SIM LOTTO
Updated by Basemental (05 Sep 2021)
INFO
Buy a ticket and make your Sims a millionaire!
This mod allows sims to purchase SimLotto lottery tickets on any of the computers included in the game. The payout rate is higher than a normal lottery to make things a bit more fun, but the odds are fairly balanced and not just a money cheat. Three flavours of the mod are available, normal odds, easier odds and best odds. The number of required matches, range of numbers and payouts are altered in each flavour. A complete list of the payouts may be found below in a spoiler.
Playing SimLotto is fairly straightforward, however here are the complete instructions. Reference the screenshots above to see some sample purchases (and yes, I cheated to get the Pick 6 Jackpot!):
Tickets can be purchased by any teen or older sims and cost 50 Simoleons each time a ticket is purchased.
Tickets will not be purchased autonomously.
Sims will receive a small amount of fun when they purchase tickets.
The choice of playing Pick 3, 4, 5 or 6 lottery styles are available.
Purchasing a ticket takes a few Sim minutes of computer work. If the action is cancelled before the dialog appears to choose your numbers, the purchase price will be refunded.
Once the dialog to choose numbers appears, the ticket has been fully purchased. Cancelling at this point will not refund any money.
The dialog to choose your numbers will instruct you how many numbers to enter and the range of valid numbers. If an invalid choice is made, the dialog will request you to retype your selections.
You can type just a 0 to have the computer pick a random selection of numbers automatically for you.
After pressing the OK button, the computer will "draw" random numbers and if your sim has matched enough of the drawn numbers, a prize will be issued.
Matching all of the picks will result in a jackpot, which can make a sim a large amount of Simoleons.
The highest payouts (which are rare, but can and probably will eventually happen for someone) will result in your household maxing out at 9,999,999 Simoleons net worth.
-Scumbumbo
INSTALL
Simply extract the two files from the downloaded zip file into your mods folder to install. You should have one ".package" file and one ".ts4script" file (you may not see the file extensions if you don't have a compression program which shows this).
Both files should go in the same folder, either directly in your mods folder, or an absolute maximum of one subfolder deep. For simplicity, I suggest keeping the mod's files directly in your mods folder.
Script mods must be enabled in your game options for this mod to work properly, even if you install with the mod manager.
No XML files were changed for this mod, everything in the package is new and the script injects the new XML into the sim objects. As such it should not conflict with any other mod, even ones that modify the computer pie menus.
EXTRA
Payouts
Hard Odds
Pick 3 - Numbers from 1-10
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 3.4011 in 1.9021 in 5.728031 in 1206000
Pick 4 - Numbers from 1-15
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 4.1011 in 2.1021 in 4.120031 in 31155041 in 136568250
Pick 5 - Numbers from 1-15
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 11.9011 in 2.9021 in 2.5031 in 6.733041 in 60.1300051 in 3003150150
Pick 6 - Numbers from 1-20
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 12.9011 in 3.2021 in 2.6031 in 5.326041 in 28.4141051 in 461.42307061 in 387601938000
Normal Odds
Pick 3 - Numbers from 1-20
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 1.7011 in 2.813021 in 22.4110031 in 114057000
Pick 4 - Numbers from 1-12
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 7.1011 in 2.2021 in 2.914031 in 15.577041 in 49524750
Pick 5 - Numbers from 1-20
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 5.2011 in 2.3021 in 3.417031 in 14.873041 in 206.71033051 in 15504775200
Pick 6 - Numbers from 1-28
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 5011 in 2.4021 in 3.417031 in 12.261041 in 108.7543051 in 2854.114270061 in 37634018837000
Easy Odds
Pick 3 - Numbers from 1-13
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 2.4011 in 2.110021 in 9.547031 in 28614300
Pick 4 - Numbers from 1-23
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 2.3011 in 2.311021 in 8.643031 in 116.5582041 in 8855442750
Pick 5 - Numbers from 1-15
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 11.9011 in 2.9021 in 2.512031 in 6.733041 in 60.1300051 in 3003150150
Pick 6 - Numbers from 1-22
Numbers MatchedOddsPayout01 in 9.3011 in 2.8021 in 2.713031 in 6.733041 in 41.5207051 in 777.23886061 in 746133730650
Additional Credits:
Velocitygrass for the Sims4XmlExtractor
Kuree and all the others at Sims4Group who have put together the S4PE tool
Simlish v3 Comic font by SIMale: http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=78312 used for SimLotto icon
Translations:
jor has provided a Brazilian Portuguese translation
CandymanGaming has provided a translation to French
gato_24 has provided a translation to Spanish
plasticbox has provided a translation to German