Not sure if this is an annoyance or just plain broken, but...
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2006 May 23, 12:54:55
Another work-around is to use Pescado's 'Money Order' found here to send money to the kids via mail. In this case, though, you'd have to make sure the kids spend the money on big ticket items and stick those items in their inventory before they graduate, or they'd lose the money they got (also true for insurance payments -- in fact, any money earned at college). I usually use the inventory so a college grad could spend the rest of their grants before leaving to buy some basic stuff to stock their house when they get back to the main hood.
If you have "No 20K Handouts", the money is not lost: A portion of it equal to 1/N, where N is the number of residents presently on the lot, is taken and used as your starting "out of college" money, instead of the free 20K handout. This even division of the funds based on this proportion may or may not be what you wish, but you can just money-order the funds from there if you have remaining residents. If you don't have remaining residents, well, 1/1 is all of it.
If that doesn't turn out to be enough to buy a house, well, TOO FRIKKEN BAD. You think everyone is entitled to a house? Hell, no. People who can't afford housing wind up sleeping in the STREETS. That, or moving in with someone else.
ZephyrZodiac:
I just get the last one returning from college to send all the surplus money back to the others and stick all the expensive objects in their inventory. But my parents are so chock full of elixir they usually are the same age as the returning graduates! (And if the kids move into their own lot, I have to remember to turn aging off or they end up older than their parents!)
MistyBlue:
With no 20k handouts installed, my poor grads only have a good 5k-9k to buy a house. Its good to make them struggle a bit. ;)
ZephyrZodiac:
True, but if you move another one in they get more money anyway. And they do need a computer or they're stuck with the jobs in the paper, and it can take forever for their LTW career to show up!
And two of mine have businesses anyway, so they just need to go to the business once and they can start raking in the cash. (Though why they have to do that just beats me!)
jsalemi:
Quote from: MistyBlue on 2006 May 23, 14:40:50
With no 20k handouts installed, my poor grads only have a good 5k-9k to buy a house. Its good to make them struggle a bit. ;)
I go back and forth with it, depending on whether I feel like being a benevolent 'god' or not. :) Most of the time I have it disabled, but every so often I have a bunch of grads that I know are just going to move back home, so I enable it to keep them from adding to much to the family funds.
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