How do you play rich families?

[TheChronicR]

Right now, my dynasty has over 2,000,000 and that is the most a sim family has had without using any cheats.  I can proudly say, that money was hard earned.  I just play normally and if they want something, they can have it.

WOW! That's a lot of simoleons without cheating! My max without cheating was 150,000$. But I think that my latest sim will have way more, once I lower her family funds to 0$. Read the post above for more info. 

[Leto85]

Apparently my brain doesn't know their bank account has more than $1,000,000! I keep thinking I have to save it for something.

Nicely done Lily! If you want to make even more money out of this, I advice you to age nectar until it is worth $100.000,- or more per bottle and than sell it at the conseignment store. That way you could easly multiply your family bank account.

[Lilygirl]

But see, Leto, if my Sims had Nectar aged to $100,000 per bottle I wouldn't be able to sell it. I've never played a nectar making Sim past the first couple skill points, so I would have to keep the bottles as trophies!

[Leto85]

But see, Leto, if my Sims had Nectar aged to $100,000 per bottle I wouldn't be able to sell it. I've never played a nectar making Sim past the first couple skill points, so I would have to keep the bottles as trophies!

Hmmm, well. Than clone them, place them on a different lot, wait a few days and effectively buy out the lot so you can sell the goodies again. Business, pure business.

Here's a linky linky to learn some basic cloning techniques. It's no mod, simply tricking. Life will find a way.

[Hosfac]

But see, Leto, if my Sims had Nectar aged to $100,000 per bottle I wouldn't be able to sell it. I've never played a nectar making Sim past the first couple skill points, so I would have to keep the bottles as trophies!

I know how you feel about that.  But since you make nectar in batches (and if you find a nice recipe, it's a good idea to make multiple batches), I'll keep one of the most expensive bottles as trophy and sell the others.  I've never had a bottle of nectar reach $100,000, though.

[simone88]

Whenever I play with a rich family, my focus is more on the story plot and raising a big family. Since they don't have to worry about money, the parents will focus on raising the children and working on artistic skills to paint or sculpt family members. Being rich also helps me focus more on the social aspects of the game. I would try to find some good potential spouses for my sim's children. When their children are grown, I have more than enough money to buy them a house for them and their spouse to start their own family. I've recently started to download houses from the swap shop. 

[Pam]

Life will find a way.

You must REALLY like Jeff Goldblum. 

[Leto85]

You must REALLY like Jeff Goldblum. 

Yes, he is one of my favorite actors, beside that, Ian Malcom is my favorite fictiv personage.

[malteser60]

Whenever I play with a rich family, my focus is more on the story plot and raising a big family. Since they don't have to worry about money, the parents will focus on raising the children and working on artistic skills to paint or sculpt family members. Being rich also helps me focus more on the social aspects of the game. I would try to find some good potential spouses for my sim's children. When their children are grown, I have more than enough money to buy them a house for them and their spouse to start their own family. I've recently started to download houses from the swap shop. 

In a way Sims is scarily like real life! If you have money then you can concentrate on the more 'indulgent' skills in life, such as artistic pursuits or material stuff like bigger houses (if that's what you want), etc. I put 'indulgent' in quotes as of course being an artist, for example, can and is also another way of making money in the real world, as well as in the Sims, as well as a life style. I guess I can only comment on myself *sigh* would love to spend time learning new skills - 'indulging' myself in new skills such as painting (can't paint to save my life), or being able to have the time to read more books, learn new languages, and so on. Even with my work, I'm a marine ecologist, but I work for a consultancy so I have to spend a lot of time at work, mainly on the management side of things and business development, when what I really want to do is focus on research. I could spend hour upon hour doing research/academia work, but that doesn't pay unfortunately.

[Anushka]

... when what I really want to do is focus on research. I could spend hour upon hour doing research/academia work, but that doesn't pay unfortunately.

This is exactly my wish. I even pictured an ideal job for myself (at institute) but reality is not really an empty canvas ready to be painted on (or Sims game for that matter). Once I met an 78 year old student at Technical University. He just started the studies, and everyone questioned his sanity. Turned out he was extremely intelligent, but didn't have a chance for proper education, so after retirement, he was bored and decided to try learning more about things that interested him his entire life. After talking to that man, I never lose hope to continue my education even if I already did a lot.
It is very easy to become rich in this game, in Sims2 it was much harder. If you consider Living in a Lap of Luxury a criteria for Rich Sims, most of my Sims got that in first 2 weeks, specially if I focus on earning a lot of money, so they all do what I want them to. Extremely rich is another story.

[thesweetestpea]

My self-made family (8 sims) is pushing 750k cash and has a house valued at about a million. I'm never bored with them - I finish one thing and go right onto the next. Right now my sim version is pushing up her painting value, as is one of the kids. The two newest members of the house are maxing professions, my partner's self sim is working on a perfect plant of every kind and making the family's ambrosia, and one of the other kids is trying to have every type of sculpture in her library. The last two spend all their time writing and fishing for wishes (100 death fish and 40 novels - argh!) Once the perfect garden is done, I'm going to have my sculptor take up nectar making. I also plan on getting the sims to start a band sometime soon. Then there's firefighting, styling, architecture, science and medicine to tackle. Then I'm going to try and push up all their visa levels, and once that's done I'm going to do some time machine adventuring to try and get all the items!

[Leto85]

Wow, the sweetest pea, you make being rich ingame really fun! The playstyle you do actually forces you to be rich.

[thesweetestpea]

Wow, the sweetest pea, you make being rich ingame really fun! The playstyle you do actually forces you to be rich.

It is a lot of fun. At first when they hit 500k cash I started to get bored, so I set myself challenges (like completing the 25 novel goal for masterpieces and having Bunny sculpt one of every type of sculpture). The first time I tried to get the girls to travel I had a save game crash, so I decided to wait until I'd got a bit further with some of their skills. Bunny is now at about 150 different sculptures and the garden has just got its third group of perfect plants. Nectar making time soon!

[secretsim]

I pretty much only play rich Sims! I guess it's because I like decorating houses, particularly the apartments in Late Night so once my Sims move in with the "freerealestate" check, they're pretty much rich by default. I've modified nearly all of the apartments to be much larger and I've decorated them expensively. I also tend to have goal-focused Sims, so they climb up the business ladder or whatever pretty quickly. Playing a legacy family also helps... all that inherited moolah. I like the rich families because I can make them spend time doing things like collecting gems all day and night, going relic hunting, etc. So much to do when you aren't really worried about a paycheck from a 9-5 job. 

Even my poor farmer Sims ended up super well off by the third generation, with no cheats whatsoever. They started with a small family farm, and then their grandson became a master nectar maker, and now he sells $2,000 bottles of wine at the consignment shop.

[Leto85]

Even my poor farmer Sims ended up super well off by the third generation, with no cheats whatsoever. They started with a small family farm, and then their grandson became a master nectar maker, and now he sells $2,000 bottles of wine at the consignment shop.

I've made a gameplay myself too, based on having a farm. It stays only with fish and vegetables first but when making nectar came into play things went really fast and money kept flying in. It could have been a nice challenge, in my opinion, yet a very timeconsuming and repeatively-doing-the-same-thing in the begining.