Rules: Rags To Riches - Vet

[Playalot]

Just had a quick play around with it, your pet can get rewards with pet beds and feeders etc so that makes it a banned way to make money.

However, with all my challenges you are free to change them to fit your play style. 

[commasplice]

Sorry, another question.

Am I good if my sim keeps the objects made with the woodworking table but does not sell them?

[Playalot]

Yes, that is fine.  Remember that any item on the home lot or in your sims inventory will add to the bills though which in some ways could be a good thing as larger bills will increase the difficulty level slightly.

[commasplice]

k. awesome. My sim has started her clinic which is uh...kind of sketchy looking so far. I'm debating writing it up as a story--we'll see, but in any case it's loads of fun so far!

[oshizu]

Since one of our requirements will be to have our home lot worth $350,000, I imagine we eventually cannot avoid the high bills.

Fortunately, the worth of the home lot and the worth of the vet clinic are separately calculated.
Or are our weekly bills based on the combined worth of both lots?

@commasplice
Please write it up!
I would love to read the story (or even simply the highlights) of your journey!

[Playalot]

Depends where you are at the time of the bill being calculated. If your sim is on the vet clinic then potentially that lot will be taken into consideration too. I love that having items in the inventory (personal or home) make bills larger. When I play tested this I threw a few expensive violins in there before removing all the money just to add that little bit extra difficulty.

[oshizu]

I'm not sure whether the game still works this way, but @reggikko figured out that our bills increased if we weren't on the home lot when the bills were delivered.

As you already know, expensive violins placed on the lot itself will increase the home worth, but not when they're in the family inventory.
You leave them in family inventory to boost your bills but to increase the difficulty of reaching $350k home worth? o.O
Playalot, you are such a hardcore player!

[reggikko]

I think it was actually Claymask who figured out the bill thing. I just read it in one of her tournament strategy posts.

[Playalot]

Bills are calculated at the same time each sim week and depending where your sim is effects the bill. So if your sim is on another lot (apart from their home lot) unfortunately the game calculates that lot as part of the bill percentage. So leaving any item in a sims personal inventory or home inventory will add to the bill amount.

The bill calculation error has been a round for a very long time, almost since the game launched actually. But, that being said, I like it as bills are far too low in TS4 anyway. 

But @oshizu  , the game is so easy! You know it is! You're one of the better strategic players and anything that can add to the difficulty only adds to the enjoyment of a challenge. lol My first draft of this challenge involved leaving quite a few expensive items in the household inventory for the very reason of making bills more realistic!  And playing with a vamp initially increases the difficulty too. It's fun!

@reggikko  you're a strategic player too. You'd find this challenge easy.

Dang it all, now you guys are making me desperate to play it, I wish that silly vet bug wasn't around. Grr!

[commasplice]

I actually think it's harder not to have my sim's pet on the lot. The dog seems miserable. My sim is miserable too. It's kind of like it was harder for the sim in the runaway teen challenge to go to school.

[Playalot]

Yes, it makes the pet basically uncared for as you can't direct them to look after themselves. I guess that becomes a challenge in it's own right. I really just wanted to play it with my sim and their pet being together 24/7. Are you calling your sims pet to the vet clinic lot as soon as the vet clinic closes each day @commasplice  ? Or do you take your sim back to the home lot?

[commasplice]

I tried to have my sim and her pet at the clinic initially, but like you said, there's a bug. The clinic is still kind of sketchy with no amenities, although we finally added windows and paint and lights so I've just basically been sending my sim back to her house as soon as she closes it.

I don't get why it's working for the Sim Supply and not for me. On his videos, he's got his sim and pets living on the same lot as the clinic and he's making bank for the clinic.

[Playalot]

This bug only seems to effect certain saves, a lot of the bugs happen this way. In my 1st test save I did not get this bug. 2nd test save I did which is when I went researching to see what on earth was going on. Sometimes doing a game repair fixes it, other times it doesn't. Such an annoyance.

Are you writing a story @commasplice  ? Or even just screenshot updates?

[commasplice]

I think I'm gonna try to write it up with some screenshots.

[Playalot]

Awesome! Can't wait!