Not sure if this is an annoyance or just plain broken, but...
Ancient Sim:
Well, my main dorm has 8 residents and currently I think they have around a quarter of a million Simoleans. That's because of the SS bug - about 5 of them have just been initiated and each time they've brought back all this money. Then there is the Jacquet woman, who married an old Chinese guy who was about to pop his clogs (which he did tonight). When he moved in he brought about $8m with him, which was odd considering the family he came from were extremely poor immigrants all cramped into a tiny 2-bedroomed house (6 of them when he moved out).
I think this is a bit off-topic, actually. Never mind, it's late and I'm old.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: MistyBlue on 2006 May 24, 02:06:31
Coming out of college, my sims are poor as dirt! Where are you guys getting all the money? Even with straight A's that's only 4800 plus whatever they got in scholorships. ~hmm...I suspect my sims are making all the wrong choices in life. lol :-\
Some people are lamers and give their sims free 20K handouts. Because they suck. If your sims are poor as dirt, that's the way they SHOULD be!
nikita:
Quote from: MistyBlue on 2006 May 24, 02:06:31
Coming out of college, my sims are poor as dirt! Where are you guys getting all the money? Even with straight A's that's only 4800 plus whatever they got in scholorships. ~hmm...I suspect my sims are making all the wrong choices in life. lol :-\
A perfect GPA will get you 9600 simoleons, 1200 per semester. Plus scholarships, usually my Sims make over 10K on their own. But my Sim kids are all rich brats and I have their parents send them money and then they get the 20K when they leave and often move in together. They usually blow all of their scholarship and grant money on juice, clothes, bongs and dates.
Frankly, I find the 20K handout more realistic than not. A college degree will get you far in life...
J. M. Pescado:
The catch with the 20K free handouts is that it basically makes bothering to earn any money at all pointless, since you automatically get 20K free. Plus there's that entire "Only Broke Until Someone Moves Out" issue.
ZephyrZodiac:
I'd disagree with the idea that a college degree gets you a free lunch. Here in the UK, since the grant system was abolished, it's been getting harder and harder for students. Now, evidently, they are nearly 40 before they finish paying off their loans and start to accumulate more wealth than those who finished school with A-Level and went straight into a job. (Unlike the US, our college system doesn't include providing on-campus employment for students, nor is there much in the way of industry or commerce-funded scholarships. There was no tradition for such a system, and our government in its infinite wisdom destroyed the old grants system, but could not legislate to put what you have in the States in its place.
Since, as people keep saying, Sims is not RL, does it really matter whether one prefers them to leave college with nothing, or rich as Croesus?
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