds sort of cheat-y to me but apparently it works). The problem with this workaround, as far as the Challenge goes, is that then our moocher would pay no bills at all, which is also unrealistic.

In any event, I'm bugging this. In the meantime, would it be ok if I continue to approximate bills and cheat-code out the overage? I'm thinking a flat fee of 5% of property and inventory, using the property value as calculated in Build Mode (which includes land, structures, furniture and fixtures). Based on that, Minnie's current bill would come in at ~373, which is more than reasonable.

Bugs. Bah.

You are more than welcome to work around this issue. I don't feel this is actually cheating when the game is feeling vengeful. ;)
5% sounds and looks about right to me. Isn't there a no bills cheat? Might have to look into that if this keeps up. >:)
Just a thought but I wonder if somehow the game is billing you for the items you added to the venues? I know my game isn't but I just can't figure out why your bills are skyrocketing. :\
Now here is another idea for safety. Take Minnie into CAS and save her to your library. I am going to do this with David just so if there is any problems I can just take him from my library and start in a new hood and continue on. :)

Thanks for your understanding, @Terrylin :). You're a peach!

I'm not aware of a No Bills cheat, but there is a buyable trait that eliminates bills forever. It costs 2,000 Aspiration points, though, and I don't want to spend that many points to fix a bug. Points are too hard to earn!

With regard to what I spent upgrading other lots, I'm guessing I spent no more than 1500-2000. I bought about 8 lights for the Landgraab's kitchen and another 8 or so lights for the Roommates' kitchen and patio. I also bought 2 easels for the art museum. That's it. I decided against snack bars and whatnot. I want to play with what the game offers. Good thought, though. We need to examine every avenue as to why I got hit with these monster bills :).

Good thinking about saving Sims to the library, too. Minnie is already in mine. Every Sim I've created is in there. I generally double-check before starting a new game to make sure my newly created Sim(s) are there. Just in case.

Can't wait to meet David!