Ranking the Best Money-Making Activities

[Leto85]

You get a significant boost to writing speed once you have read 50 books, too.

I didn't had tested it yet, so I ask you: will reading more than 50 books speed up the writing even more?
Also: will reading mostly typical genres (like 50 masterpieces, if you have them) also impove the speed or royalties when your painter write a book himself in that genre?

[Metropolis Man]

I didn't had tested it yet, so I ask you: will reading more than 50 books speed up the writing even more?

No. I remember Swede telling me it's a 50 book cap.

[Rhubarb]

Hey all.  I didn't have the energy to read all 11 pages of this topic, so I'm not sure if someone else mentioned this.  The single most profitable activity is collecting, and it's not even close.  Specifically transfiguration of the metals you find.  In one of my saved games, I have a compendium ingot worth over 50 million simoleons.  I could add 7 copper ingots to it and get an increase in value somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 million.  If I spent an entire game day searching for metals, I could easily make 20+ million in profit at this point.

[Metropolis Man]

Hey, Rhubarb. Yeah, transfiguration is well known to be the king money maker.

[Leto85]

Can't remember if I've said this before, but I got $15.000.000 by selling high quality nectar at the consignment store after aging it up to over $3000 per bottle.
So combining World Adventures with Ambitions will definitely make a moneymaker.

[Metropolis Man]

Awesome, Leto. Yeah, I didn't even connect nectar and the consignment shop together. This year's event was fun, so that will be a nice new possibility for next year's nectar challenge players to shoot the profits up even more.

[Joria]

Awww!  You high rollers have got me made in the shade.  Here I was so happy at finding a lazy way to make money.  Slow, but steady.  First I used the old transfiguration thing, taking an entire Sim day fluctuating back and forth between setting up for transfiguration and making nectar in my two machines.  (Really MUST upgrade to unbreakable!)  With the cash I accumulated I planned another massive collecting trip with the entire family doing the work, one mule to keep all fed, (and works on skills in between meals), but when I went to my phone I noticed "check out real estate".  So I did.

Bought Summerhill Park, Stoney Falls and one other fishing hole.  These places were closed but I really didn't know what that meant.  I was just a little bored and wanted to landscape/improve places.  After adding some very basic amenities to my "campgrounds/parks", it said I'd done enough and it was now open and let the simoleans roll in.  That made me check Summerhill which was my first, and accidental, purchase a week ago.  Netted $7,000 Simoleans with no effort involved except walking over to collect.  I still plan on making that cash cow trip for gems and minerals, but I definitely am going to start buying up all the property I can.  A slow steady income and my Sims will never have to work again unless they want to.

[Deborah]

Selling the restored furniture and electronics from the dump is pretty profitable.

[Leto85]

Selling the restored furniture and electronics from the dump is pretty profitable.

Nice! That way you could create somehow your own second hand business. But how are you able to restore those items? If I grab one for at home all I can do with it is replacing it for the same working item, for the normal amount of money.

[Deborah]

Nice! That way you could create somehow your own second hand business. But how are you able to restore those items? If I crab one for at home all I can do with it is replacing it for the same working item, for the normal amound of money.

At the moment I call the repair person, who charges 50 simoleons.
Would be cool if we could sell it through the consignment store, but we have to sell it back to the game.  

[Calgary_Rose]

The best part about calling the repair person is that it's a flat fee, not an hourly one or a per-item one.  50 simoleons for all that repair work doesn't even put a dent in the profits.

[Esther1981]

Two things I've noticed (if mentioned previously I'm sorry!) I did see Leto said something about nectar, but this is different (I think) but I put some nectar-racks in my basement(duh lol) using the Shift+Control+click, made it buyable, put (!!!) in it and bought a few. I aged it for a few weeks, Then I sold it at the consignment Store, it's like over $80,000 simoleans at first but I sold it and I got over $300,000 for it. I'm posting a screenshot for proof.

Another thing I noticed, you can buy paintings at the consignment store for $5 dollars. They don't appreciate so what's the point? Well, the game I'm playing right now I have aging ON (gasp!!) and when the artist dies, it jumps in value, than consign it, and if you have the suave seller it sells for more! For example, I bought a painting that Gavin Ly painted for $7. He just died so now:

and since I have the suave seller LTHR, it will sell for over $1,000! So for $7 I now get over $993 profit!


EDIT: SWEET! I wasn't sure how much more, so I had my female do it (cause my man has a ton of stuff consigned and I didn't want to cancel) and I got $1824 in profit! Yeehaw!

[Leto85]

But Esther, I thought that the art from a artist who died don't jump in value anymore. That it was somehow a miscalculation of the Prima Guide.

[Slingsby]

Stop tormenting me ... just give me a functioning Consignment Store 

[Esther1981]

But Esther, I thought that the art from a artist who died don't jump in value anymore. That it was somehow a miscalculation of the Prima Guide.

I was playing yesterday and it was jumping! I showed you that screenshot, and it was taken yesterday! When I play in a little bit, I'll keep watching but as of last night it did.

It definitely jumped. I know I'm not seeing things! I usually put all the paintings in one treasure chest, then when I get the message they died, I take it out and put it in my inventory than after midnight, it's definitely more valuable then it was before midnight!