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Millionaire scenario
grevilliablue
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Well it took my Sim 77 days but she's finally made herself a million living in Henford-on-Bagley, working as a gardener (specialising in flower arrangement) whilst keeping chooks & either a cow or a llama. She has a garden full of perfect plants (those golden chooks are wonderful!) & after accruing enough Rewards Points, got herself a Money Tree seed. She replanted the first few seeds her Money Tree grew, eventually ending up with 12 Money Trees. Those, along with the flower arrangements she made & sold on Plopsy (some for as much as 20,000 Simoleans) ensured her bank balance grew quickly, although it was hard initially. I'm not quite sure what she'll do next - whether she'll stay working on the land or whether she'll decide to do something else. But with a very healthy bank balance the world is definitely her oyster!
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Looks like I am taking a very similar route. My sim is also starting out in Henford on Bagley and doing gardening. My sim is focusing on a dragon fruit farm because they have a good selling price. The only plant I won't let her use is the money tree. She is about to double her number of dragon fruit plants to 30 plants. When she has nothing to do, I have her paint and sell the paintings on plopsy. So far I am two weeks in and so far have nearly 44.000 on my sims bank account. But she also had to built a micro home because she started out on an empty plot of land. She is living off the grid with the simple living challenge just to make it a little bit more interesting. I also got her a chicken, a cow and a llama but is turning out to be very much work so she might have to scale down on the farm animals.
I also just completed this scenario, and very similar to yours, I also placed my sim in HoB, which seems to be set up well for this type of gameplay. It was rags to riches (no money, no house, no items), living off-grid/simple living in the park in Bramblewood. Most of her earnings were from foraged plants and collectibles sold from the sales table, or to the vendor, at the start. Then from items she received from Sophie and a few of the critters, she was able to start a profitable garden and a chicken coop. Over time, she was able to move to the 64x64 lot to build her house and farm.
My sim was pretty lucky. She was able to acquire a money tree seed from a sales table and found orchid seeds a number of times from Sophie! With the two money trees, her garden and chickens, she completed the scenario in about two seasons (set to long). I also made sure she sold off her produce at the grocery stall during the fair, where she can make a profit of 25 percent. I also limited her sales table at 25 percent.
I started my Sims with dumpster diving, and fishing to get some stuff to sell. However, after two Sim days, she is about half-way done. The reason is that she snagged Clement Frost as a husband, not exactly planned for, but a fun twist. She also has a daughter with him. When I get back to her, I plan to have her buy stuff to paint and sew to get the other half of the scenario to complete it.
I had my sims start a retail business that would be helpful to the community.
Part of their money was made by having excursions to Selvadorada. It was annoying trying to get them oufitted from the minimal selections they had availalble to them, so I decided to create a store so all my sims could be outffited properly for thier adventures.
I'm currently playing this challenge for about 4 sim weeks and my sim has gathered 700.000 simoleons at this point. Her main income is the dragon fruit orchard which gives over 40.000 worth of daily income.
@Chazzzy plopsy definitely increases the selling price of paintings. My sim managed to paint a masterpiece which could be sold for 10k from the easel and selling through plopsy got her 30k. This is the best selling piece, most of her paintings earn less.
It's definitely better selling on Plopsy. My Sim was selling wilted flower arrangements on there that fetched around 20k!
If you buy the creative visionary and marketable traits. And add the inspired lot trait ( paintbrush and book) My sim started selling paintings for higher and higher. So far she hit $19,000 Plus a little more.
I still remember when this scenario was released, I was convinced to never do this one because I believed it would end in a grind. Boy, was I wrong. I am glad I gave it a try. It was fun to play. I even managed to finish way faster than I initially anticipated, just 37 days!. My sim was lucky at the start. she was invited to the spice festaval in the first week and she went because she desperately needed some social. This gave me a dragonfruit early on, which has a very high selling value. My sim set up a dragon fruit orchard and I guess roughly 90% of her earnings come from this one. The rest was done selling paintings on plopsy and a little bit of foraging.
This is the dragon fruit orchard, her main source of income, nicely sheltered under a roof
The tiny house which she also paid for by money earned in this scenario. I think it is cozy and comfortable for a 1 sim household