Archaeology makes it too easy to make money

"CyrusTheLoser;c-16352018" wrote:
Meh, there's plenty of more time-efficient ways to make money than this. I think all considered, since the sims are taking time off work, have to pay for the vacation and supplies, and are risking their lives to find the treasure, it's not too bad.

Yeah, when you weigh up the pros/cons it's actually quite dangerous way of making money lol. I mean my household has a lot of money now, but little Destiny will never get her Grandma back.

Last time it was too easy to make money was with Writing and Painting, which have been there forever. And those, you don't even need to leave your home for.

It's very easy to make money. First time I went to the jungle for three days, completed the temple once, and ended up with a couple of 10k frogs. However, I didn't sell them. I just sell duplicates. Now I have a ridiculous tax bill that even the frugal trait doesn't stop.

With the archaeology aspiration finished (and it's very easy to finish), you can donate things to a museum for a buff. This is a good way of getting rid of inventory without getting paid for it.

"Grynn;c-16354856" wrote:

"CyrusTheLoser;c-16353367" wrote:

"Grynn;c-16353026" wrote:
Come on guys, OP is describing a valid complaint that will probably be fixed soon, some of you guys are so adamant on defending the game, it's ok, but please avoid saying things like "It's not that bad", it's a problem, it doesn't makes the game unplayable, OP is just letting the devs know so they can fix it.

What are you talking about? The OP literally asked us "What do you think?", and people are telling them what they think. Naturally, some agree, and some disagree. It has nothing to do with "defending the game" or putting down his thoughts. But obviously, if someone doesn't see it as bad, doesn't see it as a problem, and doesn't think it's something that needs to be fixed, they're going to say it.

In my opinion, it's too easy to make money in the game in general. But considering there are plenty of other ways to make way more money than archaeology in way less time, I'm not seeing it as an issue that needs to be "fixed" by itself.

OP asked who agreed or not about it being too easy, I'm not talking about people who disagree about it being too easy, I'm talking about people who are like "Yeah, it's problematic but it doesn't make the game unplayable so who cares" or even "Yes this is problematic but there's X other stuff that is even more problematic so let's ignore this", if you get what I'm saying then good if not then I'll not bother answering this further, just saying, it's not good feedback.

Anyway, there's other skills that, once maxed out, do give a lot of money, however none of them are this instantaneous, I challenge you to, from scratch, gain $20k in just 5 days with Writing without using cheats.

I went back and read every response. The only thing I saw were helpful simmers making suggestions on how to use the collected items or money earned from selling them.

"Grynn;c-16354856" wrote:

"CyrusTheLoser;c-16353367" wrote:

"Grynn;c-16353026" wrote:
Come on guys, OP is describing a valid complaint that will probably be fixed soon, some of you guys are so adamant on defending the game, it's ok, but please avoid saying things like "It's not that bad", it's a problem, it doesn't makes the game unplayable, OP is just letting the devs know so they can fix it.

What are you talking about? The OP literally asked us "What do you think?", and people are telling them what they think. Naturally, some agree, and some disagree. It has nothing to do with "defending the game" or putting down his thoughts. But obviously, if someone doesn't see it as bad, doesn't see it as a problem, and doesn't think it's something that needs to be fixed, they're going to say it.

In my opinion, it's too easy to make money in the game in general. But considering there are plenty of other ways to make way more money than archaeology in way less time, I'm not seeing it as an issue that needs to be "fixed" by itself.

OP asked who agreed or not about it being too easy, I'm not talking about people who disagree about it being too easy, I'm talking about people who are like "Yeah, it's problematic but it doesn't make the game unplayable so who cares" or even "Yes this is problematic but there's X other stuff that is even more problematic so let's ignore this", if you get what I'm saying then good if not then I'll not bother answering this further, just saying, it's not good feedback.

Anyway, there's other skills that, once maxed out, do give a lot of money, however none of them are this instantaneous, I challenge you to, from scratch, gain $20k in just 5 days with Writing without using cheats.

I can easily make 20k a day painting and with the club system. Just carious have you played the new GP? If you have you should tell us your experience. I’m not trying to be rude I’m just really carious what your doing different to find the high $$$ relics. All I ever find is fakes an poor quality items 1 or 2 rares and I spend like so much just going on vacation and cureing curses and such. Not to say I don’t make $ but it’s a take home of like half.

@Cheekybits I know you didn't ask me but here are two different saves when I got the treasures that were worth more.
I also have a tenk plate, though I only sold one of the frogs while the rest are on displayed I think it's more of a gamer management thing when it comes to making money I don't spam work on writing and painting so I wouldn't spam just going on digs and selling everything.
Just depends on the player I guess.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4660/40484697122_ba1419220a_b.jpg
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4659/39642902955_56879660e1_b.jpg
Also that second pic was without going to a temple this was an account from the little popups.

@RedDestiny92 thanks for sharing. I find that frog in temples sometimes but more so my sim gets cursed or blessed. Also my sim is trying to save up so her brother can move out to a decent house. So I guess in that aspect 10k isn’t really a lot. I can see how making money is really easy with this though if you had just started out but my sims go through a lot when they are there so if I got like 1k for the good ones I’d wouldnt go as much. My sims been there 4 times and made about 32k all together.

"Grynn;c-16354856" wrote:

OP asked who agreed or not about it being too easy, I'm not talking about people who disagree about it being too easy, I'm talking about people who are like "Yeah, it's problematic but it doesn't make the game unplayable so who cares" or even "Yes this is problematic but there's X other stuff that is even more problematic so let's ignore this", if you get what I'm saying then good if not then I'll not bother answering this further, just saying, it's not good feedback.

Where in this thread did anyone say anything like that? Either I'm simply missing it or you're calling out an imaginary argument.. as for what reason, I have no idea.

Second, this isn't the feedback section. This is the pack discussion section. It's not anyone's responsibility here to leave "good feedback" because that isn't the purpose of the thread.

"Grynn;c-16354856" wrote:

Anyway, there's other skills that, once maxed out, do give a lot of money, however none of them are this instantaneous, I challenge you to, from scratch, gain $20k in just 5 days with Writing without using cheats.

I don't get why being "instantaneous" matters at all. It takes at most two or three days to max any given skill, so it's really not all that much of an inconvenience. Even if I didn't want to max a skill out, though, I would still just choose a retail store or a sales table over archaeology. You can make a sim a millionaire with those in under a week without any skill at all.

Like I said, I can relate to the idea that it's way too easy to make money in the game. But of all the money making methods I've used personally, archaeology barely passes "above average", so I'm not seeing a reason to nerf archaeology specifically when it's much more involved and much more dangerous than anything else.

I've said this before...none of my sims are millionaires, most hardly have more than $100,000 in fact. I like to take the skilling easy, usually to do other things accumulating skill points. I've only been to the jungle once and now sim is back home authenticating but most are under $1000 simeoleans. I like sending sims to the marketplace and cantina. Devs knocked themselves out making beautiful sims for Selvadorda. Never been to the temple or even a tomb, yet. I like taking my time.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, lol. But my sims are far from rich, and always have been. :D

I didn’t see anybody mention that when you get up to level 8-10 or so the Archeological Socitey will mail you item to authenticate and mail back. They are all worth 3K to 5K per day. My sim is getting rich sitting at home and working like 20-30 sims minutes a day and he hasn’t been to the jungle one time. He learned it by reading the books. But, painting is kind of the same money maker when you’re at a high level. Or, just try a garden of Dragonfruit or Blackberries. You’ll be rolling in the dough in no time. Making money is fairly easy in the game.