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    $450,000 Insurance Payout!

    unashamedfemaleunashamedfemale Posts: 92 New Member
    in The Sims 3 General Discussion
    So I was trying to play the game the right way and not using motherlode. I'm a witch and I started a fire on my grass and I got a $450,000 insurance payout for that! I am living at a cheap house. So weird!!!

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      unashamedfemaleunashamedfemale Posts: 92 New Member
      edited September 2012
      OMG it wasn't just a fluke! I just did it again!
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      ComputosaurusComputosaurus Posts: 113 New Member
      edited September 2012
      My witch made her millions the same way! Tiny 10x10 lot with nothing worth over a few thousand simoleans.
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      mcruddmcrudd Posts: 11,696 Member
      edited September 2012
      LOL burn your tiny house down and use the insurance payout to build a mansion :mrgreen:
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      unashamedfemaleunashamedfemale Posts: 92 New Member
      edited September 2012
      So awesome! I was amazed haha! I had no idea. So much faster and easier then motherlode too! That's funny Computosaurus & mcrudd...I totally just did!
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      MacyQueenMacyQueen Posts: 2,321 New Member
      edited September 2012
      i keep sporadically in my game getting 50,000 added to my account just out of the blue?! it only happens once every couple of weeks (normal weeks not sim weeks)
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      reni401reni401 Posts: 1,388 Member
      edited September 2012
      Ah, game breaking bugs. Not in the crashing sense, but it sure eliminates the requirement to... do anything.

      MacyQueen, I get that, too. I usually use the Familyfunds cheat to remove the added funds since it's clear that my family was not meant to get that money for... well, sleeping, usually.
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      MacyQueenMacyQueen Posts: 2,321 New Member
      edited September 2012
      reni401 wrote:
      Ah, game breaking bugs. Not in the crashing sense, but it sure eliminates the requirement to... do anything.

      MacyQueen, I get that, too. I usually use the Familyfunds cheat to remove the added funds since it's clear that my family was not meant to get that money for... well, sleeping, usually.

      ahh thank you, how do i use that cheat??
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      reni401reni401 Posts: 1,388 Member
      edited September 2012
      MacyQueen wrote:
      reni401 wrote:
      Ah, game breaking bugs. Not in the crashing sense, but it sure eliminates the requirement to... do anything.

      MacyQueen, I get that, too. I usually use the Familyfunds cheat to remove the added funds since it's clear that my family was not meant to get that money for... well, sleeping, usually.

      ahh thank you, how do i use that cheat??

      ctrl-shift-c to call up the entry field
      testingcheatsenabled true
      Once testing cheats have been enabled, call up the box again with ctrl-shift-c

      familyfunds [family name] [fund amount]
      So, let's pretend that your family name is Jones, and you wanted to have their funds set to 5,000, then your entry would look like this:
      familyfunds Jones 5000
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      dothesmustledothesmustle Posts: 1,851 Member
      edited September 2012
      totally bummed My witch only got only £304.00
      You can call me smustle or Lori if you prefer.
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      southern_wintersouthern_winter Posts: 321 Member
      edited September 2012
      Me too! A couple of times my sim family have randomly been given $110,000 with no pop ups saying why lol.
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      oppzorrooppzorro Posts: 341 Member
      edited September 2012
      I discovered that one myself. I was jumping for joy. Now I'm gonna set my yard on fire as much as possible. lol
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      PixieStixPixieStix Posts: 1,956 Member
      edited September 2012
      I haven't had quite that large a sum of simoleons just by chance but before SN I was playing a game the way I always do (without cheats) and out of no where my sim went from $231 to $36,542 with zero explanation... and it's happened a few times, it sort of annoyed me because it ruined the whole build up I usually have when I play, but it made her midlife crisis wishes easier to complete :lol:
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      blewis823blewis823 Posts: 9,046 Member
      edited September 2012
      This is upsetting for me. I am not happy with how fast my sims are acquiring money. Have a witch in the household and BAM, instant millionaires. *facepalm*
      Nothing to see. I don't even care about the forums.
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      LizzyBrdn59LizzyBrdn59 Posts: 52 Member
      edited September 2012
      I'd have to agree, I have a witch had him flame blast the grass, had no clue it'd set the grass on fire, by the time he'd put it out he was 400k richer and I was more than a bit disappointed as I was trying to work his way up legit with alchemy...
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      ZorgaZorga Posts: 614 Member
      edited September 2012
      This has happened to me too, only it was $499,999

      Fortunately I have the Hidden Lakes world, thus the magical fountain which costs, I believe, $500k so I just bought it, activated testing cheats, then deleted it.

      Now I'm careful to only start the fire off my sims house (aka park next door)

      It's even annoying when the payout is $500 because I like my simmies to EARN their money, and nothing is burnt!

      Silly glitches make me chuckle!

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      JonchuableJonchuable Posts: 321 Member
      edited September 2012
      same thing happened to me, although my witch didn't start the fire but extinguish it with the ice blast spell. I got §45,000... that was a surprise to me but then you got 450,000.. wow! :shock:
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      gabe0199gabe0199 Posts: 1,036 Member
      edited September 2012
      I don't get insurance is it because i have mastercontrol and sp mod twallan.
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      JaeganJaegan Posts: 21 Member
      edited December 2012
      Yeah just got 450k trying out fireblast in the front yard.
      They nerfed conversion ritual but it looks like Witches to Riches is back in effect.
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