Talk:Collecting (The Sims 3)

Gemstone Locations
the pink diamond and the rainbow gem, where on sunset valley were they found? I have nearly killed my sim twice trying to find them, please help! *laughs* KelinRoseKelin!
 * I'm fairly sure it's random as to their location, but I just found a rainbow gem near the criminal career building (Outstanding Citizen Warehouse Corp.) where my sim works. I'm still working on the pink diamond.—ErzengelLichtes (Contribs)
 * Yes they indeed appear random. 13:10, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Just as an update, I've found a total of 3 Rainbow gems, although I'm not sure where I found the other two. I've only found 2 pink diamonds, and both were when I was rummaging through the Alto trash can.—ErzengelLichtes (Contribs) 00:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Update I took a look in the files, and it turns out that it's not random! Not completely at least. There is precisely 1 spawner that spawns plutonium, 1 that spawns Gigantic space rocks (obscenely rarely), 1 that spawns rainbow gems, 1 that spawns pink diamonds, and 2 that spawn brilliant. I'm bumping up their liklihood so that I can figure out where you can usually find them, and what their chances are, along with other relevant data.—ErzengelLichtes (Contribs) 02:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Unknown gem cut
I've found an unknown gem "cut" (It's behind the heart shaped cut in the picture). It can be obtained by placing a raw gem outside of your house and then exporting that house. The exported house will then have the new "cut" instead of the raw gem.

It's actually not a real cut because you can still send it to be cut and the thumbnail is still a raw gem. Though I tought I should share it. 13:10, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm fairly sure it's a bug. You might want to consider posting it on the official forum.  Uly 14:49, 11 June 2009 (UTC)



Minor difference in recalculating the Better Profit points for two of the cuts
I was recalculating everything in the cuts table due to a brain fart (I can be a real idiot sometimes), and I found there are exactly two places where my math gave different values for the "Better Profit" column. Since, as I just said, I can be a real idiot sometimes, I've put my math (OpenDocument Spreadsheet, ~20kB) up so others can check it, and, if it seems correct, can either let me know or edit it in.

Please tell me if I made a mistake somewhere or if I actually got it right. Excel-compatible version available on request. Thank you, Narc (talk) 23:55, 16 July 2009 (UTC).
 * I made the original calculations. The excel spreadsheet I used rounded up in those two instances (Excel has a tendency to do that), but checking the calculations it seems that you are correct. Which means that Marquis is even more useless than before...
 * However, your change regarding the smelting of ingots was wrong. Yes, §23 * 1.75 = §40.25, but §40.25 -  §40 (Smelting Cost) - §23 (Original Worth) = §-22.75. This is not "breaking even", this is "losing money", you might as well sell it without spending the money and time to send it out. On the other hand, §54 * 1.75 = §94.5. §94.5 - §40 (Smelting Cost) - §54 (Original Worth) = §0.5. This is "breaking even" since you can't have fractional simoleans. —ErzengelLichtes (Contribs) 06:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Right! I always seem to forget that. I'm glad you checked my numbers, thanks! :) --Narc (talk) 11:50, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Metals
Ok, so I luckily found a Palladium in the Alto's bins. Yay! Now, I need the Plutonium and then I'll have the Metal Collector finished. Where does Plutonium spawn and what are the chances? I've triewd catacombs 3 times now, and found several books, a tomato seed with Outstanding quality, and some other junk. There was a Blue Topaz, but nothing really great. Any help finding Plutonium?

Also, how'd you look at the files? Which file and what program?