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Nightgypsy
Seasoned Ace
7 months ago
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Outrageously High Bills

I could not find any posts about this specific problem with bills. It is not because of the patch though. It has been going on a very long time and I just always pay and move on. I can't say how often it happens but it's fairly regular that after two to four bills an super high bill will come in. It is not water or electric usage either. I totally forgot to open the bill explanation but I will the next time it happens. For now I have this screenshot  of the largest bill across any of my households to date. 

At the time I had mccc installed but no other mods or cc but this happens even when my game was clean. Not really sure what to classify this as other than live mode. 

Note from EA_Solaire:

Hello all,

If any of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)?

If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file. Instructions can be found here: https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/information-how-to-send-user-files-to-the-sims-4-team/5048472

Thanks!

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    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    7 months ago

    I do and always have. So the norm should be the norm. I'm not complaining about high bills, but to go from 90K to over 300K was my last straw. I always have to manually change the thermostat seasonally once I remember or the sims complain about being too hot or cold. I just looked and I forgot to change it again so gonna finish the week out and see what the bill is and then do a full week of keeping it warmer in the winter. I'm usually pretty on that but maybe that could be it I guess as the house is pretty large. And since I forgot to put in solar panels this might make the difference. I will post an update once I get a full bill with the furnace running full blast :)

  • Due to other issues going on I hadn't been able to get a full bill at home yet. Had to move to different homes to get rid of some stuff that was happening. Then I decided my poor sims needed a vacation so I took them to Granite Falls for a week, and then this happened while there on vacation right now.........

    Before I came on the vacation I came and edited the vacation rental so it had decent beds, plumbing and appliances, saved and went back to sims home and then scheduled the vacation. So I have no idea why I would get this insane bill. Prior to this vacation when I had to move the family around, I moved them back to the home Diego and Giovanna were living in prior to moving in with Jake. It is a huge house with just as much stuff in it as Jake's house and the bill that came in while they were there was this...

    There are two floors underground in this house as well. Anyhow I will finish vacation and get some solid testing and figures in. 

  • Yeah, I'm having that problem too. My bills went from $18,000 a month to $47,000. Wow yours is incredible high though....sims needs to fix this asap. Along with everything else. Yet still coming out with new packs. Smh

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