Who Has Done Rags To Riches?

"Karababy52;c-16983092" wrote:
I've played many, many Sims starting out in Rags to Riches style, it's my preferred way to play actually. Along the way I've learned all the tricks on my own or from tips posted on the forums. It really is easy to earn enough simoleans for your Sim to have almost all the basics on their very first day if you send them around collecting or know exactly the right place to fish. I've started putting my own special restrictions on my R2R Sims because of how easy it's become.

One way you can make simoleans is to collect enough to buy an easel, you've got it made or just collect enough to get 50 simoleans and send them to a museum to use the easel there or if you have CL or GT, use one of the public easels. Send them to a library and start hacking, complete their whims to get enough points for a money tree, start fishing (especially at the pier in Magnolia Promenade), gardening makes a lot of simoleans, especially if you can find a Dragonfruit seed, travel to the art gallery in CL and use the woodworking table, or busk with the instruments there, collect the free plants at the Romance or Spice Festivals if you have CL, etc., you'll be rolling in simoleans soon enough doing any one of these and so much more. This is just the tip of the iceberg, there's so many things I could share here, but if I did, it would end up a novel. lol

The most fun I've had playing with this style though is the way @NoTalent suggested. It's called the Extreme Rags to Riches Challenge. Your Sim starts out with nothing on an empty lot and the only way you can make money is by direct contact with another Sim. You can't sell anything in build/buy mode or by using your Sims inventory. It's not easy, and takes much longer, but it is doable. James Turner aka TheSimSupply has a Let's Play series on YouTube using this particular challenge if you want to check it out.

Playing extreme really only has a couple, maybe three ways to acquire the means to make simoleans at first. Once you've figured that out, it gets a little easier as time goes on. I love it though because it really IS a challenge. I'd list the ways you can do it here, but don't want to spoil it if you'd rather try to figure it out yourself. Let me know! :)

Happy Simming! <3

I've only been doing a R2Rs for about 3 days, although she has a house, well, it's that rubbish it's more of a shack lol It has the cheapest of everything. Tonight, the cooker broke once, the stereo broke twice, the toilet and shower broke once too, and that is without the Gremlin trait lol The garden is beginning to get large. It has 6 square planters, all full, but some aren't growing yet because they are out of season, and I can't afford to extend the house to bring them inside.

I've had my Sim concentrating on fishing, collecting, and flower arranging. But there is an easel but it's yet to be used. Regardless of all of that, my Sim only has over $1000! lol I've been sending her to every Sim world to find collectables but everything spawns at different times and season. I'm not going to let my Sim get a career yet though until her house has everything and updated to better appliances; not the expensive stuff though, just better than the "used" stuff.

I've watched a lot of James Turner's YT videos; it's what inspired me to give it a go. Social is the hardest thing to get though depending on the time of day and how many Sims are around. I've had my Sim go to festivals but still Social degrades quickly, so once I had enough award points, I got my Sim the Independent trait so it doesn't degrade as quickly.

After 3 days, my Sim has the essentials like a toilet, shower, cooker etc, but tonight, I could afford the cheapest coffee table and chair and got a more decent T.V. than the nasty looking boxy T.V. with aerials poking out of the top, and a violin. Once I can afford to extend the house, I'll buy a computer and desk, I'll get the cheapest one I can find though.