How to pay bills on The Sims 4

You are quickly becoming passionate about The Sims 4 , the latest installment of the iconic “life simulator” by Electronic Arts, and you are having a lot of fun following the daily adventures of your Sims. However, you still don’t quite understand how in-game bill payment works. Don’t worry: if you want, I can give you a hand.

In this guide, in fact, I will explain in detail how to pay your bills on The Sims 4 (on all gaming platforms), also showing you how to get a job and thus get the money you need to pay your virtual bills without too many problems.

Courage: why are you still standing there staring at the screen? Do you want to learn how this mechanic works? In my opinion, yes, since you made it this far. Come on then, you just have to read the quick instructions below and put them into practice. There is nothing left for me to do, except wish you good reading and have fun!

Index

  • Preliminary information
  • How do you pay your bills on The Sims 4
  • How to get money to pay bills on The Sims 4

Preliminary information

Before going into detail on how to pay bills on The Sims 4 , I think you might be interested in learning more about how the in-game taxation system works.

Well, as you well know since you’ve started playing it, The Sims 4 is a title that has particularly sophisticated mechanics. More precisely, in the title of Electronic Arts the bills are calculated based on the assets owned by the family unit, as well as on consumption .

Put simply, the higher the value of the goods, the higher the bills will be. To “lighten” the latter, you could therefore think of removing objects that you no longer use or that seem superfluous to you .

In any case, the bills arrive every game week . If the latter are not paid, the fussy agent arrives to take something. This happens after a number of delays , so you should never forget to pay your bills.

In short, it is a basic mechanics of the game, which is important to know by heart, so as not to have particular problems during the course of one’s “adventure”.

How do you pay your bills on The Sims 4

After the above premises, it’s time to take action and learn how to pay bills in The Sims 4. It’s actually very simple, if you have the right amount of Simoleon (the Sims 4 currency). aside. In fact, every week the bills to be paid arrive directly in the mailbox , which is located in front of the home of your Sim.

Generally, the game warns you when the bills arrive and you just need to click on the inbox and select the Pay bills option . All very simple: you just have to remember to pay.

If you have already collected your mail , you can find the bill in your inventory and pay it from there. Then press the Inventory icon at the bottom right, select the bill and press the Pay bills option .

These are the methods that are used to pay the bills on The Sims 4. However, there are some inconveniences that could arise during your “adventure”. For example, some users have reported the disappearance of notices relating to bills (usually a box with the words “The bills have just been delivered to your mailbox” appears at the top right ) or the impossibility of paying them once they are finished in inventory.

If you find yourself in this situation, I recommend that you try to temporarily evict the family unit from the home and relocate it again . If that doesn’t solve the problem, try evicting the household, removing the Sim with the bill in the inventory, and transferring it back.

In case you don’t know, you can evict the household by pressing the Manage Scenarios icon , present at the top right, and selecting the Save option and go to Manage Scenarios from the next menu. Then press on the home of your Sim, select the button of the three dots located on the bottom right and option awards evicted the family unit .

Next, click on the Manage Households icon at the top right, select the household , click on the Transfer Household in a Lot icon , select the house and confirm the transfer. In this way, it is usually possible to return to pay the bills and, if the electricity has been cut off, to turn on the lights .

In any case, bills are usually delivered at 12:00 every Monday (playing time), starting from the second week of play. This means that you can sit there and wait for the postman , in order to “intercept” the bills and pay them immediately.

For the rest, I remind you that you can get more details about how much you are paying your bills by simply clicking on the mailbox and selecting the item Show information on bills from the menu that is proposed to you.

In short, there are various methods of paying bills in The Sims 4 and now you know everything there is to know on the subject.

How to get money to pay bills on The Sims 4

How do you say? Did you understand how to pay bills on The Sims 4 but sometimes you can’t get to the required amount ? No problem, I’ll explain immediately what you can do.

Well, The Sims 4 is a well-balanced game, so you just need to find a job for your Sim to be able to pay the bills. There are a myriad of jobs in the game, and before choosing your character’s career , you can access the statistic of how much that job pays .

Put simply, everything happens a bit like in real life: you have to do the math in your pocket and understand what the right balance is to have the money to pay the bills on The Sims 4.

Alternatively, if you really can’t cover the expenses related to the bills, you could think about using the so-called tricks , which allow you to get 50,000 Simoleons in an instant. I have explained everything there is to know about the subject in my tutorial on how to make money on The Sims 4 , so I recommend that you refer to the latter for all the details of the case.

Finally, another piece of advice that I would like to give you, if you really think you are paying too much in bills, is to get rid of some object inside the house. In fact, as I explained to you in the introductory chapter , the bill system is based on the assets owned by the family unit.

 

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