Too much money

[LFox]

Where can I get increased bills mod?

I was wondering the exact same thing myself.

Can we get a link please?

[Sleepycat]

Where can I get increased bills mod?

I was wondering the exact same thing myself.

Can we get a link please?

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8312.0.html

[LFox]

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8312.0.html

That'll work nicely but i don't suppose you have a link to one without the dorm billing part do you?  I'm not too keen on having a dorm cost money.

[ZephyrZodiac]

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8312.0.html

That'll work nicely but i don't suppose you have a link to one without the dorm billing part do you?  I'm not too keen on having a dorm cost money.

Why should dorm students be given a free lunch?  someone has to pay the cook.....

And ever thought of having a look yourself, there may be an earlier version which is separate - but it may, of course, wreck your game if it's for an earlier EP.

[Loncaros]

well the cook is an elder, so working a minimum wage job, $50 a day. Now split that up between the 6-12 dormies and there's not a lot left to pay ^^

[ZephyrZodiac]

There's all that food they keep in their back pocket, though!

[LFox]

Why should dorm students be given a free lunch?  someone has to pay the cook.....

And ever thought of having a look yourself, there may be an earlier version which is separate - but it may, of course, wreck your game if it's for an earlier EP.

I already checked around everywhere.  There's that one that i didn't even know it was on MATY until it was posted and one by squinge which is lost in the void of darkness since his forum section is gone.  I haven't managed to track down any other increase bill mods or earlier versions.

I think having to live with a bunch of brain dead idiots is more or less payment enough, generally dorms is when your flat dead broke.  If you can afford it you move to a house on campus which has bills anyway.

[Sleepycat]

heh, here is Squinge's increased bills hack, it is the x5 ver.  I have no idea if it is compatible with Bon Voyage or not.

[pioupiou]

My copy of increased bills reported as clean with hackdiff, and it is seems to work without problems (as far as I can tell) in my game.

[LFox]

heh, here is Squinge's increased bills hack, it is the x5 ver.  I have no idea if it is compatible with Bon Voyage or not.

Thanks, hehe 5 times that's bound to make em broke.

[skandelouslala]

With BV, having sims save up to buy a vacation home is a pretty good way to burn some money.  I have yet to build anything overly impressive and it is 70-80k for a nicely furnished home.

[jsalemi]

Yea, and EAxis didn't make it easy to have a lot of vacation homes available, either -- there's not a lot of empty space in the pre-fab vacation hoods to drop more homes.  I think the Asian hood is the worst.

[klmfrigate]

How do I change the prices of objects (also, can you change the comfort levels, engery etc.?)  Thank you much.

I like charging for college, private school. etc.  Using moniques computer I charge extra for cars but if I knew how to change the price that'd be better.

[cyperangel]

Yea, and EAxis didn't make it easy to have a lot of vacation homes available, either -- there's not a lot of empty space in the pre-fab vacation hoods to drop more homes.  I think the Asian hood is the worst.

The asian one aint so bad once you rearrange the lots a little. The Mountain one though. EWWWW!

[ZephyrZodiac]

How do I change the prices of objects (also, can you change the comfort levels, engery etc.?)  Thank you much.

I like charging for college, private school. etc.  Using moniques computer I charge extra for cars but if I knew how to change the price that'd be better.

You can change the price of custom objects easily enough with Sims2Cat from www.simwardrobe.com but although you can alter the comfort/energy levels to appear higher or lower in the catalogue, it doesn't, in fact, change the actual comfort/levels because these are dictated by the original cloned object.

You can, however, increase the niceness factor if you want, I'm not sure if it is all that effective either, though.

[cyperangel]

Using moniques computer I charge extra for cars but if I knew how to change the price that'd be better.

I get around that by only allowing my sims to buy stuff from OFB shops, that are owned by the local area vampire. Hes an old, evil and cranky geezer who owns a horde of robots, and charge X10 on the prices on all common objects. If they want a computer or a car, they better have the simoleons for it, or they will just have to do without.

[klmfrigate]

okay, i like the ofb idea, that is why i got that version.  however, how do you get it to go 10x or more what the origianal price was.  All I can get are the options r.cheap, v. cheap, cheap, average, expensive, v. expensive, r. expensive.  And cars are still kinda cheap.

[Venusy]

Click on the price tag button, and you'll be allowed to enter a custom price.

[seapup]

I tend not to worry about the money. I look at it as my money, not the family's. If I'm playing a poor family, I give them enough money so that I can do what I want. If I want the repo man to show up, I just don't pay the bills. If they do buy something at an owned commercial lot, I sell it the next time I play that family. Admittedly, not the most realistic scenario, but it works for me.

[cwykes]

If you give your sims jobs in OFB owned businesses, their income is going to be pretty low.  OK the coding of the wages is borked (I have sims with no income from working all day as a manager), but it has the desired effect!  That's what I did In Meadow Lawns; most of the townies and a lot of playables are working for the Jackman family.  Of course a sim with a career LTW is never going to get permaplat working in a flower shop, but you can change the LTW or think of it as upping the difficulty level.

Don't forget Pes's hack that implements the borked maxis code and charges school fees for private school.

[sloppyhousewife]

I would like a hack that makes sims pay taxes for owned business lots and vacation homes.

[cyperangel]

I like the stuff Monique made, but its not quite what I find myself needing. What i could really do with in my game, is a mod that allows me to send a percentage of the households funds to another sim, playable or NPC, at set intervals, like every week there is a 3% tax deductet per adult sim in the household.

Sadly, i gotta calculate those numbers by myself, and then forward the simoleons using the computer or pescados money hack. Either works, the other thing would just have been handy.

[jsalemi]

What about Monique's automatic thing where the payer sends money to the payee with every set of bills? http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=203984

[cyperangel]

What about Monique's automatic thing where the payer sends money to the payee with every set of bills? http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=203984

Like i said, I use the stuff Monique made, although it is not exactly what I was looking for, it provides an alternative workaround. With Moniques automatic payment, you get to set the amount (Id have prefered a percentage of the total simoleans per grown adult in family) and that gets deducted every time the bills arrive. (Here I would have prefered to be able to set it once per season).

So, its close, its just not over the finish line for me in the race of perfection. MAybe I should finally get off my butt and see if i cant figure out how to modify this stuff myself.