What is the most lucrative way to make money in the sims3?

AthenaOnyx · March 2019

I wanted to remodel my sims house but they were broke. I was thinking of the fastest way to make money, and I could think of anything quicker than dragon hatching. My sims had $800 so I bought them two eggs had them talk to them and by the end of the day they had $10000. It would have been more if I had had more to spend in the beginning. It almost feels like cheating, because your sims don't need any special skills and it only takes 15 minutes to activate the egg. Then they can do what ever they want for the next 6 hours. There's no risk, you don't need a buyer, and each egg is a profit of $600.

Is this the quickest, easiest way to make money or is there something faster except cheats of course.

SimplyJen · March 2019

My guess is you can probably swing the same results or better with a skilled painter... Extra Creative LTR as a bonus. With Ambitions, you can sell the paintings at the consignment store and even earn more with the Suave Selling LTR.

AthenaOnyx · March 2019

With painting your sims would have to put lots of time and energy into getting skilled before they would make a lot. In the beginning their paintings wouldn't be worth much.

That's why I think dragon hatching is tantamount to cheating simply because by the next morning they had $20000 and started with $800.

AlexaKry · March 2019

Pick flowers, some of them are 600 Simoleons worth! I´ve once used to play a homeless Sim (I like to play with homeless, so it wasn´t my first one) and within a week she could afford a house with two rooms and a very good interior!

KaytayRoall · March 2019

Photography.

Day 1: Send your sim to the library to read the level 1 skill book until they hit skill level 3. Spend the rest of the day wandering around town getting as many new subjects as you can and watch your skill shoot up. Make sure to get as many "structure" photographs as you can--the architecture skill challenge is your goal, in addition to getting your skill as high as you can.

Day 2: Egypt vacation. Buy the most expensive camera as soon as you can. Finish off the architecture challenge if you couldn't in your home town. Each day, take photos of the pyramids, sphinx, market and abu simbel... then spend the rest of your day exploring and enjoying your vacation. Max out the return for this with the jetsetter and prepared traveller LTRs.

Arrive home: Sell photos. Profit.

Might take a bit more investment than dragon eggs to afford that vacation initially and the first day you'll get very little return, but it's pretty good. I did this unintentionally while playing a challenge and completely broke the challenge.

AthenaOnyx · March 2019

@AlexaKry I don't think I've even noticed pickable flowers before.

@KaytayRoall At least, if I did it that way I would feel so much like a cheater!

Sigzy05 · March 2019

AthenaOnyx wrote: »

With painting your sims would have to put lots of time and energy into getting skilled before they would make a lot. In the beginning their paintings wouldn't be worth much.

That's why I think dragon hatching is tantamount to cheating simply because by the next morning they had $20000 and started with $800.

Try going to the casino. The slot machines are a great way to make money.

AlexaKry · March 2019

@AthenaOnyx : they came with Seasons, so if you haven´t installed Seasons, then you can´t find them! I just assumed that you have it installed!

AthenaOnyx · March 2019

@AkexaKry I have Seasons just never noticed them. It's usually summer or fall maybe that's why. I'm slow player and don't make it to Spring too often.

AlexaKry · March 2019

@AthenaOnyx : the wildflowers can be picked from spring to fall, so they should be there!
I just sent my boy to pick the wildflowers, this are the most expensive ones, worth §600 and §400

Satanu_Reeves · March 2019

Hello @AthenaOnyx I explained a quick way to make money in this thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16972695#Comment_16972695

The op said she needed money for her newly weds to buy a nice house so I wrote out the way I normally make money. Sorry it’s long and rambly but maybe you’ll find it useful. In that thread Igazor also mentions the casino. If you have Lucky Palms casino installed, it’s pretty hard not to come out on top and make good money. Even more so if your sim has the lucky trait.

Nikkei_Simmer · March 2019

Get a dog, train the living daylights out of it until it reaches Lev 10 in hunting...Send the dog out to sniff for valuables until he nearly keels over... (you should get about 48 opportunities before the mutt will want food) then watch the valuable gemstones roll in.

I'm a jackhole... Everytime the mutt comes up with a maple leaf, an empty chip bag, a snake-skin or some other useless item...load up the searches...up to a full eight. Poor mutt doesn't know what hit him. "*woof*...can't I go home and eat...yet?"

"NO...find something valuable first...preferably a tiberium!."

Did I mention "Tiberium farming"?

Satanu_Reeves · March 2019

@Nikkei_Simmer Very true, even a single dog with the hunter trait can support a moderate sized family. Similarly a Werewolf in the household can accomplish the same. Feels like cheating, but it's not

igazor · March 2019

AthenaOnyx wrote: »

What is the most lucrative way to make money in the sims3?

Am surprised no one has mentioned this yet. A printing press in the basement. Too obvious?

cwaddell · March 2019

I like going to uni on the fist day of the game. Enroll for a 2 week session. As soon as your sim arrives have them apply for extra funds at the administration building. Since you start out with a C average you will only get $2500 that first day. Every 24 sim hours have your sim apply for more funds. Your goal is to get their grade as high as you can - an A average grade is worth $5000. After your sim takes the final on Friday they should have an A. Since nothing your sim does can increase their grade on the weekend don't bother studying or working with major specific object, instead party. Your sim should be pulling in close to $5000 a day after that first Friday. As soon as your sim gets home send them for a second 2 week session. When your sim returns home that first Sunday they should have a degree and around $90,000, including their initial $16,500 (if your sim moved onto an empty 10x10 lot). Invest the money in the quick return partnerships (Spa/book store combo, film back lot, hospital, business/bistro combo, or the hospital/science lab combo). The next morning (that first Monday) collect your dividends and sell off some or all of your partnerships and buy a nice house.

AbellaKellaher · March 2019

If you want super quick, buy a claw machine. I actually created a sim just to see how much money they could make in a day off the claw alone. I don't remember what it was but I do remember it was more lucrative than any job, could be done on downtime from a job, and it increases your fun after a hard day at the office. Not as quick, but still darned quick is with metals and gems and a Carter's Display Case XL . I say it's slower because you need an additional $500 on TOP of the display case purchase, per transmogrification. Once you can get a collection helper and Carter's Display Case XL and a public lot with a gem cutter you're golden. After you have 5 different gem types you can cut them and use the cuts and dust to transmogrify soul stones on the Carter's Display Case XL. Cut the soul stones into the best cut you can until you reach (large) heart, which will range in value from around 10K to 25K. Keep the dust for future transmogrifications but put the large soulstone hearts on consignment at the Elixer shoppe, where you will sometimes get even 60K from a single stone. All you need is 5 different gem types and 2-4 different cuts including dust. If you're looking for a fast way to get a lot of gems and ore quickly, hit Egypt. Also don't forget you can actually find gems at the consignment shop. AND from the claw machine

Metals - once you get 8 pieces of 2 - 4 metals, turn it into Compendium. Compendium value is based on the value of the metals used plus an additional 10-20%. Then use the compendium itself in the eight pieces of 2-4 different ores, thereby increasing it's own value exponentially. Then either consign the ingot or hold on to it until you get another 7 pieces of ore and again use it's own value to increase it's value.

The nice bit about both of these ways is that they take no skill at all.

TreyNutz · March 2019

If one of your sims can purchase the Collection Helper LTR and you have the Prism Art Studio then you can quickly make a ton of money by collecting metals and smelting them with the Artisan's Glassblowing and Jewelry Making Station. Metals smelted this way are worth far more that if the ore is mailed in. It might depend on the artisan skill, not sure. The last time I had sims make money this way the metals were 5-7x more than the individual ore. Mailing is supposed to be 150% more, IIRC. The only downside is that you don't have a chance of multiple bars, but the extra value in the bars the sims smelts with the station more than makes up for it.

Then, of course, consign the bars.

If you have WA, then taking a short trip to France for the titanium would probably be lucrative depending on how much you collected.

king_of_simcity7 · March 2019

Add new Sims to the house hold and then move them back out. You get to keep some of the money!

Auroraskies · March 2019

I go to university, stay at the sorority/fraternity houses, sell off any loose objects, for instance the expensive cars. Or make the poor sim move into one of the rich households in the city, put the family up in another place, move back to your original house and sell the extra one. I have never tried the dragon egg one, but assume it comes with Dragon Valley which I bought recently - I have to try it now!

Edit: Thought of another way: go to the future, for free unless you sold the first portal that always appear in a new game; buy a lotto ticket and cash in once back home.

Edit 2: Oh my I like this thread! Another one, very entertaining, but might require some work:

In one game my active sim household ran a sort of retirement home: since having befriended the whole town they got notices when someone was about to die (some say you need a landline phone for this), there is a window of one day before; so they asked them to move in and sold their loose stuff, for instance the sloppy jalopy car in everyone's inventory, greeted Grim and started over. Such a good game!

AbellaKellaher · March 2019

Just wanted to post that by using the transmogrify method I posted about above, yesterday I listed 18 large soul stone hearts and netted over 900K in one day. It had only taken me about one sim day to get enough stones and dust (mostly by buying out the consignment and elixir consignment, as well as with the collection tool.) Today I already have half of that via the same methods. However that sim family is about to head to Egypt where I expect to come home with quite a few mats to transmogrify new soul stones. It really is the easiest and fastest non-cheat money maker in the game...

ClarionOfJoy · March 2019

This is so cheaty:

In Isla Paradiso, in Edit Town mode before you even choose a sim to play, build the free resort up to Level 5 and put as many tower resort rugs there as you want and max them out for capacity. Go into live mode and choose your sim household to play as usual and get the free resort. The next day, you will get a ton of money depending on how many resort tower rugs you have there and will get this amount everyday! Earning the Hotel Mogul LTR will give you even more! For example, I placed 6 tower resort rugs and maxed them out before playing in live mode. That got me around 20,000 simoleons everyday from the resort even before getting the Hotel Mogul LTR, And since the resort is already a 5-star resort, you will unlock one of the hidden islands too!

AthenaOnyx · March 2019

I decided not worry if it's cheating or not. If I want a certain household to have a certain house they'll just hatch dragons. Most of my sims are witches anyway so it makes sense. I might even create a house specifically designed for dragon hatching.

I think I'll implement some of you guys' ideas in future to mix things up. So, keep the ideas rolling!

AbellaKellaher · March 2019

AthenaOnyx wrote: »

I decided not worry if it's cheating or not.

That's the same attitude I took when I decided to play Isla Paradiso with this current family. I don't do money cheats, due to the routing errors in the world, and just the fact that it takes hours to get anywhere if you live anywhere but on the main island, I teleport my sims everywhere. I don't care if it's cheating, it's not a challenge game.

AthenaOnyx · March 2019

@AbellaKellaher Oh, teleporting, I can't play without. It's not cheating it's a necessity.

naniminna · March 2019

Wait, how do you sell the dragons? I could not sell them in my inventory! O.o

The way that I make money is a little bit complex in the Sims 3. I like to have several streams of income. So, firstly, my sim doesn't work a real job. I get a dog and a cat and send them out to collect gems and animals. They make me a lot of money on their own when combined with the gem cutter. But I also send my sims to all the hot spots for metals and gems. Anything with a value of 50+ gets smelted and then sold in inventory and all gems get cut to bring in more revenue.

Next I send my sims to collect all the seeds and have them garden. Also flowers, pick those!

They also don't start out with any furniture besides a gem cutter unless its a challenge. They go to the fire station to eat and rest for free. I also have them paint and write. That way they have weekly income coming in in addition to anything that they make or grow or fish going to consignment. I also consignment shop their books. As soon as I have a basic set up with the best bed, toilet, fridge, and shower then I also have them invest all their money into partnerships. Save all your best plant qualities (at least 1 of each perfect) and sell the rest, this way you can easily replant. ^^

In my 100 baby challenge I nearly own the entire town. Sending sims to work is just a waste of time because you can make 5x what they make in a day each day. It's super important to supermax your money making skills. write 5 of the same book, paint 30 paintings etc, because when you do this you make heaps and heaps of money.

It just depends on your play style. I play different challenges in the sims 3 and sims 4 so the rules of making money always changes based off the current challenge.

AthenaOnyx · March 2019

@naniminna Once your eggs hatch you can sell them in buy mode for $1000 provided that not too much time has elapsed since they hatched. If you don't sell them quick enough (I think it's around one o'clock) you only get $900. The eggs cost $396 give or take a few simoleans. So you can make you're sims pretty rich doing this. However, since I started doing it I've noticed they are limited to how much money per day they can make doing this because they can only activate so many eggs in a day. It's also a lot of work on the players part. I tried having an egg hatching party, but only one guest talked to an egg.

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