Who Has Done Rags To Riches?

I did the single parent challenge which is pretty much the same concept as rags to riches, accept you have the responsibility to keep a small child alive too while trying everything to make money without a job; which can be challenging in itself. My challenge ended up turning into generations game play, but my sim ended up living a well off life and her children all ended up doing well for themselves as well.

"angelicsamurai;c-16985181" wrote:
> @duhboy2u2 said:
> I would make the suggestion to either turn off the weather affect on your sims for this challenge or make your seasons the longest version (I think its 28 days?) otherwise its really hard not to have your poor sims freeze to death or die of lightning or heat stroke with the seasons and being all, homeless for a while.
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> After all, the Rags to Riches challenge was around long before Seasons so its not really cheating not to use it for the purposes of this challenge I feel.


When you run around collecting stuff, if the season changes, and rain or snow, or heat, just and crash out in library, gym.. Either that or travel to a world that's not having problems... if it's raining or snowing, go to the desert.

I started in Spring but it was usually raining and I couldn't afford a umbrella for 3 Sim days. Once I could afford it, I bought the cheapest tent and planted more plants, especially flower nd some fruit and mushrooms. After 4 days, I could afford a shower, then the day after a toilet. Both were the cheapest ones. After one Sim week, I could afford some walls so I put the stuff inside, but I still stayed in the tent until I could afford a single bed. As the garden grew, I bought a beehive and 2 square planters. After another Sim week, I had bought a flower arranging table, and after about 6 arrangements, I bought a fridge, a counter and a stove, all termed as "used". There are trash bins near my lot so no need for a bin. After another 3 Sim days, I bought a bin, small table and a small T.V. because it is difficult to keep the Fun bar even in the yellow!

Now, the shack has 3 rooms, toilet, bedroom and the rest is still opened planned. Some of the rooms don't even have flooring or wallpaper lol Even now, she only has $450 because of bills. Mind you, Cherry found love a couple of days ago and guess what? He proposed after 2 dates, and they haven't even had Woohoo! lol But that's because she doesn't have a double bed, but he's always calling her asking to go on dates. But yesterday Cherry discovered he has the jealous trait so things might get interesting lol

My Sim, Cherry Stone has begun to progress into better living conditions due to opening an Art Shop in Newcrest where she sells her paintings. Look at the changes over the past week of gameplay. However, the outside appearance is still shabby lol

I've done a few rags to riches type challenges (drifter is sort of a rags to riches style. You start with zero funds and have to reach a house value, among other things and I've done that one a lot, and am on house/generation 11, which means I've started over at zero funds 11 times this save).

And I did an actual rags to riches. I find them insanely easy. Making money is a breeze in this game, especially without a job. You can complete a rags to riches in just a couple sim weeks.

I have all my Sims start with nothing and it is easy to get money not having a job. To be more challenging I have started them off on an island ( Windenburg or Brindleton Bay ) and one Sim had to make her own furniture or buy them at the flea market. ( the only place she could travel to. ) It is a little more difficult with seasons, make sure you start them when it's spring or summer. I hope you will have fun trying! :)

There's a thread here in the forum with a list of different challenges.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/906643/sims-4-challenge-list-updated-november-12th-2018/p1

I started one a while ago, but I never completed it :D I should give it a try again!

I like the concept of them... And I've tried them in the past, but I find them far too easy. I don't usually go for $1000000 a mansion or anything because I quit as soon as I can afford a few nice things and see that the money is going up exponentially now. After that it just seems like tedious clicking because there's no challenge to it. You just doing the same thing over and over until you reach your end goal.

Heh, I've done sort of rags to riches. I mean sort of because I don't start with almost no funds, but rather the standard 20k after playing a household, and the household's kid turns into an adult and moves out. From there it can go different ways. One thing I do however is increase the vanilla bills by about 20%. My bill on a roughly $330,000 lot is around $29k weekly. Funny enough, that lot is only 20% done. It's a 64x64, it has the shell for 6 buildings, and huge common areas. As you can imagine, it gets really expensive, real fast. The challenge of making enough money to pay the bills AND have a significant amount leftover to improve the project is not as easy and will be worse as the house's value and therefore bills go higher.

I've done one, it was the first generation of my legacy challenge. It was hard at first, but only because I was also doing legacy and had to have a family too. Even then it only took me less than a generation to make hundreds of thousands of simoleons, and that was before the gardening patch with seasons, which makes selling harvestables even easier. I found gardening and painting to be the most lucrative skills, but you can always try something else. I actually started a second rags to riches without the legacy challenge part, and it's even easier with one single sim.

"NoTalent;c-16981823" wrote:
One of the biggest issues with the Rags to Riches challenge is that you can sell to ‘invisible’ Sims. It makes making money quite frivolous when money is so easy to come by because everything turns a profit and can be done instantly.

If you want a proper challenge, try only selling to other Sims that you can see. The flea market, etc.

Invisible Sims? I didn't know there were invisible Sims. I've been collecting stuff and selling it through my inventory. I haven't been to the Flea Market yet. I'm planning on buying the easel soon though. Hopefully I can improve Cherry's cheap and nasty looking house soon lol