Cleared out apartments: Really an intention???
Cyron:
Well EA tells us that it is intended to be that way when most of the furnishing of an appartment disappears when rented but I can't imagine this is true. Why? Simply because of the investments a Sim has to make. Besides paying the weekly rent (which is always extremely high compared to what we get in exchange) he also has to buy all the new furnishing and decoration. At total this is more expensive than buying a regular house! So why the heck should I rent an apartment? It don't make sense that way!
Morover it takes a lot of time to refurnish an apartment which was fully furnished before!
I came to the conclusion that I will play with the premade apartment inhabitants but I won't add new ones.
Intended behavior or a huge bug which EA puts in disguise by saying "it has to be that way" ?
However it is absolutely annoying!
Kyna:
Quote from: Cyron on 2008 August 31, 09:44:51
Well EA tells us that it is intended to be that way when most of the furnishing of an appartment disappears when rented but I can't imagine this is true. Why? Simply because of the investments a Sim has to make. Besides paying the weekly rent (which is always extremely high compared to what we get in exchange) he also has to buy all the new furnishing and decoration. At total this is more expensive than buying a regular house! So why the heck should I rent an apartment? It don't make sense that way!
Morover it takes a lot of time to refurnish an apartment which was fully furnished before!
I came to the conclusion that I will play with the premade apartment inhabitants but I won't add new ones.
Intended behavior or a huge bug which EA puts in disguise by saying "it has to be that way" ?
However it is absolutely annoying!
To rent a furnished apartment, turn on debug mode and shift-click on the apartment door in debug mode. The rent isn't extremely high as far as I can see. If you edit the lot before you move any sims in, you can add items to the common area, making it unneccessary to add these items to the sim's apartment. As for renting an apartment and not having much left over for more than the cheapest items, that sounds pretty much like real life to me. A starting out sim who has just left home or college shouldn't be able to afford to buy a house or have expensive furniture.
Tsarina:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 August 31, 09:57:48
To rent a furnished apartment, turn on debug mode and shift-click on the apartment door in debug mode.
Thank you! I was just about to ask how this could be done. I hate furnishing houses ATM.
The fact that the rent is higher is just a feature in my opinion. I played a house once, and in first generation they had more than 100.000 simoleons. I do not want this to happen again. Also, as Kyna said, it is way more realistic that they can't afford nice, expensive things.
Btw, is it normal that sims get more money when they start out? Some of my CAS sims had 35.000 simoleons instead of the regular 20.000 when I played them for the first time.
coralleane:
Quote from: Tsarina on 2008 August 31, 10:57:34
Btw, is it normal that sims get more money when they start out? Some of my CAS sims had 35.000 simoleons instead of the regular 20.000 when I played them for the first time.
Yes, new with AL, something like - 20,000 for the first adult, 5,000 for every additional adult, 3,000 per teen, 2,000 per child, 1,000 per toddler, 500 per pet.
Tsarina:
Quote from: coralleane on 2008 August 31, 11:25:06
Yes, new with AL, something like - 20,000 for the first adult, 5,000 for every additional adult, 3,000 per teen, 2,000 per child, 1,000 per toddler, 500 per pet.
How stupid! All the poverty challenges are around for a reason! Too much money. As if it wasn't bad enough already. I hope Pescado will come up with a noinstantrichsims-hack.
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