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Rags to Riches Mega Challenge ~ UPDATED ~
SimishGamer1
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Rags to Riches Mega Challenge
Are you prepared to do whatever it takes to completely change your sims lifestyle to get them from living in rags, all the way to riches? In this challenge you will find a creative twist on raising to the top. You will also be able to customize most aspects of it to fit your gameplay style in hopes that you don’t feel too stifled by the bulk that sometimes can be overwhelming in challenges like this. Below you will find that some aspects of this challenge are similar to the original but I have since edited it to hopefully be a little less daunting.
In the Rags to Riches Mega Challenge you will have main goals to complete and inside of those goals are steps you must finish before you can start it. In the edited version of this challenge I made optional goals. You no longer are forced to have a family, or get married, or work a traditional job. You can customize the optional challenges based on if you have the packs for them or if that type of gameplay even fits your style. This challenge may look a bit daunting but when you take into consideration that most of the information here are optional goals you can choose to add, it becomes much simpler.
Below you will find that this challenge is broken up into multiple posts to make it a bit easier for you to pinpoint exactly what you are looking for.
This is a bit of the backstory on why this challenge was created. Completely optional to read, feel free to ignore it.
Hello there, I am SimishGamer also known as LadyAlitear on some platforms. I created The Sims 4 Rags to Riches Mega Challenge back in 2017. At the time I had been doing the basic Rags to Riches challenges and hadn’t completed it a single time because I kept losing interest in the middle of it. I had decided one day to go through the forums and look for a new challenge. I scrolled for hours and liked some aspects of other challenges but to be honest none fit how I wanted to play. So I sat down with a pen and paper and decided that I was going to write out a challenge I wanted to play. When I made the original version of R2RMC it was back before Get to Work came out. I edited it to include some of that a while later but then I completely forgot about my challenge.
Years later in 2021 I was part of a streaming community and one of the girls was doing a Rags to Riches challenge on her stream. It seemed familiar to me and I had her post the link. Funny enough that link led me right back to my own page. I quickly read through it since I had forgotten most of the information in it and realized that it was massively outdated and was shaped to fit how I play The Sims. Now, at the time I had not expected that in those few years that I forgot about R2RMC, that it would get as popular as it did. I came back to people asking lots of questions and wanting more out of the challenge since it was so outdated.
It is now 2023 and I have realized even more that with the changes I made in the challenge with the updated post, that it is still structured to fit my gameplay style. I am currently working on restructuring both the main goals and the optional ones. I am also trying to add more onto the optional section as packs continue to be released for the game. I am attempting to rectify some of the questions or things that don’t quite make so much sense to some people. So please if you have any questions or suggestions throw them my way. I am more than happy to answer them.
I would love to see everyone's progress as they go through the challenge! If you have a blog or YouTube channel please share the link and I will put them under this spoiler.
Years later in 2021 I was part of a streaming community and one of the girls was doing a Rags to Riches challenge on her stream. It seemed familiar to me and I had her post the link. Funny enough that link led me right back to my own page. I quickly read through it since I had forgotten most of the information in it and realized that it was massively outdated and was shaped to fit how I play The Sims. Now, at the time I had not expected that in those few years that I forgot about R2RMC, that it would get as popular as it did. I came back to people asking lots of questions and wanting more out of the challenge since it was so outdated.
It is now 2023 and I have realized even more that with the changes I made in the challenge with the updated post, that it is still structured to fit my gameplay style. I am currently working on restructuring both the main goals and the optional ones. I am also trying to add more onto the optional section as packs continue to be released for the game. I am attempting to rectify some of the questions or things that don’t quite make so much sense to some people. So please if you have any questions or suggestions throw them my way. I am more than happy to answer them.
Introduction - Challenge Information and Rules - Main Goals - Optional Goals - Helpful Hints
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In this challenge there will be mandatory steps to complete for almost every goal. You must complete these steps before you can take on the bigger goal. Some of the goals will require you finishing others before you may begin them. There is also a list of optional goals for you to pick and choose from to go along with the main challenge but there are some mandatory steps to those as well.
Cheats and Mods
Cheating is not allowed unless it is to reset your sim, take away your money, or allow you to move objects
You may use mods that do not make the game easier for you. If you have a mod that does change gameplay, just make sure to not take advantage of it to get further in the challenge.
Getting Started
Making Money Limitations
Introduction - Challenge Information and Rules - Main Goals - Optional Goals - Helpful Hints
Have a fully furnished home
- At least 3 Bedrooms.
- A Kitchen.
- A dining room.
- At least 2 Bathrooms.
- A family or living room.
- A study with at least one computer.
- An outdoor garden. (If you are using city living you must have a penthouse to achieve this goal)
- A pool.
Mandatory Steps to complete before Building a HomeOutdoor Building
- Have at least one small area outside for your sims to spend their down time.
Mandatory steps to complete before outdoor building.Get a Job
Congratulations you can get your first job!
- Choose any part time job you would like.
Mandatory Steps to complete before getting a jobGo to College
If you don’t own the university expansion pack don’t worry. In that case just spend $2,000 dollars for the degree and you are done. This amount was chosen by how much each class is in university and a little bit of money off .
If you have university, please don’t skip these steps.
- You may apply for one student loan and get accepted. If you don’t get the first one you can apply again for a different type of loan.
- Apply for the school of your choosing and any degree you want.
- You may take only 3 classes each semester that can be 2 regular and one elective or all 3 normal classes.
- Graduate from college and earn your degree to complete this challenge.
Mandatory steps to complete before going to universityHave a lifetime career
- Pick any career of your choosing, this may include stay at home jobs, jobs you go to the site to complete and any of the businesses you can own.
- Earn the Entrepreneurial lifetime reward.
- Reach level 10 of the career branch of your choosing/Or if you are running your own business earn $500,000 with your business and have your employees be fully trained.
Mandatory steps to complete before getting a careerAspirations Goal
Reach Riches
Introduction - Challenge Information and Rules - Main Goals - Optional Goals - Helpful Hints
For more of a challenge you can add any or all of these to your list of goals to complete.
Get Married
If you wish for your sim to settle down and have a spouse, there are a few things you need to do.
Have a family
Best Friend
If you want to have a truly fulfilling friendship and have a sim be your true bff you must complete these steps.
- Invite your friend to your lot 5 times
- Watch TV with your friend for 10 hours
- Spend time at 5 different lots in town with your friend.
Other Expansion OptionsPet Palace
Cottage Living Challenge
- Set the lot challenge to simple living, you cannot remove this after it is enabled.
- Have at least one animal of each type
- You must befriend the animals you have
- Participate in a fair
- Grow at least one large crop to full size
Mandatory steps to complete before taking on this challengeStar Struck
Seasoned Vacationer
Lusty Lover
Night Life
Zen for Happiness
Introduction - Challenge Information and Rules - Main Goals - Optional Goals - Helpful Hints
Taking Away Money
Press Ctrl + Shift + C to gain access to the cheat bar, type in testingcheats on and then hit enter. Open the cheat bar again and enter money 0 and hit enter again, this will take away all of your money. When you are completing a mandatory step and you have to pay money before you can complete it use this step. For example: you have $1075 and you need to pay $500 for blueprints use the cheat and set your money to $575 and you have no bought your blue print.
Making Money
The options listed below seem to be what people think are the best ways to make money without having a career.
• Gardening (You can’t use seeds on your own lot but there are plenty of places around town that you can harvest plans from.)
• Painting (Find a lot with an easel and begin painting. If you can’t find an easel around town anywhere I suggest placing one in the park or on another public lot.)
• Writing (The library has full access to computers.)
• Programing (I’m not sure if you can do this on a public lot but if you are not allowed to, this would be a good way to make money once you have a home but no job yet.)
• Comedy (People say that this isn’t the fastest way to make money but it might help with this challenge. The nightclub has a mic stand that you can use.)
• Musical Instruments (You can make tips by playing the instruments provided for you in town or buy your own once you have built your starter home.)
• Collecting (When I started this challenge myself collecting was a major factor for me in the beginning. I sold the items I found and made some pretty good money off of it.)
• Video Gaming (Isn’t the most profitable earning system but you can still make some money off of playing games.)
Introduction - Challenge Information and Rules - Main Goals - Optional Goals - Helpful Hints
This would be considered outdoor building so you would need to complete Outdoor Building
before you can use this on your home lot.
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> Making Money
> The options listed below seem to be what people think are the best ways to make money without having a career.
> • Painting (Find a lot with an easel and begin painting. If you can’t find an easel around town anywhere I suggest placing one in the park or on another public lot.)
> • Writing (The library has full access to computers.)
I like this challenge, but I'm a little confused about how to make money before getting a career. In this post, you mention making money from selling paintings or writing, but in the rules, we can't make money this way unless we're in that career field. But then there's also a rule that says that we can't keep the money for these things until we've completed all the main goals. Could you clarify.
> > @SimishGamer1 said:
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> > Making Money
> > The options listed below seem to be what people think are the best ways to make money without having a career.
> > • Painting (Find a lot with an easel and begin painting. If you can’t find an easel around town anywhere I suggest placing one in the park or on another public lot.)
> > • Writing (The library has full access to computers.)
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> I like this challenge, but I'm a little confused about how to make money before getting a career. In this post, you mention making money from selling paintings or writing, but in the rules, we can't make money this way unless we're in that career field. But then there's also a rule that says that we can't keep the money for these things until we've completed all the main goals. Could you clarify.
I believe what OP is saying is that hobbies like Painting, Writing, and Programming can't be done until you've met the requirements to join that career path. But there are other money making things you can do in the game (finding and selling collectibles ect, Fishing, ect) that you can do that aren't attached to a career that you CAN do. Once you're able to join a career attached to painting, writing, ect THEN you can use those skills to make money. I think OP is trying to offset the fact that these hobbies can be really quick money makers and would make the challenge to simple.
As for not keeping the money, OP is talking specifically about earning money in clubs. so for example, if your sim is a painter and makes a painting club, you can't keep any of the money you make from making paintings during club meetings until you've completed the main goals of the challenge. Presumably because club perks can enhance the quality of your paintings and such and make them cost more when you sell, thus making the challenge to easy.
Also, about the bed. It says you have to place a public sleeping space before you acquire a bed, but again, it also states that you can't place anything on your lot until you've begun building. I really love the idea of a mega challenge, but some of these seems contradictory and therefore confusing. Thanks in advance!
Okay so basically the noise disturbance is caused by the building of walls. You have to pay the fine before you start building walls as well as meet the other requirements for that section. The disturbance is not something that is triggered in game, it is basically paying a fine for the noise instead of getting a permit to build. You would remove the fine with the money cheat.
As for the sleeping situation if I remember correctly the rules state that you have to sleep in public places if you want to sleep before you are allowed to place a bed. That means you can sleep on benches or buy a tent from the granite falls area to sleep on a public lot.
Thank you so much for clearing that up. I will reword it later to make it a bit more understandable.
If I am using a woodworking table on a public lot to improve my handiness skill, am I allowed to sell the objects that I make?
Thanks :smile:
I have a few questions about it @SimishGamer1:
1. Main doubt: can we sell from our inventory directly?
2. Do we have to pay a fee to travel to other worlds?
3. Can we use (not sell) objets we create with woodworking table, as pots?
4. If we have 7 full friends, we could sleep all week in their houses, right?
I'm collecting more questions for a future haha.
Thanks in advance!
I would say yes to this because there aren't any real jobs you can join for this hobby.
That is a one time fee only
1. Yes you can sell from the inventory.
2. You can add an optional fee for this but usually I play without one.
3. Yes you can use woodworking tables and the pots can be used inside until you are able to build outside.
4. Yes you could get away with 7 sleepovers in a row lol
Hi, EdoubleGoodies! Basically, you should be paying your bills as you go along. If you're selling things you've collected, but don't need, as you're going along, you should be able to pay them as you go along. Hopefully, that helps you on your way through the challenge. I've played this challenge start to finish a couple of times now, and you'll get the hang of it relatively quickly.