holy bills!

"elanorbreton;c-16560304" wrote:
What if you don't add a thermostat at all? Does the temperature fluctuate?

Most of my sims are poor...

They can get warm with a fireplace or firepit and they can wear their winter clothes inside .. you can make 5 outfits.
I haven't gotten bills yet and I'm skipping around has anyone gotten huge bills that lives in a small house?

I started with a fairly new save and a very small house, and just finished Spring and Summer - with the AC on for most of summer, the bill went from around $250 to $500 (and as well, there was a lot of new artwork in the house) so not outrageous.

Does auto-lights really affect the bills? I never thought there was a correlation.

I feel like this is a bug? If not it should be changed. Unless you’re living in a mansion, bills should not be that high.

Same thing happened to me although I was luckier I suppose, my Sims only owed just over 19,000. It's a cool way to raise bills for story purposes I guess but I think it's meant to only be used on "heat wave" or "freezing" days. Still, I have to admit I'm a little scared to use it again. X-D

"Grynn;c-16558732" wrote:
Nice, poor sims who can't afford this will definitely feel the challenges of poverty now.

I love this challenging element to the game. I have a lot of poor Sims as well. The struggle is already real.

For me, I have yet to notice the increase. My Sims only have used the thermostat when it's a heatwave or freezing outside. So my Sims bills have remained in like 1K depending on where they live. Unless it hasn't been noticed by me yet...

You only need to turn the thermostat on when it's COLD or HOT or worse, not WARM or COOL.

"SimsFreak2387;c-16560630" wrote:
You only need to turn the thermostat on when it's COLD or HOT, not WARM or COOL.

Yeah I only do it when the Sim complains they are cold or hot.

Yeah just like real life, the thermostat is only for the rich. IRL, I don't turn on my thermostat as much as I use portable fans and ceiling fans in the summer and space heaters in the winter. Too bad those additions aren't in the game.

"BreeSasha;c-16560873" wrote:
Yeah just like real life, the thermostat is only for the rich. IRL, I don't turn on my thermostat as much as I use portable fans and ceiling fans in the summer and space heaters in the winter. Too bad those additions aren't in the game.

Where I live I think it's a middle class thing (and I can't imagine anyone living without an AC and heater where I live, especially not an AC). The bills that people are mentioning in this topic seem incredibly outrageous by any metric.

I don't play The Sims 4, though, so I don't know how easily it is to come across tens of thousands of Simoleons that quick, but if it's anything like the previous games, that wouldn't work very well.