#sihmie

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overview of changes:

fish, flowers, gems, rocks, insects, and spirits all sell for much less than the vanilla game

sell price still scales depending on rarity

the cost of gem cuts are lower

note: i have mainly reduced these collectibles because they require very little skill from the player to come across. if any of these collectibles are exceptions to that [for example require a specific opportunity, complicated process, or unique area/ability] then please let me know!! i do not mind collectibles having a high sale value when they have genuine effort and work put into acquiring them [vs just lying around the world]

conflicts: use the Sims 3 Dashboard tool to easily detect conflicting xml files

anything that edits:

wildflower xml (0xe6e64044a82032a4)

fishing xml (0x90142107481de889)

spirits xml (0x131b140472e4eca9)

rockgemmetal xml (0x0bc598d3d67b7e74)

insects xml (0x824caad7861f4d94)

known issues:

none at the moment

please let me know if there are any problems

credits:

my mods are always fully human created, documented, and edited. genai will never have any role in any part of my mod creation or posting [yes, even the long as heck info documents, i'm no slacker]

mts guides for enabling me to understand tuning in the first place

s3pe my beloved

twinsimming for the thumbnail inspo

pixelmator pro for actually being user + noob friendly for me to make the thumbnail

gameplay suggestions:

use the percent price modifier in grocery, consignment, and bookstore xmls to afford the basics - sihmie version out now

balance out wages and active career progression - sihmie version out now

future plans:

lower sell price for WA collectibles from tombs but this reduction would be smaller since it requires infinitely more skill than regular collectibles ... and the xml seems complicated for it

let me know of any other collectibles i've missed out!

download | mts  overview of changes:

all full time, part time, and active careers have had their salaries and stipends adjusted - i attempted to make them significantly more challenging to live with in the outset, while scaling the last few levels to still allow high up sims to feel extremely wealthy

all pensions have been re-adjusted. turns out ea made some very bizzare decisions/mistakes. in some instances getting promoted means you would actually receive a lower pension when retiring. to me that made no sense. the daily pension a sim receives is now always at least what they would have earned per hour, and you always are rewarded with a higher potential pension upon being promoted

xp based careers have been made more challenging to level up in. this is done by adjusting the level of xp gain received on completing jobs. this effects both skill based careers + active careers. i felt like the progression in active careers especially was much too fast, one job was often enough for a promotion which made it feel very out of place, especially when, in both forms of careers, you're making money outside of the stipend too

autograph signings ran as part of the professional sports career now receive less money. to balance this properly, i also reduced the amount of simoleons required for the autograph signing to be considered a success

pay for business meetings is much lower. it felt a bit overpowered to make so much money on running a couple of meetings every day, especially when the salary at those levels are already pretty comfortable, so that's been nerfed quite a bit

conflicts:

anything that edits careers xml (0x6e9adcdaeb2ce302)

anything that edits activecareers xml (0x4dd83aec13971834)

anything that edits xpbasedcareer xml (0x7996ef5c7f17e520)

anything that edits business xml (0x48d448e1995c11bb)

anything that edits autographsessionsituation xml (0xd68faaa3e13b88f6)

known issues:

none at the moment

please let me know either here on mts or on tumblr if there are any problems

this is the first mod i've ever posted publicly so please be gentle because i'm nervous

credits:

mts guides for enabling me to understand tuning in the first place

past fantastic wage tuning mods such as 'minimum wage remastered and realistic' by evelynnmama and '…more realistic earnings…' by madamdoofie

s3pe my beloved

twinsimming for the thumbnail inspo (sorry if it's too derivative, i'm figuring out a style of my own but it will take time)

pixelmator pro for actually being user + noob friendly for me to make the thumbnail

gameplay suggestions:

help out your sims in the outset + balance your sims when rolling in it with the taxes and benefits mod by phoebejaysims

use the percent price modifier in grocery, consignment, and bookstore xmls to afford the basics - sihmie version coming soon

edit the spirits, wildflowers, rocks and gems, and insects xmls to make them sell for less - sihmie version coming soon

future plans:

providing already edited xmls for popular career mods (e.g. nraas career modules)

finding other career related xmls similar to the autograph signings + meetings … i tried to look for ones i know of in game but could not find corresponding tunables - if you know the location or names of any of these let me know