How do bills work?
My sim lives in a small house but she pays 3,700 on bills each time. She literally has to work all week to pay the bills. Why are the bills so high and how are they calculated? What can I do to make t...
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> @elanorbreton said:
> There was an answer on this in the Q&A from a simguru:
> SimGuruHolms wrote:
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> 1. We intentionally made bills higher than past games in order to give more of a pushback. There was a lot of sentiment that Sims 3 was too easy, so one of the ways we opted to make 4 more challenging was to up bills. The bill calculation is actually a little more advanced in 4 as well. We actually calculate bills kind of like tax brackets. The first 20k worth of stuff in your house is billed at a %, then the next 10k a higher percent, then the next 20 an even higher percent, and so on and so forth. This allows us to have bills be pretty light at the beginning of the game when you have very little income, but ramp up much faster as you build a bigger house because your income should also be significantly higher.
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> 2. Bills have a new feature in Sims 4 where if you cannot pay for something, especially services like a pizza delivery, then the charge gets added to your bills. This can increase your bills for a single week.
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> 3. There are a few issues that are causing bills to be higher than intended right now. The main one is certain build objects like windows are getting counted twice in your bills. This is something I would very much like to see fixed.
So basically if you have all your a crap ton of paintings that have a great value to them but no lights and what not. But almost no lights, water being used, etc. You will get billed a crap ton.
That's stupid.
It should be based on anything that takes power, water, etc. Based on how much something is used, is based on how much the bill will be like in the real world.
> There was an answer on this in the Q&A from a simguru:
> SimGuruHolms wrote:
>
> 1. We intentionally made bills higher than past games in order to give more of a pushback. There was a lot of sentiment that Sims 3 was too easy, so one of the ways we opted to make 4 more challenging was to up bills. The bill calculation is actually a little more advanced in 4 as well. We actually calculate bills kind of like tax brackets. The first 20k worth of stuff in your house is billed at a %, then the next 10k a higher percent, then the next 20 an even higher percent, and so on and so forth. This allows us to have bills be pretty light at the beginning of the game when you have very little income, but ramp up much faster as you build a bigger house because your income should also be significantly higher.
>
> 2. Bills have a new feature in Sims 4 where if you cannot pay for something, especially services like a pizza delivery, then the charge gets added to your bills. This can increase your bills for a single week.
>
> 3. There are a few issues that are causing bills to be higher than intended right now. The main one is certain build objects like windows are getting counted twice in your bills. This is something I would very much like to see fixed.
So basically if you have all your a crap ton of paintings that have a great value to them but no lights and what not. But almost no lights, water being used, etc. You will get billed a crap ton.
That's stupid.
It should be based on anything that takes power, water, etc. Based on how much something is used, is based on how much the bill will be like in the real world.
