So... I just finished renovating the Old Salt House and have maxed out my two Sims' careers...
And now I am bored. Again.
Because there is nothing left to do. Again. I have a weekly bill of about 2500, and my Sims together makes about 11500 per day five days a week. And I have literally nothing to spend it on, my Sims have everything they need, the house is perfect... They also each have above 18000 reward points (I wish you could disable the reward system altogether, I have learned a long time ago that buying traits from the store makes the game mind-numbingly boring with Sims who don't have to eat, sleep, shower or poop, earn a trillion dollars a day and are immune to getting fired...
Also, I love the Spice District, San Myshuno is one of my favorite worlds. But the districts are still suffering from Base Game tinyness. As someone who takes his Sims out for jogs and bike rides a lot running in circles around the square is... yeah.
I am thinking of starting over again and deliberately NOT get a job that fits my Sims degrees, or just do odd jobs or part time jobs and never get real jobs.
Also, I am finding again I am having really fight myself to not just move my Sims to Sulani, like literally all my last 15 or so Sims have lived in because it is simply the best world. Period. Again, especially if you like to make Sims who love the outdoors and sports. Freezing to death from Jogging in Snow is getting annoying.
Trying to really think things thru this time. Where to start, how to live, what to do... try to make it more fun longer.
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But right now I guess the best thing to do is go on vacations, hire different services, go to the spa, etc.
My big problem is the combination of being too much in love with my Sims to allowing them to die, and well... this.
I could do that...
Speaking of worlds; another reason I love Sulani (except for the fact that if I was promised a greencard and a one way flight to Hawaii IRL if I just carved my arm off I would do it) is the swimming. Since Swimming has not been implemented in the old worlds and it really is a second hand feature in the other worlds... I would love if the Island in Windenburg had swimmable beaches for example, but as it is only Sulani truly delivers.
in Briteshester the swimmable canals are very small, and you also have to travel to get to them. In Snowy Escape the lake is a bit bigger but I really didn't enjoy the world. At all. I thought I did but it grew very stale (and annoying with all the bugs) very quickly.
I have not tried "England" yet. At all. Mostly because IRL rural England is as interesting to me as a an empty cardboard box. No offense intended, but it is nice looking at at House Renovating shows on the telly, but I would never want to live there. Besides, British cottages look all wrong, being made of stone instead of wood like proper cottages (what, me Swedish? ).
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It is possible to still become attached to your sims even when playing this many. I play on long so there is plenty of time to get to know them all.
The game desperately needs a good money dump. It would be nice if there were magic shops where your regular non-occult sims could buy things like Potion of Rejuvenation for like 50,000 - 100,000 simoleons. It would also be a nice canon way to keep sims alive longer aside from the potion of youth.
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They have removed all challenges (except the murphy beds ) from the game compared to any older version of the game. Sims 1 was a survival horror game almost where the result if you forgot to pause when going to the bathroom probably was your whole household dead. 2 and 3 were not as harsh but still way tougher than 4.
I know the devs have argued that according to pre-release data / surveys / whatever they found that the vast majority played with aging off AND with endless money cheats. So they made Sims 4 cater to those who want a non-challenge sandbox.
I mean you can still see it on the gallery, where the majority of homes tagged "starter" is above 20 000 in price since the builders just assume you are going to freerealestate on your way in there.
And with every expansion making money is easier and easier. The random phonecalls they have added that randomly gives you 1000nds of Simolions per week for example. Why not just make the whole Build / Buy mode completely free at this point?? Money is literally pointless in the game after you graduate Uni.
As for increasing your bills... I remember when Seasons came out and everyone on here was like "I can't play! The thermostat bills are too high!" and I barely noticed an increase worth mentioning because I hadn't cheated my way into a house twice of what my Sim was meant to afford and so still had a bill that only took about 2 days out of 5 salary to pay off and I was "finally, some actual costs".
(Also, again, that reward store... I would have the game adjust the points you get according to lifespan length. If you pay with aging off I would have the game divide the points by 100 even. Like you get 100 points for a successful holiday, right? If you played with aging off you would get 1 (one) point but the prices in the store would be the same...)
You need to give them a bigger house to increase your bills if that is what you want. 2500 on bills is very little, my unemployed sims with average house pay at least double that. There is also the option to donate money, expensive vacations, retail endeavours, hire staff often for house parties, etc. There is swimmable water in Mt. Komorebi too.
But that's the point. I don't need a bigger house, I got everything they'll ever need (and i hate playing in really big houses anyway, in fact I really prefer tiny homes, much more enjoyable to play in). 2500 is probably because one of the things I HAVE spent my money on is solar panels etc. Which means I now sell a ton of energy back to the city.
I am afraid that with this mindset, your sims will remain rich regardless of whatever else expenses are added to the game. If you don't spend it's easy for money to accumulate, which isn't really a bad thing. Put it in a vault and take early retirement. 🙂
Here's a list of challenges that sound interesting- and there are lots more out there
https://www.thegamer.com/sims-4-challenges-hardest-easiest/
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You could make the story be something like, they made a really bad investment and went bankrupt. Or they can buy a fixer-upper house. Like from the movie "The Money Pit."
Maybe they adopt a bunch of pets or kids?