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James is always creating new and entertaining content even when the community is so fed up with the game. He makes me excited to play even if my game crashes
I did this challenge with Get Together. I created a club and made them paint 24/7. Since my club members’ skills increased, the quality of their paintings increased as well.
Would be so fun to see him try this scenario but "only relying on things other people make" and then like forming clubs to do painting, writing, cooking and getting the club members to make all the money - he can't sell anything he makes.
At one point in this video I thought that James should set up a gardening club to get other people to help out, but then I remembered he was only using base game.
Sims team: “we gave them like seven scenarios, if they don’t cheat that should give them a lot of game play time”. Simmers: *completes everything in four and a half hour*
The flower sell price isnt exactly a bug, any plants that end up in household inventory sell for perfect quality price. So you were just getting the benefits of having evolved (which you cant do until later levels) all of the lillies but without the skill LOL - creative workaround, not cheating
James saying "aphrocheeseiac" exactly as I was thinking it made me laugh. I can't blame the neighbors for being enticed by this mysterious man sleeping in a cot on his lawn that walks around in a constant cloud of cheese aroma.
The camping bed can go in your sim‘s inventory, so you can take it along when wandering the world. It‘s maybe a little more comfortable than the bench.
@@troebeliewoep Yes or Awwbatuu and Snowy Escape. For the longest time, I thought the single camping bed was from Outdoor Retreat too, but fortunately it‘s the bg take-along-option. =)
@@francescacicognani3589 I meant the camping bed in the video, the Gordian Cot, which is base game and can be put in your inventory like the outdoor furniture.
Anytime James starts these challenges I wonder why he doesn't choose nature aspiration which gives you better loot for collectibles. I don't have many pacjks but I believe it gives you better items from dumpster diving as well.
yeah, exactly, that aspiration doesn't need any skills, it gives you 2 fossils/metals/crystals from the dig site and 2 mysims collectibles from the box. and once you finish it you can sell the fossils/metals.crystals and space collectibles for more. i did this challange with the collector aspo but with the get to work pack through the scientist career. because one, you don't need any skills to get to the top of that career. two once you're done with the daily tasks you can dig up a decent amount collectibles for yourself.
I’m just picturing Mortimer standing there trapped, texting Bella constantly with updates about how long he’s been stuck there. He keeps taking out his phone until he dies.
Starting your sim with the collector aspiration is also helpful when relying on collectables for simoleons! You get more rare/uncommon items, it doesn’t require skills, and the reward trait is worthwhile
I'm having so much fun watching this series of trying the scenarios and James challenging himself! I love that we can tell James is having fun with it, too. I remember when you took a break after being burned out with the Sims. You're doing awesome, James!! Thanks so much for the fun videos!!!
imagine a semaj mansion filled with all the semajes from these money/skill/scenario challenges! each semaj could have his own wing inspired by how he made money/the scenario he completed
It’s probably been mentioned before, but it would be cool if James and Deligracy did a let’s play together where maybe they take turns on the different parts of a save file and they have to deal with whatever the other person did in the game previously. They get to change up the story how they want in their parts so it could be either very chaotic or follow a more clear trajectory. :)
James, you really need to change his default aspiration to collector. He gets the reward for finding rare items, and you get double from digging. Also you get aspiration points without needing skills.
I'm currently rewatching the Max Power Super Sim challenge in its entirety . Hearing you ask the eternal question "Is fishing fun?" in homage to that series made me respect the way you've been doing this for so many years yet still find ways to keep it fresh and fun and interesting. Thanks for all the great content, James. Your style of gameplay has relaxed a little bit and your voice has grown deeper, but the creativity has only gotten better.
Only if you immediately place them, though. It'll remove the skills of a sim from your library. Edit: Or at least it did last time I tried it... but this time it worked. Ah, totally a bug-free game...
@@xFukairix Starting with a little cooking doesn't do anything for earning money but does help keep your sim alive. That's about the only skill I wanted to start with. It's still challenging.
@@FirebladesSong the whole point of the challenge is to not have any, so starting fires while making Mac and cheese is part of the challenge. Play how you wanna play, I just don't get it
4:58 Bella was trying to put the fruitcake on a surface like a table, and putting it back in her inventory when she couldn't find one. It might be worth buying a cheep side table for her to put the fruitcake down and then selling it when the welcome wagon is over.
Every time I do the Grilled Cheese 🧀 aspiration I go around asking if "they've heard the good news about the grilled cheese." It's nice to know I'm not the only one that does it lol I tend to find Grim at like 3 am at bars for some reason.
5:20 the off the grid challenge might have helped you because it reduces bills, and you just have to collect water from fishing spots and use candles for lights. All the cheapest basegame plumbing is tagged with functional off grid and will work as long as you collect water.
6:04 The lot you've chosen is right next to a community garden with lots of expensive plants. You can get roses and lilies as soon as they have time to grow.
i love watching you do these scenario challenges. FYI, a cowberry sells for $180 (around that) when sold from personal inventory. But if you plant one, you can sell the planted cowberry in Build mode for $475. :)
FYI....if you go to the romance festival and uproot the flowers (after picking them of course), they re-spawn into different seasonal flowers....so you can endlessly pick flowers until the festival ends.
I didn't know that! Very handy for out of season flowers if you've got City Living and Seasons installed. Uproot anything useless and go at it, I guess!
I was thinking a similar thing about the rocket, go to Geek Con, then I realised he was playing with base game only. Darn. I've taken having City Living for granted.
This scenario took me so long making stuff & low level jobs but I found a millionaire mermaid & married for money 😂 can’t wait to see how James does it!
The slob trait might be something to consider next time. Sims with that trait are happy to eat spoiled food. It invaluable early on in rags to riches. It really only becomes annoying once they actually have a house
When you collect so many things you might as well pick the collector aspiration, that will get you points without needing skills tool. And when you finish it you can sell the collectables for more money.
I saved up 1k and went to the jungle for a few days. Came home and sold the stuff on the market table. The plates and frogs sell for 30-40k at 300% markup. You don't need any skills to do it, just stock up on all the preventive stuff at the vendors (spider spray, bat bait ect) and prepare to get electrocuted a time or two while figuring out the temple traps.
Challenge idea: Revisit the Super Sim Challenge. I know there's over 100 videoes of it, but it's my favorite challenge of yours, and there are many new aspirations, skills and careers since last time, and new ways to boost your skill (like tiny builds). Don't worry, this content is still entertaining to watch.
I love these kind of videos. How about you do the 1million challenge with the base game + 1 EP at the time and then compare which EP got you to the goal quickest? Also just remembered, I would choose the curator aspiration in the beginning, with that you are more likely to find rare collectibles.
You should choose the glutton trait because then your sim can eat spoiled food w/o getting sick. Also, clearing the notification wall always seemed to help the lag for me!
Love the challenge videos, James is so creative with them. I love the grind in Sims 4 so they always give me ideas. I had no idea about the hidden aspiration! This is why I watch let's plays.
Thank you so much, James for these challenges! your ideas make us want to play again even when we are all getting fed up with the EA and the way the game is lagging so much these days 😊😊😊
I know this is a year old but it makes me feel A LOT BETTER seeing his game with low FPS at just base game. It's just a game issue, not necessarily a my dying-pc issue and that's really nice for once 😭
I'm loving these scenarios but I do have a suggestion. It's a variation of Deli's Lucky dumpster challenge combined with a shell challenge and every lot challenge. With the sharing is caring NAP turned on. You would look in the dumpster for furniture while trying to furnish someone's shell. Sharing is caring would take it to another level and it could maybe be turned off if you reach a certain goal. Every lot challenge could be included to make it extra hard! Or any combination you like. It could be the opposite of dream home decorating. Could Sims survive on trashy items while Eliza Pancakes steals their last sink? I'm currently doing a variation of pinstar's apocalypse challenge so I have been finding it fun to watch sims struggle.
James, you have such a way of making mundane things look so much fun. I always garden when trying to make money without cheats but this was is so OP. I LOVE IT!!
I forgot how empty base game is.. I miss it when the sims was a game what you didn't have to buy every pack for basic things we had in others. Where additional games was a wants not needs 🤦♀️
I don't think that was ever a thing. I came back to Sims 1 and 2 recently, and without expansions it was... tough. I do think that expansions, even on Sims 3, used to be way more substantial; Right now it feels like you have to keep dumping more and more money for several expansions that acomplish what a single expansion used to do in past games. People always talk about how Sims 4 released without even having pools, but I'm almost certain the first release of Sims 3 didn't have it either.
@@1BamAndTheDirtIsGone oh really? I guess my memory failed me there :p I feel like my point still stands, I just think we let the nostalgia and our good memories affect how we see it but realistically none of the Sims games felt really "complete" without expansions (at least imo)
@@sol_in.victus yeah but I feel like the difference is you got way more content in expansions in the past game. I mean there are double the amount of dlc in sims 4 compared to sims 3. Sims 3 expansions were so full and gave us so much to do, some of my favorites were generations, ambitions, etc. Sims 4 just milks the fanbase and splits content up between expansion, game packs, stuff packs and kits...
You would need seasons, but you could try making everyday Winterfest/Harvestfest and get gifts from the present pile and father winter and sell it! With harvestfest the gnomes that pop up give you seed packets and you can sell the gnomes for money!
I'm playing this challenge right now running a restaurant, but I'm not trying to play it super fast. Normally when I play, I really focus on maxing out their skills and this challenge has made me appreciate more of the story telling aspect of the game.
Always plant the cowberry and then sell it in build and buy at once for 450, I think it is. Also, if you do this challenge with Magnolia Promenade, you can easily fish a bunch of dragon fruits from the little harbour.
I did this, this was a fun challenge. I used Get Together, started a painting club, had the club come over ever day to paint and then I'd sell their artwork. The club progressed in skills so the paintings got more expensive.
Escape trick to fix framerate works 90% of the time, but you have to wait a little, it's not instant. Also, loved the trick at the end, totally NOT gonna use to get a billion.
In my game, the inventory thing only seems to happen once the items have grown and then I travel to a different lot/world. I don't know if that's the way it actually works, but it seems like it.
I started my legacy with a gardener sim and quickly realized how fast you can get money with it. I quickly abandoned gardening for food and made a huge orchid and dragonfuit farm. I'm on generation 4 and they have over 6 million and no one has to ever get a job.
