How do you play rich families?

[Leto85]

I really like to know how you play with rich family sims. How do they spend the days, what are their interest and how do they live? I may learn something from it.
Rich btw, is counting from §100.000,- and above, if I am right.

[samoht04]

Rich families bore me so I use them as a way for me to experience the game and try out new careers and skills, the Dynasty will also help me try these skills, traits and Careers I don't ususally do. 

[Schipperke]

Rich families bore me so I use them as a way for me to experience the game and try out new careers and skills, the Dynasty will also help me try these skills, traits and Careers I don't ususally do. 

Yeah, I agree with samoht - rich families aren't very interesting to me either.  The only time I've ever played a rich family was in my Clan Douglas Dynasty.  They had over $15,000,000 at the end, and that's way more money than a sim can ever use.  They owned most of the town, and I made the later generations all Good so they could donate $1000 to charity every day, but still the money kept rolling in faster than I knew what to do with it.  They just kept on with their daily routines, working, painting, sculpting - whatever their SuperMax skill was.  Not that they needed the money, it was just a way to keep them occupied because I didn't like seeing the wrinklies playing in the sprinkler all day. 

[Pam]

My Dreamweavers just did regular things during the day, too.  But they had expensive cars and lots of toys, like a hot tub, foosball table, arcade games, bubble machines.  They also go out to the clubs and throw parties.  It's true that it does get boring.  Without the Immortal Dynasty Challenge, I don't have much desire to play my Dreamweaver family now.  They'll be the family I play when I just want a break from writing an article or playing a challenge.

[Anushka]

I keep looking for challenges for them, for example, I'll try getting all paintings or unlock all sculptures, search for practically all collections, play with transfiguration, trow parties, build insanely expensive vacation homes, etc. Of course, getting them all expencive items and accumulate as much moodlets as possible, pretty much I try to do everything available in Sims as long as computer can handle the large file.

[niuri_cigarete]

Mostly I pick a sim from the family (or a couple) and move them out to start a new life. But if I actually play the rich family I try to max out skills, search for collectables, etc. I do all the stuff others have mentioned already. I like to give my own achievements, like "OK, I'll make this sim a perfect artist and max out all related skills" and do that... I like playing  with a long sim life so I have plenty of time to do that

[Leto85]

For myself I play rich families to go really over the top in everything. I personally am glad I don't live like them (no, really) but therefore like to do it this way ingame. Expensive houses, buying out properties without ever collecting the money, collecting everything ingame.... I actually rarely get bored with my rich family. And when I do, I play my farm family, which is a total other thing. Getting money from only vegetables and fish isn't that easy (if you don't calculate money trees in them). And if I really can't think about anything else on what to do with them I just wait for a next expansion.

I'm still waiting for animals btw. Can't wait to finally add cats, dogs, horses and cows into my farm. If that will ever happen.

[niuri_cigarete]

I'm still waiting for animals btw. Can't wait to finally add cats, dogs, horses and cows into my farm. If that will ever happen.

ha ha, I'm waiting for that too! I really missed the pets...

[Figwit]

My rich sims never seem to get insanely rich because I tend to buy properties and then move them to a new land forgetting to sell off the properties. I am also hopeless on the transfiguration bench. More often than not, they lose money there or, if they manage to get an expensive gem, then that gets left behind in their old house too.

I have to admit, I have enjoyed starting sims off from the beginning again since I have been here.  It is a lot of fun building up the essentials bit by bit as the sim can afford it. It's a bit of a shame we don't have weather to complicate things because that would really throw a spanner in the works for the poor sims sleeping rough.

[Hosfac]

I don't really enjoy playing pre-made sims (they're just not my sims, so I tend to care about them somewhat less), so I never start out with a rich family.  Any time I start a new game, I start with paupers.

Also, one of my favorite things in the game to do is to design and build houses.  I absolutely despise nearly every pre-made house that came with the game or any of the expansions.  Typically, they're ridiculously small, cramped, have only one bedroom and bathroom, and are simply impractical in general.  Thus, I tend to start with the largest empty lot available in the town and design a house for the family to gradually build.  Did I say I start with paupers?  I'm sorry...I meant utterly destitute.

These houses have ranged in size and often differ radically in general architecture, but one thing they all have in common is that they are extremely spacious and tend to be lavish.  And have lots of bathrooms.  As a result, even when I end up with a family that is rich, it's usually net worth and they tend to not have a lot of money in their household funds.  If there's money laying around, it gives me leeway to change or add something.

Another thing I tend to do is create a family cemetery.  One of the first things I do is change a sizable vacant lot to a graveyard lot, making it available for purchase by the family.  Community lots that are completely undeveloped tend to be extremely cheap, and it's a lot of fun building them up from literally nothing.

And now, with the addition of Late Night to my Sims collection, coupled with the fact that most LN buildings don't fit well into cities other than Bridgeport, I have the option of changing a vacant lot (or even creating a new one) to one of the new LN lot types, buying it and having them build that particular establishment totally from scratch.  I have yet to have the opportunity to do this, though, as I haven't had the game long.

[Leto85]

Hosfac, you seem to have a lot of nice ideas on how to play rich families. You've mentioned you haven't got the game long. How did you get so creative than?

Now for another question: as a lot of you are saying (maybe even complaining) that playing rich families is boring, what do you think that need to be added in the game (if the objectives aren't there yet) to actually make it not boring anymore?
My personal gues is that being rich scraps out a lot of objectives and therefore challenges. Let's just say that the way to become rich is more interesting than to actually be rich.


Hmmm, I'm trying to become rich. Let's hope I never will be.

[samoht04]

I think that once you have money you can't get rid of it, it would be nice if you could have Sims give money away when they die to Charity giving their whole family a moodlet to try and counter the grieving, by knowing the deceased had done something good when they died. Sort of a blank check which you could fill in a price. 

[Leto85]

I think that once you have money you can't get rid of it, it would be nice if you could have Sims give money away when they die to Charity giving their whole family a moodlet to try and counter the grieving, by knowing the deceased had done something good when they died. Sort of a blank check which you could fill in a price. 

Wonderfull! I haven't thought of that myself.

Anymore nice ideas people?

[Jancy]

When having money to spare, I think it would be nice to gift other sims presents through the mail.  It would be great sending them a new car, furnishings, money etc.. and maybe even getting a thank-you note in the mail. It could/would be a great way of not losing any friends.

[RJ]

When having money to spare, I think it would be nice to gift other sims presents through the mail.  It would be great sending them a new car, furnishings, money etc.. and maybe even getting a thank-you note in the mail. It could/would be a great way of not losing any friends.

I wish there was a way to send gifts to other sims too! And maybe receive gifts from other sims on birthdays and promotions. My sculptor sim keeps getting wishes like sculpt XXX and I wish that I could give those statues to the person who posed for it. (: