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Does this annoy anyone else?

How easy it is to get rich. I mean, seriously I don't even need a job at this rate. I want my Sims to struggle even a little bit.

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    CK213CK213 Posts: 20,559 Member
    Get a vault and stuff that money in it. :)
    Then create burglar sims and have them rip them off and then skip town. (Delete)

    We should probably not focus so much on activities that get them promoted.
    Slow down on that and the wealth rate will be slower. Take off early some days and send them out into the world to do something, or meet new sims.
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    GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 29,102 Member
    Isn't there a cheat to remove money as well as gain it?
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    StarfreeStarfree Posts: 1,480 Member
    Isn't there a cheat to remove money as well as gain it?

    @GalacticGal yes, it's "money xxxxx" where the Xs are the amount you want your sim to have; ie: money 2463 will set their household funds to 2463 simoleons.
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    Gamer_34567544Gamer_34567544 Posts: 1,300 Member
    Lol. My Sims never get jobs. They're usually casual authors who don't even write once a day. Other times, if I want a challenge so bad, I will get an entrepreneur table and sell stuff. Even then, I can get rich. It's insane.
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    jpsulsuldagdagjpsulsuldagdag Posts: 450 Member
    edited July 2022
    I do wish there are options to make things more challenging as well. It's quite too easy to level up in careers too. And why is the water bill only like 2 simoleons (sometimes even 0), electricity is like 90 simoleons and the lot bill is 4,000 simoleons lol I think it's a glitch too? I dunno it's crazy.
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    Gamer_34567544Gamer_34567544 Posts: 1,300 Member
    Also I doubt I can run an entire house off the grid with four little windmills and two dew collectors. If I seriously had a normal house in Sims, on the grid, I can reduce the water bill to zero with one dew collector.

    One time, my bill was +1! I got a dollar from bills?
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    SnaveXsSnaveXs Posts: 4,355 Member
    The only thing I dislike is $30,000 is considered rich when you play with clubs. In Get Together they have 3 different economic classes and since I do like to use motherlode and FREEREALESTATE on, it's hard to keep certain sims below the $10,000 bracket. I have Sims who I consider rich but they actually have $500 dollars in the bank. lol
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    Gamer_34567544Gamer_34567544 Posts: 1,300 Member
    What I don't like is that I like to play the traveler, who packs very lightly and buys the cheapest piece of garbage to live in, as if they're poor.

    Thing is, they're not. I want to be a hobo type in game.
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    brenleedeebrenleedee Posts: 427 Member
    I totally agree, I remember in sims1 and sims 2 it could be difficult to make money and my failed attempts at wooing Mortimer for money lol. I'd like maybe a level system easy, medium, hard, virtually impossible lol♥
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    MareahMareah Posts: 792 Member
    All of my sims don't have steady jobs, and i don't have this issue of them raking in the cash so fast. I am guessing it is the jobs with the steady income that make them become rich easily? maybe try other ways for them to earn their living then, like self employment, freelancing and other gig based jobs like acting and such, or have them run a store but do it at a slower pace.
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    BenjamilianBenjamilian Posts: 395 Member
    Threads come up about it occasionally. I guess something which halves your income (at least on low rungs) would go a long way.

    (I half hoped the thread title would be about if we're irked by thread titles which don't say what the thread is about)
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    OriginalNameOriginalName Posts: 347 Member
    How easy it is to get rich. I mean, seriously I don't even need a job at this rate. I want my Sims to struggle even a little bit.

    I'm not really bothered by how easy it is to become rich tbh. If I don't want my sims to become rich overnight I just don't do the things that allow for that. I have some sims that are in my mind supposed to be rich so they paint or grow dragon fruit to get started. My sims that need to struggle for a little while just have a normal job and don't do any of the get rich quick activities. And when I do rags to riches they are not even allowed to sell items directly from their inventory. I like the freedom we have right now to choose what kind of life our sims will have money wise.

    I do wish we could throw items in the trash though. I've made a few sims who paint but didn't really want them to get rich from painting. It was more of a hobby that they enjoyed and a way to have different artwork in their house. It would be nice to get rid of the artwork I didn't want on their lot without selling or storing it.
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    Gamer_34567544Gamer_34567544 Posts: 1,300 Member
    You can actually throw money in a fire.
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    SharoniaSharonia Posts: 4,853 Member
    edited July 2022
    I use mods to make it more difficult.
    Currently I'm using Carl's Gameplay Overhaul mod where I have set career progression to be harder so they won't be promoted as easily.
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    friendlysimmersfriendlysimmers Posts: 7,587 Member
    it do not annoys me as a player since i am the type of player that cheats in the game and give the max amount of simoleons to my sims right on the start
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    misty4mmisty4m Posts: 2,314 Member
    How easy it is to get rich. I mean, seriously I don't even need a job at this rate. I want my Sims to struggle even a little bit.

    No because all the sims' games are the same at giving your sims money, for years when I was playing the sims 1, I didn't know there was a money cheat for a while.

    I just use the money cheat to remove money from them and give them a set balance in the sims 4
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    SheriSim57SheriSim57 Posts: 7,058 Member
    How easy it is to get rich. I mean, seriously I don't even need a job at this rate. I want my Sims to struggle even a little bit.

    I'm not really bothered by how easy it is to become rich tbh. If I don't want my sims to become rich overnight I just don't do the things that allow for that. I have some sims that are in my mind supposed to be rich so they paint or grow dragon fruit to get started. My sims that need to struggle for a little while just have a normal job and don't do any of the get rich quick activities. And when I do rags to riches they are not even allowed to sell items directly from their inventory. I like the freedom we have right now to choose what kind of life our sims will have money wise.

    I do wish we could throw items in the trash though. I've made a few sims who paint but didn't really want them to get rich from painting. It was more of a hobby that they enjoyed and a way to have different artwork in their house. It would be nice to get rid of the artwork I didn't want on their lot without selling or storing it.
    I think you can give artwork away.
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    benpass4benpass4 Posts: 8 New Member
    I'm only on gen 4 in my generations save and they're so rich just because every generation worked. Currently, my sims is a social media influencer, so I'm thinking that there might have to be some drama so her kid isn't a millionaire forever. I guess it just depends on your play style though.
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    Gamer_34567544Gamer_34567544 Posts: 1,300 Member
    My latest one wrote a small handful of books and now makes enough to pay the bills and buy whatever they want.
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    dpbowiedpbowie Posts: 5 New Member
    one of my sim scenario is a Hobo (literally), no money, no house, the money that he can obtain is by selling plants that found in neighborhood or fishes from fishing. lmao
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    DarrenDarren Posts: 129 Member
    Money gain is not really balanced.
    As freelancer (mainly painter but also writer) you can get rich very quick. When you do actual careers it takes much longer to get rich, maybe even several generations.
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    Gamer_34567544Gamer_34567544 Posts: 1,300 Member
    Darren wrote: »
    Money gain is not really balanced.
    As freelancer (mainly painter but also writer) you can get rich very quick. When you do actual careers it takes much longer to get rich, maybe even several generations.

    This! Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. You shouldn't be able to get filthy rich by doing so little. I'm not saying real freelance isn't work, but for a Sim it's so easy. And all the careers do is take up game play time as Sims vanish from the screen.
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    wahini2024wahini2024 Posts: 547 Member
    brenleedee wrote: »
    I totally agree, I remember in sims1 and sims 2 it could be difficult to make money and my failed attempts at wooing Mortimer for money lol. I'd like maybe a level system easy, medium, hard, virtually impossible lol♥

    I still dislike the Goths to this day because they wouldn't become my sims friend in sims 1 which I needed for a promotion
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