Too much money
leiela:
Can anyone recomend any good hacks / ways to keep my sims poor??
It doens't seem to take much effort to take a sim and go from broke to 10 bedroom house / sports car / swimingpool rich.... gosh i wish real life was that easy,
I currently use the increased bills package with is great so im looking for more stuff like that.
I know i could use money order to send money to an random pc but im looking for something abit more organised that actually does "get rid" of the money and does it automatically so i don't forget who is suposed to be paying and how much etc.
B:
For starters, grab the awesome no 20K handouts, which eliminates EA's rather dumb strategy for determining starting finances. Instead, the rich will stay somewhat richer, while the poor will be lucky to afford a telephone.
As for prolonged poverty, there are several financial mods available here that "burn" money, some of which can be programmed to do so on a regular basis. The banking mods are also kind of interesting.
alia:
I usually open the cheat window with ctrl+shift+C in the neighbourhood view and type in the command "familyfunds familyname amount". For example, if I wanted the Brokes to have only 2 000 simoleans, I'd type in "familyfunds broke 2000".
I find that easier than trying to find hacks that are compatible with everything else I have.
FlyOnTheWall:
no20khandouts is great, and harderjobs helps prevent things like Sims getting a position as a CEO right out of college.
pixiejuice:
I use increased bills too. And like the others said, no20khandouts and harderjobs. I also use syberspunk's Uni careers hack, so that some of the higher-paying non-uni jobs now require an education. I use Inge's mortgage shrubs, so that my sims can take out loans to buy their homes, businesses, student loans, and such. There is the private school bill hack. I make my sims pay $1000 per semester for college tuition, paid via Monique's hacked computer. They also pay rent for living in the dorms. In my neighborhood, one of my richer sims is a real estate mogul/slumlord, and my renting sims pay their rent to him, again via Monique's computer.
Also, from a gameplay perspective, I don't allow ALL of my sims to skill up quickly, go to college, and make lots of friends. I try to vary it as much as I can, and base it on their personalities and current wants. If they don't want to gain a skill point, they don't get one. If they don't want to work on a promotion, they don't. That way, the sims in my neighborhood are varied - some smart and some dumb, and as a result, some rich and some poor. I also impose a few personal rules to make it even harder - only parents with logic >3 can teach their kids to study. Only parents with logic >8 can feed their toddlers smart milk. Only sims with outgoing >8 can practice speech without a want for it. Only sims with active >8 can workout without a want for it. That usually gives me a more realistic distribution of wealth and poverty.
There's a lot you can do with a few good hacks and a little imagination :)
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