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Re: Family Fortune scenario feedback

After reading your post, I decided to give the scenario a try despite the fact I hate playing with premade sims.

I concentrated on Eddie and did the bare minimum with the girls to see whether or not the scenario was rigged to go a certain way.

To say I was less than impressed with the outcome would be the understatement of the century. lol

Eddie was the one who got grandma in a better mood, he's the one that worked on improving relationships between the siblings, he hosted the dinner party, got the best job (and was the only one who had actually made money when the scenario finished), and was the only one who had a S.O.

When we were down to the final necessary task, I saved just before Grandma croaked, so I could do some save scumming to see if there were different results each time.

I'll mark the results as a spoiler just to be safe.

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1st time:

Ava got ~150k, Eddie got ~30k, and Lila got ~28k.

2nd time:

Ava still got the most with ~170k, Lila got ~30k, and Eddie got ~25K.

3rd time, I decided to kill Ava off and release her spirit before Grandma died and see what happened.

Eddie and Lila still only got around 30k each.

This seems to indicate to me that no matter what you do, Ava is the one who is going to get the biggest share of the inheritance and makes the whole thing feel like it's rigged and a waste of time.

1st time: Ava got ~150k, Eddie got ~30k, and Lila got ~28k.2nd time:Ava still got the most with ~170k, Lila got ~30k, and Eddie got ~25K.3rd time, I decided to kill Ava off and release her spirit before Grandma died and see what happened. Eddie and Lila still only got around 30k each.This seems to indicate to me that no matter what you do, Ava is the one who is going to get the biggest share of the inheritance and makes the whole thing feel like it's rigged and a waste of time.

To make it all worthwhile to me, I used it as Eddie's supervillain origin story, so he poisoned his sisters and got all of the inheritance for himself. 😛

I'm curious if anyone else managed a different result, but I have no desire to play the scenario again.

4 Replies

xochiquetzl_xkvn
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
That actually makes me feel a lot better, oddly. :D I LOVE Eddie's supervillain origin story!
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I was blaming myself for doing my boy Eddie wrong and getting him stiffed despite him doing all the work. This way it feels like it's not my fault. <3
I'm still not sure what was up with Eddie's romance options...
Also, I kept playing and moved out Ava—she married Geoffrey, so good luck with the evil teen and the fussy toddler Geoffrey and Nancy adopted—and plan to move out Lila. I enrolled her and Eddie in university and once she graduates, she’s moving to the city to work as an entertainer. I used free real estate to move them into Yuma Heights, and I’m giving Eddie the house. ❤️ The watcher declares it only fair. 😉
Slytherclaw72
3 years ago
Once Eddie got a boyfriend in mine, his sister didn't have any romantic options either, so I'm wondering if only one is allowed (even though I could've sworn is said to get each of them a partner).
Also, regarding your previous concern, which I forgot to mention before: Grandma was basically telling him to get out of his bedroom and go outside, not to move out of the house. lol I can see how that could easily be misconstrued, but I had him say 'yes' and he still got stiffed, so...
I used one of my test saves for the scenario and I doubt I'll do much with him in the future, but I did have fun letting him get even at the end. He made some snarky epitaphs and then tossed their headstones into Vlad's cemetery. 😉
xochiquetzl_xkvn
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
James Turner did this scenario for a video, and unsurprisingly he got the same results as you did, even though he had Ava physically fight Eddie at the dinner party. 🤣
sparilis
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
@Slytherclaw72 wrote:
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This seems to indicate to me that no matter what you do, Ava is the one who is going to get the biggest share of the inheritance and makes the whole thing feel like it's rigged and a waste of time.
I'm curious if anyone else managed a different result, but I have no desire to play the scenario again.
I played once and Ava got $0, Eddie got $30k and Lila got $27k. The game said that we got a bonus of Satisfaction Points and a bonus of Ambrosia but I can't figure out where either of those are. No one has more SPs and no one has Ambrosia in their inventory.
Overall, this is a very tedious and annoying scenario.