Clement always shows up in Evergreen Harbor in my games. He's often voting on the NAPs and then hogging the dumpsters. This is where he's sourcing all the Winterfest gifts. He knows about people throwing-out broken expensive stuff, and he fixes it up and puts it on your gift pile(s). He didn't come by that 10 in mechanical skill by making the toys.
I think the quickest way I can think of would be to marry father winter then use the 500k to buy as many violins as possible and then sell them at 300% but that also seems kinda cheaty lol
It does remind me of lilsimsies' series, but I like James' spin on it and using the in game challenge to get there. Definitely need a series on this by James.
I tried to do it by dumpster diving, the very first item i had my sim fix electrocuted her to death, she died early enough the grim reaper came in with the welcome wagon and then they all got traumatized
"Must...keep..flower arrangeing" lol Idk why I laughed so hard. It would be great to see Deli go against you and see who comes up with the weirdest ways to get $1,000,000
I believe Vlad is worth something like 400k. So if you do multiple sims, have one marry Father Winter and the other marry Vlad then have them all do flowers you’d only have to make 100k and could do it in just a day or two without even having to sell from the table.
Have 8 people n have them do 8 different things. 4 and go to work. One can grow the garden, one paints, one write books, one makes n sell flowers. All in a micro home. Not only are u trying to make $1million. Your trying not to kill any Sims b4 u get the money
Scenting just adds mood buffs/life/death to the aRRANGEments. Scenting with death flower knocks off a life stage, orchid adds a day or two to life, bluebell keeps the arrangement from going off, daisy makes you happy (I think), begonia means caution/kind of rude gift, rose is romantic. There is one for fidelity which makes the giver and receiver unable to cheat while active buff, one that makes you inspired. Really kind of a fun feature. Congrats on the much faster §1,000,000!
...and if you gift something scented with a death flower to an elder, you WILL kill them. Tried that, just to see if it worked, once, and then wanted to apologize to Alan Alda for killing his MASH character that way.
@@flappysquirrel5132 Did your matriarch name the baby after him? Did you recreate the whole cast? Are you playing with a theme or storyline? That was a good show.
@@Rocannee the weird thing is that on the cupcake machine it uses cooking skill for the cupcakes. The baking skill is for the pastries. I just started playing a bakery lately and I'm confused as to how cupcakes don't equal baking.
@@isawhat8712 my guess is that the cupcake machine was in the game long before they implemented the baking skill and they just forgot to change it or don't see the need to change that.
Clement Frost has all the skills related to Winterfest: Handiness (because he makes toys for kids), Cooking and Baking (because holiday cookies), Charisma and Parenting (because kids love him), and Singing (because holiday carols!)
When I do this challenge I normally set up an 8 sim lot with tons of dumpsters, I have someone who keeps getting water from the fridge, everyone else dumpster dives, once the dumpsters are empty you put the glass of water in and it's magically full of £15,000 artworks again!
I've never thought of purposefully dumping water in! I usually just fill it back with microwaved meals bit, but only when my Sim actually needs to eat. Gotta try this now.
Someone suggested doing a painter's club, where you just have your club paint for you and then sell the work. I did it in just over two sim weeks, and that was including other gameplay. So with full focus, it could probably be done faster
Who knew that father winter was the perfect sugar daddy?? Such great timing for this 😅 Also James if you open the menu when build/buy starts lagging and click out of the menu immediately it fixes it! It’s annoying sometimes but it does work 👌🏾
That really depends on playstyle. I'm a bit of a control freak so I disable autonomy and spend quite bit of time in pause so all my sims are always productive, but people like James here will probably have some chaos
@@limiv5272 how could you do that to them? You are taking away their free will. They have wants and needs that only they know they have and you are making them robots just because you are meticulous. How can you give your sims a good life if you don’t let them live it?
Scenting doesn't add to the value, but scenting with a bluebell makes it so the arraignment never goes bad, so it gives you lots of time to sell it without losing value.
My tip for starting a Rags to Riches is to collect things at the park in Oasis Springs. They spawn at 4AM so that's the time to be there. There's almost $700 of stuff in there to collect every day once the plants spawn! It's infinitely faster than fishing. And if you're going to fish, use that excellent spot in the back of the Oasis Springs park. You catch violins and cowplant berries and all kinds of stuff. Other OS neighborhoods good for collecting too.
Speaking of the lottery...I am currently playing James' every lot trait challenge with all the traits like simple living and such, the lottery came up in my game, I had my character buy a ticket and Bess Stirling won the lottery, and my first thought was "if she calls me for money again...."
Congrats on 13 years! Maybe you could try making 1,000,000 off archeological finds? You could even use all portable furniture for the most part, just have a tiny spot for your potty bush. And the rest of the yard (or some of it) just an awning that you can pull out the portable furniture and put it away again (tent, cooler, microwave, minifridge, pocket table, folding chairs, laptop, easel, soccer ball. But, you don't want a bike for in the jungle. Cheapest, smallest lot is in Strangerville, but the best for collectables is either in Newcrest (next to the pond) or in Oasis Springs (the park has great collectables). Not sure if there is a better place for collectables.
Father Winter turned up out of season when I played this scenario as well. I wonder if the game increases his chance of turning up when you play this scenario so you can be a gold digger? 🤔😏
Yes, holy cow! I did a R2R using only flower arraigning and the yard sale table. I didn't even raise the pricing to full, and was making 6-7K for each arraignment.
I think Father Winter showed up because of the community board across the street from your lot. I've seen him there before too when I played on that lot even weeks away from Winterfest. NPCs just seem to congregate there. I really enjoyed the video today and it made me laugh so thank you!
When I did this, I had a vampire Sim and he didn't need to sleep so I had him up all night. I used Plopsy to sell all of my paintings and arrangements (I scented mine with bluebells so they wouldn't expire).
"What are the chances of him just showing up, by the way?" Because he knew James was doing a rags to riches challenge... Duh! Lol. You didn't cheat, there's literally no rules accept to have $1mil. You're good 😊 And no worries about spending money on your lot. If you sell it at the end, then you get the value of your lot in your bank account and then it counts for the scenario.
It was strange that he was there, since James mentioned it being a new Save and all, Winterfest hadn't been a thing yet. I take it as a Sign that he wanted to be involved, heh heh.
That works for me most times, but when i first load up my game it lags like crazy and nothing fixes it until it just resolves itself after 20 minutes-might be what's going on with his game.
Imagine how much faster it would be if you had an established flower garden-with it going from §844 to §0 by using orchids from your garden. Sebastian knew what was what!
Maybe have a garden club to increase everything even more paired with tiny home stuff? Whatever the next challenge, using the club system would probably help, too.
Another idea: get to $1m using _only_ kleptomaniac and selling the stuff you steal. Sorry for leaving so many comments, though perhaps it's good for the algorithm? If that's the case I don't mind. You're doing a lot for the community and I always enjoy your videos. Especially lots of respect for the decision to boycott the marriage dlc and bring attention to the issues preventing many simmers from using it. That can't have been easy, and I'm really impressed at how you handled it and how you're using your influence to give back to the community. Lots of love~.
Your videos help me get threw most of my days I’ve been watching all the rag to riches I think I’m only half way threw all your videos thank you for making such great content
Start off with two Sims. Create custom events where Father Christmas appears, and then schedule them to be two days in a row. Have your Sims marry one Father Christmas each and you should be able to finish the challenge within 48h…
1. There’s a bug with tiny houses and haunted houses in Evergreen Harbor where “the welcome wagon” comes over daily and fails to welcome wagon (because the event is something else in Evergreen Harbor and Sulani) and instead invades your home and uses all your stuff. 2. Scenting with bluebells means your arrangements won’t spoil. Setting with death flowers makes them a murder weapon when gifted to elders.
I completed my challenge with no cheats, magic (don’t have this EP) or marrying a rich guy in 25 sim days: micro home, gardening (mainly expensive flowers), taking care of aspirations and buying 3 money trees for the satiscation points and being a leader of painters' club on my lot xD. In a few days all the members became painting experts, so with these paintings, my garden and freelancing (as an artist) I was saving around 50--70k per day at the end of challenge. Meanwhile I also completed Fabulously Wealthy aspiration so got big direct deposit twice during the challenge. Never been prouder of myself while playing TS4, bc I usually make boring families having boring perfect lives :D
One thing I noticed - you brought "marketable" treat only for Daddy Winter so when he was tending the table the prices would be higher. But congrats on finding quick way to complete this scenario!
I managed to do it in 14 days by going the copy pasto/money tree route, though I also did a bunch of dumpster diving/repairio too. You should make this a series and try all the crazy way sims have of making money to see which takes the fastest/longest. And yes the pack is horrendously awful, but hilarious to watch others trying to play it. I watched Dr. Gluon's married at first sight sims style. All I can say is that if they don't fix it quick, I'll delete the wedding lots and just continue to elope immediately. I'll probably do that anyway. 😂
I wish fairies were in 4. Imagine using them to help with planting and finding collectibles like in 3. Would be super helpful in this. I miss them so much 😭
I like using arches and curtain in tiny houses, instead of doors, lol. I've lived in small spaces and curtains make excellent dividers and don't need the same clearance space doors do.
What's even more impressive, is that even though marrying Santa gave you the first half-million, you still made like $450,000 in like 30 in-game hours just by just selling bouquets at a yard sale table.
13 years wow. Congratulations James. So need to fix my book u have of all my fav simmers/TH-camrs to catch up on video/LPs and can't wait to go back and rewatch all yours
These videos remind me of the ones @lilsimsie does with Stanley the Hotdog! ...if you know, you know. 🤣😂🤣 Thanks for the laughs this morning @James Turner. I needed that. Keep up the good work!!
Hello ! Congrats on being here for over a decade ! And I've been watching your videos almost all that time. You are the only sim you tuber I watch and I always look forward of your videos because even if this game is buggy and glitchy and lacks compared to previous ones I get always the good feeling from your videos that this game can be still very fun and enjoyable ♥ Thanks for that and all the years. Cheers to more decades of sims videos.
3:12 just a tip, when your game lags like that, click escape to go into the menu and then click escape again to exit the menu. it works every time for me
LOL yes, thank you James! You've brought up what I realized the moment that pack came out. It's so much more lucrative to just make flower arrangements, you can even go to debug buy them for free and then turn around have you Sim name and sell it for crazy money too 😂 Oh man, we've have so much fun playing saying together or collabing. You're awesome cheers 🍻
11:20 when you're early on in skill building, you're inevitably going to make a loss. At that stage it's more efficient to do the cheapest arrangements/paintings you can, then you loose less money.
Congratulations on 13 years Yay! Thank you so much for all the laugh and great content. You are one of my favorite sims creators and I wish you continued years of success
Side note, I hate the Harris family! Every time my Sims live in Evergreen Harbor, they always use my house like a public lot 😓 lol good to know that flower arranging is OP though.
I think it's that whole world. I've been playing in the port area and the neighbors come over everyday, sometimes 3 or 4 times. (I even had no visitors allowed) I got where I just reset them as soon as they popped up so they would leave faster.
An idea I literally just had as either a challenge in general or part of this scenario: you are not allowed to stay on your home lot (maybe any lot?) for longer than an hour in game time. You can change the time, but the idea is the same - you have to be constantly moving, satisfying your needs, and earning money while not being able to stay anywhere long term. It'd take a while to get to a million, but I'd be really interested to see how you go about it!
I am planning on doing rags to riches and let’s plays it’s so relaxing seeing other simmers have a great time doing challenges . James Turner is my go to TH-camr for just escaping . Thank you for having great content James . You are awesome
The build mode lag can be fixed by pressing escape 2 times and if that does not work go into settings and then leave you do not need to change anything
The pacing in this video is so much better than the "every lot trait" videos. I can actually follow along.... more relaxed, even with the lag. ❤️ ya James!
James for the lag going in and out of build mode try just hitting esc twice (or opening and closing the save menu thing) that works pretty well for me!
hi, James! you can try exploring the jungle and selling the artifacts. with the prices marked up 300%, it’s kinda fast but also more action with all the jungle stuff 😅
Deli has mentioned how in therapy she was basically told not to rely to heavily on each other for work stuff. They are not married, at least not yet and shouldn't get too mixed up in each other's work because an occasional collab.
Probably not the most exciting for content but I did it in 3 days by just convincing the games richest families to move in with me. Got to be careful to make sure they join you and you don't join them though or the scenario ends. Had Vlad and the Landgrabs all living with me in that needs TLC apartment.
Picturing Geoffrey Landgrabb squealing whilst bouncing on the couch, Nancy rolling her eyes, and Vlad trying to hypnotize the mouse with his super vamp powers!
13 years? Holy cow dude. I think I've been watching for around ten-ish throughout my several channels? For sure since the Sims 3 Sims Supply days. Crazy how time flies.
I tried this scenario and chose a lot with a house, the most expensive that I can afford with the starter fund, fully furnished. Since the scenario only adjust the fund to zero after we start playing, I have a fully functional house. Then, I enter build mode, reduce my house to tiny residential, sell all the excess furniture and buy only the necessary skill items. I basically got back my starter funds.
That's just cheating the system basically, and since the scenario doesn't even reward you with anything, why even bother doing it if you're gonna cheat?
I LOVE all your videos James, never fails with good challenges and new ways to play and have fun. I look forward to your videos whenever a new one comes out!! Please never stop lol 😊😊😊💛
If you really want to cheese...make a club and then get the "Rally the Troops" perk so you and Clement can keep just using that interaction to boost their needs without ever needing to stop arranging lol
If anyone is still getting lag, a small thing to slightly fix it. I just open the settings (the 3 dots) and then close it again. It seems to fix it for a bit. I can play for 2 hrs and I do that about 2 maybe 3 times in that time. I majorly get it when going from build and buy to live modes.
Today the channel has been around for 13 years, thanks for all your support!
PS, I know the menu trick for stopping the lag, it wasn’t working haha
It stopped working for me with the last patch. Now the game is just unplayable
The only youtuber that uploads when I'm awake here in Australia! Thanks for all the years of great content :)
@@stephrowles5520 haha yup. Im in canada.
@@emerson3669 In Australia it's 1am right now... I'm a night owl though >.
The menu stopped working for me too, but now clicking on the camera options button fixes it!
Imagine casually spending 25,000 on flowers at a yard sale
fr! like at that point it isn’t even a “sale”
....at 2:00 AM.... 😆 everyone must be drunk!
I had a sim that used to do floral arrangements. Fr she would just do one and earn 50k and not do anything for a whole year in game.
At that point they just buy stuff bc they have money they need to spend 😂
No problem at all, piece of cake. XD
Clement always shows up in Evergreen Harbor in my games. He's often voting on the NAPs and then hogging the dumpsters. This is where he's sourcing all the Winterfest gifts. He knows about people throwing-out broken expensive stuff, and he fixes it up and puts it on your gift pile(s). He didn't come by that 10 in mechanical skill by making the toys.
Interesting. I wonder if this was on purpose from the devs...I know the Skills were, I mean the Evergreen Harbor thing. 😄
Omg this made me laugh. I can totally see them like yeah you got trashed gifts that I fixed. Win win
I LOVE this back story!
Ok you win the internet today! 🤣
🤯 makes total sense hahaha
the fact James didn’t react to Katrina inviting him to Batuu low key broke my heart
Batuu, yeaaaah!!
I did it since he dropped the ball.. "Katrina... Batuu Yeah!"
Yes 'Katrina!' is the original call
I feel like it really shows just how much the lag broke his spirits, lol
My thought exactly! Are we a bit dameged? 😅
I think the quickest way I can think of would be to marry father winter then use the 500k to buy as many violins as possible and then sell them at 300% but that also seems kinda cheaty lol
🤣🤣
He did this in a video before lolol
@@JamesTurnerYT I ruined ur 69 likes on this comment srry
You can sell violins that you buy? I thought you could only sell the things you crafted at the table...?
@@lindyl8458 you can sell them if you own a retail store :)
i kinda need this to become a series... if theres even a possible way to make money faster
Lilsimsie has a hilarious series of getting rich quick schemes. Check it out!
I was going to say the same thing. lilsimsie has tried everything!
Lilsimsie has a whole playlist built around this... But he should do it too lol
Agreed 💯
It does remind me of lilsimsies' series, but I like James' spin on it and using the in game challenge to get there. Definitely need a series on this by James.
James: we’re gonna make bank on flower arrangements
James 2 mins in: let’s make Santa our sugar daddy!
Idk man seems kinda gay to me
I tried to do it by dumpster diving, the very first item i had my sim fix electrocuted her to death, she died early enough the grim reaper came in with the welcome wagon and then they all got traumatized
That's impressive
I tried not to laugh, but I literally laughed outloud at this. Totally sounds like something that would happen to one of my Sims.
"Must...keep..flower arrangeing" lol Idk why I laughed so hard. It would be great to see Deli go against you and see who comes up with the weirdest ways to get $1,000,000
Challenge: Get to $1,000,000 WITHOUT Seasons installed. It’s a race - which of you can make it first?
She just posted a video doing that!
@@tainav618 Yeah I'm watching it now
I believe Vlad is worth something like 400k. So if you do multiple sims, have one marry Father Winter and the other marry Vlad then have them all do flowers you’d only have to make 100k and could do it in just a day or two without even having to sell from the table.
Marrying caliente and taking in the entire family is an instant million
Look, this was fun, but if there are no rules about adding people to the family… why not add the max and let them all craft flower bouquets?! 😅
I wonder if there is a max amount of money you can make? Haha
Have 8 people n have them do 8 different things. 4 and go to work. One can grow the garden, one paints, one write books, one makes n sell flowers. All in a micro home. Not only are u trying to make $1million. Your trying not to kill any Sims b4 u get the money
@@peytonmaddox5283 the max in all sims games is 9,999,999 simos (simoleans)
@GalaxyInferno this idea, gives me early sims vibes, like painting goblin vibes 🤣😂 Bouquet Goblins? 🤣💐
@@AuttumnDawn why have them all do different things when flower arranging makes the most money?
Scenting just adds mood buffs/life/death to the aRRANGEments. Scenting with death flower knocks off a life stage, orchid adds a day or two to life, bluebell keeps the arrangement from going off, daisy makes you happy (I think), begonia means caution/kind of rude gift, rose is romantic. There is one for fidelity which makes the giver and receiver unable to cheat while active buff, one that makes you inspired. Really kind of a fun feature. Congrats on the much faster §1,000,000!
...and if you gift something scented with a death flower to an elder, you WILL kill them. Tried that, just to see if it worked, once, and then wanted to apologize to Alan Alda for killing his MASH character that way.
@@flappysquirrel5132 You KILLED Hawkeye?!
@@irishduchess7577 ...he was an elder already, really, and days away from dying of old age. But yes... and then my matriarch went into labor.
@@flappysquirrel5132 Did your matriarch name the baby after him? Did you recreate the whole cast? Are you playing with a theme or storyline? That was a good show.
@@irishduchess7577 ...that Hawkeye sim came from EHaught58, who did the main cast. :) And the kid was his, but not named after him.
The cupcake machine makes big bucks. Stanley Humphreys is living proof of that
stanley is an icon
so with santa having the baking skill at level 10 it could be even faster
He's also unliving proof that vending machines can be evil. 😂
@@Rocannee the weird thing is that on the cupcake machine it uses cooking skill for the cupcakes. The baking skill is for the pastries. I just started playing a bakery lately and I'm confused as to how cupcakes don't equal baking.
@@isawhat8712 my guess is that the cupcake machine was in the game long before they implemented the baking skill and they just forgot to change it or don't see the need to change that.
1:42 could have been a perfect "KATRINA!! Aaaah, Batu" combo
They cancelled each other out
Clement Frost has all the skills related to Winterfest: Handiness (because he makes toys for kids), Cooking and Baking (because holiday cookies), Charisma and Parenting (because kids love him), and Singing (because holiday carols!)
He doesn't have the cooking skill. He has the baking skill because cookies
That’s a great detail
When I do this challenge I normally set up an 8 sim lot with tons of dumpsters, I have someone who keeps getting water from the fridge, everyone else dumpster dives, once the dumpsters are empty you put the glass of water in and it's magically full of £15,000 artworks again!
I've never thought of purposefully dumping water in! I usually just fill it back with microwaved meals bit, but only when my Sim actually needs to eat. Gotta try this now.
Someone suggested doing a painter's club, where you just have your club paint for you and then sell the work. I did it in just over two sim weeks, and that was including other gameplay. So with full focus, it could probably be done faster
I did that and it took 16 days.
Jim Pickens, is that you?
@@nicolelake5848 that's funny, that's exactly what it took me xD
@@rehenah 😂
this just how callmekevin plays sims normally
Who knew that father winter was the perfect sugar daddy?? Such great timing for this 😅
Also James if you open the menu when build/buy starts lagging and click out of the menu immediately it fixes it! It’s annoying sometimes but it does work 👌🏾
the urge to pronounce "arrangement" as "arr-RAHNGE-ment" was too strong for me
Now if you can use multiple sims, then I'm wondering: would it be faster with 8 adults sims, or slower because of the chaos? I think you should try :)
That really depends on playstyle. I'm a bit of a control freak so I disable autonomy and spend quite bit of time in pause so all my sims are always productive, but people like James here will probably have some chaos
@@limiv5272 how could you do that to them? You are taking away their free will. They have wants and needs that only they know they have and you are making them robots just because you are meticulous. How can you give your sims a good life if you don’t let them live it?
@@aspenisthebest lol thanks for the reply, I'll do better I promise I've been reformed
That... escalated quickly.
"I would like all your money and then you can leave."
Scenting doesn't add to the value, but scenting with a bluebell makes it so the arraignment never goes bad, so it gives you lots of time to sell it without losing value.
My tip for starting a Rags to Riches is to collect things at the park in Oasis Springs. They spawn at 4AM so that's the time to be there. There's almost $700 of stuff in there to collect every day once the plants spawn! It's infinitely faster than fishing. And if you're going to fish, use that excellent spot in the back of the Oasis Springs park. You catch violins and cowplant berries and all kinds of stuff. Other OS neighborhoods good for collecting too.
Speaking of the lottery...I am currently playing James' every lot trait challenge with all the traits like simple living and such, the lottery came up in my game, I had my character buy a ticket and Bess Stirling won the lottery, and my first thought was "if she calls me for money again...."
*giggles* Did she?
@@Danimeows not yet but I logged off the game like right after that so she might next time I play lol
It’s nice to have a little build video incorporated into a challenge. I really enjoy both your building and playing.
A new series... James tries earning a million simoleons by each skill
That would be awesome!
Can’t wait for the cross stitch one😂
Does this remind anyone else of Rags to Riches Seasons and Sebastian? 😄 congrats James on the 13 years of TH-cam, and thanks for all the laughs!
Since the title of the video, I just have to love him, it feels like he really hears and cares about his suscribers 💖✨🤭
Happy 13 Years James, you have only gotten better and we are all so lucky to have your laughter and your content.
Congrats on 13 years!
Maybe you could try making 1,000,000 off archeological finds? You could even use all portable furniture for the most part, just have a tiny spot for your potty bush. And the rest of the yard (or some of it) just an awning that you can pull out the portable furniture and put it away again (tent, cooler, microwave, minifridge, pocket table, folding chairs, laptop, easel, soccer ball. But, you don't want a bike for in the jungle. Cheapest, smallest lot is in Strangerville, but the best for collectables is either in Newcrest (next to the pond) or in Oasis Springs (the park has great collectables). Not sure if there is a better place for collectables.
1:41 James: *Ignores KATRINA!*
Me: *blinks 1 time*
Congratulations on 13 years of wonderful content! Here’s to many, many more! 🥂
James “why is father winter even here?”
Me “obviously he knew you were his soul mate 😉
Father winter was doing the challenge too and decided to join forces with Semaj
Father Winter turned up out of season when I played this scenario as well. I wonder if the game increases his chance of turning up when you play this scenario so you can be a gold digger? 🤔😏
11:27 you have five photos of SANTA. You should have got so much more money! 😂🤣
James didn’t even BLINK about having his Sim-alter-ego marry Santa and this is why I will always return for his content.
This house has everything. Zero color, an open shower by the toilet, and Santa Claus.
Santa just always hangs out in the Eco Lifestyle world. At least in my game, he’s always there chilling
He's probably there to dumpster dive to find winterfest gifts 😂
Santa chills in my Briddleton Bay too.
Yes, holy cow! I did a R2R using only flower arraigning and the yard sale table. I didn't even raise the pricing to full, and was making 6-7K for each arraignment.
I think Father Winter showed up because of the community board across the street from your lot. I've seen him there before too when I played on that lot even weeks away from Winterfest. NPCs just seem to congregate there. I really enjoyed the video today and it made me laugh so thank you!
When I did this, I had a vampire Sim and he didn't need to sleep so I had him up all night. I used Plopsy to sell all of my paintings and arrangements (I scented mine with bluebells so they wouldn't expire).
If you appease the gnomes and add them to your inventory, they’ll continuously give you seed packets. That’s a good way to make money
"What are the chances of him just showing up, by the way?"
Because he knew James was doing a rags to riches challenge... Duh! Lol.
You didn't cheat, there's literally no rules accept to have $1mil. You're good 😊
And no worries about spending money on your lot. If you sell it at the end, then you get the value of your lot in your bank account and then it counts for the scenario.
It was strange that he was there, since James mentioned it being a new Save and all, Winterfest hadn't been a thing yet. I take it as a Sign that he wanted to be involved, heh heh.
For the frame-rate issue, try pressing esc (open the game menu) when you enter or exit buy mode. That fixes it for me
That works for me most times, but when i first load up my game it lags like crazy and nothing fixes it until it just resolves itself after 20 minutes-might be what's going on with his game.
He already knows that
Imagine how much faster it would be if you had an established flower garden-with it going from §844 to §0 by using orchids from your garden. Sebastian knew what was what!
Maybe have a garden club to increase everything even more paired with tiny home stuff? Whatever the next challenge, using the club system would probably help, too.
That “eave-en” joke deserves more credit 🤣
Another idea: get to $1m using _only_ kleptomaniac and selling the stuff you steal.
Sorry for leaving so many comments, though perhaps it's good for the algorithm? If that's the case I don't mind. You're doing a lot for the community and I always enjoy your videos. Especially lots of respect for the decision to boycott the marriage dlc and bring attention to the issues preventing many simmers from using it. That can't have been easy, and I'm really impressed at how you handled it and how you're using your influence to give back to the community. Lots of love~.
Your videos help me get threw most of my days I’ve been watching all the rag to riches I think I’m only half way threw all your videos thank you for making such great content
Probably one of my favorite challenges ever and the last one was hilarious. I'd love to see you do a bunch of these! 😀
"What are you guys doing here? I can't go super speed when you're here."
Classic Semaj at the beginning of every Bigwallet Rags to Ritches
I‘d love to see more episodes of this series. It’s fun to watch :)
Start off with two Sims. Create custom events where Father Christmas appears, and then schedule them to be two days in a row. Have your Sims marry one Father Christmas each and you should be able to finish the challenge within 48h…
This is genius
It’s only Clement Frost who has §500k, his successors “only” have §50k each.
Pro tip: Clearing game notifications fixes the lag! I believe opening the pause menu fixes it as well :)
1. There’s a bug with tiny houses and haunted houses in Evergreen Harbor where “the welcome wagon” comes over daily and fails to welcome wagon (because the event is something else in Evergreen Harbor and Sulani) and instead invades your home and uses all your stuff.
2. Scenting with bluebells means your arrangements won’t spoil. Setting with death flowers makes them a murder weapon when gifted to elders.
Oh. Scenting with orchids is apparently a potion of youth!
I completed my challenge with no cheats, magic (don’t have this EP) or marrying a rich guy in 25 sim days: micro home, gardening (mainly expensive flowers), taking care of aspirations and buying 3 money trees for the satiscation points and being a leader of painters' club on my lot xD. In a few days all the members became painting experts, so with these paintings, my garden and freelancing (as an artist) I was saving around 50--70k per day at the end of challenge. Meanwhile I also completed Fabulously Wealthy aspiration so got big direct deposit twice during the challenge. Never been prouder of myself while playing TS4, bc I usually make boring families having boring perfect lives :D
One thing I noticed - you brought "marketable" treat only for Daddy Winter so when he was tending the table the prices would be higher.
But congrats on finding quick way to complete this scenario!
I managed to do it in 14 days by going the copy pasto/money tree route, though I also did a bunch of dumpster diving/repairio too. You should make this a series and try all the crazy way sims have of making money to see which takes the fastest/longest. And yes the pack is horrendously awful, but hilarious to watch others trying to play it. I watched Dr. Gluon's married at first sight sims style. All I can say is that if they don't fix it quick, I'll delete the wedding lots and just continue to elope immediately. I'll probably do that anyway. 😂
I wish fairies were in 4. Imagine using them to help with planting and finding collectibles like in 3. Would be super helpful in this. I miss them so much 😭
I like using arches and curtain in tiny houses, instead of doors, lol.
I've lived in small spaces and curtains make excellent dividers and don't need the same clearance space doors do.
What's even more impressive, is that even though marrying Santa gave you the first half-million, you still made like $450,000 in like 30 in-game hours just by just selling bouquets at a yard sale table.
13 years wow. Congratulations James. So need to fix my book u have of all my fav simmers/TH-camrs to catch up on video/LPs and can't wait to go back and rewatch all yours
I have a feeling the next part of this will be "I made a flower arrangement factory"
Its the nerd brain aspiration that gives the instant upgrade option. Which you need level 10 handiness to complete!
These videos remind me of the ones @lilsimsie does with Stanley the Hotdog! ...if you know, you know. 🤣😂🤣
Thanks for the laughs this morning @James Turner. I needed that. Keep up the good work!!
Hahaaa! 😀
Hello ! Congrats on being here for over a decade ! And I've been watching your videos almost all that time. You are the only sim you tuber I watch and I always look forward of your videos because even if this game is buggy and glitchy and lacks compared to previous ones I get always the good feeling from your videos that this game can be still very fun and enjoyable ♥ Thanks for that and all the years. Cheers to more decades of sims videos.
3:12 just a tip, when your game lags like that, click escape to go into the menu and then click escape again to exit the menu. it works every time for me
When the frame drops like that after taking a photo usually pulling up the menu fixes it, but sometimes it doesn't.
Yep i usually press esc and 80% of the times it fixes it
LOL yes, thank you James! You've brought up what I realized the moment that pack came out. It's so much more lucrative to just make flower arrangements, you can even go to debug buy them for free and then turn around have you Sim name and sell it for crazy money too 😂 Oh man, we've have so much fun playing saying together or collabing. You're awesome cheers 🍻
seeing James fight the frame rate makes me want to apologise to my laptop
11:20 when you're early on in skill building, you're inevitably going to make a loss. At that stage it's more efficient to do the cheapest arrangements/paintings you can, then you loose less money.
“Clement, time to make arrangements” sounded like a death threat 🤣
Congratulations on 13 years Yay! Thank you so much for all the laugh and great content. You are one of my favorite sims creators and I wish you continued years of success
The Rufus t-shirt peeking in. Amazing 😂
JAMES TURNER = THE KING OF RAGS TO RICHES! (EMPHASIS ON RICHES)
Semaj and Stanley together would be multi billionaires
@@tallulahbrown5864 they would be Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk! The two richest people in the world
Side note, I hate the Harris family! Every time my Sims live in Evergreen Harbor, they always use my house like a public lot 😓 lol good to know that flower arranging is OP though.
I think it's that whole world. I've been playing in the port area and the neighbors come over everyday, sometimes 3 or 4 times. (I even had no visitors allowed) I got where I just reset them as soon as they popped up so they would leave faster.
An idea I literally just had as either a challenge in general or part of this scenario: you are not allowed to stay on your home lot (maybe any lot?) for longer than an hour in game time. You can change the time, but the idea is the same - you have to be constantly moving, satisfying your needs, and earning money while not being able to stay anywhere long term. It'd take a while to get to a million, but I'd be really interested to see how you go about it!
I am planning on doing rags to riches and let’s plays it’s so relaxing seeing other simmers have a great time doing challenges . James Turner is my go to TH-camr for just escaping . Thank you for having great content James . You are awesome
You showed up in my recommends and now I'm obsessed ✨ love these challenge videos. It really inspires me to try new things in my own game!
The build mode lag can be fixed by pressing escape 2 times and if that does not work go into settings and then leave you do not need to change anything
Just pressing Esc? Nothing else? That's the first I'm hearing of this trick
Semaj was probably taking longer to complete his arrangements because he has the perfectionist trait
That was fast. Father showing up like that was crazy. Gotta love the flower arrangements 23,000. Enjoy your rags to riches videos.
Happy 13 years!
And this was an amazing video!
Dumpsters are always a fun rags to riches. Pretty profitable too. It could be fun to see the road to 1 million that way
The pacing in this video is so much better than the "every lot trait" videos. I can actually follow along.... more relaxed, even with the lag. ❤️ ya James!
James for the lag going in and out of build mode try just hitting esc twice (or opening and closing the save menu thing) that works pretty well for me!
If you scent the bouquets with Bluebells they will last forever
I’m glad I’m not the only one who marries Clement Frost. Truthfully I just made a black widow sim and worked up the astronaut career.
hi, James! you can try exploring the jungle and selling the artifacts. with the prices marked up 300%, it’s kinda fast but also more action with all the jungle stuff 😅
Yes! So excited to see this again! You and Del should try to do this together as well 😁
A little friendly competition? Yes please!
They should see who can do it quicker
That sounds fun!
Yeah that’d be great! It would be fun if they had a little competition too!
Deli has mentioned how in therapy she was basically told not to rely to heavily on each other for work stuff. They are not married, at least not yet and shouldn't get too mixed up in each other's work because an occasional collab.
The urge to press escape when Semaj is lagging is killing me
What about “marrying to a million”? Marry as many people as quick as possible until you get 1mil
Probably not the most exciting for content but I did it in 3 days by just convincing the games richest families to move in with me. Got to be careful to make sure they join you and you don't join them though or the scenario ends. Had Vlad and the Landgrabs all living with me in that needs TLC apartment.
Picturing Geoffrey Landgrabb squealing whilst bouncing on the couch, Nancy rolling her eyes, and Vlad trying to hypnotize the mouse with his super vamp powers!
Imagine planting and growing all the flowers in order to make the bouquets, now that's real rags to riches lol
That's like a simple living challenge but for flower arranging. I guess.
That’s probably how it would have gone if Father Winter hadn’t shown up.
That's what I did,lol
13 years? Holy cow dude. I think I've been watching for around ten-ish throughout my several channels? For sure since the Sims 3 Sims Supply days. Crazy how time flies.
Jungle Adventure theme to this challenge.... you can only sell the things you find in Selvadorada while either excavating or exploring the temple.
CallMeKevin married two different Father Winters, but in his game at least, the second didn't have as much money.
I tried this scenario and chose a lot with a house, the most expensive that I can afford with the starter fund, fully furnished. Since the scenario only adjust the fund to zero after we start playing, I have a fully functional house. Then, I enter build mode, reduce my house to tiny residential, sell all the excess furniture and buy only the necessary skill items. I basically got back my starter funds.
That's just cheating the system basically, and since the scenario doesn't even reward you with anything, why even bother doing it if you're gonna cheat?
@@xFukairix Because that's how they had fun doing it
whooo way to go! and congrats on the 13 years!
I LOVE all your videos James, never fails with good challenges and new ways to play and have fun. I look forward to your videos whenever a new one comes out!! Please never stop lol 😊😊😊💛
If you really want to cheese...make a club and then get the "Rally the Troops" perk so you and Clement can keep just using that interaction to boost their needs without ever needing to stop arranging lol
If anyone is still getting lag, a small thing to slightly fix it. I just open the settings (the 3 dots) and then close it again. It seems to fix it for a bit. I can play for 2 hrs and I do that about 2 maybe 3 times in that time. I majorly get it when going from build and buy to live modes.