I thought it would be fun to revisit the Rosebud Challenge now that there are a lot more ways to earn money in the game and scenarios, particularly the Making Money scenario has been added to the game! Playlist link.
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I will be using my original Rosebud sims, the unskilled version, though they have been aged down to teens, so they are no longer married, and they have been made spellcasters and given minor makeovers. Since they are teens they only have two traits, you can see the traits I used for them in their screenshots. I am planning on having them become a couple again and to marry once they are young adults.
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Goals
To see how quickly they can have 1,000,000 simoleons, without cheats of course!
Rules
- Start on an empty lot with nothing (my sims are starting on ‘The Summer House’ in Windenburg).
- Start Off the Grid, repay the lot value to connect to the grid (in this case, 3,000 simoleons).
- Don’t sell into their inventory, either personal or household, until they have purchased a yard sale table and a street gallery (City Living is needed to have both of these items, customize this to whatever packs you have)
- Optional rules/goals if starting with teens. Don’t age them up to young adults until they have done the following:
* become A high school students
* earn the scouting trait (Seasons required)
* have four positive character values (Parenthood required)
* have a small home with a kitchen (i.e. they need to be able to bake the cake at home)
More Information
Note if you’d like to play along here is some more information re the challenge:
- You can play on any lifespan, or have aging off. I’m playing on a long lifespan.
- Apart from starting Off the Grid, you can choose whatever lot types/challenges you want and change them when you’d like. I will start with the Simple Living and Reduce & Recycle lot challenges in addition to the Off the Grid lot challenge.
- If you have Seasons you can do whatever you like with the weather/temperature options and the length of the seasons. I’m using 7 day seasons and will have all weather effects on unless there are too many thunderstorms/blizzards, then I may temporarily turn them off and then eventually turn them back on.
- Also with Seasons, feel fee to create custom holidays. I know I will!
- Whether or not you have a job is up to you. I’m going to go with the flow, if my sims get a job offer, I may take it. Freelance careers are also allowed. The goal is to find out how quickly you can earn the money any way you can without money cheats (to add money, they can be use to remove money).
- Feel free to renovate/replace/add community lots. Generally with this I only add things that are usually found on community lots in the game, one exception is I make my community lots toddler/family friendly. So I don’t build a shelter (i.e. a home away from home), but that’s the main restriction I follow.
- Overall if you have a pack that adds something to this challenge, feel free to use it if you’d like. That’s part of the fun of this, seeing how all the packs can help (or hinder), with the challenge.
If you’d like to play along with the same sims, let me know and I can upload them to the gallery.
Removing Money to ‘Connect to the Grid’
Here is the cheat needed to remove the money to connect to the grid.
Open the cheats console > control + shift + c (at the same time)
Then type: Testingcheats on or testingcheats true
Then type: Money # (where the # is the amount you want after the funds are removed.
Alternatively you can remove money without cheats. Two options I know of are:
- use manage households to move someone in and then move them out with the money you want removed or
- can use the option to gift the money away, though I’ve never tried this. 😊
Link to my updated Rags to Riches blog post: https://maplesimmer.video.blog/2020/05/05/sims-4-rags-to-riches-guidelines/
Questions?
If you have any questions or want to share your own Sims game play with other Simmers head over to my Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/maplesimmersimssanctuary or my discord, https://discord.gg/aJaX7Pca8