How Does Game Determine Painting Price?
ZephyrZodiac:
Well it would be logical, I suppose, since he won't be creating any more! They'd gain in value because of their scarcity.
Simsane:
I was given the Sims 2 along with PRIMA's Official Game Guide for the Sims 2 as a present. I haven't looked at it in a long time (since I first got the game) but that was one of the things it implied was that you should hang on to the paintings because they go up in value after the sim who painted them dies. I get so sick of their first few paintings though that I usually sell them and don't even pay attention to how much they sold for! LOL
DaveFlew:
Quote from: Katze
I have some paintings now that are selling over 1000 the sim that painted them just died, maybe they go up after death. I will wait a couple of sim day and see if they go up more.
The value of a painting doubles when the artist dies.
Bear in mind that a Masterpiece is a painting whose initial value is §500 or more - so the post-mortem doubling of value won't have any impact on a painting's Masterpiece status.
ZephyrZodiac:
To me it seems a ridiculously small amount for a masterpiece! A saleable piece of art, perhaps, but hardly the Mona Lisa!
Trubble:
Well ZZ we are talking simland here, not the real world - a masterpiece can be anything, and as the game isn't focussed around art selling, they aren't going to put much more thought into it than that. I would expect sims in the art career track to rack up more with painting sales (not that they do, but it would be an assumption one would make) simply because that is part of their job. Sims who paint as a hobby are hardly going to create something Mona-Lisa-esque and thus a $500 masterpiece is a feasible occurance.
I can't tell you how happy I'd be if I sold a piece of mine for £500 but it aint going to happen - I would consider that an acheivement as would many artists I know.
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