Most profitable self employment?

[Metropolis Man]

Oh, man...SimCity 4. What a monster of a game. Truly wonderful. One of my all time favs. Last summer I finally bought a iMac with an Intel chip just to have the convenience of booting into Windows whenever the need arose. The downside is SimCity 4 is not compatible with the newer Macs, just with older PPC chips.

[Pam]

I haven't tried photography all the way yet...I was getting bored with it and not making anything. Maybe i'll give it another go.

Collecting takes too much effort so i'll pass on that one.

Have you tried using the Collection Helper? It costs 40,000 Happiness Points, but it's worth it because you can find gems, metals, seeds, and fish with no trouble at all.  It's great for traveling, too, so that you can get all the new collectible items in World Adventures.

[jmz95]

I haven't tried photography all the way yet...I was getting bored with it and not making anything. Maybe i'll give it another go.

Collecting takes too much effort so i'll pass on that one.

Have you tried using the Collection Helper? It costs 40,000 Happiness Points, but it's worth it because you can find gems, metals, seeds, and fish with no trouble at all.  It's great for traveling, too, so that you can get all the new collectible items in World Adventures.

And (though it may seem really dumb to some people) if you train your eyes to know only the good gems and metals, it's even more efficient because you don't waste the travel time to go to simhenge and there turns out to be zero good items there. I just hate it when all I get are smoky quartz and yellow sapphires (it is sapphires, isn't it?).

[TGBlank]

And (though it may seem really dumb to some people) if you train your eyes to know only the good gems and metals, it's even more efficient because you don't waste the travel time to go to simhenge and there turns out to be zero good items there. I just hate it when all I get are smoky quartz and yellow sapphires (it is sapphires, isn't it?).

Even smoky quartz and yellow sapphires can be used to make large soulpeaces through transfigurification, so it's not really a loss.
Only real waste is with low value meteor rocks imho.

[Swede1992]

Oh, man...SimCity 4. What a monster of a game. Truly wonderful.

I'm only 17 and I remember the glorious days of SimCity 2000. Alien/Robot/Volcano invasion all day long.

And (though it may seem really dumb to some people) if you train your eyes to know only the good gems and metals, it's even more efficient because you don't waste the travel time to go to simhenge and there turns out to be zero good items there. I just hate it when all I get are smoky quartz and yellow sapphires (it is sapphires, isn't it?).

Even smoky quartz and yellow sapphires can be used to make large soulpeaces through transfigurification, so it's not really a loss.
Only real waste is with low value meteor rocks imho.

But then also, low value resources gives a lower value product with transfiguration even if it's technically a soulpeace.

[TGBlank]

But then also, low value resources gives a lower value product with transfiguration even if it's technically a soulpeace.

In the case of metals, once you break the 50k mark, using uranium or iron to up the value of a compendium bar won't make much difference.
In the case of gems, i'm not entirely certain if the value of the gems used haves any effect on the resulting soulpeace, at least i haven't noticed any consistent greater difference with varying cuts and gem value/weights that couldn't be attributed to random variance.
At any rate, making more soulpeaces even if it means cheap materials > making fewer soulpeaces.

[Swede1992]

Quantity over quality as they say, right?

[TGBlank]

They're still worth 20~40k a piece...

[meamalso2]

I gave the omni plant a go, that was able to turn over ~80k a day. Not as good as some of the others, but  still good. Far less then the exponential growth of compendium.

[jmz95]

I gave the omni plant a go, that was able to turn over ~80k a day. Not as good as some of the others, but  still good. Far less then the exponential growth of compendium.

Just curious, how many omni plants did you have, and what were you feeding it?

[TylerDurden]

I have to agree with TGBlank... Nothing in the game even comes close to the financial Philosophers Stone that is the Display Table XL (8 slot version).  Collecting rocks & gems is vastly more profitable than one would imagine, ESPECIALLY when you are collecting in the World Adventure areas.  Al Simhara has the copper mines on the island (all you are looking for is quantity), France has so many titanium ores lying around, you can spend the entire day and never collect them all.  China is not the best due to it's very unforgiving layout, but there are several areas that are good places to collect. 

In Sunset Valley, the nodes are horribly far apart by comparison. I don't play Riverside much, so I am unable to comment as thoroughly as the other areas, although Simhenge is almost always a solid place to scout out due to the heavy node load nearby.

Using your maximum travel privileges, it is very easy to max out your money (A little over 2 Billion simoleans) inside of 60 days. Just take trips as quickly as possible and collect every waking moment you are able. --- Usually this takes about 40 to 50 combines once you have a compendium bar worth 50,000 - I make a supernovium bar to start things out right.

>>> I have tried Metro's guitar hero method and aside from taking care of the absolute needs (food-energy-bladder) I was unable to get past about 700 performances cancelled before I gave up out of boredom.  If you can get past 1000 performances cancelled, you have to be a machine.  Even then I couldn't get close to Metro's results, so I will say he is the owner of the guitar ATM machine.