How do you make a million dollars?

I think in one of the many scenarios threads there was someon who described how they made a million simoleons from gardening. It involved some planning with skills, evolving plants, and planting and harvesting some expensive plants.

My quickest run was growing an orchard of money trees. When the first one is ready for harvesting I pulled it into the household inventory to make the fruit fall off then set the tree back in place and planted the fruit to grow more trees. Had an orchard of 16 money trees when I completed the scenario in 22 game days, could probably beat this by fine tuning how often I plant to grow new trees vs just selling the fruit.

My most recent run at the scenario took considerably more time but was a lot more fun. I didn't let him have any money from dragging items to the inventory Sell window, instead he had to sell everything on the "Come and Get it Street Sell" table in City Living (Jungle Adventure has one too) and "The Street Gallery" object for paintings. Since he couldn't afford one at the start he had to survive for over a game week until the flea market came around and use a table there and keep everything sellable in his bloating inventory (I let him clear out stuff like rotting fish and money cheated away any cash that came from that). Once he made it to a flea market he managed to sell enough to buy his own table and an unfinished apartment, then after furnishing the apartment with the bare basics he started working on paintings and selling those on the Street Gallery he later bought. After a while of spending a couple days making paintings then selling at 300% markup in marathon street sells that left most of his needs in the yellow and red he completed the scenario in a little over a game year.

I just finished it in 56 sim days. I suppose I cheated a lot LOL. Nikita has the kleptomaniac trait. This was extremely useful in getting household items as well as things I could sell for cash. I (as a player) would replace the expensive things she stole so she could steal them again. I laugh every time I scroll over items and see the label stating where the item was stolen from.

I put money vaults in several houses so she could rob them. I could have cleaned them out and made my million in a sim day, but I dragged it out as long as I could stand it. I waited till after Nikita and Cassie had finished University to get that last 75K.

Bella Goth split from Mortimer. She and Cassandra moved in with Nikita, bringing a load of cash. Bella had finished the fabulously wealthy aspiration, so they got money each week - this really mounted up quick. Bella started painting while Nikita increased her Handiness skill, and they sold the paintings on Plopsy. Bella also writes novels. Nikita made a lot of the chairs and tables in the house, and did all repairs herself. She wouldn't let Bella buy anything for a long time, but eventually Bella insisted that one kitchen counter was just not enough!

I started her in the garage apartment of an empty 2 bedroom house. I didn't add any furniture or other bath fixings until after Bella and Cassie moved in, and even then I went as cheap as I could. I gave Bella the neatness trait so she went around cleaning everything - that way we didn't need a maid.

Cassandra grew flowers in a greenhouse in the back yard.

Nikita got a scholarship to University and lived at home, so she never had to pay any tuition.

I had a lot of fun.

One reason I felt ok about cheating with the vaults was that it is so pointless to go up to a million. I think 500K would have been more than enough to make a challenging scenario. Even 250K would be a good goal. Now these three ladies have so much money it is ridiculous. I don't know what to do with them. I am considering moving the girls out and starting them as spell casters, since I haven't played that yet. If I do I'll need to decide where to put them. I'm also considering beginning the millionaire scenario again - silly as it sounds, I liked having that goal. Maybe I'll do that with someone else, while my kids (Nikita, Cassandra, and Blair, my new boysim) become wizards!

"crocobaura;c-18019463" wrote:
I think in one of the many scenarios threads there was someon who described how they made a million simoleons from gardening. It involved some planning with skills, evolving plants, and planting and harvesting some expensive plants.

Could have been my post, and there was another poster after me who used a similar approach. The idea is to use the chemical analyzer to "analyze" a carrot before planting and then again right after harvesting. Analyzing has a high chance of improving a seed's/fruit's quality. Repeat this until you have perfect carrots and then graft cuttings of expensive plants onto them. It helps to send your sim to work as a scientist for a couple of days. On the side you can run juice fizzers, churning out lily water. One sim can operate nine of those.

Buuuuut I recently added Seasons to my game and now the overhead cost has gotten a bit high, with the need to shelter plants and also to shelter my sim. I had to remodel my whole farm that I built with the perfect carrot method and now I'm not so certain anymore if my scheme still works. Or rather, work it still will, but it may not be the most efficient anymore compared to woodworking and painting. (On the upside: amazing thunderstorms and snow everywhere :) )

I am a little less then halfway to that amount in my scenario.
I created a Sim I named Luna Moon, and Clement Frost happened to be the first Sim that encountered her. Long story short, he called to come over to flirt, she was into it, and they got married. It was halfway, but Luna is having Clement's kid.

I leveled up spellcasting alongside the potion aspiration, so i could get aspiration points, bought a money tree seed. Used Copypasto on it multiple times, planted like 11 trees, boom. 1 million within normal lifespan. No reason to stop at 11 trees either, if you are in a hurry.

Felt like cheating though, lol.

I am trying this one out with a rags to riches just to see if I can accomplish it. I just bought CL, using simple living and off grid my sim is a gardener and so far, I am struggling will see what happens. I like the idea of an orchard that may help out. Glad I found this thread.

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18019339" wrote:
I’d marry Judith Ward, move in with her, divorce her and move her out, sell the mansion, befriend the Bailey Moons, move in with them, move them out, sell the mansion…I think we’re getting close to a million there. If not, rinse and repeat. Just like in real life. ?

If we're using meal tickets, you can save time by simply waiting until a sim wins the lottery. Seduce them, move them in and then kill them for easy profits.