Gameplay advice

Oh that's a good point, I forgot about the Wills letting you send pets and child Sims to another household.

I would add to what Crispysims619 said:

Money in general: If you are on PC there are user mods that significantly alter what you get from jobs. These may also give you power over automatic promotions. Outside of mods, one method to control earnings is to do freelancer careers and complete jobs only when you need money for something. You can also "pretend bankrupt" by not paying the bills on time and let things get repossessed. If you have a high enough charisma skill (5 I think?) you gain the ability to "donate to charity" as a way to spend money. If you want your sim to be truly broke, Eco Living has dumpster diving and the Freegan trait, and Enchanted by Nature added the ability to live off the land. 

6. One of Life and Death's main gameplay features is making a will . Wills allow you to name who gets custody of any minor children, pets, and heirlooms including letting you send them to different households. The game otherwise treats all adults in a household as the "owners", so you need to use the base game system of splitting and moving them.

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ashthebash1991 wrote:

1. If I want to do a storyline with money issues, e.g. losing money, bankrupcy etc. Is this something I have to "roleplay" and just cheat the money away?

So basically yes, you'd have to cheat the money down. Unfortunately there's not really any gameplay that caters to bankrupcy sady.

ashthebash1991 wrote:

2. ⁠What are peoples advice for approaching business and hobbies, I got a load of new packs and this one seems quite overwhelming. I'd love to be bale to make money from hobbies but its quite scary

Start off with something small if you find it overwhelming. Sometime I like to make little flower arranging stores on my Sims home lot. You can build a little extention to the house and zone it as Public and then make sure to zone the private areas as Residential.

Try not to do everything all at once. Learn what you can and cannot do with the pack. There's so many possible options you can create with additional packs.

ashthebash1991 wrote:

3. ⁠I see posts regarding legacy challenges but havent been able to find something to explain what they are so I can understand?

Here is a helpful YouTube video that guides players on what a Legacy Challenge is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_FxV__4xqw

ashthebash1991 wrote:

4. ⁠What are you generally spending your simoleans on given how easy money is to come by?

So of course bills is one thing to spend your Sims money on weekly. The trouble with money in The Sims is that you are always going to have a lot of money over time, unlike real life. But there are some other things that come with additional packs that you can introduce into your gameplay.

For example, one of my favourite things is the Simple Living Lot Challenge that comes with the Cottage Living expansion pack. If you apply it to the lot your Sim is living in, it makes it so that you have to obtain the ingredients before your Sims can cook a meal. This can be done by gardening/harvestables if you wish. But I tend to go down the realism route of having your Sims order the Groceries via the phone or clicking on the Fridge. Sometimes depending on what you order it can be a costly shopping purchase.

I also have my Sims spend their money on going to eat out with the Dine Out game pack and ordering expensive meals.

ashthebash1991 wrote:

5. ⁠Is there a way to prevent promotions? Sometimes for a story arc being able to stunt income would be nice but I dont want to have to sacrafice skill build to do so

Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to stop promotions, except in cases where your Sims career progression requires additional tasks. You can avoid completing those additional tasks and I think it will stop your sim from going up a level.

ashthebash1991 wrote:

6. ⁠Is there a way to move people out without having to manually rehome them? E.g. if the parents die and 3 siblings are living there, is there a way to make one inherit the house and the other 2 move out into other places? Or I have to manually relocate them out of the house so they can still have a relationship with the main sim?

I'm afraid this is something that you'd have to do manually. The Sims 4 has quite a lot of micromanaging stuff like this.

ashthebash1991 wrote:

7. ⁠Any advice on being a landlord? Is it possible to build a small annex on a lot and rent it out?

Totally! You can technically create Bed and Breakfast style homes where your Sim also lives in the building and you can assign rooms in your Sims home as Units.

The For Rent system can be quite complex and confusing at first. So perhaps try and look for some popular Simtuber videos that explain the Rental system in detail.

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