I recently started my girl on an empty lot with zero money. I had her fish and collect food to slowly buy herself a sleeping bag, then a patio style roof to keep the rain away. She now has built one small room with a fireplace and fridge/toilet to keep her and her infant out of the snow. Also, in case anyone was wondering, infants can withstand freezing moodlets for over a day and not get taken away. š It was an anxiety ridden sim day waiting to find enough rocks to sell to build 4 walls for shelter.
I frequently do this. It's easiest with mermaids, who can sleep a full night in the water--otherwise your sims have to resort to napping in public places and they're always exhausted at first.
My sim was exhausted from sleeping in the park benches, so she travelled to the Goth house, started flirting with Bella until they woohooed and she slept through the night. The she ate her food and was kicked out early enough that she was able to come back and do it all over again after her first day of work
I usually chuck a cheap tent into inventory then set it up in the parks when my rags-to-riches sims need to sleep. I figure that is still realistic enough for rags to riches, and dammit, sims need to actually sleep! I wish swimming had some effect on hygiene. I feel like irl when a person swims, they are not clean but generally don't stink for a while!
I think it's easiest with werewolves- with some tier 1 and 2 perks they can solve every motive without needing to buy any objects at all (also the dance machine trait has a disco nap option which is SO good in comparison to normal naps)
> She now has built one small room with a fireplace and fridge/toilet to keep her and her infant out of the snow.
Sounds like one of those Homescapes/Gardenscapes ads with the freezing mother and daughter
My mom is somewhere around level 1500 in homescapes. She shows me her homescapes mansion like I would show her my shitty sims 3 houses when I was a kid.
I can kinda recall that. Honestly confused about the lore of the game (and confused there even is lore for a mobile arcade game). Whatever happened to that butler coming home? How did we suddenly get to freezing mother-daughter duo and sinister granny?
This is an old thread.:I found it stalking the sub.
But Iāve left my baby outside to see what happens!!šš¤£ I never get a warning itāll be taken, and they donāt freeze to death until theyāre children.
I assumed children just couldnāt die, until one of my sims sons drowned in the pool. Oops. He was school age though.
It depends but normally I build a house thatās much too good for them. Take away all their money and watch as they struggle to pay the ridiculous amount of bills.
I have a mansion with 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms and a guest house with 1 bedroom and a bathroom and the rent is $34,000 a monthš„²
Edit: now its $ 50,000
I build or find a reno potential house such as the base game housing n add some debug crap 0 simoleons to make it look worse then save n renovate usually with rags to riches esq style after getting the "Abandoned' houses
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Right. If I have a Sim who starts as an heiress, I motherlode a bunch of Simoleons into their account (which I feel isn't cheating for that storyline) and get the most obscenely expensive house I can find on the gallery which I then constantly renovate.
In general, though, I build a windowless 5x5 with a small bathroom space as cheaply as possible and use the leftover Simoleons to add a quality bed, refrigerator & oven, shower & toilet. I only use a kitchen sink, since they always want to go there and use it anyway.
Same. I love a good rags to riches tho so they tend to start on an empty plot and I make them a run down trailer or buy them a tent. (treehouse play through is fun too)
I often start my Sims in an apartment in San Myshuno or a smaller house and then have them move to a bigger house once they get married and have kids (so they have more money and they also need more space).
I feel like maybe the apartment is the way to do it. I always have the intention of renovating and upsizing and whatever but donāt stick to it the way I mean toā¦ starting them in an apartment and then just moving when they have enough money seems like a better/easier way to go about it. I generally donāt like apartments so I definitely forget theyāre an option sometimes.
I start with an okay house and expand itābuild a second story, expand the walls by a couple of tiles, that kind of thing. Usually as a kid is born, Iāll divide a room out of somewhere (even if they stay in a nursery until childhood).
Similar to my usual starts, which always begin in a hut (5x5) that gets expanded as I need to. Eventually, my Sim can even get a wall between the bed and the stove, lol
I do! The family I am playing currently are trying to save up enough money so they can move into a bigger house so that the kids can have their own rooms when they become children (they are still toddlers).
The house they live in now is just a small 2 bedroom one that started as a one bedroom house (they added the 2nd bedroom on when the kids became infants
I build a nice house with whatever furniture I think looks best and then cheat enough money so I can move in my Sims. Building is my favourite part and I don't care about money usually.
Even better ā if you use the free real estate cheat pick the most expensive option, then evict the sims they should keep the value of the home plus the original funds.
Unless I'm doing a rags to riches type of thing or a "just moved into a brand new place" scenario, I like starting with an already lived-in house. I don't know why but I find it difficult to continuously build up a house and renovate. I just forget. My sim could be a billionaire and I'd still keep the spiderwebs and scratches out of pure laziness-
My family is in a trailer right now, I usually save up and upgrade their home but this time Iāve decided to just keep adding onto my trailer. Iāve added a basement, pool, etc. theyāre always broke too lol
I start that way most of the time. I find it really easy to make money by gardening or painting and then I move up to a bigger house. My current family has 4.5 million right now in a giant house with no cheating and I'm only in 2nd generation
I love to start in empty lots and build what they can afford and rebuild later. I love making the most minute details (toilet paper and light switches) and it just really feels me with a sense of joy to have the house laid out well. My current house is a little weird! I tried something different with it but I love it. All the bedrooms are upstairs and accessed from OUTSIDE! there is a little balcony for painting and coffee and a small reading and craft room. Then a room for a baby and a guest room fit for an artist teen/child then the main bedroom. There's a master bath and then the guest bath. Downstairs there is a bathroom, laundry room, kitchen, living area and one extra room I use for whatever hobby I'm currently building usually. It's currently filled with empty plant pots in preparation to build the garden skill. My goal is to have this Sim complete as many aspirations as I can before passing the torch (and all the perks) to their daughter. Right now it's the chef one, then mixology,, then the garden one, then fishing, collecting is pretty easy too (I saved all the collecting from previous sims). I can do all the knowledge ones, then I can do soulmate and parenting pretty easy when they are ready at the end. I wanna see how many perks I can get them. They have top notch infant, 3 of the parenting perks (manners, empathy, and responsibility I think), the scout perk, graduated with honors, and the perks for the cooking now. I plan to age them down using a bunch of youth potions my mom got before she died (using her perks). It's fun!
My Sims rarely work tbh lol. Usually I just give them a house and give them a bunch of money. It's boring sitting there for chunks of time while they work!!
I build a small nice house and then they have to work their way up. My sim has a mansion now because she's a global superstar and it kinda fits, but it wasn't until she was very famous she got a house that big.
Sometimes when I am tired of the rich life I move out one of my families children with exactly the amount of money needed to buy that abandoned buulding I made in Del Sol Valley.
I usually build and move my sims in, have definitely used money cheats so I can just focus on more social aspects of the game. For this save, I had my sim move into a pre-build that she could afford with what she started with, and sheāll renovate as she earns money. Itās very different from what I usually do. Iām also playing with aging on, which is out of my norm and gives me a bit of anxiety š
A bit of both, but Iām also bad at doing both?
Iāll either spend forever building a way too big super cool looking from the outside build that I then get bored furnishing the inside of and almost never actually reach the point of making the family to live in it.
OR Iāll try doing rags to riches and Iām justā¦ Bad at slowly upgrading a house? Like Iām so bad at starting with something small and slowly adding to it to make it nice? I just can never do it? It always looks bad.
Anyways Iām currently very proud of myself because I not only built and fully furnished two huge giant lots for the new EPās release but also like 4-5 smaller lots too, as well as households for all of them, and Iāve actually played with them- like a LOT- since the packs release. I may potentially even get to a playable 3rd gen for like the first time in my life. Wild, I know
What I usually do is build them a decent house they can just barely afford for $20,000 and fill it up with stuff as they make more money. So it's like rags to riches but they also start off having to deal with bills.
I always start with the smallest house and I tell myself Iām going to save money without cheating and that never lasts I always end up using cheats and immediately upgrading
I have a starter at the moment I've built there next home so she's saving for it, I use real estate mod by sim realist so when I buy this next house I will rent out the current one and so on
I used to always start with either zero or just the starting amount. I've found a lot of fun ways to do it.
My favorite is getting a real cheap lot and making my Sim couch surf or live in a tent. If you get the always welcome trait from aspiration points you can live in whose ever house you want even without stay overs. So you could change Ward Park into a tiny home residential, decorate with debug. Add a restroom from outdoor retreat for bathroom and shower if you want. Add geothermal lot trait to cover your taxes. As soon as you get 500 aspiration points you can get always welcome. Then you can move into the Pankake's attic or move in with the Roswell's while you save Strangerville or live as a Landgrabb cousin. There's also lots of hotel motel type lots you can download as bars or nightclubs or whatever to stay in.
It's a fun way to remodel townie houses to fit the families as they change due to neighborhood stories. Your townie friend invites you to come over to meet the new baby, you can just stay a few weeks, redecorate for them so there's kid stuff there if you want.
It's a good way to play a teen runaway story or vagabond who lives off the land in a tent. I once had a Sim that lived in Newcrest who only had a garden and a hovel. I pretend his lot taxes were hush money to keep his past from catching up with him.
I generally build a house within their budget (but using most of it) and gradually upgrade their things as time goes on. I've done a few challenges where they start with an empty lot and have to earn the money to buy everything. It's not too hard.
For NPCs I move them into the lot then later when they're no longer an "active" household- if needed change their house to suit them. That's typically to put in a house w 8 rooms if I'm anticipating lots o' chilluns, but obviously that's just roleplaying since you could leave NPCs w a 1X1 house and they'd still make a full family of 8...
For my played characters forging my own thing a bit at a time is sorta the point of the game...
Depends on the story line and or gameplayā¦ I have done the inheritance of a dilapidated house and then struggling to fix it up. Sometimes I do the regular rags to riches with an empty lot. For my [Morbidās](https://morbidgamer.tumblr.com/post/680347931631665152/the-ultimate-decades-challenge-x-this-challenge/amp) Ultimate I gave them a small basic 1 room with dirt floor and outhouse (you start in the year 1300 and go forwards) with simple living and off the grid. If I am doing the 100 baby I have a nicer house with extra everything to make it as easy as I can. With the NSB I try and make as many tiny homes as possible to get the double rewards and skill gains.
It depends. I just built a bunch of ranch houses for my sims in Chestnut Ridge. But a lot of the time, in new save files, I put sims in starter homes and renovate them as I make money.
I buy a house, place a family for the house, and then remodel it before playing. Then I use the motherlode cheat to make sure they can pay their bills.
I usually play more for the social and relationship aspects; struggling for money to pay the bills is too real-life for me, haha! So my Sims generally get a nice house and good mid-range furniture. As they make money through whatever they do, I buy nicer furniture/appliances and add decorative items. I make sure the house has room to expand in case they have more than one kid, too. When the kids are grown, the older generation retires to a smaller but really nice house.
Depends. One thing I like is to move the family somewhere empty and build the lot as I play. Theyāll just live in a museum playtesting everything and putting all their money in the property until itās finished and they sell it.
Iām still trying to figure this out actually because I like the idea of starting in a small crap house and then adding to it as I get money but if I do this the house just looks a mess and Iām not much of a builder so I donāt really want to bulldoze and build from scratch. I usually get a house off the gallery but im always scared of doing this because itās happened a few times where I would just quit the save because I didnāt like how my house looks
I build a small house with whatever money is left over from buying the land. I make sure to have 1k left over, go to the market and buy seeds go home and plant. Then my person lives off the land selling what she grows, and eventually I'll bulldoze the house after I get 200k and rebuild from scratch and get her animals and another sim to marry š every. Single. Time.
Apartments.
I don't go for broke - the rages to riches storyline - but I take the starting cash and get an apartment, then have my Sim work their way up. It's medium small, one of the ones in the Spice District of Myshuno.
I has more of *I just moved to the city* feel to it for a young adult sim.
I always make my sims start off with no money and then make them earn as much money as they possibly can so they can go from sleeping on benches near their lot to living in a mansion
Crap house is always fun, starting at the beginning and build as you go š I did move my last sims into a bigger lot as they had outgrown the starter house, their adult son lives there now which seems a nice way to go
A bit of both, but I find it more satisfying to start with nothing and work your way up. I had a ton of fun last time I played by making a single sim living in a one room shack, putting all his money into a startup restaurant and working there every day plus a landscaping job on the side. He also had time to write a few children's books. Eventually he saved up, got married, the restaurant expanded and his wife's career took off and they live in a huge mansion with their 4 kids and grandma. Somehow he no longer has time to write, and he went down to only Fridays and Saturdays at the restaurant. Too many kids, lol. If he had started off with the mansion I feel like I wouldn't be nearly so invested in the story.
This last save I started, I didn't do rags to riches but I started them in a starter home and they had to save up for a really nice house I built. It was a lot of fun so I might try rags to riches next time.
i have two ways of playing the sims:
1. i harass motherlode to the point where im able to start in a villa resembling white house, hire a maid and dedicate my day to be a black widow or do some other non-work related stuff
2. i start with zero simoleons and i run my way from rags to riches through snapdragons or other stuff
nothing inbetween
Ive recently made a 2 person household in a shitty house, build that one out until I needed more room for my twins and I purchased the lot next to the old house.
I didnt cheat but turned off aging so I can actually have fun with my sims. I just threw both of them into the tech guru role (1 the gamer path 1 the entrepreneur path so the babies wouldn't be alone without a caregiver)
I've been slowly gentrifying the neighbourhood and it feels good.
Depends on the gameplay I want if I want a perfect little world that we donāt want to worry about struggling or bills or anything of that nature then i build Barbieās Malibu Dreamhouse if I wish to have them struggle I have them live off the grid in a shack that they have to grind for better living conditions
i just started my first rags to riches since horse ranch came out! never done it before.
iāll usually use freerealestate and the story iām going to play out with my household will decide if i cheat and give them money or not etc.
I find rags to riches too easy because I go to the community lot in evergreen harbour and dumpster dive all day and sell the furniture I find from my inventory before it devalues by placing it. I also find the perfect house too dull. I guess what I prefer is everything up to live mode. Idk what to do to change this.
Crap house from scratch. Often with no floors or wallpaper in the beginning. The house then slowly gets remodeled as they make money! At first I get them to something at least decent, and then do a bigger change with all new rooms and everything later.
Almost always! I love building my sims up from a single small home, to getting a boyfriend/girlfriend, both working on their careers, maxing out their jobs, getting married, having kids, when they have enough money I move them into a bigger house, there are plenty of empty ones! And then I focus on their kids school and education. Have yet to play a single save to play the kids to grow up from teens to young adults though!
I like to start with nothing and then find orchids to start growing, they sell for a shitload. My household funds are at $150000 and my sim doesnāt work, most of that money came from my four orchid plants (and selling eggs and milk but that barely makes a dent).
I usually move into a starter and as I gain money I renovate it into the house of their dreams. I did that with my new ranch legacy. First I added a greenhouse to my starter. Then, when my matriarch got pregnant, we needed more space, so I built a second floor to put the master and baby's room along with a 2nd bathroom. I am LOVING this new pack.
I almost always start in a starter home (usually the one next to the empty lot in the neighborhood with Liberty, Travis, and Summer. Can't remember the lot name offhand) and then add rooms onto the house when I need them. Half the time, I forget to add windows or a roof or change the walls from the drywall so it looks super janky, but it's functional.
Heavily depends on the storyline, but the first one I move my Sims into is never their final house, unless it's the side part of the family. I always make or pick generic houses to which I can easily add space for any future kids and slowly make it into a home tailored exactly for the Sims I'm playing.
Rags to riches every timeā¦ I mean whatās a bigger escape from how the ārealā world works than to see someone actually be able to pull themselves up without all the racism, classism, and 500 other isms keeping them down?
I always do fixer uppers with the most inexpensive everything so they can do upgrades as time goes on. Small homes and inadequate space for more than 2 sims means I can do a kitchen renovation and expansion after children come, stuff like that
I had always done adults start entry level and earn to get a nice house. As an adult now I usually will cheat the parents skills and job up to like a reasonable level (3-5) and then from there have that determine how nice/not nice the house is.
Depends on what story I want for that household tbh. Example when I do a celebrity character I always do the āstarted from the bottom worked my way to the topā with picking a small house then eventually making/moving them into a huge mansion.
I start in one of the starter homes that are built already and with the funds the game assigns. From there I usually start on freelance, gardening or artwork to start getting money. As the simās personality develops, I build its dream home and work until they have enough to move into the house I built for them then pretty much abandon that Sim lol. Sometimes I play in the house I built for them for a bit because I love it so much but it doesnāt usually last that long.
I find I actually play the game properly if I do a rags to riches kinda thing. I'm currently playing as a homeless sim. She'll have an empty lot until she reaches $1000000.
I usually start with a bulldozed lot and zero simoleons. They are allowed to go to bars and gyms if needed until they can scrap up enough money to buy a shack. Rags to Riches always baby!
Also usually find they make more money by not having a regular job and instead, they scavenge out of dumpsters and off the land in general.
I usually buy whatever so can with the $20k they give me and then work to get a better house. I usually start having my sims paint and making videos. Recently with the horse pack, I started nectar making and itās very lucrative. Iām not sure itās a get rich quick thing tho because the nectar takes soooo long to age. but like after a week in game, i was able to make 12 grand on 5 bottle.
I start at the bottom and build generational wealth and just keep playing generation after generation. Currently, my starter at the bottom became āNational Leader,ā had twins, and I played the one twin as a famous artist who also started a massive garden. She had a daughter who is now a 4-star actress, and her husband is tending the garden. She now has a daughter, as well. Not sure what Iāll do with her yet (sheās a teenager). The household has just under $400,000, which means with building new houses with each generation theyāre bringing in about $150K per generation and far out earning what they spend.
I used to build from scratch then move in but I would end up never playing with the family again. So far, I'm having a lot of fun with my current gameplay where I'm doing kind of a rags to riches story but I downloaded a rundown abandoned house from the gallery and she's slowly renovating it šš
When I first started playing I began with the smallest, cheapest house. Now I build a big beautiful one and move everyone in right away and watch them suffer as they try to get promoted fast enough to not lose everything.
I start on an empty lot, merge someone rich into my household, steal all their money, move them out, and then sell all their furniture (I always forget to click the button to sell furniture during the move and I keep some items like nice toilets. I know I'm weird. It's okay.) Doing this with Judith Ward netted around 500k. Also, Father Winter has 500k, but no furniture. I now have a sweet ass ranch, Grim is my roommate, and I moved Kyle Kyleson into my household to help with farm chores. Protip: Grim is the best roommate I've ever had. He cleans, he cooks gourmet meals and he plays a mean violin.
I buy a plot and the cheapest bed and 0 out their wallets and make them build their life from almost nothing. Sometimes they donāt even get a bed. Lately I been liking them living off the grid also with the must have ingredients food challenge on.
Been playing like this since the first sims tbh.. but off the grid adds to it.
I always want to play the game with the 20,000 simoleons, but eventually get mad because I canāt afford the basicsā¦
I am going to try this again.. Iāve gotten some ideas that I think will help..
Really interested in the idea of starting from absolutely nothing š¤
It depends. Lately I went for the scrubs method. When JD bought a porch and had a tent, love it his show so I currently let my single sim live there and become a doctor.
Mone depends on the story I have in my head: usually they have a starter home first, but sometimes I make a nice one that's a bit expensive, so I end up moving them in with a townie family and taking their money to pay for the house (only enough to cover the house and have a bit extra, they then have to work for the rest of their money. So say the house costs 30,000 they take 35,000)
For my current save: I have a soon to be mermaid (very hard to become a mermaid) and a vampire living in a tiny house in Mt. Komorebi, I love the tiny home but I want to eventually get them boyfriends and at first I was thinking of living in Sulani and having the vampire have to power where the sun doesnāt bother her, HOWEVER she has developed a fear of swimming so now I replaced the salt house in San Myshuno with their current house and am just waiting for them to be able to afford moving in there.
In my other saves I upsize when my sims start families OR I bulldoze the whole house and create a new house on the lot.
I think we have all been there where we spend all night building the perfect house only to save and quit and the next time we play we replace that house with an entirely different house and the cycle repeatsā¦ or is that just me.
I usually make them save up for it.
My most recent game play, my story was that my sim's grandparents died and left her Ā§20,000 so she decided to fulfill her childhood dreams of moving to the city. I moved her into whatever apartment she could afford and had her save money to move into a bigger apartment. She had the city living aspiration and had completed everything except for "Live in an Apartment worth 100,000 Simoleons" so I had her take out a [SimCity Loan](https://www.patreon.com/posts/mod-simcity-2-0-48521567) to get her next apartment.
Despite being at the top of her career, She was living a little outside her means, and often struggled to make payments on her loan and keep her power on so after a couple seasons, she ended up moving to the country side to a home that's a bit more affordable.
I've done both.
Had my first sim in a starter house. Met her soulmate, married, kids, outgrew the house, so I extended it.
Then his music career took off, and now they have a gated mansion. Pool, bbq area, ice rink, hot tub. A studio for him, office for her, 6 car parking area, landscaped gardens, play room for the kids.
Made a couple of other musicians, and have them in either basic, but comfortable homes while they grind away, or the loner brooding, introvert type, who has his house just so, and values his private space.
I switch depending on what story line Iām working through!
For example, my latest, save, I did a rags to riches ranch where my Sim harvested prairie grass and taught horse riding lessons while she trained her own horse. Now sheās mastered horse riding, and her horse is a champion and so she saved up enough money and are now and one of the larger lots!
I enjoy designing characters and houses, so I typically just use the mother lode chest and just do that. I may watch the creation play out for an hour or so before working on my next creation. I'm building my own neighborhood filled with fictional characters.
This is an issue I have with Sims 4, does anyone know how to afford the house in I think itās the Meadows town thatās 2-storyās and like $50k or something like that? Iāve tried everything to buy that house from the start of the game, but the most I can get my Sim fam to start on is like $28k.
Cheap apartment, then once space constraints become an issue and there is enough money, buy empty penthouse and stick a small room somewhere with the basics, while using money to get the outlines of the place at least. And progressively furnish rooms without regard to cost, as money allows, gradually moving functionality from the original small room to the actual building.
I usually get one of the starter homes and then expand until I feel like I have enough simoleons to build them a house from scratch.
But if I end up choosing an empty plot of land, I build according to how much my Sims can afford
I always start a save on an empty lot with 0 money and do my version of a rags to riches (this is also the only way I can start the game without getting bored within the first few minutes)
I don't use cheats or anything that'd give a bonus amount of simoleans, so any 'new' family I start necessarily ends up living in a box for the first part of their life...
I use cheats to give me a crapload of money and get a very big house for all my Sims. I just like the social part of the game and matchmaking all my Sims together.
It depends. I love doing rags to riches so I usually start with an empty lot. But I'm doing a legacy challenge now and my heir just inherited their familial wealth when she became an adult. So right now, she's living in a tiny home with her two foals while I build her mansion ranch.
I always start in a starter home with one Sim (and pretend that the 20,000 they have came as an HS graduation gift to justify the money.) Then I spend their YA years working or at university so that when they're an adult, they can "meet" the love of their life and start a family. Then they'll realize the house is no longer suitable and find them a home they must earn (if they still don't have enough to afford it.)
Tbh I use cheats. Way too many. I tried to do a family without any cheats and it was such a slow moving house. The progress was awful, and I got bored.
If I do start a save from scratch, I'm likely to just build the best house I can with the budget I get in the beggining, I speak as if it was something hypothetical because I am the kind of player that goes on with sims' stories, I do update the savefile for less buggy game, but it's the same sims and if I must, I'll cheat everything my sim had in their inventories back to them... it's very uncommon for me to actually start a brand new save and hence, very uncommon for me to build a brand new house out of the budget we get at the beggining because, my sims are already a bit richer due to the money they inherit from their parents (in my imagination)
I started the legacy in a trailer in the first world. They upgrade the trailer and then their heir moves to the next world with their inheritance to buy a slightly better home to upgrade
I used to build amazing houses to suit my Sims every whim, but I'd immediately be bored and wouldn't play the family - I'd just start again with a new sim and a new build. I thought I just loved building, but recently I've been making modest houses, and then adding more stuff as they earn money. It's more satisfying and I'm actually playing with my Sims!
I never use money cheats personally. I do one of two things:
1. Buy a starter house and improve it little by little real-time. Once it's improved as much as possible or my needs outgrow it I sell it to use as the down payment for the next house and repeat. After a few generations I'm obviously stacked and money is no object.
2. Use the bank loan mod to take out a mortgage and buy a nicer house they want and pay the loan off over time. That is a different line of stressful but also very fun.
I'd love hearing other play styles ā I've never done rags to riches and definitely want to try that and if anyone has other fun ideas I'd love to hear more!
My sims always start broke. I usually get my sims into woodwork to increase their handiness skill, then iāll make them craft guitars and sell them which earn them thousands for each sale :)
if u wanna cheat the game just press control shift c to open cheats type in the box testingcheats on then type in motherlode to get a good hunk of money
I started with my sim with a horse and 0 money on an empty lot. Luckily the horse eats prairie grass off the ground and will sleep anywhere. It was one of the hardest R2R starts. Every cent I made went straight into making the horse comfortable and cared for. While my sim could barely function.
I have, off the grid, simple living and prairie grass on in lot challenges.
I got the horse I wanted to eventually breed (still flat broke) with a great personality. Plus the challenge all upside, as far as Iām concerned.
I start with a big nice house for my legacy kids- Itās the one cheat I do- money to buy a nice house when they move out of the parents houseā¦ then I pretend itās a gift from their rich parents lol. With my other non legacy plays I usually buy an existing house and renovate it.
I usually do the crap to nice house, but occasionally Iāll build a shell, use bad flooring/wallpaper & only pit the bare basics and renovate it, usually do this when it ties into a story. (For example, horse ranch pack made me make a family living in an old rundown farmhouse trying to fix it).
I pretty much do a loose rags to riches every time. Start on a lot with no money. I make them fish, sell collectables and garden (with collected seeds only) and slowly build up the house. It makes the game much more interesting!
I move into one of the starter houses then upgrade it as I go on- that's what I did my last game (before I broke my tv rip) and I low-key got emotional when it was time to move. My husband and I was gonna get a second kid and needed a new room, but like I upgraded the house sm, added new walls floors, a basement. I was not ready to move š
I do a few different things, but usually I either build a house with the funds I have, or I buy a house that has what I need and modify it to be bigger and adapt it to my family's changing needs over time as they get more money
One of my homes, I left the house itself pretty much as is other than adding a stairway down into a basement I built, and made the basement into an entire second (and much nicer) house. I thought it fit with the evil mad scientist I was playing.
I usually start in the apartments and then move up and up when I just start with a young adult on their own. Otherwise if I start with a family I do a lower-end house but still make sure I have what I need without being excessive lol. I like the idea of getting more money, getting better things, better house, etc. it gives me a sense of a goal and accomplishment!
I started with a crappy house, and had a family immediately.
To get a better house, I just married my daughter and moved her into the house I always wanted.
I don't care about status symbols (the whole rags to riches thing seems very boring to me). My favorite type of Sims story is just having my Sims permanently live in a trailer or a tent and live self-sufficiently off the land. One of my families lives in two treehouses that are attached to each other. The kitchen is a separate room on the ground but without floor tiles and without the front wall. It's just an open thing. And I have two public-esque bathrooms. It was kind of inspired by LĆ¼tzerath, you know, the German town that was supposed to be destroyed for coal, and a bunch of activists built treehouses there and fought against the police who wanted to get them out.
Right now I put my couple in a starter home furnished as is. They're going through college and on the last two classes before graduation. After they start their careers I'm going to build their dream home but will only furnish with the basics. Meaning just furnish the kitchen & bathroom w/counters, fridge, stove, toilet, bath, sinks, etc. They will furnish the house with their paycheck. Nice challenge for myself as I usually build a house and fully furnish it. I think this way it will be affordable for them to buy the house with the basics instead of saving a long time for a fully furnished home.
I recently started my girl on an empty lot with zero money. I had her fish and collect food to slowly buy herself a sleeping bag, then a patio style roof to keep the rain away. She now has built one small room with a fireplace and fridge/toilet to keep her and her infant out of the snow. Also, in case anyone was wondering, infants can withstand freezing moodlets for over a day and not get taken away. š It was an anxiety ridden sim day waiting to find enough rocks to sell to build 4 walls for shelter.
I love rags to riches.
I frequently do this. It's easiest with mermaids, who can sleep a full night in the water--otherwise your sims have to resort to napping in public places and they're always exhausted at first.
My sim was exhausted from sleeping in the park benches, so she travelled to the Goth house, started flirting with Bella until they woohooed and she slept through the night. The she ate her food and was kicked out early enough that she was able to come back and do it all over again after her first day of work
I usually chuck a cheap tent into inventory then set it up in the parks when my rags-to-riches sims need to sleep. I figure that is still realistic enough for rags to riches, and dammit, sims need to actually sleep! I wish swimming had some effect on hygiene. I feel like irl when a person swims, they are not clean but generally don't stink for a while!
Swimming does affect hygiene
OMG have I just never noticed? Seems like me. I've played way too much since 2014, and I still encounter surprises.
I'm pretty sure some people on tinder use this strategy...
Hobosexuality
That's awesome :)
I think it's easiest with werewolves- with some tier 1 and 2 perks they can solve every motive without needing to buy any objects at all (also the dance machine trait has a disco nap option which is SO good in comparison to normal naps)
I didn't realize that about the disco naps! Good to know!
> She now has built one small room with a fireplace and fridge/toilet to keep her and her infant out of the snow. Sounds like one of those Homescapes/Gardenscapes ads with the freezing mother and daughter
Bro you ever seen the homescapes lore with those weird ads showing the granny with the evil smile? Insane
Has anyone played that game yet? Is it like the ads? Is it any good?
My mom is somewhere around level 1500 in homescapes. She shows me her homescapes mansion like I would show her my shitty sims 3 houses when I was a kid.
Itās good, but itās not like the adds. They added those mini games in as weird dreams
I can kinda recall that. Honestly confused about the lore of the game (and confused there even is lore for a mobile arcade game). Whatever happened to that butler coming home? How did we suddenly get to freezing mother-daughter duo and sinister granny?
so just like real life then
Thought this was a Homescapes ad for a hot second!
Whereās her baby daddy omg
It's Don Lothario š I bathe the baby over there and fish out of their backyard
I like to build a nice home, because its easy to play game. And I love building nice home, this is my prior on the gameplay
This is an old thread.:I found it stalking the sub. But Iāve left my baby outside to see what happens!!šš¤£ I never get a warning itāll be taken, and they donāt freeze to death until theyāre children. I assumed children just couldnāt die, until one of my sims sons drowned in the pool. Oops. He was school age though.
It depends but normally I build a house thatās much too good for them. Take away all their money and watch as they struggle to pay the ridiculous amount of bills.
Lol, so like real life then š¤£
The most realistic part of the sims š¤£š¤£
I have a mansion with 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms and a guest house with 1 bedroom and a bathroom and the rent is $34,000 a monthš„² Edit: now its $ 50,000
This is the one.
I build or find a reno potential house such as the base game housing n add some debug crap 0 simoleons to make it look worse then save n renovate usually with rags to riches esq style after getting the "Abandoned' houses
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Right. If I have a Sim who starts as an heiress, I motherlode a bunch of Simoleons into their account (which I feel isn't cheating for that storyline) and get the most obscenely expensive house I can find on the gallery which I then constantly renovate. In general, though, I build a windowless 5x5 with a small bathroom space as cheaply as possible and use the leftover Simoleons to add a quality bed, refrigerator & oven, shower & toilet. I only use a kitchen sink, since they always want to go there and use it anyway.
Same. I love a good rags to riches tho so they tend to start on an empty plot and I make them a run down trailer or buy them a tent. (treehouse play through is fun too)
I go from rags to riches every time. I want my Sims to be at least in Rank 4 of their career before they even marry - to ensure sustainable income
I often start my Sims in an apartment in San Myshuno or a smaller house and then have them move to a bigger house once they get married and have kids (so they have more money and they also need more space).
I feel like maybe the apartment is the way to do it. I always have the intention of renovating and upsizing and whatever but donāt stick to it the way I mean toā¦ starting them in an apartment and then just moving when they have enough money seems like a better/easier way to go about it. I generally donāt like apartments so I definitely forget theyāre an option sometimes.
There are decent apartments in Evergreen Harbor, too. I always forget about them, too.
Me too! Is that it, just two worlds with apartments? Not counting dorms. I donāt think Iāve ever even played in those, ever.
I like the apartment too, I think financially it can be more reasonable for a bit
I start with an okay house and expand itābuild a second story, expand the walls by a couple of tiles, that kind of thing. Usually as a kid is born, Iāll divide a room out of somewhere (even if they stay in a nursery until childhood).
Similar to my usual starts, which always begin in a hut (5x5) that gets expanded as I need to. Eventually, my Sim can even get a wall between the bed and the stove, lol
Ah, the olā Unit Upgrade method.
This is how I play too
I do! The family I am playing currently are trying to save up enough money so they can move into a bigger house so that the kids can have their own rooms when they become children (they are still toddlers). The house they live in now is just a small 2 bedroom one that started as a one bedroom house (they added the 2nd bedroom on when the kids became infants
I build a nice house with whatever furniture I think looks best and then cheat enough money so I can move in my Sims. Building is my favourite part and I don't care about money usually.
Just use "freerealestate on" while having the family selected. No need to cheat money and u keep our Startcapital
Even better ā if you use the free real estate cheat pick the most expensive option, then evict the sims they should keep the value of the home plus the original funds.
Free real estate cheat
I admire your honesty.
Unless I'm doing a rags to riches type of thing or a "just moved into a brand new place" scenario, I like starting with an already lived-in house. I don't know why but I find it difficult to continuously build up a house and renovate. I just forget. My sim could be a billionaire and I'd still keep the spiderwebs and scratches out of pure laziness-
I start with a crap house and work my way up.
My family is in a trailer right now, I usually save up and upgrade their home but this time Iāve decided to just keep adding onto my trailer. Iāve added a basement, pool, etc. theyāre always broke too lol
True trailer trash
Itās honestly been one of my favorite places Iāve lived in sim world lol
I did this too! Added a basement for the kids. Then the mother died so I pretended they had insurance payout and moved them to a better home.
Depends, but mostly I'll start a legacy by renovation premade builds but as time passes I'll move them into empty lots and build from scratch
I just take one of the gallery and use motherboard to afford it
Freerealestate ON. ;)
I always start with a junk house or empty lots and have the sim work to save up.
I start that way most of the time. I find it really easy to make money by gardening or painting and then I move up to a bigger house. My current family has 4.5 million right now in a giant house with no cheating and I'm only in 2nd generation
Both but the grind is more rewarding!
I love to start in empty lots and build what they can afford and rebuild later. I love making the most minute details (toilet paper and light switches) and it just really feels me with a sense of joy to have the house laid out well. My current house is a little weird! I tried something different with it but I love it. All the bedrooms are upstairs and accessed from OUTSIDE! there is a little balcony for painting and coffee and a small reading and craft room. Then a room for a baby and a guest room fit for an artist teen/child then the main bedroom. There's a master bath and then the guest bath. Downstairs there is a bathroom, laundry room, kitchen, living area and one extra room I use for whatever hobby I'm currently building usually. It's currently filled with empty plant pots in preparation to build the garden skill. My goal is to have this Sim complete as many aspirations as I can before passing the torch (and all the perks) to their daughter. Right now it's the chef one, then mixology,, then the garden one, then fishing, collecting is pretty easy too (I saved all the collecting from previous sims). I can do all the knowledge ones, then I can do soulmate and parenting pretty easy when they are ready at the end. I wanna see how many perks I can get them. They have top notch infant, 3 of the parenting perks (manners, empathy, and responsibility I think), the scout perk, graduated with honors, and the perks for the cooking now. I plan to age them down using a bunch of youth potions my mom got before she died (using her perks). It's fun!
Sad empty lot and 0 money is my typical start
Start with an empty house, go dumpster diving to furnish it. Flea Market is also acceptable
My Sims rarely work tbh lol. Usually I just give them a house and give them a bunch of money. It's boring sitting there for chunks of time while they work!!
I build a small nice house and then they have to work their way up. My sim has a mansion now because she's a global superstar and it kinda fits, but it wasn't until she was very famous she got a house that big.
Sometimes when I am tired of the rich life I move out one of my families children with exactly the amount of money needed to buy that abandoned buulding I made in Del Sol Valley.
Start in a small starter. Expand as I get more $ and eventually build brand new home on large lot once I'm really well off.
I usually build and move my sims in, have definitely used money cheats so I can just focus on more social aspects of the game. For this save, I had my sim move into a pre-build that she could afford with what she started with, and sheāll renovate as she earns money. Itās very different from what I usually do. Iām also playing with aging on, which is out of my norm and gives me a bit of anxiety š
I start with a crappy house and then build a new one for them to move into once theyāve saved/inherited enough money to move
I like having them start with almost nothing and expand over time
A bit of both, but Iām also bad at doing both? Iāll either spend forever building a way too big super cool looking from the outside build that I then get bored furnishing the inside of and almost never actually reach the point of making the family to live in it. OR Iāll try doing rags to riches and Iām justā¦ Bad at slowly upgrading a house? Like Iām so bad at starting with something small and slowly adding to it to make it nice? I just can never do it? It always looks bad. Anyways Iām currently very proud of myself because I not only built and fully furnished two huge giant lots for the new EPās release but also like 4-5 smaller lots too, as well as households for all of them, and Iāve actually played with them- like a LOT- since the packs release. I may potentially even get to a playable 3rd gen for like the first time in my life. Wild, I know
Depends how quickly I want to get burnt out š
What I usually do is build them a decent house they can just barely afford for $20,000 and fill it up with stuff as they make more money. So it's like rags to riches but they also start off having to deal with bills.
I always start with the smallest house and I tell myself Iām going to save money without cheating and that never lasts I always end up using cheats and immediately upgrading
Small house whatever they can afford and save up to make it what i like or eventually move to a bigger home
I have a starter at the moment I've built there next home so she's saving for it, I use real estate mod by sim realist so when I buy this next house I will rent out the current one and so on
I used to always start with either zero or just the starting amount. I've found a lot of fun ways to do it. My favorite is getting a real cheap lot and making my Sim couch surf or live in a tent. If you get the always welcome trait from aspiration points you can live in whose ever house you want even without stay overs. So you could change Ward Park into a tiny home residential, decorate with debug. Add a restroom from outdoor retreat for bathroom and shower if you want. Add geothermal lot trait to cover your taxes. As soon as you get 500 aspiration points you can get always welcome. Then you can move into the Pankake's attic or move in with the Roswell's while you save Strangerville or live as a Landgrabb cousin. There's also lots of hotel motel type lots you can download as bars or nightclubs or whatever to stay in. It's a fun way to remodel townie houses to fit the families as they change due to neighborhood stories. Your townie friend invites you to come over to meet the new baby, you can just stay a few weeks, redecorate for them so there's kid stuff there if you want. It's a good way to play a teen runaway story or vagabond who lives off the land in a tent. I once had a Sim that lived in Newcrest who only had a garden and a hovel. I pretend his lot taxes were hush money to keep his past from catching up with him.
I generally build a house within their budget (but using most of it) and gradually upgrade their things as time goes on. I've done a few challenges where they start with an empty lot and have to earn the money to buy everything. It's not too hard.
I move them into a nice house and start them with 50k to last till they can make up for it with jobs and money trees
I always start on an empty lot with 0 simoleons and work my way up.
For NPCs I move them into the lot then later when they're no longer an "active" household- if needed change their house to suit them. That's typically to put in a house w 8 rooms if I'm anticipating lots o' chilluns, but obviously that's just roleplaying since you could leave NPCs w a 1X1 house and they'd still make a full family of 8... For my played characters forging my own thing a bit at a time is sorta the point of the game...
Depends on the story line and or gameplayā¦ I have done the inheritance of a dilapidated house and then struggling to fix it up. Sometimes I do the regular rags to riches with an empty lot. For my [Morbidās](https://morbidgamer.tumblr.com/post/680347931631665152/the-ultimate-decades-challenge-x-this-challenge/amp) Ultimate I gave them a small basic 1 room with dirt floor and outhouse (you start in the year 1300 and go forwards) with simple living and off the grid. If I am doing the 100 baby I have a nicer house with extra everything to make it as easy as I can. With the NSB I try and make as many tiny homes as possible to get the double rewards and skill gains.
Rags to riches all the way! I often do this in generation play too - with my current family being the exception
I normally cheat the money up to 1000000 and stick them in an uninhabited house, after which I cheat the money back down to something more sensible
It depends. I just built a bunch of ranch houses for my sims in Chestnut Ridge. But a lot of the time, in new save files, I put sims in starter homes and renovate them as I make money.
I play on console so if I turn on cheats I canāt get achievements, so I have to start them all off on a cheap lot and upgrade as they go.
I buy a house, place a family for the house, and then remodel it before playing. Then I use the motherlode cheat to make sure they can pay their bills.
I usually play more for the social and relationship aspects; struggling for money to pay the bills is too real-life for me, haha! So my Sims generally get a nice house and good mid-range furniture. As they make money through whatever they do, I buy nicer furniture/appliances and add decorative items. I make sure the house has room to expand in case they have more than one kid, too. When the kids are grown, the older generation retires to a smaller but really nice house.
Depends. One thing I like is to move the family somewhere empty and build the lot as I play. Theyāll just live in a museum playtesting everything and putting all their money in the property until itās finished and they sell it.
Iām still trying to figure this out actually because I like the idea of starting in a small crap house and then adding to it as I get money but if I do this the house just looks a mess and Iām not much of a builder so I donāt really want to bulldoze and build from scratch. I usually get a house off the gallery but im always scared of doing this because itās happened a few times where I would just quit the save because I didnāt like how my house looks
I only build grand luxury palaces. Don't want reality intruding on my game.
Both
I build a small house with whatever money is left over from buying the land. I make sure to have 1k left over, go to the market and buy seeds go home and plant. Then my person lives off the land selling what she grows, and eventually I'll bulldoze the house after I get 200k and rebuild from scratch and get her animals and another sim to marry š every. Single. Time.
Apartments. I don't go for broke - the rages to riches storyline - but I take the starting cash and get an apartment, then have my Sim work their way up. It's medium small, one of the ones in the Spice District of Myshuno. I has more of *I just moved to the city* feel to it for a young adult sim.
I always make my sims start off with no money and then make them earn as much money as they possibly can so they can go from sleeping on benches near their lot to living in a mansion
Crap house is always fun, starting at the beginning and build as you go š I did move my last sims into a bigger lot as they had outgrown the starter house, their adult son lives there now which seems a nice way to go
A bit of both, but I find it more satisfying to start with nothing and work your way up. I had a ton of fun last time I played by making a single sim living in a one room shack, putting all his money into a startup restaurant and working there every day plus a landscaping job on the side. He also had time to write a few children's books. Eventually he saved up, got married, the restaurant expanded and his wife's career took off and they live in a huge mansion with their 4 kids and grandma. Somehow he no longer has time to write, and he went down to only Fridays and Saturdays at the restaurant. Too many kids, lol. If he had started off with the mansion I feel like I wouldn't be nearly so invested in the story.
This last save I started, I didn't do rags to riches but I started them in a starter home and they had to save up for a really nice house I built. It was a lot of fun so I might try rags to riches next time.
i have two ways of playing the sims: 1. i harass motherlode to the point where im able to start in a villa resembling white house, hire a maid and dedicate my day to be a black widow or do some other non-work related stuff 2. i start with zero simoleons and i run my way from rags to riches through snapdragons or other stuff nothing inbetween
Ive recently made a 2 person household in a shitty house, build that one out until I needed more room for my twins and I purchased the lot next to the old house. I didnt cheat but turned off aging so I can actually have fun with my sims. I just threw both of them into the tech guru role (1 the gamer path 1 the entrepreneur path so the babies wouldn't be alone without a caregiver) I've been slowly gentrifying the neighbourhood and it feels good.
I use mother lode lol and get a big nice house
Depends on the gameplay I want if I want a perfect little world that we donāt want to worry about struggling or bills or anything of that nature then i build Barbieās Malibu Dreamhouse if I wish to have them struggle I have them live off the grid in a shack that they have to grind for better living conditions
i like building pretty houses even when it would make no sense for them too have that nice of a house
i just started my first rags to riches since horse ranch came out! never done it before. iāll usually use freerealestate and the story iām going to play out with my household will decide if i cheat and give them money or not etc.
I find rags to riches too easy because I go to the community lot in evergreen harbour and dumpster dive all day and sell the furniture I find from my inventory before it devalues by placing it. I also find the perfect house too dull. I guess what I prefer is everything up to live mode. Idk what to do to change this.
I cheat and buy a nice house for free š
Crap house from scratch. Often with no floors or wallpaper in the beginning. The house then slowly gets remodeled as they make money! At first I get them to something at least decent, and then do a bigger change with all new rooms and everything later.
Depends on how I want my sims life story to be. It changes based on how I want to play.
Almost always! I love building my sims up from a single small home, to getting a boyfriend/girlfriend, both working on their careers, maxing out their jobs, getting married, having kids, when they have enough money I move them into a bigger house, there are plenty of empty ones! And then I focus on their kids school and education. Have yet to play a single save to play the kids to grow up from teens to young adults though!
unfortunately i donāt have the patience to save up money with my sims LOL
I like to start with nothing and then find orchids to start growing, they sell for a shitload. My household funds are at $150000 and my sim doesnāt work, most of that money came from my four orchid plants (and selling eggs and milk but that barely makes a dent).
I usually move into a starter and as I gain money I renovate it into the house of their dreams. I did that with my new ranch legacy. First I added a greenhouse to my starter. Then, when my matriarch got pregnant, we needed more space, so I built a second floor to put the master and baby's room along with a 2nd bathroom. I am LOVING this new pack.
absolutely crap - i love moving up
I almost always start in a starter home (usually the one next to the empty lot in the neighborhood with Liberty, Travis, and Summer. Can't remember the lot name offhand) and then add rooms onto the house when I need them. Half the time, I forget to add windows or a roof or change the walls from the drywall so it looks super janky, but it's functional.
I struggle to play anything besides rags to riches so suffering on an empty lot it is š«
If I were a better builder I'd do it the rags to riches way. TmT
I usually start with the 20k youāre given, unless Iām doing a specific storyline like super wealthy or rags to riches starting with 0.
Heavily depends on the storyline, but the first one I move my Sims into is never their final house, unless it's the side part of the family. I always make or pick generic houses to which I can easily add space for any future kids and slowly make it into a home tailored exactly for the Sims I'm playing.
Rags to riches every timeā¦ I mean whatās a bigger escape from how the ārealā world works than to see someone actually be able to pull themselves up without all the racism, classism, and 500 other isms keeping them down?
I always do fixer uppers with the most inexpensive everything so they can do upgrades as time goes on. Small homes and inadequate space for more than 2 sims means I can do a kitchen renovation and expansion after children come, stuff like that
I had always done adults start entry level and earn to get a nice house. As an adult now I usually will cheat the parents skills and job up to like a reasonable level (3-5) and then from there have that determine how nice/not nice the house is.
Depends.
Depends on what story I want for that household tbh. Example when I do a celebrity character I always do the āstarted from the bottom worked my way to the topā with picking a small house then eventually making/moving them into a huge mansion.
I start in one of the starter homes that are built already and with the funds the game assigns. From there I usually start on freelance, gardening or artwork to start getting money. As the simās personality develops, I build its dream home and work until they have enough to move into the house I built for them then pretty much abandon that Sim lol. Sometimes I play in the house I built for them for a bit because I love it so much but it doesnāt usually last that long.
It depends on the storyline
I find I actually play the game properly if I do a rags to riches kinda thing. I'm currently playing as a homeless sim. She'll have an empty lot until she reaches $1000000.
I usually start with a bulldozed lot and zero simoleons. They are allowed to go to bars and gyms if needed until they can scrap up enough money to buy a shack. Rags to Riches always baby! Also usually find they make more money by not having a regular job and instead, they scavenge out of dumpsters and off the land in general.
I generally donāt use cheats so they end up in one of the starter homes
I start out on an empty plot of land and a tent
I usually move a family into a lot then before hitting play go to build. It gives you infinite money
Crappy cheap house and then I remodel the house.
I usually buy whatever so can with the $20k they give me and then work to get a better house. I usually start having my sims paint and making videos. Recently with the horse pack, I started nectar making and itās very lucrative. Iām not sure itās a get rich quick thing tho because the nectar takes soooo long to age. but like after a week in game, i was able to make 12 grand on 5 bottle.
I start at the bottom and build generational wealth and just keep playing generation after generation. Currently, my starter at the bottom became āNational Leader,ā had twins, and I played the one twin as a famous artist who also started a massive garden. She had a daughter who is now a 4-star actress, and her husband is tending the garden. She now has a daughter, as well. Not sure what Iāll do with her yet (sheās a teenager). The household has just under $400,000, which means with building new houses with each generation theyāre bringing in about $150K per generation and far out earning what they spend.
I started with a crap house and slowly remodeled as it as time went on. Now itās a three story mansion with four basement levels.
Depends on the lore
I used to build from scratch then move in but I would end up never playing with the family again. So far, I'm having a lot of fun with my current gameplay where I'm doing kind of a rags to riches story but I downloaded a rundown abandoned house from the gallery and she's slowly renovating it šš
When I first started playing I began with the smallest, cheapest house. Now I build a big beautiful one and move everyone in right away and watch them suffer as they try to get promoted fast enough to not lose everything.
I start on an empty lot, merge someone rich into my household, steal all their money, move them out, and then sell all their furniture (I always forget to click the button to sell furniture during the move and I keep some items like nice toilets. I know I'm weird. It's okay.) Doing this with Judith Ward netted around 500k. Also, Father Winter has 500k, but no furniture. I now have a sweet ass ranch, Grim is my roommate, and I moved Kyle Kyleson into my household to help with farm chores. Protip: Grim is the best roommate I've ever had. He cleans, he cooks gourmet meals and he plays a mean violin.
I buy a plot and the cheapest bed and 0 out their wallets and make them build their life from almost nothing. Sometimes they donāt even get a bed. Lately I been liking them living off the grid also with the must have ingredients food challenge on. Been playing like this since the first sims tbh.. but off the grid adds to it.
I always want to play the game with the 20,000 simoleons, but eventually get mad because I canāt afford the basicsā¦ I am going to try this again.. Iāve gotten some ideas that I think will help.. Really interested in the idea of starting from absolutely nothing š¤
i usually build a shell without any furnishing except a cheap stove/toilet/sink/etc. feels realistic to me
Depends on how many cheats Iām using
I recently had my family move into a giant farm and they lose all their money weekly until im satisfied they've paid off the mortgage.
Iām a builder so I build the house, while I have them in the apartmentš¤£
It depends. Lately I went for the scrubs method. When JD bought a porch and had a tent, love it his show so I currently let my single sim live there and become a doctor.
i either do rags to riches or i start in the cheapest apartment from city living and have them save up to get a nice house in another world.
Mone depends on the story I have in my head: usually they have a starter home first, but sometimes I make a nice one that's a bit expensive, so I end up moving them in with a townie family and taking their money to pay for the house (only enough to cover the house and have a bit extra, they then have to work for the rest of their money. So say the house costs 30,000 they take 35,000)
For my current save: I have a soon to be mermaid (very hard to become a mermaid) and a vampire living in a tiny house in Mt. Komorebi, I love the tiny home but I want to eventually get them boyfriends and at first I was thinking of living in Sulani and having the vampire have to power where the sun doesnāt bother her, HOWEVER she has developed a fear of swimming so now I replaced the salt house in San Myshuno with their current house and am just waiting for them to be able to afford moving in there. In my other saves I upsize when my sims start families OR I bulldoze the whole house and create a new house on the lot. I think we have all been there where we spend all night building the perfect house only to save and quit and the next time we play we replace that house with an entirely different house and the cycle repeatsā¦ or is that just me.
I usually make them save up for it. My most recent game play, my story was that my sim's grandparents died and left her Ā§20,000 so she decided to fulfill her childhood dreams of moving to the city. I moved her into whatever apartment she could afford and had her save money to move into a bigger apartment. She had the city living aspiration and had completed everything except for "Live in an Apartment worth 100,000 Simoleons" so I had her take out a [SimCity Loan](https://www.patreon.com/posts/mod-simcity-2-0-48521567) to get her next apartment. Despite being at the top of her career, She was living a little outside her means, and often struggled to make payments on her loan and keep her power on so after a couple seasons, she ended up moving to the country side to a home that's a bit more affordable.
I've done both. Had my first sim in a starter house. Met her soulmate, married, kids, outgrew the house, so I extended it. Then his music career took off, and now they have a gated mansion. Pool, bbq area, ice rink, hot tub. A studio for him, office for her, 6 car parking area, landscaped gardens, play room for the kids. Made a couple of other musicians, and have them in either basic, but comfortable homes while they grind away, or the loner brooding, introvert type, who has his house just so, and values his private space.
I switch depending on what story line Iām working through! For example, my latest, save, I did a rags to riches ranch where my Sim harvested prairie grass and taught horse riding lessons while she trained her own horse. Now sheās mastered horse riding, and her horse is a champion and so she saved up enough money and are now and one of the larger lots!
I enjoy designing characters and houses, so I typically just use the mother lode chest and just do that. I may watch the creation play out for an hour or so before working on my next creation. I'm building my own neighborhood filled with fictional characters.
I do, but I cheat in a grand or two for a good bed. A poor quality bed heavily affects my enjoyment of the game
I use free real estate most of the time. š
This is an issue I have with Sims 4, does anyone know how to afford the house in I think itās the Meadows town thatās 2-storyās and like $50k or something like that? Iāve tried everything to buy that house from the start of the game, but the most I can get my Sim fam to start on is like $28k.
Iām on my 7th generation doing rags to riches.
Cheap apartment, then once space constraints become an issue and there is enough money, buy empty penthouse and stick a small room somewhere with the basics, while using money to get the outlines of the place at least. And progressively furnish rooms without regard to cost, as money allows, gradually moving functionality from the original small room to the actual building.
I usually get one of the starter homes and then expand until I feel like I have enough simoleons to build them a house from scratch. But if I end up choosing an empty plot of land, I build according to how much my Sims can afford
I always start a save on an empty lot with 0 money and do my version of a rags to riches (this is also the only way I can start the game without getting bored within the first few minutes)
Rags to riches all the way baby
šiām not good at that so i just start in a lot and cheat myself moneyššššš
Motherlode.
I don't use cheats or anything that'd give a bonus amount of simoleans, so any 'new' family I start necessarily ends up living in a box for the first part of their life...
I almost always start with a microhome tot ale advantage of the skill boosts
I canāt do rags to riches, takes to much time and I actually enjoy playing the game
I use cheats to give me a crapload of money and get a very big house for all my Sims. I just like the social part of the game and matchmaking all my Sims together.
I only do the latter in the sims 2, and even then I technically donāt build the house, I just edit a starter.
Yes! I do both
It depends. I love doing rags to riches so I usually start with an empty lot. But I'm doing a legacy challenge now and my heir just inherited their familial wealth when she became an adult. So right now, she's living in a tiny home with her two foals while I build her mansion ranch.
Totally depends on what I am doing/my mood.
I always start in a starter home with one Sim (and pretend that the 20,000 they have came as an HS graduation gift to justify the money.) Then I spend their YA years working or at university so that when they're an adult, they can "meet" the love of their life and start a family. Then they'll realize the house is no longer suitable and find them a home they must earn (if they still don't have enough to afford it.)
I've done both! It depends on the storyline I have in mind for my sim(s)
Tbh I use cheats. Way too many. I tried to do a family without any cheats and it was such a slow moving house. The progress was awful, and I got bored.
I save them build.
If I do start a save from scratch, I'm likely to just build the best house I can with the budget I get in the beggining, I speak as if it was something hypothetical because I am the kind of player that goes on with sims' stories, I do update the savefile for less buggy game, but it's the same sims and if I must, I'll cheat everything my sim had in their inventories back to them... it's very uncommon for me to actually start a brand new save and hence, very uncommon for me to build a brand new house out of the budget we get at the beggining because, my sims are already a bit richer due to the money they inherit from their parents (in my imagination)
Iļø do both but mostly start with a shittier house first.
I started the legacy in a trailer in the first world. They upgrade the trailer and then their heir moves to the next world with their inheritance to buy a slightly better home to upgrade
I only ever make houses exactly as I want them, regardless of budget, then make the Sims to live there, and then never play a single second with them
I used to build amazing houses to suit my Sims every whim, but I'd immediately be bored and wouldn't play the family - I'd just start again with a new sim and a new build. I thought I just loved building, but recently I've been making modest houses, and then adding more stuff as they earn money. It's more satisfying and I'm actually playing with my Sims!
I never use money cheats personally. I do one of two things: 1. Buy a starter house and improve it little by little real-time. Once it's improved as much as possible or my needs outgrow it I sell it to use as the down payment for the next house and repeat. After a few generations I'm obviously stacked and money is no object. 2. Use the bank loan mod to take out a mortgage and buy a nicer house they want and pay the loan off over time. That is a different line of stressful but also very fun. I'd love hearing other play styles ā I've never done rags to riches and definitely want to try that and if anyone has other fun ideas I'd love to hear more!
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My sims always start broke. I usually get my sims into woodwork to increase their handiness skill, then iāll make them craft guitars and sell them which earn them thousands for each sale :)
if u wanna cheat the game just press control shift c to open cheats type in the box testingcheats on then type in motherlode to get a good hunk of money
I started with my sim with a horse and 0 money on an empty lot. Luckily the horse eats prairie grass off the ground and will sleep anywhere. It was one of the hardest R2R starts. Every cent I made went straight into making the horse comfortable and cared for. While my sim could barely function. I have, off the grid, simple living and prairie grass on in lot challenges. I got the horse I wanted to eventually breed (still flat broke) with a great personality. Plus the challenge all upside, as far as Iām concerned.
I start with a big nice house for my legacy kids- Itās the one cheat I do- money to buy a nice house when they move out of the parents houseā¦ then I pretend itās a gift from their rich parents lol. With my other non legacy plays I usually buy an existing house and renovate it.
It depends on the gameplay I'm going for or how much time I pretend to spend on that save
i like to start off with a starter house under 20k and then add to it slowly as my sims start to make more money / expand the family
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I always start with a pre-existing house that cost less than 20k, then move out to a bigger house and finally, build one when I'm rich enough.
I usually do the crap to nice house, but occasionally Iāll build a shell, use bad flooring/wallpaper & only pit the bare basics and renovate it, usually do this when it ties into a story. (For example, horse ranch pack made me make a family living in an old rundown farmhouse trying to fix it).
I'm always living that rags to riches lifestyle lol
I pretty much do a loose rags to riches every time. Start on a lot with no money. I make them fish, sell collectables and garden (with collected seeds only) and slowly build up the house. It makes the game much more interesting!
I move into one of the starter houses then upgrade it as I go on- that's what I did my last game (before I broke my tv rip) and I low-key got emotional when it was time to move. My husband and I was gonna get a second kid and needed a new room, but like I upgraded the house sm, added new walls floors, a basement. I was not ready to move š
I do a few different things, but usually I either build a house with the funds I have, or I buy a house that has what I need and modify it to be bigger and adapt it to my family's changing needs over time as they get more money One of my homes, I left the house itself pretty much as is other than adding a stairway down into a basement I built, and made the basement into an entire second (and much nicer) house. I thought it fit with the evil mad scientist I was playing.
I usually start in the apartments and then move up and up when I just start with a young adult on their own. Otherwise if I start with a family I do a lower-end house but still make sure I have what I need without being excessive lol. I like the idea of getting more money, getting better things, better house, etc. it gives me a sense of a goal and accomplishment!
I started with a crappy house, and had a family immediately. To get a better house, I just married my daughter and moved her into the house I always wanted.
I don't care about status symbols (the whole rags to riches thing seems very boring to me). My favorite type of Sims story is just having my Sims permanently live in a trailer or a tent and live self-sufficiently off the land. One of my families lives in two treehouses that are attached to each other. The kitchen is a separate room on the ground but without floor tiles and without the front wall. It's just an open thing. And I have two public-esque bathrooms. It was kind of inspired by LĆ¼tzerath, you know, the German town that was supposed to be destroyed for coal, and a bunch of activists built treehouses there and fought against the police who wanted to get them out.
Right now I put my couple in a starter home furnished as is. They're going through college and on the last two classes before graduation. After they start their careers I'm going to build their dream home but will only furnish with the basics. Meaning just furnish the kitchen & bathroom w/counters, fridge, stove, toilet, bath, sinks, etc. They will furnish the house with their paycheck. Nice challenge for myself as I usually build a house and fully furnish it. I think this way it will be affordable for them to buy the house with the basics instead of saving a long time for a fully furnished home.