I tried to earn $1,000,000 Simoleons with no expansions

This time, we're only using the base game to try and race to $1,000,000 simoleons!
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[@DaniParducci]

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

[@dustinmalpass]

Right? I absolutely adore videos like this.

[@imonlysaying9985]

Completely forgot how easy gardening is without seasons

[@dustinmalpass]

@@imonlysaying9985 me as well

[@TheRojomeansred]

@@imonlysaying9985 that's the entire reason I've avoided buying Seasons 🤣 I don't use mods sooo I'll wait until I have the rest of the game

[@Stettafire]

@@TheRojomeansred But seasons is so good. Only pack worth getting TBH

[@xkelliesays]

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

[@traedarkness]

Yes

[@SasukeUchiha723]

yes

[@libbykenilworth]

Yes

[@ibupir4c]

Yes

[@xkelliesays]

yes

[@briasims1669]

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.

[@marakahl]

U can open a restaurant w out having to be there?

[@briasims1669]

@@marakahl yes you’re right, but the restaurants don’t seem to run very well when I’m off the lot, but maybe I’m doing something wrong lol 😆. I think it would just be neat if they add the same feature we had in the sims 3! Also for storytelling purposes of course.

[@LivinInSim]

@@briasims1669 I haven't tried it lately, it might be more bugged. But restaurants used to run pretty well if you got them up to 5 stars before you left them running without being there. Since this takes awhile, it's maybe not Speed Run fast, but once you have several, it adds up. I do so wish they will retro fit Dine Out!

[@amd9964]

LittleMsSam has a mod like this.

[@RayBMore.]

Vet clinic runs well without you being there.

[@yukaritomo6330]

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.

[@clutterinparadise8839]

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! 😜

[@allysonswonderland]

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

[@tequikamokinbird]

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

[@tilthesundies]

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

[@thejompi]

Yeah and writing genre books with the genius trait to start.

[@charitycodes]

I disagree. I always find something better than painting. Base game: gardening. Realm of magic: copy-pasto, Burgliate/klepto + potion of emotional stability (resets burgliate and klepto cooldown). Seasons: flower arranging. Get famous: Media production (record and upload videos, not mix tapes). Painting can be used as a filler if you don't have realm of magic, seasons or get famous, but you should still spend more time on gardening.

[@stacyklug588]

Painting is taking forever for me. 3 sim weeks in and I'm not even half way to a million.

[@HereIAm247]

I actually think gardening is the fastest way. :) It will take a few days before it is 'going', but once it is, you will make a lot of money, essentially passively, or close to. You can hire gardeners or make clubs to get others to take care of it for you, so you can spend your time on other things. If you have packs, you can even get a huge lot, build a tiny home, and put plants on the entire lot, to get the plant boosts. Painting is also very profitable - but it takes time to get good enough to earn a lot, time to create each painting, and time to convince costumers, if you try to use a retail store to increase prices. And it is only fun for a creative sim, which can set limitations for how long they will spend on it. Licensing music or books is also kind of passive, but it takes a lot of time to write the song or the books, and it is slower, as you get the money at a slower rate, you have to spend time doing it yourself, and it takes time to build the skill to get decent profits. :)

[@Fanka210]

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

[@chellebean8925]

He’s not wrong though… it is boring to watch…

[@tinar8828]

@@chellebean8925 I didn’t think it was boring at all.

[@JamesTurnerYT]

I meant for me to keep doing it, I did it in the last video. Sure I could do that in every million challenge video, but isn’t that boring to watch the same method over and over?

[@Fanka210]

@James Turner Yeah, I get it and agree that doing the challenge the same way is boring. I was just joking.

[@sarahcatherine9441]

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

[@AlexaFaie]

My brain automatically asks it for me so I kinda missed that he hadn't said it. 🤣

[@sierrarose9433]

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

[@erinrichard3545]

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

[@marakahl]

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

[@nyxitylee2094]

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!!!"

[@Emz351]

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 😬

[@biaruppini9091]

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!

[@LivinInSim]

You also get a $900 Voodoo Doll from Humor and Hijinks if you win with the Pranksters, and there are some good prizes with the Tech Festival, too, if you win.

[@PositivelyNice]

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

[@alainalaniedougherty9161]

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

[@Durrtyboy]

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*

[@sleepykitty1985]

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

[@Sloxchy]

One thing you could do is go to manage worlds, manage the household you’d like to increase money on, go to random families and keep taking a sim along with 20k (or whatever they have) and if you continuously do that you will get over 300k (I have around 387k just by doing this). One family in other worlds has over 70k but I don’t know if this will be the case if you just started. To add do not keep the sim in the next trade as it would not make sense to.

[@AuntyRuckus]

Me, watching the one red needs bar staring back at me: *sigh* TALKING TO PLANTS INCREASES SOCIAL!

[@LivinInSim]

True, but since he was a Loner it didn't seem to slow him down at all.

[@jumazahidi6554]

With sketch pad you can make a lot more money, all you do is pause game and que up painting on it. Also sketch pad is added in base game.

[@nuria6497]

Trying this challenge in Sims1, 2 and 3 would also be interesting and probably much harder. Sims 2 plants don't give something to harvest everyday, more like once a year ^^'

[@keekeedeeful]

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

[@EbonieWilliams]

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

[@VCdude18]

If you enable the lot trait "Chef's Kitchen" you get an inspired moodlet when you make or grab food, and you can cancel the cooking interaction. I believe it also works if you grab a quick meal.

[@sleepwellbeast]

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.

[@cherryoh531]

im a minute in, and i noticed the green screen and i was like eh james will fix it 🤣 i love how detail oriented u are james lol, im the same

[@tiredtransman]

If you get one money tree, you can take a cutting, graft it onto another plant, harvest and have more money fruit to plant. Much faster than RoM copypasta

[@TrinityTalks]

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!

[@jmelovesGod]

painting with the digital sketchpad is the best way to make money

[@sandrinavanderweide3917]

I also earned money in this challenge by selling selfies and pictures. Thanks for the great video ✨

[@lemonadelemon1960]

Top ten ways to !make money In base game 1. Gardening 2.Marriage to a landgrab. 3.painting 4. Stealing expensive items. 5. Moving into someones house then demolishing house. 6.creating friendships then borrowing money. 7. Playing guitar for tips 8.moving into them demolish house. 9.foraging. 10. Motherlode.

[@EmilyGOODEN0UGH]

Basegame challenges are so much more relatable.

[@luminarygreen]

i want to see him work through the inefficiencies and completely streamline the win

[@sunstripe85]

12:44 lol that was WAY too cute

[@monkasteele6050]

No wonder this game is regularly given away for free/heavy discount without DLCs it is such a bare bone experience but of course the almost thousand dollars worth of DLC never goes on sale.

[@franklyfrankie1203]

Not saying it's not massively overpriced, but it goes on 50% sale regularly?

[@wrotejessica1084]

Song writing is a money machine

[@SigmaRho2922]

If high school years is installed the best way to make $1 million is to sell an outfit on trendi and have a lot of followers. In order for that to happen the outfit must have a fire hype. There have been plans to put a cap on the amount of money an outfit can be sold for in order to combat cheating, but so far they have not done so.

[@Viktor_Drakkon394]

Millionaires always say to live frugally but I'm pretty sure they don't mean to live outside with the bare necessities 😂

[@pathogenofdecay]

I might be just imagining things, but it seems like if you don't tip the gardener, they will leave some plants untended.

[@OliviaMarie9199]

Most of my areas don’t get used I always use henford

[@kiritoxyronie2841]

Its like having a dark souls game on the Sims by collecting everything xD

[@MorwenMcGregor]

Ooh the subtle shade thrown here lol

[@reehamhussein2663]

Digital Sketchbook and painting on an easel helps generate expansive income

[@lealarsen2017]

you can buy a snapdragon from your phone under "buy gifts".. that would have been easier

[@shantofistie4281]

No expansions The video I have been lookin for

[@sherlinmoon7614]

IM LAUGHING!! i havent really bought ANYTHING as of yet xD & this was sooo hilarious to see !! I would be like that too tbh ;')

[@alisont410]

Would love to see how long it takes to make $1Mil with just klepto! Maxing out mischief and stealing computers?

[@franklyfrankie1203]

Haha would take a loooooong time

[@keirstencox5259]

Imagine being rich and sleeping outside on a teenager bed and peeing outside 😂💀

[@cathaldaly2780]

I’d like to see this but building a house and getting to the max amount of money. Probably quite repetitive though

[@MatiMarie23]

Orchids are almost as valuable as Dragon Fruit, and require grafting snapdragons and lilies, so you might have made some faster gains utilizing both!

[@JerryCrow]

Honestly, so easy. The game is so easy. I just got this like 2 weeks ago, have played like 5 times for hours on end. I got 200k during the second time i was playing. I've gotten all the perks or traits whatever they are, so like i've spent my money there, which increases the lot taxes quite a lot. For example the house baron one, is stupid to do and stupid af to keep ones lot that big. But if you write songs on viola, piano, and guitar. Then write books, then jingles, then have multiple easels and using paintings' emotional aura getting those extra options up and just stacking up the queue. Royalties are 5k, one painting is 1k and i do 4 at a time. Some might be less, some might be more but on average. Then having the frugal, and the moneymaker aspirations done after that is all one needs. So quit your dayjob for sure, but atm i'm using the job for specific aspirations, which i find to be the hardest part of the quests. But i have really enjoyed the vanilla game, where i remember playing sims 2 "evaluated" with all expansions. But yea, had 0 game knowledge and by now i'd had that 1 mil if i'd need money for something lol.

[@raphaellacondeixa6400]

Please try getting the 1 million simoleons with city living, getting the collectibles and enjoying the festivals

[@dbeekman9738]

I'm busy now populating the neighboring houses, so I can lock in and starve 100 non family toons. Although I don't understand why new toons come and talk to my family members with 46 gravestones in the yard.

[@Lovlyb35]

Idk, I think with base game what you did is the fastest way garden and painting. I cant think of nothing.

[@sunstripe85]

Dude it's so weird how many little things that are so ubiquitous in gameplay don't come in base game. Seasons especially seems so normal that it's weird not seeing it. Or not being able to go to other worlds.... this is such a fun idea to try

[@tdewtx]

I am enjoying watching these different versions. I am on the 5th iteration as I have managed to kill the sims. Starvation, freezing, heatstroke. I think the others are just repeats of cold and hot... lol I am trying to do it by not taking like marriage and houses.

[@rocamboua]

The crazy trait is also great, when they need social they talk to themselves :) also free lancer career and gaming (streaming in off time!)

[@roxierawr]

You should redo this one with the lunch box in basegame.

[@bencrosbie]

You earned a sub I love that

[@diniebee564]

Do this challenge with cannot go out, need to stay in one room.

[@andreidragostin]

- How many rooms does your home have? - What is "rooms"?

[@lucifersadvicate]

Question: are you completing all these "rags-to-riches miniseries'" in the same save? As i can imagine you filling a whole neighbourhood with Semaj's. That would be hilarious too if you were in the middle of the sinario and you go to a lot just covered with Semaj's or for the last episode you befriend all of the Semaj's in that save. 😆 am I the only one thinking this? 🤔😅🤣

[@nikajm]

I LOVE THESE VIDEOS

[@nonameno8065]

One thousand $1,000 paintings = $1 million. One thousand paintings is going to take more than 10 days ;)

[@dahlarose26]

i never knew u could make so much money by selling plants.. im gonna go do that

[@SJActress]

I'm curious if you tried this again to ONLY have 11 dragon fruit to start; 1 to fertilize the other 10 (selling as you go), then getting them to PERFECT quality and planting 100 PERFECT quality dragon fruit. Would it be faster?

[@treefrog1018]

Writing takes much longer. I tried this scenario. To make it harder, my sim was not allowed to fish or garden for money. Writing took forever. I got bored with the game by 200,000 and deleted it.

[@s6ac891]

i still wish there was a fertilise all option

[@narimaneyahiaoui2443]

So James just made a money tree

[@andrea-uf4nb]

please do another replay of Urbz: Sims in the City! I've been watching your series from 4 years ago

[@indikamalley8627]

BRB gonna go grind some dragonfruits in the sims I guess

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

0:29 If you're going with painting, I would go with creative, and/or art lover. Creative sims have fun while painting, and art lovers have more fun from looking at art, and get inspired from looking at art. Inspired helps with painting. If you're going with fishing, I would go with self assured, because being confident helps with fishing.

[@RoxasHeroes]

What, no fishing up a violin like the good old days?

[@Astrolicious]

I once made my sim married to Summer Holiday, and guess what, her household had a million simoleons so I can just transfer the money to my household easily once they were just married. 😂 But I guess you have to wait for a few sims days before getting married to Summer Holiday.

[@heg203]

Shading Deli like that… tsk tsk tsk.

[@dixonisthebestdogandilovehim]

All day everyday, fuck game packs, not everyone can afford packs anyway so seeing people make challenges and have fun with just that is good.

[@Pipeblau]

Wooow Stardew Valley looks different from the last time I played it 😂😂

[@noviandriyani8393]

so far, the most profitable is orchid $325 each

[@babyguccijuicy5782]

Mans sounds like jazza

[@ainoperala6571]

The lag issue can be fixed by pressing the three dots in upper right corner! I usually save my game at the same time but its not necessary :) No need to wait it out!

[@JessMariee]

Well that's perfect timing

[@eviege7567]

You sound exactly like Jazza imo

[@Happy_Hauls]

For the next one try the writing I'm kinda curious to see how long it takes lol...one year later lmao!!! Now I'm gonna go plant dragon fruit in my game haha!!!

[@MinnieOnCam]

It would be interesting to see how long it would take to move in and marry sims

[@PlayMeAMemory]

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

[@CylindricalWhistle]

I feel like weather should be part of base game. I always forget that it's a separate pack because it's so basic and essential for a life sim.

[@Jess-nc4oy]

@@CylindricalWhistle yep, or at the very least rain should be in the base game, just so its not sunny all the time.

[@Lizaimi]

I still remember the first time i had that pack…..it felt so different. I dont know if i can play normally without it now

[@vagiapl]

I don't have any pack but I want to buy seasons because it makes so much sense to have seasons

[@toujourskate]

@@Lizaimi omg same. Seasons was the 1st of the first packs I ever bought(along with parenthood and tinyliving) and it definitely made the game so different.

[@Knazy]

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 😂

[@still_overthinking1665]

Yes. Absolutely yes, this would be great😂

[@sm0lpl4nt72]

If not him I wanna see Deli do it 😂

[@dhel7716]

Yes, and no computer because he didn't use it at all 😂😂 what a waste lol

[@CheddarCheys]

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 😅

[@Lucklyist]

My sims have never won the lottery. How much does it pay?

[@sunnybird8096]

@@Lucklyist 1 million exactly :D

[@CheddarCheys]

@@Lucklyist when my sim won, we had 50k in household funds and it paid out 1 million which obv ended the scenario. I think that number can vary but I'm not certain.

[@HereIAm247]

Same thing happened in my rags to riches, lol. I have never won before or since, but of course, it happens 3 days into rags to riches...

[@tianag8513]

How did I not know about this??? How do you enter in the lottery?

[@swizz_uk]

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 🙃

[@MaskingSmiles]

haha me too!

[@StudyGlassHealer]

@@MaskingSmiles no, if he made a tiny lot he gets bonus on the skills

[@verabolhuis3211]

@@StudyGlassHealer he disabled all packs so tiny houses aren’t a thing

[@Mockingjay975]

@@StudyGlassHealer yeah but he needs the tiny living pack for it

[@StudyGlassHealer]

@@Mockingjay975 oh, I thought they added that function to the base, my bad!

[@mammaloz3760]

Makes him klepto, never steals stuff 😂

[@irishduchess7577]

To be fair you can’t steal stuff of significant value until you’ve built up your mischief skill. So probably great for a non timed game over a situation like this. Still funny though! 🙂

[@anska7475]

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

[@nekonyx]

5 minutes give or take probably

[@fuzzypumpkin7743]

@@nekonyx Pre-patch, definitely under a day! Now they don't give nearly as much.

[@az25blue]

Now I want a video of this lol

[@katreagan5133]

lil simsie has one

[@alexnorth486]

Lil Simsie did this! She does a lot of rags to riches like that

[@royalpenguin8870]

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 😅

[@starcats16]

In seasons expansion all plants have a season they grow in. If you put a roof over its like they in a greenhouse

[@angelickaveach]

And i was wondering if he was going to put one over his furniture before he realized there was no weather

[@emma-hz4xm]

@@starcats16 can they grow in all seasons using the greenhouse ?

[@starcats16]

@@emma-hz4xm yeah if you put a roof over them they are classed as sheltered so you can make a greenhouse with walls and windows. Or you can just leave a roof over them if you haven't got enough money.

[@caritomejia]

Saaaaameeeee

[@universalis2078]

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

[@amberbacon1758]

Same!

[@NastyDeb]

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.

[@starcats16]

Omg i never knew this

[@tanyabhaskar2888]

It's spelt easel! Weird word though haha. I didn't realise either about the sketchpad!

[@prettyinpink9893]

I didn’t even know there was a sketch pad

[@DoveJS]

It's a newer item so I think a lot of people forget that it exists (and if it's in their Sim's inventory, I do that a lot lol) or they don't realize how good it is. Also, I can't remember but isn't it more expensive than the cheapest easel? Edit: Also, you have to take the paintings out of your inventory and put them onto a wall if you want to sell them to the collector for either extra money or fame. It's all in a stack which is convenient overall, but slightly annoying if you don't want to sell everything from the inventory or you want to keep any of your paintings at all. If you want to sell everything, it's really good.

[@JamesTurnerYT]

I didn’t know this! Maybe I should try it!

[@mizowolf3671]

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 :)

[@ryuusei1907]

And the base game has changed A LOT since it was first released (and not just basic stuff like ghosts, pools, and toddlers, but also stuff like gender customization!) so I think it would be a good one to see!

[@INeedYouToBreathe]

That would be so boring

[@ashleyd1007]

@@INeedYouToBreathe agreed lmao

[@AuntyAwesome]

as someone without any packs its so boring lol. challenges and stuff fine, but a lets play theres nothing to do.

[@ohlookabee8615]

the sims is a sandbox game, so it's only as fun as you are creative, no matter how many packs you have lol. before i got cottage living, i had only the basegame for 5 years, and i still managed to have an absolute blast /lh

[@StarrChild.]

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

[@yinyin8769]

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

[@swizz_uk]

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