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I play rotationally, and it's been a while since I checked global star and actress Judith Ward. In my game she was married 3 times, but lives alone in that huge The Pinnacles mansion of hers. There is a butler, a maid, and occasionally she hires a male bartender to keep her company. But I never thought about her finances...?
I just returned to her house, and voila - the cash balance is §0 !!! I didn't even dare to check if there are bills in her mail box.
Question to you: How can Judith Ward make some money in a hurry? I mean, collecting a gem worth §125 is not really matching her standards. What options are there?
Her fame is still 5 stars, even if I never sent her to a gig. And she doesn't even own a computer to work those social medias. As I hardly played her, she didn't use her phone a lot either, and I doubt there can be that many followers. But if she builds followers in a hurry, I mean, it would be quite realistic that she has a good number of them - can she make quick money from social media without becoming a media publisher or trend setter etc? But based on her fame alone?
I had her sign up for a gig but she hardly has skills, lol - I'll make her take a job that she isn't really qualifying for. Can't wait to see her fail, LOL. But it would of course be wiser money wise to let her make some success...
Any suggestions?
And how can her cash balance drop to §0 while she is not played? I thought cash was hardly changing while household is not active.
I just returned to her house, and voila - the cash balance is §0 !!! I didn't even dare to check if there are bills in her mail box.
Question to you: How can Judith Ward make some money in a hurry? I mean, collecting a gem worth §125 is not really matching her standards. What options are there?
Her fame is still 5 stars, even if I never sent her to a gig. And she doesn't even own a computer to work those social medias. As I hardly played her, she didn't use her phone a lot either, and I doubt there can be that many followers. But if she builds followers in a hurry, I mean, it would be quite realistic that she has a good number of them - can she make quick money from social media without becoming a media publisher or trend setter etc? But based on her fame alone?
I had her sign up for a gig but she hardly has skills, lol - I'll make her take a job that she isn't really qualifying for. Can't wait to see her fail, LOL. But it would of course be wiser money wise to let her make some success...
Any suggestions?
And how can her cash balance drop to §0 while she is not played? I thought cash was hardly changing while household is not active.
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Added: Is it the butler service that is draining her cash balance even when not being played? There was just a notice from the butler that the service had not been paid in full, so §18.983 has been added to Judith's bills this week!!! Ouch! I had no idea butlers is such a bad idea when playing rotationally!
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She has good acting skills, but the most tempting gigs suggested fitness=7 or charisma=7, and EA obviously did not even give this global star a high charisma skill.
Yes, because of the butler charging + §18.900 I will need to cheat her enough money to pay those bills. She just fired the butler. I will find a solution having one sim from one other household move in with her to be the butler. Then I can control the butler's activities a bit better, too
Thanks, but I don't think it suits a global star to run about collecting stuff to sell... it would be fine with a newcomer though, but not Judith Ward
Even exclusive hard working actors have to take time out to do something to help themselves, even if it does seem below their standard from your point of view.
if you got empty planters, start gathering snapdragons from the local area and start planting. you'll be able to help pay off that debt over the week when the plants start flowering like crazy on certain days.
start writing books and make a little extra that way as well. get your handiness skills up and start creating furniture and sculptures.
If you combine the writing and planting efforts in tandem, you are likely to write off that debt fairly quickly over the week, but to make the most out of writing you need to write quite a few books to get much out of it.
if those don't appeal and you got selling value on certain household items like paint works, curtains and the like, you can sell some of those off until you can recover enough to buy them back again at another point.
i was thinking along those lines as well, but i deciided against suggesting it after snapdragons because the tree would take too long to develop and to produce the required amount and you need 5,000 reward points to get it and that wouldn't be possible inside a weeks in game time, that is unless you cheat to do it.
Yea, I think the money tree would be such a great match! But as I hardly played her in the past, she has only a few reward points. Bills are due in 24 hrs... But she can plan for a future money tree anyway
Where can she find Snapdragons? I thought they had to be splined, never thought they exist ready to be picked. It's Fall in my game, hopefully that won't be a problem? Anyway, she has a few gardening skills, so she will save it for later if they don't grow in Fall.
And I love the writing book idea! Would be perfect for a global star like her to write her memoir
Snapdragons are in bloom during Spring and Fall seasons, and they can be easily found in Willow Creek along the dead end road that contains Cabana Creek, Singleton Stream and the BFF household. they can also be found along another deadend road where the Pancakes household is as well. you have to be in that zone long enough to let the plants sprout their first flowers though, that could take a few game hours to do.
Aha, it's the red flowers. Thanks! I thought about the Bird of paradise I guess. I know where to find Snapdragons, many of my sims already grow them
Yea, that's the smart thing to do
Sometimes I get my asset rich cash poor sims to sell off furniture and clutter items pretending they have pawned them. Quick money boost and you can rebuy them later (get them back from pawn shop). A little secret that maintains her rich appearance in the public eye.
Narrowing wide staircases and deleting one if there are two are also quick money spinners. Make 2 or 3 rooms open plan, knocking down the wall gets you money. (I am sad that my Sims have money spinning ideas because I fail to look after their finances).
Finally marrying rich is right up Judith's alley. That doesnt take long and the marriage will add drama to your game.
She has some gardening skills, so it wouldn't be strange for her to grow some dragonfruits or glowfruits.
She tried to harvest Snapdragons yesterday, but it took 10 hrs for those wild plants to grow and she left before there were any flowers. It's late Fall, they probably take longer when it gets colder?
Fishing will not fit her, I think. She has a bad reputation and is not a likable person, so maybe she would like killing off some fish, but her outfits are too stylish for that sort of activity. But she might go to Magnolia Promenade during night, testing her fishing luck just to have tried it. A woodoo doll might be too tempting
If she gets a 4th husband, she might talk him into having a fishing hobby, hm...
Good idea about the rewards, I keep forgetting them. She has about 1000 points, I think she will need to collect a few more before go shopping.
Selling her mansion is out of the question. She *loves* it. She *loves* walking those long distances just to confirm she owns bigger rooms than needed. She got the mansion after her 2nd spouse, an old film director with no other heirs than Judith.
Well - yesterday she had a film gig, and although she only made silver, she was paid more than §6000. I also found she had §20000 in her private vault, so she actually managed to pay those bills (first there was a terrible power outtake though). I rearranged her dining room a bit, moving the furniture into the next door hall, them turning the old dining room into a section for a future live-in butler that will soon be hired. I just need to find a local who will fit the bill, and he will of course need to be younger than Judith...
I'm having fun playing her
I hope Judith has fun with her live-in butler :-)
Too bad there's no option to file bankruptcy. Obviously, she's paying all her money out to her ex's.
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