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What's up with the crazy bills?
earthgirl
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Ok, I believe this came with the latest patch.
When I bought Seasons and played a family with this EP for the first time, had a thermostat set on for the entire winter and the bills, while they were higher, were still affordable (something like 3k as opposed to 1,5k or something like that)
This morning I played this same family in a different house, not a huge house mind you, and I only set the thermostat on for 1 day during freezing weather. The bills came and I had I had like... 14k to pay!!! In this house the bills are less than 3k, normally.
Imagine playing a poorer family who can't afford to pay bills, let alone warm themselves when it's freezing.
I know gas bills are typically higher in winter irl, but this is ridiculous.
When I bought Seasons and played a family with this EP for the first time, had a thermostat set on for the entire winter and the bills, while they were higher, were still affordable (something like 3k as opposed to 1,5k or something like that)
This morning I played this same family in a different house, not a huge house mind you, and I only set the thermostat on for 1 day during freezing weather. The bills came and I had I had like... 14k to pay!!! In this house the bills are less than 3k, normally.
Imagine playing a poorer family who can't afford to pay bills, let alone warm themselves when it's freezing.
I know gas bills are typically higher in winter irl, but this is ridiculous.
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I don't know about that. I had stuff in my family inventory before I moved as well and when I changed houses, I sold the furniture so that I could move another family there from my gallery and start anew with my legacy. As long as something is not on the lot, it shouldn't charge the bill since it's not used. I don't have much, except for some holiday decorations and crops. I sold all the career rewards in order to afford the bill.
It's like paying 10cents monthly for a cup that I bought for 2$ and I have to pay taxes for every object I own regardless of me using it or not. Doesn't make any sense.
How do you do that? o.o
I agree that it shouldn't, but that's what it does. The game mechanics total up everything in both the household and all personal inventories as counting toward bills. I was just watching English Simmer's new rags to riches let's play and she had $2000 bills for a nearly empty lot---turns out, her household inventory was full of stuff and that's what the calculation was based on.