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Offline grimsoul

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Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« on: September 07, 2012, 08:34:38 AM »
I bought the Gem-u-Cut machine that came with SN and I got rich fast with it.
My dog brought in a tiberium gem and I cut it in a spiral cut with the machine. Cuts made with the machine cost nothing. I got the spiral cut gem and 5 piles of gem dust.
I placed all 6 items on the ground and they all grew up to be worth around $40,000 each.
So around $200,000 off of one tiberium gem. Not bad.
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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2012, 10:06:31 AM »
Wow, that's impressive. I cut 6 tiberium earlier and just stashed the dust in a chest - I think I'll be scattering some around instead!

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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2012, 12:13:07 PM »
Does this only work with Tiberium? Or can you place any gem on the ground and it'll increase in value/grow?

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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2012, 12:14:00 PM »
That has made gem hunting even more important!  No more starving Sims.  Instead of buying that first toilet etc. when you are new, get a gem cutter and theoretically you can have a mansion in a day.  I like it.

Only tiberium grows, unless some of the newer stones also grow.
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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2012, 02:32:16 PM »
I sim diffidently isn't starving now. But he was living on a empty lot at the time. Now I can build him a house.
My dog brought another tiberium home and when I cut it I only got one dust this time. But between the gem and the dust growing I still got about $75,000 from 1 cut.
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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2012, 02:53:42 AM »
Wow, that's great to know.  The tiberium dust made my sim sick in his inventory, and I thought it was useless since it wasn't cut, so I sold it off.  Simoleons down the drain!  :P

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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2012, 09:54:16 AM »
The dust made my sick sic also. I placed it on the ground just to get it out of my inventory. Then a few days later it grew just like the gems do and my broke sim wasn't broke anymore.
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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2012, 10:47:05 AM »
All gems can be sold at the Alchemy consignment store, unlike at the regular consignment store, so you can also sell your Tiberium there and make even more money.  I sold one at zero experience and got $92,000 for it!  :o

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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2012, 10:55:19 AM »
All gems can be sold at the Alchemy consignment store, unlike at the regular consignment store, so you can also sell your Tiberium there and make even more money.  I sold one at zero experience and got $92,000 for it!  :o

Did you sell the uncut rock or a cut tiberium for that much?
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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2012, 03:08:53 PM »
Both can be consinged and I just sold around 298.000$ worth soulpeace spirecut for around 491.000$ as my first sell! raw moonstone went for 1.981$.
This is fantastic news!

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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2012, 03:10:47 PM »
Did you sell the uncut rock or a cut tiberium for that much?
A cut tiberium.  I sold 4 pieces that had grown, and one of the pieces sold for 92k whilst the other 3 ranged from 40-70k.

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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2012, 03:26:07 PM »
Isn't there a way to store the dust since it is an alchemy ingredient?  Did the dust you left on the ground become a fulll tiberium or just more dust?
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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2012, 03:34:13 PM »
Had to check to see if it works, old formula for soupleace gem with transfiguration works with gem dust too.
So use the byproduct of cutting 5 different gems and add just one more cut - I used emerald cut emerald and gem dust from 5 more gems and got soulpeace gem.
This machine plus gatherer are my favorite parts of this SN.

PS Gatherer will increase the number of gem dust you get as a byproduct, without that trait it is average 1-2 gem dust per gem cut, while with it it is 2-3 gem dusts. Not shore how you got 5 from one cut.

Isn't there a way to store the dust since it is an alchemy ingredient?  Did the dust you left on the ground become a fulll tiberium or just more dust?

It grows into a full spire cut tiberium but you can store it in chest and probably in cabinet as other gem dusts.

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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2012, 05:07:41 PM »
Isn't there a way to store the dust since it is an alchemy ingredient?  Did the dust you left on the ground become a fulll tiberium or just more dust?

If you get an alchemy display shelf, you can store elixirs, metals and gems (cut/uncut) inside. 
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Re: Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2012, 06:23:35 PM »
Thank you so much for this tip! I will be trying this when I play tonight!

 

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