Apartment Base Squatting: Viable?
J. M. Pescado:
THe furniture cost obviously has to be present if you are trying any kind of poverty challenge. If I changed it back so that the game didn't charge for the furniture, the entire point of having apartments for the poor sims would be undermined because they'd receive that same chunk of money as free cash, and wouldn't be POOR anymore.
rufio:
As I said, I understand why you added that. If you're limited to using furniture in the common area, though, you don't get charged for it, and you also can't sell it, so you're not getting anything for free. If things like toilets and showers and fridges that are actually in the apartment at move-in time worked the same way (you could use them, and maybe even move them, but not sell them, or at least not sell them for money) than you wouldn't have to be charged for them either.
Liz:
Quote from: rufio on 2009 November 24, 20:56:02
If you're limited to using furniture in the common area, though, you don't get charged for it, and you also can't sell it, so you're not getting anything for free.
Sure, you are. You're getting free use of furniture for which you didn't pay.
rufio:
Quote from: Liz on 2009 November 24, 23:06:53
Quote from: rufio on 2009 November 24, 20:56:02
If you're limited to using furniture in the common area, though, you don't get charged for it, and you also can't sell it, so you're not getting anything for free.
Sure, you are. You're getting free use of furniture for which you didn't pay.
Yes, but you would be getting it even if you did have furniture in the apartment. In any case, since it's more or less public property, you have to share it with other people, can't replace it if some stray comes by and destroys it, etc. IMO, if you can't (legally) sell something, you don't really own it. Pes is worried about free money, and if you can't sell the things you "get" for free, there's no free money involved.
Zazazu:
Free use of an object that would cost money is free money. Either way, you can't get away from the fact that the squatter would have the use of a $200 couch that he didn't pay for. So what if he can't sell it? My sims don't typically redecorate, they move. We may have different playstyles as far as reproduction goes, but I get the impression that we both try to be restrictive assholes to our sims. Free use of objects in a safe environment for no cost isn't mean.
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