"haneul;c-17733979" wrote:
"Beardedgeek;c-17733832" wrote:
"haneul;c-17733552" wrote:
It's harder to earn money if you only let your sims have jobs. I think it's pretty much impossible to play on normal lifespan and have a couple earn 750,000 + a big house from just jobs. It's the activities like gardening, painting, etc. that make sims filthy rich. If you cut back on those things, you'll have more of a challenge.
ETA: Even if two sims began YA at the top of their careers and worked every day for 5,000 simoleons a day, which no sim does, they still wouldn't earn 500,000 simoleons from careers.
5,000/day × 48 (YA + Adult length) × 2 = 480,000.
Several careers at top level gives you 10 000 a DAY. Plus side incomes you basically get even if you don't ask for them, like if you need to up your paining skill you literally have to go into build mode and delete the finished painting or earn like 1500 per painting after a while.
But my main point is that even with this mermaid couple who literally don't do anything but a few batches of fizz a week... they own a 40x30 lot in Sulani full of luxury items and their bills are about 3200 a week (depending on how much fruit they have in their inventories) which they earn in one yard sale per week selling Fizz no problem.
I understand what you mean but no career even pays 5,000 simoleons a day. Please see here: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/careers/
The side things are almost always better money makers so I was suggesting just doing normal jobs if you want to restrict pay since you can't get 10,000 in a day and it takes a while to get to the top of the career at any rate.
Ah, my bad. Still, two adult Sims = 10 000 a day.
Anyway, my point still stands and goes back to the fact that this game deliberately was designed to avoid challenge because apparently "most players don't want it" according to the polling data back in 2012 - 13. That's why almost all deaths require two tries (as far as I know only the Murphy Bed death is instant on the first "try") and virtually all "exclusive things" actually can be obtained in other ways. Like the Mermaid Kelp that can just be bought, cheaply, thru the reward store nullifying the whole "Befriending mermaid to get it" thing.
