How many of you, once you discovered that growing perfect fruit and having a level 10 skill in nectar making didn't mean your sim could actually make decent nectar, bothered to persevere?
Kudos to all the very helpful people who researched and recorded the best recipes to produce good nectar - but really? So much effort? Keep werewolves, teach them to hunt, sit back and get rich. No effort involved if all you want is lots of simoleans.
There are a number of careers and wishes I've avoided because they were too much effort and I was too lazy or plain stupid to bother. Nectar making is now one of them. If you have to use other people's work to succeed it just doesn't feel the same as doing it by your own efforts. I still have a huge cellar full of wine as a result of industrious tomb raiding with my weres.
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I did find, for myself, the more nectar you made the better your result was but some results were hilarious, depending on which fruits you combined.
I've played with making nectar and enjoyed it. I didn't use other people's work in order to succeed at all - I let my nectar-making sim try out different fruit combinations, and when a good recipe turned out to be good, I would repeat it. My sim's skill level did help with the quality of the nectar, as did the sort and quality of the fruit, having a handy sim upgrade the machines, and having a cellar with the expensive nectar shelves. I had fun with all this precisely because it was so complex, with so many factors involved. But in that save I wasn't looking for a fast way to make money - I agree there are better ways to do that!
http://modthesims.info/d/415474/nectar-combinatorics.html
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I didn't find that to be true in my game. With some nectar recipes I researched online my sims make valuable nectar. I try to store it as long as possible, but sometimes I just consign right away. The last household who invested in nectar making consigned their entire cellar for ~1.4 million simoleons. The nectar was perfect quality when it was first bottled, and started around ~300-400 simoleons a bottle. I don't remember how much it was when I sold it, but over 1000 for sure. IIRC even poor quality nectar will eventually age to perfect quality given enough time, or at least that was my impression. Still, if you are trying to make money it's best to focus on amazing quality recipes.
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But my real follow-up question is, given all of the above, do any of your sims actually drink the stuff?
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No, but if they're working on the photography skill, they take pictures for one of the collections.
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Well, that was hundreds of bottles of nectar. I was purging items due to Error Code 12 popping up in that game (selling the nectar didn't help with that, unfortunately).
I do occasionally have my sims drink nectar for the moodlets. But unfortunately the maids clean up the glasses before I've had 4 sims drink the glasses. So, it's either drinking nectar or maids, but not both. Sometimes I choose one or the other; just depends on the game and how much I want to remember to have my sims drink regularly.
"Wellsh, a funny thing happened on the way to the Conshinement Shtore..." (hiccups)
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Also this thread was super helpful.
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