My adults are now in their 50's of my first gen. They don't seem to make any money or progress at all in their careers unless I'm actually in game. Is that normal? Is my game bugged somehow? I know in VV2 they made quite a bit of progress in their careers and even made money.
I make more money for them by picking up a few collectibles and watching the ads for coins every day then they have made since I started playing it seems. I check in on them for meal time so they get fed and the adults seem to work fine and make money while I'm there doing that but barely anything in between. Any help greatly appreciated

The people on VF3 progress very slowly in their careers. Compared to VF2 and 1, where they'd reach level 6-8 easily, I've noticed my peeps rarely make it to level 4 even with all the upgrades. To get to max level you'd have to upgrade their career progress with coins.
The devs want to make it hard to earn coins because they want people to pay $$$ for them. Makes sense, but everything's so expensive

Thanks for the reply
I'm on the 2nd gen now and I've been keeping track of every time I check in and out and how many coins they are making in between and so far in most cases it's only about 100 coins or so in between meals. If that's the case it will take forever to make enough to even buy the upgrades for the careers. I don't really care if they progress a bunch as far as the level but I would like them to make money so I can buy stuff without having to watch ads everyday. I want to play the game not watch ads.
I'll finish out gen 2, keep checking in for meal times and see how it goes but at this point I'm thinking VF3 isn't the game for me which sucks cause I love how they updated the house and yard and other things
Has anyone else kept track? Is this amount normal or do your peeps make more in a days time? 300 to 500 coins a day just doesn't seem right to me.

The amount of coins you get per day is based off of how many you have. Without paying for a brokerage account, the interest rate's only 1%. So if you have 100K coins, you get around 1000 coins plus whatever your peeps' salaries are.

The best way I've found to make coins without paying is to sell collectibles and furniture. I only buy things on sale and the 20 coin groceries, and after 10-20 generations I have 200K coins.

I eventually caved and bought a couple brokerage accounts from the store because I was impatient xD If you're willing to pay $2 then they're worth the investment. They increase your interest rate so you earn tons more than normal, and you can get up to 11% of your balance per day. Imho, they're better than just buying coins or any of the other upgrades

I still play VF2 and even with a brand new gen they make lots more than in VF3. I guess I was just expecting it to be that way with this game also but they are 2 different games so things will be different.
Thanks for the advice, I'll check that out and possibly try it. I never paid real cash for upgrades with VF2 so wasn't planning on it with VF3 either.