How to start own business?

[sagagt505]

I want to start my business. How should i do?
1.Restaurant
2.Gym
3.Shop for selling item
4.bakery
5.swimming pool
6.amusement park (roller coaster + bra bra bra)
7.cinema

Thank you

[-V-]

Originally posted by -V-:

My sims have an art gallery, and I don't remember if it produces $$, but I think so.

Step 1: Go to "Edit Town"
Step 2: Select an empty lot OR place a new lot.
Step 3: Zone that lot to be your business of choice "Art Museum"/"Nightclub"/"Exclusive Louge"/"Pool" etc
Step 4: Sims buy the empty lot using the phone
Step 5: Build a business on the lot!

My art gallery brings in about §180,000/day, better than a Island Paradise resort.

[Grand Merchant]

Originally posted by -V-:

My art gallery brings in about §180,000/day, better than a Island Paradise resort.

Can I ask, are you using a custom made or in-game art gallery to get that kind of money? My sims always have a resort and I only average about $12,000 a day.

[Zemecon]

Originally posted by -V-:

Originally posted by -V-:

My sims have an art gallery, and I don't remember if it produces $$, but I think so.

Step 1: Go to "Edit Town"
Step 2: Select an empty lot OR place a new lot.
Step 3: Zone that lot to be your business of choice "Art Museum"/"Nightclub"/"Exclusive Louge"/"Pool" etc
Step 4: Sims buy the empty lot using the phone
Step 5: Build a business on the lot!

My art gallery brings in about §180,000/day, better than a Island Paradise resort.

Step 1 through 4 everyone is aware of already. Step 5 is just elusive enough that since you didn't go into detail on it I would be tempted to call BS on it. But I'm not because I know you are either buying that business but not running it like we would be doing with any other commercial lot anyway, in which case - again - I don't know why you brought it up, or you are using third-party mods like the OFB ticket booth and the NRaas Register Mod.

FYI we are talking about getting your sims to actually run the business and manage it, not just collecting the tax revenue from it.

Originally posted by Grand Merchant:

Originally posted by -V-:

My art gallery brings in about §180,000/day, better than a Island Paradise resort.

Can I ask, are you using a custom made or in-game art gallery to get that kind of money? My sims always have a resort and I only average about $12,000 a day.

It doesn't matter. They both work the same way. Once you build on the lot, you get the revenue from it like you would if you've bought an already-built lot that came with the town or that you'd built beforehand, anyway. Buying an empty commercial lot before you've built it only depends on what you put in it afterwards. In the case of an art gallery, you aren't actually profitting from the art itself. You are profitting from the tax revenue that you get which is increased by the stuff you put in it. You could make an art gallery, then put expensive plants there instead of paintings, and you still get money from that without actually selling any of the plants. Change the plants for furniture, same deal.

If you want to actually run a business on a commercial lot, you will need the OFB ticket booth mod and the NRaas Register mod. See my first post on Page 1.

EDIT 1: Changed a word.

EDIT 2: Changed another word.

[-V-]

I have all the EPs, so this may be part of Island Paradise's coding.

Once you buy the lot, it has a certain Level based on the number of amenities it has. Different lot types require different amenities.
It's all done in the MANAGE PROPERTY cell phone menu (forgive me if I've gotten the exact wording wrong, I haven't been able to play for a long time)
For example a beach will require barbeque grills, lounge chairs, and toilets, plus an overall property worth. The game will tell you exactly how much you need.
The higher the property value, the more revenue it generates.

I actually kinda broke the game this way by finding that super rare green glowing rock (I forget the mae) and then duplicating it using the science machine.
It was already an art gallery for an immortal faerie artist and her adventuring wife (adventure treasures are $$$$). It's kind of a side lot where I dump a lot of the artifacts, let me find you a picture :D

[-V-]

That particular save file is broken beyond repair after so long, but once I get a new PC, I will certainly open a fresh new business for you guys :D I freaking love the sims. Maybe it's just 17 freaking years of playing...


Anyway, here are a couple images from within the gallery itself, first floor is the sarcophogus and other artifacts, second floor is natural history (rocks). This was before I started doing full floorplan screenshots, and I really thought I had a shot of the exterior :/.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=442962860

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=435604085

Once your sims own a properly zoned lot (make sure it's the right type of lot first, otherwise it'll be bulldozed if you sim buys, then rezones it-- ask me how I know >.<) you can build on that lot by selecting BUILD ON THIS LOT or BUY ON THIS LOT in the world map.
If your sim owns something and wants to display it, send them to the lot with the object in their inventory. Select it from the inventory and drag the item out. I made this gallery before getting Island Paradise.

[Zemecon]

Again, we are not talking about tax revenue. Everyone here who has played The Sims 3 knows about generating more tax revenue from investing in more furniture like paintings on your sim's owned commercial lot, which is what you are doing. So I don't know why you are going to great lengths to repeat yourself.

There is a difference between what you are doing - where your sims just sit there and wait for their tax revenue from the lot to come in regardless of whether or not any other sims even go there - and what the OP is looking for and which I've already mentioned where you actually put products on your lot, you see visitors actually take the product, and cash instantaneously be put into your sim's bank account as soon as that happens.

You need the O4B ticket booth to open a business in this game. That is all there is to it.

[Grand Merchant]

Originally posted by -V-:

Anyway, here are a couple images from within the gallery itself, first floor is the sarcophogus and other artifacts, second floor is natural history (rocks). This was before I started doing full floorplan screenshots, and I really thought I had a shot of the exterior :/.

Thanks for posting these. I'm always curious to see how people like to set up their lots. Sometimes I get a few ideas here and there. :)

[-V-]

Originally posted by Salinité:

Again, we are not talking about tax revenue. Everyone here who has played The Sims 3 knows about generating more tax revenue from investing in more furniture like paintings on your sim's owned commercial lot, which is what you are doing. So I don't know why you are going to great lengths to repeat yourself.

There is a difference between what you are doing - where your sims just sit there and wait for their tax revenue from the lot to come in regardless of whether or not any other sims even go there - and what the OP is looking for and which I've already mentioned where you actually put products on your lot, you see visitors actually take the product, and cash instantaneously be put into your sim's bank account as soon as that happens.

You need the O4B ticket booth to open a business in this game. That is all there is to it.

Oh oh oh, I get you. The part about taxes was confusing me, as I did not connect that term to passive income.

Role Play is Everything.

[Zemecon]

Sorry, I tend to get a bit rude and argumentative when I don't think I've gotten my point across.

It's all good :-)