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Make the Sims 3 harder
Leedie12
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Hi, I tried to find another topic on this, but I didn't really find any, so here's my idea:
Add an option bar to make the game more difficult to play.
I really like the part in the beginning of a game when you have to rush everywhere to get enough money to pay your bills and keep food on the table. I'd love it if there were an option to make everything you can buy say 20% more expensive, or get the loans down with a certain percentage. The same goes for the amount of time you have to spend on getting skill points. Generally I find my sims after 1-2 generations having all the money and things they could possibly want, and it gets kind of boring sometimes when you've reached that point.
I know you can use cheats to reset your family funds etc, but it would be nice if you don't have to do that every simday when the paycheck arrives. And it would be nice to disable this 'hard mode' when you just don't feel like it.
Add an option bar to make the game more difficult to play.
I really like the part in the beginning of a game when you have to rush everywhere to get enough money to pay your bills and keep food on the table. I'd love it if there were an option to make everything you can buy say 20% more expensive, or get the loans down with a certain percentage. The same goes for the amount of time you have to spend on getting skill points. Generally I find my sims after 1-2 generations having all the money and things they could possibly want, and it gets kind of boring sometimes when you've reached that point.
I know you can use cheats to reset your family funds etc, but it would be nice if you don't have to do that every simday when the paycheck arrives. And it would be nice to disable this 'hard mode' when you just don't feel like it.
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Also, loans won't help. If you can make money like that, a loan does nothing to affect difficulty.
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@ Pretoda: that's exactly why I would like to have it in the options menu. So that you can keep it as 'easy' as it is now, maybe even make it possible to make it even easier, but also allow a harder mode for players that would like the challenge of it. I don't know how the prices and loans and skillpoint time are defined in the sims game, but it would be nice to change all of it by some percentage.
Money is, but in general, money is related to skills. Once you have a skill maxed, the only way to unmax it is to cheat. Over time, it's simply going to get harder and harder for anything to impact your sim's monetary flow without you personally actively sabotaging them. Sims 2 had a similar problem, but had the advantage that you couldn't adjust life spans.
So, really, any and all challenge-adding to the game would have to be related to slowing down skill growth or allowing you to lose skill levels.
I really wish we couldn't adjust lifespans.
I like the fact that we can personally. It would be so annoying to have to rush to complete skills, get a job, build the house, and get a family with the fear of my young adult becoming an adult in a set amount of days. Then if I didn't get everything done I would have to continue in the adult stage so by the time I finally do propose to a girl I'm too old to be a dad!
The Sims 3 is as easy or as difficult as you make it. Why should you have to rush everything to pay your bills and put food on the table? For one thing, the game already provides you with food...even in an unfurnished house, you still get a refrigerator that comes fully stocked with food, and putting a spending cap on how much money your Sims spends as a start-up, will allow your Sim to pay their bills, especially when there are so many ways to make money...such as going fishing, harvesting plants and trees, and collecting.
So, unless you are buying expensive items for your Sim to start out with, the money you have left after purchasing your home should be sufficient to get your Sim started, and if you're buying furnished, selling your more expensive furniture and replacing it with cheaper furniture should enable your Sim to pay their initial bills.
I don't see it as EA's job to make the game harder. If you really want hard, start your Sim out on an empty lot and use the familyFunds cheat to take away all their money...and don't let them get a job until they have made enough money to build themselves a modest house. I've just done the bare outlines of Cyron43's "Rags to Riches" challenge.
But really, you can set whatever rules you want, such as no mood cheats, no money cheats, and the Sim must earn the money for everything they buy...either by harvesting crops, fishing, or collecting gems/stones. You'd be surprised how challenging that can be, especially if you try to make their actions as realistic as possible...such as no appliances until they've built their home, and having to use community lots to meet their needs. With Seasons, it's really challenging.
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LOL that is true!
Large families are difficult but they are a matter of preference. Having the ability to increase the difficulty level for those of us who choose to play with small families, I think will make the game more enjoyable. I believe it is a reasonable request. It may not be achievable with Sims 3 but having discussions like this may provide insight for what we want. Maybe we will have the choice in Sims 4.
Hello,
I like your idea of a tab in Options, I would never turn it on. But for those who like it - can.
I do the following to control wealth:
1) If one of my Sims get too rich, I move someone else into the house and move them out. They get 16,500 and I make sure the house they buy eats 95% of that. :twisted: Then I delete the new homeowner via Edit Town. (I can't do this at present with glitches though)
2) I make one of my Sims garden, fish, write novels or paint to make ends meet as opposed to getting them a job. That's a challange. 8)
(And if you have SP on, it'll move people out of their homes and move them into smaller houses and lose their money. My Cheryl Cole Sim lost a small fortune before I turned off SP. Moving in with Hank (Beckenridge?)and having like $300 between them!
Although I've never thought to do what Jarsie9 proposed and make them build their house and live on the grass.
Poor Sims will get wet with Seasons. :twisted:
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What I do when I need to mix things up is to rush. Plan something out with very little time to prepare for it, and try to dodge the chaos
It should keep you on the edge of your seat
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Hey thanks for mentioning it.
gotcha ! sorry I'm not tech savy at all when it comes to tuning and changing things or creating clothes i just download the mods and CC that you gifted creators make
Anyway, I'd recommend the Minimum Wage/More Realistic Earnings mod over at Mod the Sims. I use it and like it. It makes things more interesting, especially when your sim is working a job that doesn't pay very well.
You can also use the Higher Bills mod, again, over at Mod the Sims. I don't use this one so I have no comment on it.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Hunt around Mod the Sims and see what other mods you'd like to try. There are a bunch of them that make things harder.