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The Sims 3 Nectar Making Guide

Quality, Value and Aging

Nectar Quality
The quality of a Nectar is influenced by several factors. Just because you've made perfect Nectar doesn't mean you've made the best.

• First, time spent making nectar will improve the price as it enables you to gradually complete the Nectar Making challenges.
• The Nectar Maker machine itself (what upgrade) and what style of nectaration process you're using.
• The rarity of the fruit will affect the price, but not quality of a nectar.
• Next up is fruit quality. Good fruit will generally make good nectar. Common sense, right? However, there's one more factor that can either botch or bless the process. Growing perfect plants with gardening will really help your results.
• Taste! Sure, you can make a ho-hum perfect quality nectar, but you can also make a nectar that sets your income through the roof. Nectar can be reduced in quality and price when things go poorly. A bad recipe can reduce perfect quality fruit to outstanding or lower quality nectar depending on how bad it goes. This works the other way, however, when you make a Nectar that tastes amazing. The right recipe combination can produce something beyond perfect.

Aging
Making more and more valuable bottles and letting them age should be your Sim's ultimate goal. Nectar Racks must be placed in a basement for optimal effect. Pick the best rack, as it seems to have a better impact on the aging process. Nectar will age at around 10% of its base value per day. Some might think it is delivering diminishing returns because this is always computed at the base value. For example, a $100 bottle aged 10 days at 10% of base value will be worth $200.

Taste Modifiers
Let's have a look at how taste impacts the price of a nectar bottle. The following multipliers are calculated along with fruit value/quality and other factors:
Amazing: 1.5 and up (1.68 highest seen)
Great: 1.3 to 1.5
Pretty good: 1.1 to 1.3
Not very good: 0.9 to 1.1
Terrible: 0.9 or less (lowest seen is .63)

Fruit Values
Here are the values for the individual fruits in the game. Chrys discovered these values by producing a pure nectar of 10 for each of these ingredients and dividing the resulting bottle by 10. Naturally the rarer fruits in the game have higher values:
Life Fruit: 40
Flame Fruit: 32.6
Cranerlet Nuala Grapes: 29.1
Gralladina Fran Grapes: 21.7
Pomelo: 21.7
Meloire Grapes: 18.1
Cherry: 16.3
Avornalino Grapes: 14.5
Plum: 12.7
Lime: 12.7
Watermelon: 12.7
Pomegranate: 10.9
Cherimola Blan Grapes: 9.1
Renoit Grapes: 9.0
Apple: 5.4
Grapes: 5.4