8 years ago

Some Vet Tips and Observations.

When I play games I have a tendency to min/max, its a habit. So I thought I would share some of my observations about the vet career, maybe get some new information from the sims community as well.

So...here are some of the things I have found useful for making a profit and earning stars.

1.) Treats....treats...treats. Seriously this will be my first and my last recommendation to all fellow vet simmers. There are big earners for clinic. Specifically the age up or age down. You can use the others but I recommend only making one of the two and stocking a vending machine full. 20$ ish, and they sell for 300 at a 200% mark up. Its seriously great. My opinion is you should take an hour before and after to make treats. IF you really need money, take one day a week and make it treat day. Make only treats and stock up.

2.) Treats...just kidding, I have found that my lobby gets messy very fast. Not even a hyped up sim can get all those "puddles" up in a reasonable amount of time. A robot vacuum can help, specifically the 1000$ one. Even with the robot and staff it still gets extremely out of hand. I'm talking a 10x10 room just filled with messes in under 10 sim minutes. Maybe its a bug on my end but man these pets are messy.

3.) Trea....Train your employees. You might be saying "obviously what an unhelpful tip", but hear me out for a second. In Dine Out if you worked with your staff they would actually level themselves pretty easily (1-2 levels per 12 hour shift). It made no sense really past 5-6 to pay for training. Now with cats and dogs that knowledge isn't exactly accurate. I worked a 10 hour shift, and my employee gained no experience or levels, also she had 2 in every skill. Pretty remarkable. So pay for training it will be slow but it will be less slow than the alternative.

4.) Advertising is very weird. My current business is 3 stars, it barely gets any customers during the day without advertising. Gold package (not the even the max one) makes my lobby so backed up I'm occasionally losing stars on wait times. Its very useful. The catch 22 is that it gets busy real fast.

Some speculation of my end goal for my clinic. The limit is 3 employees, my hesitation with taking that many is their usefulness. They treat patients very slowly, even at level 6 vet skill. I am not sure if this clears up later. But they are teetering on barely worth it. If at 10 they knock out patients in an hour +/- 30 minutes I'd be happy with that. So once I get three employees and get them running their own stations effectively, I would like to stop treating patients all together with my sim and focus on.......treats.

Last thoughts on rating system and questions for the community here. How am I suppose to get 5 stars? I great every patient, I spend time tending to their pet socially, I have great environment boosts, I treat quickly and with no stress, provide music, my prices are the highest but I don't get docked for it. Even doing all this I'm lucky to get 4 stars, 3 is average for me. Sometimes I even get 2 stars because of all the messiness the pets create in the lobby, that I can't seem to get a handle on. I am not exactly sure how I'm suppose to boost myself to that 5 star rating. That all said I'm still making bank at 3500-4000 with one employee.

Hope it helps. If you have any tips to share or run a successful business, feel free to share!

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Rai357
8 years ago
Treats are my major profit. One of my employees spent all day (10+ hours) on one cat. I try to close at 9/10 hours because the employees get sleepy. The others two had multiple patients and were finished for the day. Eventually the cat got of the exam table and I was able to take over and finish it quickly. With 3 employees(lv 3 promotions), treats, and no advertising at 200% I'm making $1,000+ profit a day.
I really wish there was an option to send an individual employee home for the day, like for the above situation, but also so I can send them all home and just keep working by myself.
littlemissgogo
8 years ago
good to know about the treats! and great tre- I mean tips overall! I've actually mostly neglected the treat-side of the clinic simply because my sim is usually so busy bringing people in for treatment. my employees aren't exactly inept but they definitely choose their own pace. I'm pushing 3.5 stars currently and need to up my environmental ambiance for my picky patients. pets also tend to leave messes in every room at my clinic so I'm about to ready to plop a simlish brand roomba in every corner.
mekotsu
8 years ago
I'll have to start doing the treat things, but everything here I've had the same issues with. I chose the vet Maxis made and built off of that and quickly had weird pathing issues. The pets would get on the table and my vets would walk outside and stand outside the window. They stand around when there's patients, they'll just stand at the table with the animal sitting there, they'll just walk away mid exam, and mine are all fully trained to the max level. I do have one worker that seems to hammer out animals pretty good and doesn't seem to have much issue, maybe it's actually a personality thing I don't know.

I'm starting to think that the vet is bugged at the moment because I can NEVER get higher than a 4 star review and I get them pretty much everytime. It tells me the same things everytime, wait time is great but environment and stress needs improvement even though the sims say how much they love the environment and the animals stress never gets out of green. I'm hoping it's a bug because I've upgraded everything to the max and spent a lot of money on the interior.
Matchakeks
8 years ago
The only thing that really bothers me is how long it takes to get a checkup or to have npc docs do a checkup... like seriously.. the ones I employed take the whole day to finish 1 pet checkup while I do 6 or more.. Either its just bugged to hell or its really badly balanced :/
PhantomAura
8 years ago
"Meko;c-16157558" wrote:
I'll have to start doing the treat things, but everything here I've had the same issues with. I chose the vet Maxis made and built off of that and quickly had weird pathing issues. The pets would get on the table and my vets would walk outside and stand outside the window. They stand around when there's patients, they'll just stand at the table with the animal sitting there, they'll just walk away mid exam, and mine are all fully trained to the max level. I do have one worker that seems to hammer out animals pretty good and doesn't seem to have much issue, maybe it's actually a personality thing I don't know.

I'm starting to think that the vet is bugged at the moment because I can NEVER get higher than a 4 star review and I get them pretty much everytime. It tells me the same things everytime, wait time is great but environment and stress needs improvement even though the sims say how much they love the environment and the animals stress never gets out of green. I'm hoping it's a bug because I've upgraded everything to the max and spent a lot of money on the interior.

Definitely try the treats. It was more of a joke kinda thing in the original post, for some humor. However I got level 10, and I unlocked the ambrosia treat. I'm not kidding when I say I considered deleting all my exam tables to just sell treats. 300 to make, and 2000 when sold to customers. Thats 1700 profit..per bar.

The treats are the real MVP here. I really kinda hope maxis does not mess with it too much, it can greatly cover the cost of a wide variety of different business practices.

Also I very much feel you in regard to the stars. Ive got a flat screen, five paintings, 3 plants, coffee tables filled with clutter, and a giant fish tank from dine out. Great service, clean rooms consistently (after alot of work), and high charisma. I can't past 4. Sometimes I can't even get to 4. Its pretty insane. Might be a bug though.
jw71291
8 years ago
Whenever I think of owning a business in the Sims I think of Sims 2 OFB and how hard it was to make money in that game. Having a vet in Sims 4 however, I'm making 5000 - 7000 a day. Thanks for the tip of treats, really brings the big bucks.
rachieninerabbi
8 years ago
I usually don't really come on here to comment but I've skimmed few the comments and forgive me if someone has said this.. but I find my vet to be quite good(average) my 2 extra staff(both on level 4 because I paid for training) and my sim is on level 10! while bothe of my employees are level 2-3 promoted (20-30) an hour, I still find myself to make quite a nice profit (4-6k) also the treats are a nice bonus considering untill I read this I didn't know you had to make them but I think one of my treats sold for $2,000 and I'm pretty sure it was the (ambrosia, however you spell it lol)
hope this helped :)
Felicity_Bane
8 years ago
My vet sim easily makes 10 - 15k per day that he goes in. I have three vets maxed skill vets, three exam tables, and one surgery station. Two of the vets plus my sim treat animals while the third vet is either making ambrosia treats or cleaning. They accept new patients for 6 hours per day. My clinic is only 4 stars, but that's probably because I have a 200% markup and the clinic isn't always the cleanest.

I actually think the amount that a maxed out vet can make is a bit high given other professions, but he'll retire by the time he's an adult I suppose.
Mylita
New Spectator
8 years ago
Thank you samemie!

I believe I've solved where to store the treats. But, phantom121294 recommends treats, treats and more treats, so it seemed obvious to me that he or one of the responders would know what treats to make. I'm hoping anyway...

Mylita
PhantomAura
8 years ago
"Mylita;c-16168256" wrote:
Thank you samemie!

I believe I've solved where to store the treats. But, phantom121294 recommends treats, treats and more treats, so it seemed obvious to me that he or one of the responders would know what treats to make. I'm hoping anyway...

Mylita

Well in my opinion its really all about how much money you need to make. I would stay away from the treats that cost 15$ to make, if you can avoid it. When they sell its usually at 150 (at a 200% markup). The cost vs time spent is pretty much not worth it.

However, the age up and age down (they are exactly the same..monetarily speaking) are both very good options. They cost 25ish (I don't remember the exact number) to make, and sell for 300 (again 200% markup).

At level 10 you unlock ambrosia, now.....I don't actually recommend you mass produce those. They are 300 to make and 2000 to sell (again, 200% mar..you get the idea). If you make two, that's like what? 1-2 sim hours worth of crafting for 4000$. It can get out of hand real fast, I mean your talking upwards of 35,000+ if you're maxed out on them...per day.

My recommendation would be stick to age up or age down treats and supplement with ambrosia if you need money for anything (new beds, or surgery station, new home etc).

Otherwise your going to eliminate the concept of wealth entirely with a billion dollar empire made of ambrosia dog treats.