What is the Painting Exploit?

[Seabody]

I've been reading the old challenge threads in the Graveyard, and in one of them, I saw the rule:
"The Painting/Guitar Exploits are banned. Full compositions and Full painting times must take place", or something to that effect.
What is the painting exploit, and how can I exploit it?

[Anushka]

I don't know what Metro was thinking in that specific situation, but I'm aware of 2 exploits. First is kill your painter and paintings get huge increase in values. If goal was to earn money from painting, that would be exploit. Second one is if you have moveobjects on, you can drag painting from easel to inventory even if just started, and move your cursor over it to see the value /average, brilliant or masterpiece and approximate value, than with undo button put it back on easel if you want to finish it, or delete it and your Sim will stop painting immediately in live mode, and be ready for new try.
 

[Seabody]

I have a rough idea. It's the one where (I think) you stop your painter painting partway through the painting, and it will advance in progress a little.

[Hosfac]

There at least used to be an exploit for painting where if you started painting and stopped repeatedly, the painting would complete somewhat quickly.  I'm not sure if it still works, as I never tried it to begin with.

While I'm not totally sure if it's an exploit or not, there is an extremely easy way to complete the Master Painter skill challenge.  Masterpiece paintings are very distinctive.  So once you've maxed the skill and have completed the Proficient Painter challenge (which gives you a better chance of painting masterpieces), you can simply start a painting and you'll know almost immediately if it's a masterpiece or not.  If it's not, you can stop painting and scrap it so you can start another one.  You keep doing this until your sim starts one of the masterpieces, and then you let them complete it.  Rinse and repeat as often as necessary or desired...except where prohibited by law, of course. 

[geekgirl101]

There's a specific small painting that looks like crumpled tin foil and is always a masterpiece, and the medium paintings of the young female with dreadlocks and the Mona Lisa are also guaranteed masterpieces.  There's also a random chance your sim can make a masterpiece of a standard painting but the chances are so slim you may aswell just paint what you know is guaranteed a masterpiece.

[Hosfac]

There's also a random chance your sim can make a masterpiece of a standard painting but the chances are so slim you may aswell just paint what you know is guaranteed a masterpiece.

When you paint small/medium/large paintings, masterpieces will always be specific pictures.  These are based on real life works of art.  You have no chance of a standard painting being a masterpiece.  If it's one of those, the best it will be is brilliant.  100% guaranteed.  I've done enough legacies and dynastys to know this with absolute certainty, and I'm not the only one here who can say that.  The only way to get a masterpiece that is not one of the pre-determined styles is to paint a still life or a portrait.

[Metropolis Man]

There at least used to be an exploit for painting where if you started painting and stopped repeatedly, the painting would complete somewhat quickly.

That's the one I was referring to in last year's challenge rule sets. That particular exploit has since been fixed.

[Seabody]

That particular exploit has since been fixed.

Thank you Metro!

[originalsim]

When you paint small/medium/large paintings, masterpieces will always be specific pictures.

Good to know! I had thought that might be the case, as the Mona Lisa and The Birth of Venus are usually my Sim's masterpieces, but I never confirmed it. I should paint more. Perhaps my Sim's nooboo will get the Descendant of DiVinci LTW!   

[geekgirl101]

When you paint small/medium/large paintings, masterpieces will always be specific pictures.  These are based on real life works of art.  You have no chance of a standard painting being a masterpiece.  If it's one of those, the best it will be is brilliant.  100% guaranteed.  I've done enough legacies and dynastys to know this with absolute certainty, and I'm not the only one here who can say that.  The only way to get a masterpiece that is not one of the pre-determined styles is to paint a still life or a portrait.

I'm pretty certain that my one of my sims created a masterpiece of the french guy with the railway behind him and another sim did the same painting and it was average.  I know that the same happens with brilliant paintings so maybe that one was brilliant instead of masterpiece.  Unfortunately that save game got lost due to EA and their infinite bug list that I had to nuke it, so I can't check what the painting quality was.

[Hosfac]

I'm pretty certain that my one of my sims created a masterpiece of the french guy with the railway behind him and another sim did the same painting and it was average.

I'm absolutely 100% certain that this is not the case.  Painting is a cash-cow that can be milked very early on, so it's almost unheard of for me to create a family that does not have an artist in it at the early stages.  I also like to document the generations of the families (even in non-legacy and non-dynasty families), so my sims spend a lot of time painting.  That painting will always be a masterpiece.

[Pam]

This is starting to get off topic.  The painting exploit has been identified for the original poster and Metro has confirmed that it's been fixed.  The rest of this belongs on another thread.