james how about a reverse rags to riches when you start with an extremely expensive house and 0$ and try and keep up with the coming large bills without selling any of the house objects !

I hope james is going to do a 1m simoleons challenge with batuu and we get a full episode of him saying just "aww batuu :)" over and over

I love these challenges, it's like speedrunning an entire let's play series in an hour.

41:26 VLAD of all sims really had the Audacity to call and be angry about Semaj drinking plasma without permission, as if Vladdy Daddy isn't singlehandedly responsible for EA having to add a "disallow vampires" option on front doors 😂

Selvadorada - is a very sunny place. James - "let's be a vampire!"

I've actually found that having a mermaid Sim is the best occult to have in Selvadorada because they don't mind getting rained on and they can sleep in water, which also fixes their hydration need so they never need to shower.

“James becomes a millionaire through smuggling artifacts to trade on the black market”

I wonder if James ever realised that the reason everyone hated him was because he took the weakness where relationships start in the negative?

As someone with a masters degree in archaeology - can confirm it is not the best way to make money! Loving this series James :)

I'd love an episode where James only uses base game + one pack, maybe even randomize it. Absolutely love this series!

A scenario: *James does all the events and phone calls asking to hangout* Lol I would love to see that 😂

The spa refresh added facemasks and there's one that protects vampires from the sun. It's a temp fix while you work on the sun resistence

Definitely took the difficult road.. Science career, just to get the cloning machine, then Selvadorada- just to get the treasures (which there are more treasure chests outside of the temple, by the natural baths area).. and then clone the treasures (or any high priced items) and sell on the table. That would have been the speed run to one million.

The quickest way with Archeology is to become a spellcaster, find the most expensive treasure, and clone it until you reach $1 million.

marcus becoming totally obsessed with vampire!semaj in the most bella swan style is not what i expected from this video but relatable

I love how it was going so well and then all of a sudden you're over it. The unravelling into chaos is always my favourite part!

You could try earning million by opening presents and getting presents from Santa. Make Winterfest everyday!

really love the idea of shopping a vampires yard sale of archeological artifacts in the middle of the night

A dreary world filled with rain, gloom and unhappy plants seems the perfect starting point for a challenge filled with vacations! =) I love this series.

watching the beginning of this video and I’m looking forward to when James realizes that vampires burn in the sun and his sim is an archeologist whose entire gig revolves around digging in the sun 🤣

i think it would be really cool if you had a ranking table and at the end of the episode you would put that episode's method on for comparison

Love how james sent vlad home so he wouldn't die after asking him to move in and forgetting that he removed the roof.

There are treasure chests in the outdoor areas, the crashed airplane area for example, which is a lot faster than grinding through the temple each time.

I absolutely love the archaeology skill and the content from the Jungle Adventure pack. One of my favorite packs and I think it's so underrated. ❤️

I think it's really cool that James uses supernatural sims to use their powers for the challenge. I've honestly never thought of doing that before

I’ve actually been playing out the archeology thing with a sim but I’m having them go to university before heading to the jungle. Get the skills up to par. I’m glad I came across this video, it had a lot of great tips

aww, this brings back memories of the bigwallet series. I loved those chapters with the Jungle Adventure pack.

EARLY!!! I feel like James is gonna try to make 1M simoleans into a series now with all of these different techniques

Loved the video, as always ! Just so you know, there is treasures in a lot of places, so you didn't had to reset the temple. If you went exploring the jungle. You could have find a lot of frogs and plates in every 'secrets lot' like the plane crash, the ominiscan bath and such... I actually got a million this way very quick only with treasures and the selling table ;)

The amount of redundant gameplay that you do for our entertainment is crazy! Love you 💕

Vampires and archeologists naturally go together, I say as a Jojo fan.

This would make a great movie! An archaeologist that is also a vampire 😂😂😂

Oh this is gonna be good. Thank you for suffering for our entertainment James!

I started the no skills no problem scenario with archaeology only and selling those plates on the market table quickly got me to 200k. But then my painting club made up of NPC "friends" was making 50K per day so I just stuck with that to finish.

I forgot how much I enjoyed the Jungle Adventure gameplay for Sims. This was fun!

As an archaeologist I am very excited for this one :D

I’m loving this series. It’s so much fun!

Every day is a holiday! Set a holiday each day with gnomes, gifts and father winter. Although make him father summer, cause we’re in Australia. Put the gnomes in your sims inventory after appeasing. They will continually drop seed packets into your household inventory. If it’s in the game it’s not cheating. Open the gifts in a gift pile. Father winter will add to it each day. Also ask him for a gift. Sell smaller gifts at a yard sale. Sell the bigger ones normally. With more gnomes added each day the seeds really start to add up quickly.

Occults are so underrated in the sims community. All of my sims are spellcasters and vampires.

Wait did Vlad SERIOUSLY message Semaj saying “I cant believe you are drinking plasma ,that’s just not right!”?!

I’ve never done archaeology before. Maybe I’ll be brave now. Thanks for the video.

RIP to the photo to friendship glitch, it was so useful!

They need to add better rewards on scenarios , it’s quite underwhelming

9:22 Luckily, Vampire skill trees don't work like this - you are free to pick any power you want, not being bound to a specific 'tree branch' c:

literally 2 minutes in and the fact ts4 makes you wait through a loading screen to get to your "house" that's not only Right beside you but also literally just an empty lot will never cease to confuse and annoy me 😭😭

I want to see Semaj with 7 Pets who he can send of to find treasure! xD

These speedruns are hilarious. But, I think it would be interesting to see James do this challenge (whatever fun or cool way he thinks of) but he also has to have some kind of okay looking house, maintain some friendships, be moderately clean, and eat on a regular basis. Yeah, basically playing the game but I think that might be the biggest challenge yet for him, lol

I think adding another sim to the household like you did in flower arranging would have been good. When you build a site, multiple sims can dig up the stuff. Plus one could be selling while the other authenticates.

I love the different types of ways you do this challenge.

You can also go to "granite falls" and after watching that giant beaver statue they have there you can make smaller statues in the woodworking table, they sell for 6000 simoleons in the selling table (with 300% margin) and with bigger fabrication skill they go for an higher price.

I don't know why this made me think of this, but ever since watching James, I always say Katrina like "KATRINA!" when I see her when I'm playing. Makes me think of him every time lol

Side note : «Fledermaus» is «bat» in German. As a vampire, you should look around Vlad's backyard. You can find some plasma fruit trees. Plant them and harvest the plasma fruits. Eating them will help with your thirst. Have as many plasma trees as you like. Those emotion berries will give you some emotions when eaten. You can also plant them and get more emotion berries.

I think the huge friendship gain from photography is from the Mosquito pack. I don't have Mosquito and I can take photos of sims but they don't pose for me, and it doesn't cause significant friendship gain.

I’m really enjoying this series, especially when James uses occults. I wonder if there are advantages to being an alien or mermaid for these challenges

James thanks for those long and entertaining videos 💛

Being an actor and KZfaqr at the same time, being an actor is a career and the media production table are separate so you can do both

Aw... this autoplayed from Simsie's latest video and I didn't figure out that it was an older video until he started taking photos.. I miss photos of friendship!

I like that You make it a bit harder for yourself by not having the Collector trait and being a vampire in a sunny place! 😄

I admire your dedication, James. Keep the challenges coming.

I absolutely love all of the different ways you've done this scenario!

James, I am loving this ‘series’!

this was actually so fun to watch, i appreciate your tenacity when it comes to these challenges :')

I love this series so much. It’s perfect for James

I don't understand when people say that there's no gameplay in this game I've been watching this for half an hour now and it's a whole lot of stuff that I never even thought to do

by far my most favourite jumper youve worn. Love it

Love your game play James, and the teddy jumper is great. x

😂 I thought you were being ambitious when I saw the title! You can try getting rich with clubs! Like letting them paint, garden, and selling the stuff they make 😇

Just another day that James and Deli helped with my anxiety. Love u guys❤️

Love this series!

If he'd had married in the end, I coulda made a "gold digger" joke :D But hey, Vlad is a relic in himself, so no (self imposed) rules broken to that point X)

I favor fighting Vlad, you actually get a larger power boost from him, and he's pretty weak.

Love these challenge videos! I would have planted plasma fruit which would have grown fast on the tiny lot, and then taken that with me into the jungle so I didn't have to leave to find Sims to drink from. I also would have just skipped the dig sites and raided the temples over and over to sell the big ticket items on the table. I know you didn't want to do the witchcraft path again, but imagine Copypasto with those big ticket items. Once you had that spell, one trip to collect a bunch of frogs and plates, copy them over and over and one million would have been easy. I'd love to see you plant oversized watermelons and lettuce only, can them (canning them only takes seconds because you only have to chop, no cooking involved and each large one produces 12 jars worth $100-$200). Also, for any of your rags to riches scenarios, you can buy small ones at the market stand for five bucks, can them quickly and sell the jars to make a couple hundred. Much faster than gardening or fishing to get started. You can also sell them on the selling table at 300% markup and make even more money quickly.

The decoration box, gardening, busking with an instrument

Love these videos !

James I look forward to your videos so much I check KZfaq everyday lmao!!! You make me laugh so much.

James' Sim is cheeked up. Holy frig.

LOL personal space. Ahh that's so funny. Love this video.

I'm still waiting on your Black WIdow let's play!

I've been having a rough day,, but hearing 'Vlady Daddy' made me so happy. I'm so glad it was at the beginning of the video too, because I was able to enjoy the whole thing.

I personally prefer Vampires Super Speed, not only does it look cool. Its actually a bit faster not having your sim take time to do animation to poofing in and out of the bat form, sometimes instead of literally moving 2 squares. Nice thing about going on vacation there is that you can get your Gardening Skill very high by dealing with those vine-overgrown doors, so no need to wait for it to up to a useful level by doing low grade stuff.

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS!!

Even though you stopped with the archeology stuff at the end, this was still a hilarious video. I loved how you'd start a yard sale then feed on your customers. ROFL!

The Selvadorada route works well when you're doing the No Skills, No Problem route, as you can go through the temples and dig for artefacts and get decent payback without any skills. Yeah it takes a lot of tedious work but it *does* make it go faster.

I was the one who suggested Archeology. Thank you for attempting it, James. I didn't think it would be quick, but actually thought it would pay off. Now I know it needs to be balanced with other things for a Sim to get rich (sch as a garden at home every time the Sim goes back to store/ authenticate artifacts). It's fun for me, but not everyone likes a long play, lol.

These challenges are so much fun to watch!

Bicycles: exist James: …anyway let’s become a vampire

i am really enjoying this 1M challenge series ❤

The combination of Vampire and archaeology was a really fun combo :)

I don’t have Jungle Adventure, and I haven’t seen many videos of it, so I’m really interested to see this video!

Make $1 million, only using CATS AND DOGS expansion pack! Gather feathers, assemble bird statues, find presents on walks, open a vet clinic... or any other way you can!!

This was chaotic but very useful thanks 😊 and also funny

I am sorry you had to go through all that, but I do appreciate it.

the polite (toddler) character value is fantastic. you introduce yourself "politely" and wow.

Suggestion 1: Have Semaj do these skills: Maybe put the categories on wheel and spin the wheel. The one he lands on, is the one that he has to do for that video, and is then removed from the wheel once it's been used. or Start with 1h and work your way up the list or start with 1a and work your way down the list. All of these skills listed have a page on Carl's Sims. 1a. Music: guitar, piano, violin, singing, writings songs, and Mix Tapes from the DJ Booth. Maybe pair this with 1 or 2 part time jobs or the Entertainer career (Musician Branch) 1b. Food: Baking and Mixology. The pages for each skill on Carl's Sims will tell you the retail value for each item. Maybe pair this up with the part-time jobs: Barista and/or Fast Food Employee or a full time job: Critic (Food Critic Branch) or Culinary (Mixologist Branch) 1c. Residual Income: writings songs, writing books, Media Production, Programming, and Mix Tapes from the DJ Booth. Maybe pair this up with full time job Writer career (author branch), the freelancer Writer Branch or the freelancer Programmer Branch. 1d. PC, Videos and Gaming: Programming, Media Production and videos games. The page for the video gaming skill on Carl's Sims will tell you how much money Semaj can make in video game tournaments. Maybe pair this up with the freelancer Programmer Branch or 1 of the full time jobs: Tech Guru (eSport Gamer Branch), Engineer (Computer Engineer Branch), or Social Media (Internet Personality Branch) 1e. Wellness: massage table, yoga classes, and meditation classes. The stone massage would make him 300 simoleons per massage. Maybe pair this up with the full time job Athlete. 1f. Outdoors (no gardening): Fishing, Diving in the water, combs the beaches, Snowboarding Videos, teaching skiing, frog breeding and TS4 Career Conservationist or 1 or 2 part time jobs: Manual Laborer, Diver, Fisherman, Lifeguard. Maybe Semaj could be a mermaid and live in Sulani or Tartosa. 1g. Comedy and Odd Jobs: Comedy with the microphone, Entertainer career (Comedian Branch), and Odd Jobs. 1h. Gardening with a twist: Full time job in the Gardener career, growing one of everything in the game that you can grow (since growing one of everything in the entire game is too much, then use your random pack generator to limit the amount to one of everything in those 3, 4 or 5 packs), and collecting and selling microscope samples. Maybe Semaj could be a PlantSim. Suggestion 2: Have household of more than one Semaj: Plantsim Semaj, Mermaid Semaj, Spellcaster Semaj, Vampire Semaj, Alien Semaj and Human Semaj Use each Semaj's strengths to your advantage to make money. Here are some examples: Plantsim Semaj - goes around collecting produce and flowers as well as frogs for breeding. The produce, minus the garlic which gets sold, goes to the versions of Semaj's that need to eat food. This way you don't need a indoor kitchen. Mermaid Semaj - dives in the water for treasure, combs the beaches, and does fishing. Maybe keep some of the fish like salmon, trout, Bass, Mahi Mahi, perch, walleye, Tilapia and maybe tuna, while you sell the rest. If you get a grill then the sims that need to eat can grill the fish. Use the refrigerated displays, so you have a fridge that never breaks for the fish meals. Spellcaster Semaj - have him learn the repair and copypasto spells. Maybe have him do photography, yoga and Meditation classes and the massage table, or write books and make videos, when his skills are not needed. Vampire Semaj - maybe works two part time jobs, Barista and babysitter, and at night, handles the selling table. Alien Semaj - Maybe he can write books and make videos or do photography, yoga and Meditation classes and the massage table, when his skills are not needed. I don't know if this sim would make more money doing his videos in alien form. Human Semaj - Have him get a job. Maybe randomly pick 7 jobs from the TS4 jobs list on the Sims Wiki and use a wheel or number generator to pick which one he gets. Maybe his goal is to get to the top of that career. Have these sims live in tiny home that contains a bathroom, Cabin-in-a-bag tent since it's fits four sims, and refrigerated displays. All indoors, with a very small amount of windows, while the outside has a grill. Maybe live in Sulani or Tartosa. The fish and produce would make it like the Semajs are living off the land and not spending any money making food except for the grill. Maybe even have the lot set to geothermal and natural well to lower the bills. Vampire Semaj would sleep during the day, when he's not working his 2 jobs or managing the selling table.

Good video James. Thanks for the tip on using sales tables. How about a challenge of just finding collectables and selling them?

I haven't really used this pack cuz I don't know how it works so I'm glad you made this video!

One upside is now I really wanna replay jungle adventure 😂

This was brutal 😅 I love your sweater btw

Do a retail store and sell baked Alaska. It sells for like 3k a pop. It's insane 😂

loving that sweater! james looks so fashionable