I tried to earn $1,000,000 Simoleons with no expansions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2022
- This time, we're only using the base game to try and race to $1,000,000 simoleons!
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Now James is doing a whole "rags to riches" series in just one episode. Nice.
Right? I absolutely adore videos like this.
Completely forgot how easy gardening is without seasons
@@imonlysaying9985 me as well
@@imonlysaying9985 that's the entire reason I've avoided buying Seasons 🤣 I don't use mods sooo I'll wait until I have the rest of the game
@@TheRojomeansred But seasons is so good. Only pack worth getting TBH
I was like ah, yes a roof. Great idea. And then I realised, there's no seasons or weather.
I feel like weather should be part of base game. I always forget that it's a separate pack because it's so basic and essential for a life sim.
@@CylindricalWhistle yep, or at the very least rain should be in the base game, just so its not sunny all the time.
I still remember the first time i had that pack…..it felt so different. I dont know if i can play normally without it now
I don't have any pack but I want to buy seasons because it makes so much sense to have seasons
@@Lizaimi omg same. Seasons was the 1st of the first packs I ever bought(along with parenthood and tinyliving) and it definitely made the game so different.
Did this scenario too and literally won the lottery a couple days into it. That was also the first time my sim has ever won the lottery so I was naturally both excited and pissed 😅
My sims have never won the lottery. How much does it pay?
@@Lucklyist 1 million exactly :D
@@Lucklyist when my sim won, we had 50k in household funds and it paid out 1 million which obv ended the scenario. I think that number can vary but I'm not certain.
Same thing happened in my rags to riches, lol. I have never won before or since, but of course, it happens 3 days into rags to riches...
How did I not know about this??? How do you enter in the lottery?
Makes him klepto, never steals stuff 😂
To be fair you can’t steal stuff of significant value until you’ve built up your mischief skill. So probably great for a non timed game over a situation like this. Still funny though! 🙂
I spent 5 minutes internally shouting 'make it a tiny lot!' until James realised he didn't need the roof as he's playing base game. Feeling kinda dumb 🙃
haha me too!
@@MaskingSmiles no, if he made a tiny lot he gets bonus on the skills
@@StudyGlassHealer he disabled all packs so tiny houses aren’t a thing
@@StudyGlassHealer yeah but he needs the tiny living pack for it
@@Mockingjay975 oh, I thought they added that function to the base, my bad!
Actually I'd like to see you redo this challenge with the lessons you learned from this one. Like I want these to become proper challenges that you try to beat your own score of. Like speedruns 😂
Yes. Absolutely yes, this would be great😂
If not him I wanna see Deli do it 😂
Yes, and no computer because he didn't use it at all 😂😂 what a waste lol
I wish it was possible to “buy” businesses (nightclubs, bars etc) and just collect daily or weekly revenue without having to actually physically work there, like we could in the sims 3. Seems like such a useful and realistic feature for a challenge like this! Maybe not for a speedrun, but in general.
U can open a restaurant w out having to be there?
@@marakahl yes you’re right, but the restaurants don’t seem to run very well when I’m off the lot, but maybe I’m doing something wrong lol 😆. I think it would just be neat if they add the same feature we had in the sims 3! Also for storytelling purposes of course.
@@briasims1669 I haven't tried it lately, it might be more bugged. But restaurants used to run pretty well if you got them up to 5 stars before you left them running without being there. Since this takes awhile, it's maybe not Speed Run fast, but once you have several, it adds up. I do so wish they will retro fit Dine Out!
LittleMsSam has a mod like this.
Vet clinic runs well without you being there.
I was so confused on why he put a roof over the plants, then he said “wait we don’t have the seasons pack, we don’t need that roof”. As someone with no packs, I didn’t even know a pack would impact the plants 😅
In seasons expansion all plants have a season they grow in. If you put a roof over its like they in a greenhouse
And i was wondering if he was going to put one over his furniture before he realized there was no weather
@@starcats16 can they grow in all seasons using the greenhouse ?
@@emma-hz4xm yeah if you put a roof over them they are classed as sheltered so you can make a greenhouse with walls and windows. Or you can just leave a roof over them if you haven't got enough money.
Saaaaameeeee
In my rags to riches I realized you don't need a stove to make garden salad, only a fridge and a counter so guess who never gets hot food.
I've always wondered why people don't just use the sketchpad, because it makes paintings like 3 times as fast. All you need the ezel for is to complete the aspiration to make emotional paintings.
Omg i never knew this
It's spelt easel! Weird word though haha. I didn't realise either about the sketchpad!
I didn’t even know there was a sketch pad
It's a newer item so I think a lot of people forget that it exists (and if it's in their Sim's inventory, I do that a lot lol) or they don't realize how good it is. Also, I can't remember but isn't it more expensive than the cheapest easel?
Edit: Also, you have to take the paintings out of your inventory and put them onto a wall if you want to sell them to the collector for either extra money or fame. It's all in a stack which is convenient overall, but slightly annoying if you don't want to sell everything from the inventory or you want to keep any of your paintings at all. If you want to sell everything, it's really good.
I didn’t know this! Maybe I should try it!
James: His trait is perfectionist.
Also James: There was a bit of green screen showing, sorry about that.
Me: rewinds to see _where_
Same!
Watching James get so excited over the dragon fruit plants coming in was the biggest dopamine boost I've had in ages.
No kits - aww now I wonder how long it would take with exclusively making money from a dustbunny farm. XD I love these videos.
5 minutes give or take probably
@@nekonyx Pre-patch, definitely under a day! Now they don't give nearly as much.
Now I want a video of this lol
lil simsie has one
Lil Simsie did this! She does a lot of rags to riches like that
As James desperately waits for new content from the sims to make the next series of rags to riches, he entertains himself (and us) by making mini rags to riches. I for one am not complaining
0:57 kinda unrelated but I’m always shocked when I remember that base game only has 3 worlds and one of them is newcrest lol
I’d love to see this as a timed livestream challenge side-by-side with another Simmer! First to a million wins.
Lot traits are still available in base game, so he could’ve taken advantage of the great soil.
That comes with city living
@@bubblie7508 10 lot traits are base game.
@@Ducreuxs I know but the great soil one is from city living
That’s what I was going to say!
I only have base game, and I can use lot traits.
This is a perfect example of how your lifelong aspiration might not pan out and things will still be alright. Maybe you want to have a roof, a house with walls, and be a best-selling author. But you’ll be a millionaire with no walls and an epic garden. Life’s good! 😜
The dislikes painting thing reminded me of when I was doing that chef challenge where they were higher chance to start fires and she decided early she didn’t like cooking. I was like dang that was the whole point of this lol
You should do just a normal let’s play with only base game because of how long it was since the game released and be able to fully explore just base game :)
And the base game has changed A LOT since it was first released (and not just basic stuff like ghosts, pools, and toddlers, but also stuff like gender customization!) so I think it would be a good one to see!
That would be so boring
@@INeedYouToBreathe agreed lmao
as someone without any packs its so boring lol. challenges and stuff fine, but a lets play theres nothing to do.
the sims is a sandbox game, so it's only as fun as you are creative, no matter how many packs you have lol. before i got cottage living, i had only the basegame for 5 years, and i still managed to have an absolute blast /lh
James : Marrying sims and selling their houses is the quickest way to make money, but it's also boring
Deli: :((((
He’s not wrong though… it is boring to watch…
@@chellebean8925 I didn’t think it was boring at all.
I meant for me to keep doing it, I did it in the last video. Sure I could do that in every million challenge video, but isn’t that boring to watch the same method over and over?
@James Turner Yeah, I get it and agree that doing the challenge the same way is boring. I was just joking.
"Don't know the world too well" says the guy who made a game based on locations in the sims. Loving this challenge you are doing.
Anyone else disappointed whenever James doesn’t say “is fishing fun?” Seriously can’t just be me… 🤣
My brain automatically asks it for me so I kinda missed that he hadn't said it. 🤣
Painting always seems to be the best way to make money on this game!
Yeah and writing genre books with the genius trait to start.
I disagree. I always find something better than painting. Base game: gardening. Realm of magic: copy-pasto, Burgliate/klepto + potion of emotional stability (resets burgliate and klepto cooldown). Seasons: flower arranging. Get famous: Media production (record and upload videos, not mix tapes). Painting can be used as a filler if you don't have realm of magic, seasons or get famous, but you should still spend more time on gardening.
Painting is taking forever for me. 3 sim weeks in and I'm not even half way to a million.
I actually think gardening is the fastest way. :) It will take a few days before it is 'going', but once it is, you will make a lot of money, essentially passively, or close to. You can hire gardeners or make clubs to get others to take care of it for you, so you can spend your time on other things. If you have packs, you can even get a huge lot, build a tiny home, and put plants on the entire lot, to get the plant boosts. Painting is also very profitable - but it takes time to get good enough to earn a lot, time to create each painting, and time to convince costumers, if you try to use a retail store to increase prices. And it is only fun for a creative sim, which can set limitations for how long they will spend on it. Licensing music or books is also kind of passive, but it takes a lot of time to write the song or the books, and it is slower, as you get the money at a slower rate, you have to spend time doing it yourself, and it takes time to build the skill to get decent profits. :)
Using the lump of clay gets sims inspired fast.
james is in the process of creating a speedrunning category for the sims 4 & i love to see it
When he was hungry and James was looking for a grill, I was practically yelling at the screen EAT A STRAWBERRY lol
Love how this became a little mini series
James what if you make 1M simoleons with a restaurant, retail store, or vet clinic? No selling violins
Restaurants are impossible lol
It would take way longer. The best way to make money as a vet is the ambrosia treats, and those sell for 2000 at most if I remember correctly
@@bpsara if you get the cloning machine and clone the ambrosia sells for way more
@@sarahnavin2639imagine doing that 500 times
I love these speed runs to watch! But I personally like taking my time in gameplay.
I'm doing the marry for money strat for the millionaire scenario, but I'm playing the slow game with a whole backstory.. she's a materialist, non-committal, emotionally unstable wannabe actress living in del Sol valley and playing with Sim toys (some rich, some not) until she gets tired of them, then she takes their money and possessions and kills them 😁 oh also she leads meditation classes on the side cause her meltdowns are damaging her reputation
@@free2yodel Sounds like a really fun save!
snapdragon/lily grafting for orchids on the side may have shaved off a few days since they grow pretty fast. Meaning as a secondary crop. I get bored of gardening real fast though. I have more fun just taking longer, but doing something I like.
Also, is my gardening completely glitched or does seasons massively reduce the amounts of crops?? I only get 3 dragonfruits and 2 lilies every day no matter what I do.
My favourite part of daylight savings in Australia, is I get James and Deli videos an hour earlier!
I tried this challenge after watching your first video. I did painting and hung out at the museum in San Myshuno. It was convenient since it had an easel, kitchen and a bathroom! I kinda cheated and bought the street gallery thing in the community lot. I couldn't wait for the Flea Market event to come, it would have taken me a longer time to finish. Took me 63 Sims days though.😂
Someone copy pasted your text as their own comment lol
@@chocolatelattenate Yeah, it was a Bot, I guess. They even have a fake check mark by their one letter name.
Honestly I stopped watching TH-cam and outgrow a lot TH-camrs but your and Maddy I will ALWAYS watch even if I stopped playing sims. My comfort zone thank you!! 💖💖💖
This was awesome! Perhaps next time you can have two sims and have them both garden and one focus on writing and the other on painting to have multiple incomes.
Now I want to see a base game and BATUU (aww yeah!) only Making Money speedrun.
so when is James going to teach us how to do this in real life?
I always fill the houses w dragonfruit instead of “plants”, I just start the game in summer and go to the romance fest to harvest them lol
Remember kids, stay away from the strange man sleeping in a bed on an empty plot growing his strange plants.
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If you ever want to try one that is basegame and gtg, running a painting sweatshop/ club on your lot could be fun. Unless it was changed, the paintings other sims make remain on the easel until you remove them, allowing you to make a profit from the paintings the other club members made.
Jim Pickens enters the chat
Flashbacks to Warden Hardass and the painting prison, when James was still Sims Supply
@@feelinglostinthepeople Ah, I didn‘t know that. I had a master painter once who gave painting lessons at the local museum via clubs and I thought, she‘d be so rich if I had all those paintings on my lot. The way it was, the museum ended up having a section for the local artists to show their paintings. Which was cute too.
@@feelinglostinthepeople Yeah, that was even before GT, he just forced them to paint as they were in the Household.
I think they may have nixed the selling of the paintings if you aren't the artist, tho, for the NPC ones, anyway. I haven't tried the Club lately.
@@LivinInSim They haven't. Vixella did it recently and it was just an easel in the world. It wasn't even on a lot.
I realize you're just doing the base game, but I did this challenge with Cottage Living installed. Bought a big plot of land, planted oversized crops all over it, just lettuce and watermelon, used hassle free fertilizer so they grew to largest size but no weeds or bugs to deal with. Bought a couple counters and 2 fridges, no stove. Had my couple both canning at the same time since watermelon and lettuce don't get cooked, just.chop and pour into jars, quicker than making a salad. Each large watermelon or lettuce makes twelve jars and each jar sells for anywhere between $70 and $200 depending on quality plus I haggle on festival day to get 25% bonus profit. Quick and easy money. Might try growing fifty orchid plants next time and using the flower arranging table and market table to see how that goes. If I grow my own orchids, the arrangements will cost nothing to make. Flower arranging takes so much longer than canning watermelon and lettuce though.
Wow, it’s amazing what you take for granted when you have most packs. No tiny home skill bonuses. No trips to San Myshuno to get rare plants from festivals.
Do it with each packs would be fun
Considering base game doesn't have Seasons, this was a great idea to make money. Would have taken ages in game using Seasons. Roses make great fertilizer plants -- they are my go-to, but Lilies also work!! But they only produce 2 per plant whereas Roses make 6. I don't think painting or writing would have worked in as short a time.
This takes me back to my first days of playing and I knew nothing about the game. My first family Sims I chose the aspirations of a Freelance Botanist and the other a Curator whose hobby was painting just because of the characters they were based after. I found out quickly that they never needed to apply for jobs. The gardening was insane back then, though. It took all day because you had to water, weed and/or spray them practically every five minutes of playing. I was glad I had two Sims. They were a freaking tag team.
Money Fruit: I am so cool.
Dragon Fruit: Shut your mouth, son, I was rakin' it in back in the DAY.
Wow, I never knew that sprout plants could be evolved, gonna be checkin' that from now on. Nice catch since they evidently don't sparkle.
It strikes me as you do these challenges, if you're going to be outside most of the time, as in no house, gardening, foraging, etc, Loves The Outdoors might be better than Klepto for mood boosting anyway. Also having no Seasons to make you miserable made up for some of the missing Pack content, I do believe.
Being in the Willow Creek Park brought back memories of Duke Silver, haha. If you still have him in your Library you should bring him back for a Challenge or Scenario of some sort.
I’ve never heard of this TH-camr before and I think I love him after just this one video. He seems so sweet and he’s entertaining and chill. Im so happy I found this
Hey James. Not sure if you knew this, but you can move into a starter home and have all the basics before the money is taken away. That way you don't lose that much money instead of losing almost the entire 20,000.
I think he does it on purpose! Makes it more of a rags to riches
yeah that's only for EA rules of rags to riches. Almost every simmer I know does rags to riches starting with absolutely nothing.
I don't know if it's that essential but I feel like having a better bed so you dont spend so much time sleeping is a good investment
I love these now. Just seeing all the different ways to complete it is great. Please do more!!
I'm absolutely loving this series!
Strategy:
1. Fish to get enough money to buy food at park.
2. Harvest plants around your lot to start your garden (try to find strawberries and snapdragons).
3. Plant all of the seeds and tend to the garden, while the first set of plants grow keep an eye out for additional plants you can harvest and sell around your lot. Until you get enough to buy all of basic necessities go to the park to keep your hygiene, hunger, energy, and bladder needs up.
4. When you have enough money, buy basic necessities so you don’t have to go to the park anymore.
5. Once you reach level 5 gardening take a cutting of a strawberry and graft it onto a snapdragon (do at least 3), once the plant grows harvest the dragon fruit from the plants and replace all of the snapdragons and most of the strawberries (keep some for fertilizer).
6. Once all of the dragon fruit grows sell it all for a huge profit (evolve them while they grow with the strawberry)
7. Continue to sell the dragon fruit until you reach 1 million simoleons.
Throwback to when james used to call them dragonfloots 🥺
"money doesn't grow from trees"
semaj: aight bet
I love pretty much everything you do, but for some reason this was just extra fun :D
Oh, yeah... quickest way... Maybe a combo of fishing and gardening. My Curator Sim had to fish, and would sometimes get "junk" rather than fish. She caught dragon fruit, pomegranates, cow plant berries, violins, future cubes and once in a while a voodoo doll. :D When Outdoor Retreat came, my Sims sometimes caught tents, coolers and showers. "Dang it, I didn't need to buy that tent earlier! I just fished up a better one!!!"
You don't even need to marry the sims- move your sim into a lot, immediately leave. Add the richest sims to your household from manage worlds and sell their houses. Enter back into live mode with the extra 7 sims in your household. In-game time is about 2 minutes and it's an instant win using no mods/official cheats, although it feels like a cheat.
You can befriend them in game if that feels less like cheating. Takes 2 sim hours.
You popped up in my recommended and I'm happy about it cause i love the energy, the content AND the accent
This was so fun to watch, I love this😉👍🏾
Finally getting back into your vids after Super Sim challenge, but it’s still on the mind lol. All I could think this whole time was “Max Power would have no problem getting a million”
This was fun. Made me remember playing the real struggle of base game only before I started watching Simmers on TH-cam for tutorials and started to want more packs
Loved the video! I think one of this with only City Living could be really interesting. You. Can get 500 simoleons as a reward on the Humor and Hijinks festival, harvest birds of paradise on some festivals, sell with the selling table… I think it would be interesting to watch!
You also get a $900 Voodoo Doll from Humor and Hijinks if you win with the Pranksters, and there are some good prizes with the Tech Festival, too, if you win.
I did this challenge and basically just painted, and it took 16 days. Could have been even a bit faster, cause I made a house before I finished the challenge ☺️
this is actually a really cool series! hope to see more :)
i think an interesting rags to riches concept would be trying to get a billion simoleons with no restrictions (except cheats). ik you can't have that much at one time but you could "put it in the bank" and keep track of it, you could pull out all the stops like marrying sims, having massive money tree farms, etc, but it would still be a looong series
These videos are so much fun! I tried to do it black widow style but I didn't realise that the scenario disappears when you move into a different house.
if you put the dragon fruit in your family inventory, they sell for over 1,000.
Get you a man who looks at you the way James looks at dragonfruit 😂
Love this kind of gameplay !
this kind of thing makes me miss super sim. hope james will bring that back some day
"Oh this is gonna be big guys" is my new favorite catch phrase.
Love the video. Please build a 1 million mansion to top off this scenario. :)
Awesome 👏 I love doing the gardening stuff for money lol 😂
Hey there! 🙂
@@irishduchess7577 hi 👋 lol was wondering if you had a chance to check out Margaret Rose in the gallery! James should have thought about it before he sold his grafted plants lol 😂
This was hella interesting to watch! Clearly I been playingThe Sims all; wrong lmao but I throughly enjoyed this. And I also enjoy the way I play too, but I def learned some new things. mind u I been a simmer since the very first Sims lmao. Great vid!
Love to see base game challenges! :) Haha, it was funny when you built a roof over the plants. I figured you must have forgotten you didn't need it. 🤣 I'm doing rags to riches in this world (on that plot, I think), so it was nice to see a familiar space. And a gardener is a great idea! I should also try getting dragonfruit, too.
You and lilsimsie are the best global simers :) Thanks for sharing content!
it was super interesting to see this with only the basegame, and the roof thing.. i hadn't realized it wasn't necessary either kdjdh
Gardening is the fastest. :)
Writing is better than painting but writing at its best only gets $25000 a day.
Gardening hack: whenever I have a household with a large garden, I have one of my sims join the Garden Gnomes club, start a gathering at the home instead of the regular meeting place, and the club members tend the garden for me. Never looked back since I started doing this.
I enjoyed this so much! It really makes me want to do a farming rags to riches. 😄
“Ima grab a roof”
Ah yes for the SEASONS that are not installed so the plants are in SEASON even outdoors
One thing I like to do with these kinds of challenges is take the Writing career. First promotion just requires you to read, and after your first promotion, you get a computer for free. Just spend your first paychecks on a desk and a chair, and then you can start grinding books even if you never go work another day again. (Just remember to cash in your PTO before you quit!)
Oasis Springs is by far my fave, because it has lots with amazing view, which is very rare in the Sims.
It's very underrated
This was fun to watch!
I'm really enjoying these
This is the definition of growing your garden and reaping the reward
I am doing this challenge myself. I used the gym for showering and cooking. You can "cheat" by purchasing a fridge in build mode in the lot and won't cost you simoleons.
Gardening is ridiculously overpowered.
that’s quite a challenge tbh ! kinda insane too 😳
I love this series
James my dude we don't care if you show a little bit of the green screen we're just happy to see your upload!
You earned a sub I love that
Going back to basics made for a fun and happy video🙂 Would doing this with BG+one pack at a time be worth doing? Like Base Game and only Seasons, BG and only Tiny Living, etc? Kind of a version of R2R?
I randomly download sims and I love it I bought the cottage xpan and pets xpan I love it so far I just farm and sell books it is a modest humble sim life with my sim wife and sim dog and sim dreams *sobs*
you dont need a whole video for this, one word. Gardening.
I'm proud of you for remembering the roof thing. As soon as you placed it I was like you don't have seasons! Lol
James is the type of person who would pay like 20 bucks for a cloudgazing game pack and I absolutely love it.
Love these videos!
I think the gardening was the right way to go. Congrats!!