
He seems to be having fun all the time.The Sims Franchise is making a big leap out of their comfort zone for the first time ever!

Or maybe I'll just focus on playing that unemployed mean guy. If I want to get there as fast as possible, I have to plant more coconut trees, hope the volcano spits out more molten rocks, and I can never move to a different house, and I can't upgrade anything in the house, ever. They'll be proof that a freelancer writer can get rich, so long as they only spend a little of their time writing, pick up constant odd jobs, rely on the kindness of neighbors, and live in the shadow of a dangerous volcano. I'll eventually get my sim to the ultimate Fabulously Wealthy milestone, which is to have a total of $250,000 Simoleons. I've forgone any kind of social or romantic life to just to get my money reserve up to 10,000 Simoleons-and half of that came from selling the stuff I grew in my backyard. I'm also now an adept enough writer to start writing non-fiction books and sell my work directly to a publisher for what probably amounts to 0.000002 percent royalties. If I hadn't locked my neighbors out of my house, they would have been able to put out a fire in my kitchen that started from one of those molten rocks.Īfter about a month of hard work (in Sims time), I was able to get a promotion to regular contributor and save up enough money to buy a queen sized bed and a metal folding chair to go with my cheap kitchen table (which also increased my household bills).


The volcano erupted on a near-daily basis and dropped multiple molten rocks near my house that I could mine for gems and crystals to sell. My neighbors would come over and tend to my garden without asking. You're not a real writer unless your life causes you pain in some way.Ī few things quickly became apparent after moving in: Because my sim was a freelance writer, they started with a writing skill of three they didn't make enough money from their career, so I had them plant pineapple trees, coconut trees, and other plants in their backyard to diversify their income. Even though there was the risk of the volcano exploding and setting my house on fire. Even though I had to sell some of my furniture to buy a computer.

I moved my sim into a tiny house on Mua Pel'am right at the base of a volcano, even though the bathroom was just a fancier version of an outhouse. But hey, this is The Sims, where being fabulously wealthy on a writer's salary is 100 percent possible because of a little thing called diverse income.
