This has been a much requested post, it has just taken me a while to get all the information collected for it! This post shows how much it costs to build each business and the time it takes as these factors increase each time you build a business.
NOTE: the amount of sims needed has been removed as you no longer need to have a certain amount of sims to build a business
BUSINESSES BUILT SO FAR
TIME
COST (SIMOLEONS)
0
4 minutes
500
1
4 hours
1,000
2
8 hours
7,500
3
12 hours
7,500
4
1 day
15,000
5
1 day 6 hours
20,000
6
1 day 12 hours
100,000
7
1 day 18 hours
150,000
8
1 day 20 hours
200,000
9
2 days
250,000
10
2 days 6 hours
275,000
11
2 days 12 hours
300,000
12
2 days 18 hours
325,000
13
2 days 18 hours
350,000
14
2 days 18 hours
500,000
15
2 days 18 hours
700,000
16
2 days 18 hours
850,000
17
2 days 18 hours
900,000
18
2 days 18 hours
950,000
19
2 days 18 hours
1,000,000
20
2 days 18 hours
2,000,000
21
2 days 18 hours
3,000,000
22
2 days 18 hours
3,000,000
23
2 days 18 hours
3,500,000
24
2 days 18 hours
3,500,000
25
2 days 18 hours
3,500,000
If they add anymore businesses I assume they will be the same requirements as they are for 25
However some businesses that you have to build during a quest or to begin a quest do not follow this pattern, some may be completely different while others such as the Community Center take a certain amount of time to build and this doesn’t change but the cost still increases each time you build a business.
NOTE: the arcade, beach, pet park and carnival cost orbs to build not simoleons
Does building a business increase the price and time for workplaces or houses? No, building a business only increases the requirements for building another business, it will not affect a workplace or house. If you build a workplace then the requirements will increase for the next workplace only and if you built a house only the time and cost for building a new house will increase.
This has been a much requested post, it has just taken me a while to get all the information collected for it! This post shows how much it costs to build each workplace and the time it takes as these factors increase each time you build a workplace.
NOTE: this table included the profession workplaces (police station, movie studio and hospital) and Simtown High School.
NOTE: the amount of sims needed has been removed as you no longer need to have a certain amount of sims to build a workplace
WORKPLACES BUILT SO FAR
TIME
COST (SIMOLEONS)
0
2 minutes 30 seconds
500
1
2 hours
500
2
4 hours
600
3
8 hours
2,500
4
12 hours
2,500
5
16 hours
5,000
6
1 day
10,000
7
1 day 4 hours
20,000
8
1 day 8 hours
100,000
9
1 day 12 hours
150,000
10
1 day 12 hours
600,000
11
1 day 12 hours
1,000,000
However some workplaces that you have to build during a quest do not follow this pattern, some may be completely different while others such as the Simtown Elementary take a certain amount of time to build and this doesn’t change but the cost still increases each time you build a workplace.
Does building a workplace increase the price and time for simtown businesses or houses? No, building a workplace only increases the requirements for building another workplace, it will not affect a business or house. If you build a business then the requirements will increase for the next business only and if you built a house only the time and cost for building a new house will increase.
Early Access to Beta Provided by EA/ Firemonkeys- may differ from actual version
THIS EVENT IS NOW OVER!
ONCE THE 8 DAY TIME LIMIT IS UP YOU WILL HAVE 2 DAYS TO PURCHASE ANY PACKS YOU HAVE LEFT– you will not be able to collect anymore arts and crafts items or coins, you have to use the resources you have, if you don’t have enough resources all you can do is use social points to buy the requirements or wait until the event returns!
Party Time!! Complete this event to unlock new party items!
Live Events are very similar to a community event but this time you don’t need help from everyone who plays the sims freeplay to unlock the prizes, there are only personal prizes this time! You firstly need to update your game to the dance party update for this event to appear
This event is only here for 8 days and the aim of it is to collect enough arts and crafts items from the arts and crafts stations (found in the event tab of buy mode) to unlock all the items in this event
NOTE: if you have participated in a Live Event before then you will find your arts and crafts stations in your inventory, you will only be able to use the candle ones until you unlock the other stations in this event
NOTE: I completed this on the Early Access Beta so some information may be slightly different but I will update the post as I complete the event.
Place a crafting station (find the candle station in the events tab of buy mode (or your inventory)- you can only buy 4)
Make some arts and crafts items (click on the candle station to make)- 23 seconds
This takes you to the prize progress tab (you can get to it by clicking on the discoball event button in the corner of the screen)
Here you will see you have collected enough items to unlock the archway entrance! When you unlock each pack, before the items are available in your home store you need to purchase them with the arts and crafts items you make- this goal is coming up!
Restock a crafting station (when the stock runs out you will have to restock before you can make anymore arts and crafts items)- You can restock instantly for 18 uses for 10SPs or restock for 2 uses which will take 10 seconds this time
Buy the archway entrance (click on the discoball event button, scroll down and click purchase- this will cost you 50 candles)
Use a coin flower patch (buy the coin flower patch from the event tab and select the spin plant option)
Check the daily goals (click on the discoball event button and find the daily goals tab- claim the ones you can!)
Remember to claim your rewards each day!
Collect bonuses (while collecting after a certain amount of time you will see the arts and crafts item appear above that sims head, click to collect the bonus item!)
Continue collecting arts and crafts items- this is the last step but the event is not over, keep collecting the arts and crafts to unlock everything!
If you want to speed up a collecting arts and crafts action it will cost you SPs, you will get the bonus gems as well if you speed it up!
Stuck on these tasks? Watch my video here:
Arts and Crafts Stations
Candle Station costs:
1st- Free
2nd- S2,000
3rd- S4,000
4th- S10,000
(maximum of 4)
Collect 250 Candles- 2 hours 30 minutes
Collect 360 Candles- 4 hours 30 minutes
Collect 455 Candles- 6 hours 30 minutes
Collect 510 Candles- 8 hours 30 minutes
Pottery Station costs:
1st- S5,000
2nd- S7,500
3rd- S10,000
4th- S15,000
(maximum of 4)
Collect 375 Pottery- 2 hours 30 minutes
Collect 540 Pottery- 4 hours 30 minutes
Collect 680 Pottery- 6 hours 30 minutes
Collect 765 Pottery- 8 hours 30 minutes
Jewelry Station costs:
1st- S7,500
2nd- S15,000
3rd- S20,000
(maximum of 3)
Collect 565 Jewelry- 2 hours 30 minutes
Collect 810 Jewelry- 4 hours 30 minutes
Collect 1025 Jewelry- 6 hours 30 minutes
Collect 1150 Jewelry- 8 hours 30 minutes
Glassware Station costs:
1st- S7,500
2nd- S25,000
(maximum of 2)
Collect 620 Glass- 2 hours 30 minutes
Collect 890 Glass- 4 hours 30 minutes
Collect 1125 Glass- 6 hours 30 minutes
Collect 1260 Glass- 8 hours 30 minutes
Restocking
Each station (apart from the first candle one) comes with a stock of 9 which means you can use the station 9 times before it needs to be restocked (if you got your stations out of your inventory they will all need restocking first (apart from the first candle one)) When you need to restock you will have two options:
Restock 18 uses which happens instantly but will cost you 10SPs
or
Restock 9 uses which will take you 2 hours 30 minutes but will be free
NOTE:
if you store the station you will lose all the stock so when you place it again you will need to restock
if you cancel making something using a station you will lose that stock so if you had one stock left and then you cancelled that action you would need to restock before you can create anymore arts and crafts items
Your Progress:
Click the discoball button in the top corner of your game to see your progress
Daily Goals
Check on the first tab every day because if you complete all the daily goals you will get additional constructor coins
NOTE: remember to click CLAIM once you have completed a daily goal to collect the reward and remember to claim your free constructor coins and free items each day!
Prize Progress
The prize progress is how far you have got on this event, the more arts and crafts items you make the more prizes you will unlock
NOTE: the bar at the top of the personal progress tab shows you how close you are to unlocking an item, the more arts and crafts items you collect the more the bar will fill up. Once you have unlocked an item on the bar at the top you will be able to use the arts and crafts items you have collected and constructor coins to purchase that pack which you will then be able to find in the home store.
Prizes:
1.Archway Entrance- requires 50 candles to buy
Outdoor Decorations: Party Arch (S4,500)
2.Constructor Coins
3.Constructor Coins
4.Blinded by the Lights- Discoball and Lights and Strobe, Floor Lights and Lamp
Discoball and Lights– requires 900 candles and 5 constructor coins to buy
Pack includes disco ball and party spotlight
Lighting: Party Spotlight (S1,250) Disco Ball (S2,500)
Strobe, Floor Lights and Lamp– requires 2,600 candles and 25 constructor coins to buy
Pack includes ground party lights, party light stand and strobe light (NOTE: the strobe lights flash so if you have photosensitive epilepsy you may not want to use them)
Lighting: Ground Party Lights (S1,450) Party Light Stand (S1,750) Strobe Light (S2,500)
5.Pottery Station
6.Constructor Coins
7.Constructor Coins
8.Sit and Drink- Loveseats and Punchbowl Fountain
Loveseats- requires 7,900 candles, 5,950 pottery and 70 constructor coins to buy
Pack includes 2 loveseats, one light and one dark
Living room: Dark (S8,500) and Light (S8,500) Loveseats
Punchbowl Fountain– requires 10,600 candles, 7,900 pottery and 90 constructor coins to buy
Decorations: Punchbowl Fountain (S550)
9.Jewelry Station
10.Constructor Coins
11.Social Points
12.Constructor Coins
13.Mood Music- Smoke Machine and DJ Deck
Smoke Machine- requires 11,255 pottery, 11,900 jewelry and 130 constructor coins to buy
Decorations: Smoke Machine (S875)
DJ Deck- requires 12,000 pottery, 12,500 jewelry and 135 constructor coins to buy
Electronics: DJ Deck (S15,500)
14.Glassware Station
15.Constructor Coins
16.Social Points
17.Constructor Coins
18.Dance Floored- Small Disco Dancefloor Tiles and Large Disco Dancefloor Tiles
Small Disco Dancefloor Tiles- requires 12,500 pottery, 13,500 jewelry, 13,500 glassware and 145 constructor coins to buy
Once brought they can be found in the lighting section and cost S1,000 each
Large Disco Dancefloor Tiles- requires 14,000 pottery, 14,500 jewelry, 14,500 glassware and 160 constructor coins to buy
Once brought they can be found in the lighting section, the dancefloors cost S5,000 each and the discotheques cost S10,000 each
19.Constructor Coins
20.Social Points
21.Constructor Coins
22.Party House
NOTE: you can only claim the party house if you have brought all the other packs using your arts and crafts items
Once claimed you will be able to build the party house on a standard or premium house lot.
The only difference when building on a premium is the garden, the second image below shows how the garden looks if you decide to build on the premium lot:
The first one is free, after that it will cost you simoleons to build another one
You will find a stretch hummer when you build the party house:
In the car dealership you will find:
Purple, Pink and Black Stretch SUVs- 75LP each
And you will also unlock the Party Photo Booth and Party Balloons:
Decorations: Party Balloons (S250) Party Photo Booth (S12,500)
Check out my house tour of the party house here:
That is all the personal prizes!
Constructor Coins
You earn constructor coins by:
Personal Progress prizes
Completing Daily Goals
Coin Plant Patches
Earning Construtor Coins? Previously on these events I used social points on the Mega Spin Plant to win constructor points. I earn social points by completing the cooking hobby and earning LPs, I can then turn the LPs into SPs using the social point plant on a normal garden patch- this was when it cost 5LPs- the social point plant now costs 20LPs so you may want to try the option below first instead:
Or you can use 450 candles for the Spin Plant (a good way to use up any spare candles) which will also earn you constructor coins but the amounts are less than they are from the Mega Spin Plant
Laura Craft? You may have noticed at the front of one of your houses there is a board with a bubble of a person holding arts and crafts items above it, this is Laura Craft, you can buy her for real money to help you complete the event. When you buy her, you select the item you want her to make from the options: 480 candles, 720 pottery, 1080 jewelry or 1190 glassware (the amounts seem to differ for most of you and I have no idea why that is!) (you will unlock all the options once you have unlocked all the stations) and you will be able to collect them after 8 hours.
Thank you for everyone who let me know what Laura Craft does!
Do I think she is worth it? Definitely not! If she made constructor coins too then maybe but I’m really struggling to see how she is a good investment- even if I could afford her! I am shocked at how many people brought her before even knowing what she did!!
If I brought Laura Craft in the last event do I get her for free or do I have to buy her again? I believe you will have to buy her again for this event BUT everyone gets to try her out for 24 hours in this event:
Click on the board at the front of your house and click try for free on this pop up
ONCE THE 8 DAY TIME LIMIT IS UP YOU WILL HAVE 2 DAYS TO PURCHASE ANY PACKS YOU HAVE LEFT– you will not be able to collect anymore arts and crafts items or coins, you have to use the resources you have, if you don’t have enough resources all you can do is use social points to buy the requirements or wait until the event returns!
Early Access to Beta Provided by EA/ Firemonkeys- may differ from actual version
During the Seniors Quest you build the bingo hall, this post explains how you use it.
The bingo hall can be found on the mysterious island, it is a bit like the Competition Center, you cannot enter the bingo hall building but you send a sim there for 24 hours and they have a chance of winning S15,000!
To use the bingo hall:
1.Click on the bingo hall and a pop up will appear saying the prize is S15,000 if your sim wins, click select sim:
2.Only senior sims can play bingo, if they are busy the option will be greyed out, click on the sim you want to play bingo:
3.Your sim will be playing bingo for 24 hours, during this time they cannot do anything else and you cannot visit them:
4.Once the time is up you will need to go back to the bingo hall and it will tell you the results of the bingo contest:
You may lose:
but you could win:
Previously when I entered I never won but now it looks like they have increased the odds of winning!
Is it worth it? I rarely use the bingo hall, it is a good way to make a few extra simoleons but there is a chance you won’t win and it does mean your sim cannot do anything else for a whole day.
You will build the community center during the Multi Story Renovations quest.
This building is two floors so you need to click on the floor button at the side of the screen to look upstairs:
Ground Floor:
First Floor:
Ground Floor:
On the right hand side of the ground floor there is an area for your preteen sims to complete the Ballet hobby using the record player and the ballet barre.
On the left hand side of the ground floor there is an area for your preteen sims to complete the Karate hobby using the sparring dummy and the wooden karate boards.
Why doesn’t ballet or karate show up with a collection in the hobby tab?
They do not show up because you don’t unlock a collectible each time you complete the hobby, you only get rewards when you level up for the first time (these can be found in the ballet and karate posts) You will receive no other rewards.
There are also toilets, a coffee machine and a sandpit (for toddlers)
And there is also a bench and a lot of chairs around the community center!
First Floor:
The whole of the first floor of the community center is for the Woodworking hobby. On the right of the upstairs there are 3 woodworking benches (you can buy more from the promotions r us store to place in your sims houses) and on the left is pipework that is used for the minigame of catching the dolls in this hobby. How do I catch a doll when completing woodworking at the community center?
The doll will run to the pipes on the machinery to the left of the screen- your sim will rush to a window. You need to get the doll to the window your sim is at, if it is going the wrong way you can tap on it to change the dolls direction (if you do it at home you don’t need to chase the dolls!)
Once the doll is running towards the window where your sim is- stop tapping, your sim will catch the doll and you will receive the item for your collection!
Outside the community center:
Once you complete the Bird Feeding Quest you will find the Bird Feeding bench at the entrance to the community center so your senior sims can complete the Bird Feeding hobby:
You will only be able to find the third row of birds for the hobby at the community center, go to the other locations to find the other birds:
Why can’t I build the community center yet?
You cannot build the community center until you reach the goal in the Multi Story Renovations quest to build it.
Click the discoball button in the top corner of your game to see your progress
The doll will run to the pipes on the machinery to the left of the screen- your sim will rush to a window. You need to get the doll to the window your sim is at, if it is going the wrong way you can tap on it to change the dolls direction (if you do it at home you don’t need to chase the dolls!)
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