Living expensive
Warge:
One thing I'm disturbed of when it comes to the Sims is that all living expenses (food and bills) are too cheap. Generally speaking, when food and bills are paid for by general working Joe there isn't much left, and I would like this to be depicted in the sims if possible - the only things costing as it should are clothes and furniture IMO. I was thinking something like this:
1. A certain rent for the small lot size (a 2x2 is 20x20). I'd say the smallscale dimensions would be enough (20x20).
2. A rent of $3 for each floor tile inside (ie, not counting terraces and flat roofs).
3. Three times as expensive to fill the fridge. Food is a major factor when it comes to digging holes in people's wallets.
Example with the changes mentioned:
A substitute teacher (lvl 3 in the education career - not very high ranking thus) earns $452 a day which equals (5x452) = $2260 a week. If he lives with an unempoyed housewife and two kids, the fridge will need restocking once (since the kids and him are eating out every weekday). To restock an empty cheap fridge at the end of the week it will cost him (3x450) = $1350.
Living on a 2x2 sized lot, the lot rent amounts to (20x20) = $400.
The house has a total of 120 floortiles so the rent will go up to $360.
Added to this is the ridiculously low cost for the detoriating furniture and other things in the hoe - say $50.
That would leave our guy with about $100 bucks to get drunk with which in this case seems quite reasonable. Note, this is counted as a single guy working at a low-level job with kids and wife to support. Maxis throws money at the sims everywhere and the kids are bound to come home at least once with gratulation money, and I think it's quite seldom people let one adult sim be home alone all the time, so they will realistically have a lot more on their hands to buy clothes, pizza and other things for.
Came to think of it: I would like to raise the floor tile rent to $5 or so to really put some pressure on the economy and also double the normal bills amount. To make this easier to handle, I'd say the mailman should only come around once a week too, but that could be changed.
So, Lords of the Hacks, what do you say? could this be made? I would really appreciate it.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Warge on 2007 June 27, 20:59:06
3. Three times as expensive to fill the fridge. Food is a major factor when it comes to digging holes in people's wallets.
Wouldn't really help, since the replacement cost of the fridge never exceeds the fridge itself, or it's cheaper to just buy a new fridge, unless we start making them "food sold seperately". It's also true that most people also eat too damn much, I've never budgeted money for food, it's a ripoff and generally stale and nasty anyway when you buy it from stores. Life: nature's way of keeping food fresh.
Warge:
Interesting. Would it be possible to make fridges like that? I remember from my last time playing a couple of years ago, I couldn't arse yself to call for delivery, so I simply sold the empty fridge and bought a new one. Seemed a little unrealistic, but that's maybe just me...
notveryawesome:
Monique at MTS2 has a couple of different landlord/tenant type mods. I've been using her automatic payment mod to keep my sims poor (and Malcolm Landgraab rich). It allows you to set up an automatic payment between a specific payer and a specific payee, just like paying rent. Perhaps this is the sort of thing you were looking for?
ETA: There are also numerous hacks for auto-refilling of fridges, as well as one that allows you to buy groceries directly from the Buy catalogue. I believe these are also available from MTS2. Just do searches there for terms like 'fridge' (or check the game mods section).
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Warge on 2007 June 27, 21:32:10
Interesting. Would it be possible to make fridges like that? I remember from my last time playing a couple of years ago, I couldn't arse yself to call for delivery, so I simply sold the empty fridge and bought a new one. Seemed a little unrealistic, but that's maybe just me...
I could, but it's rather a nuisance as it is, as fridges always wait until you actually need them before being empty, and the entire delivery thing is just a pain in the ass.
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