Dumpster diving for items, repairing them, burning them, collecting insurance payout. Perfect plan! ➤ Visit my website for my Twitter, Twitch, other channels and more! My Website: jamesturner.yt
There was something so hilarious and menacing about Bess coming to the lot to swindle Semaj out of more money, only to find him standing in front of an almost empty lot with a pile of valuable items on fire behind a safety fence, and Semaj just like "mind your own business, move along now"
@@TheOG-GG a lot of folks are getting Error code: 0 which means they can't save the fricken game .. I haven't played in 2 days and am avoiding it because I don't want to corrupt my saves. 😓
Oh shoot, that's no good. I've been having trouble with my game because my sims just stand there doing nothing for hours while their needs go down. I was wondering if it's a bug right now or specific to my game. I keep debugging them or saving to see if it helps, but they just spend soooo much time standing around.
For real. I guess it would be more realistic if you had to sell items to a location or through a service that makes sense eg produce you have to take to or sell through the farmers market... Hosting a garage sale might be a fun mechanic that would let you sell everything in your inventory just at a reduced rate, as opposed to having to use all the different services or list on plopsy etc
you should try a million simoleans with archeology! when they start sending you artifacts and paying you like 4k for uncovering one you get crazy rich, and you could sell the golden treasures you find for a 300% markup! jungle adventure is so underrated!!
The Greenburgs are looking out their window at the increase of smoke "huh, guess the pyro's at it again." Actually, I'm surprised I don't remember seeing the Greenburgs visit him, they are at my lot 24/7 when I play there. Maybe they killed themselves in their own fire, they set them a lot too.
When the potion of plentiful needs malfunction, it sets all of your needs to 50%. Unbreakable objects and those made unbreakable thru upgrades can't be affected with any destructive magic like incinerate or electrify. Repairio can improve the quality of things that you fabricate on the wood working table. The herbio spell create a random plant, BUT, it only create plants from the base game and realms of magic. There is a mod that allow the creation of some other expansion packs. Have a random wall to hang pictures and paintings. Burn it. Repairio it.
Ah, vampires. I was doing this as a refurbish store and had found one of the really expensive couches …. and the customer made my sim go through nearly the whole ringing up process only to burn in the sun just before actually buying the thing. ^^; I would have loved to charge grim for that.
I love this series so much! And I think it’s absolutely hilarious that it escalated from “let’s get broken shit and magic it and sell it” to “LET’S DO MAGIC INSURANCE FRAUD” Also seeing the pop up for “Semaj discovered the fire!” after Semaj intentionally started the fire 🤣
You could do that. Also have a household artist factory. OR if you have Get Together, have the book factory household create an Artist Club, buy a bunch of easels, and have your challenge Sim on a Digital Art pad when the club is at your lot and that Sim isn't writing books (so you can buy club perks like Inspiration moodlet and gaining art skill faster, that sort of thing.) That said, from CAS you have to create a household with exactly one Sim for this challenge, it won't let you start with an 8 Sim household or even a 2 Sim household, so you'd need to add Sims to your household either through gameplay or manage worlds. And don't forget the yard sale table/yard sale wall from City Living so you could get the mark-up on the art (if you had the writers make copies of the books, you could sell those on the table too but I think you'd need to keep the original to continue making copies.)
finally, he's doing what i've been saying since the first attempt 😭 well i didn't mention dumpster diving, but magical insurance fraud was my suggestion lol
The get to work pack is so often forgotten lol James, could you use the transform ray to transform random things into more expensive rando things and then sell it and also use the cloning machine?? Kind of magic vs science in making my sim a millionaire 😆
I totally understand that dumpster diving gets boring at some point. That's why I did my Million Dollar Challenge Dumpster Diving Edition (with Extreme Rags to Riches rules, but with Green Technician job), using a junkyard at a certain point. It still cost me 30 gameplay hours and about 60 hours editing the video (no kidding)....😅 But I love the idea of the insurance scam and the magic spells.😈 And James in general: Thanks for the great inspiration and entertainment! Because of you and DrGluon I started playing the Sims again. 🤗🤩
i made a challenge where i could only furnish a house using dumpster items. i did that and the green technician job. i technically finished the challenge but probably only have like $500k total.
@@toxxicx Thanks for the reminder! Actually I wanted to build and furnish such a house in the non-existent follow-up video. 😅How the time goes by...🙃The most difficult part of the interior will probably be the kitchen: When I look into the savegame I see that in total only 4 counters and 4 islands were found.... But none of the parts match in color (and most of them not in shape).🤣
This is so creative 😂 For a different video/challenge idea, what if you had a vampire sim who wanted to be a child of the ocean and live at the beach, living on Sulani? But you weren't allowed to use the immune to the sun vamp trait? And the big thing to work up to was a dramatic beach wedding? 😂 and you HAVE to finish every aspiration/trait related to beach life
I feel like the collector's aspiration also helps with dumpster diving, but could just be my luck. Also, the spell that generates food makes a plate that can be put into the dumpster and generate items. You could have stayed on your home lot the entire time. Using the bottomless trash lot challenge also helps the dumpsters stay full.
Then we were both lucky, my sim with the collector aspiration got really nice furniture out of the dumpsters too. Being on a landfill lot is also helpful, because people sometimes dump very valuable appliances and electronics.
I would get annoyed at the cockroaches, but I didn't like having my inventory full of trash either, so I'd use a CC storage item by Ravasheen that looks like a storage box. So I'd be storing tons of trash in a box next to the dumpster, and then transfer it to the dumpster when I was ready to dive. Hey, it's a living. 😅
I love that James donates to Bess Sterling in every series 😂😂. It inspired me to do it, she finally paid out $25k and then I immediately got a notification that she died lollll
Landfill lot is not for residential but there is a trash management lot trait that would have been helpful. Also the delicioso spell that creates food? Throw the plate away to generate more stuff in the dumpster! Also use a sink to get a free glass of water, cancel the action, leave the water to spoil (there is a lot trait that speeds that up but I can’t remember if it’s grimy or another one) then throw the water out in the dumpster to generate more dumpster deals!
If you put trash or spare parts in the bin it fills up and you can five for deals again. Also if you copy past the stuff you get in dumpsters it makes it easy to earn more money.❤
I'm doing this scenario currently! My sim is a fregan kleptomaniac. She stays at other people's houses, steals their things and their food and dumpster dives in the down time lol
I'm LOVING this series so much! Its reinvigorated my interest in sims. I started getting a bit bored with gameplay and this has just helped me get into it again. Thanks James! Lol
Hey, I love your these challenge videos lately. They are a lot of fun. I was wondering if you could make captions available because that makes life so much easier for a lot of people.
I think it seems like it took a lot longer even though it was only 19 days because he was awake the whole time. So no hours were wasted sleeping. In all the hours I have played this game I have never seen a Vampires grave/urn before! Love the video as always.
There is a glitch with the potions that - regardless of potion quality (excellent, normal, poor, etc.) - it will have the negative effect. So needs potions will cut your needs in half rather than fill them, rejuvenation potion will fill your age bar rather than empty it, etc.
I love getting copy pasto, then exploring the temples in jungle adventure to get the artifacts. $15,000 artifact copy pasted several times yields good results. it's a little too easy but pretty satisfying.
This gave me an idea so I can get into playing again. I’m going to create a magical sim have him/her open a retail store and sell all the items that they repair from the dumpster at a home depo store.
@@amell.5461 I have seen his and Gluon’s collabs! They’re hilarious! I was just suggesting that because he’s never done a vid with Kevin. That would be mayhem! 😂
Every time I see the sage’s in game I always have troubles finding them because I’m used to seeing them in the clothes James put them in in the rags to riches series, the outfits with top hats etc Yes I know I can find them with the thingys above their head but I look for outfits and I can’t see the red suits and top hats on anyone so it always confuses me lolz
I just started playing scenarios like a week ago and it's a blast but I wish that there were more available that had more to it. Some of them, like the million dollars, just adds an extra element or a goal to regular gameplay. Because it takes so long to accomplish. Whereas others are way more involved and have tons of new goals as you achieve things even daily. I really like that
I started this challenge but instead of insurance fraud, I'm selling everything at a shop and decorating a house with the mansion baron aspiration using only dumpster dove items. Childish is proving useful because they get their fun up fast from playing with toys.
One thing that could have helped a bit is getting a familiar. They reduce your charge and will also prevent you from dying if you happened to overcharge to death.
He's turned this scenario into a version of Kayla's "Can you get rich" videos and I love it! Another useful spell for dumpster diving. . . Scruberoo :D
James, that potions bug is legit the game just f**king up. My spellcasters can't make potions without them failing despite being high level wizards/witches.
lol when I did my dumpster diving to a million challenge, I downloaded The Dump that you and Glueon made and would travel there as there are two dumpsters plus the one off the lot...would literally just go between the three of them!
I would have almost given up on Sims recently. I have played sims the first game. I used to get a buzz every time I would see a new game or pack. And sims 4 has been a let down, with the quality and amount of most packs. I'm glad your keeping Sims 4 content alive considering how broken it is?!?
As fun as ti is to see you freeze and ignite Sims who bother you... I sometimes wish there was a good ol' "kick in the shin" or "smack over the head" interaction.
Ok so I kind of love this - it’s a way to cheat the system without technically using any cheats or mods, and that’s just so much more clever than cheats. And hey, once you can afford the stuff who says you CAN’T just buy the expensive stuff and commit more insurance fraud?? lol this kind of outside the box thinking, while still technically playing within the confines of what the game allows, is the kind of content I love to see. James is so creative, definitely want to see more like this.
Hey James! Loving the challenges and looks like you're (mostly) having fun with them ^^ .. but if you're ever thinking about other ideas, you still have the super sim series waiting ^^ .. but thank you for the awesome videos lately ^^
Stealing Del Sol Valley 🌟 stars off the floor and selling those through inventory. (Not sure if they will go on the selling table) they respawn pretty fast. I wonder if it would work for this scenario I usually sell these on a bind.
Regarding the broken CC stove, you might have an older version of the CC pack. Dream Home Decorator broke CC built in stoves, but Little Dica updated the pack to fix it, so it might just be a matter of downloading the updated version of the pack
There's a bug with having auto-counters on and CC in-counter stoves. LittleDica also mentions that in the description of the mod... but as much as we love James, we know how he is about actually reading the tooltips.
Listen, the times are hard on everyone, if L Faba has to do some dumpster diving alongside being a master of magic, then let her do it. Maybe she's struggling just like Semaj.
This reminds me of my strategy to make money with Sims 3 Supernatural. Get the Midas Touch potion from the store, buy the most expensive dresser, turn it into gold. Sell that, use the profits to buy more expensive dressers, and repeat until the potion wears off.
Clever idea! When it comes to the learning spells thing, though, it is probably faster to learn without tomes. You just click your sim, select "practice magic" they will throw sparkles a few times and boom, a new spell. Also, you can pick which school the spell will be from, so super convenient.
Suggestions: 1. One household of 8 sims. 2 sims - video streaming 2 sims - writing books 2 sims - searching in the Bottomless Decoration Box and selling what is found 2 sims - both dumpster diving for furniture or one does that and the other does woodworking for the tiny home and selling what is not needed. Basically, trying to furnish the tiny home through dumpster diving and woodworking. When they're done, they switch something else. Maybe get to 2 bunk beds, so 4 sims, at any given time, are always awake making money. 2. One household of 8 sims. 3 sims - video streaming 3 sims - writing books 2 sims - both dumpster diving for furniture or one does that and the other does woodworking for the tiny home and selling what is not needed. Basically, trying to furnish the tiny home through dumpster diving and woodworking. When they're done, they switch something else. Maybe one does writing and the other video streaming or they both do knitting. Maybe get to 2 bunk beds, so 4 sims, at any given time, are always awake making money. 3. Semaj collects celebrity autographs and while he's waiting for the value to go up, he's doing one of the following: woodworking video streaming searching in the Bottomless Decoration Box and selling what is found writing books Not sure if you could use the copypasto spell or cloning machine on autographs, but maybe it's worth the try.
I wonder if you can use groups to make money? I at least know that if you make stealing a group activity, you can steal much higher value items than your mischief level usually allows. So maybe if you have more than one sim in the household and they all steal stuff (and paint or build or something) you could get lots of money quickly. :) 😈
Definitely Selvadorada temple run... Science career until Semaj gets the cloning machine, and then he takes off to Selvadorada.. Comes home and clones his treasures and sells them on the sales table. Could also do the Ambrosia (and clone it, and sell it on the table), pretty fast simoleon maker.