Made a million simoleons and not one social interaction. An introvert’s dream

Now James is doing a whole "rags to riches" series in just one episode. Nice.

I was like ah, yes a roof. Great idea. And then I realised, there's no seasons or weather.

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 😅

Makes him klepto, never steals stuff 😂

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 🙃

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 😂

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.

James: His trait is perfectionist. Also James: There was a bit of green screen showing, sorry about that. Me: rewinds to see _where_

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 😅

No kits - aww now I wonder how long it would take with exclusively making money from a dustbunny farm. XD I love these videos.

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.

Watching James get so excited over the dragon fruit plants coming in was the biggest dopamine boost I've had in ages.

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

I’d love to see this as a timed livestream challenge side-by-side with another Simmer! First to a million wins.

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

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 :)

Lot traits are still available in base game, so he could’ve taken advantage of the great soil.

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

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! 😜

"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.

James : Marrying sims and selling their houses is the quickest way to make money, but it's also boring Deli: :((((

james is in the process of creating a speedrunning category for the sims 4 & i love to see it

James what if you make 1M simoleons with a restaurant, retail store, or vet clinic? No selling violins

Painting always seems to be the best way to make money on this game!

I love these speed runs to watch! But I personally like taking my time in gameplay.

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.😂

Anyone else disappointed whenever James doesn’t say “is fishing fun?” Seriously can’t just be me… 🤣

Love how this became a little mini series

Using the lump of clay gets sims inspired fast.

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.

When he was hungry and James was looking for a grill, I was practically yelling at the screen EAT A STRAWBERRY lol

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.

My favourite part of daylight savings in Australia, is I get James and Deli videos an hour earlier!

Honestly I stopped watching KZfaq and outgrow a lot KZfaqrs but your and Maddy I will ALWAYS watch even if I stopped playing sims. My comfort zone thank you!! 💖💖💖

so when is James going to teach us how to do this in real life?

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.

Now I want to see a base game and BATUU (aww yeah!) only Making Money speedrun.

Remember kids, stay away from the strange man sleeping in a bed on an empty plot growing his strange plants.

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.

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

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.

I’ve never heard of this KZfaqr 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

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.

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.

I love these now. Just seeing all the different ways to complete it is great. Please do more!!

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.

You popped up in my recommended and I'm happy about it cause i love the energy, the content AND the accent

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'm absolutely loving this series!

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

Do it with each packs would be fun

I love pretty much everything you do, but for some reason this was just extra fun :D

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.

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.

This was fun. Made me remember playing the real struggle of base game only before I started watching Simmers on KZfaq for tutorials and started to want more packs

Throwback to when james used to call them dragonfloots 🥺

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!!!"

this is actually a really cool series! hope to see more :)

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”

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.

This was so fun to watch, I love this😉👍🏾

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!

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 ☺️

"money doesn't grow from trees" semaj: aight bet

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!

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.

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

this kind of thing makes me miss super sim. hope james will bring that back some day

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!)

Gardening is the fastest. :) Writing is better than painting but writing at its best only gets $25000 a day.

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?

Love the video. Please build a 1 million mansion to top off this scenario. :)

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 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.

You and lilsimsie are the best global simers :) Thanks for sharing content!

ive never seen one of your videos before but always knew who you were - and i thought i was listening to draw with jazza do a voiceover of some other dudes video, it got pretty funny at some points.

Get you a man who looks at you the way James looks at dragonfruit 😂

Love this kind of gameplay !

"Oh this is gonna be big guys" is my new favorite catch phrase.

I enjoyed this so much! It really makes me want to do a farming rags to riches. 😄

Hey James, I watched your video and started my own 1M simoleons challenge. But I was unable to turn off the seasons so it took me so much longer because I could only plant seasonal plants. But!!! If anyone is doing this challenge with seasons, I suggest plant the Bonsai bush(if that is how it is spelled), it grows all year round and if you fertilize them and evolve them, the fruits get very expensive and you can use them to fertilize the dragon fruits. Also maybe graft the dragon fruit with the avocado, lemon and pomegranate since those grow in the winter.

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.

“Ima grab a roof” Ah yes for the SEASONS that are not installed so the plants are in SEASON even outdoors

When I do rags to riches, I always build a house first day. You can get one for free if you just stick an A-frame roof on the ground and make it big/tall enough to walk around inside. You can even wallpaper it inside and out for free. If you want to get fancy, you can buy a $40 door for it. This way, at least, you're not pooping or showering in front of all the neighbors or sleeping out in the rain (if you have Seasons). You can put off actually building a proper house quite a long time this way.

Semaj is a millionaire, still lives in a field with an outdoor kitchen and bathroom

Awesome 👏 I love doing the gardening stuff for money lol 😂

I love this series

This is the definition of growing your garden and reaping the reward

Oasis Springs is by far my fave, because it has lots with amazing view, which is very rare in the Sims.

The fact that Semaj built a roof for his garden because he forgot that the base game doesn't have seasons show how much the Sims creators milks it's players for money. Seasons should be part of the game not something to pay for!

In both videos (this and the painting one) you break the challenge by fishing and digging. Getting your set up is an important part of the challenge. In fact I don't know if you can earn the money only with painting, as you need at least 50$ to stat a paining. While you can start your garden by harvesting wild plants.

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 did this scenario multiple times trying the spellcaster/money tree route and my fastest time was 11 days. Picked the rich neighborhood in Willow Creek, lots of expensive plants right nearby, used the scarecrow from seasons for garden help, gardening leveling, and free plants. Optimal money tree count was somewhere around 70 I think.

Strawberries actually grow down in the other area in Oasis Springs. Near where Johnny Zest lives lol. I like living down there because it has a pretty good haul of collectibles going on 😂 plus it’s right near water for living off the grid 😬

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

This was fun to watch!