How Quickly Can You Make Money in Sims 4? - YouTube

Hello, YouTube.

When you put your play out there for others to see, you sometimes get some odd comments

about how quickly you make money.

Truth is, I don't normally seek to play optimally because I'm pretty old school with The Sims.

I enjoy following a routine and going with different skills as a backbone of my play.

Getting rich should take time, because otherwise I find my Sim in a big house with nothing

new worth doing.

I'd intended to explore what skill is the best money maker in the game by pitting them

against one another, and when I mentioned I knew Flower Arranging is up there several

people reminded me to try out the digital sketch pad.

This thing came came with the Style Influencer career in a free patch.

It's found in misc electronics in sort by function.

I knew the sketch pad completed paintings quickly and discovered that when it came out.

It's really obvious on speed 3.

But, I forgot about it as other content came and didn't really go back to test it.

I compared the sketch pad against regular painting and found it's about 40% faster than

normal.

But, see, there's something else about it.

The end result goes in your inventory, which means that if you pause before your Sim ever

touches the thing you can queue up about 7 paintings and have them all complete.

In about 3 hours.

I immediately wanted to see how far I could take this.

I set up a Sim that has the Dance Machine, Perfectionist and Loner traits to give me

some big advantages.

I gave her a tiny house with everything in one room, so that she wouldn't need to walk

for 10 minutes to reach the toilet.

It's a disgusting environment for sure, and I'd hope it's well ventilated but she'd probably

be immune to the smells.

God help us if we have company.

Anyway, the first thing I set out to do was not actually paint at all.

I got her focused and worked on woodworking.

I'd remind you that with just about anything that puts the final product in your inventory,

you can queue up multiple items and have them all go there.. just can't do it once the Sim

has started.

Getting to level 4 handiness w as really fast.

Only after I'd done this did I realize I should get out the lot traits to give my Sim every

advantage I could.

I picked celebrity home to stop idiot Geoffrey Landgraab from knocking at my door when I've

never met him, home studio for obvious reasons, and Study Spot.

If that last one seems odd realize it's telling a whopper of a lie when it says it modestly

improves skill gains, it's 25% for all skills.

The fact I can just slap this on with no points or anything required is just... (groans).

As for why I took the Dance Machine trait..

Disco nap is absurdly powerful.

It gives more energy recovery than even sleeping - 0.5 per minute vs 0.31, and on a comfortable

bed it's boosted by about 30%.

Were it not for Playalot telling me, I wouldn't even know about it as I thought it was just

a renamed activity.

It's not even mentioned in the description of the trait.

I did a string of large classic paintings to see how long they take, and also work on

the first tier of the painter extraordinaire aspiration.

Perfectionist slows it down a bit, but she's making good paintings straight away.

They take about 50 minutes each compared to up to 90 for an easel painting.

I upgraded the sketch pad, which is definitely new to me.

I mean I'm upgrading and electronic at level 4, which is weird, and then there's also the

idea of of me opening a tablet and somehow replacing its CPU with a screwdriver.

This is a really unbalanced reward as it takes another 30 or 40% off the time it takes to

make a painting.

Now I need to do some emotional paintings... and the sketch pad is for some reason not

set up to do that.

This is why I have a regular easel.

Other moods get in the way, but I use research pick up lines to get flirty.

Only need three, but they take a few hours.

Selling them gets me to the third rank of the aspiration and it's only Monday.

Now just to quickly stop by the museum, view 3 paintings to check it off.

Now I just need to make 10 excellent paintings.

Something of note is, for loners being a troll is wildly appropriate.

Troll the forums gives them some fun and enough social to get through the day and never actually

need to talk to anyone.

I guess this explains the lovely comments held for moderation on every channel (laughs).

To help me get to 10 excellent paintings I hang all the paintings I've made, which gets

the room up to +2 decorated.

The upgrade to the sketch pad makes this trivial.

Every single painting I make is excellent, because why not.

All difficulty has left the building with the click of a couple buttons.

This knocks out the third milestone of the painting aspiration.

Now I want this build to take advantage of everything, so I hang all the paintings on

that wall you noticed out back.

Yeah, it's there just for this one reason.

I sell them and get my first celebrity rank.

I can't do this from the inventory for some reason.

Anyway, this gives me a perk.

I'm actually looking for rank 2 celebrity for a reason and I'll get to that.

While I'm making those 10 paintings I buy my first reward trait - Creative visionary.

The last rank needs you to make 5 masterpieces, and they don't come quickly until you're level

10 painting.

But this helps a lot and I finish that pretty quick.

Bath soaks, excellent meals, eating harvestables, browsing art on the computer, it's all keeping

my Sim Very Inspired really frequently.

Once I've hit that fifth masterpiece, I am set.

I have 30 large classic paintings to hang on the wall out back, so switch aspirations

around to fabulously wealthy and mansion baron to get some free satisfaction.

Selling these nets me around $23,000 Simoleons.

Yeah...

For about a day's work.

Yet I'm not even max level yet, so we are not quite there.

Overnight, Vlad pays me a visit because not everything could go well for my Sim.

This is the only challenge the game throws at me during this week and it's trivial because

I just sleep it off.

Whether I want to or not (laughs).

Now for another exploit of mechanics.

Ok so selling all those made me a 2 star celebrity, and with that comes a fame quirk.

Oh no.

Well, since my Sim ONLY eats Excellent quality meals I stand at the fridge and stuff her

face with grilled cheese until she gets the refined palate quirk.

I know each time I eat there's a chance, and it only takes a few tries.

There's no penalty to this quirk for me, in that I can just choose not to eat bad food

and... somehow Excellent grilled cheese counts.

Even from the fridge.

Now, I'm sure the rich appreciate a nice melty sandwich now and again but, the thing is it

comes with a +3 happy for 6 hour moodlet that will make it easy to stay very inspired.

Every time I grab leftovers cold from the fridge.

Oh yes.

Refined palate (laughs).

If you thought the initial sell of 30 paintings was good, you haven't seen much yet.

I buy the Marketable Reward which boosts sell values by double on average.

Yeah..

It can go to triple.

Once my Sim hits level 9, she can now do high quality surrealism paintings and won't get

much further benefit but does need some more rewards.

I get out the incense so that when she drops to happy I can trigger inspired at will.

I set it in the middle of the floor in an effort to prevent fire hazard to her or something

else, though I'm not sure it's quite far enough for that.

Anyway, at long last, I've finished the aspiration.

Over the course of 24 hours, my Sim makes about 30 Surrealism paintings, all of excellent

or higher quality and all boosted by marketable.

I'm sitting on only 32k and by the time I'm done selling them all on my wall to gain fame,

the stack is worth a whopping 89,000 Simoleons.

So, when one can make $89k in a day, on only the 5th day of play, things have probably

gone awry somewhere.

This feels a lot like the experience I had with Realm of Magic, where I managed to master

caster in only 1 hour of play.

This took only 1 hour 10 minutes and in total my Sim bagged $279,000 Simoleons by day 8.

So yes, random rude people I know how you play.

Thankfully, you can choose how you play The Sims, and I tend to prefer a slower pace.

The goal of this was to investigate money making, so I'll say directly, even if Flower

Arranging benefits from Marketable, it can't do this.

While it can really reliably make a base value of $6k flower arrangement it's not going to

be able to compete with the sketch pad.

It is however extremely consistent and that's why I chose it for my Let's Play.

Now that The Sims 4 has all the packs players frequently ask for, University, Seasons and

all that...

I seriously hope that the developers will look at money in the game.

Nah, you don't need to cut down on what we make necessarily.. but the simple fact is,

and I've complained about this in other places... there are not enough high value items to buy

that are worth caring about in this game.

Gameplay objects that give Sims unique benefits, or add some fun, but cost a lot in order to

give us a reason to care.

If they can't think of any, let me build up a rental empire and collect weekly cash from

the goths or from owning the local museum.

Yes, it's just a way to make more money but passive income is always nice and it certainly

takes time to get to where you own everything in the game.

I'd suggest a real estate system as a side attraction in some pack or a free update because

it doesn't take a lot of coding if you do it in a simple way, but letting us decorate

and get perks and such for our business could be fun and worthy of a pack.

I just want some things to cost tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands so that at times

when I choose to play this way, I can make use of this money.

Otherwise I'm done with the game in a couple Sim weeks.

A mansion can only get so large, and in fact playing in a mansion is stupidly inefficient.

With that amount of money made all you have left to work on are relationships and we all

know how deep the relationships are.

Anyway, this was a fun experiment.

I'm pretty sure that because of this sketch pad that painting does win the highest money

maker award.

At least in the beginning.

Being a spellcaster and duping money trees is probably the most profitable activity possible

it's just not 'highest money making skill' because it's not attainable by only leveling

a skill.

We are very very close to 50k and that's pretty exciting!

So, share this if you liked it.

I'll resume my Let's Play soon but want to brush up on mood management, skilling and

all that because I want to share little strategies while I do it.

All right, well - Thanks for watching and have a great day!