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. (:

[Slingsby]

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. (:

We used to have gifts in TS2 [or was it TS1?] ... a nice and realistic bit of gameplay.

I agree with others, though ... really rich Sims can be very boring.

[ratchie]

To be honest I never take much notice of how much money my Sims have. It is nice to have a bit of extra cash flow at the beginning of a dynasty it just makes life that bit easier.
I don't really spend a lot of money in my games I am on the fifth generation of my current dynasty and I haven't bought any of them a car(most of them are level four celebs and get driven everywhere in limos so they don't need a car. and the house has one computer and one television. Plus I could furnish a house with all the free stuff they have been given.
I never feel guilty or bad that my Sims are rich in most cases they start of with the bare minimum and have earned it(or married someone who has it)

Rachel

[Leto85]

About the gift thing, that was once introduced in The Sims Hot Date, the third expansion for the traditional Sims, which was released somewhere in 2002 or 2003. The subject of an more 'open world' was created than and your sims could go to a downtown area for the first time. Sims where stil 'bounded' in the lots and outside of the lot everything was gray, but the subject of buying and giving other people gifts has started than. They could buy jewerly and other stuff to effectively buying friendship. Not so realistic was that the more expensive the ring was you where giving to another sim, the more he or she would apreciated it. Spend §5000,- on a ring for the girl next door and you could considering yourself as not being single anymore.
I don't have §5000,- dollars, otherwise I would knew a girl or two on this forum and maybe twice as much in real life to test this on. Pitty...
The subject of giving gifts has returned in The Sims 2 which was aired in 2004 and sims could give each other presents, which where white as collour and the sim who reseived it would accepted it, thankyouing for it and the present will disapear.

I think this will return in The Sims 3 once again but when that happend I really hope it will get more deph.
If this will be something for rich sims to spend their life in I sure will resurect this topic if it has gone than to see what people will do with that possibility.
I like the idea of Samoth so let's just pray that some EA guy will read this.

[DeNile]

By the time my sims get rich , I usually am moving one of them out and starting again.

(also Ratchie you have 999 posts! Awesome!

[Leto85]

Nicely done Rachi! Another member ready to step into the 1000 posts sirqui.

[Hosfac]

I've had the Sims 3 since it first came out, although, I've been playing the Sims since the original Maxis version.  I've only just recently got the LN expansion, and that is what I'm still familiarizing myself with. 

However I owe a lot of my creative thinking to true geniuses:  architects and engineers who realize that there is no other way to think than outside the box.  There are no more beautiful works of art than buildings designed by people who didn't think:  "it cannot be done," but instead thought:  "how can I do it?"

[Juxtaposition]

Well, I've been playing Sims 3 about 3 months or so, and I'm just now playing my first rich family, and it's my dynasty family, and it's really fun.  My Sims have been taking opportunities and jobs for generations, and I looked at my money and it said 2.5 million, I looked at my house, and it said 'People that rich would never live here,' so I went onto the remodel rebuild section, and more specifically samoht04's Landscaping help topic, and got inspired, then spent the next 3 hours and I don't know how much money rebuilding the outside of my house.  I don't know if it's because I've played for so little time, but I'm never bored with my family, my postings are only barely 3rd gen but the game is in 5th, and there always seems to be too much grabbing for my attention.  "Oh no, I missed another party!" "Oh wait, I wanted to send you to the Art museum today!" or "Oh my god, I didn't know I could do that" are more familiar to me so far than "I'm bored."

But then again, my computer runs this game really well, I don't know what it would be like if I had to wait for things to render on other lots, or experienced stutter lag once I had loaded my house up with crazy landscaping fun.  Or if my family bugged out, or things kept going wrong like I've read about.  My only bug was when a meteor landed on the house of my fourth (and unwritten) dynasty attempt and my mailbox stubbornly refused to respawn as anything but a broken mailbox.

I guess what I, in my wandering and verbose way, am trying to say is I look at the aspects I find fun, read the forum about what other people are doing with them, and then I copy them in my new unique way, and it is super fun to have the means at hand to do it when I want to.    So my family has a chef, a painter, a fireman, a doctor, a writer, a sculptor, and all the other things I wanna be, *sigh* but can't.  I wonder if I'll be bored by 8th gen, strangely I can't wait to find out LOL  Of course as soon as my dynasty is done I install world adventures, and it won't just be Bridgeport, I'll party all over the world Woo!

Edit: Actually thinking about it, the only thing I did find boring was playing my poor start to my dynasty for the fifth and sixth times, so I guess I'm just not one who likes playing poor Sims,or repeating the same part of something over and over, I'm not sure which.

[Schipperke]

I guess what I, in my wandering and verbose way, am trying to say is I look at the aspects I find fun, read the forum about what other people are doing with them, and then I copy them in my new unique way, and it is super fun to have the means at hand to do it when I want to.  

Well said, Juxtaposition.  That's what I like best about this game - the many different ways it can be played.  And of course, having this forum to learn from our fellow simmers.  Thanks for sharing that.

[Leto85]

I guess what I, in my wandering and verbose way, am trying to say is I look at the aspects I find fun, read the forum about what other people are doing with them, and then I copy them in my new unique way, and it is super fun to have the means at hand to do it when I want to.

So, that goes deep! I really have nothing to add to this besides that I just simply do agreed.

[Katluvr]

My only experiences so far with rich sims were when I once used the motherlode cheat for a sim that I'm no longer playing and having one of my sims marry Jon Lessen in Riverview, move in with him to have control over his furnishings and stuff, and then move with Jon to a new house of my own design (keeping all the good stuff and selling everything else - I think the couple ended up with over $200k in cash and top of the line everything to build their dream house with.

I stopped playing my 'motherlode' sim almost immediately because there was no real fun or challenge for me if she got whatever she wanted as soon as she wanted it.  I still have Jon and Kat, but don't play them very often.  I have refurbished a property from the bin for them that I'm really proud of and will upload it to the exchange one of these days.  Kat works on her career (ghost hunting) and adventuring.  Jon mostly plays concerts and for tips and is starting to learn to paint and sculpt in his spare time.  Because money isn't an issue for them I can use them to try out various aspects of the game (such as tomb raiding, etc.) before I incorporate it into a legacy or dynasty family - thus avoiding costly mistakes when it really counts.

The thing that appeals to me the most about the game is aquiring the nicest house and car with the best furnishings, but I want my sims to work for it.  I also really enjoy it when my sims are famous enough to start getting freebies - it's like winning the lottery and makes me insanely happy - well except for the one who kept getting stuffed fish plaques to hang on the wall...