What Are the Utilities?

I wasn't aware of that. It doesn't seem to make much sense either. Does that mean the veggies and fish in your fridge or fish in a fish tank raise your bills too?

"iamsweetmystery;c-16699303" wrote:
I wasn't aware of that. It doesn't seem to make much sense either. Does that mean the veggies and fish in your fridge or fish in a fish tank raise your bills too?

Unfortunately yes, anything stored away within a residential lot still counts towards the overall total of the bills, since it calculates everything on the home lot as well as in the household inventory and individual sims' inventories. I learned this the hard way. Luckily most stored items add very little to the bills, it's whole collections that rack up a lot.

This goes a long way to explain a lot. It's a good thing money in the game is so easy to come by. Some of my families have numerous completed collections as well as hundreds of veggies, fruits and flowers stockpiles for cooking and crafting supplies. I never made the connection to that and their bills because their houses are so expensive in the first place. Definitely best to save serious collecting for families who are already wealthy. Since I like setting up big display rooms in the basements to visibly track my collections, it's better for families who can afford to do so. One thing I will say, I like the utility shut-off system better than the old way, which involved a repo man coming to your house and taking random stuff equal to the value of your bills, then having to figure out everything they took and replace it.

"paradiseplanet;c-16702188" wrote:

"iamsweetmystery;c-16699303" wrote:
I wasn't aware of that. It doesn't seem to make much sense either. Does that mean the veggies and fish in your fridge or fish in a fish tank raise your bills too?

Unfortunately yes, anything stored away within a residential lot still counts towards the overall total of the bills, since it calculates everything on the home lot as well as in the household inventory and individual sims' inventories. I learned this the hard way. Luckily most stored items add very little to the bills, it's whole collections that rack up a lot.

So glad in RL the power and water usage isn't calculated that way. :open_mouth:

Hilarious, GalacticGal, and so very true.

To add to this bills are also based on energy usage and and possibly water usage. If you have your lights on 24/7 or any other electrical device on most of the time your bills will increase and I'm not sure if this is true but the more water you use also add to the overall cost.

Seems like they're trying to bankrupt all the Sims. Next thing you know, Bladder Fails and Pet Poop will raise your bills as well. It's crazy.

"VentusMatt;c-16708617" wrote:
To add to this bills are also based on energy usage and and possibly water usage. If you have your lights on 24/7 or any other electrical device on most of the time your bills will increase and I'm not sure if this is true but the more water you use also add to the overall cost.

Sounds reasonable. 8 sims houses should get higher bills than single sim households.