Who Has Done Rags To Riches?

Metzfits84 · March 2019

I have a few empty lots in some of the Sims Worlds, and I have been watching quite a few Let's Plays on YouTube. I like a challenge and what I have seen in the Let's Plays has looked like a lot of fun, even if things go wrong, and they frequently go when it comes to The Sims lol Has anyone tried this? If so, how challenging did you find it? Any advice is welcome lol

ChelleJo · March 2019

I've done a few rags to riches type challenges (drifter is sort of a rags to riches style. You start with zero funds and have to reach a house value, among other things and I've done that one a lot, and am on house/generation 11, which means I've started over at zero funds 11 times this save).

And I did an actual rags to riches. I find them insanely easy. Making money is a breeze in this game, especially without a job. You can complete a rags to riches in just a couple sim weeks.

mannanna · March 2019

I have all my Sims start with nothing and it is easy to get money not having a job. To be more challenging I have started them off on an island ( Windenburg or Brindleton Bay ) and one Sim had to make her own furniture or buy them at the flea market. ( the only place she could travel to. ) It is a little more difficult with seasons, make sure you start them when it's spring or summer. I hope you will have fun trying!

There's a thread here in the forum with a list of different challenges.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/906643/sims-4-challenge-list-updated-november-12th-2018/p1

IreneLudwig · March 2019

I started one a while ago, but I never completed it

I should give it a try again!

AlbaWaterhouse · March 2019

I don't like doing challenges because I like to go with the flow in my game and dislike using other people's rules or guidelines.
However, I have attempted to more or less do this one a couple of times since I find it the most fun and rewarding challenge out there. I always ended up cheating the rules somehow but I think you'll have a blast trying it out.

musteni · March 2019

I did the rags part in my rotational play. That particular sim doesn't aim for riches though, so he currently lives as a hermit on Windenburg island. I'm not a challenge player but I enjoy starting out with a very poor sim once in a while. It's was fun and Seasons likely adds some extra flavour to the challenge.

Metzfits84 · March 2019

After a few Sim hours, I saved up enough simoleons to buy a shower and cooler, a few hours later I managed to get the essentials and a tent, but I still can't afford a umbrella so Cherry gets uncomfortable in the rain lol Two Sims days later, I have a rather cheap and nasty looking house for Cherry, leaving her with $149 lol But the garden is growing, and somehow her first ever flower arrangement earned $45!

SimAlexandria · March 2019

I like the concept of them... And I've tried them in the past, but I find them far too easy. I don't usually go for $1000000 a mansion or anything because I quit as soon as I can afford a few nice things and see that the money is going up exponentially now. After that it just seems like tedious clicking because there's no challenge to it. You just doing the same thing over and over until you reach your end goal.

Archieonic · March 2019

Heh, I've done sort of rags to riches. I mean sort of because I don't start with almost no funds, but rather the standard 20k after playing a household, and the household's kid turns into an adult and moves out. From there it can go different ways. One thing I do however is increase the vanilla bills by about 20%. My bill on a roughly $330,000 lot is around $29k weekly. Funny enough, that lot is only 20% done. It's a 64x64, it has the shell for 6 buildings, and huge common areas. As you can imagine, it gets really expensive, real fast. The challenge of making enough money to pay the bills AND have a significant amount leftover to improve the project is not as easy and will be worse as the house's value and therefore bills go higher.

luxsylvan · March 2019

I've done one, it was the first generation of my legacy challenge. It was hard at first, but only because I was also doing legacy and had to have a family too. Even then it only took me less than a generation to make hundreds of thousands of simoleons, and that was before the gardening patch with seasons, which makes selling harvestables even easier. I found gardening and painting to be the most lucrative skills, but you can always try something else. I actually started a second rags to riches without the legacy challenge part, and it's even easier with one single sim.

Metzfits84 · March 2019

luxsylvan wrote: »

I've done one, it was the first generation of my legacy challenge. It was hard at first, but only because I was also doing legacy and had to have a family too. Even then it only took me less than a generation to make hundreds of thousands of simoleons, and that was before the gardening patch with seasons, which makes selling harvestables even easier. I found gardening and painting to be the most lucrative skills, but you can always try something else. I actually started a second rags to riches without the legacy challenge part, and it's even easier with one single sim.

My sim, Cherry, is family-orientated so she will be finding near Mr Perfect and having mini-mees after I've got a decent sized house with better stuff than the cheap appliances which are termed as "used" in the catalogue. I've had her gardening and fishing so I could afford some walls, well, a single room lol When I started it, I knew a tent would be essential considering the seasons/weather changes. So I bought the cheaper one until I could use the Room tool. When I get more simoleons, after the bills are paid, I was considering buying the easel or work-bench so she could build stuff and sell it. I'm planning on having, at least, two children but only one will inherit some of the fortune depending on their character, of course lol

JestTru · March 2019

I've done a legacy challenge where the founders starts out with nothing. Building their home piece by piece. Both had jobs but mostly made money from selling gardening plants. Though this was before seasons. I enjoyed the challenge. It was fun to start out with just a piece of land and take the home from a shack to a mansion.

NoTalent · March 2019

One of the biggest issues with the Rags to Riches challenge is that you can sell to ‘invisible’ Sims. It makes making money quite frivolous when money is so easy to come by because everything turns a profit and can be done instantly.

If you want a proper challenge, try only selling to other Sims that you can see. The flea market, etc.

Metzfits84 · March 2019

NoTalent wrote: »

One of the biggest issues with the Rags to Riches challenge is that you can sell to ‘invisible’ Sims. It makes making money quite frivolous when money is so easy to come by because everything turns a profit and can be done instantly.

If you want a proper challenge, try only selling to other Sims that you can see. The flea market, etc.

Invisible Sims? I didn't know there were invisible Sims. I've been collecting stuff and selling it through my inventory. I haven't been to the Flea Market yet. I'm planning on buying the easel soon though. Hopefully I can improve Cherry's cheap and nasty looking house soon lol

Karababy52 · March 2019

I've played many, many Sims starting out in Rags to Riches style, it's my preferred way to play actually. Along the way I've learned all the tricks on my own or from tips posted on the forums. It really is easy to earn enough simoleans for your Sim to have almost all the basics on their very first day if you send them around collecting or know exactly the right place to fish. I've started putting my own special restrictions on my R2R Sims because of how easy it's become.

One way you can make simoleans is to collect enough to buy an easel, you've got it made or just collect enough to get 50 simoleans and send them to a museum to use the easel there or if you have CL or GT, use one of the public easels. Send them to a library and start hacking, complete their whims to get enough points for a money tree, start fishing (especially at the pier in Magnolia Promenade), gardening makes a lot of simoleans, especially if you can find a Dragonfruit seed, travel to the art gallery in CL and use the woodworking table, or busk with the instruments there, collect the free plants at the Romance or Spice Festivals if you have CL, etc., you'll be rolling in simoleans soon enough doing any one of these and so much more. This is just the tip of the iceberg, there's so many things I could share here, but if I did, it would end up a novel. lol

The most fun I've had playing with this style though is the way @NoTalent suggested. It's called the Extreme Rags to Riches Challenge. Your Sim starts out with nothing on an empty lot and the only way you can make money is by direct contact with another Sim. You can't sell anything in build/buy mode or by using your Sims inventory. It's not easy, and takes much longer, but it is doable. James Turner aka TheSimSupply has a Let's Play series on YouTube using this particular challenge if you want to check it out.

Playing extreme really only has a couple, maybe three ways to acquire the means to make simoleans at first. Once you've figured that out, it gets a little easier as time goes on. I love it though because it really IS a challenge. I'd list the ways you can do it here, but don't want to spoil it if you'd rather try to figure it out yourself. Let me know!

Happy Simming!

Metzfits84 · March 2019

Karababy52 wrote: »

I've played many, many Sims starting out in Rags to Riches style, it's my preferred way to play actually. Along the way I've learned all the tricks on my own or from tips posted on the forums. It really is easy to earn enough simoleans for your Sim to have almost all the basics on their very first day if you send them around collecting or know exactly the right place to fish. I've started putting my own special restrictions on my R2R Sims because of how easy it's become.

One way you can make simoleans is to collect enough to buy an easel, you've got it made or just collect enough to get 50 simoleans and send them to a museum to use the easel there or if you have CL or GT, use one of the public easels. Send them to a library and start hacking, complete their whims to get enough points for a money tree, start fishing (especially at the pier in Magnolia Promenade), gardening makes a lot of simoleans, especially if you can find a Dragonfruit seed, travel to the art gallery in CL and use the woodworking table, or busk with the instruments there, collect the free plants at the Romance or Spice Festivals if you have CL, etc., you'll be rolling in simoleans soon enough doing any one of these and so much more. This is just the tip of the iceberg, there's so many things I could share here, but if I did, it would end up a novel. lol

The most fun I've had playing with this style though is the way @NoTalent suggested. It's called the Extreme Rags to Riches Challenge. Your Sim starts out with nothing on an empty lot and the only way you can make money is by direct contact with another Sim. You can't sell anything in build/buy mode or by using your Sims inventory. It's not easy, and takes much longer, but it is doable. James Turner aka TheSimSupply has a Let's Play series on YouTube using this particular challenge if you want to check it out.

Playing extreme really only has a couple, maybe three ways to acquire the means to make simoleans at first. Once you've figured that out, it gets a little easier as time goes on. I love it though because it really IS a challenge. I'd list the ways you can do it here, but don't want to spoil it if you'd rather try to figure it out yourself. Let me know!

Happy Simming!

I've only been doing a R2Rs for about 3 days, although she has a house, well, it's that rubbish it's more of a shack lol It has the cheapest of everything. Tonight, the cooker broke once, the stereo broke twice, the toilet and shower broke once too, and that is without the Gremlin trait lol The garden is beginning to get large. It has 6 square planters, all full, but some aren't growing yet because they are out of season, and I can't afford to extend the house to bring them inside.

I've had my Sim concentrating on fishing, collecting, and flower arranging. But there is an easel but it's yet to be used. Regardless of all of that, my Sim only has over $1000! lol I've been sending her to every Sim world to find collectables but everything spawns at different times and season. I'm not going to let my Sim get a career yet though until her house has everything and updated to better appliances; not the expensive stuff though, just better than the "used" stuff.

I've watched a lot of James Turner's YT videos; it's what inspired me to give it a go. Social is the hardest thing to get though depending on the time of day and how many Sims are around. I've had my Sim go to festivals but still Social degrades quickly, so once I had enough award points, I got my Sim the Independent trait so it doesn't degrade as quickly.

After 3 days, my Sim has the essentials like a toilet, shower, cooker etc, but tonight, I could afford the cheapest coffee table and chair and got a more decent T.V. than the nasty looking boxy T.V. with aerials poking out of the top, and a violin. Once I can afford to extend the house, I'll buy a computer and desk, I'll get the cheapest one I can find though.

Writin_Reg · March 2019

I've done it several times in Sims 2 and 3 - but never did it in Sims 4. I have played the Teen Runaway Challenge several times in Sims 4 though as it is easy to have a teen live on her/or his own in Sims 4 without killing a Sim. I try to not ever kill Sims so it works best in Sims 4 for me.

I have no good reason not to play Rags to Riches in the Sims 4 - I just haven't had the urge to do it. I think people saying it was too easy in Sims 4 probably threw me off and made it less appealing to me. Lol. I like the challenges to be more challenging I guess.

AmbyCakes · March 2019

I haven't done this challenge yet, but right now I'm TRYING to do a RICHES to RAGS story with miss Judith Ward. She's too evil >=| haha!

somewhsome · March 2019

[quote]One of the biggest issues with the Rags to Riches challenge is that you can sell to ‘invisible’ Sims. It makes making money quite frivolous when money is so easy to come by because everything turns a profit and can be done instantly.

If you want a proper challenge, try only selling to other Sims that you can see. The flea market, etc.[/quote]
Yeah, I agree. Selling only on flea market or through City Living/Selvadorada table is fun. And challenging, because first of all you should earn money to buy that table :) but even that way is quite easy after you have a table and a tent to sleep in.

duhboy2u2 · March 2019

I did rags to riches but didn't stay with it long. To be honest, making money in the Sims 4 is a bit on the easy side and it didn't take long (even hampering myself by not allowing my sims to paint til they were already rich) to make the money necessary to 'win' the challenge. I tried to draw it out by cheating money away from my sims for things that I called, "Unfair gains" even though they weren't really unfair gains. (they were fully within the rules of the game and the challenge) It still didn't seem to take enough time before they were rich beyond belief. In the case of that Rags to Riches character though, she eventually became my Super Sim challenger then moved on to by my legacy founder for one of my legacy saves. I just couldn't bear getting rid of her/letting her dye off without continuing her challenge story.

angelicsamurai · March 2019

I've done a fair few of the rags to riches ones, it's pretty easy straight off as you just go around collecting frogs, flowers, dig for treasure, etc.

Also visiting museums, libraries to do painting, writing novels to get money that was and build up skills..

Visiting gyms for toilets and showering and socialising (along with library and museum), keeps you sane..

however i've started trying to just concentrate on making money using just 1 set of skills each character i play, so 1 does painting, 1 does writing, 1 does baking, etc out of all of them i've found that the painting is the easiest to make money.

Parki67 · March 2019

I havnt done one yet but it is on my list of challenges i want to do. First i have to complete my legacy challenge i am doing then ill be doing a rags to riches. Money is fairly easy to make as i found out recently in the legacy challenge. Strawberry Plants are easy to maintain and make $90 each per day so i just have like 10 of those and 1000 a day. simple.

Metzfits84 · March 2019

In the spirit of Rags and Riches, I have built a rather large Homeless Centre, which took 3 hours to build and furnish! I have uploaded it onto the Gallery, if anyone wants to have a look; Metzfits1984. I think it looks pretty decent considering I've tried to keep the furniture as cheap as possible, apart from the kitchen, that has the chef's work stations, along with decent dishwashers and appliances.

Emo-usagi2187 · March 2019

I love to but but when Vlad love being a vampire troll plus season but in ts3 was easy and was fun.

duhboy2u2 · March 2019

I would make the suggestion to either turn off the weather affect on your sims for this challenge or make your seasons the longest version (I think its 28 days?) otherwise its really hard not to have your poor sims freeze to death or die of lightning or heat stroke with the seasons and being all, homeless for a while.

After all, the Rags to Riches challenge was around long before Seasons so its not really cheating not to use it for the purposes of this challenge I feel.

somewhsome · March 2019

@duhboy2u2 can sims freeze to death in warm clothes? Mine never did. And they feel completely okay in tents, somehow even better than in houses with no thermostats lol.
Or you can just travel to another world, where weather is fine at the moment. :)

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