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Does the Gardening Path makes too much money to you?
It does to me. Unlike the painting, programming and writing path's that pay based on individual content (paintings, books, and programs completed), the gardening path only requires that you plant a seed and EVERYDAY you can collect money when it spawns after 5:30 am. So a tomato that sell for 3$ will get you 30$ a day from a tomato bush. In your life have you ever heard of a tree that spawns fruit everyday to eat or sell? I haven't. So I created a "challenge" for myself since I garden a lot. I treat the garden like a REAL JOB, and instead of getting paid everyday, I "sell" every Friday. The rest of the week I tend it, and fertilize it to make it evolve to be worth more money. I only grow "produce". No flowers, dragon fruits, bonsai buds, cow plant berry's, or pomergranites (?), since these are not on the menu. But mainly I limit myself to only 1 plant per category. No multiple plants of any type are allowed to keep making money sensible. I've had yards with multiple Dragon fruits and was rich in a week or two. That's boring. Of course being a self employed sim means that I take a day off when I want to or not. At any rate, would you tell me what you think of gardening as a career path, whether it's too easy to make money from it. Thx
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If I was growing only plants that have high sell values, gardening would be just as good as the others, I'm sure...the entire game is stupidly easy for making money though, gardening is not really an outlier.
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When I played the Millionaire Scenario I didn't allow my sim to garden or pick flowers to sell because I knew she'd go from struggling to tons of money very quickly. You are a bit more limited if you have Seasons, since you have to wait for the right season for various plants.
When I started playing with CL I only planted crops, and since she was out of money and starving it was lots of fun. I was using the lot challenge where you had to have the right crops in order to make food and for several days all she could eat was carrots and peas LOL.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Well you know us city boys don't do farming and all that. So no chicken coops for me StormKeep. And I pointed out that unlike writing, painting, or programming, the gardening path is unrealistic in the sense that you can sell fresh produce everyday after they spawn in the morning. You computer doesn't spawn a book or program everyday. A easel doesn't spawn a painting everyday. You have to sit down or stand up and make those to sell unlike the plant that you just plant once and watch money grow on trees so to speak. I kinda wnat my sim to have only one avenue of income. So I garden a lot to free up time to do other things. But I'm seeing now that there should be a limit to how much can be made from doing so. And I challenge myself since EA didn't.
This also can add some additional game play, because you could make it your goal to actually OWN the retail location where you sell produce (assuming you have the EP that lets you do that). Then you only make money from it when other Sims make purchases.
It's your game, you decide if you allow selling unrealistically or not.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
That still does not leave out gaining from a plants spawning everyday StormKeep. What do you think about this? Monday through Thursday you can weed, water, fertilize, and spray for bugs, but you can't harvest until Friday when you can sell the weeks produce?
Seasons would be cool to curtail what can be grown in a season. However I recently started my own Gardening conditions. They are to weed, water, fertilize, and spray for bugs Monday-Thursday. Harvest or sell the weeks produce on Friday. That should cut down on the get rich quick aspect of TS4 Isharell
I think only harvesting once a week would certainly make gardening less OP. I'd probably tune it so that the plants themselves grow slower if I was going to do that approach.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
When not harvesting or selling the fruit and vegetables, you might move them from the ground to the inventory before the gardener plant the seeds. Otherwise, your garden might be filled with plants and trees pretty soon.
Where does a gardener plant seeds? I thought I did that.
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For instance, apples sometimes are found under apple trees, and gardeners sometimes attempt to plant those apples.
One of my households have plenty of cherry trees I am sure the members of that household never planted. I also sometimes got a message of no room available for planting something while the played sims were nowhere near the garden.
Edit: Here are two examples from the household I play now.
Two pears are seen between these to pear trees. They might be planted provided a gardener is hired for the household.
In this picture is a cherry tree and two more one their way.
To my knowledge, the members of the household only planted one pear tree and one cherry tree.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Hmmm!!! I have used gardeners in the past and present and I've never had a plant that I did not plant myself. However, when I use a gardener, I go in knowing that he/she will cause my plants to evolve w/o me fertilizing them. Will keep a look out for the Mystery Plant in the Garden.
I wanted one of my sims families to do some gardening and flower arranging, but they got too busy with toddler stuff (and one with a regular job), lol! Gotta get one of the sim parents to start on this garden money making thing…
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Gardening frees you up to do other things. Try it. You'll like it. Hmmm!!! Somewhere in my brain the name Mikey comes to mind.
Warning Simmer. Your social bar is yellow. Easy to fix if living with someone, but my rule of thumb is to never go to bed with the fun, social, and hygiene bars yellow. They decrease slowly whereas the food and bladder are best leveled in the morning after the sim wakes up. They decrease the fastest. Just sayin you know
The sim is sleeping. As hinted he has nothing to do with the tree or the sprouts.
Sims can hardly deal with social needs while low on energy. Besides, the social bar is hardly an issue in a household with five sims.
Point well taken. And two of them are aliens. I guess my points were for a single sim rather that a family sim. And yes I see the two mounds of dirt that you say are budding cherry trees that you never planted. I find that interesting and will keep a closer look out in my games where I have a gardener working my lot.
You're being slick. I like that. You're playing this save now. My man!!! Or My Woman!!!