Sim suddenly has over 9 million simoleons

This same thing happened to me.
I'll tell it how it happened because the scenario was amusing.

My two City Living apartment sims where in debt of around 5,000. The debt arose because I was messing around with housing arrangements, meaning that money kept changing from lot to lot (I wasn't paying attention) and found my lot left in debt when I was done my editing.
I decided to take my jobless sim out busking to scrape together a few somethings.
Eventually a protest appeared holding up signs with piggy banks and simoleons with a cross going through it - an anti-money portest, which I found very amusing and ironic to be taking place while I busked.

One of my Sims back in the apartment started mixing a drink at the bar, (it notified me that his mixology leveled up) and suddenly I had 9,999,999 simoleons.

I was bemused. I looked around to see what could have given me money.

I figured maybe it was a glitch because I had used cas.fulleditmode to try to change someones family relationship earlier.

I then went up to the anti-money protest and watched. Then gave them 100 simoleons. As soon as I gave them money the protest ended haha.

And then even weirder, the top-hatted man who I'd given the money to changed outfit and was now a woman, and all the protesters went off to play basketball. Maybe it was aways a woman under the top had idk, my mind was pre-occupied.

I thought about what happened. I considered another weird possibility was that I had the "Penny fairies" (Or whatever it's called) lot trait on and that maybe it glitched and gave me much more than a penny.

But it wasn't untill I'd typed this comment that I realised upon recollection what must have happened. The sim left in the apartment had mixed a drink and I remember seeing -10 simoleons flutter at the bottom of the screen the second it switched to 9,999,999 simoleons.
What must have happened, wether due to cas.fulleditmode being enabled, or because I had replaced sims with different versions of themselves, and changed around the lot finances so much, whatever it was, the game did not recognise that we were broke when the sim bought the mixology drink.

So the game just reset my funds to 9,999,999 so that the sytem made sense unto itself.


Or maybe it was God trying to teach those protesters how steadfast they were in their principles.

Hi @SafeBlue , welcome to the forum, and that was pretty amazing.

@SafeBlue Interesting. I never did figure out quite what happened, but I did cheat to give my Sim less money.

"Stormkeep;c-18029501" wrote:
Max winnings from the lottery is only a million, I'm pretty sure and even with the bonus from the Advanced technology skill that maxes it out at 3 million, so I don't think that's it.
Besides, she said she hasn't played the lottery.

This looks more like a cheat-gone-wrong, being how close that number is to the cap (assuming the cap is still 9,999,999...I haven't had a sim reach that in years). Maybe a mod gone wrong?

Yeah, the cap is 9,999,999 I have an old household who have reached that. One of the reasons why is because you can unlock a reward trait which is pretty broken where your sims will get random money from "investments". And those investments could be loads of money like 150k and that also happens even when you are not playing them. Maybe that's what happened?

She doesn't have the trait that gives you investment returns (and neither does her boyfriend), I didn't use that money cheat or any money cheats, or any cheats at all. I only have two mods not in any way related to money (one to remove the censor mosaic and one to stop the sunrays on green lots). I don't have any CC.

My matriarch has the trait for investment returns and they can be ridiculously large, sometimes in the thousands. But I've never had one above 50,000 that I can remember.

This wasn't caused by any of the things I would initially think of if it were someone else asking, any of the things suggested. It's not even possible one of my kids did it. It is totally out of nowhere as far as I can tell. I noticed she had around 60 thousand and then when I looked again it was over 9 million.

Maybe it's what Elliandre suggested. Maybe my orange wool bunny gift was bugged and I got money?

"LeGardePourpre;c-18116414" wrote:
No sim was added to this household ?

The Gallery saves the family funds, if you merge households their funds will merge too minus $20 000

Nope.

"Elliandre;c-18029495" wrote:

:hushed: wow that's crazy, never happened to me before, maybe they won the lottery?

This is what I was thinking. I started playing a scenario sim a couple of months ago and about her second day bought a lottery ticket. She won a million dollars. Only sim of mine who has ever won a lottery.

"LeGardePourpre;c-18116892" wrote:
There are some hidden events that rarely occur like Obtain money (legacy) if your sim gets married.

My Sim didn't get married. Is this something you've had happen in your game?

"nubkaaj;c-18202825" wrote:
Hello, this just happened to me. I had a teen sim playthrough and decided to add a sim into the household. Once I moved my sim in my money became 9 million and I got the achievement that I made 1 mil. I have no idea how or why... so confusing.

They probably won the lottery. Sometimes other sims win it too I think.