More Expensive Lot Prices
This mod makes lot prices more expensive by multiplying the original price by 100. It does this by editing the actual lot description - so there aren't any hidden fortunes stuffed in the walls to jack up the price (or buried treasure for those empty lots). This also has the side effect of stopping cheese with a cheeky editor (albeit if you downloaded a mod to make your lot prices more expensive - why are you cheesing in the first place?).
Download this mod if you want extra immersion/realism/challenge - or if you think your Sims having a break from the real world is being too nice to them.
Frequently Asked Questions
These prices are too high!
Yup. That's kind of the point. That's not a question either.
Can you make these prices lower?
Yes, but unfortunately it means manually changing every single price of every single lot to a lower value after putting it through a formula. It's a bit of a pain to say the least. Not as painful as these house prices though.
Who hurt you?
I live in Melbourne. Our city is about the 6th most unaffordable place in the world to buy a house - with the median house price going above $1 million dollars during the 2021 lockdown. So really, this game still is on easy mode.
What can I do to get a house?
In seriousness, playing on longer timeframes will make a bit more sense in terms of the realism (and saving up). Other mods which allow you to apply for loans will essentially act as a "mortgage" for you to pay back over time - and prevent you from having to live in an apartment for a large percentage of your sims lives.
Less Headlines
This mod disables several of the icons floating over your Sims heads after most interactions. There's a seperate file for each type of headline icons. You can mix and match as long as you keep the main file installed.
Death By Terror Mod v1.2.3 (DBT)
We all know that a new emotion was added to the game - fear, but how disappointed I was that you can’t die from fear. But here, as always, modders came to the rescue. So, meet a new kind of emotional death - from fright.
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Fewer Idles
As a first-time modder, I looked up a tutorial on toning down the idles in the game. Mainly because the ones I found were out of date or dead. I've tested these mods, and they work. I'm uploading two kinds. The idles will still happen, but there will be fewer and very far between.
Brand New Bedsheets v.1.1
This mod will allow your characters to change bedding and add more realism to the game. When changing the sheets, a pile of dirty laundry will appear next to the bed, and the characters will receive a new moodlet from clean sheets.