“Shipwrecked” Mini Challenge by Heaven
Find the Challenge Discussion Here
( This challenge is based on Scouts Asylum Challenge - http://simscout.blogsome.com/mini-challenge-asylum/ )
Six Sims have been shipwrecked on a deserted island, almost everything they had with them has been lost. However by using their wits they will be able to get off the Island….eventually.
No two Sims share the same aspiration. The boat trip was a celebration of diversity and each of the Sims was from a different aspirational walk of life.
Each Sim must max out a skill in order for them to get off the island. With your Six Sims that is one skill each, but if a sim dies, then another sim has to take over and complete the deceased Sim’s skill.
SETUP
Create a group of 6 adult Sims.
Using this chart and a die, assign each sim an aspiration. (No two Sims may share the same aspiration, so keep rolling until all aspirations are assigned.
NB: If you don’t have NL, just double up on one of the aspirations. Make 5 "Roll again"
1 – Knowledge
2 – Fortune
3 – Romance
4 – Popularity
5 – Pleasure
6 – Family
Using this chart and a die, assign a skill to each sim. (Again no two Sims may share the same skill, so keep rolling till all skills have been assigned.)
1 – Cooking
2 – Mechanical
3 – Body
4 – Logic
5 – Creativity
6 – Cleaning
Use the method from the Prosperity Challenge to randomly assign the personalities to each of your Sims (You may end up with two or more of the same personality).
Roll the die once to choose the set of astrological signs and a second time to choose the sign from that set. Keep the personality traits as the default for the sign.
Set Choice:
Odd (1,3,5) = Set 1
Even (2,4,6) = Set 2
Set 1:
1 = Aries
2 = Taurus
3 = Gemini
4 = Cancer
5 = Leo
6 = Virgo
Set 2:
1 = Libra
2 = Scorpio
3 = Sagittarius
4 = Capricorn
5 = Aquarius
6 = Pisces
Choose all other aspects of their personality and appearance as you want. You may random it, if you want.
RULES
• No sim may never leave the Island to go to work.
• You may never have other Sims visit.
• You must ignore the welcoming party that comes to great your Sims when you first move
in.
• You must ignore the postman and the newspaper deliverer. (You may pay the bills
however and recycle the newspapers, or find a hack to get rid of them)
• You may not sell anything your Sims create (paintings, etc)
• No maid, no gardener, no repair person, no exterminator or delivery person may come on
to your lot.
• If anyone dies, you must leave their tombstone on the lot and allow the ghost to roam
freely.
• You may not order pizza or Chinese or groceries
• You will have to use money cheats to make it through the challenge. (Seeing as none of
your Sims may go to work).
• If a baby is born on the Island, you may use Smart Milk. The child will be allowed to
attend school (not private school), however if he/she brings a friend home from school,
an adult sim must ask them to leave immediately. If the child reaches adulthood, then
they may take over a deceased Sims skill. (If there is one, otherwise you may move them
out)
• You may only use Smart Milk and Elixir of Life from your Sims Aspiration Rewards. No
other rewards may be used.
• You may only use the following hacks: Money cheats and moveobjects. You may not
use any hacks that will stop aging, increase motives, etc.
• You must adjust your seasons so there is no Autumn/Fall, however you may have the rest of the seasons in which ever combination suits your theme best.
• Build cabins etc. to keep them out of the weather and to avoid the dangers of heat exhaustion. Awnings are purely decorative and are of no use in this situation.
• Plantsims and werewolves have to remain in their unaltered form.
OBJECTS
• Most Custom content is allowed as long as it conforms to all other rules.
• Due to having lost everything to the wild sea, the only items your Sims have for use is:
• One book, (to get only one book, get a sim to take a book from the bookcase, then
delete the bookcase while the sim has the book)
• One telescope,
• One easel,
• One swimming pool
• One barbeque grill, and
• One chess board.
• To restock your fridge either sell your old one and buy a new one, or download
harvestable plants from modthesims2.com
• You may not have a Phone nor a cell phone.
• You may have a Security Alarm, however if burgled you may not interact with either the
burglar or the police officer. (If your Sims really were on an Island there would be no
burglars or police)
• You may not have a Fire Alarm – however you may use the fire sprinkler.
• You may not have electronics – except for the cheapest maxis radio, a fridge, the
barbeque grill and some lights. (Try to use ones that look like candles or torches)
• There can be no entertainment items on the island – no mp3 player, no computer, no
handheld games, no video games, no pool table – with the exception of the chess board,
radio and dart board.
• You may not have a spa (including the reward love tub), and may only have the
cheapest bath. (No showers allowed)
• Only use the cheapest toilet – There are also some CC toilets around that look like buckets.
• You may buy as many beds, chairs and recliners as you like – however none of them
should be over a 5 in energy or comfort.
• You can also plant vegetables & fruit trees for harvesting - try to use the ladybird houses rather than spraying them though.
• Before placing any object not listed here on the Island, think to yourself whether you
would find it on an Island in real life or whether it could be made on the Island (and we’re
not talking “Lost” here either). Think more like Gilligan’s Island.
Try and make the lot as much like an Island as possible. There are some great tutorials out there to make swimmable lakes (use this as your swimming pool). Let your imagination run wild. It might be an Island in the arctic, with snow cover and an igloo, or maybe a tropical Island with palm trees and bamboo houses.
SCORING
Once your Sims manage to complete their skills and get off the island, calculate your score.
Begin with 100 points then:
Adding it on:
• each skill point your living castaways have at the end = + 1 point
• each 1000 aspiration points your living fellow castaways have at the end (add them all
together and then round up) = + 1 point
Taking it off:
• Every sim day that you remained castaway = - 1 point (A day starts at 8am – the week
starts on a Monday. IE: Your Sims will arrive on the Island at 8am Monday. When 8am
Tuesday comes around they will have been on the Island for 1 day)
• each castaways death (including old age) = - 20 points
Good Luck!
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Episode 47: Boomtown by Reniusa
Boomtown: Booming Business
The Goal: The point of this challenge is to create a growing neighborhood striving towards business diversity and economic growth while adhering to a class system Sims will advance in; mimic a ‘real’ city in economic diversity. So you will have your run-down shacks, small starter homes, medium family homes, and those castles on the hill. Along with that concept, you will also have corner convenience stores, discount clothing stores, Sim-Marts, fast food restaurants, family restaurants, gourmet restaurants, and high fashion boutiques. If you don’t like rules, move along…this challenge has plenty.
Key Points:
Sims will start out in the Poverty Class. Classes starting with lowest Class: Poverty Class, Working Class, Middle Class, and Upper Class.
Requirements for moving from one class to the next are detailed in the ‘Class Structure Gameplay’ section.
All households must own one business. This can be either a home-based business, or one operated on a community lot.
Sims will move from one house to another when they change classes. This encourages sections of the city that are populated based on wealth or lack there of.
Sims can marry or move in any type of Sim. NPCs, Townies, and Create-A-Family Sims are all fair game. Create-A-Family and Townie Sims must adhere to specific rules for them, which are outlined in the ‘Family Additions Gameplay’ section.
Aspirations are decided through a roll of a dice.
The challenge starts with 4 Sims. Once one of these Sims move out of their ‘Poverty Class’ house, another Sim must remain, or a new Sim must move in. Poverty Class houses must never be vacant longer than 1 play-turn.
Challenge ends when the 5th generation is born.
Major points are given for business ownership, as well as business ownership being a requirement for advancing Class status.
Major points are given for Neighborhood wealth and population.
Households are played for a set time before moving to the next family. (referred to as a play-turn)
Still interested? Let’s get going then…
Set-Up:
Create a new neighborhood, naming it what you wish. Attach as many or few sub-neighborhoods. Delete all characters using the ‘deleteallcharacters’ cheat. You are welcome to put in some community lots if you wish.
Create or download 4 Sims of any gender, aspiration, and personality. Each Sim should be a separate household. (i.e. 4 households consisting of 1 Sim each) These Sims cannot have a college education. Future generations can go to college, and the rules give more details on that below.
Move each Sim into whatever size lot or house you wish, as long as it costs less than $10,000. If you are building one from scratch, you will need to make sure you do not spend more than $10,000 building, including the cost of the lot. I would encourage these homes to be small ‘starter’ houses since all 4 Sims will be starting out in the Poverty Class. You are more than welcome to use Custom Content, and/or download from the exchange. Please note: You cannot have any more than 4 ‘Poverty Class’ lots/houses in the neighborhood at any given time.
Make sure to give each Sim a phone when you move them in, so they may develop relationships while you are playing other Sims before their play-turn.
Each Sim cannot start with more than $10,000 in net worth. This means if they spent $10,000 building their house, then your Sims are out of luck. You will need to adjust their income using either the ‘familyfunds’ cheat or other methods (laying flooring, etc.) to get their starting net worth less than $10,000.
Decide the playing order and length of a play-turn for your Sims. You cannot play any household for longer than 2 Sim weeks. A Sim cannot sit in the bin (including the sub-neighborhoods) for more than 1 complete play-turn cycle. Any Sims that are sent to College must be added to the playing schedule. I recommend putting each family on a list so you will not forget which family to play next.
General Gameplay:
The primary goal is to have a booming city. To this end, every household must open a business before the 2 Sim week mark. Either purchase a community lot (this might be extremely difficult for Poverty Class families) or create any type of home business.
You are welcome to add Create-A-Sim Sims to the neighborhood at any time, just remember they must be added to the caretaker(s)’ house or moved into a ‘Poverty Class’ house.
Only 1 servo is allowed per house. Servo is not allowed to be married/joined to anyone living in his/her current household upon time of his/her ‘initialization’. If Servo marries or his/her love interest moves in, he/she must be moved out with the love interest and added to the play list. Servo’s may adopt, and do anything else the other Sims in this challenge are allowed to do.
No cheats or hacks allowed. Except gardening hacks and necessary 3rd party bug fixes. If it doesn’t crash your game, or make it unplayable (i.e. freezes, not allowing game to run normally-such as the Greek House bug in Uni), then it is not a bug fix.
o I will also allow the ‘College Adjuster’ hack by modthesims2.com to speed up University, by adjusting the time to final exam only.
o Another exception to the ‘No Cheats’ rule: you may use the rotation cheat and snaptogrid cheats, as well as moveobjects for decoration purposes only. You may also use the elevation cheats for building purposes.
You cannot use the cheesecake to have twins.
You may marry/join any type of Sim. Please see the ‘Family Additions’ section of Gameplay for rules.
You may use all the features of Nightlife/University/Open For Business to your advantage. If you want a city run by Vampire/Zombies/Cheerleaders…go for it. Go on dates/outings and send Sims to college if you wish. If you own the expansion packs, I think you should have fun with them. J
You may only move a new Sim household into a Poverty house once there is one available. Sims cannot be moved from the bin directly into any other class housing than the Poverty Class housing. The only exception to this rule is moving a graduated Sim back into their family’s house. Only one graduated Sim per household may move back into their family’s house. Please see the ‘Family Additions’ Gameplay section for Sims you are planning on marrying/joining/moving in to existing playable Sims.
You may not marry/move-in Mr. Big, The Diva, and the Grand Vampire/Vampiress simply because of the money they come with. You can reproduce with them if you wish.
You are allowed to use any of the career rewards (if your class can obtain them), and almost any of the aspiration rewards without penalty. The exception to this is the ReNuYuSeso Orb; you may use this to change turnoffs/ons with no penalty, but to change aspiration -- there is a penalty of -1 pt. per use. If you happen to get the ‘Grilled Cheese’ aspiration, no penalty applies.
Upon reaching the teen stage of life, you must roll for your aspiration. 1= Fortune, 2= Knowledge, 3= Family, 4= Romance, 5= Popularity, 6= Pleasure Seeker. If teens attend college, then they can take the option to change aspirations in their junior year when prompted with no penalty. If you choose to change their aspiration in college, you still have to roll for their aspiration. You must keep the aspiration that you roll. (unless you later change it with the ReNuYuSeso Orb for a penalty)
You may resurrect Sims, but they can only be counted as ‘playable’ Sims for scoring purposes if they are not made into zombies.
You may take or ignore chance cards. If you take a chance card, you are stuck with the outcome. No reloading after a bad choice.
Tombstones/Urns may not be deleted, but they may be moved to a community graveyard.
Class Structure Gameplay:
As detailed above there are 4 classes: Poverty Class, Working Class, Middle Class, and Upper Class. After achieving the Class goal, your Sim must move into the next Class. And by moving, I mean literally moving into a new house.
To advance from Poverty Class you must have:
o A net worth of over $25,000.
o One business at least at level 3.
o Poverty Class Sims can only work the following jobs: Artist, Criminal, Paranormal, Military, Slacker and Culinary.
o Poverty Class Sims can only send one child to college.
To advance from Working Class you must have:
o A net worth of over $35,000.
o Two businesses at least at level 5.
o Working Class Sims can only work the following jobs: Artist, Slacker, Military, Paranormal, Culinary, Criminal, Business, Medical, and Culinary.
o Working Class Sims can only send two children to college.
To advance from Middle Class you must have:
o A net worth of over $50,000.
o 3 businesses at least at top-level.
o Middle Class Sims can work any job except Show Business.
o Middle Class Sims can send four children to college.
Obviously, once you’ve moved from Middle Class you are now in Upper Class.
o Upper Class can work any job.
o Upper Class can send as many children as they wish to college.
o Upper Class can own as many businesses as they wish. Bonus points are awarded for top-level businesses up to 5 businesses per household. See ‘Scoring’ section for details.
Family Addition Gameplay:
You may marry any NPC’s and add them directly to your family.
Townies can be moved in/married, but must however stay until they age to the next life stage. This is to prevent moving Townies in for money/convenience.
Create-A-Sim Sims must be moved into an existing lot with a ‘caretaker’ before marrying/moving them in to a playable lot or a ‘Poverty Class’ lot. This is to prevent them from bringing the $20,000 start up funds with them. I would recommend creating an orphanage or apartment complex with a caretaker that you don’t plan on playing. It is simply to store Sims meant for joining playable houses. You may do the same on college campus.
Your Sims can have as many children as they wish, either by ‘Woohoo’ or adopting. In fact, the more children the better, as it will increase the neighborhood’s net worth.
I will allow children/teen townies to be moved in using a move-in-all-ages hack, or using the testing cheat. (‘boolprop testingcheatsenabled true’). They must stay until their next life stage unless they are moved in with the ‘caretaker’.
University Gameplay:
You are welcome to send any Sims to college except the four Sims who start the neighborhood.
Sims that are sent to college must be put on the play schedule.
Sims that graduate or drop-out from college must be moved back to the neighborhood in one of the following ways:
o Move back into their original household. (remember only one college graduate from each household can move back in)
o Move into a vacant ‘Poverty Class’ house.
o Move into the caretaker’s house.
College Sims that move into the ‘Poverty Class’ house do not need to adjust their net worth.
As mentioned above, I’m allowing a college hack to speed up college only. Meaning if you wish to change the time to final exam, you may do so.
You may join a Greek house or start one up. There are points for owning a Greek house by the same family for 3 or more generations.
You may join the secret society.
Scoring:
3 pts for every owned business that is at top level, maximum allowed of 15 pts per household.
1 pt for every playable Sim in game at the end of the challenge. (do not count the caretaker(s))
1 pt per every $100,000 net worth in the entire neighborhood. Add all Sims net worth together, rounding up.
1 pt for every Greek house that has been consecutively owned by the same family for 3 or more generations.
2 pts for every aspiration related impossible want fulfilled. ‘Have 10 babies’ counts as an impossible want. All other impossible wants are wants that are worth over 30,000. Fulfilling impossible wants that are not relevant to that Sims aspiration, do not count. (i.e. a Family Sim maxes all skills, that does not count for that Sim, as maxing all skills is an impossible want for a Knowledge Sim, not Family)
1 pt per platinum grave in the neighborhood at the end of the challenge.
1 pt for every twin birth
1 pt for every alien birth
1 pt for every child that gets into private school
-1 pt for every visit from the shrink
-1 pt for every visit from the social bunny
-2 pts for every Sim you intentionally kill
-1 pt for each child that is removed by the Social Worker
Conclusion and Notes:
The main reason I created this challenge is because I really wanted my neighborhoods to have income-based sections. I also wanted a bit more freedom for CAS Sims in a challenge. I love the idea of a neighborhood having sections that almost make up their own sub-neighborhood. I’ve already got my trailer park built for Poverty Class housing. I think around it I’ll have a Quickie Mart, Flea Market, Diner, and a Pay Park. And I can just imagine a small tract of family starter homes for my Working Class. I’m going to surround it by building a Sim-Mart, Bowling Alley…well I could tell you all my plans, but I don’t want to bore you. J
The idea of the challenge was inspired by several other challenges. Most notably, The Royal Kingdom Challenge, Prosperity Challenge, and The Neighborhood Challenge; I also took the dicing of aspirations from The Legacy Challenge. Thank you to all the great creators of challenges! I couldn’t list all the ones I’ve participated in, well I could but I’m kind of tired of typing as it is.
One last note: If you see a flaw in the challenge, let me know. Also, I will try to answer any questions on clarifying the rules as I can. I will put up a word document and notepad document of this, as well as an Excel spreadsheet for tabulating the scoring. I will update this thread when I have them completed.
-Reni
The Goal: The point of this challenge is to create a growing neighborhood striving towards business diversity and economic growth while adhering to a class system Sims will advance in; mimic a ‘real’ city in economic diversity. So you will have your run-down shacks, small starter homes, medium family homes, and those castles on the hill. Along with that concept, you will also have corner convenience stores, discount clothing stores, Sim-Marts, fast food restaurants, family restaurants, gourmet restaurants, and high fashion boutiques. If you don’t like rules, move along…this challenge has plenty.
Key Points:
Sims will start out in the Poverty Class. Classes starting with lowest Class: Poverty Class, Working Class, Middle Class, and Upper Class.
Requirements for moving from one class to the next are detailed in the ‘Class Structure Gameplay’ section.
All households must own one business. This can be either a home-based business, or one operated on a community lot.
Sims will move from one house to another when they change classes. This encourages sections of the city that are populated based on wealth or lack there of.
Sims can marry or move in any type of Sim. NPCs, Townies, and Create-A-Family Sims are all fair game. Create-A-Family and Townie Sims must adhere to specific rules for them, which are outlined in the ‘Family Additions Gameplay’ section.
Aspirations are decided through a roll of a dice.
The challenge starts with 4 Sims. Once one of these Sims move out of their ‘Poverty Class’ house, another Sim must remain, or a new Sim must move in. Poverty Class houses must never be vacant longer than 1 play-turn.
Challenge ends when the 5th generation is born.
Major points are given for business ownership, as well as business ownership being a requirement for advancing Class status.
Major points are given for Neighborhood wealth and population.
Households are played for a set time before moving to the next family. (referred to as a play-turn)
Still interested? Let’s get going then…
Set-Up:
Create a new neighborhood, naming it what you wish. Attach as many or few sub-neighborhoods. Delete all characters using the ‘deleteallcharacters’ cheat. You are welcome to put in some community lots if you wish.
Create or download 4 Sims of any gender, aspiration, and personality. Each Sim should be a separate household. (i.e. 4 households consisting of 1 Sim each) These Sims cannot have a college education. Future generations can go to college, and the rules give more details on that below.
Move each Sim into whatever size lot or house you wish, as long as it costs less than $10,000. If you are building one from scratch, you will need to make sure you do not spend more than $10,000 building, including the cost of the lot. I would encourage these homes to be small ‘starter’ houses since all 4 Sims will be starting out in the Poverty Class. You are more than welcome to use Custom Content, and/or download from the exchange. Please note: You cannot have any more than 4 ‘Poverty Class’ lots/houses in the neighborhood at any given time.
Make sure to give each Sim a phone when you move them in, so they may develop relationships while you are playing other Sims before their play-turn.
Each Sim cannot start with more than $10,000 in net worth. This means if they spent $10,000 building their house, then your Sims are out of luck. You will need to adjust their income using either the ‘familyfunds’ cheat or other methods (laying flooring, etc.) to get their starting net worth less than $10,000.
Decide the playing order and length of a play-turn for your Sims. You cannot play any household for longer than 2 Sim weeks. A Sim cannot sit in the bin (including the sub-neighborhoods) for more than 1 complete play-turn cycle. Any Sims that are sent to College must be added to the playing schedule. I recommend putting each family on a list so you will not forget which family to play next.
General Gameplay:
The primary goal is to have a booming city. To this end, every household must open a business before the 2 Sim week mark. Either purchase a community lot (this might be extremely difficult for Poverty Class families) or create any type of home business.
You are welcome to add Create-A-Sim Sims to the neighborhood at any time, just remember they must be added to the caretaker(s)’ house or moved into a ‘Poverty Class’ house.
Only 1 servo is allowed per house. Servo is not allowed to be married/joined to anyone living in his/her current household upon time of his/her ‘initialization’. If Servo marries or his/her love interest moves in, he/she must be moved out with the love interest and added to the play list. Servo’s may adopt, and do anything else the other Sims in this challenge are allowed to do.
No cheats or hacks allowed. Except gardening hacks and necessary 3rd party bug fixes. If it doesn’t crash your game, or make it unplayable (i.e. freezes, not allowing game to run normally-such as the Greek House bug in Uni), then it is not a bug fix.
o I will also allow the ‘College Adjuster’ hack by modthesims2.com to speed up University, by adjusting the time to final exam only.
o Another exception to the ‘No Cheats’ rule: you may use the rotation cheat and snaptogrid cheats, as well as moveobjects for decoration purposes only. You may also use the elevation cheats for building purposes.
You cannot use the cheesecake to have twins.
You may marry/join any type of Sim. Please see the ‘Family Additions’ section of Gameplay for rules.
You may use all the features of Nightlife/University/Open For Business to your advantage. If you want a city run by Vampire/Zombies/Cheerleaders…go for it. Go on dates/outings and send Sims to college if you wish. If you own the expansion packs, I think you should have fun with them. J
You may only move a new Sim household into a Poverty house once there is one available. Sims cannot be moved from the bin directly into any other class housing than the Poverty Class housing. The only exception to this rule is moving a graduated Sim back into their family’s house. Only one graduated Sim per household may move back into their family’s house. Please see the ‘Family Additions’ Gameplay section for Sims you are planning on marrying/joining/moving in to existing playable Sims.
You may not marry/move-in Mr. Big, The Diva, and the Grand Vampire/Vampiress simply because of the money they come with. You can reproduce with them if you wish.
You are allowed to use any of the career rewards (if your class can obtain them), and almost any of the aspiration rewards without penalty. The exception to this is the ReNuYuSeso Orb; you may use this to change turnoffs/ons with no penalty, but to change aspiration -- there is a penalty of -1 pt. per use. If you happen to get the ‘Grilled Cheese’ aspiration, no penalty applies.
Upon reaching the teen stage of life, you must roll for your aspiration. 1= Fortune, 2= Knowledge, 3= Family, 4= Romance, 5= Popularity, 6= Pleasure Seeker. If teens attend college, then they can take the option to change aspirations in their junior year when prompted with no penalty. If you choose to change their aspiration in college, you still have to roll for their aspiration. You must keep the aspiration that you roll. (unless you later change it with the ReNuYuSeso Orb for a penalty)
You may resurrect Sims, but they can only be counted as ‘playable’ Sims for scoring purposes if they are not made into zombies.
You may take or ignore chance cards. If you take a chance card, you are stuck with the outcome. No reloading after a bad choice.
Tombstones/Urns may not be deleted, but they may be moved to a community graveyard.
Class Structure Gameplay:
As detailed above there are 4 classes: Poverty Class, Working Class, Middle Class, and Upper Class. After achieving the Class goal, your Sim must move into the next Class. And by moving, I mean literally moving into a new house.
To advance from Poverty Class you must have:
o A net worth of over $25,000.
o One business at least at level 3.
o Poverty Class Sims can only work the following jobs: Artist, Criminal, Paranormal, Military, Slacker and Culinary.
o Poverty Class Sims can only send one child to college.
To advance from Working Class you must have:
o A net worth of over $35,000.
o Two businesses at least at level 5.
o Working Class Sims can only work the following jobs: Artist, Slacker, Military, Paranormal, Culinary, Criminal, Business, Medical, and Culinary.
o Working Class Sims can only send two children to college.
To advance from Middle Class you must have:
o A net worth of over $50,000.
o 3 businesses at least at top-level.
o Middle Class Sims can work any job except Show Business.
o Middle Class Sims can send four children to college.
Obviously, once you’ve moved from Middle Class you are now in Upper Class.
o Upper Class can work any job.
o Upper Class can send as many children as they wish to college.
o Upper Class can own as many businesses as they wish. Bonus points are awarded for top-level businesses up to 5 businesses per household. See ‘Scoring’ section for details.
Family Addition Gameplay:
You may marry any NPC’s and add them directly to your family.
Townies can be moved in/married, but must however stay until they age to the next life stage. This is to prevent moving Townies in for money/convenience.
Create-A-Sim Sims must be moved into an existing lot with a ‘caretaker’ before marrying/moving them in to a playable lot or a ‘Poverty Class’ lot. This is to prevent them from bringing the $20,000 start up funds with them. I would recommend creating an orphanage or apartment complex with a caretaker that you don’t plan on playing. It is simply to store Sims meant for joining playable houses. You may do the same on college campus.
Your Sims can have as many children as they wish, either by ‘Woohoo’ or adopting. In fact, the more children the better, as it will increase the neighborhood’s net worth.
I will allow children/teen townies to be moved in using a move-in-all-ages hack, or using the testing cheat. (‘boolprop testingcheatsenabled true’). They must stay until their next life stage unless they are moved in with the ‘caretaker’.
University Gameplay:
You are welcome to send any Sims to college except the four Sims who start the neighborhood.
Sims that are sent to college must be put on the play schedule.
Sims that graduate or drop-out from college must be moved back to the neighborhood in one of the following ways:
o Move back into their original household. (remember only one college graduate from each household can move back in)
o Move into a vacant ‘Poverty Class’ house.
o Move into the caretaker’s house.
College Sims that move into the ‘Poverty Class’ house do not need to adjust their net worth.
As mentioned above, I’m allowing a college hack to speed up college only. Meaning if you wish to change the time to final exam, you may do so.
You may join a Greek house or start one up. There are points for owning a Greek house by the same family for 3 or more generations.
You may join the secret society.
Scoring:
3 pts for every owned business that is at top level, maximum allowed of 15 pts per household.
1 pt for every playable Sim in game at the end of the challenge. (do not count the caretaker(s))
1 pt per every $100,000 net worth in the entire neighborhood. Add all Sims net worth together, rounding up.
1 pt for every Greek house that has been consecutively owned by the same family for 3 or more generations.
2 pts for every aspiration related impossible want fulfilled. ‘Have 10 babies’ counts as an impossible want. All other impossible wants are wants that are worth over 30,000. Fulfilling impossible wants that are not relevant to that Sims aspiration, do not count. (i.e. a Family Sim maxes all skills, that does not count for that Sim, as maxing all skills is an impossible want for a Knowledge Sim, not Family)
1 pt per platinum grave in the neighborhood at the end of the challenge.
1 pt for every twin birth
1 pt for every alien birth
1 pt for every child that gets into private school
-1 pt for every visit from the shrink
-1 pt for every visit from the social bunny
-2 pts for every Sim you intentionally kill
-1 pt for each child that is removed by the Social Worker
Conclusion and Notes:
The main reason I created this challenge is because I really wanted my neighborhoods to have income-based sections. I also wanted a bit more freedom for CAS Sims in a challenge. I love the idea of a neighborhood having sections that almost make up their own sub-neighborhood. I’ve already got my trailer park built for Poverty Class housing. I think around it I’ll have a Quickie Mart, Flea Market, Diner, and a Pay Park. And I can just imagine a small tract of family starter homes for my Working Class. I’m going to surround it by building a Sim-Mart, Bowling Alley…well I could tell you all my plans, but I don’t want to bore you. J
The idea of the challenge was inspired by several other challenges. Most notably, The Royal Kingdom Challenge, Prosperity Challenge, and The Neighborhood Challenge; I also took the dicing of aspirations from The Legacy Challenge. Thank you to all the great creators of challenges! I couldn’t list all the ones I’ve participated in, well I could but I’m kind of tired of typing as it is.
One last note: If you see a flaw in the challenge, let me know. Also, I will try to answer any questions on clarifying the rules as I can. I will put up a word document and notepad document of this, as well as an Excel spreadsheet for tabulating the scoring. I will update this thread when I have them completed.
-Reni