5 years ago
Lot Taxes Too High!!
I've been playing TheSims since day one of the original game on the PC. So, I'm a long time fan of the franchise, and I have enjoyed the games very much. I'm probably even one of the very few who als...
@Trismagistos
Haven't tested it thoroughly since the bills update since it's been broken ever since, but in the past things in your inventory didn't count towards your bills. I'm assuming that part is the same.
I had a sim who had a cheaper lot, bills were around 2K I think. She won the lottery and suddenly had a million. I decided to stash all of it away and continue playing, so I made a vault and stashed the full million in there. The instant I did, my bills went up an additional 45K. Having the money on me didn't increase it, but as soon as it became part of my lot, it did.
The latest update is better but its still broken. Power and Water don't count towards your bills in any way, positive or negative. The only way surplus power and water helps is when you click to sell the surplus... which it should be doing automatically if set that way, only it doesn't. If you have a negative power or water, it never counts on your bills. Mine reached max negative and just stayed there, never adding to my bills.
I'm still using that mod by zhan. That still works just fine.
@Psychotps, @SheriGR, @Josulyhar I did some digging again and i found out that one of the lots decreased in value. Instead of 22 million it is now only worth 2,2 million. This is the lot that has 6 filled vaults with a combined asset of 20 million simoleons. So this money is not counted to the lot value anymore and my household there is not paying extreem amounts either. They pay a total amount of 161,940 see Screenshot 1
Their liquidity is near to 7 million and because of the high end ecological stuff they have their refund totals more than 900,000.
The second bill is from a household in Sulani. They too, have a lot of Ecological stuff, no vaults, but not all of them have the frugal trait.
I have made a lot of screenshots to compare the cost of living on a couple of lots but the lowest bills are of the household I currently play. They live in Brindleton Bay on a smaller plot, 40 by 40 of round about 900,000 (that also became cheaper) have a liquidity of 5,2 million and a vault filled with 5 million. They pay 41,662
When asked for I will share the other screenshots too.
Have fun playing. 😉
@Trismagistos Hmmm... Well, when I had that happen with my household bills it was about a year and a half ago at least. This was before they re-vamped billing. I don't remember all the details, but I do remember that the money/cash they had didn't seem to effect bills like that produce did. As I said, they had probably a million or more in produce in the end. They also had a large home with expensive content, but not a mansion and not extravagant.
For now, I've been avoiding playing my homes with extensive gardens as I don't want the plants to get buggy from the gardening bug. I also didn't play any of the ones with extensive gardens for any long periods of time after the Eco pack. So did you have that much produce in inventory (mine was a combo of personal and household inventory - where my tons of produce was sitting)? I just kept having them harvest it and wasn't thinking it would matter that much.
I do remember that at that time if they had lots of produce in the Lice Cold Freezers in their (owned) retail stores it didn't seem to affect their bills like it did if they kept it in their personal inventories, which I thought was interesting.
Actually, I keep perfect produce plants for supplemental income on my lots frequently, and I have never noticed a huge bill since the revamping of bills around the time the Eco pack was released. That's not to say that it would not affect it if I accumulated a huge amount of produce in personal inventories again, but I haven't re-tested that. I'm obsessive about selling all but a small amount of the produce now.