The Sims 2 Challenges Podcast

EPISODE112 - The Sims 2 Challenges -The Ultimate Apartment Life Challenge

2011-05-21T21:51:00.000-07:00

The Ultimate Apartment Life Challenge by StarMcLight2

So I have searched the board for a challenge closely related to this and since nothing popped up in the search I'm going to assume that this has not been done before and thus will continue. I created and did this challenge myself and found it to be quite interesting as I am sure you all will (hopefully) once I'm finished fully posting everything about it including rules. This challenge works best if you have Apartment Life because it is centered around Belladonna Cove (I think that's the name. The newest town) If you do not have Apartment life then this challenge will prove to be tricky but I am sure it can be tweaked to fit almost any town but for now Apartment Life is the base for this challenge.

Goal: Move your Sims into their own home

If it seems a little confusing now let me continue to explain.

To begin: Create two Sims in CAS. They have to be male and female. That is one of three rules here. If you want to use your CC's for this then you can. You can use whatever it is you want to make your sims unique. They both must have two different aspirations. It isn't much fun to have both be knowledge or both family. You can pick any two but they have to be different. The other rule in this beginning stage is to dress your sims in nothing too lavish. They are starting at the bottom so that means something simple. Maybe some jeans and a top but nothing like a fur coat (If you have Glamour Life). Keep it simple. You can set them married if you'd like or you can leave them as is and work on their relationship as they grow along. Say cheese for the camera once you are done and let's enter Belladonna.

When you are in the neighborhood screen, go to the right and you should see the cheepest apartment area. I think the lowest is just under 800 dollars. That is where your sims will start. Now, once you enter there, you can pick which ever home you'd like. It does not have to be the under 800 dollar one. You have enough to pick which ever you'd like and fix it up as you see fit.

Note: You have to make sure you have enough money to pay your rent every Monday and your bills every Tuesday and Thursday. Nothing can be sold to make up for what you can't afford so do not leave yourself with absolutely nothing just to live the life in the mobile park. Keep it simple but the choice of what you want in it is yours.

Sidenote: No uses of kaching, family funds or motherlode. You can only spend what you earn. Also, no boolprop to cheat your way into owning a furnished apartment so you can save money. You'll see why as you read on.

Once you are moved in find your Sims jobs. You can use the newspaper or if you have FreeTime, use the free computer that is given to you. If you don't have free time then you can buy yourself a computer. When it comes to jobs, pick the job that your sim needs to fufill in order to reach Lifetime Platinum. If your sims goal towards Lifetime Platinum has nothing to do with a job (Golden Anniversary, Send 3 kids to college, Max out all 7 skills etc...) then you have to work on those goals for them and they can have any job they desire.

If you have the ability to pick a second aspiration for your Sim then that is fine, you pick whatever you want for that option.

Your two sims must try for a baby and eventually become pregnant at the beginning of the challenge. If they end up with twins then that is fine. You will have to make sure you can fit all their needs into your small apartment, again, paid for with money the parents earned themselves. You can have as many kids as you like so long you can afford bills and to take care of everyone.

Eventually you will continue to live in this same apartment and raise your family until you have earned $25,000 or more. Once you have you are free to move out and into a better apartment of your choosing.

Note: You have to earn up to $25,000 to move into a bigger apartment so that does not include what you are left with after furnishing your house. For example: If you started off with $25,000 before moving your Sim into their new house, paid rent on the $700 apartment and then decide to just use around 2,000 to furnish it, you would be left with $22,300. Now I'm sure you'd say, "Great, now I just have to earn $2700 and I can move out" Sorry, to disappoint but, no, you cannot do that. The 20-25 grand you start with was given to you, you did not earn that and thus cannot add it to the money earned when it's time to move out. If you want to buy cheap to save money that's fine, but you will still need to earn 25,000 to move out on top of what you already have.

When you finally do earn enough money to move out then you can do so if you like so long you can still afford the weekly rent and the twice weekly bills.

As stated above, your ultimate goal is to move your Sims into a house which is every apartment living person's dream of accomplishing one day but as it isn't easy in real life it will not be easy here.

To move your Sim out of the apartment life and into a house you must complete two lifetime aspirations for only one of the two adult sims you created. Completing one lifetime aspiration for both sims does not count. You can pick whether you want to complete the male or female aspiration twice but it has to be one of them in order to move into a house. For example, if your male Sim's first lifetime aspiration is to max out all 7 skills then you work on that. If you complete that and they go platinum for the rest of their lives a new goal will appear for them. You have to completely finish that second goal just as you did the first in order to win this challenge and move your family into a house of their very own.

I've done it this way because just one is too easy but two takes longer and in the time it takes to grow elder you still have goals to meet in order to win the challenge. You have until the 4th day of your sims's elder years to complete two lifetime aspirations. If you cannot do it by then the Sims must retire and the family will have to live in an apartment until someone in the family can complete two aspiration goals.

Note: If the parents die you can have the heir try to move his siblings out, (if you have more then one child) It will be up to him or he/she can just try with their own family but the same rules apply as his parents had.

I have not created a point system for this challenge. It's just to played for fun to keep everyone enterained and create new adventures for their sims.

Here are some other things about this challenge.

If you have University: Your Sims can go to college but must stay in the dorm for the entire time they are there. The parents cannot afford to help them get their own house because they are saving up for their dream house. The teen can work on his skills to get awards and thus get more money but he cannot spend it on a house. When he/she graduates they have to move back in with their parents (Heirs or if you just want them with their parents) or if you do not want them with their parents, must move into an apartment complex. Their parents have to either succeed in getting a house or pass on before they can try to get their own house. Basic rule is: If we can't get a house, no one gets a house.

If you have Nightlife: You obviously cannot have cars on already made apartment lots and since you are saving up for a house anyway, you will not mind getting the carpool to take you to and from work. If you miss your ride you are free to walk to work if that option is present for you.

If you have Pets: This applies to dogs, if the family can't have a house neither can the dog so no outdoor homes. I doubt you can set them up on the apartment property anyway but in case anyone decides to get around that it isn't allowed. They sleep in the apartment like everyone else.

If you have Bon Voyage: No staying at 4 star and up hotels. You are saving for your new place and thus must find a way to have a great vacation for cheap, like going camping at that free camp site. It isn't lavish but you have certain goals for your family you have to obtain.

Other Notes:

Living in an apartment gives you round the clock maintence so you do not have to worry about hiring someone to fix the toliet and so forth.

No maids or butlers. Set chorus for the family and have them carry it out. It will help you earn cleaning aside from the book.

You can hire a nanny if you have both parents working. That is fine so long you have her leave as soon as you get home. You can't keep paying her to stick around just to stand still, that's money out of your pocket that could go to your new house.

If you want to get an early jump on your teen's aspiration that is fine. Do what you have to do in order to get your family into a nice home and out of the apartment they've lived in for so long. Just don't cheat to do it.

I believe I've listed all that needs to be said about this challenge but please if you have any questions or if something is not clear please do not hesitate to respond with your question and I will respond as soon as possible. I had a great time playing this challenge and I hope those who are looking for something new to do will enjoy it as well.

Good Luck and Happy Simming.

-Star

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EPISODE111 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Chastity Society

2011-05-04T21:50:00.000-07:00

The Chastity Society is a newly founded group in Sim City. It is a place where romance-aholics can abstain from their fleshly desires and discover new meaning to life through non-romantic wants and talents.

CREATING SOCIETY MEMBERS
In CAS create two Sims, male and female. Give them both Romance aspirations. Make their turn-ons match each other's attributes. Give them personalities that are highly attracted to one other, your choices being:
Aries and Taurus
Gemini and Pisces
Capricorn and Aquarius
Pisces and Scorpio

STARTING LIFE
Move them into a house. The house may not have any double-beds. When they arrive let them check each other out ("Flirt - Check Out") in order to set their gender preference. After that they may not perform any other romantic interactions. ALL romantic interactions are now off-limits. You must lock in any non-romantic wants in order to keep the society members happy.
Two Sim-days later create another pair of Sims. Use the same criteria outlined above making sure you give them a different set of personalities to the first pair. Move them into the house, check each other out and then continue playing without any romantic interactions. (This is all done two days later in order to give them different ages and some extra cash).
The society encourages strong friendships. Becoming best friends with all other society members is mandatory.

INCOME
The Chastity Society does not allow outside jobs (too many temptations out in the big wide world). Your Sims must earn a living through their own means. You could have them paint, garden, make toys/robots/flowers and start a business. A business may only sell things that the Sims have created themselves (nothing from the Buy Mode catalogue). All this is to ensure that the society members spend as much time together as possible.

CHEATS
Money cheats are discouraged, however if absolutely necessary a money cheat could be used but only as part of a loan. Any amount "borrowed" must be repaid at double the amount as soon as possible - a maximum of 20 days otherwise the repayment must be tripled, and so on. To repay use the "familyfunds xxx -1000" cheat at the neighbourhood screen (where xxx is the family name and 1000 is whatever amount you are repaying).
The moveobjects cheat for object placement is fine but no other cheats are permitted. The Elixir of Life and SimVac are also not permitted.

DESPERATE SEDUCTION
If a Sim's aspiration meter reaches the half-way point in the red, they are deemed "desperate". The desperate Sim must go to a secluded place and call over the Sim they were created with (and with whom they should have the highest chemistry). The desperate Sim will then seduce that Sim (only the desperate Sim may perform the interactions, not the seducee). Perform as many romantic interactions as it takes to raise the desperate Sim's aspiration meter. If Woohoo does not appear as one of the desperate Sim's wants, and that Sim's aspiration meter reaches the green section, the Sims must stop immediately. However, if Woohoo appears as one of that Sim's wants you must lock it in and act on it immediately. There is no contraception in the Chastity Society house, so the Sim must "Try for Baby" with the other Sim. There are no double beds in the house so the pair must use a hot tub, car, photo booth, change booth, elevator or bed at a community lot. Once this has been done, save the game immediately (no exiting the game if you don't like the result). Once the desperate Sim feels better (aspiration meter in the green) he/she immediately regrets breaking the society's rules and remains solitary for the following day - he/she remains completely alone for 24 hours. He/she will never again seduce another Sim (but they may be seduced).
PROCREATION (Bold=edit)
The Chastity Society recognises this need. When a female society member gets to 9 days from elder it is considered her Engagement Day. She chooses the Sim she was created with (and with whom she should have the highest chemistry). The couple engage in any romantic interaction (except woohoo) in order to fall in love and become engaged. The following day (her 8th day from elder) is their Wedding Day. The couple then "Try for Baby" as often as they can. If they haven't conceived before the woman is 5 days from elder (and unable to conceive) then they may adopt, but use the 3 days to try as often as they can. Don't "Try for baby" if the couple already have a child - they can just woohoo as much as they like.
How the couples "try for baby" is up to you. In my Chastity Society the household rule about no double beds still applies. The couples use a hot tub, car, photo booth, change booth, elevator or bed at a community lot. They still sleep in separate beds and remain discrete from the other members out of respect for the society rules. However, if you choose to make marital bedrooms in your house that is up to you. It doesn't affect your score since the score for this couple will have already been calculated. Once the Sims are married they may woohoo as often as the mood takes them.

OFFSPRING
Give all teens the romance aspiration. Sims sent to university from the Chastity Society must live together (whether in a dorm, house or whatever) and all the same rules must apply.
There will be two offspring (except in the event of twins). When a young adult begins university, create a new CAS young adult to be their future partner. Follow the same rules outlined in the "Creating Society Members" paragraph to suit the already existing Sim.
First try:
Aries and Taurus
Gemini and Pisces
Capricorn and Aquarius
Pisces and Scorpio
However, sometimes offspring don't fit into one of these 7 personalities, so in that event use:
Cancer - Scorpio, Leo or Libra
Leo - Sagittarius or Cancer
Virgo - Sagittarius or Libra
Libra - Virgo or Cancer
Sagittarius - Pisces, Capricorn, Leo or Virgo

SCORE CARD
This score is out of 100 points.
20 points for every member who had no romantic interactions before their Engagement Day.
10 points for every virgin member who had romantic interactions before their Engagement Day.
10 points for every member who was seduced into Woohoo before their Engagement Day (not a seducer).
5 points every time a virgin Sim reaches platinum mood (and has not had any romantic interaction in the last three days).
-10 points for any two members that are not best friends before the first female's Engagement Day.

OPTIONAL SCENARIO
If you want to make the challenge a bit more difficult, you may add another pair of members to the society on the first female's Engagement Day. This pair have their own score out of 50 points. Elders may need to leave the Chastity Society and move into their own love nest to make room for new society members.

PRE-MADE CHASTITY SOCIETY
If you would like a pre-made society household, you can download the Astinenza household here:
HYPERLINK "http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=596718" \t "_blank" http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=596718
Astinenza is Italian for abstinence. This house replaces 103 Custer Boulevard in the Downtown area; however you can (obviously) place it anywhere and rename the address. This household has no custom content, so it is very safe. The occupants haven't met any other neighbourhood Sims, so there won't be any problems with broken relationships or memories. You will find this household at the point when the second couple have just been moved in and have checked each other out.
If you would like a third couple for the optional scenario, you can download them here:
"http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=596719" \t "_blank" http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=596719

Have fun!

BBS Thread:
http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=e0b7b4226c0b5352df6d5d6251050c50&directoryID=128&startRow=1&hideFramework=true&openItemID=item.128,root.1,item.43,item.61,item.104,item.41,item.23

EPISODE106 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Genetic Diversity Challenge by Draftzilla2k

2011-02-23T19:02:00.000-08:00

http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.82,root.1,item.43,item.61,item.23&threadID=f6f04892d5bed8b185b89d69e8936002&directoryID=82&startRow=1

Part 1 of 2 - The Genetic Diversity Challenge: Welcome to Diversityville!

This is a challenge based on Sim genetics, which should result in a very interesting, multicultural neighbourhoods. (The challenge is also specifically designed to help avoid NPC/slowdown bug conflicts without penalty.)

How to Play
1. Create a new neighbourhood. (We'll refer to it as Diversityville for the rest of this explanation, but you can of course name your neighborhood anything you like!)
2. Make sure there are no Sims in your Sim bin. If there are, temporarily move them to lots in one of your *other* neighborhoods.
3. Enter your new neighborhood, Diversityville. Open the command box with Ctrl+Shift+C. Type "deleteallcharacters." Press Escape to close the box.
***Make sure you move all Sims out of your bin before step 3, or else they will be deleted. This step deletes the NPC*'s (*NPC = Non player character, i.e., the autonomous characters in the game) from the neighborhood, and the game will spawn new ones. This step is to add some interest to the neighborhood and to prevent planning in advance to matchmake your Sims with standard NPC's.
Podcast Suggested Empty Neighborhood Templates

4. Create a couple in CAS, ("Adam and Eve Diversity"--but again, pick any name you like). They must have the same skin tone, hair colour, and eye colour. Choose the darkest skin tone; choose brown or black hair; and choose brown or dark blue eyes (the most dominant traits).
5. Move in your Sim couple, on any size lot, and start their family.

The challenge is over when you have every Maxis-issue eye colour, hair colour, and skin tone, present in two subsequent generations; i.e., all variations are present across a generation, and then repeat again in the next variation. All descendants must be able to trace their blood line back to Adam & Eve Diversity (of course, again, name them what you wish). A generation is defined as all Sims the same number of steps from the original parents. Sims must be direct descendants, not "married in" Sims, to count for scoring purposes.

Update: the challenge has proved longer and more difficult than I originally thought. Reaching a full display of all genetic types across just one generation is really more than enough!

Part 2 of 2 - The Genetic Diversity Challenge: Welcome to Diversityville!

Rules
- You can only marry NPC's.
- You can move Sims out and move houses as often as you wish.
- The only pregnancy cheats allowed are for same-sex couples (Adam & Steve's are welcome!). Otherwise, no pregnancy cheats, no abduction cheats, no twins cheats, no cheats to increase relationship scores.
- Children born out of wedlock still count. This is about genetics, not birth certificates.
- Adopted children and their offspring/descendants are not blood relations of Adam & Eve and do not count in the score.
- Money cheats are not allowed. So, in addition to breeding, your Sims will need to concentrate on earning money so they can afford to feed all those children!

What you can do:
- use any size lot
- use downloaded houses or community lots
- have any career
- When a child ages up to teenager, look at the time on the Sim game-clock. Pick their aspiration according to the last number in the time:
1 or 6 = fortune
2 or 7 = knowledge
3 or 8 = family
4 or 9 = romance
5 or 0 = popularity
- Neighbourhoods hold around 75 lots. If you happen to fill up your neighbourhood, you need to kill off your elders to make room.

Scoring:
- You start with a score of 100 points.
- Deduct 10 points for every generation it takes to reach the diversity goal (your first set of children count as minus 10).
- Alien Bonus A: Add 10 points if your last two generations have alien skintone; and add 10 points if your last two generations have alien eyes. [**Update: make this just the last generation]
- Alien Bonus B: if you have a Sim with alien skin *and* eyes in each of your last two generations, instead of the 20 points in Alien Bonus A, add 50 points. [**Update: again, just last generation]

Hints
- Don't use custom skins, eyes, or hair. They tend to be genetically dominant in the game, and will make it almost impossible to successfully complete the challenge.
- Community lots will make it easier to meet NPC's. Build your own or download them.
- Each Sim family can have as many or as few children as you wish; but obviously, the bare minimum number of descendant Sims in a generation to complete the challenge is 5--and odds are you will need more than this, unless you're a genetic genius or very lucky. It's a good idea to start your first family with 2 or more children.
- If you don't know much about how genetics work, this is a great time to learn as the information will really help you make strategic choices in the challenge. A good start is to search the BBS for posts on Sim genetics or else take a look at some of these great posts:
* Pyrmnclgrl on genetics: http://tinyurl.com/4452a
* redchuckles22 on dominant genes: http://tinyurl.com/5wn4p

Enjoy the challenge, and enjoy your new neighborhood!

Clarification on Aliens:
Since this challenge is about game genetics, the aliens need to be born to a male who is genetically linked to your original parents; aliens born to an NPC male who has married into your family do not count for the score or for continuing the family line. (Ouch! I know...but it's a genetic diversity challenge after all.) Likewise, if a married-in NPC has a baby with someone who is not blood-related to the main family, that child and its descendants are not part of the official family tree. (We're not xenophobic, we're just obsessed with genetics.) You can have children out of marriage or with aliens, but not "off the bloodline."

Housing for Your Growing Diversity Family:
In the course of this challenge, you will have Sims continually moving out to start families of their own. On one hand, constant movement should help prevent developing bugs on your lots. On the other hand, you will need a large number of starter homes under 20,000 Simoleons.

When I first posted this challenge, I asked around for good starter homes, and the many helpful replies are in this BBS post:
http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.22,root.1,item.43,item.61,item.23&threadID=8f95e067309736c09065f99252c88325&directoryID=22&startRow=1
Several builders who specialize in starter homes also left messages in my guest book:
http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/guestbook.php?user_id=918418 (scroll down)
And, I have built and uploaded several starter homes as well:
http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/guestbook.php?user_id=918418

~D2K

Empty Neighborhood Templates
More Awesome Than You Forums
TS2Enhancer - Character and Neighborhood Editor
Mod the Sims

EPISODE105 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Improval Challenge by fluffydevil04

2011-02-09T18:58:00.000-08:00

Improval Challenge by fluffydevil04

This challenge may seem very long, but that is only because I wanted to take a lot of time to explain the challenge carefully, to avoid confusion. To help you, it's been divided into the aim, setting up, playing, rules and points.

Aim: To earn your sim enough money to work their way through a range of houses, from cheap to expensive.

Setting Up: Make a sim in CAS - any looks, any aspiration (a fortune sim is good because all they ever want is to earn more money ... so they can achieve goals while doing the challenge) and leave them in the Family Bin while you set up the houses.

To do this challenge, you need the complete set of pre-shipped Maxis houses in the Lots Bin, plus a large house from Pleasantview. However, it's unfair to cut it off to only people who have these, so I've done a bit of research and collected the lots you'll need - they're listed from least expensive to most expensive; I'd like to thank Sithaiixyl for uploading these houses; all links will take you to his/her simpage, with the exception of Hellua Hacienda, which is brt9588's lot:

Sithaiixyl's Sim Page

Ranch Retreat (§10,852)
Just Right (§)
European Townhouse (§14,760)
Bonny Bungalow (§14,996)
Tidy Tudor (§20,512)
Victorian Value (§23,877)
Cape Cod Classic (§25,859)
Modern Masterpiece (§29,889)
Craftsman's Pride (§32,189)
Family Farmhouse (§35,664)
Helluva Hacienda (§55,383)
Federal Fortress (§77,874)
210 Wright Way (§108,379)

Download the lots you need and place them in your neighbourhood; I'd recommend using a new neighbourhood with a long road, putting the houses in order along that road ... but whatever works for you.

Playing: Move your sim into the cheapest lot, which is Ranch Retreat; a simmer of average intelligence has probably noticed that all lots between and including Ranch Retreat and Bonny Bungalow are under the default §20,000 a new sim have. So, by common sense, you could move your sim into Ranch Retreat, then move them out again into Just Right, then move out again into European Townhouse and then move out again to Bonny Bungalow. This isn't the correct method of gameplay, so to prevent cheaters doing this, I'm imposing a rule that I'm going to write here and not in the 'Rules' section: between the lots Ranch Retreat and Bonny Bungalow, the sim must get at least one promotion before they can upgrade the house.

This means that - well, I'm going to use an example here: Sammy Sim has moved into Ranch Retreat; he could move directly into Just Right, but has to take a job - say, in the Business career track (it's not important what career, I'm just using Business as an example.) He must get at least one promotion in it before he can move to Just Right, then once in Just Right, he must continue getting at least one promotion until he reaches Bonny Bungalow, because after Bonny Bungalow, the houses are over the default §20,000.

Continuing with 'Playing': once your sim has reached Bonny Bungalow, they no longer need the promotion rule, because Tidy Tudor is above the §20,000 he/she still has. Therefore, just keep your sim making money until they have enough to move from their current house into the next one along ... and furnish it. Keep up this gameplay until you've reached Federal Fortress; this is as far as the founding sim can go, playing by the rules I've imposed.

Somewhere after European Townhouse (it's important it's not before, because European Townhouse doesn't have two bedrooms and you can't modify any of the houses; see the rules below) the founding sim (in my example, Sammy Sim) must meet an NPC/Townie of the opposite gender (I'm going to use Sally Sim here.) Sammy and Sally must get married and have at least one child to continue the family line, as it's important to the future of the challenge.

Once Sammy, Sally and their child(ren) have reached Federal Fortress, Sammy and Sally can no longer move. However, they must continue to earn money because the ultimate aim of the challenge is to be able to move their eldest child (if there's more than one child, have the second eldest move out with all the younger ones) into 210 Wright Way the moment Sammy and Sally have both died ... or the moment their eldest child (for example, Steve) has become an adult ... or, if there's more than one child, the moment the second eldest has become an adult to move out, taking any younger children with them - it's important not to move Steve out, because he will go back to the default §20,000 and you will have lost the challenge.

If Steve can move into 210 Wright Way without having to earn any money as an adult (he can get a teenager job, because I doubt it'll make much difference), you've won the challenge. If he can't, then you've lost ... but you can always start again.

(Note - any sim names I have used do not have to be used; I was merely using an example. Also, if the eldest child is female, that isn't important - again, I only used Steve as an example.)

Rules: I have imposed some rules to make sure that cheaters can't slip through the net; however, use your imagination - if I haven't posted it, it's not forbidden, therefore you could find a way through the proverbial net.

Rule One: The Promotion Rule, for those who missed it during 'Playing' - Sammy Sim has moved into Ranch Retreat; he could move directly into Just Right, but has to take a job - say, in the Business career track (it's not important what career, I'm just using Business as an example.) He must get at least one promotion in it before he can move to Just Right, then once in Just Right, he must continue getting at least one promotion until he reaches Bonny Bungalow, because after Bonny Bungalow, the houses are over the default §20,000. Once he's reached Bonny Bungalow, the Promotion rule can be forgotten. (Note - names and career track were only used as examples.)

Rule Two: The Federal Fortress Rule - the founding sim and his/her spouse can only get to Federal Fortress; it's up to their eldest child to move to 210 Wright Way.

Rule Three: 210 Wright Way Rule - the eldest child of the founding sim and his/her spouse has to be able to move to 210 Wright Way as soon as Sammy and Sally (founding sim and wife) are dead, he/she is an adult or, if there's more than one child, the second eldest has become an adult to move out with all younger siblings. The heir must be able to move to 210 Wright Way using their parents' fund and not earning any money of their own; if they can, you've won. If they can't, you've lost - but you can still get points (see 'Points'.)

Rule Four: No Cheats Rule - it's all in the name; there are no cheats to be used, especially boolprop or either money ones. Move_objects can be used for building and bugged objects, but not the 'make me happy' way.

Rule Five: Don't Modify Houses Rule - the idea of the challenge is to upgrade to a different house, not re-furbish their existing house. Therefore, you may decorate visually (new carpet and walls), but all walls, windows and doors must remain the ones that came with the house.

Rule Six: The Diva or Mr Big - yes, these sims can be married, but if you choose to have them marry (they can't move in), then the promotion rule is back in place until you can no longer afford to promote to a new house.

Points: As soon as your heir (Steve Sim, in my example,) has moved into 210 Wright Way, count up his/her good memories and give yourself 10 points for each of them; minus 10 points for each bad memory.

As a bonus point system, if the heir moved into 210 Wright Way without earning any money, add an extra 25 points; if they had to earn money of their own, minus 25 points (optional.)

And there ends the challenge instructions; you're free to reply now.

EPISODE104 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Civilization Challenge

2011-01-26T18:58:00.000-08:00

Civilization Challenge

Hello, I’m ryoko and I’m so bored that I decided to create a challenge for myself and share with all you sim fans.

So, I was playing the legacy family I just created and I thought…been there, done that…so I decided to challenge myself.

While playing I have been writing little snips of what the challenge is…testing out every possible area of the game and encouraging bad, bad simmies.

Ten generations…many houses. Can you believe that? And no leaving sim children at college or to rot in the sim bin for eternity. Just the way I was playing my legacy.

I suggest you start with a new neighbourhood…why because…well you wont have enough room in the other neighbourhoods.

Instructions

{1}Roll the dice to see how many families to start with, one to six. Rolled a one? Roll again.

{2} now you have the family numbers go to http://www.random.org/ go down to full rolls and in the third box (the one with the number 6 in It.) and put in the number 57.

The Sims Families

1: Single Man
2: Single Woman
3: Roommates, Male and Female
4: Roommates, Male and Male
5: Roommates, Female and Female
6: Siblings, Male and Female
7: Siblings, Male and Male
8: Siblings, Female and Female
9: Siblings, Male and Male and Female
10: Siblings, Male and Male and Male
11: Siblings, Female and Female and Male
12: Siblings, Female and Female and Female
13: Siblings, Male and Male and Male and Female
14: Siblings, Male and Male and Female and Male
15: Siblings, Male and Female and Male and Female
16: Siblings, Male and Female and Female and Female
17: Siblings, Male and Male and Male and Male
18: Siblings, Female and Female and Female
19: Single Man and Toddler
20: Single Man and Child
21: Single Man and Teen
22: Single Man and Toddler and Child
23: Single Man and Toddler and Teen
24: Single Man and Teen and Child
25: Single Man and Child and Child
26: Single Man and Teen and Teen
27: Single Woman and Toddler
28: Single Woman and Child
29: Single Woman and Teen
30: Single woman and Toddler and Child
31: Single Woman and Toddler and Teen
32: Single woman and Child and Child
33: Single Woman and Child and Teen
34: Single Woman and Teen and Teen
35: Married Couple
36: Married Couple with one Toddler
37: Married Couple with one Child
38: Married Couple with one Teen
39: Married Couple with two Toddlers
40: Married Couple with Two children
41: Married Couple with Two Teens
42: Gay/Lesbian Couple
43: Gay/Lesbian couple and toddler
44: Gay/Lesbian Couple and Child
45: Gay/Lesbian Couple and Teen
46: Elder and Adult {can be parent and child, or just roomies.}
47: Elder and Two Adults and toddler
48: Elder Couple
49: Elder Couple and an Adult
50: Elder Couple and Two Adults
51: Elder Couple and Two Adults and Toddler
52: Elder Couple and Two Adults and Child
53: Elder Couple and Two Adults and Teen
54: Elder and Two Adults
55: Elder and Two Adults and toddler {The adults can be siblings or married. Not roomies.}
56: Elder and Two Adults and child
57: Elder and Two Adults and Teen

{3}If you roll a number that doesn’t specify the toddler, child, teen or adults or elders gender then roll a six sided die {or the one on the site} odd numbers will be female and even will be male.

{4} Aspiration is determined on Sign. Roll the 12 die on the site to find out your Sims sign.

Sign
{1} Aries- Romance/Knowledge
{2} Sagittarius – Knowledge/Fortune
{3} Capricorn - Seeker/Popularity {Fortune if you dont have nightlife}
{4} Aquarius – Popularity/Family
{5} Pisces – Family/Fortune
{6} Cancer – Fortune/Romance
{7} Scorpio – Romance/Seeker {Family if you dont have niteliefe}
{8} Libra – Knowledge/Family
{9} Leo – Seeker/Fortune {Romance if you dont have nitelife}
{10} Gemini – Popularity/Romance
{11} Virgo – Family/Knowledge
{12} Taurus – Fortune/Popularity

There are two aspirations for each sign, Odd numbers will be for the first one {left side} and Even will be for the right.

{4}Choose any plot of empty land…and use the money cheat to deduct your family funds to 4,800…1500 if you want more points; you can move house once you have 20k in your Sims bank.

{5} you are not to use ANY cheats, except the move objects and family fundscheat ONCE.

{6} Play all families evenly, even the children of your families when they grow. No leaving YA at college. When you’re YA Leaves College, deduct their funds to 4800 or 1500 just as you did with their parents. Yes you can play them and not marrying them off so you are killing of that branch but that makes you lose lots of points. The children who are not the heirs of your family founders {‘main households’} are the ‘new house holds.’

{7} if you roll the dice and it comes up odd then your heir will be male, if it turns even then your family heir will be female. Do this with each family.

{8} Roll a 6 sided die to see the minimum of how many babies your family Sims’ must have. If they marry another family sim only his/her roll counts. Once they turn elder roll to see the minimum amout of grandchildren they will have.

{9} have fun.

Rules

{1} No Cheating. No money cheats, just the move objects. No hacks, 3rd party objects or trainers allowed.

{2} If you have three generations in one family, they have to reach generation 13.^^. Only fair. If two then 12 generations.

{3} you can only marry townies or npc’s.

{4} if something bad happens to your family do not exit and re-enter…

{5} don’t turn aging off.

Points!

Which family will gain the most points?
Note: Once your teens grow up and leave home, they start off with +2 if you deduct their family funds to 1500. +1 if they start with 4800...and +1 since you count them as 1st gen even if they are 4th or 5th gen

+1 every generation {10 max}
+1 for every 4800 start
+2 for every 1500 start
+1 every time a sim grows up in platinum mood
+1/2 a point when a sim grows up in gold aspiration.
+1 for every Aspiration reward in the houses {like the money tree. Once only.}
+1 for every Career reward in the houses {once only}
+5 for an alien birth {+10 if twins}
+1 for every available {maxis} gene represented in your families.
+1 for every npc marriage into your families.
+1/2 a point for every townie marriage.
+1 for a maxed skill {Max +7 points. Knowledge only.}
+1 for every sim woo-hoo with (only once…has to be diff sim) {Romance only}
+1 for every child born {Family mother/father only}
+1 for every friend made {Popularity only}
+1 for every 100k made {Fortune only}
+1 for every DREAM dates {only eligible if you date a diff sim. Seeker only}
+2.5 for every life time want complete
+2.5 for every impossible want complete.
+2.5 for every sim that graduates from college with 4.0gpa
+1.5 for every generation that enters the founders’ Greek house {the family who started it only.
+1.5 for getting your teens and children into private school.
+1.5 for every college grant. 2.5 for the hidden grants and abduction and orphan.
+0.5 for every different aspiration platinum gravestone.
+1 for every sim in the houses households that get vamped.
+1 for having Mr Bigs baby without marrying him {must be related to the founder of one of your main households or ‘new house hold’}
+2 for different ghost colours
+4 for marrying a burglar
+1 for a burglar that doesn’t escape.
+1 for every gen that gets into the secret society.

Other Bonuses-penalties

+3 for every nanny that pees herself.
+3 for every repair {man/woman} to get shocked.
+3.5 for every adoption.
+2.5 for every free roaming ghost.
+5 if the 10th {12th or 13th} generations are ugly. {Shame if some of you simmers can’t bear with having ugly Sims. Haha}
+2 for every illegimate child born {Remember you have to play them too, even if they don’t live in the same household…^^. I encourage sim-cheats in my challenge.}
-6 for every purpos nany wee. {Mraning if you take away the door to the bathroom, or put a male door there!}

Penalties

-1 for every grave that isn’t platinum
-10 for killing off a whole branch of your families!
-1 for every sim that grows up in red or green.
-1 for every child/teen rejected from private school {Count all in the house. If you have 4 children/teens you lose 4 points. I like to make life difficult for myself.}
-7.5 for every child or toddler taken away by the social worker.
-9 for every purpose death, even visitors.
- 1 for every inter-bred birth.
-3 every time the repo guy shows
-3 for every shrink that visits
-2 for every time a sim falls ill.
-2 for every burglar that gets away.
-2 for every unsuccessful date. {Seeker only}
-4 for every pregnant woman dies.
-0.5 for every bad chance card
-1 for every sim that gets fired.
-0.5 for every skill point lost. {knowledge only}
-0.5 for every woo-hoo rejected {Romance only}
-0.5 for every child/teen who loses a grade {Family only}
-0 5 for every friend lost {Popularity only}
-0 5 for every time your sim loses money by chance card {Fortune only}
-2 for every drop out/expelled sim.
-3 for every sim cheat caught
-2 for marrying mr big or the diva or the vampire count and countess.

Well then I think that’s everything. All I have done is created my families so far I will be writing about them and posting them If I get a good response in my guest book I will of course continue on until the end, I will finish when I want to

Enjoy

EPISODE102 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Perfection Challenge

2010-12-15T19:19:00.001-08:00

If you're looking for something more challenging than the Legacy Challenge, then this challenge is for you! This challenge is all about your Sims having perfect lives. Meaning perfect plumbobs at most times and perfection basically.

The Perfection Challenge

You don't earn any points during this challenge, only penalties are what you get. So, try and stay perfect at all times!!

Create a family of one Sim. Any aspiration, any custom content, anything basically. They may start in college if they want to. Move them in a 4x4 lot or bigger (4x4 is 16 so you aren't allowed 5x2 lots as they add to 10. Must add to 16 or over). Then, it all starts from there.

This challenge lasts 5 generations, and, the starter Sim counts as generation 1, and his/her spouse. Their kids are generation 2, etc. They may only marry townies and NPCs as I don't think it's fair with your family ending up with great genes.

Rules

NO CHEATS!! No debuggers!! Exceptions to this rule are the building boolprop codes.
No hacks.
No hacked objects - non-hacked objects are allowed.
If the lot has no playable characters then you forfeit.

Penalties - Sims 2

-50 for every Sim in aspiration depression (red aspiration)
-25 for every Sim left at the altar
-5 for every fear caused (Penalty is furthered if the fear is a penalty by itself [So if a Sim had a fear of being left at the altar and was left there, that would lose you 30 points as you caused a fear and another penalty]).
-500 for each Sim that never had platinum level aspiration in their lifetime.
-10 for each time a Sim pees their-self.
-10 each time a Sim passes out.
-25 each time the Social Bunny visits.
-15 each time a Sim is fired from their job.
-10 each time a Sim is demoted.
-25 each time you lose a chance card (Penalty is furthered if a Sim loses their job, gets demoted, etc. [So if a Sim got fired from a chance card you would lose 40 points])
-100 for each Sim that dies of anything other than old age.
-50 for each Sim that dies without a gold grave (Has aspiration engraved [Penalty is furthered if a Sim dies of something other than old age and receives a normal grave - you would lose 150 points])
-5 for each burnt food.
-25 for each skill a Sim loses.
-50 for each Sim that doesn't maximise all skills.
-50 for each Sim that never makes §5000 or more (You can tell how much money a Sim makes if you view their memories as some memories are "Earned §____". They're always numbers like 100, 1000, 5000 or something.).
-50 if a Sim has to use the Energizer.
-25 if a Sim has something taken away by the repoman, angry neighbour or basically anyone (includes gnome theft)
-100 for every child/toddler/baby taken away by the Social Worker [If 3 kids are taken away, you lose 300 points]
-50 for every enemy.
-75 for each Sim that never achieves an A+.
-250 for each Sim that never has a child during adult stage.
-25 for each fight a Sim loses.
-50 for each fire caused.
-25 for each WooHoo rejected.
-100 for each time the family has under §2500 (Unless they start with less money.)
-75 if by Generation 3's birth the family has §125000 or less net worth.
-15 for each teen Sim that never reaches the top of their career. (Teen and Elder jobs. Penalty applies to Elders if they get a teen job.)
-10 for each Sim that never becomes an Overachiever.
-25 for each Sim that never reaches the top of their career (Adult jobs)
-35 for each Sim who never got into Private School.
-15 for every nanny hired.
-75 for not having every career reward on the lot. (With University you need the other 4 career rewards as well)

Penalties - Sims 2 University

-100 for each Sim that never graduated as a Summa Cum Laude (Excludes founder unless they start at University)
-75 for each Sim that never accomplished a lifetime want (The 20 ones like WooHoo with 20 Sims, 20 best friends, have 6 grandchildren, etc.)
~Note~ You don't get this penalty if your Sim receives an impossible want. They follow their want, so, if they wanted to woohoo with 20 sims but didn't, you get the penalty.
-25 for each Sim that never accomplished an impossible want (Impossible Wants: 30k wants - WooHoo with 30 Sims, 30 best freinds, 10k wants - graduate 10 children from college, be abducted 10 times, maximise all skills, etc.)
~Note~ You don't get this penalty if your Sim receives a lifetime want. They follow their want, so, if they wanted to woohoo with 30 sims but didn't, you get the penalty.
-10 for each Sim that never got into a Secret Society or Greek House (Penalty still counts even if a Sim didn't go to college)
-20 for each Sim that never goes to college.

Penalties - Sims 2 Nightlife

-10 for each flaming bag of poo.
-15 for each date that receives anything lower than a dream date.
-15 for each outing that receives anything lower than Rockin'.
-15 for each time your Sim gets hit by Mrs. Crumplebottom.
-25 for each Sim that is furious with another Sim.
-10 for each object you take out from a Sim's inventory.
-25 for each car that you buy that is under §2500.

You have been perfect at this challenge if you scored 0. Yes, it seems impossible but it can be done. Here are the ranks at the moment. They might change when more people try the challenge:

0 points: El Perfeccionista
-1 - -1500 points: Exceptional-Simmer
-1501 - -3000 points: Mr. /Ms. Mediocre
-3001 - -4500 points: Major Bummer
-4501 - -6000 points: Underachievier
-6001 points or below: Dropdead Deadbeat

Don't let the rankings get to your head. Anyway, the first to beat the challenge and win 0 points will receive the prize of...

Bragging rights.

Have fun. Oh, and you can make stories of your attempts to the challenge. If you have a story on the challenge, link it here!

EPISODE100 - The Sims 2 Challenges - 4 Year Anniversary Show

2010-11-17T21:16:00.000-08:00

In this episode we celebrate 4 years of podcasting!

4 - key Locking Door
Simlogical Hacks
Boy and Girl Infant Outfits

EPISODE98 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The "Peace at mind" challenge

2010-10-06T20:29:00.000-07:00

The "Peace at mind" challenge... by tigre53

The Story

Your sim is a monk searching for enlightenment in the sim world. The road to enlightenment is barred with many challenges and decisions, and your sim must always make the right choices. If not, enlightenment shall never be attained.

The Walkthrough

Step 1: Create a sim, give it fairly shoddy clothes or monk gowns. Make sure your sim is a Knowledge sim. After all,
The Rules

-Your sim must be of Knowledge Aspiration, with the personality said above.
-Your sim MUST live on either a 6x5 or 5x5 lot.
-Absolutely no cheats, except for money cheats.
-Your sim cannot have a single bad memory... (Meaning, no burning food, no getting rejected for making-out, no getting demoted or fired). Keep checking your sim's memory panel (located in Simology section) to make sure there haven't been any "red"memories. If so, just quit without saving or restart.
-No love until enlightenment! As a monk, your sim must restrain itself from the temptations of women.
-Your sim can get any job, except for Criminal (unless that is the lifetime want).
-Your sim can buy only the cheapest of every kind of furniture.
-Challenge ends at enlightenment!

The Scoring

-1 pts. per day to enlightenment
-1 pts. per fear
-5 pts. per power fear (has a star behind it)
1 pt. if your sim goes to University for at least freshman year
2 pts. if your sim graduates
3 pts. if your sim graduates Magna cum Laude (no combinations of previous points, you gain 3 pts. no more)
5 pts. if your sim graduates Summa cum Laude (no combinations of previous points, you gain 5 pts. no more)
1 pt. per bronze badge at the end of the challenge
2 pts. per silver badge at the end of the challenge
3 pts. per gold badge at the end of the challenge
1 pt. if your sim takes care of at least one garden plot or one orchard tree at the end of the challenge
2 pts. if your sim takes care of at least eight garden plots or four orchard trees at the end of the challenge
1 pt. per promotion in "enlightenment" career
1 pt. per maximized skill (exception: 2 points for maximized creativity, body, or logic) at the end of the challenge
1 pt. per alien abduction
1 pt. if your sim has gained the ability to meditate (3 logic points) at the end of the challenge
1 pt. if your sim has gained the ability to Do Yoga (3 body points) at the end of the challenge
2 pts. if your sim can teleport while meditating at the end of the challenge
1 pt. per good memory
1 pt. per want fulfilled (please do try to keep tally)
5 pts. per power want fulfilled (has a star behind it)
6 pts. if perma-plat want is to be abducted 20 times
4 pts. if perma-plat want is to maximize 7 skills
2 pts. if perma-plat want is to get to the top of a job

If you have anything to add/correct, just warn me

Enjoy!

EPISODE94 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Lifetime Wants Challenge

2010-08-11T19:48:00.000-07:00

If you have University and are looking for a new challenge that doesn't take forever to complete, try my new Lifetime Wants Challenge.

The Goal: See how many times two Sims can reach their Lifetime Wants (each time you obtain a Lifetime Want, a new one is generated). You cannot use Elixir of Life to extend the life of your sims, you cannot use the Resurrection Machine and you cannot turn aging off - you only get one lifetime to do this. You also cannot use boolProp, Motherload or any other cheats or hacks, except move objects if needed.

1. Make a new male Young Adult Sim and a new female Young Adult Sim. You can assign personality points any way you want but keep in mind that these two will be living together their entire lives so they should be compatible, though they do not have to get married if you don’t want them to (see #3). Make them both Knowledge Sims for now.

2. Move them both in to the same PREVIOUSLY UNPLAYED Maxis dorm at any University you choose. I started a new neighborhood with a new university, but as long as you use a dorm in an existing neighborhood that you have not played before, that's ok too. (it has to be an unplayed MAXIS dorm so they do not benefit from any prior upgrades/improvements you might have made to a played or custom dorm).

3. The reason you make them Knowledge Sims to start is because they are the easiest to keep happy at University, but once you get the option to change their Aspiration in Junior Year, you must roll the dice and assign a new Aspiration based on the number on the dice:
1. Family
2. Popularity
3. Fortune
4. Romance
5. Stays a Knowlege Sim/or Pleasure if you have Nightlife
6. Your Choice/or Grilled Cheese if you have Nightlife

4. After they receive their new Aspiration, check your sim's Lifetime Wants. From this point on, everything you do will be geared towards achieving these wants. If you have a Lifetime Want that is just too hard to do, see #7 for the solution.

5. After Graduation from University, move your two sims to any unoccupied lot or house you want, providing you stay within budget (you should have $20,000 per sim) and they do not move in with an established family, those are the only two requirements.

6. You do not have to play the Chance Cards, but if you do, you cannot exit and restart if something negative happens. In fact, you cannot exit and restart after any bad event at all.

7. You can move in/move out/get married to/have children with, etc. any Townie/NPC/CAS sims at any time, but your two main sims must always stay together in the same house so that they age at the same time. The only exception to this is during Junior Year when you roll for the new Aspiration. If the new Lifetime Want is too hard to complete, you may create and move in a new sim of the same gender of the sim you are replacing (move out the sim you do not want) and play that sim until Graduation. The first sim will graduate first, and must wait in the Simbin until the new sim graduates, then they can move into the neighborhood together.

The moment your sims return from their last final at the end of Senior Year (this is when they receive the 3 extra days to tie up loose ends but before they leave campus), give yourself points as follows:

1. One Point for each skill point achieved so far
2. One Point for each Best Friend obtained so far
3. 10 Points for each Sim whose Influence Bar is full .
4. 10 Points for each Sim that graduates with a 4.0 GPA
5. 10 Bonus Points for any Sim that Graduates With Honors (check memories)

The rest of the points are obtained after University: (The challenge ends after both sims have passed away)

1. 50 Points per Sim when they reach their First Lifetime Want
2. 10 Points each time they reach a new & different Lifetime Want after that (no points for those repeating career wants anymore, sorry!).
3. 25 Bonus Points per Sim if they max all their Skill Points.
4. 10 points for each $25,000 that each Sim earns in his or her Lifetime (can be checked by looking at his memories).
5.10 points for each of the following: Any alien abduction, Twins born on lot, Getting $50,000 or more in a single Chance Card or Accumulating more than 250,000 Aspiration Points (one time only per sim), Total Household Value at the end of the game $100,000 or more and 10 or more Career Reward Objects on Lot.
6. Since the entire Challenge is based on achieving Wants, subtract -5 points for each Bad Memory per sim

SPECIAL POINTS UPON BECOMING AN ELDER
7. 10 points each time your Elder Sim teaches any toddler living in the house how to walk, talk or go potty.
8. 5 Points for each Masterpiece sold as an Elder
9. 25 points for each Best Selling Novel sold as an Elder (I HATE novels - they take SOOO long!).

My two sims are in the middle of their adulthood and so far my points are as follows:

Rob - Fortune / Becky - Knowledge
46 Skill Points at Uni = 46 / 46 Skill Points at Uni = 46
3 Best Friends at Uni = 3 / No Best Friends at Uni = 0
Graduated w/Honors = 5 / Graduated w/Honors = 5
1st Lifetime Want – Hall of Famer = 50 / 1st Lifetime Want – Max all Skills = 50
2nd Lifetime Want – Chief of Staff = 10 / Maxed all Skills – Bonus = 25
Working on 3rd Lifetime want = 0 / 2nd Lifetime Want - Mad Scientist = 10
123,000 Aspiraiton Reward Points = 10 / 3rd Lifetime Want - Criminal Mastermind = 10

Totals so far: Rob = 124 / Becky =146

Tips:

1. Don’t make your two sims fall in love with each other until after you roll for the new Aspiration. That way if you end up with a Family sim and a Romance sim, the Family sim can marry someone else and the Romance sim can still have their fun without any jealousy between the two. You would just have to keep all three sims living together throughout the challenge.
2. I used the extra three days at university before the Graduation parties to earn 12 more skill points for each sim and to make one more friend. Though they do not count for the score, both helped towards reaching the Lifetime Wants.
3. Since you’ll be starting in a dorm with just $500 per sim, you can sell off anything in the dorm that you do not need to raise money for whatever you do need, keeping in mind that the more you spend, the more your bills go up.

I would sure like to know what you all think of this challenge, and if you decide to try it, how you are doing. Any questions/suggestions/comments/etc. are appreciated. Thanks so much!

Based on a lot of thought and input from another simmer, I've decided to add the following additional points due to the fact that some sims can no longer earn points after they become an elder if their Lifetime Wants are Career Related:
1. 10 points for each $25,000 that any Sim earns in his or her Lifetime (can be checked by looking at his memories).
2. Instead of splitting 10 points between the two sims for Graduating With Honors in Uni, make it 10 points for any sim that graduated with a 4.0 GPA and a bonus of 10 extra points if they Graduate with Honors as well (they have to have the Want to Graduate With Honors and they have to achieve it to get the points).
3. 10 points each time an Elder teaches any toddler living in the house how to walk, talk or go potty.
4. 5 Points for each Masterpiece sold as an Elder
5. 25 points for each Best Selling Novel sold as an Elder (I HATE novels - they take SOOO long!).
6. -5 points for each Bad Memory per sim

Don't forget that all Aspirations already get the 25 point bonus for maxing skills - not just the Knowledge sims, so that's another thing your elders can work on if they haven't already done it. Also, just to clarify, you get points if EITHER of your sims are kidnapped by aliens, not just the male.

Finally, I realized that even though I said hacks were not allowed, I have several hacks in my game. Though none of these really affect the challenge, I thought I would 'fess up to them and allow them in the challenge:

1. No Cheering Hack (shortens the length of time kids spend cheering about their A+'s)
2. Stereo Hack (makes sims leave the dang stereo alone so I can listen to my music)
3. Telephone Hack (I turn off the ringer and now I don't hate the phones any more)
4. Nude hack (I downloaded it once out of curiosity and now I can't get rid of it)
5. Stop Browsing for Clothes for Hours Like a Moron Hack (sims will now just BUY without BROWSING)
6. Aspiration Rewards Recharge Hack (Can recharge the energizer, thinking caps and a couple other aspiration rewards, even while the thinking cap is on the head).

Juicer Recipes

EPISODE93 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Hermit Challenge by pisceschick75

2010-07-28T18:35:00.000-07:00

Okay I have a challenge for you all...Here's the details:
This is known as the "Hermit Challenge". Here's the rules:
1)In CAS, create a sim and give him/her any zodiac sign.
2)Your sim must be a popularity or romance sim only
3)Place your sim on the smallest lot and build him/her a house, you may use "motherlode" once and once only to decorate.
4)Your sim's job is this...They are a starving artist...you must make your sim live off of his/her earnings as an author/artist...In doing so, you are building their creativity points...your sim may NOT leave the house, so rely on the computer to meet people and to order groceries.
5) You must give your sim full mechanical and cooking skills, remember, they cannot have any NPC's other than the grocery delivery at their home.
6) Make sure that you have a phone and a computer in your sim's home. These are the only forms of communication you will have...
7) You may talk to sims that pass your lot...that is acceptable.
8) Once you have written a few novels and painted a few paintings, buy some instruments, a buffet table, a bar and anything else you would need for an awesome party.
9) Because your sims are Romance or Popularity sims, it is crucial to throw parties...and make sure you play instruments at the parties...this is extra income.
10) Document each day as it passes. Did your sim go into aspiration failure because he/she didn't meet anyone new?...Or were you able to make friends through chatting on the computer/telephone? Remember, only those sims that your hermit meets online or on your lot passing by are allowed in the home...and occasionally the guests your friends wish to bring along.

Scoring:

+10 for each masterpiece sold
+20 for each novel sold
+50 for each party that is a roof raiser
-50 for each party that bombs
-30 for each time your sim goes into aspiration failure
+40 for each friend/lover your sim acquires

Sarah
My simid: pisceschick75

Prosperity Blogs Mentioned
Prosperity Point
Prosperity Park
Tranquility Bay
Prosperity Falls
Emerald Isle

Chance Cards

EPISODE92 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Myth Challenge

2010-07-14T21:12:00.000-07:00

The Myth Challenge by Hipchick

Goal: have 5 generations (or 10 if you want to try hard) of myth inspired Sims and passing along the were-wolf cures.

RULES:

Allowed any CC
allowed and any cheat but only one once a Sim week, anything from money-motives
Cheat rule dose not apply when TB (or Torch Bearer) is pregnant you must use ‘force twin’ (or if you do not wish to cheat get them to eat cheese cake only these because these are the only guaranteed twins.) so MUST HAVE TWINS!!!!!
No start off pets (not allowed to make a pet in C.A.S.)
if first TB is female first female twin born will be the next generation’s TB, if e.g.: both twins are male you can’t save and restart, so you’ll have to try again till you get a girl (to be next TB) but if your Sim is a romance Sim or just doesn’t want more children (or even if you can’t afford 2 more little bundles of ‘joy’) the first born is the TB but if they say have a girl and you need a girl to be TB the line’ll continue with girls (only if you start with a girl)
No inbreeding (that’s just plain wrong!)
must pass were-wolf-ness on to next generation’s TB’s sibling (e.g. the second born child) so e.g.: uncle to nephew (only first generation (the 2 Sims you made in C.A.S.) can become werewolf by being bitten by leader of pack)
must not cure Sims of were-wolf unless next generation were-wolf already is a were-wolf, and cannot make another Sims were-wolf unless they are to be next generation’s were-wolf
when (if) teens got to university have them study paranormal or history
Non-TB MUST never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever have children, only TB can have children, but if you want you can get the TB a partner but NO KIDS!!!!

SET UP/PLAY:

1. Make two Sims in C.A.S.

1a) 1 male and 1 female OR 2 males depending on who your TB is

1b) let’s say your TB is a female, make her then the male, in relationship make them sibling. Base Sims on any myth you like (as long as you intended on running with a theme (note: if you wish you don’t have to have a theme): astrology, Greek legend, roman, Viking, any myth, stories, urban legends, or even friends! But! But, but, but if you make e.g. Venus (from Greek), make her blond, flowing dresses, so basically how you imagen them

2. Move your 2 Sims into any lot, and make un-TB were-wolf ASAP!!!

3. Work on your TB as much as you can on making him/her find ‘the’ one or pregnant, while making your un-TB Sim a were-wolf (it might take a while)

1a) once TB has had twins grown them up normally once teens make future were-wolf a … well were-wolf (via savage interaction)

4. Challenge ends when last TB has had first kiss and last were-wolf has howled for the first time! Then BOOM! Over!

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EPISODE91 - The Sims 2 Challenges - the Miserable Sims Challenge -

2010-06-30T19:25:00.000-07:00

The Miserable Sims Challenge by Robin S.

Robin's Blog

Many of us play to always make life perfect for our sims. We’re playing The Prosperity Challenge or the Legacy Challenge or we’re just trying to build a happy life for our sims. But, in doing so, we miss a lot of the interactions and special events in the game. Stuck in a rut always trying to give your sims everything? Ready to see some new things? Then this challenge is for you.

The purpose of this challenge is to experience as many negative events in the game as you can. Emphasis is placed on seeing new, unique things. The challenge is designed to be very open so that you can choose to see the things you’d like to see in the game. You can play this challenge with any or no expansion packs; just use the sections relevant to your game.

An evil witch became jealous of your sim’s success and happiness. She has placed a curse on your sim that will cause nothing but misery and misfortune for your sim and everyone around him! Only after experiencing significant unfortunate events will the curse be broken.

Set-up: Create a sim in CAS. You can make the sim any personality and aspiration you want. For storytelling purposes, you can create additional sims in CAS too. Move the sim into any house or apartment. You may use money cheats to afford a large home, but in the spirit of the curse, don’t leave your sim with much money and don’t give him too many nice objects.

Game Play: Throughout the challenge your goal is to amass points by experiencing as many negative events from the list below as possible. You CAN move in any other sims you wish, and you CAN have children, but those sims are all affected by the curse too. You may create neighbors to interact with (make a very mean sim for your sim to fight with or to leave your sim at the altar). You may NOT use cheats to accomplish the negative goals, but unrelated cheats and hacks are allowed. Make it fun for you. You CAN intentionally kill sims. You CAN exit without saving if a major negative event you were setting up accidentally goes well (example—your sim was about to be stood up at the altar, but the other sim actually went through with it instead). Since many negative behaviors can only happen autonomously, it is suggested that you don’t queue up too many things for your sims to do. Give them time to act on their own and see what they do, although you might have to stop them from fulfilling wants and needs. Keep in mind that you might sometimes have to make your sims happy and fulfill wants and needs in order to get them into position to see other negative things. Just as your sim starts to feel things might be turning around, the curse takes affect again with another negative event!

Challenge End: Once you have accumulated 2,000 points from the list below, your sim has experienced sufficient misfortune to finally break the evil witch’s curse for good. The challenge is over. Your sim (or perhaps his offspring) is now free to live happily ever after.

Scoring: Score these events if they happen to ANY sim on your lot. Only score each type of event once. For example, if your sim goes into aspiration failure three times, you only get to score it once. Put a mark next to the events you experience in your challenge and share it with others in a blog or the TS2 Challenges group.

Events:

Family sim aspiration failure 100
Popularity sim aspiration failure 100
Fortune sim aspiration failure 100
Romance sim aspiration failure 100
Knowledge sim aspiration failure 100
Sim shrink visit 100
Social bunny visit 100
Social bunnies romancing 300
Social bunnies fighting 300
Social bunny and sim shrink interacting 300
Get demoted from work 10
Get fired from work 25
Have nightmares 10
Fight 25
Crank phone call 10
Trash can kicked over 5
Roaches 10
Get electrocuted 25
Don’t repair broken appliances/plumbing for a week 25
Eat burnt food 5
Food poisoning 15
Catch a cold and don’t rest for two days 25
Repo man 25
Don’t have enough money to pay the nanny 10
Fire without fire alarm or sprinklers 25
Burglar goes uncaught 10
Help a burglar escape the police car 25
Have a total disaster party 10
Cops break up a party 10
Accident (wet self) at a party 10
Call the police or fire department for no reason 5
Smash an alarm clock (must be in bad mood and turn off alarm clock) 15
Smash a doll house 10
Ruin a painting (interaction sometimes available for sims in bad mood) 15
Eat from a trashcan (sloppy sims, autonomous only) 15
Make an enemy 10
Be rejected for engagement 25
Break up an engagement 25
Get stood up at the altar 50
Cheat on a spouse 25
Get caught cheating on a significant other 50
Argue with a family member 25
Parents argue in front of their child additional 25
Nag a family member 10
Divorce 100
Married parent moves out in front of children (separation) 50
Toddler drinks from a spoiled bottle 10
Toddler plays in the toilet 5
Toddler tantrum 5
Awful visit with the headmaster (try to make it as bad as you can) 10
Child grows up poorly 25
Child taken by the social worker because of hunger or social need 50
Child gets a D report card 5
Child taken by the social worker because of grades 50
Children fight 10
Child swings on fridge door 15
Fight between parent and child 10
Lecture child 10
Child or teen catches parent cheating on spouse 30
Teen gets an F 5
Break-up from going steady as a teen 30
Teen fired from job due to bad grades 10
Teen gets caught sneaking out 10
Teen runs away from home 100
Smartmilk failure 10
Noodlesoother failure 10
Energizer failure 10
Thinking cap failure 10
SimVac failure 10
Elixir of Life failure 10
Take bad medicine (green) from the science career reward 25
Death of a sim (These points can be scored for each type of death: disease, old age, drowning, electrocution, burning, starvation, satellite, flies, scared to death, scissors download) 50
Smash an urn or kick a tombstone and leave it on the lot 30
Remarry with the ghost of a spouse on the lot 30
Die of old age in red aspiration 100

University Expansion Pack:
Pledge to a Greek house and do as bad as possible 15
Get caught hacking grades 15
Academic probation 25
Drop out of college 100
Expelled from College 200
Influence other sims to fight 10
Influence other sims to kiss or flirt when they don’t have a high relationship 10
Counterfeiting machine fire 10
Police fine for counterfeiting 10

Nightlife Expansion Pack:
Pleasure sim aspiration failure 100
Grilled cheese sim aspiration failure 100
Drink two love potions back to back 25
Stand up a date 10
Have a bad date 10
Have a horrible date 25
Have a disaster outing 25
Have food spilt on you by a restaurant server 25
Throw drink in another sim’s face 10
Get caught skipping out on a dining bill 10
Become furious at another sim 10
Have another sim become furious with yours 10
Bad mouth a sim 10
Be beaten by Mrs. Crumplebottom 10
Become romantic rivals 15
Fight a romantic rival (can score points twice—once for winning, once for losing) 25
View a significant other’s date reward object with someone else 15
Vampire burns in the sun 50

Open For Business Expansion Pack:
Make a business and get as many red customer stars as possible 25
Death by RallyForth 100
Death by elevator failure 50
Negative business review 25
Treat an employee horribly until he quits 15
Fire an employee 15
Fly an evil kite 15
Use a failed or broken robot (toy bot, clean bot, hydro bot, munchie bot, sentry bot—can score points for each) 15
Servo runs amok 50
Put a broken snapdragon bouquet on your lot 15

Pets Expansion Pack:
Own a pet with a personality you consider bad 10
Train a pet to be bad (destroy furniture, eat human food, wet indoors) 25
Put a pet that your sim is very attached to up for adoption 15
Pet runs away 50
Pet taken away by the police for neglect 25
Sim is sprayed by skunk 15

Seasons Expansion Pack:
Suffer heatstroke 10
Suffer freezing 10
Death by hail 50
Get struck by lightning 15
Rain of fire 25
Drink pureed boot 10
Bad wishing well wish (can be scored for each wish—money, friends, and romance) 25

Bon Voyage Expansion Pack:
Have an awful vacation 25
Voodoo another sim (warm up, cool down, agitate, shake up, stinkify, saturate, can score points for each) 25
Have voodoo spell backfire 25
Have five voodoo dolls on the showmeoff rack of glory 200
Put soap in the temple of jumbok 15
Destroy a sandcastle 10
Sunburn 10
Poison Ivy 10
Chased by bees 10
Be robbed by the Unsavory Charlatan 25
Fight the Unsavory Charlatan 25
See the Unsavory Charlatan and Mrs. Crumplebottom interact (requires nightlife) 100

Freetime Expansion Pack:
Poison Ivy 10
Chased by bees 10

Apartment Life Expansion Pack:
Be demoted in your job because of bad social interactions 15 (in addition to 10 points)
Higher rent because of bad social interactions 15
Increased friend requirement at work because of bad social interactions 15
More expensive catalog objects because of bad social interactions 15
Sleazy slimeball reputation 50
Don’t pay the rent until the repo man comes 25 (in addition to 25 points)
Bang on the wall of the neighbors 10
Be confronted by the neighbors/landlord about noise or smells in your apartment 10
Have a roommate with red level roommate satisfaction 25
Cast all evil witch spells 100
Have an evil witch try to examine a good spellbook 25
Have a child or teen torment another child or teen 10

Holiday Stuff Pack:
Get a lump of coal from Santa 10
Pet a reindeer 10
Christmas tree fire 10

Alternate ways to play:

In a hurry? Create several sims in CAS to see more things more quickly. Or set your personal curse-breaking score lower.

Want to play more with University? Start your sim in university and have him drop out for more fear spots or send a teen to university and have him drop out.

Hate scoring? Play without keeping score. Just try to see as many of the events as you can.

EPISODE90 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Grilled Cheese by IcheleMay812

2010-06-16T18:03:00.000-07:00

Okay, well ,I took a stab at creating my own challenge and I thought one up. It is kinda silly but well,I thought it might be fun. You will need the Nightlife Expansion.No cheats or hacks are permitted
The Grilled Cheese Challenge...
The object-Can you last 3 generations of grilled cheese lovers?
Okay,well,to start off you can make any sim you want in any aspiration.It must be an adult. You can move them into any size lot you wish, even a premade one.

First you have to do anything they want to get them into Platinum aspiration and with at least 5,000 aspiration points to get aspiration rewards.Then,get the ReNuYu Senso Orb.Do NOT use it yet.

After that,you must do everything to bring them down to the red. Then, make them use the ReNuYu Senso Orb. If you aren't lucky,this will give them the Grilled Cheese Aspiration.
You must make sure they stay this way for their whole lives.Do the same with anyone else who moves into the family. Then,make the sim have a kid and then,when the kid goes into teen,make him/her go in the red.Then,use the ReNuYu Senso Orb again and put him/her into Grilled Cheese Aspiration.
Then,when that teen ages into adulthood,make him/her have a child.When that child is born,the challenge is over.
Points are counted as follows:
+1 for every sim in the house with a grilled cheese aspiration
+1 for every platinum gravestone
+1 for every family friend that family has
+1 for every sim who is "fit"
+1 for every 5,000 dollars the family has in their net worth
+1 for every career reward object on the lot
+1 for every child born and adopted onto the lot
+1 for every time a sim reaches the top of a career track
-1 for every visit from the shrink.
-1 for every sim in the household that is not in Grilled Cheese Aspiration
-1 for every needs failure a sim has.
-1 for every "fat" sim

lol,now like I said,this is for fun. I made it short enough so people would finish it quickly if they were just looking for something to do for a couple days.So,well,if you like it,enjoy! Try to upload a story with pictures of this challenge and what happens.
Prizes...
A guestbook signing
5 stars for your page
5 stars for an upload of your choice.
I will have 3 winners.
If you have any questions or want to enter please say so on this thread.
When you finish,post on this thread as well with a link to your story

EPISODE89 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Family Dynamics Challenge by Straberiwine74

2010-06-02T18:44:00.000-07:00

This is how I play my game...it keeps me from getting bored playing one family. I posted this a while back, but am not updating it for use with University. Here's how it works:

I started with a never played neighborhood (Reinstalled Pleasantview), but you can start where you are if you don't want to change neighborhoods. There is no limit on the number of families that you can start with, but I think 8 - 10 families would be a good starting number.
1) Play each family for one sim week at a time. I play from Monday morning at 7:00 am to the next Monday morning at 6:30 am. When your week is up, you must change families.
2) Keep a list of the order you play the families. This will be the order you play for the entire challenge. When you move out a sim, add him/her to the bottom of the list. When a sim dies leaving an empty house, scratch that lot off the list.
3) You can NOT create any new sims after committing to play the challenge. Read on to find out how to marry, etc.
4) If your sim has become best friends with a townie while in child or teen stage, they can move them into their household when moving to college. However, only townies that are at best friend level with your sim can move in.
6) If a sim has a want to WooHoo or you choose to have them WooHoo, they must use Try for a Baby if it is available. There is no birth control in this challenge. With the installation of University, this works more naturally...every WooHoo doesn't result in pregnancy.
7) When a child ages to a teen you must use a dice to choose their aspiration. The following are the coordinating aspirations:
1 = romance
2 = fortune
3 = knowledge
4 = family
5 = popularity
6 = your choice
8) No cheats are allowed except for the move_objects cheat only when necessary for blocked sims to move.
9) When career awards become available you MUST 'purchase' them. You can not hold them until later. This includes rewards given at the acceptance of a job at a high level. Consider this an incentive to stay in one house and improve on it instead of moving around the neighborhood. However....
10) You may move your family to another house or add on to their existing house.
11) No hacked objects are allowed. By hacked item, I mean anything that can change mood, aspiration, etc outside of fulfilling needs and wants.
12) Tombstones must remain on the lot. You are welcome to move them around, but do not delete them.
13) You are welcome to marry any adult townies and NPC's, however you must do this thru the traditional methods, with out using the cheat to move them in first. Note: The only time you can 'cheat' and use the boolprop method to move a sim in is if you are affected by the glitch that won't allow dormies to move in with graduated sims. However, your sim must be in love or best friends with the dormie you are moving in.
14) You are welcome to marry any sims from other households.
15) Moving a townie in just to get their money is not allowed. When moving a townie in (outside of the rules above) they must remain in the household until their next age transition, therefore ensuring that the relationship stays high. If at that point you want to move them out, feel free to do so.
16)You are welcome to adopt a BABY only after trying for a baby unsuccessfully three times in a row, or both parents are of the same sex. Also, elders can adopt if it is to fulfill the 10 baby want and they already have 5 children of their own.
17)When YA's graduate from college, they MUST start in a house of their own. No merging of households, unless they move back in with their parents.
18) When a sim is sent to University, you have two options to keep the game flowing. One, you can play the college town until that sim or group of sims graduates. OR if you don't want to stay in university for that long at one time, you can play the sim or group of sims until they finish a year (two semesters) then return to the neighborhood.
19) There will be bonus points for sims who reach university level accomplishments, such as Big Sim on Campus, joining a Greek House, becoming a member of a Secret Society, etc. These will be worked out in the scoring part.
20) When a career chance card comes up you must make a choice - you can not choose to ignore it.

SCORING:
1 point for each generation reached up to 5 (this is generations reached for the entire neighborhood. If only one family reaches level 5 and the rest are at level 4, only 4 points are awarded)
1 point per $100,000 at the time of the 5th generations birth. This is per family.
1 point per platinum grave
1 point for each Sim who reaches the influence level of 5 (top)
1 point per sim for each friend above 12 (personal friends, not family friends)
2 points for every lifetime want achievement
1 point per career reward on a lot
2 points for each Honor graduate (start beside the YA icon in the age panel)
10 points if at the end of the challenge all of the families are related
-1 point for each aspirational failure (visited by the Shrink)
-1 point for each sim that gets expelled from college
-1 point for each semester spent on academic probation
-1 point for each time a sim gets fired

BONUS points
2 points for each sim who is a Secret Society member
1 point for each Greek house member (not including the ones that come with the game)
2 points for each Big Sim on Campus

The challenge runs untill ALL of the families have reached the 5th generation. I know this is similar to the Legacy Challenge, however I'm trying to keep it from being a knock-off. I don't enjoy playing the Legacy way b/c it limits the families you can actively play. Since you are playing several households, instead of just one, I'm only going to the 5th generation.

Just a suggestion, backup your neighborhood periodically, or upload your families to your SimPage

Depending on the feedback I get on this challenge, I will try to get a scoreboard uploaded over the weekend. As in the Legacy Challenge, there will be points awarded for having career objects on the lot, tombstones, generations, etc.

EPISODE88 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Get a Life

2010-05-05T20:56:00.000-07:00

find all of the homes and sims for this challenge at: http://simestates2.planetthesims.gamespy.com/get_a_life_families.htm
the downloads are free with registration :)

Get a Life Rules by Violet Kitty

This is a goal-driven gameplay, requiring you to meet various goals before moving on. This is directly from the Console version of The Sims, adjusted for TS2 gameplay. To play, you need to download the houses and families from here. These were all made with TS2University, and University is required for this gameplay, even though your sim will never go.

GENERAL RULES:
Your sim may use any aspiration reward you want. He/she will have to use Elixir of Life, as will Mom if you stay at her house for an extended time.

No cheats are allowed other than the specifically laid out money cheats when moving from house to house. The goal here is to have the same bank account (roughly) as you move, because you are living in houses not of your own, but owned by Malcolm Landgrabb (except Mom’s house…she owns that).

You may stay in any house as long as necessary to complete your goals. Hint, you might want to forfeit time bonuses so you can accomplish other goals more easily. Some goals have a point value next to them. You will get this point value for accomplishing it. All goals must be met to proceed (except for the time bonus).

No sim may ever leave the home lot to go to a community lot.

You may not sell things to increase your bank account. If you sell things, you must replace them with equal value items (ie. the $3500 clock for a $3500 piano).
Also, if you sell a depreciated item, you must replace it with an item that is equal to the original value of that item (ie. if you replace a $300 toilet that has been depreciated to $120 with a $1200 toilet, you have only increased the value of the house by $900).
Keep track of any extra that you spend, as this will be your money (ie if I sell $10000 worth of stuff at Mom’s and replace it with $15000, Mom owes me $5000).
These rules apply in all the other houses, only the money is coming from your landlord, Malcolm Landgrabb, via the Sim City Savings & Loan.

If your sim dies, the game is obviously over. If he loses his job at any point, he may get a new job from the newspaper, but must stay in the house they are currently in until they have achieved the level they need to achieve to proceed.

At any level, your sim may hire a gardener, exterminator, bar tender, emergency services, or call for delivery.

Your sim can only socialize with townies, NPCs, and the following families: Landgrabb, Roomies, Party Guys, Party Girls, Married Folks. None of your own creation.

GETTING STARTED:
In CAS make 2 sims. 1 will be an elder, “Mom.” She needs to be an Aquarius but you can choose her appearance and aspiration. For authenticity, she would be S3, have her hair in a bun, and a purple top and skirt. Then make an adult for your character, anything you would like. Make sure to link their relationship as parent-child.

Place them on an empty lot and give them 5 kachings. This will give them $25000. Now, move them to “Money from Mom.” Bank total will be $200.

Money from Mom:
Goals:
Get Mom to earn S800 so you can move out (bank total needs to be $1000)
Make dinner without starting a fire 2500
Fix the TV 1000
Pay the bills (after 3 days)
Get Mom into a Love relationship with Malcolm Landgrabb (optional)
Get a job from the newspaper (can only be done after the other objectives are completed) 2250
TIME BONUS: 2 days or less (Wednesday 8:00AM) 2500
Restrictions:
You cannot hire a repairman or a maid.
Your sim cannot work outside the home.
Mom does not clean at all.
Mom is not to cook until your sim has successfully served a meal.
Mom must be alive at the end of the level.
When your sim has completed all the objectives, he/she may get a job and then move out. Place your sim on an empty lot and give him/her 16000 simoleans plus how much was in the bank at Mom’s house, and how much home improvement you did (rounded up to the nearest 1000). Now move into “Reality Bites.”

REALITY BITES
Goals:
Clean the place up
Fix the broken stuff (except trash compactor…it’s deadly)
Upgrade your abode in buy mode with $1150 in new stuff (keep track) 300
Get promoted to career level 2 100
Get promoted to career level 3 3000
TIME BONUS: 4 days or less (Friday 8:00AM) 1800
Restrictions:
You cannot hire the maid until the house is clean
You cannot hire a repairman until everything is fixed (except the trash compactor)
When your sim has completed these objectives, note how much you have in the bank, and how much you spent on home improvement, then evict him/her. Move your sim in with Dudley or Mimi Landgrabb at “Party Animals.”

PARTY ANIMALS
Before you move your sim in, move out Malcolm and one of his kids. You have to live with the other. Then, move the Roomies in, so your host knows them. Move them out and waste the cash on walls and floors. When you get there, you will waste your money on excess walls and floors to get back to your bank account, and what your sim spent in “Reality Bites.”
Goals:
Throw a roof raiser
Upgrade your abode in buy mode with $1500 in new stuff (keep track) 1200
Get promoted to career level 4 600
Get promoted to career level 5 10,000
Throw a party, make friends with a guest, then use “Propose…Move In” and end the level.
TIME BONUS: 8 days or less (Next Tuesday 8:00AM) 1500
Restrictions:
Mimi and Dudley do not cook or clean. Except for grilling. They’re great on the grill.
Mimi and Dudley do not work on job skills unless they choose to do so autonomously.
Your worthless roomie must be alive at the end of the level.
When your sim has completed these objectives, note how much you have in the bank, and how much you spent on home improvement, then have him/her move out. Move the Roomie out separately. Leave Mimi or Dudley with your cash. Now move into “Hot to Trot.”

HOT TO TROT:
Before you move in, move the Roomie in with the Party Girls, and then out, and then with the Party Guys and then out, so he/she has a base relationship with them, and can introduce your sim. Place your sim on an empty lot and and then move the Roomie in. Give them 17000 simoleans plus how much was in the bank at Mimi/Dudley’s place and how much you spent on home improvement (rounded up to the nearest 1000).
Goals:
Throw a raging party.
Upgrade your abode in buy mode with $2000 in new stuff (keep track) 4500
Get promoted to career level 6 4000
Get promoted to career level 7 500
Get married/joined to a Party Girl or Party Guy at a party.
TIME BONUS: 8 days or less (Next Tuesday 8:00AM) 1200
Restrictions:
Your roomie must be alive at the end of the level.
Your roomie is willing to work inside or outside of the home. Any earnings are yours to keep.
When your sim has completed these objectives, note how much you have in the bank, and how much you spent on home improvement, then have him/her move out with the new spouse. Place them on an empty lot and give them 51,000 simoleans plus how much was in the bank at Hot to Trot and how much you spent on home improvement (rounded up to the nearest 1000). Now move into “Who Loves Ya, Baby!”

WHO LOVES YA, BABY!
Goals:
Upgrade your abode in buy mode with $4000 in new stuff (keep track)
Get promoted to career level 8 3675
Get promoted to career level 9 6075
Have 2 babies, raise to school age 1100
Encourage each child up in at least 5 personality points (optional) 7500
Get both children into private school (optional) 2500
TIME BONUS: 12 days or less (Next Saturday 8:00AM) 4300
Restrictions:
Your spouse must be alive, and still living with you at the end of the level.
Your spouse may work inside or outside the home.
You may not hire a nanny.
You may adopt instead of giving birth, but if you choose to do this, your sims can only call the social worker on Wednesday and Saturday, providing for delivery on Thursday and Sunday, same as if you gave birth to 2 babies in a row.
If you adopt, it must be an infant. You cannot skip babyhood and toddlerhood and go straight to school age.
Both children must be alive and well. If you lose one, you must replace him/her with another child. This will slow you down because you cannot adopt after you’ve lost a child.
When your sim has completed these objectives, note how much you have in the bank, and how much you spent on home improvement, then have him/her move out with the family. Move them into “The Last Simolean.” Either waste any extra simoleans on excess floors or walls, getting back to what was in your bank at “Who Loves Ya, Baby!” plus how much you spent on home improvement (rounded up to the nearest 1000) or add. I did.

THE LAST SIMOLEAN
Goals:
There is no home improvement goal, just furnish enough, and save at least $20,000 for early retirement (your sim doesn’t need to be an elder, but may if you want)
Encourage each child up in at least 5 personality points (if you haven’t done so already) 7500
Get both children into private school (if you haven’t done so already) 2500
Get both children into college with at least $1500 each in scholarships 5000
Get promoted to career level 10
Throw a fabulous “retirement” party!
TIME BONUS: 8 days or less (Next Tuesday 8:00AM) 4800
Restrictions:
You may not hire a nanny
When your sim has completed these objectives, the challenge is over, and it’s time for final scoring.
Add all bonuses you received.
1 point for every simolean in your bank account above 20,000.
1 point for every aspiration point in the central character’s bank.
-30,000 points for every vial of Elixir your main sim uses. If you use a partial vial, you still lose the full 30,000, so you may as well drink up! This doesn’t count if any other sim drinks it.
Other point bonuses: spouse reaching level 8 8000 points, 9 9000 points, 10 10,000 points (spouses all have no skills)

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EPISODE87 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Aspiring to Greatness

2010-04-07T20:59:00.001-07:00

by Violet Kitty & Trixie

We all want to be great...even our sims... for an entire lifetime.

Create in CAS one Adult, and one Toddler Sim. The toddler is the Central Character. The adult is merely a Caretaker.

**Alternative, Create one Adult, and call for adoption of a toddler no later than tuesday, so the toddler is delivered at 10:00am on Wednesday**

They can be any personality and any aspiration. Move them to any lot of your choice, furnished, unfurnished, completely empty, whatever you want.

RULES
No cheats or hacks, except MoveObjects to fix glitches.

No exit without save after something 'bad' happens, such as chance cards or accidental deaths.

Caretaker can ONLY spend Aspiration points on objects that the Caretaker ALONE will use, which means that you cannot buy any aspiration reward for the Central Character.

However, the Central Character may use his/her own points for his/her benefit, except for Elixir, the Central Character may not use Elixir at ANY time.

This means no Smart Milk for anyone, either.

Gameplay

Raise the toddler in any way you see fit, do anything with the family that you want, move in or out, marry, break up, move to a new lot, stay on the original lot, have more kids, have no more kids. Whatever you want to do.

Caretaker Sim must move out or die within 2 days of Central Character reaching Teen.

When your Central Character gets over 300K aspiration points, buy Elixir (BUT DON"T USE IT) and store it somewhere on the lot. Keep doing this until your Central Character dies.

The person who has the most Elixirs stored up at the end of the Central Character's life will win.

Tips,
Every Aspiration object the CC buys is that much LESS he has to spend on Elixirs.

Remember, the CC cannot use ANY aspiration objects that he, himself has not bought.

Plan for the Aspiration that your CC will become. If popularity, then have them meet lots of people, if knowledge, save the skill building until teen years, etc.

The absolute maximum number of aspiration points any sim can have at one time is 327,670. If you reach this, you will still satisfy wants, and still get the numbers flashing over your sim's head, but they will not be added to your total (hence the need to stockpile Elixir).

Also, we need a picture of the surving family members mourning at the tombstone, and a picture of all the Elixirs you've stockpiled.

We will not be comparing a Romance Sim to a Fortune Sim, or a Family Sim to a Knowledge Sim. That would be unfair. We will have a category for each aspiration, so you can play your favorite. Good luck and make very happy Sims!

EPISODE86 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Pop Star Challenge 25:02 3/24/2010 1 EPISODE86 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Pop Star Challenge

2010-03-31T17:52:00.000-07:00

Finally, your sims can become a popstar or musician in a band! To know how just follow on this challenge. If you don't have University, back away!
The Popstar Challenge

Objective: To have a young adult become a popstar during their young adult and adulthood!

Briefing: A kind of different way to have a challenge. You create 5 young adults in create a student and they aren't allowed to be family, only roomies. You can then move them into a dorm that is premade by Maxis and must have spaces for 12 or more students.You can use motherlode only once and that's when you move the students in. You must buy these things for the dorm:

- Bass
- Guitar
- Piano
- Drum Kit

and keep it all in one room or better yet put them on a decking/foundation. You may also need to buy chairs facing the instruments so when you throw parties your guests won't leave. Make sure there is also room for a freestyler at the front of the band so it gets a bit better.

Get a piece of paper and a pen and write down "Career Earnings" on it. You add money to it when the band start collecting tips for performing bands but don't perform yet.

The students first have to gain as much creativity skill as possible before the end of Freshman year. They can't use the thinking cap or any other aspiration awards in this challenge. At the time at their elderly age they count up all the earnings and that's the total score.

When it comes near the end of Freshman year you might want to assign your sims to a particular instrument or lead singer.

When it comes to the beginning of Sophomore year the students must throw a party every night and perform a band everytime for 2 and a 1/2 hours and all immeadiately stop and collects their tips. You add the money to the career earnings paper after they receive tips.

Do it until the graduation day and then they leave campus. You're not done yet as they still have to do the job as adults! They aren't allowed jobs and must live together and run a party every night and perform a band. They retire when they reach elderly age and just look at it as memories.

Rules:

No cheats except motherlode once at the beginning of this challenge and moveObjects on
If a band member dies in college he/she can't be replaced until moving in someone as an adult
No aspiration or career rewards
If all band members die at college then it's GAME OVER
Money added to career earnings must be tips from freestyling and instruments, nothing else or any dormie, NPC or non-challenge sim playing and letting you receive tips
The challenge is over when the sims age to elder and you MUST count up the career earnings
NO HACKS

The score is the career earnings and nothing else.

If you want to you can create a story or movie if you like.

EPISODE85 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Class Matters

2010-03-10T20:53:00.000-08:00

Class Matters by SimsDivaD

About this Challenge
The goal is to create a dynamic neighborhood that is socially and economically diverse. Your Sims will struggle or thrive in a diverse city environment where the opportunities available to each Sim are largely based on external factors including social class and access to higher education. While external factors may limit or expand opportunities, this challenge also takes into account powerful and random internal factors which might inspire an individual who faces severe economic challenges to strive for success while another of average station may be satisfied with remaining status quo.
Game play is structured around four classes—Poverty Class, Working Class, Middle Class, and Upper Class. Many challenge play options will be determined by the roll of a dice, including the number of Founding families and the gender, aspiration, personality, motivation level and income track for each Sim.
This challenge was designed for players who have the University and Open for Business Expansion Packs.
Credits & Disclaimers
This challenge is designed to combine several existing challenges with a few added twists. Before going into the rules, I’d like to credit the following challenge creators whose ideas have inspired this challenge:
1.Many of the initial setup options are borrowed (or shamelessly stolen) from The Prosperity Challenge by Sheri & Robin
2.The adherence to a class system and some class-related rule based play is borrowed from The Boomtown Challenge by Reni
3.Some of the constraints placed on Poverty Class Sims were inspired by or borrowed from restrictions included in The Nickel & Dimed Challenge by Yamx
Initial Setup
Create the First Generation
There can only be a fixed number of Poverty Class households for the duration of the challenge. First you will roll to determine the number of available low income housing lots. During the challenge, households may advance to higher classes based on game rules, but in the beginning all Sims are in the Poverty Class.
Roll a six-sided die to determine the number of Poverty Class houses in the neighborhood
For each household, roll to determine the marital status of the head of household
For each household, roll to determine the presence or absence of children
For each household with children, roll to determine the number of children
For each child per household, roll to determine the child’s age
If you have the Pets expansion pack, feel free to add pets to any household.
The chart below provides details on how to determine each of these requirements:
Number of Poverty Class Houses
Household Marital Status
Presence of
Children in
Household
Number of Children in Household
Age of Children in Household
Number of Pets in Household
1 or 2 = 4
3 or 4 = 5
5 or 6 = 6
Married/Joined
Odd (1,3,5)

Single
Even (2,4,6)
No Children
Odd (1,3,5)

Has Children
Even (2,4,6)
1 or 2 = 1
3 or 4 = 2
5 or 6 = 3
1 or 2 = Toddler
3 or 4 = Child
5 or 6 = Teen
Player’s Choice.

Once the necessary details about the founding families have been determined, it is time to determine characteristics of individual household members. The age and number of household members was determined in the previous step. Don’t put the dice away yet! Prosperity Challenge Rules are used to determine gender, aspiration and personality. To roll for Personality, you can use either a six-sided or twelve-sided die. If you use a six-sided die, roll first to determine the set, then roll a second time to determine the personality as outlined in the chart below. This challenge adds two new factors called Motivation Level and Income Track which will be explained later in greater detail.
Gender
Aspiration
Personality
Motivation Level
Income
Track
Odd (1,3,5) = Set 1
Even (2,4,6) = Set 2
Male
1 = Fortune
1 = Aries
7 or 1 = Libra
Underachiever
Career
Odd (1,3,5)
2 = Knowledge
2 = Taurus
8 or 2 = Scorpio
(1, 2)
Odd (1,3,5)

3 = Romance
3 = Gemini
9 or 3 = Sagittarius
Average

Female
4 = Family
4 = Cancer
10 or 4 = Capricorn
(3, 4)
Entrepreneur
Even (2,4,6)
5 = Popularity
5 = Leo
11 or 5 = Aquarius
Overachiever
Even (2,4,6)

6 = Pleasure**
6 = Virgo
12 or 6 = Pisces
(5, 6)

** If you don't have Nightlife installed, 6 is roll again during set up.

If you happen to roll the Underachiever motivation level for all adults in each household, you can roll for motivation levels again. Once all of the above constraints have been identified, create each founding family using Create a Family.
While it is not a requirement, you are encouraged to create families that are ethnically diverse.
Create or Prepare a Neighborhood for Play
Start from Scratch
Create a new, empty neighborhood. Identify areas on the neighborhood map where Poverty Class, Working Class, Middle Class and Upper Class lots will be placed, and create all required lots accordingly:
Create the number of required low-income housing lots determined in the previous step.
Create some Working Class, Middle Class and Upper Class homes (optional… this can wait until they are needed)
Create or add at least one community lot in each class sector. In truly impoverished areas you won’t find Starbucks or high-end department stores. There might be playgrounds, but you won’t find swimming pools. Instead, you may find corner stores, fast food restaurants, bars, and thrift stores. Strive for realism—design or import appropriate lots for each social class. There must be a grocery store in the Poverty Class sector .
Poverty Class Housing Guidelines
1.Poverty Class housing must cost less than $10,000 unfurnished. Add furniture and appliances after purchase.
2.Poverty Class houses can have no more than two bedrooms.
3.Poverty Class houses can have no more than 1.5 bathrooms (only one bathroom can have a shower or tub).
4.Poverty Class houses cannot have basements or garages
5.Poverty Class houses cannot have special fixtures (including fireplaces, elevators, swimming pools, hot tubs).
6.Landscaping and flower beds on Poverty Class lots should be sparse or nonexistent
7.Poverty Class lots cannot contain fishing ponds
Working Class Housing Guidelines
1.Working Class housing costs < $40,000 and > $10,000
2.Working Class houses can have no more than three bedrooms
3.Working Class houses can have no more than two full bathrooms
4.Working Class houses can have basements
5.Working Class houses cannot have garages
6.Working Class houses cannot have special fixtures (including fireplaces, elevators, swimming pools, hot tubs).

Middle Class Housing Guidelines
1.Middle Class Housing costs < $80,000 and > $40,000
2.Middle Class houses can have up to five bedrooms
3.Middle Class houses can have up to four bathrooms
4.Middle Class houses can have basements
5.Middle Class houses can have one garage
6.Middle Class houses can have fireplaces, swimming pools or hot tubs
Upper Class Housing Guidelines
1.Upper Class Housing costs > $80,000
2.Upper Class houses can have an unlimited number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and garages.
3.Upper Class houses can include any available fixtures
Use a Maxis Neighborhood or a Downloaded Neighborhood
If you want to use a pre-existing neighborhood, you must complete the following steps to prepare the neighborhood for challenge play:
1.YOU MUST modify the structure of each family such that each household contains no more than two adults who are married or joined (no roomies or Elders).
a.YOU MUST move all Sims out of their existing households. Where a pre-existing household contains more than two adults, unmarried adults or elders, the extra adults and/or elders must be moved out of the household before you move the family to the Sim Bin by using the Find Own Place interaction
b.The extra adults and elders can remain in the Sim Bin queue and be added to Poverty Class housing when a lot becomes available before any new Poverty Class Sims are created using Create a Sim but this is optional—if you do not want to play the leftover Sims, you can delete them.
2.YOU MUST modify the family funds of each household such that they only have $20,000 to begin challenge play. All families start with $20,000 in family funds regardless of family size.
3.You must reconfigure the existing lots such that there is a designated area for each social class in the neighborhood. Identify areas on the neighborhood map where Poverty Class, Working Class, Middle Class and Upper Class lots will be placed, and move all existing lots accordingly:
a.Housing that costs < $10,000 should be placed in the Poverty Class sector
b.Housing that costs < $40,000 and > $10,000 should be placed in the Working Class sector
c.Housing that costs < $80,000 and > $40,000 should be placed in the Middle Class sector
d.Housing that costs > $80,000 should be placed in the Upper Class sector
e.Community Lots should be zoned appropriately
Challenge Play
Overview
Each household must be played for a set number of days before moving to the next household. This is referred to as a play turn.
Each household must be played in the same order. This is referred to as the play list.
The completion of the play list is referred to a play cycle.
Each household starts in the Poverty Class. The opportunities available to the household are determined by the motivation level and income track of each adult Sim in the household.
If the household meets the necessary objectives to advance to the next class during a given play turn, it MUST move to the next class level at the end of the play turn. At this time all household Sims will move from one house in their current class sector to a new house in their new class sector.
If any Poverty Class houses are vacant when you come to the end of the play list, they must be filled by either a single Sim waiting for housing in the Sim Bin or a new household that is rolled and created using Create a Sim. These new additions to the neighborhood will be played during the next play cycle.
Tombstones and Urns must be preserved in the game. They must be placed on a residential or community lot.
The challenge ends when the first fifth generation Sim dies or when all descendants of the founding families have perished
Family and Household Rules
YOU CAN have one adult join the household of a single Poverty Class or Working Class Sim but ONLY through marriage or joining
YOU CAN marry any available Sim of any class, or any available townie or NPC. There are no restrictions against marrying Mr. Big, the Diva, the Grand Vampire/Vampiress or other well-to-do townies. Marriage for the purpose of social climbing is an expected part of this challenge. While it takes more than an influx of cash to move from one class to the next, the cash won’t hurt.
YOU CAN’T move in roommates, townies or NPCs unless you are above Working Class. A Middle Class household can move in one roommate, townie or NPC. An Upper Class household can move in an unlimited number of roommates, townies or NPCs. If any of these moved in Sims leave the household, they must return to the Sim Bin and await Poverty Class housing.
YOU CAN use the Elixir of Life Aspiration Reward Object to prolong Adulthood, but only until the first grandchild is born. At that point, the natural progression of life takes over. Elders and Teens cannot use this Aspiration Reward Object.
YOU CAN send children to college but must adhere to the limits of your social class
YOU CAN have as many children as you want at each class level. Children can be added to a family through natural reproduction (WooHoo) or by adoption.
YOU CAN use cheesecake to spawn twins but must take a slight point reduction every time Cheesecake is used.
Income Tracks
YOU MUST roll for Income Track when a Sim transitions to adulthood.
Adult Sims are randomly assigned one of two available income tracks—Career or Entrepreneurship.
An Adult Sim with the Career Income Track can get a traditional job by browsing the want ads in the newspaper or browsing the online job boards. Career Income Track Sims cannot open a business.
An Adult Sim with the Entrepreneurship Income Track must earn money through a home-based or community based business. The Entrepreneurship Income Track Sim cannot get a traditional job but can be hired to work on a community lot that they do not own.
Advancement in either Income Track may be bolstered or hampered by the Sim’s motivation level. See that section for further details.
Motivation System
Success in life is often due to a combination of factors referred to as internal and external factors. External factors are determined by the class a Sim is born into, the educational and nurturing opportunities available to the Sim, the skill building objects at their disposal, and the amount of cash on hand that can be used to fulfill goals. Internal factors are determined by the Motivation System. The most intelligent and highly skilled Sims may have the wherewithal to succeed but may not be driven. At the same time, skill challenged Sims may be required to work harder to succeed but have intense desire to do so. While nearly all Sims have the ability to succeed if they put forth the effort, all Sims have differing drives and value systems. The Motivation System takes these factors into account.
Motivation Level must be rolled when a Sim transitions from child to Teen.
For many Sims, their motivation level will remain fixed throughout their lifetime.
Sims CAN surpass their current motivation level and graduate to the next motivation level. This is referred to as self-actualization. Self-actualization occurs when a Sim maximizes Lifetime Aspiration OR achieves their Lifetime Want.
Teens and Motivation
A teen with the Underachiever Motivation Level
CAN’T get a job
CAN’T get into Private School (There is an exception to this rule if the household already had their children admitted to Private School)
CAN’T actively achieve skill levels above Level 3 or Badge levels above Bronze by skilling or using the SimVac Aspiration Object (Cooking and Cleaning skill points can be earned after reaching level three but only by doing skill-related tasks).
CAN’T learn Free Time or Apartment Life skills (Parenting, Fire Prevention, Anger Management, Physiology, Couples Counseling, etc.)
A teen with the Average Motivation Level
CAN get a job but can’t advance beyond Level 2
CAN’T get into Private School (There is an exception to this rule if the household already had their children admitted to Private School)
CAN maximize up to 3 skills traditional skills (Cooking, Cleaning, Mechanical, Logic, Creativity, Charisma, Body) and earn Badge levels up to Silver
CAN learn up to two Free Time or Apartment Life skills (Parenting, Fire Prevention, Anger Management, Physiology, Couples Counseling, etc.)
A teen with the Overachiever Motivation Level
CAN get a job and advance to its highest level
CAN get into Private School
CAN maximize all skills and earn Badge levels up to Gold
CAN learn Free Time and Apartment Life skills (Parenting, Fire Prevention, Anger Management, Physiology, Couples Counseling, etc.)
Adults and Motivation
Economically speaking, a married couple has several advantages over single parent or single adult households. The Motivation Rules for adults are designed to reflect this. Children with one underachieving and one average achieving parent are nearly equal to children with one overachieving parent in terms of the attention and nurturing they receive in their formative years. Class advancement becomes much easier for an underachieving Sim who is married to an average achiever or an overachiever.
An adult with the Underachiever Motivation Level
CAN get a job and advance to Level 4
CAN teach toddlers one skill (potty training, walking, talking)
CAN’T teach toddlers nursery rhymes
CAN’T use Aspiration Rewards
CAN actively learn traditional skills up to Level 3 (Cooking and Cleaning skill points can be earned after reaching level three but only by doing skill-related tasks).
CAN’T learn Free Time or Apartment Life skills (Parenting, Fire Prevention, Anger Management, Physiology, Couples Counseling, etc.)
CAN'T help children with homework
CAN earn badge points up to Bronze level
CAN open one business
CAN use the ReNuYuSenso Orb with a penalty

An adult with the Average Motivation Level
CAN get a job and advance to Level 7
CAN teach toddlers two skills (potty training, walking, talking)
CAN’T teach toddlers nursery rhymes
CAN help children with homework
CAN use one Aspiration Reward Object per play turn
CAN actively learn traditional skills up to Level 7
CAN learn up to two Free Time or Apartment Life skills (Parenting, Fire Prevention, Anger Management, Physiology, Couples Counseling, etc.)
Can earn badge points up to Silver level
CAN open up to two businesses
CAN use the ReNuYuSenso Orb with a penalty
An adult with the Overachiever Motivation Level
CAN get a job and advance to its highest level
CAN teach toddlers all skills
CAN teach toddlers Nursery Rhymes
CAN learn Free Time and Apartment Life skills (Parenting, Fire Prevention, Anger Management, Physiology, Couples Counseling, etc.)
CAN help children with homework and get children into Private School
CAN use unlimited Aspiration Reward Objects per play turn
CAN maximize skills
Can earn badge points up to Gold level
CAN open an unlimited number of businesses
CAN use the ReNuYuSenso Orb without a penalty
Class Structure Rules
In addition to the lots and housing restrictions outlined above for each social class, the following rules apply.
Poverty Class Allowances & Restrictions
Poverty Class households MUST start with $20,000 simoleons regardless of household size.
Poverty Class households CAN’T have burglar alarms or smoke detectors
Poverty Class households CAN’T keep the housewarming gift from Mr. Humble. The box must be deleted immediately without being opened.
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T own computers
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T use or delete the Genie Lamp. If it is given, it must be stored in inventory.
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T use custom content designed to make life easier. This includes hacked objects AND furnishings/household items that are drastically reduced in price.
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T use any Aspiration Reward Objects
Poverty Class Sims MUST keep everything they buy until the end of the next play turn.
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T sell more than one object during each play turn.
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T sell or delete broken objects.
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T hire any Service NPCs
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T have groceries delivered—they CAN order pizza or Chinese food
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T secure jobs for their pets
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T afford private school
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T afford a car. They must walk or carpool when they want to go somewhere.
Poverty Class Sims CAN only send children to college if they have earned at least $6,000 in scholarship funds.
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T dig for treasure
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T ignore chance cards
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T go Downtown or visit Shopping District lots
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T go on vacation
Poverty Class Sims CAN’T sell novels or paintings
Poverty Class Sims CAN sell crafted objects
Poverty Class Sims CAN only visit community lots in the Poverty Class or Working Class sector
Career Income Track adults in the Poverty Class can only seek employment in the following fields:
Criminal
Law Enforcement
Military
Slacker
To advance from Poverty to Working Class, the household must meet each of the following criterion
The household must have a net worth of over $50,000
Entrepreneurship Income Track Adults must have at least one Level 5 Business OR Career Income Track Adults must have reached Career Level 5
Working Class Allowances & Restrictions
Working Class households CAN’T have burglar alarms or smoke detectors
Working Class households CAN’T keep the housewarming gift from Mr. Humble. The box must be deleted immediately without being opened.
Working Class Sims CAN own computers
Working Class Sims CAN’T use or delete the Genie Lamp. If it is given, it must be stored in inventory.
Working Class Sims CAN’T use custom content designed to make life easier. This includes hacked objects AND furnishings/household items that are drastically reduced in price.
Working Class Sims CAN use Aspiration Reward Objects as allowed by their Motivation Level
Working Class Sims MUST keep everything they buy until the end of the next play turn.
Working Class Sims CAN’T sell more than one object during each play turn.
Working Class Sims CAN’T sell or delete broken objects.
Working Class Sims CAN only hire the Repairman, the Exterminator, and the Delivery Service NPCs
Working Class Sims CAN’T secure jobs for their pets
Working Class Sims CAN’T afford private school
Working Class Sims CAN’T afford a new car but they can restore an old car if they have enough Mechanical Skill. Working Class houses can have a driveway but they cannot have a garage.
Working Class Sims CAN send one child to college without scholarships
Working Class Sims CAN send additional children to college if they have earned at least $6,000 in scholarships
Working Class Sims CAN’T dig for treasure
Working Class Sims CAN’T ignore chance cards
Working Class Sims CAN go Downtown or visit Shopping District lots
Working Class Sims CAN go on vacation
Working Class Sims CAN sell novels or paintings
Working Class Sims CAN sell crafted objects
Working Class Sims CAN only visit community lots in the Poverty Class, Working Class or Middle Class sector
Career Income Track adults in the Working Class can only seek employment in the following fields:
Criminal
Law Enforcement
Military
Slacker
Culinary
Medical
Politics
Science

To advance from Working to Middle Class, the household must meet each of the following criterion
The household must have a net worth of over $150,000
Entrepreneurship Income Track Adults must have two business at Level 5 OR one business at Level 10
Career Income Track Adults must have reached Career Level 10
Middle Class Allowances & Restrictions
Middle Class households CAN have burglar alarms or smoke detectors
Middle Class Sims CAN’T use or delete the Genie Lamp. If it is given, it must be stored in inventory.
Middle Class Sims CAN’T use custom content designed to make life easier. This includes hacked objects AND furnishings/household items that are drastically reduced in price.
Middle Class Sims CAN own computers
Middle Class Sims CAN use Aspiration Reward Objects as allowed by their Motivation Level
Middle Class Sims MUST keep everything they buy until the end of the next play turn.
Middle Class Sims CAN sell up to five objects during a play turn.
Middle Class Sims CAN hire any Service NPCs except for the Butler
Middle Class Sims CAN secure jobs for their pets
Middle Class Sims CAN afford Private School
Middle Class Sims CAN afford a car
Middle Class Sims CAN send two children to college without scholarships
Middle Class Sims CAN send additional children to college if they have earned at least $6,000 in scholarships
Middle Class Sims CAN dig for treasure
Middle Class Sims CAN’T ignore chance cards
Middle Class Sims CAN go Downtown or visit Shopping District lots
Middle Class Sims CAN go on vacation
Middle Class Sims CAN sell novels or paintings
Middle Class Sims CAN sell crafted objects
Middle Class Sims CAN visit community lots in any Class sector
Career Income Track adults in the Middle Class can only seek employment in the following fields:
Criminal
Law Enforcement
Military
Slacker
Culinary
Medical
Politics
Science
Athletic
Business
Dance
Gamer
Journalism
Law
Music
Natural Scientist
Oceanography
Paranormal
Overachieving Career Income Track adults in the Middle Class can also seek employment in the following fields:
Artist
Education
Entertainment
Intelligence
Show Business
To advance from Middle to Upper Class, the household must meet each of the following criterion
The household must have a net worth of over $250,000
Entrepreneurship Income Track Adults must have at least two Level 10 businesses (Entrepreneurship is critical for families attempting to achieve the highest class status. Career-minded Sims may live quite comfortably but an adult Sim in a Middle Class household must be a high-quality producer of goods in order to advance to the Upper Class).

Upper Class Allowances & Restrictions
Upper Class households CAN have burglar alarms or smoke detectors
Upper Class Sims CAN use or delete the Genie Lamp. They live charmed lives.
Upper Class Sims CAN’T use hacked objects
Upper Class Sims CAN buy custom content furnishings/household items that are drastically reduced in price. They have connections
Upper Class Sims CAN use Aspiration Reward Objects as allowed by their Motivation Level
Upper Class Sims CAN sell household objects at any time.
Upper Class Sims CAN hire any Service NPCs including the Butler
Upper Class Sims CAN secure jobs for their Pets
Upper Class Sims CAN send all of their children to college without scholarships
Upper Class Sims CAN dig for treasure
Upper Class Sims CAN ignore chance cards
Upper Class Sims CAN go Downtown or visit Shopping District lots
Upper Class Sims CAN go on vacation
Upper Class Sims CAN sell novels or paintings
Upper Class Sims CAN sell crafted objects
Upper Class Sims CAN visit community lots in any Class sector
Career Income Track adults in the Upper Class can seek employment in all available fields
Expansion Pack Rules
University
How valuable is a college education? In this challenge, it can make all the difference.
University Motivation System
If a teen is fortunate enough to go to college, he or she must roll a new Motivation Level. The following motivation rules apply to young adults:
A young adult with the Underachiever Motivation Level
CAN’T graduate from college and must drop out before the beginning of Senior year
CAN’T make the Dean’s List
CAN’T join a Greek House or Secret Society
CAN’T be Big Sim on Campus
A young adult with the Average Motivation Level
CAN graduate from college
CAN make the Dean’s List
CAN join a Greek House or a Secret Society (but not both)
CAN’T be Big Sim on Campus
A young adult with the Overachiever Motivation Level
MUST graduate from college
MUST graduate with a 4.0 GPA
CAN join a Greek House
CAN join a Secret Society
CAN be Big Sim on Campus
University Play
You can use a hack to speed up University Play
All Sims sent to college must be added to the play list
You can send neighborhood teens to college if they are best friends with a playable Sim that is also going to college. They must be added to the playlist and you must roll for their Motivation level
You can Create a Sim in University but you must add them to the play list.
Freshmen must live in a dorm
Upperclassmen can live in any residence they can afford
Each university residence must be played for two semesters during a play cycle. This means that students should graduate from college in two Sim weeks
After Graduation
One child from each household can return to the family home after graduation. All other graduating children from pre-existing households are governed by the following rules:
Class Status
College Graduates who did not come from the base neighborhood start in the Poverty Class with family funds of $20,000. They can either wait for a Poverty Class house or move in with a classmate if they were Best Friends in college.
A Poverty Class Sim returns to Poverty Class and starts life with family funds of $20,000. Poverty Class graduates must live in a Poverty Class house when it becomes available but can move in with a classmate if they were Best Friends in college.
A Working Class Sim returns to Working Class and starts life with $25,000. Working Class graduates must secure housing in an Apartment and can have up to two roommates if they were Best Friends in college.
A Middle Class Sim returns to the Middle Class and starts life with $30,000. Middle Class graduates must secure housing in an Apartment and an have up to two roommates (from college or the neighborhood). Requires Apartment Life.
Upper Class Sims have $80,000 trust funds that allow them to start their lives in the Middle Class. They can secure housing in an apartment or a single family home and can have up to three roommates (from college or the neighborhood).
Motivation Bonuses and Penalties
Underachieving Dropouts become Poverty Class Sims regardless of their initial class level. They can’t move back in with their furious and disappointed parents.
Poverty Class and Working Class Sims of Average or Overachieving Motivation can advance to the next class upon graduation if they meet one of the following criteria
Graduate with 4.0 GPA, Join a Greek House, and become Big Sim on Campus
Graduate with 4.0 GPA, Join a Secret Society, and become Big Sim on Campus
Graduating Sims can add an additional $5000 to their family funds upon graduation if they Join a Greek House AND a Secret Society
Open for Business
Entrepreneurs can only start businesses in their own class sector or a lower class sector
Sims can open any combination of businesses including venues, restaurants, retail or service enterprises.
In order to advance to Upper Class, only ONE of the owned top-level businesses can be a Venue
Sims cannot meditate in Community venues to amass wealth or earn aspiration points. There are penalties for doing so.

Seasons
Seasons must be set for each neighborhood during creation and CAN’T be changed after initial setup.
The Weathernaught 57X Reward Object can only be used by Middle and Upper Class Sims
The Toss ‘n Wish Drinking Well by Gaelic Gardens can only be used by Middle and Upper Class Sims
Scoring
+1
…for every playable Sim in the game at the end of the Challenge (does not include Servos)
+1
…for every $100,000 net worth in the neighborhood
+3
…for every top level Business
+1
…for each Platinum Grave
+1
…for every top-level Career
+15
…claim once after at least one neighborhood Sim has reached the top level of every Career
+1
…for every natural Twin Birth
+1
…for every Alien birth
+3
…for acquiring all Vacation mementoes
+5
…for the first of each type of supernatural being born or created during the course of the challenge
+20
…for every Upper Class household at the end of the challenge
+10
…for every Middle Class household at the end of the challenge
+5
…for every Working Class household at the end of the challenge
-50
…for every use of the Open Venue Loophole
-5
…for doing anything beyond Motivation or Class limits (each instance)**
-1
…for using the ReNuYuSensoOrb below Middle Class
-1
…for using the Weathernaught object below Middle Class
-1
…for using the Wishing Well below Middle Class
-1
…for ignoring Chance Cards below Middle Class
-1
…for every Shrink Visit
-1
…for every visit from the Social Bunny
-5
…for every Sim that is intentionally killed
-1
...for each child removed by the Social Worker

** For example… if you have an Adult Sim with an Average Motivation Level who maximizes a skill, they must take this penalty 3 times for each time they earned a skill point beyond the allowed level (7).

Final Notes
I created the Class Matters Challenge because I wanted to combine concepts and ideas introduced in three of my favorite challenges with a few added twists of my own. Personally, I’m not big on scoring so I wanted to keep the tabulation relatively simple. The class and motivation-based rules may make this challenge cumbersome for some but I hope you’ll give it a try and let me know what you think.
Please send questions, feedback or suggestions to SimsDivaD (SimsDivaD@gmail.com). You can also find me using the same handle on many Sims-related forums including theSims2.com, the TS2 Challenges Yahoo! Group, the Prosperity Challenge Yahoo! Group, The Sims Resource, and ModTheSims2.

EPISODE84 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Gypsy Challenge

2010-02-25T12:31:00.000-08:00

WebbyMom's Gypsy Challenge

This is more a "method of playing" than any kind of points challenge, just so ya know. So here are the guidelines:

1) Start with one single Sim. Make him/her however you want to start out with.
2) Move your chosen founder into whichever house or lot you like (in whichever neighbourhood), as long as they can afford it without cheating. You can use a pre-built house, or build as you go. BUT - keep in mind the next point:
3) Buy a date from the Gypsy as soon as she appears on your lot. Spend as much or as little money as you like, but you must end up marrying the first person you get for your date! The only exception to this rule is if you get an elder, because they cannot have kids. Then you're allowed to buy another date, but only then. Don't whine at me if your date is ugly, them's the rules. LOL
4) Get a job and whatever you like to do with your beginning Sims, but work on your new relationship to get to the point of marrying them somehow along the way.
5) Have at least one natural child with your sim to carry on the challenge. You can have more, of course, if you like to do bigger familes, or if you like to have an heir and a spare. LOL
6) When the child(ren) get to the point of marrying, they must now buy a date from the gypsy and marry the first Sim to come along (again, unless it's an elder). They must then carry on with the having at least one, kid, etc.
7) You can hire as much help as you like as far as nannies, maids, gardeners, repairmen, etc., go.
8) Extra credit (LOL Like this is a point system!) goes to those who also manage to fullfill a Sim's Lifetime Want (for those with UNI or NL), because their is more challenge to that when you can't learn skills as fast as you can with reward objects, etc.

Various other things to the challenge that make this even more of a "challenge":
1) No aspiration reward objects allowed! That means no energizer, no learning cap, no nothing. I mean it. Nothing. Believe me, that first generation is the hardest - after that, at least you have money... LOL
2) You must play all chance cards. Yup. That's a hafta. Makes for interesting lives, believe me.
3) No cheating. No motherloding, kachinging, familyfunding, etc. They have to earn all their money on their own. You can use whatever things you can buy as you go, of course, and moveobjects on or other build cheats are allowed in unlimited quantities. LOL So, if you want to save your Sims a bit of time by building them Stealth Stairs, then that's just fine. They just can't get free cash. They also cannot get any help from the new NL cheats that will lock aspiration levels, need levels, change ages, etc.! Absolutely none! You hear? Don't complain at me, it's part of why this is a "challenge". LOL

Play to as many generations as you like or as your computer/game allows, or until you get tired of it. I'm working on three generations for my goal simply because after that time, I get bored of doing stuff over and over and I want a new thing to try.

The main idea is to play them having to do everything for themselves, just like real life. Those promotions are so much more rewarding when your Sim has really busted his virtual behind to get it! And also to get true variation in the game by having them marry the Sim the gypsy picks for them and seeing where the "gene pool" took them after that. :) And being as "The No-Aspiration-Rewards Challenge" sounded stupid, I called it "The Gypsy Challenge" instead.

EPISODE83 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Fate Challenge

2010-02-10T12:29:00.000-08:00

The Fate Challenge

By AnaDandy and RoloCorgi

The Fate Challenge is to take a founding Sim and play through his/her legacy with predetermined mates for each generation, predetermined heirs, random aspirations and turnons/turnoffs, and no "replays" (quitting without saving to change outcomes), much like watching a real family history unfold.

Background

The Fate Challenge was created after we (AnaDandy and RoloCorgi) had played through a few Legacy challenges, in which we found ourselves trying to get the most attractive mates for our Sims, and our own Uglacy Challenge, which we designed to try and breed the ugliest Sims from a random starting Sim by finding the least attractive mates. In either case, we'd often have a mate in mind for a given heir before they were even out of toddlerhood, and though it was a good strategy, it seemed funny to be cultivating relationships by having the future spouse play shape-sorter with their pint-sized intended. After all that, we thought, how would the Sims turn out if we didn't get to pick the mates at all, or even know in advance who they would be?

How is it played?

The Fate Challenge is loosely based on the Legacy Challenge. In the Fate Challenge, we keep these basic tenets of the Legacy Challenge: start with a created Sim, mate your Sims only with non-controllable Sims (which, in this challenge, are specified), roll a die to select aspirations for the offspring, never reload to change outcomes, and, with certain exceptions, use no cheats or hacks (see below). Each generation of your legacy will yield one predetermined heir; the heir’s goal is to marry and have a child with a specific NPC who’s identified when the heir turns into a teen.

Please note that we designed this challenge while playing with University and Nightlife installed, so portions of it have specific references to those packs. NPCs from successive EPs are not included in these rules but may be added if you do desire. Certain NPCs have been excluded because of known issues with making them playable, such as the Cheerleader/Mascot or because they are not suitable for breeding, such as the Nanny who is always an elder female.

Fate Challenge Rules

The Founder

- The Fate Founder will be an adult of either gender created however the player wants in Create-a-Sim. Since we'd both pretty much conquered the whole "bootstrapping" phase of the Legacy challenge, we allowed that the Fate Legacy founder could start with a pre-made house of our choice (we recommend Sim Estates) and $20K to decorate; however, if you like that lawn-living start, by all means, do so. For added randomness, the Fate neighborhood will be a new neighborhood with a downtown and a university that's created with all new Townies and NPCs by deleting the existing characters and using the boolprop cheat's "create new Townies" and "create new NPCs" options. (See below for how to do this.) No playable characters other than your Fate Challenge founder should occupy the neighborhood when the challenge starts.

- The Founder must marry the "Welcome Wagon" Townie (from the group of three that appears on the lot during the first day) of the appropriate gender. In the case of two Sims of the correct gender, choose the one whose last name comes first alphabetically. This gives those who want to do the "bootstrapping" method a better chance of scoring some cash right off, since NPCs are notoriously poor.

Producing an Heir

- It’s most expedient if only one child is born per generation, unless more are needed to fulfill a related LTW (like "Marry off 6 children," and if you get that one, we're so sorry). Regardless, the Fate Heir must ALWAYS be the first child born to the previous Heir and his/her assigned mate (no adoption). In the case of twins, the first twin born is the Heir. This makes it truly fateful by eliminating heir choice. If the Heir dies, he or she needs to be resurrected. If the Heir gets taken by the Social Worker, he or she needs to be adopted back into the family. There is no passing the torch. It’s advisable to have one of your Sims go to college early on so that the Resurrect-o-Nomitron can be obtained for the family.

- “Spares” bred specifically to fulfill LTW's are given a little more leniency. They may be adopted, though only as infants. They can breed indiscriminately, and offspring do not have to be legitimate, nor do they need to live with their sperm/egg donor (sadly, you will have to control the females since they won't get pregnant otherwise). For sanity, however, they should be moved out of the Fate house. Note that it’s legitimate to allow the Heir to have younger siblings if the parent’s LTW is to have six grandchildren—this burden need not fall solely to the Heir. (The extra grandchildren may also be adopted, but only as infants.)

The Heir’s Destiny

- The Heir of each generation of the Founder's legacy must marry and have a child with an opposite-gendered, appropriately-aged NPC of a type that’s assigned at their teenhood using a roll of two six-sided dice (see below). Rolling for this NPC takes place at the same time as rolling for an aspiration, right after the Heir ages into a teen. The specific NPC to be married is the first appropriate one of the given type that the Heir encounters after turning into a teen. An encounter occurs when the Heir is present on the same lot as the NPC, regardless of whether they meet.

- If multiple NPCs of the correct age and gender are encountered at once (such as by walking into a coffeehouse with multiple baristas), the fated mate will be the first alphabetically by last name. Some NPCs, like the mail carrier, who are of the wrong gender will need to be befriended and invited over in order to give access to subsequent ones; this is part of the challenge.

- The heir must be the one to initially engage the chosen NPC. For example, the heir must make the call and greet the Delivery Person, visit a community lot to find a Host/Hostess, etc.

- In the case of service NPCs who come to the lot, such as Maids, Mail Carriers and Gardeners, family members are not allowed to befriend them prior to the NPC class being chosen. Once the NPC has been designated, however, anyone may befriend them (but not move them in) in order to spawn a new service NPC of the correct gender, if necessary.

- In the case of Professors, the Sim must marry the first Professor of the appropriate gender/age that they encounter, even if it's a walk-by instead of a prof they meet in class. Sims may choose a major prior to their first class to meet Professors in majors other than “undecided.”

- Moving in the chosen NPC before the Heir is an adult is not allowed; however, you may give them makeovers via the Vanity Table.

- All Fate Sims are allowed to change Aspiration once per lifetime. This can be done via the ReNuYu Senso-Orb or upon finishing sophomore year in University. No re-rolling allowed if you roll the same aspiration as the current one (trust us, we've been there). Turn-ons and turn-offs must never be changed from their random assignment at teenhood.

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

- Aspirations are rolled with one six-sided die upon a Sim turning into a teen and are as follows:

1. Fortune

2. Knowledge

3. Family

4. Romance

5. Popularity

6. Pleasure

- Rolling for the fated NPC mate should also take place when the Heir ages into a teen, and it requires two six-sided dice that are distinguishable from one another. See the rolling tables to determine which NPC you have rolled. If you roll one that has already been chosen, roll again.

University
- Sims are not required to attend University unless their designated mate is an NPC located there (such as the Streaker). In that case the Heir must attend and complete college. Otherwise, skipping college or dropping out to cut to the chase of adulthood is acceptable.

When the Grim Reaper Comes

- Each Sim in your Fate Challenge line (Heirs and spouses) is required to fulfill his or her Lifetime Want before dying from any cause (as their “final exit”—if a Sim dies accidentally before fulfilling the LTW, they should be resurrected to fulfill it).

- You can pick one of two goals regarding deaths:

“Fate is Kind”—have every Fate Sim die a platinum death of old age, or
“Fate is Cruel”—have at least one of your Fate Sims die in every possible way with only one death of old age. Depending on what you have installed, possible causes of death include old age, drowning, electrocution, disease, starvation, burning, being hit by a falling satellite, death by flies, being scared to death, running with scissors (download), being eaten by a cowplant (Uni), dying from sunlight as a vampire (NL), plummeting in an elevator (OFB), and death by rally forth (OFB).

- Being haunted is not a necessary part of the Fate Challenge. It’s permitted to move tombstones/urns to a community cemetery or moat them off on your own lot.

Cheats and Hacks Allowed

The general rule is, if it’s cosmetic or bug-fixing, it’s okay.
The founder may use a money cheat to acquire starting cash and a house, if desired.
The only hacked object allowed is the toddler mirror from modthesims2 in order to change toddler appearance (pre-OFB).
When the Professor is the designated mate, SimPE or the boolprop testingcheatsenabled cheat may be used to edit his or her name to remove the “Prof.” from their name.
Use of the moveobjects [on/off] cheat to remove or fix bugged objects or place objects in unusual places is allowed, as is the boolProp allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation [true/false] cheat. The boolProp testingCheatsEnabled [true/false] cheat may be used for the purpose of solving bug issues.
Aspiration or Career Rewards are not considered cheats and are perfectly legitimate, as is custom content (unhacked objects, skins, hair, makeup, custom genetics used on the founder, etc.)
Third-party patches to fix bugs that are not addressed in Maxis patches are allowed (for example, a patch to fix the problem with some Sims not being able to stay married).

To Create the New Neighborhood

(Note: This was written before OFB when apparently this method became unstable. Please follow your method of choice for creating a clean, empty neighborhood. Good places to find instructions for doing this can be found at MTS2 and MATY)

Pick a new base neighborhood with whatever layout you like and load it. From the neighborhood view, open the cheat window and type "deleteallcharacters". (Another method is to open the neighborhood’s Character Files folder—My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods\your new neighborhood\Character Files—and delete all those files.) Then create the founder in CAS and buy or build the legacy's house in the neighborhood. When the Founder has moved in, turn on the boolprop cheat (boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true) and shift-click on the mailbox. Choose "Debug-Create new NPCs." Then choose "Debug-Create new Townies." Turn off the boolprop cheat and save the game.

Check the neighborhood’s Character Files folder and note the highest-numbered file there. Return to the game and create a downtown for your neighborhood. Save and exit, look in the Character Files folder, and delete all character files above your previous high number. Load the game again and follow the same boolprop procedure to have your Founder “create Downtownies.” Save the game.

Once again, check how many files are now in your Character Files folder and make note of the highest number. Add a University campus to the neighborhood. Return to the folder and delete the character files above your previous high number. Townies on the campus must be created from a residential lot there, so you may either create a dummy Sim to take up temporary residence on campus and do the boolprop procedure and create new Townies and NPCs for the campus, or you can wait until your first Sim heads to college and do it then. If using a dummy Sim, delete the Sim after use.

More details are discussed here:

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=74f11728a222b2c1fe2a66d25b542bca;topic=4090.0

Using the NPC Rolling Chart

The Fate Chart (which shows you what NPC number you’ve rolled with your dice) and Fate Table (which shows you which NPC corresponds to which number) were developed by RoloCorgi and AnaDandy for use in their Fate Challenge. Make sure you have two six-sided dice that you can tell apart; decide in advance which is Die 1 and which is Die 2.

Each NPC type below will marry into your Fate family once and only once over the course of 18 generations. Since we want the order to be both random and unknown to us in advance, we roll each generation for a new NPC and reroll if we happen to roll one that has already been used. The “collapsing” rolling method is designed to minimize the number of times you will end up rolling already-used NPCs. (For example, if you only had three choices left but were still rolling out of the whole 18, it would get pretty tiresome to try and hit an available one.)

To roll an NPC for your current Heir, locate their generation’s column in the Fate Chart (the child of the Founder is Generation 2) and roll your two dice. Match the numbers on Dice 1 and 2 to the combo in the column—for example, rolling a 3 on Die 1 and a 1 on Die 2 for the Generation 2 Heir would result in NPC #7. Checking the Fate Table for the #7 NPC, you can see that your Gen 2 Heir is destined to marry the first eligible Firefighter. Cross out the Firefighter on the table.

When you’ve gone through Generations 2-7 and are ready to find a mate for Generation 8, note that the rolling scheme changes. Go to the “Gens 8-10” column in the Fate Table and renumber in order, 1 through 12, the NPCs who haven’t been crossed out yet.

Now use the rolling scheme for Generations 8-10 to roll the new mate. Rolling, say, a 5 on Die 1 and a 2 on Die 2 will give you NPC #8. This would not necessarily be the Gardener, as before, but would instead be the eighth NPC out of the twelve that weren’t chosen in the first six rounds.

Continue through the generations, renumbering the NPCs who are left each time the rolling scheme changes. Note that only one die is required after Generation 13.

Fate Table

# for		*Renumber your unused NPCs here.*
Gens		Gens	Gens	Gens	Gen	Gen
2-7	NPC Mate	8-10	11-13	14-16	17	18
1	Barista
2	Bartender
3	Chinese Food Person
4	Community Bartender
5	DJ
6	Exterminator
7	Firefighter
8	Gardener
9	Grocery Person
10	Gypsy Mate
11	Host
12	Maid
13	Mail Carrier
14	Pizza Person
15	Police Officer
16	Professor
17	Server
18	Streaker

Fate Chart

Gen	Roll 1	Roll 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3

2-7	1-2 Set 1,	1	NPC #1	NPC #7	NPC #13
	3-4 Set 2,	2	NPC #2	NPC #8	NPC #14
	5-6 Set 3	3	NPC #3	NPC #9	NPC #15
		4	NPC #4	NPC #10	NPC #16
		5	NPC #5	NPC #11	NPC #17
		6	NPC #6	NPC #12	NPC #18

8-10	1-3 Set 1,	1	1st NPC left	7th NPC left
	4-6 Set 2	2	2nd NPC left	8th NPC left
		3	3rd NPC left	9th NPC left
		4	4th NPC left	10th NPC left
		5	5th NPC left	11th NPC left
		6	6th NPC left	12th NPC left

11-13	1-2 Set 1,	1	1st NPC left	4th NPC left	7th NPC left
	3-4 Set 2,	2	1st NPC left	4th NPC left	7th NPC left
	5-6 Set 3	3	2nd NPC left	5th NPC left	8th NPC left
		4	2nd NPC left	5th NPC left	8th NPC left
		5	3rd NPC left	6th NPC left	9th NPC left
		6	3rd NPC left	6th NPC left	9th NPC left

14-16	One roll	1	1st NPC left
		2	2nd NPC left
		3	3rd NPC left
		4	4th NPC left
		5	5th NPC left
		6	6th NPC left

17	One roll	1	1st NPC left
		2	1st NPC left
		3	2nd NPC left
		4	2nd NPC left
		5	3rd NPC left
		6	3rd NPC left

18	One roll	1	1st NPC left
		2	1st NPC left
		3	1st NPC left
		4	2nd NPC left
		5	2nd NPC left
		6	2nd NPC left

EPISODE82 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Evil Challenge For Twisted Simmers

2010-01-26T20:53:00.000-08:00

Ok, first of all can I just assure everyone that I would NOT, repeat would NOT, do this (any of this) in real life. This (these?) is (are?) something I enjoy doing on the sims because I would never do something like this (these?) is real life. This challenge is just meant to be a bit of evil fun on the game, not something to repeat in real life.

A brief overview: Create a family and torture their lives with misery, cheating, death, divorce, rejection, illness and other smelly sims.

A more detailed explanation: Create an adult male in C-A-S. Move him into any sized lot you want (although I would recommend a small one) and build any house you want. Have him marry and have a kid together. Have that kid grow up and get married themselves. Have them and their spouse have a kid themselves. The aim is to keep this going for 10 generations. You only need one child (although more can be used) to carry on the family line and they must continue to live in the original house. Sounding a bit like the Legacy Challenge, isn't it? Well, it isn't ... read on...

THE TWIST: The idea of this challenge isn't to keep the family happy through 10 generations - the idea to make them miserable. Per generation, you have to inflict as many unhappy events on your sims as possible. I'm talking divorces, affairs, deaths, fired from job, children with an affair-ee (there probably is an actual name, but I don't know it,) illness, no money, needs low, aspiration failures, etc - you get the picture.

Point System: You start with 200 points per sim (the main family and spouses.) Play the sim through their life and when they are dying or in their last day of elderhood, look in their memories. Add 5 points for every bad memory (the ones with a red background) they have - they will all be miserable events; the kind of event this challenge aims to get. -5 points for each good memory (the ones with a green background) they have. If your sim experiences an accidental death and you don't get time to look at their memories, add 200 points - that is worth the amount of points you get for 40 bad memories, so about the amount you'd expect to get. The exceptions to the 'good memories point loss' are any unavoidable ones (eg: met whoever.) I don't really need to give a list, you're all sensible, you know what I mean. I'd just like to point out, however, that 'got engaged' and 'got married' are NOT included in the exceptions for user-created sims or kids in the main family line, because they are avoidable in these (the people the sims marry, provided they aren't user/maxis-created or part of a user/maxis-created family, are excluded from 'got engaged,' 'got married' and 'had a baby' because it's only one aspiration that sees them as bad and yuo are not in control of NPC or Townie aspirations.)

Rules: There are few rules, actually only one: No cheats - it's so much more fun to make sims miserable naturally. I like to make challenges as fun as possible, so that means not being restricted to all different things.

Enjoy torturing poor simmies with evil events, reply if you're taking part and please keep me updated on what you're sims are experiencing.

EPISODE81 Oil & Water

2010-01-12T20:01:00.000-08:00

Do opposites attract? Let's find out!

Object: How quickly can you get two sims that hate each other (and have nothing in common) to fall in love. You may use your own couple or download our McGraw family at the simpage of Trixie9819. If you create your own couple, you must follow the guidelines below.

The rules are simple. No cheats allowed (other than the ones to set up your own couple, listed below)
You may not change aspirations, turn ons or turn off...and you may not change the other sim to fit the turn ons.
You may not use Love Potion #8.5 to enhance your couple's attraction toward each other.
All relationship building must be done through interactions. You may not move either sim out. They have to live with each other. Your sims can work, but they don't have to. However, you may not use any money cheat so what you start with is it, unless they do. The contest is over when they have a 100/100 love relationship with each other. Note the number of days since move in, and the time of day they fell in love.

Download the lot "Living Hell" from Trixie's page here:
http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=253288

To create your own match not made in heaven make two adult sims. You can make them as separate families as long as you have the "merge household" feature (ie in University).

The first must be a Family sim with 0 Neat, 10 Outgoing, 0 Active, 10 Playful, 5 Nice. Using hair colors for turn ons and turn off, set the turn off at the hair color the other will display.

The other must be a Romance sim with 10 Neat, 0 Outgoing, 10 Active, 5 Nice. Again using hair colors for turn ons and turn off, set the turn off at the hair color the first sim displays.

Merge your sims (or create them as roomies).

Using SimPE or "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" (activate the cheat from the neighborhood, and you can "slide" relationship score left and right) set their relationship at –52/-52 for each and do one insult interaction making them enemies.

Also, adjust their interests so whatever Sim A is 10 points of interested in, Sim B is 0 and vice versa…this gives them nothing to
talk about. (again, when the cheat is activated from the neighborhood, you can slide the interests left and right).

Using your slider, slide the Romance sim's Nice trait to 0, and the Family sim's Nice trait to 10.

Have each Sim "Flirt…Check out" the other to establish gender preference.

In their own little living hell can these two realize that true love is based on more than chemistry?

This contest runs until Sunday, October 16 at 11:59pm Pacific time.

Happy Therapy!
Trixie9819 and VioletKitty

EPISODE79 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Amish Challenge

2009-11-03T20:39:00.000-08:00

The Amish Challenge by KKat4500
Your challenge
to make you sims live without electronic devices with no cheats.

The story
A mom and a dad are setting out to the farmland with their 2 children, a boy and a girl(no toddlers, at least 1 must be a kid, one can be a teen, if you wish.)they move into a small house(i used family farmhouse in houses bin)and start to settle in. The parents have recently decided to become amish.You want to have lots of kids to help aroung the house(like a real old -fashioned farm).

Objective
your house may NOT have any electronics in it, which includes, but is not limited to:
Phones
Tv's
Exercise Machines
Cars
Pinball Machines
Coffee makers
Computers
Remote-Controlled Cars/Planes
Fire alarms
Lights, ect.

You MAY,however have a refigerator a stove,a toilet and a shower or tub,but no other electronics.

The game play
You then try to control your family as normal,with the kids going to school.The parents may getr jobs, but they must be from the newspaper.The game ends when the parents either both die or when the kids are all adults.

Points
Kid gets A+-50
Get a job-100
Get a pet(if you have pets)-100
Each extra kid-1000
get to end without electronics-2000
Top of career-500
Skill point-10

Now bad points...

Fire!= -50
Burglar!= -50
Death= -1000
Social Worker= -1000 per kid
Each cheat code used= -50
Each electronic used= -100
Repo Man-200

Happy Simming

Sims Horror Movie

EPISODE78 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Dog Food Challenge

2009-10-20T20:53:00.000-07:00

The Dog Food Challenge Created by ErieMcCallPlayer

I made up this challenge. What you do:
-First, make two parents. They can be absolutely anything you want. They can have any personalities, genders, or zodiacs that you want.
-Two, you make six toddlers. They can be anything you want also, so no worries there.
-Three, you make the lot. It can look like absolutely anything. They only things you HAVE to have are six dog food bowls, a changing table, and six cribs.

-You MUST have freewill on for the challenge to work.

-Here's the catch: You can't tell the adults what to do. The only exceptions to this rule are to fill the dog food bowls(If toddlers are hungry, they will eat out of them) and that if you have foundation, you can carry the toddlers into the house at the beginning of the game.
-You can control the toddlers, but they cannot learn to walk, or talk, or be potty-trained.
-The main goal is to make the toddlers as happy as possible until they grow up, without help from adults, or walking, talking, or pottying
-If a toddler wets their pants you can't tell the adults to change them. The toddlers must ask to be changed.

-Point scoring:
-Point additions-
For each toddler that grows up well- 3 pts
Each time a toddler got five skill points(in total)- 2 pts
Never passed out on the floor- 1 pt
Never had to eat the dog food- 1 pt
Adults never setting fire- 5 pts

-Point deductions-
-1/2 pt for every time the toddlers eat dog food.
-1 pt for every toddler that does not grow up well.
-1/2 pt for every time a toddler passes out.
-5 pts if one of the adults die.
-5 pts if a toddler gets taken away.

TIPS:
-Have a burglar and fire alarm handy in case of emergency.
-Don't put stairs anywhere in the house, it will block the toddlers.
-You can use money cheats, so take advantage of that.
-You can get a pet if you want, but it might prove tough with six toddlers.

Try it out! Don't forget to sign my guest book about how it went!

EPISODE77 - The Sims 2 Challenges - My Life is Like a Teen TV Show

2009-09-22T19:07:00.000-07:00

My life is like a Teen TV show by Rachel S.

Are you a fan of teen TV shows like Degrassi, Beverly Hills 90210, Saved by the Bell, Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill or The OC? Are you looking for a challenge that revolves around your teen sims? Than this is the perfect challenge for you.

In this challenge a new girl and her family moves to town. Your goal is to add as much drama to each of these families lives as possible. Like any good teen show her life along with her friends and their families lives should be a mix of some highs and a lot of lows.

This is a perfect challenge for those who like to write stories, but it is not required.

Starting Out
-Create a new neighborhood.
-Create the 5 families below.
-You may choose their personality and turn ons and turn offs yourself.
-You may choose the Aspiration of the Adults unless otherwise specified.

Creating your Families

Family #1
1-Teen Female (Daughter), Popularity (The New Girl)
1-Adult Male (Father), Money
1-Adult Female (Mother), Family
You may use motherlode once for this family so that they may buy a nice home

Family #2
1-Teen Female (Daughter), Pleasure or Popularity if you don’t have Nightlife (The Rich Girl)
1-Adult Female (Mother)
You may use unlimited money cheats for this family

Family #3
1-Teen Male (Brother), Romance (The Bad Boy)
1-Adult Male (Father)
You may not use any cheats for this family

Family #4
1-Teen Male (Son), Knowledge (The Cute Nerd)
1-Adult Male (Father)
1-Adult Female (Girlfriend)
You may use motherlode once for this family so that they may buy a nice home

Family #5
1-Teen Male (Son), Money (The Popular Boy)
1-Adult Male (Father)
1-Adult Female (Mother)
You may use unlimited money cheats for this family

Rules
-Money cheats are allowed for certain families.
-You may use fixes or move_objects for bugs.
-No hacks or cheats are allowed that effect mood or gameplay.
-Custom content for skins, clothing, hair, etc. is allowed.
-You must play each family for the same amount of time.
-You can only move in or marry a sim from one of the five families you created.
-Townies, Downtownies and College Townies are extras. You don’t socialize with extras.
-NPC’s are guest stars or recurring characters. You can befriend them and have romantic relationships with them (including engagement). But you cannot marry them and they cannot join your household.
-You can use career rewards and aspiration objects
-You can only use one bottle of elixir of life per sim.
-You must do all chance cards.
-Teens and children cannot go to private school.
-Only Families #2 and #5 can hire service npcs.
-Alien abductions are allowed but alien births are not. If your sim is pregnant with an alien being you must give the child up for adoption.
-If you have the University Ep, the challenge ends with every teen going to college and transitioning into young adults. Only runaway teens are allowed to transition into an adult.
-If you don’t have the University Ep, the Challenge ends with each teen having a birthday party and transitioning into an adult.

University Update
-You cannot use “combine households” to merge households.
-Resurrected Sims cannot come back as zombies. If they do you must kill them.

Nightlife Update
-You can use the ReNuYuSenso Orb to change a Sims aspiration only to grilled cheese. You must keep this aspiration for 3 Sim days and than the Sim must change back to their previous aspiration.
-Sims cannot become vampires.

Open For Business Update
-Only Family #4 can make servos. (You can only have one servo in the household).
-Only one family is allowed home businesses and only families #2 and #5 can have community lot businesses.

Pets Update
-Only one family can have a pet
-That family can only have one pet.
-The Pet must be an adopted stray.
-You cannot hire anyone to train it.

Scoring
2 points - 1st kiss with a new sim
4 points - 1st time your sims cheats (must be going steady, engaged or married)
5 points – Get caught cheating by sim they are in relationship with
1 point - Throw a roof raiser party
2 points - Throw a total disaster party
4 points - Get in a fight
3 points - Change aspiration to grilled cheese
5 points - Aspiration failure
5 points - Get burglarized and criminal escapes
3 points – Get burglarized and criminal is caught
5 points – Get burglarized and your Sim frees the criminal
5 points - Become best friends with a sim who was once your enemy
-5 points – For each Townie Friend
-10 points - Get abducted
-10 points - Every time a Sim gets fat

Children
1 point - For each adoption
2 points - For each baby born (excluding twins)
5 points – For each set of twins
3 points – For each child born in game that gets taken by the social worker
1 point – For a child born in game that grows up well
2 points – For a child born in game grows up badly

Teens
3 points- Teen has very first kiss
4 points- Teen gets rejected for very first kiss
2 points -Teen goes steady with a new sim
5 points -Teen goes steady with a sim they’ve been in a relationship with before
3 points -Teen gets rejected for going steady
1 point - Teen goes out
2 points - Teen sneaks out
5 points - Teen sneaks out and is brought home by the police
5 points - Teen runs away
3 points – Teen reaches the top of a career track
5 points – Teen Sim transitions into a young adult (University EP) or Adult (No University EP) with a platinum aspiration
-5 points – Teen gets zits

Adults
5 points – For every adult Sim that reaches the top of a career track
3 points – For the 1st woohoo with a new sim from one of the 5 families
2 points – 1st woohoo with NPC
2 points - Move in
3 points - Get engaged
4 points - Break off engagement
8 points - Get married
10 points - Get left at alter
10 points - Get divorced
5 points - Get Separated (2 sims that are still married and one sim moves out)

Death
5 points – A child born in the game dies
3 points - An NPC dies
1 point - A townie dies
5 points - Saved from death
20 points - Sim is resurrected
-15 points - Teen dies
-10 points - An Adult Sim dies

University Update
10 points - Achieve lifetime want
1 point - Each scholarship earned

Nightlife Update
2 points - Have 1st date with a Sim
1 point - Each dream date
2 points - Each horrible date
2 points - Each group outing with all the teen Sims in the 5 families

Open for Business Update
5 points - Build a servo and he or she lives with the family until end of challenge

Pets Update
2 points - Adopt a stray

Bonus Points
I’m running out of people to date bonus – All 5 teens have gone steady with all playable teens of the opposite sex. Score, 30 points.

University Update
Band Bonus – Your teens are going to form a band! Each teen must reach at least level 5 creativity. Throw a party and play for your family and friends. Have 4 of them on instruments and one free styling. They must play between 2 to 4 Sim hours and must get tipped $200 simoleons. The party must also be a roof raiser. Score, 40 points.

Nightlife Update
Prom Bonus – Your teen Sims are going to Prom! You must a create a community lot or download one and decorate it for prom. Send your sims out shopping for new formal wear. They will need to form a group and go to that community lot at night and stay until the morning. Make sure they eat dinner, dance, have a few drinks, make out and catch a few zzzz’s on some beds. Score, 30 points.

Open For Business Update
School Project Bonus – Have one of your teens start a home business. The teen must hire only playable teens from the five families. The Sims will receive an A+ on this project if the business becomes a level 10 business. Score, 50 points.

Pets Update
FFA Award Bonus – Your teen must adopt one or more strays. Have your teen and only your teen train your pet or pets. If the pet maxes out all their skills and produces at least one puppy or kitten the Sim will receive an award from their local FFA. (limited to one household) Score, 40 points.

EPISODE76 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Cinderella Challenge

2009-08-25T17:49:00.000-07:00

The Cinderella Challenge
by MeowMaster

The next day the two sisters were at the ball, and so was Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her, and never ceased his compliments and kind speeches to her; to whom all this was so far from being tiresome that she quite forgot what her godmother had recommended to her; so that she, at last, counted the clock striking twelve when she took it to be no more than eleven; she then rose up and fled, as nimble as a deer. The Prince followed, but could not overtake her. She left behind one of her glass slippers, which the Prince took up most carefully. She got home but quite out of breath, and in her nasty old clothes, having nothing left her of all her finery but one of the little slippers, fellow to that she dropped.

Yes, a challenge based on the classic romance of Cinderella! I didn't find anything like this before, so hopefully it's a relatively new concept. Inspired by the story of Cinderella, and the Bachelor challenge :) On with the rules!

To start, you must create a male Adult sim (but if you like to be a rogue, challenge-rule-ignorer, then feel free to make him female, or start in college, or even teenhood!), your ‘prince’ whose appearance you may fully customize. For his aspiration (& secondary aspiration, if you have Free Time) and personality, you must roll a die:

Aspiration:
1 – Pleasure (or if you don’t have Nightlife, roll again).
2 – Family
3 – Romance
4 – Knowledge
5 – Wealth/Fortune
6 – Popularity
He may not be a Grilled Cheese sim. You may not change his aspiration throughout the course of the challenge.

Personality:
1 – Aries or Taurus (you may choose either)
2 – Gemini or Cancer (you may choose either)
3 – Leo or Virgo (you may choose either)
4 – Libra or Scorpio (you may choose either)
5 – Sagittarius or Capricorn (you may choose either)
6 – Aquarius or Pisces (you may choose either)

You may choose his turn-ons and -offs.
Once you have created your sim, congratulations! You are ready to begin the challenge.

Move your sim – let’s call him Prince – into a lot of any size, prebuilt or blank, it doesn’t matter. Feel free to Motherlode and Familyfund to your heart’s content – money cheats are the only cheats allowed in this challenge. Prince may also get a job or start a business, get a pet, maid, etc. He is not constrained by any means, other than making sure his motives are in the green ;)

Go Here to Read the rest of the Challenge

EPISODE74- The Sims 2 Challenges - Daisy Chain

2009-07-28T17:59:00.000-07:00

Have you always wondered what to do with your lone hubby when his/her spouse died? Want to generate new townies/genes in your neighborhood? Look no further, as this challenge is for you!

First create a single sim, with personality, genetics, and Aspiration of your choice. Have that sim move on to any lot in the neighborhood.

When your sims marry, they can only marry townies and NPCs.

No move-ins are allowed.

Have that sim build up a relationship to get married/joined to someone in that neighboorhood.

The main point of this is that each marriage/joining starting with the first sim is creating a "daisy chain". This means that when one of the members of the couple dies, the widowed sim then builds up a relationship and gets married/joined to someone else. Repeat this until either all of the members of this daisy chain die, or when reaching 10 sims in the chain, on the same lot. Each of these marriages must last at least 5 days, enough time to have/adopt a child. That means no breaking up or intentional premature deaths before 5 days. Only Old age and non-intentional accidental deaths are allowed before the 5 days. These include no access to Elixir of Life and a high enough Aspiration score for an aging sim, pregnancy death glitches, satellite hits, accidental drowning (no removing the pool ladder or denying interactions that involve exiting the pool), scaring to death, and losing to the Grim Reaper (as long as the pleader had any chance of succeding the plea: That sim had Daily and Lifetime scores of the dead sim totaling at least 25.).

Example: Lets say your first sim (we'll use Angela Pleasant as an example) gets married (we'll use Kennedy Cox as another example). When Angela dies, then have Kennedy build up a relationship and get married to someone else (let's say Andrea Hogan). When Kennedy dies, have Andrea do the same, and so on. The daisy chain would end here if Andrea didn't get married to someone and had/adopt a child when married before she died.

Please note that if a sim is married more than two times, the marriages beyond the first two won't count in this chain. (Example: After Kennedy dies, Andrea marries Amin Sims.[That's two marriages, one to Kennedy and one to Amin.] If Amin dies and Andrea marries [to Komei Tellerman], Komei won't count as being part of the chain due to that being Andrea's third marriage. This means that try not to get the younger person of the couple die first.)

Same-sex and Opposite-sex marriages are permitted, and so are Elder/Adult marriages.

Important Note: I have been hearing reports that sometimes when a sim dies of old age, the widowed sim is still considered to be married to the dead sim, and can't get engaged to someone else. The patch was supposed to have fixed this, but I still hear reports of this occuring post-patch wise. If this awful occasion occurs, well sorry, there's not much you can do about it, but since the marriage is still there, you still can get "affair" memories for points (see below).

After each marriage in the daisy chain, you must provide evidence that the sims were married. To do so, do the following:

1) Have the couple either have or adopt a child (alien pregnancies won't count for this, but provide an additional scoring opportunity.) Children won't count as being in the chain, though.

2) Either have one of the sims in the household paint a Still Life painting of the oldest member of the couple (as an Elder) floating while meditating (If you sim can't meditate due to too many Playful points, have them make a painting of that sim doing Yoga instead).

AND/OR

Keep the tombstones/urns of the late family member in the household. (Be careful of the ghosts, though.)

You may use cheats ONLY for debugging purposes only (no motherlode, aging -off, or boolProp, etc; only MoveObjects on to delete bugged objects. You may also use deleteallcharacters ONLY at the very beginning of the challenge, if you want only NPCs and townies in the neighborhood). No hacked objects are allowed.

You may use Career and Aspiration rewards to your desire (be careful with the SimVac, as it may cause Aspiration failures that will result in penalties).

If you lot gets too buggy to play adequately, you may end up having to restart the challenge. Please note that uploading lots as backups may cause the "sims not being able to marry when spouse dies" glitch. I've seemed to have this occur when moving families to different neighborhoods.

When the children grow up to become teens, you may choose their aspiration, or have some fun and choose it randomly.

When the teens become adults, they may move out, or stay in the original house. Getting them married does NOT count for the daisy chain, though, but still counts for scoring purposes.

No saving and restarting due to bad events (rejected marriage, death in household, etc.) allowed.

At the end of this challenge, you should be able to trace the daisy chain back to the beginning via the children in the Family Tree, and everyone should have the last name of the original sim (since move-ins aren't allowed, only marriages/joinings).

Scoring (Please don't kill me if this looks similar to other challenges!)

-5 for each break up that occurs, regardless of whether the couple was going steady, engaged, or married/joined

-5 points for each premature death that occurs on the lot, whether household or visitor sims (includes accidental pregnancy deaths, so be very careful..)

-2 points for EACH baby, toddler, or child taken away by the social worker

+3 points for each non-Platinum tombstone/urn on the lot

+5 points for each Platinum tombstone/urn on the lot

+2 points for each Meditation/Yoga Still Life portrait on lot (See above)

+1 point for each successful engagment attempt

+2 points for each successful marriage/join attempt

+2 points for each successful Go Steady attempt

-1 point for each rejected engagement attempt

-3 points for each rejected marriage attempt (sim gets left at the altar)

-2 points for each rejected Go Steady attempt

+1 point for each adoption

+2 points for each baby had (regular)

+3 points for each alien baby had (via alien abuduction)

+1 points for each alien abduction

+4 points for every set of twins born

-2 points for every teen that runs away from home

-3 points for each time a tombstone is kicked or urn is smashed

-4 points for each time one of the sims in the daisy-chain is married beyond the second time (Example: Andrea Hogan gets married to Amin Sims and later, Amin dies. If Andrea remarries, this penalty incurs. However, if instead Andrea dies, and Amin remarries, no penalty occurs this way.)

+3 points each time a sim is saved from death (Does not include each time someone defeats the Grim Reaper, only when someone is saved this way. Each sim saved from death this way can only receive this bonus once per lifetime. However, a sim may defeat the Grim Reaper as many times as he want and does)

+3 points for each "Had an affair" memory obtained

-3 points for each "Got caught cheating" memory obtained

+1 point for each $100,000 worth of net funds on the lot (that's +2 points for $200,000; +5 for $500,000, and so on)

+5 points for having all of the Career rewards on the lot at end of challenge

+2 points for having all Aspiration rewards (usable, used-up objects don't count) on the lot at end of challenge

-1 point for each Aspiration failure on the lot, whether by visitors or household sims

+1 point for each type of NPC married/join in the chain (townies will count as a type of NPC, but only once)

Good Luck!

EPISODE74 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Biblical Challenge

2009-06-30T19:01:00.000-07:00

The Biblical Challenge

by The Ben on June 5th, 2007, 5:48 pm

I got this idea while spacing off during the sermon in church!

The Point: To reach 10 generations while following the strict Old Testament based rules.

Concerning Males
~All Male sims must work.
~All male sims must pray [meditate] for atleast 1 [one] SH [Sim Hour] a day. If a sim cannot meditate, they must make some kind of music for 2 [Two] SH's to show thier devotion.
~All Male sims must wear a hat to show their devotion.
~All Male sims caught in the act of adultery must be locked in the Room of Cleansing for a day. [see Room of Cleansing building rules]
~All Male sims that heart fart over an extended family member should be locked in the Room of Cleansing for a day.
~All Male sims must refrain from wearing red - the color of the devil.
~All Male sims must wear clothes that cover the body - no speedos. Only the boxers with the undershirts. [If you cannot download anything, swimwear is an exception]
~All Male sims must woohoo thier wives atleast twice a week. A holy marriage must be taken advantage of.
~Only Male sims may ask to marry.
~Male sims may not take the last name of thier wives.
~Male sims may not cook or clean at all.
~Male sims may only teach male children how to Potty, Walk, Talk, or Study.
~Male sims may only 'Give Lessons' on career rewards to other Male Sims.
~Only Male sims may go to college
~Only Bachelors may Cook and Clean

Concerning Females:
[list] ~No Female may work.
~All Females must stay home, cook, and clean, and take care of the children.
~All Females must have atleast 4 children.
~All Females must wait on thier husbands hand and foot.
~The only way any Female may make an income is gardening, (Seasons only) or preforming for Tips.
~All Females must pray [meditate] for 1 [One] SH a day. If one is unable to pray, they must play some sort of music for 2 [two] SH's a day.
~All Females caught in the act of adultery must be locked in the Room of Cleansing for One Day.
~All Females caught heartfarting over a distant relative must be locked in the Room of Cleansing for one day.
~Only Females may teach female children how to Potty, Walk, Talk, or Study.
~All Females must refrain from wearing red, the color of the devil
~All Females must wear un-revealing clothes.
~There may only be Female Servos.

To read the rest of the challenge go here.

Crucifix

EPISODE70 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Color My (Sim) World Challenge

2009-06-02T17:56:00.000-07:00

please refer to the BBS thread:

http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=&threadID=ae5032c2590ffcbdb39f7fbf2c07becf&directoryID=82&startRow=1#a8605889f7eb160599c52a4b6450cf89

Part 1:
Okay, I’m going to show my age with this one . . . but do any of you remember Captain Noah and the song he used to sing on his TV show?

[Sings] Red and yellow and pink and green . . . purple and orange and blue . . . I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, too.

Well, I’ve created a challenge based on colors and I present it here for your Simming pleasure. This challenge can be played both with or without the University EP.

Here are the guidelines:

Red
Yellow
Pink
Green
Purple
Orange
Blue
Brown
Black
White

Create a brand new neighborhood. Call it whatever you want. (I’m going to call mine Rainbow Falls).

Then (using CAS or Body Shop) create a husband/wife (ONLY) for each color family. You may select whatever personalities and aspirations you wish. Give them the last name of one of the above colors, for a total of 10 families. For this challenge, we are foregoing same-sex partnerships. The “Rainbow” in “Rainbow Falls” for my neighborhood is merely a play on words for this color challenge.

Move them into an affordable lot or home within the neighborhood. Exterior of homes for each color family should be representative of their last name. In other words, the exterior of Bob and Betty White’s house would be predominantly white, so that it will be fairly easy to notice what color families are predominant from the neighborhood view as the game progresses.

The neighborhood can only be populated by COLOR families – this means you can’t move in NPC’s or Townies and then have them find their own place. You also can’t gain money by doing this and then just move them out and leaving them in the bin either! Tsk, tsk.

No divorces/moving out of spouses permitted. If for some reason one spouse leaves of their own accord, they will have to remain in the family bin for all eternity. Don’t expect child support payments. LOL! Remaining spouses CANNOT remarry. If they left before procreating…that color family is essentially out of the challenge.

Part 2 (continuation):
No illegitimate children are permitted. Also, no adoptions and no alien children. So…don’t have your men-folk use the expensive telescope, just in case.

Color families can only have 1 (ONE) child during their lifetime. If the child dies or gets taken by the social worker, essentially, that color family dies off as well. (Updated: Silly me. Never even thought about the twins possibility. Well considering they are a pretty rare occurrence, if it should happen, consider that family very lucky as they have an extra chance to carry on their color name -- if one or both are boys, that is.)

You must make every effort to age the 10 original families and each successive generation evenly. You don’t have to play the elder parents once the child has aged to an adult and moved out, but you should play the children-turned-adults evenly, so all generations are in sync. This way there will be no unfair advantages to any specific color family.

Color families may ONLY marry other color families. In other words, you can’t marry NPC’s or Townies.

When children of the different color families marry, they MUST take the husband’s color family name. For example: Suzy Red marries Bob Brown. Bob should propose to and marry Suzy, so she will become Suzy Brown.

Children who become adult must remain with their parents until they get married. Once married, they can either move out on their own (creating a new home with the exterior colors representative of their last name) or may remain in the same home with the husband’s parents. The choice is yours.

NO cheats allowed (however, “moveobjects on” is OK in emergency situations) – This means: NO restarting-without-saving after bad events, NO money cheats, NO hacks of any kind. All aspiration and career rewards are OK – EXCEPT for NO Cowplant and NO Green Elixir of Life. Lifetimes of the families cannot be artificially extended. Yes, this means NO pleading with the Grim Reaper, either! Dead is dead. Likewise, Sim suicide is not acceptable, either – NO forcing them to run with scissors or missing-pool-ladder incidents. Widowed spouses CANNOT remarry.

Sending children to University is OK if you want to extend your gameplay -- but remember, they can’t marry NPC classmates once they return to their neighborhoods, so no engagements while away at school, unless it is to a member of another color family. Once they return to the neighborhood, they must move in with their parents until they get married (as per above). Also, if you send any children to University, you can only play the children in the regular neighborhood until they reach the age transition from teen to adulthood. Once they make the age transition to adult, you must then wait to play them again until all your same-generation University grads/dropouts return to the neighborhood. (As per above guidelines for aging generations evenly.)

Part 3 (conclusion):
The challenge ends when you either have one of the following occurrences:

Only ONE newly-married color family is left (only counting adults – not elders – as you may not have played them if you moved out their married child-turned-adult). This is BEST CASE SCENARIO.

or

You only have one gender of color families left – that is you have three color families, but all the children or children-turned-adult are female. Obviously, since families are husband/wife, they will not be able to procreate, as there are no age-appropriate males available from another color family.

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I haven’t yet played this challenge out, but in theory it should work. In reality – well I guess we’ll find that out together. Heh heh.

It appears fairly easy and straightforward, although the timeline for each player will differ depending on mother nature. But it’s pretty effortless -- with no scoring required. Probably the hardest part will be aging your generations evenly. To make it easier to keep track of which family has been played to what point – you may want to put pertinent info in that family’s description (you know, the white box that appears when you click on their home from the neighborhood view).

Any questions or clarifications, just post to this thread and I’ll try to reply as promptly as possible.

I hope this is a challenge that you find interesting enough to try! Enjoy! And don’t forget to post your results or even stories that you may have made during the course of the challenge!

It will be fun to see the different outcomes. Like what color family prevailed? How many generations did it take to finish the challenge? How wealthy did that family become? Which color families intertwined (married each other) the most? Just some fun facts that everyone can share.

http://www.asimwen.com/Fellowship/
http://v2.jennthesimmergirl.com/fellowship2.php
http://genensims.com/

EPISODE69 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Lockdown Challenge

2009-05-19T18:04:00.000-07:00

Story:
Eight cons are transported from a facility in Simtown, to a newly built lot in a distant city. They are all in for life and this is their only chance to escape prison. They are tough people, all guilty as charged, and the system has no use for them - until now. Thanks to the new reality show Lockdown they will compete for acquittance and freedom, but there can only be one winner.
The Lot:
The lot is separated by a high fence, and on each side there's a house. One large and comfortable, full of necessities and entertainment. The other cramped, scarce of furniture and playthings. The large house (known as The King) has a maid and may call the repairman, but the small house (known as The Pawn) must manage on their own with no contact with the outside.

Goal:
The convicts spend their time as they want, working on skills or relationships, but every two days one must leave. At first they're all in The King, but when a contestant loses he or she has to live in The Pawn. When there are only two people left in The King, one from the other house will join them for the big finale. The winner will get the house, a job and some money and can start a new life, free of all charges.

Finale:
It's not going to be pretty, oh no. The third finalist will be chosen based on the amount of aspiration points acquired. He or she will join the other two and the trio will get thrown in a pool. Someone from our crew will remove the ladder, and the first one to die is out (The Pool of Death). The two survivors then get locked up in a small, empty room without food and the survivor is our winner (The Final Lockdown). The other five contestants will go back, but not to prison - they will face death row.

Rules:
1. You may not interfere! The only times you can control the sims are when hiring a maid, calling a repairman, paying bills, selling paintings and when transporting a loser to The Pawn, and at the finale when they are going in The Pool of Death and The Final Lockdown.

2. Make 8 sims in CAS, four women and four men. All must be adults and at least one of every aspiration should be assigned.

3. You cannot use any aspiration awards or hacked objects. Custom clothes, make-up, genetics, walls, floors and furniture recolours are fine.

4. They can't get jobs, or have computers - but they can have phones. The only non-cons they will meet are the maid, firemen, policemen and the repairman - which are only allowed in The King. They can't call any other NPC. You may pay bills.

5. When neighbours come to greet the cons, you may interfere: Don't let the cons talk to them.

6. You may use motherlode as many times as needed to build the houses and pay the bills. But you cannot give them more objects after you've started the game, not even in case of a fire.

7. Before the eliminated con will be transfered to The Pawn he or she can have their last supper. You may control the sim, cook something and make them eat it - but that's it.

8. If/when someone dies their tombstone should be placed in The Pawn's garden.

Rules for The King:
1. You may have a fire alarm. If you have Uni, you may only have sprinklers (as many as you'd like). You are also allowed to have a burglar alarm.

2. Always use the most expensive items! This is a luxurious house.

3. Two kingsized beds, three single beds and 1 couch in the bedroom. The size of the room is not important, and you may decorate with paintings, curtains, lamps etc. And, yes, there is one bedroom only.

3. Four bathrooms are allowed - one toilet, one shower/tub and decorations.

4. Kitchen: Two stoves, two microwaves, three fridges, one dining table with four chairs. As many counters as you'd like. A dishwasher and a trash compressor. One blender, one coffee machine and one espresso machine. Decorations.

5. And now, the toys. You can put them all in one room, or build a music room, a chess room, a gym, a library and so on. It's your choice. You can have a stereo in every room if you wish.

6. Instruments - one of each. Two chesstables, one bookcase, one television (+ a couch), no videogames, no computers, no dart games, no pinball machines. The cons' only choices should, with few exceptions, be skill building objects. Three easels (and yes, you can interfere when a painting is done so you can sell it), two work-out machines of your choice and one Electrodancer (if you have Nightlife).

7. Outside: A pool, which will later transform to The Pool of Death, two telescopes (you may build an observatory), one hot tub of your choice, and a juice bar. You may have flowers and bushes, but no gardener.

Rules for The Pawn:
1. The house should be small, and use ugly wallpapers and floors. Use the cheapest furniture around, this is supposed to be a real dump.
2. You let the losers inside, but then you take away the door (or lock for all sims, if you have OFB). The fence around the house will also prevent people from getting in or out.

3. They may have two singlebeds and one couch in the bedroom.

4. There can only be one bathroom, and no stalls ouside of this bathroom.

5. One microwave, one fridge (but the expensive one!), three counters and a sink. One small table and two chairs.

6. One chesstable, one easel and one stereo.

7. No garden or porch, no windows, no doors leading to the outside.

The Finale:
When you only have three cons left in The King, you will have eliminations as usual, vote one off and let that person live in The Pawn for 24 sim hours. After those 24 hours, t he one with the highest aspiration points will move back into The King . They have roughly 24 sim hours to rest, eat and go to the bathroom. You should control them, but do not favour one over the other. Treat them equally!
At 10 a.m. the next day it's time for The Pool of Death. Just throw them in, remove the ladder and keep an eye on them. As soon as one dies, put the ladder back and make the sims get into the house again. If two dies, you take a new finalist from The Pawn (the one with the highest AP), if all three dies you take 2 new from The Pawn.
You let your two finalists rest for roughly 24 sim hours, just like last time and remember, don't play favourites! At 10 a.m. it's time for The Final Lockdown. It is supposed to be a small, empty room. Completely empty! Remove the door and keep an eye on them. As soon as the first one croaks, let the other one out and give him or her the rewards. Send the others packing.

Points:
Every two days, at six a.m., you should pause the game and keep score. The one with the lowest will be sent to The Pawn immediately, and the winner doesn't get squat. If two (or more) have the same points, the one with the lowest aspiration points will leave. If they have the same AP, the one with fewest friends must leave. If they have the exact amount of friends, which would be really weird, you may choose. If someone dies there will be no elimination until next time.

+'s:
1 p for every skill point
2 p for every maxed out skill
1 p for every friend
2 p for every best friend
½ p for every won fight
1 p for everyone who has a crush on that sim (so how that particular sim feels doesn't matter).
2 p for everyone who loves that sim
4 p for every abduction

-'s:
-1 p for every enemy
-½ p for every lost fight
-1 p for every visit from the shrink

EPISODE68 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Xenophilia Challenge

2009-05-05T18:01:00.000-07:00

The Xenophilia Challenge:

After having acquired a very strange telescope from a local junkyard in your town, you, a male sim just beginning his adult life, decide to kick off the first night in your new house by doing a bit of stargazing. However, after only a second or two of surveying the skies, you realize just why said telescope was abandoned. In the haze of memory that follows, you are only able to pick out three bits of information- "perfectly compatible DNA strain", "high potential", and "release the first". You're not sure what to make of it at first, and for the first month or two, you try to put it behind you. That is, until you start throwing up in toilets and growing out of your shirts. As you eventually find and figure out, you, a "docile specimen of compotently sentinent life", have been chosen as a "nuture point" for the excess population of a dangerously overcrowded alien homeworld. In accordance with the species' fundamental pillar of protection of life at all costs, the unwanted unborn are farmed and implanted into said nurture points, members of other races who can stand to carry the foreign body without severe consequence. Basically, you're pregnant with an extraterrestrial- and, according to your potential, they plan to "nurture" seven alien children in your open womb, or rather the steel one they've implanted in your abdomen, one right after the other. Good solution for them. Nightmarish for you.

A dazed and fearful nine months later, you find yourself giving birth to a child with green skin. Later that night, in a process that repeats itself six times, you walk outside against your will, enter another memory haze, and come back pregnant once again. The children are not the horrid monsters you expected to see. Your DNA has fused with them, leaving them half-human, and they are as docile as any baby. A few even have your eyes. Moved with pity, you become determined to raise them well, as if they were fully human children. However, it soon becomes apparent that this is quite a daunting task, and as everyone in town is afraid of them, no one wants to move in with you and help you. Can you take on an ever-increasing number of alien children alone...while under the constant hormonal throes of pregnancy with the next one?

In a nutshell, one man birthes and raises seven alien Sims to adulthood, with the help of a modded telescope.

Find the full rules here.

Tales From Challengeville

EPISODE67 - The Sims 2 Challenges - Artist Challenge by FairyD

2009-04-21T22:35:00.000-07:00

How many paintings can a Sim do in His/Her lifetime while maintaining a job and making friends.

Create a Single Parent and a child or Teen in CAS. No Toddlers.
skin tone/aspiration/personality are all up to you. Move onto any size lot and build a house or use
an existing lot/house.

The Child/Teen is your Artist.
Only paintings done by the Artist may be kept and counted for points.
*Your parent can marry 1 time and have other kids but only the CAS created child can be your Artist.*
The artist must max out all creativity points before you can keep any paintings.
In addition to Painting your Artist must make friends while child/teen and
get a job the day he/she becomes an adult. Teen jobs are up to you.
He must reach the top his/her career.
Your artist cannot move anyone in, Marry or have any children. You can and should have your Sim adopt a child before he/she becomes an elder.
*The parent can marry one time and have kids. The parent can move anyone in. Townies, nieghbors, NPC's.*
*Anyone that is moved in counts for "family/playable neighbor points". *

IF you paint a Sim using the Still Life option you must also paint a portrait of that Sim or you lose points.
No cheats/hacks of any kind. NO Elixir of Life, No energizer, and no thinking cap. No Money cheats. You can use the money trees if you have time.
You can use the move objects cheat if you have too.
IF your house becomes so bugged that you have to abandon your paintings
take a photo of them so you have a proof and so you don't duplicate paintings.
Keep all paintings on the easel so that the next generation can sell them after
your artist dies.
Every painting MUST be different. examples
You paint dad sitting on sofa. You cannot paint dad sitting on the couch again but you can
paint Dad, swimming, cooking, puling weeds, Playing chess etc.
If you paint the pool during the day you cannot paint the pool at night. You can
have a neighbor/friend family member swimming and paint the pool again.
When your artist dies take a picture of all of his/her paintings and upload it for the rest of us to see.

Scoring.

+2 for each Portrait of playable neighbors/family members.
+3 points for each portrait of Townie/NPC (Townie or NPC points are only for those not living in the home and not controlled by you in any way.)
+1 for still life painting of Townies but only if you also
have a portrait of them.
+1 for each Still life painting.
+2 for each ghost painting. No more than 3 Ghosts of the same color.
+2 for each painting of an NPC doing his/her job. Again you must also have a
Portrait of the NPC. Only 2 paintings of each type of NPC. i.e. 1 male maid and 1 female maid etc.
+2 for paintings of the Social worker, Repo man and Burglar.

Bonus points
+5 if you can get a portrait of yourself painting a portrait of the burglar.
+5 if you get portraits and still-life’s of all NPC's.

Loss points for:
-5 for each Still life of a Sim that is NOT accompanied by a portrait.
-10 for not reaching the top of your career.

EPISODE66 - The Sims 2 Challenges - The Greek Challenge

2009-04-07T17:54:00.000-07:00

The Greek Challenge b y Pinstar
Objective: Create the best Greek house you can over the life of 35 students
Rules:

No cheating (as per the Legacy Challenge)

Start the game by creating a young adult in CAS. Male or Female. Pick any aspiration you want, and assign personality points as you wish. Pick any Major you wish that Sim to study. Custom skins and clothing will be allowed.
Create a blank 5X5 lot on the university town. You may use any of the Maxis University towns, or create your own.
Start the Sim in a dorm (you won't be able to afford anything else)
By the end of Junior year you must leave the dorm, and found your OWN Greek house...on that blank 5X5 lot. (And that means you have to be able to afford to rent it).
You may name your house anything you wish, and you do NOT have to stick to the traditional 3 Greek letter format if you don't want to.
You must always have at least one Sim in the Greek house. If the last Sim in the house graduates or drops out, the challenge ends, even if you have not reached 35 graduates.
You may only pledge NPCs and townies, not player-sims.
You may move teenage townies and NPCs from the neighborhoods into college town...and pledge them, then move them in.
When your Sims reach the end of Sophomore year and are given the option to change their aspiration, you MUST roll a dice for a new aspiration. (1: Wealth 2:Knowledge
3: Family 4:Romance, 5: Popularity 6: Choose your own.) If the roll of the dice comes up with the same aspiration the sim had before, don't change it.
After 35 students have pledged, moved in, AND graduated your Greek house, your challenge ends and you total your score.
The only limits to how many sims you may have in your Greek house at once is a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 8. How many you have in the house at one time is up to you, and could help players with slower systems by allowing them to be just as competitive with the challenge by just playing 1 or 2 at a time.

Scoring:
1 point for each sim that graduates from the house "Suma Cum Laude (4.0 av.)" Max 35
1 point for each 20K net worth the Greek house has, rounded up.
1/3 of a point (.3334 points) for each family friend a graduate has when they graduate (don't round, keep track of decimals)
1/6 of a point (.1667 points)for each "Not bad" party thrown by the Greek house
1/3 of a point (.3334 points)for each "Good time" party thrown
1/2 point (.5 points)for each "Roof Raiser" party thrown.
Combine all party bonuses into one party score, and keep track of fractions. These may be any types of parties.

Penalties
-1 point every time a Greek member goes on academic probation
-2 points for every Sim that drops out of school, or is kicked out
-1 point everytime the Sim shrink pays a Greek member a visit
-2 points anytime a visitor or Greek member dies on the lot.
-1 point every time the repo man, or a service sim takes any of the Greek house's items for failure to pay.
-1/6 of a point for every "snoozer" party thrown at your house
-1/3 of a point for every "real dud" party
-1/2 of a point for every "disaster" party (Subtract these penalties from your party score)

Special Bonuses
Tradition Bonus: 2 points
While you are allowed to create Greek houses with mixed genders, they are traditionally brotherhoods or sisterhoods. You may claim this bonus if ALL of the Sims that pledge your Greek house are either ALL male, or ALL female.

Mascot Bonus: 2 points (can be claimed multiple times)
This is the one exception to the visitor death penalty. If you manage to kill the rival school's mascot (A person in a cow suit) on your lot you do not get the -2 visitor death penalty for him or her. In addition, as long as you keep his or her urn or tombstone on your lot, you may claim a 2-point bonus. You may NOT claim this bonus if you pledge her and then kill her, she must be a visitor when she dies. She also must be "free roaming" to give you points as well. You may claim this bonus multiple times, but each time the mascot must die in a different manner (ie starvation, and drowning, not drowning 2 times).

Liberal Arts Bonus: 1 point (can be claimed multiple times)
Producing graduates with a wide array of skills looks good for a Greek house. There are 11 different majors. If you manage to get 1 Sim from each major to graduate, you may claim this bonus. If 2 Sims from each major graduate, you may claim it again.

Secret Society Bonus: 2 points
If you manage to get at least half of your Greek house to join the secret society over the life of the Greek house, you may claim this bonus at the end. Meaning at least 18 members must be a part of secret society when they graduate.

Picture Bonus: 2 points
When the old members of the Greek house come by to visit, they like to see that they are still honored and remembered. If you have a portrait of all 35 Sims who graduate hanging on the walls when the 35th sim graduates, you may claim this bonus. Group shots do not count; it must be 35 individual pictures. The value of the portraits does not matter for the purpose of this bonus, but higher-valued paintings may help you get more net worth points.

Band Bonus: 1 point (can be claimed multiple times)
Nothing brings more fame to a Greek house than a rocking band. In order to get this point you must throw a party and have at least 4 Greek members who each have a 10 Creativity playing 4 separate instruments (doesn't matter which types). Snap a photo and score yourself a point. You may do this several times, but each time the band must consist of 4 completely different members.