Doing the millionaire scenario

"SandyLee149;c-18004437" wrote:
IF YOU KNOW GARDENING WELL, THIS MIGHT NOT BE HELPFUL

Steps for 1 million simoleons scenario (in 3 or 4 days) using gardening:

1- Buy your starter house. Your funds will be reset to zero. After that, sell EVERYTHING you can live without; shrubs, rocks, any flowers and such in your yard, unnecessary walls (who need walls around the kitchen), outside doors and stairs if you have 2, unnecessary windows, upper cabinets in the kitchen, rugs, and so on. On a side note, Strangerville starter houses come with computers.

2- Start a career in gardening. (I always garden indoors). Trees (applicable to Grow Fruit) require a loft, which is another topic.

3- Once you reach gardening to level 10 you can buy rare seed packets. You are looking for Orchids (sells $225 each), Dragon Fruit ($250 each), Death Flower ($240 each), and Grow Fruit for fertilizer. You can also give one of these (Death Flower) to the grim reaper to save you from death. Not sure if it works 100% of the time. Grow Fruit doesn't sell for much, but is one of the best fertilizers in the game, which will result in your crops evolving faster. When they evolve to perfect they will sell for more. Buying these rare seed packs are $1,000 each, which stings when you are trying to reach 1 million simoleons, but it will pay off big time.

4- If you get one or more of these seeds, start deleting your starter plants and start growing what you found in the rare packs. If you are missing any of the three listed above, buy more seed packs until you have them all. At $1,000 a pop it stings. But again, it will pay off.

5- As you harvest the rare plants, use what you harvested to plant more plants. Don't plant too many Death Flowers, as they take the longest to reach maturity and harvest. Also, only plant what you can keep up with. You have to water, fertilize, spray for bugs, and harvest. Once you reach the max of what you can take care of, just start selling everything you harvest.

6- If you want to speed up the time it takes to harvest and evolve, you can always get "Burtie's Bee Box". The Bee's will pollenate (within 5 squares in any direction) and speed things up. But you have to check them, as they need "Mite Treatment". They also like to be bonded with and you can get honey which you can sell, and wax which you can make candles with. You will want to experiment with candle making after you earn your 1 million simoleons, as it is not all that lucrative. If you do get bees, you'll want them on a 2nd floor in your home as they do sting (the Grow Fruit is a tree requiring a loft, which again is another topic).

7- If you want to speed past winter (or any other season), buy "Dr. June's Weather Control Device". Fully upgraded (which I believe takes level 10 on handiness), you can forward through seasons. (To be up leveling handiness, buy a Woodworking Table. It will level your handiness faster and you can sell what you make).

8- I did these things and reached 1 million simoleons in... I think it was 3 days.

9- Get at least 3 friends you can call daily to boost your social needs. If you find yourself in the yellow socially at 1am, you can talk to 4 plants to get your social in the green.

10- Lastly, just focus on gardening. If you are serious about getting a million simoleons fast, don't bother with anything not necessary. As an example, when my character cooked, I always make a serving size of 4 so I could eat leftovers and save time. I also let any need start to turn red before I tended to it. With eating, you can always eat whatever is in your inventory (raw fruit, vegetables, etc.) it just doesn't last long. And, in case you are not awrare, your sim will gain weight without exercise. The cheapest way to do this is running, exercising on the TV channel (buy the 2nd from the cheapest one) or going to the gym. The gym just takes more time. I would recommend exercising to TV.

11- With gardening, you will be asked to choose between Botanist or Floral Designer. I would choose Botanist. You can do everything from home. You'll just want to buy a chess table as logic is a requirement for promotions.

12- THAT'S IT. That is what I did to earn 1 million simoleons in 3 days. Once you you get to point where you are only maintaining and harvesting the high selling flowers, it will roll in really fast.

13- Hope this was helpful to at least one person. If so, it was worth typing. I do realize this information is very basic to many players.

While I do know a lot about gardening, I do have a lot knowledge in other areas. I would be happy to help with any topic if I can. Just hit me up.

Party on Simmers! :-) :-)

This is a great guide, but how in the world did you get to level 10 gardening and grow all the plants necessary to do this in 3 days? I can barely get my lazy sims out the door for school in the morning! XD

"mightysprite;c-18004409" wrote:
@MayaRose1138 are you doing both scenarios at once??

No. I’ve just done the Toddler Scenario with Forest and the toddlers - Snow White, Rose Red and Skye Blue (I like Berry sims ?) - and did that in two days! Now I’ve shifted them to a new save in Oasis Springs, got Forest a boyfriend, and will see how long it takes to get to $1million without resorting to having a money tree!

I did this challenge once, not long time ago. At the first time my sim was in the painter career and as soon as possible I had run my own shop/gallery. Slowly but steady I bought more and reselled the expensive stuff, having expensive cc like famous pictures from the past or cc from heyharri gives the shop more diversity. The first million was hard, the second and almost the third was not, then I've stopped playing that save.

I doing this scenario again, but this time I'm doing it without gardening and running a shop. Started with 0 simoleons on an empty lot, so far my sim has already a home with almost all necessaries, is in the critic career on level 9, married with Diego Lobo (no relocation, he has to stay in his apartment, until my house is finished and looks more suitable) and has around 60k in the wallet, after 1 1/2 sim year. I won't stay in this career until the end of the sim life, when reaching the 10+1 promotion, I plan to join the stylist career (my sim can do it better) then go into the politics (more influence and helpful connections) and at last the business career (profit).

Since I still have the mccc settings from my other challenge, I think I will have enough time to reach the million with this plan.

This is a great guide, but how in the world did you get to level 10 gardening and grow all the plants necessary to do this in 3 days? I can barely get my lazy sims out the door for school in the morning! XD

I appreciate the comment because I don't post on the forums much. I was hesitant to post something so long. I got it done in 3 days because I thought the challenge was to be the first the person to complete it. Silly rabbit..... :-) I just kept her as busy as I could and I did not use the money tree. All she had time to do was garden and keep her needs up. Thanks again.

Think I might unofficially try this scenario. My stay at home dad sim started with the 3 toddler challenge which he completed so it might be fun to try and get rich! I used gardening so he could work from home and went the simplest route possible by buying some roses with his phone and planting those (TBH he spends more time bonding with his kids but I think thats cute).
So far he doesnt have much but I sent him to Henford on Bagley to buy some more plants from the stalls and after grafting we are about to get some Bird of Paradise and Dragon fruit so the money should start rolling in!
First goal will be to buy the gorgeous new england home I built for them on the 64 x 64 lot in Brindleton Bay.

I started this one but forgot to improve the house before creating my sim - oh well! I created him via story mode and he's currently a corporal in the army. He's going to get a roommate to help with the bills. My first goal is to put better items in the house then he'll start saving up where possible. I'll try to have him grow his own food to save money, and he will perform all repairs himself, and of course upgrade household items as well.

"dogzdinner;c-18004618" wrote:
Think I might unofficially try this scenario. My stay at home dad sim started with the 3 toddler challenge which he completed so it might be fun to try and get rich! I used gardening so he could work from home and went the simplest route possible by buying some roses with his phone and planting those (TBH he spends more time bonding with his kids but I think thats cute).
So far he doesnt have much but I sent him to Henford on Bagley to buy some more plants from the stalls and after grafting we are about to get some Bird of Paradise and Dragon fruit so the money should start rolling in!
First goal will be to buy the gorgeous new england home I built for them on the 64 x 64 lot in Brindleton Bay.

Don't forget Orchids. They are great money makers as well. Good luck and have fun. :-)

I've played Rags to Riches so many times I can't think of new ways to make it a struggle for my sim so I did this scenario like a Rags to Riches speed play. I selected initial aspiration and skills I thought would be most helpful, plopped him down on an empty lot and set one of the lot traits to Fertile Soil, and once past just trying to survive I concentrated on getting the 5000 Satisfaction points to get a Money Tree. Once I had the money tree planted in the garden I concentrated on the next 4000 Satisfaction points to get the Super Green Thumb trait. When my first money tree was fully grown and harvestable instead of selling its fruits I used the previously mentioned trick of pulling it into the household inventory to separate the fruit from the tree then placing the tree back on the lot and planting the five money fruits. I'd argue this isn't really a cheat since I can do it without testingcheats on or mods, but I'm sure others will argue otherwise. Being how long it takes the money trees to grow it's a real challenge in itself finding the optimum balance between how much you are "harvesting" money fruits to plant and how many you just sell. I managed to grow an orchid of 16 fully grown and fruit producing money trees and have a million Simoleans after 23 game days.

My standard rags-to-riches strategy is crafting and selling camping mascot statues. For extra challenge I started my Sim on a completely empty lot, furnished by the end of day 1 (from finding and selling collectibles) with a tent, cooler, and shower (a nearby bush served as a toilet).

She earned $200,000 (finishing the money aspiration) by halfway through young adulthood, but getting to a million will take more time, and crafting endlessly is boring (to me, the player). So I have been focusing on earning enough aspiration points to plant money trees. I could join the Scientist career to get the duplicator for the money tree seeds (a strategy I used in another playthrough) but since this isn't a speed run, I don't think I'll go that route. (I don't use cheats or exploits.)

I have a fixer-upper farmhouse on the gallery I built for the 64x64 lot in HoB. I used it as a second step in a Rags to Ranches/Riches save. Maybe it would be a fun starting point for some of you doing this scenario. I probably won’t shoot for a million myself, since there is not enough to spend it on. But I’ve fixed it up quite a bit and had fun doing so.

https://i.imgur.com/wmVmejQ.jpg

(Look for Hilltop Fixer-upper on the gallery by babajayne)
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/pc/gallery/5988D5EF2B7311EC8D2FEA3E90C3E6E0?category=lots&searchtype=item_name&sortby=newest&time=all&searchquery=Hilltop%20Fixer-upper&max=50&maxis=false