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Can't afford a house after graduation...
FlyingPotato659
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How can a graduated sim afford a house after paying off what they been living with? Isn't this something that game dev needs to take a look into?
Cheats are my only way around it!
Cheats are my only way around it!
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I wish I was able to keep the house I had before moving to university and still return home in that same house
Yes I was thinking about that too, however, the game should provide a solution of rehousing after graduation, free of external moneymakers.
I was just checking San Myshuno apartments as an option to start with. place your sim on an empty lot, go to manage world, get into the build mode of a cheap apartment in San Myshuno, bulldoze it, go out and then back into your sim. move house to the apartment. simply place the basics:
A shower, wash basin, toilet, fridge, bed and computer. that will post you near §4,000.
Yes but this is a workaroud. The picture is as follows. A sim goes to uni, gets graduated, maybe even with honors, and yet can't afford a starter lot. Because, not all DU users have necessarely access to San Myshuno. In my book, this is preposterous. At exit, I feel as though you should at least have: starting funds+job enrolment bonus, which is about 20 000§
I just work it around by setting my family funds to a "starter" fund then just build it from there as careers do give out good pay once you are graduated!
You could have kept the house and attended uni there if you wanted.
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[Edit]Oh I see, a missquote, my bad.
But there should also be an option where a sim could sponsor you and move you into their household, but you'd have no control over the household members, just your own sim. you'd pay bills but at a reduced rate as they help offset that and help pay off part of your debt.
You are given pre-made room that can't be adjusted at first, but when you help pay your way and prove to the household you can be a good investment to them, you'll eventually have one of the household members come up and say that they'll allow you to make changes to your room as a pop up in a speech mark with a avatar of themselves. Eventually you'll clear your books and have a great paying job or used easy money makers on the side to help, either way, when you reach §20k in the clear, you are kicked out and the household sells your stuff for themselves and restores the original layout. you'll have to make your own way from there.
You'll keep ythe friendships you built, but you'll be limited on purpose to 50% friendship and unable to form relationships in order to keep from seducing the daughter or son of the sim to worm your way into their good books to pay off your debts just like that and use the one you seduced as a sort of hostage by love.
Then I wouldn't enjoy the proper university experience
TL;DR move into another household, work and save up money, move out and take ur desired amount of funds with u
One solution might be looking for existing households with room for one sim more. At least some of the premade households have spare beds.
Without CL, §4,500 is barely enough to get a wall, roof and everything else you need to start off with, even on a tiny lot like Crick Cabana, Singleton Streamlet or Nookstone. even the basic house with nothing inside costs far more than what you start with. so you'll have to build your own on the smallest cheapest lot available (which usually costs §1,500), get the above as mentioned, no computer or easel. that is with the cheapest stuff you can get (the mod pod sleeper being the exception as the anti-goblin bed isn't made for adults to sleep on).
BTW i just created a 4x4 house for a post-graduate, as i'm poking fun at the situation, i'm gonna upload it when i post this message.
That's what I was thinking. Now, all your Sim needs is a just-above-minimum wage job not remotely related to the degree he took, and a loan collector calling to ask what he's spending 'all his money' on.
This will make the realists happy...for me, there will always be 'motherlode'.
That's too late now. As stated in another debate, one way around is moving a random sim in before moving to university, and decide afterwards whether that sim should stay or leave once you need to move back.
For instance, a sim called Teulia Turei moved into the apartment of Karaoke Legends before Miko Ojo and Akira Kibo went to university.
Darling Walsh moved out long ago and lives in Brindleton Bay now.
If you have City Living, the Lobo and Rasoya households of San Myshuno probably have room for a sim more, by the way.
The Roswell household of Strangerville has plenty of room, too. I am not sure about the other worlds.
Edit II: I moved more sims into the mentioned and other premade households.
The Roswell household has four or five beds but only two residents.
The Lobo household looks like this after a new female sim moved in and some changes were made.
Lobo is sitting at the computer to the right and the new female sim is watching tv to the left. I think there are plenty of room for two sims in that apartment.
That actually sounds like an interesting scenario to live among the premades while your sim earns enough to but his/her own house.