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Question About Moving.
jacechu
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Is there a way you can move to a different lot and leave the house you had behind exactly as it was EXCEPT for what you've chosen to pack in your Sim's family inventory? Moving in TS4 seems to be a dice roll as to whether or not things stay, get deleted, or chucked into your family inventory.
Example: Say you're playing a Sim and their parent. Parent dies, and you want your Sim to move out of that house for whatever reason - maybe there's not enough money and you want a smaller and cheaper place, or you're imagining the Sim wants a fresh start, or whatever story angle you're going for. But you do not want to take everything in that house, nor do you want that house empty/deleted. Is this possible?
Example: Say you're playing a Sim and their parent. Parent dies, and you want your Sim to move out of that house for whatever reason - maybe there's not enough money and you want a smaller and cheaper place, or you're imagining the Sim wants a fresh start, or whatever story angle you're going for. But you do not want to take everything in that house, nor do you want that house empty/deleted. Is this possible?
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Yes, it's also very simple. All you need to do is pack whatever you want in your family inventory, and select "sell furniture". You will take that stuff with you, but also leave everything ELSE behind. Kind of adds a touch of realism, to be quite honest. I've always enjoyed building houses that are empty outside stuff IRL that you wouldn't really move from home to home (at least here in America) and letting your Sim keep their furniture such as beds, tables, couches, ect, ect. Just like IRL. I think I will do a video tutorial on it this week. I know it's a simple feature of the game, but with Uni coming out, players may want to do a lot of "temporarily move out of THIS house and into another one, but move back again" scenarios, and I feel like it might be a good idea to show how moving works!
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I just moved a sim who lived alone to another household (in which some relatives already lived), and chose to sell all the furnishing, thinking I would get extra money for them. Unhappily for me, I got no cash at all! I had no idea of how it worked, and thought I would get paid for the sold furniture (which is the most logical thing! Don't you think so?). The point is that I want (and need) the money from those items, and it's not a deal to buy the house again, sell everything, and move again to the new one, since I have to pay the price of the furnished home, which is higher than my budget.
So, resuming, do I have any chance to get the money from that furniture?
Is it so unfair not to have the opportunity to have all of your investment back :(
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You should/will definitely find that the “available funds” increases by the value of the furniture when you “sell furniture” upon moving house. The difference is the value of the furniture only, because you get the value of the house whether you keep the furniture or not. The corresponding funds are reflected in your household account minus the cost of the new accomodations. Hope that helps.
In the case of merging households (moving in with someone else) the accounts will be combined.
Then I think there's a bug, because I got no money at all by selling the furniture. I hope it will get fixed soon. But, I think that's over for me :( I already saved the game :(
Maybe I could cheat for getting the same amount of money I lost due to this, but I tried to get away from the cheats in general.
Anyway, I'd be glad if anyone could prove this is a bug.