StoryProgression All my vacation NPCs are in debt!

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All my vacation NPCs are in debt!

Post by ejnarts » July 11th, 2018, 11:11 am

I've looked through what is obvious to try to change this. All the NPCs in the neighborhood (Champs La Sims- I'm sure others as well) are in debt and can't maintain their residences because they don't have jobs.

Is there a way to stop this from happening in the vacation neighborhoods alone? Thanks.

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Post by igazor » July 11th, 2018, 11:39 am

In my experience, the game has taken care of the finances of inactive residents of the WA worlds who have no jobs. If you are imposing SP Money restrictions on them though (Unified Billing, tax rates, daily fees) that are high as one might do in a homeworld, those without jobs will indeed have a difficult time making ends meet. Especially those with higher end homes. I haven't played in Champs Les Sims in particular in ages though, so haven't been able to watch over them for a very long time. But in Al Simhara it did take a good sim week or two of my fiddling with the options for locals' cash flows to reach an even keel, some of them did stay in debt. And I did give some of them jobs by adding a small number of rabbit holes that house careers and by making some of them Role Sims, paid hourly by way of the Register mod.

Note that the first time a foreign world "sees" an NRaas mod, it will pick up the settings of the homeworld traveled from. After that, the settings remain independent. So even if you didn't go around raising tax rates and imposing fees on Champs Les Sims on purpose, it may be getting settings like this from the first time it was traveled to, wherever that was.

You should be able to get a better sense of where these sims' money is going by pulling up accounting reports on some of the households. On a sim or their residential lot, NRaas > SP > Household Options > Accounting. There is also a Clear Accounting command on the same level that wipes out the report and starts it over in case the ones you are watching are too full of old information to be useful.

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Post by igazor » July 11th, 2018, 11:40 am

Ah and all of the above assumes, of course, that you are running SP's story progression on the WA worlds.

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Post by ejnarts » July 11th, 2018, 3:20 pm

Thanks for that. I did turn off taxes and billing. I suppose I'll have to go back to see if those settings had the desired effect. And check the accounting to get a better idea. And yes, I run NRaas for everything =)

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