Anyone play the lotto?

Piperbird

I normally do not use money cheats in my game, but I was thinking of introducing a lottery drawing. Each week, I could subtract $10 from my Sim, write down a number between 1 - 100, and roll a d100 generator. If I guess correctly, my Sim wins lots of money.

Does anyone else do anything like this?

Here is a link to the generator, you have to change the last die to the 100.
https://www.wizards.com/d20modern/d20mdice/dice.htm

TheGoodOldGamer

The Sims 1 had a small slot machine you could set on a table for the Sims to play. I don't remember how much it paid out, but something similar would be nice for Sims 4.

Anytime I've used the money cheats, I always have a backstory in my head that the Sim(s) received an inheritence from a deceased family member.

ChelleJo

To make it more realistic you could use random.org and make the number 1-10,000 or something. But that is a fun idea. I might introduce the lottery into my "just for fun" game.

SimsFur

in ts3 they had lotto as well. with new year i bought a ticket sometime. I would still feel theres something missing when i just use a cheat. i think its a nice little feature they could add, maybe with a new years patch??

ebuchala

SimsFur wrote: »

in ts3 they had lotto as well. with new year i bought a ticket sometime. I would still feel theres something missing when i just use a cheat. i think its a nice little feature they could add, maybe with a new years patch??

And if you got Into the Future, you could find out the winning numbers, go back to the past and use that to win. I did that a couple of times.

Piperbird

I don't remember a lotto in TS3! That's awesome, how did it work? What pack was it from?

SimsFur

ebuchala wrote: »

SimsFur wrote: »

in ts3 they had lotto as well. with new year i bought a ticket sometime. I would still feel theres something missing when i just use a cheat. i think its a nice little feature they could add, maybe with a new years patch??

And if you got Into the Future, you could find out the winning numbers, go back to the past and use that to win. I did that a couple of times.

really? funny.
I didnt play with into the future much, cause i thought it was a bit strange. I only liked the big windows and the modern objects we got with them. Not the hight tech alien like ones.
I was also too busy with ts4 at that time probably to still enjoy the sims 3 and its last expansions. Now i wished i waited longer to start playing with ts4 since it was s disappointing

SimsFur

ebuchala wrote: »

SimsFur wrote: »

in ts3 they had lotto as well. with new year i bought a ticket sometime. I would still feel theres something missing when i just use a cheat. i think its a nice little feature they could add, maybe with a new years patch??

And if you got Into the Future, you could find out the winning numbers, go back to the past and use that to win. I did that a couple of times.

really? funny.
I didnt play with into the future much, cause i thought it was a bit strange. I only liked the big windows and the modern objects we got with them. Not the hight tech alien like ones.
I was also too busy with ts4 at that time probably to still enjoy the sims 3 and its last expansions. Now i wished i waited longer to start playing with ts4 since it was s disappointing

KatsKats

SimsFur wrote: »

ebuchala wrote: »

SimsFur wrote: »

in ts3 they had lotto as well. with new year i bought a ticket sometime. I would still feel theres something missing when i just use a cheat. i think its a nice little feature they could add, maybe with a new years patch??

And if you got Into the Future, you could find out the winning numbers, go back to the past and use that to win. I did that a couple of times.

really? funny.
I didnt play with into the future much, cause i thought it was a bit strange. I only liked the big windows and the modern objects we got with them. Not the hight tech alien like ones.
I was also too busy with ts4 at that time probably to still enjoy the sims 3 and its last expansions. Now i wished i waited longer to start playing with ts4 since it was s disappointing

I believe the lotto came with Into the Future. You could go to the grocery store and buy a ticket. To increase your odds of winning you could go to the future, go into the building at the end of the strip (I can't remember the name of it but I think it's where you also can set the fireworks. City Hall Maybe.) You get the option of checking winning lottery numbers. You may have to try several times, because you don't always get them right off. Then go back to your hometown, buy the ticket and you can win a ton of Simoleons. Sometimes you only get a small amount, sometimes it's a lot.

Sigzy05

Piperbird wrote: »

I normally do not use money cheats in my game, but I was thinking of introducing a lottery drawing. Each week, I could subtract $10 from my Sim, write down a number between 1 - 100, and roll a d100 generator. If I guess correctly, my Sim wins lots of money.

Does anyone else do anything like this?

Here is a link to the generator, you have to change the last die to the 100.
https://www.wizards.com/d20modern/d20mdice/dice.htm

I don't do it but's a fun idea! I wish we had lotto in TS4 like we had in TS3 Into the Future. I'd also like casinos back.

Piperbird

Gotcha, I purchased Into the Future, but was still playing with Island and University, so I never actually got around to installing it. I am replaying TS3, installing the packs one by one when I feel I have played everything I can with the previous one. It will probably be years before I get to ITF!

IceyJ

I've used Scumbumbo's lotto mod in the past and it was okay. I didn't like that the numbers were drawn instantly. I wanted to find out if my sim won later in the day, like it was in Into the Future.

Piperbird

That's why using the dice generator is nice. You can decide exactly how you want your lotto to work. Maybe if you roll a 100 you get a small prize, but if you roll your guessed number you get a large one. You could even roll a number instead of choosing one, then roll a second time to see if you get it again. Or if that is too easy for you, choose several numbers, like a real lottery does. Completely under your control!

blewis823

Scumbumbo? I think that's the modder's name, has a lotto mod connected to the computer and I dabble in it from time to time. Lots of times there is no winnings and sometimes my sims may win $300-1k simoleons. Once my sim won 15k which was exciting. The mod came in different flavors and I used the higher odds, more realistic to real life. I think the mod may need updating, I haven't checked on it lately. It's at MTS.

Writin_Reg

Sims 3 actually has a lottery ticket Sims can win if you have ITF. My sims win that from time to time. They were able to buy a ticket at the Sims store. Plus they could also save money for the future in Sims 3 via the town hall but again you have to have ITF.

Maybe if someone ( a modder) can adapt those systems programming for Sims 4 - you could get that in game.

ebuchala

SimsFur wrote: »

ebuchala wrote: »

SimsFur wrote: »

in ts3 they had lotto as well. with new year i bought a ticket sometime. I would still feel theres something missing when i just use a cheat. i think its a nice little feature they could add, maybe with a new years patch??

And if you got Into the Future, you could find out the winning numbers, go back to the past and use that to win. I did that a couple of times.

really? funny.
I didnt play with into the future much, cause i thought it was a bit strange. I only liked the big windows and the modern objects we got with them. Not the hight tech alien like ones.
I was also too busy with ts4 at that time probably to still enjoy the sims 3 and its last expansions. Now i wished i waited longer to start playing with ts4 since it was s disappointing

I really liked Into the Future. Played it quite a bit. There were all sorts of interesting things related to it--you could alter your Sim's past, ruin the city's future or make it a utopia by doing certain things in the future. For a sci-fi lover, it was pretty awesome, really.

ebuchala

Piperbird wrote: »

Gotcha, I purchased Into the Future, but was still playing with Island and University, so I never actually got around to installing it. I am replaying TS3, installing the packs one by one when I feel I have played everything I can with the previous one. It will probably be years before I get to ITF!

I really wanted to like Island Paradise. Really. But it was soooo buggy on my game. Of course, I think I had all of the xpacks installed at the time, but it lagged so awfully in my game, I could hardly do anything.

fullspiral

I am the God of my game. Everybody wins the lottery!

TheGoodOldGamer

The only time I saw someone play with the future dlc of the Sims 3, they'd hop into the future, sell every single thing they could for money, then come back home rich lol. Apparently whether your Sims owned the lots or not it was irrelevant in at least that future world.

ebuchala

TheGoodOldGamer wrote: »

The only time I saw someone play with the future dlc of the Sims 3, they'd hop into the future, sell every single thing they could for money, then come back home rich lol. Apparently whether your Sims owned the lots or not it was irrelevant in at least that future world.

If I'm following you, I think you mean, they would pick the future stuff up, put it in their inventory and then sell it off for the simoleans? If so, then yeah, you could do that. The first future you go to is pretty Utopian--things are very pleasant, everything looks pretty and bright, and pretty much all the objects can be taken by anyone. So you can take a futuristic computer and sell it, then just pick up another one for your use somewhere else. Same with hoverboards, those silly little digital pets, etc. So, I guess that's one way to make a bunch of money.

Piperbird

ebuchala wrote: »

Piperbird wrote: »

Gotcha, I purchased Into the Future, but was still playing with Island and University, so I never actually got around to installing it. I am replaying TS3, installing the packs one by one when I feel I have played everything I can with the previous one. It will probably be years before I get to ITF!

I really wanted to like Island Paradise. Really. But it was soooo buggy on my game. Of course, I think I had all of the xpacks installed at the time, but it lagged so awfully in my game, I could hardly do anything.

Same for me. I never had any of the glitches or problems with TS3 that other people talked about - until installing IP. Then it lagged very badly. I also had every previous pack installed at that point, so that may have contributed to it. The routing was also terrible, I remember it took forever to get anywhere.

Zeldaboy180

SimsFur wrote: »

in ts3 they had lotto as well. with new year i bought a ticket sometime. I would still feel theres something missing when i just use a cheat. i think its a nice little feature they could add, maybe with a new years patch??

Yeah and Into the future added a feature to where you could dig up old winning records.

ebuchala

Piperbird wrote: »

ebuchala wrote: »

Piperbird wrote: »

Gotcha, I purchased Into the Future, but was still playing with Island and University, so I never actually got around to installing it. I am replaying TS3, installing the packs one by one when I feel I have played everything I can with the previous one. It will probably be years before I get to ITF!

I really wanted to like Island Paradise. Really. But it was soooo buggy on my game. Of course, I think I had all of the xpacks installed at the time, but it lagged so awfully in my game, I could hardly do anything.

Same for me. I never had any of the glitches or problems with TS3 that other people talked about - until installing IP. Then it lagged very badly. I also had every previous pack installed at that point, so that may have contributed to it. The routing was also terrible, I remember it took forever to get anywhere.

I had some regular issues come up with TS3--some lagging, some bugginess, and rendering lots was incredibly slow sometimes, especially with how much I used CASt, particularly with my Architect sim. But IP was a special kind of buggy. XD I made this gorgeous houseboat and so wanted to play on it, wanted to find the mermaids, and do all the fun promoted stuff but I just couldn't handle how much lag there was. I heard there was a work-around. Something to do with deleting all the houseboats but yours, but I never bothered. The last time I played it, I would cue 3 or 4 things up for my sim to do and my game would freeze for 3 seconds between every activity. I just removed IP and went back to my other xpacks that worked.