I see you made a separate thread, here's what I wrote in response to your question in the 'fun' thread:
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Coordinate your skills on your sims so that you can do custom crafting since that is money you can earn above and beyond your 3k a week. I sat down with pen and paper one night while hubby was on teh computer and gave each sim 3 skills and have been slowly working those sims up toward that goal. 3 sims are now completely skilled up. If you're doing this in EA Land you have 2 more sims to work on so you might even be able to coordinate it so that not all 8 sims would need 3 skills, some might only need 2, I'm not sure. But that is a large goal that would keep you occupied while all the changes with moneymaking are going on.
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Now, that *is* alot of skilling if you don't already have high skilled sims merged from other cities, which I don't, so that means you need other stuff to do while your sims are getting 'edumakated', so here's what I do during that:
Post on the boards.
Play with my membership at
Pogo.
Read the blog.
Read the Wiki and daydream over the neat ideas and ponder whether or not they are realistic.
Play TS2.
or of course you could work on custom content for EAL but I don't do that yet since I haven't gotten very far in the learning process....but one day soon I hope to do that too.
So see, there's lots of ways to make the game work for you, even now that things are getting tough, while still supporting the game knowing that things aren't always gonna STAY this tough.