Oh good grief. I’ve been trying to figure out why the Wonderlands are so broke, and I just discovered that it’s because I’m a doofus.
For a long time, I’ve been editing community lots without going to Edit Town, using DebugEnabler->DEBUG Buy on This Lot.
I swear when I started doing this, I checked and the additions were NOT using the family funds. And of course, at Gen 5 the Samples are swimming in money. It seemed like other legacy households had MORE, but we never lacked for funds.
I’ve also done it a couple of times with the Wonderlands. I used the family inheritance reward to get them out of poverty enough to move to the Sherrif Sale house. But then later, it seemed like they had less money lying around than they should.
Then I edited the playground when they had NO funds, and most of the buy options were red.
DUH. I’ve been spending their money without realizing it. Argh.
Poor guys. No wonder they can’t get out of poverty.
I think I am going to go delete my edits to the central park and go back and redo them from Edit Town. Hopefully deleting items using that DebugEnabler option will give them their money back.
Oh no! You've been sabotaging them this whole time! I had no idea you were like a slum lord!
That's me. Grind 'em under my feet and suck 'em dry of profits.
On the positive side, it looks like the mechanics of playing a NIF are going to be way easier than I thought.
Lol! Well, look at this way … nobody can say that the Wonderlands aren't pillars of the community. I wonder if they can get tax breaks for donating things to the community? Maybe you should purchase a statue for the park (not using the family funds obviously) and dedicate it to the Wonderland family?
Also, sorry that it's taken me so long to comment. I was all run down with the flu last week and it was my birthday yesterday so I had plans all weekend. I went to watch this awesome pre-West end play based on Sherlock Holmes which I absolutely LOVED! 🙂
I like how hard they’ve had to work to have a few pleasures – I’ve always thought Sims got too rich too fast… (Although TS4 has totally made this not a thing, ha ha ha…) But it is a little sad that the Wonderlands have been financing all the town improvements!