Sims2

Jar Challenge

2010-08-10T00:33:00.000-07:00

Disaster/Jar Challenge

List per Expansion Pack
(base game, uni, NL, OFB, Pets, Seasons, Holiday, BV,)

List based on Subjects
(married, adult, infant, toddler, child, teen, family, food, party/outing, death/ghosts, sim creatures, activities, dating, woohoo, making money, objects, clothes, UNI, OFB, Pets, BV, AL) This list is longer and has links.

Family Feud Challenge

Family Feud/Disaster (Jar) Challenge Rules

2010-07-04T06:14:00.000-07:00

I'm ready to start a new SIM adventure called The Family Feud/Disaster (Jar) Challenge. This challenges is a little different, yet somewhat the same, from other challenges. I started with two single Sims with the goal to populate a town with the most surname for each family line. A simple goal that can turn complicated quickly. [alternate, start with as many different unique surnames that you want. Start with one of the Maxis Neighborhoods. Be creative and make it your own fun.]

Family Feud Rules

Created by JavaJan (8-4-07)

Use any neighborhood you want. Start fresh or use one you have other challenges in (finished or currently working on).
Create Sims and move into any size lot, with or without a structure.
Play each lot about the same amount of time. (one week or one season, two weeks or two seasons... players choice).
Males and females can have offspring or marry any Sim in the neighborhood.
Only Males can pass their family name through marriage. [alternate: only females or the Sim living in the house. As long as it is consistent for both family lines it doesn't matter.]
Females can add to the family line out of wedlock. (strategy) A male from the other family line is encouraged to pick up a pregnant out of wedlock females.
One murder per house per round is allowed.
Game ends when you become bored of the challenge or complete a goal you set for yourself. Such as, but not limited to, 5 generations for one or both surname.
The winner is the family with the most sims with the founders last name. Pick last names not already in your town. (1 pt per sim dead or alive with each founders surname)
Cheats and hacks are players choice. You can use them or not.
The Jar Challenge is the final twist in this challenge and is unique to this challenge. At least, I've never seen it posted in any other challenge and have been wanting to use this option for a while. (explained below)
Need or want more point options? Feel free to add any goal that interest you. Your playing this challenge against the two family lines and not other players. This option allows the individual player to easily add goals or point system that interest them. If you've played several challenges and have mastered IW, plat graves, money point, reaching top of career, avoiding aspiration failure or social worker visits, then repeating them is no longer a challenge. Be creative and make it your own and have fun.

Disaster (Jar) Challenge

Created by JavaJan and Trudy (aka simsation)

Find a jar or container to hold slips of paper. Inside the jar, place slips of paper with challenge suggestions (see below). The slips can contain simple or complex challenges. The objective behind the jar challenge is to give yourself a reason to use game options you rarely or have never used. Pick items that interest you and omit those that don't. If you happen to think of a different twist, feel free to suggest it and I'll add it to this list. If you draw a slip of paper that you can't do on the current lot, put the slip back in the jar or on hold until you can.

Update 8-24-07: If you draw a challenge slip and fail to complete it, the points are in limbo. The first house able to complete the strip gets the points.

See below for ideas for "When to start drawing a challenge strip" and "Disaster (Jar) Challenge Score"

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Jar Challenge: List based on Subjects (married, adult, infant, toddler, child, teen, family, food, and more...) This list is longer and has links to slips that have been blogged.

Disaster (Jar) Suggestions for Base Game

1. Get divorced
2. Bankruptcy, delete all but $200
3. Have the biggest house fire that you can manage.
4. Flu - no school/work for 3 days (exception children at risk of SW visit)
5. Move in a townie kid or teen (cheat needed)
6. Sim has an affair
7. Unemployment, everyone loses their job (Elders may retire)
8. Sell all furniture (major repo)
9. Move to a new house.
10. Hands off for one sim day
11. Redecorate a room in your house based on a theme (extreme all rooms)
12. Midlife Crisis, blow all money on entertainment, clothes, cars
13. Have a party. Try to have one from each different levels.
14. Have family dance together.
15. Watch your sim eat burnt food.
16. Adopt an infant everyday for 5 days in a row. (move sims out if needed) (Extreme: 7 days)
17. Have twins or adopt two infants. Have at least three nanny's on lot at all time to care for babies. Avoid having playable sims care for babies. If they auto care for babies without any intervention on your part, that's OK. Goal is to try to keep them from caring for the babies. Duration: 1 week.
18. TEEN: Sneak out with a friend. (let them get caught and not get caught)
22. Kill a sim by drowning and keep the tombstone on the lot for 1-2 weeks.
23. Drama Sim: Pick a sim in the house to be enemies with all other sims in the house.
24. TEEN: Make everyone in the house hate one of the teens until they run away from home. Do Not Call Police
25. Married sim: Move in a sim to be one of the spouses future girlfriend or boyfriend.
26. MARRIED with CHILDREN: Have adult sims make out in front of their kids.
27. GOSSIP: Have adult sim have affair in front of one of their kids or other sim but not the spouse. Have a kid or adult who witnessed the affair "gossip" with the other spouse. {Long time ago I read that a sim could learn about an affair through gossip. I've never seen this actually happen.}
28. TEEN: Go steady with another teen. Then cheat on that sim in a way that your caught.
29. TEEN: Get a job and NEVER go to work.
31. HEADMASTER: Invite him over. Feed him burnt or bad food, have a dirty house, homework on the floor, irritate him, prank him. Do whatever you can to have a bad visit. Then invite him back the next night and try to have a good visit.
32. TEEN: Get teens into private school then never go to school. (Can you get kicked out of private school?)
33. BAD DAY: Visit a community lot and pick a fight with everyone you can. (will also work for uni students).
34. Complete sims fears for the week. Get as many failures as you can.
35. OUTING: Arrange an outing. (repeat for the different levels of outings)
37. Kick tombstones. Try to make ghosts mad. Break an Urn
39. Delete all skill building items on the lot.
40. Put all career rewards into your backpack. (EXTREME: Delete all career rewards.)
41. TEEN: go on a date
42. Have a pool party. Throw a regular party and ask everyone who comes to join you in the pool.
43. Try to have all sims eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner together.
44. Spend the week eating only from the buffet table.

Disaster (Jar) Suggestions for UNI

1. Pick a sim to just barely make it through uni. Academic failure at least one time. They graduate with the lowest possible grade and with just enough skills.
2. Counterfeit cash until you get busted.
3. Hack grades until you get busted.
4. Make a zombie sim.
5. Kill a sim by cowplant. (random sim or controllable)
6. GREEK HOUSE: Call to join, then be rude to the Greek house people. Prank them, poke, fight them. Try to make them hate you.
7. Pick a sim with the least creativity skill and have them Freestyle for tips.
8. Hustle someone at pool. (uni or home lot)
9. Go to a community lot and play in a band for tips.
10. Throw the worst possible sports party.
11. Tutor someone for money.
12. Be a personal trainer.
13. Spend the week influencing others to do things. (uni or home lot)
14. Get into the secrete society. Then do the wacky shake with everyone you run into.
15. Start your own Greek house. Pledge people just so you can influence them to do your dirty work.

16. Influence someone to write your term paper
17. Influence someone to do your homework.
18. Influence someone to kiss a random sim
19. Influence someone to prank a random sim.

Disaster (Jar) Suggestions for Night Life

1. Have 12 really bad dates. Lowest possible. Then stomp the bags of poo.
2. Have at least one date from each level of possible dates.
3. Turn a sim into a vampire.
4. Go on a cheap blind date.
5. Spend the week dating lots of sims and using the dating social interactions. The ones in the same area as ASK sim on a date.
6. If you have two sims in the house, have one work on collecting the most love notes and the other the most hate notes. Who will collect the most?
7. Woohoo in the photo booth.
8. While on a date, use the karaoke machine.
9. Date a vampire, waiter, hostess, cook, Mr./Mrs. Big., or the slobs.
10. Spend the week making your sims use as much perfume as you can.
11. Visit 5 downtown lots that you don't normally visit.
12. Send sims on an outing.
13. Pick new turn on and turn offs for your sims. Twist: Pick things you wouldn't normally pick.
14. Get a car alarm.
15. Use the dance sphere.
16. Woohoo in a changing booth

Disaster (Jar) Suggestions for OFB

1. Put green snapdragons at the foot of every bed. Continue for one week or until a sim dies.
2. Delete all pink smoking snapdragons from the lot or any other item that gives a boost to needs. Play without need boosts for the week.
3. Place 5 of each robot item (except servo) on your lot. Do not fix or turn them off if they break down. Leave them on the lot for 1 week. (extreme 2-3 weeks)
4. Make a servo run amok.
5. Send a servo to soak in a hot tub, play in water wiggle, swim in pool, or take a bath. [extreme: send servo to do all of those]

6. Woohoo in an elevator.
7. Try to get a sim to plummet in an elevator.
8. Spend the week selling lemonade from the lemonade stand.
9. If you don't have a home business open one for the week. If you do, close it down.
10. Buy a community lot and work it up to rank 10 (or as high as you wish).
11. Try to get a waitress to dump food or water on you.
12. Toy work bench. If you have never played with the toys made from the bench, take the time this week to make and play with each kind. Good ones and bad.
13. Robot Workbench. If you have never used some of the robots in your game, spend the week using them in your house.
14. Make and activate a servo for the lot. When he gets tired, send him to bed to recharge or recharge in the sun.

OFB SHOPS
1. Dress employees all in a theme. Knights, Ninjas, Gorillas, or other. Pick something you wouldn't normally pick.
2. Hire employees to work in your shops. Reward the staff to boost morale (increase wage), lay off slackers.
3. Win as many Best-Of-the-Best Award as you can. (you may use boolprop to get the reporter to come to your shop).
4. Get a bad review. (you may use boolprop to get the reporter to come to your shop).
5. Make massive money with the snap dragon trick.
6. Hire a sim to make items on one of the workbenches.
7. Buy a business type you have never tried. Flower shop, robot shop, restaurant, game room, beauty shop, budget shop, exclusive shop, or whatever you can dream up. Go to the shop and work it the best you can.

8. Play PASS THE PAINTING - Have your sims paint custom pictures to be sold in an OFB shop. Try to sell them to other playable sims. Its fun to open up the sims backpacks to see what items they collected since you last played the sims. Having a custom painting among the items adds to the fun. [suggestions: (a) a series of paintings that are based on the founder or other sim unique to the household. If you end up doing a "pass the painting" for another household, you may want the paintings unique to each family. (b) A family picture you added to the custom painting option. (c) anything that inspires you] SPECIAL NOTE: There is a chance that a picture will be lost to the game forever. Therefore, don't sell a picture that you don't mind if you never see it again.

Disaster (Jar) suggestions for Pets

1. Pick a sim to become a werewolf. Keep working at it until you accomplish this. (may take more than one week).
2. Try to get a pet fired from work.
3. Neglect all pets.
4. Feed pet from your plate. (I've seen this happen when a sim was standing and eating. There isn't an option to do it, the sim just does. They toss a bite of food to the pet).
5. Train pets to be bad. Destroy furniture, dig in yard, pee in house. Then give the pet to a playable sim living on another lot.
6. Adopt a bunch of cats but only have one littler pan, one sleeping area, one scratch post. [Extreme: One food dish].
7. Let pets have full run of the lot.
8. Run Away Pet. Do what you can to get as many pets as you can to run away from your house.
9. PET LOT: This house is now the official pet house. In order to get pets into any other house, they need to come from this family. This lot and its future offspring have the freedom to breed, sell, and give away pets.
10. Call a pet trainer and have them train your pets.
11. Create a custom painting.

Disaster (Jar) suggestions for Season

1. Get rejected for the Garden Club. (or try to get into the garden club)
2. Neglect all plants for the week. If you don't have any, then add about 12 trees or plants to your lot.
3. Try to get as many bad wishes as you can from the wishing well.
4. Wish for wealth until your sim gets a bad wish. (Extreme until they are killed from the falling money.)
5. Make a hail storm with the weather machine. Then send a sim out to play in the weather. (Extreme: leave one out until they die.)
6. Make an electric storm. Have a sim play in the rain until hit by lightning. (extreme Killed by lightning)
7. Have a sim pass out from heat stroke. (Extreme: die from heat stroke)
8. Have a sim freeze. (Extreme: Freeze to death) [I'm not sure if this is possible]
9. Live on the lawn for a week. You may have a 2x2 bathroom. [Extreme, no structure]
10. Dress your sims for the wrong season.
11. Remove fridge an other food items. Spend a day or so drink water from the wishing well or water faucet.
12. Join the garden club with the goal to get a wishing well.

Disaster (Jar) suggestions for Holiday Pack

1. Try to get a lump of coal from Santa.
2. Shoot off fountain fireworks until they blow up in your sims face.
3. pet a reindeer
4. turn on Christmas tree lights and never turn them off
5. Serve a holiday feast for the whole family. Try to have everyone eating at the same time.
6. Pick a holiday and decorate the house as if it were that holiday.
7. Put in a Mistletoe. Kiss as many people as you can under the mistletoe.
8. Dress up as Santa and/or Mrs. Claus. Kids dressed as elves. Leave them dressed that way until you return to them on the next round.
9. Throw a Happy New Years Eve party.
10. Set off lots and lots of fireworks. (wall crackers, floor fireworks and sparklers)
11. Cook Santa cookies and hope Santa will visit your house.

Disaster (Jar) suggestions for BV (added 2-24-08)

Use Voodoo Doll on Witch Doctor.
Use Voodoo Doll on Bigfoot.
Use Voodoo Doll on the wise old man.
Add soap to the monkey ruins fountain (aka Temple of Jumbok IV).
Put 5 voodoo dolls on a display shelf. Send a sim to view the shelf.
Send a servo to log roll.
Pick a fight with Bigfoot.
Knowledge Sim - Vacation Objective to earn IW. How many days does it take you to max all skills?
Romance Sim - take 2 or more guests on vacation with the objective to (public) woohoo all of them.
Popularity Sim - How many best friends can you earn on vacation?
Pleasure Sim - How many dream dates can you have with locals or tourists? (mega challenge - 1 dream date per sim)
Pleasure Sim - How many horrible dates can you have while on vacation? (mega challenge - with the same sim)
Fortune Sim - How many treasure chests can you find during one vacation?
Fortune Sim - How many masterpiece can you paint while on vacation? (If more than one sim painting, what is the average?)
Grilled Cheese Sim - talk to locals and tourists about Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
Woohoo in the sauna.
Create a Zombie Bigfoot (if possible).
Create a Vampire Bigfoot (if possible).
Buy jewelry and put on your sim.
Watch your sim as he hunts for shells.
Watch your sim as he explores the pirate ship.
Create a Wedding Photo Album with the BV album option.
Stage a death while on vacation.
Have a party while on vacation.
Find a new spouse while on vacation.
Leave vacation early.
Send your sim to study when its time to leave vacation. How many times does the shuttle show up and leave before your sim finally gets on the shuttle?
Go on vacation and stay in hotel or vacation lot. (pick the one you normally avoid)
Go on vacation and stay in a hotel when you don't have enough money to pay the bill.
Talk to the Unsavory Chariatan (Charlatan). Objective is to see if he will pick your pocket.
Have a bad vacation.
Place Treasure Chests on your lot.
Perform fire dance for tips.
Give someone a massage.
Get a massage.
Invite a guest on vacation.
Call and invite a tourist, local, or BV NPC to your home for a 3 day visit.
Collect a full set of vacation mementos (45).

Mega Disasters

1. EARTHQUAKE HITS: You lose half your house and half your stuff. Draw an imaginary line down the middle of the house. The part of the structure without the kitchen is destroyed. In three days, aftershocks hit. Pick one room to survive and everything else goes. [Extreme: you lose it all.... tear down the house and sell all belonging... all career and aspiration rewards too]

2. FIRE HITS: You lose everything on the lot. The house and all your stuff. Insurance drags their feet. They don't address your claim for at least a week. Lucky for you, your neighbors come to your aid and give you a mini fridge, one of each of the lowest cost item - folding chair, bed, recliner, toilet, and sink. They give you one weird extreme item such as a bubble blower, DJ booth, flamingo, or any item you next to NEVER put into your game. Its an item that makes you scratch your head wondering WHY the neighbors gave you that item. [extreme: one sim dies from fire]

3. HURRICANE HITS: Everything is destroyed on your lot. Since your neighbors lost everything too, there is no local aid to help you out. Your forced to wait for FEMA or loot the neighborhood stores. Purchase any 8 items you want from any OFB shop or buy mode. FEMA arrives in one week and you can purchase and rebuild at free will.

4. FLOOD HITS: Delete everything on the first floor and outside. The floors and inside walls are messed up and may need replacing. All items outside were washed away. A few items have washed up, or were donated to you. Buy any three cheap items in this list: Mini fridge, outside cheap BBQ grill, cheap single bed, cheap recliner, cheap toilet, cheap sink, cheapest shower or tub, gnome, or lamp/light.

5. TSUNAMI HITS Lucky for you, your not beach front property. Your inland a few miles. Unlucky for you, the water level is two stories high and you lose everything you own on the first two levels of your house and outside. Floors and walls may need to be replaced. If you had a car, it was washed away. FEMA must be on vacation because NO one sees them. Your forced to risk starvation or loot the town. You head to a community lot. You have to fight for your items. Win 2 dust ball fights = 1 cheap item (x4 total cheap items). Win 4 dust ball fights = 1 any priced item (x4 items). You can buy up to 8 items, but you have to win the fights. Pick carefully, what you buy is all you get for 1 week. (extreme 2 weeks). (alternate - buy any 8 cheap items from buy mode or OFB shop)

6. TORNADO Hits: The house your on is lost, the other lots are based on a coin toss or dice roll. Make a list of all of your playable lots. Get a dice or flip a coin. If you roll even number (or heads) the house is safe. If you roll odd number (or tails) the house is hit by tornado. Each lot that is hit by the tornado will lose the full structure. They are able to sift through the rubble and save any 10 items. [Extreme: 5 items]

Misc

How many hidden bunnies, Llamas, or plumbobs can you find in the game? Example....

There is a hidden bunny in one of the freezer food cases that came with OFB.
There is a Llama head on the front of the Pirate ship that came with BV.
There are plumbob decorations on the pool table that came with Uni.

There are many of these hidden in the game. I've been hunting them every since Maxis posted about the bunnies on the sims2 site. It amazes me that I can still find them on objects.

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When to start drawing a challenge strip?
Week 1-2: Insane Simmer. During this time your founder has low skills, low money, and is establishing his/her life. Making the first contacts in hopes for marriage and creating offspring. You have your hands full without extra added challenge, but if inspired go for it.
Week 3-4: Adventurer. Your base lots are established. You may still have little ones under foot. Initial hardships have past. Taking on extra challenge would work, buy could be a struggle.
Week 5-6: Challenge. Your base lots are established. A good time to start drawing extra challenges.
Week ?-?: Bored Simmer. Wait until the lots become boring or start to feel rinse repeat. You may have elders in perm plat who are available to help with offspring. Working adults in the house. Money is no longer an issue. Little to no skills needed for adults. Skill building is mostly limited to school age sims. Little to no challenge left on most lots. Your just putting in the time to finish out some other goal. Time to mix it up and add some twists. You can limit drawing to established lots or draw on all lots. Players choice.

Disaster (Jar) Challenge Score
Jar score is independent from the family line score. The winner of the jar challenge is the family line with the highest jar score or the lot with the highest score.
[SPECIAL NOTE: This part of the challenge can be used along with any challenge your playing. You could start a neighborhood anyway that interests you and add the jar challenge to the set up. It is a very flexible challenge. You can add or subtract from it anyway you wish. Make it your idea fun and not mine.] ;-)
1 pt - Easy challenges. Can complete task in 0-2 sim days or you consider the strip easy.
2 pt - Medium challenges. Can complete the task in 3-7 days or it seems like a medium task to complete.
3 pt - Hard challenges. It takes over 7 days to complete or the challenge was hard to finish.
10 pt - Mega Disasters. - Are listed below.

Thanks for visiting.

---------------- Slip Ideas added 3-29-09 by Trudy ----------------

Sim skips out on bill.
Create a grilled cheese sim.
Have such a bad date you receive a flaming bag of poo
Sim has to live with at least 2 lovers in the same house and have a child with each.
Become a good witch
Become a bad witch
Become a plant sim
Move at least one sim to an apartment and don’t pay rent
Have neighbor watch kids
Have a bad date with landlord
Have a good date with landlord
Marry landlord
Have a “block” party
Buy a Vacation home
Earn all 10 hobby plaquesWrite a novel
Use the genie lamp and make a wish
Fulfill a Lifetime Want for your secondary aspiration
Make money ONLY from hobbies for a week
Hire a butler
Get a roommate
Have a bad reputation
Buy a helicopter
Go on a Blinddate from friend request
For witches: Use Corpus Fleshicus on all other house members
For witches: Use Magus Mutatio on another sim
Become a witch, if not already and use Tabula Rasa on the oldest household member
Cure the entire household of supernatural effects by buying potions from witch

----------slip ideas added 3-29-09 by javajan -------

Have a fire in an apartment.
Death by cowplant.
Death by drowning. (blue)
Death by electric. (yellow)
Death by fright.
Death by satelight.
Death by illness. (green ghost)
Death by old age. (white ghost)
Death by hunger. (transparent ghost)
Death by fire. (red)

Jar Challenge ideas by subject.

2010-04-05T17:17:00.000-07:00

Random Number Service - You can put any range of numbers in the field. The site has a die roller too as well as other generators.

Married: Sim has an affair
Get divorced
Move in a friend, then have an affair with the friend.
CHILDREN: Have adult sims make out in front of their kids.
Adult: Midlife Crisis, blow all money on entertainment, clothes, cars
Sim has to live with at least 2 lovers in the same house and have a child with each.
Get abducted by aliens.
Hands off for one sim day (only give directions if their plumbob turns red or one level before red)
Get kids into private school.
Try to have a bad visit with the headmaster. - Feed him burnt or bad food, have a dirty house, homework on the floor, irritate him, prank him.
Male Adult: Delete all toilets and put in a shrub. -
Get caught cheating. (and again)
Marry (your) landlord.
Infants: Adopt an infant everyday for 5 days in a row. (move sims out if needed) (Extreme: 7 days)
Have at least three nanny's on lot at all time to care for babies. Avoid having playable sims care for babies. If they auto care for babies without any intervention on your part, that's OK. Goal is to try to keep them from caring for the babies. Duration: 1 week.
Create Ugly offspring. 1,
NANNY: Don't pay the Nanny. *****
Toddler: Train a toddler in all skills (potty, walk, talk, nursery rhyme)
Max out a skill. (creativity, logic, charisma...)
Grow up Bad.
Drink red Smart Milk.
Drink spoiled milk.
Dance by self or with family members.
Ask for attention from a townie, NPC, or other non house hold member.
Eat pet food. (PETS)
Eat sand. (BV)
Sleep in pet bed.
Play in water.
Play with toy bench (workbench) items. (OFB)
Child: play on playground equipment (AL)
get into private school.
have a child show off
play on a pirate ship
build a sandcastle (beach lot - home, vacation, or community lot)
build a snowman
sell lemonade
fly a kite
play with a paper airplane
play with... clown in the box,
Teen: Move in a townie kid or teen (cheat needed)
Sneak out with a friend. (let them get caught and not get caught)
Teen Runs away. (call police or don't call police)
Go steady with another teen. Then cheat on that sim in a way that your caught.
Get a job and NEVER go to work.
Get teens into private school then never go to school. (Can you get kicked out of private school?)
Go on a date
No school/work for 3 days (exception children at risk of SW visit)
Go to UNI
Family: Have family dance together.
Go on vacation together.
Open a family business. -
Eat together.
Have a sim grow up on the beach.
Everyone sleep at the same time.
Food: Watch your sim eat burnt food.
Eat only from the buffet table for a week (more or less).
Eat only take-out for a week (more or less).
Feed pet from your plate. (Pets)
Drink water from wishing well or faucet instead of eating food. x1 day (Season)
Serve a holiday feast for the whole family. Try to have everyone eating at the same time. (Holiday Pack)
Cook Santa cookies and hope Santa will visit your house. (Holiday Pack)
Sim skips out on bill. (NL)
Try to get a waitress to dump food or water on you. (OFB)
Party/Outings: Have the a party (roof raiser, average party, worst party...)
Have a theme party. (sports, pool, birthday, wedding, ..)
Throw a Happy New Years Eve party. (Holiday Pack)
Have a fancy birthday party.
Have a fancy wedding celebration.
Have a party while on vacation. (BV)
Send sims on an outing.(repeat for the different levels of outings) (NL)
Death/Ghosts: Kick tombstones. Try to make ghosts mad.
Break an Urn
Kill a sim by drowning (blue) and keep the tombstone on the lot for 1-2 weeks.
Collect one of each type of Ghost (all on one residential lot)
Death by cow plant. (random sim or controllable) (UNI)
Death by electric. (yellow) Make an electric storm with the weather machine. (Season)
Death by fright. (run with scissors, play with evil clown in a box.)
Death by satelight.
Death by illness. (green )
Death by old age. (white)
Death by hunger. (transparent)
Death by fire. (red)
Death by flies.
Stage a death while on vacation. (BV)
Death by Wishing Well (bad wish for money)
Death by woohoo.
Death by hailstorm. (Make a hail storm with the weather machine.) (Season)
Death by evil kite. (OFB)
Have a sim pass out from heat stroke. (Extreme: die from heat stroke) (Season)
Have a sim freeze. (Extreme: Freeze to death) [I'm not sure if this is possible] (Season)
SNAP DRAGONS: Put green snapdragons at the foot of every bed. Continue for one week or until a sim dies. (OFB)
SIM Creatures: Create a grilled cheese sim.
Create an Alien
Natural Alien Abduction. (wait for it to happen randomly).
Create a Zombie (Uni)
Create a Vampire.
Watch a Vampire as they shop. ***
Activate a servo. (OFB)
Build an army of servo's. (OFB)
Make a servo run amok. (OFB)
Send a servo to soak in a hot tub, play in water wiggle, swim in pool, or take a bath. [extreme: send servo to do all of those] (OFB)
Send a servo to log roll. (OFB & BV)
Become a werewolf. (Pets)
Become a plantsim (seasons) (Detailed shots of sim to plantsim.)
Create a Zombie Plantsim. (seasons & uni)
VOODOO DOLL: Use on Witch Doctor, Bigfoot, and/or Wise Old Man. (BV)
Use Voodoo Doll on Reporter (OFB), Garden Club, love interest, ....
BIGFOOT gives someone a bear hug. (BV)
Watch Bigfoot when he comes home from work. (BV)
Ask Bigfoot to move in. (BV)
Play Bigfoot until he is an elder. (BV)

Create a Zombie Bigfoot (if possible). (BV)

Create a Vampire Bigfoot (if possible). (BV)

Pick a fight with Bigfoot. (BV)

WITCH: Become a good witch. (AL)
Become a bad witch (AL)
For witches: Use Corpus Fleshicus on all other house members (AL)
For witches: Use Magus Mutatio on another sim (AL)
For witches: Use Tabula Rasa on the oldest household member
Cure the entire household of supernatural effects by buying potions from witch.
Activities: How many hidden bunnies, Llamas, or plumbobs can you find in the game? (on objects)
Move to a new house.
Delete all skill building items on the lot or learn skills using ways that don't require objects.
Delete all career rewards or put them in a sims backpack.
Pick a sim in the house to be enemies with all other sims in the house.
Play catch with another sim.
Spend the week influencing others to do things. (UNI)
Have your sim use PERFUME. (NL)
Have a smelly sim wear PERFUME. (NL)
Visit a a downtown lots that you have never been to (or rarely visit). (NL)
Pick turn on/offs that you wouldn't normally pick.(NL)
Try to get a sim to plummet in an elevator. (OFB)
Create a custom painting. (Pets)
Water Balloon Fight.
Get into the Garden Club. (Seasons) (2nd, 3rd,)
Get rejected for the Garden Club. (Season)
Add soap to any fountain while the garden club is visiting. (seasons)
Earn a wishing well from the Garden Club. (Season)
Neglect all plants for a day, 3 days, or a week. (Season)
Try to get a few bad wishes from the wishing well. (Season)
Wish for wealth until your sim gets a bad wish. (Season)
Live on the lawn for a week except for a 2x2 bathroom. [Extreme, no structure] (Season)
Dress your sims for the wrong season. (Season)
Hide fish and see if the penguin can find them.
Set off lots of fireworks. (wall crackers, floor fireworks and sparklers) (Holiday Pack)
Pet a reindeer (Holiday Pack)
Turn on Christmas tree lights and leave them on. (Holiday Pack) *****
Put in a Mistletoe. Kiss as many people as you can under the mistletoe. (Holiday Pack)
Dress up as Santa and/or Mrs. Claus. Kids dressed as elves. Leave them dressed that way until you return to them on the next round (prosperity style play). (Holiday Pack)
Get a sunburn.
Ask someone to take a snapshot. (take bad pictures)
Add soap to the monkey ruins fountain (aka Temple of Jumbok IV). (BV)
Get chased by bees. (BV)
Watch your sim as he hunts for shells. (BV)
Watch your sim as he explores the pirate ship. (BV)
Give someone a massage. (BV)
Get a massage. (BV)
Learn to Hula Dance. (BV)
Learn to Fire Dance. (BV)
Learn to Slap Dance. (BV)
Learn to Teleport. (BV)
Sing with the Pirate. (BV)
Call and invite a tourist, local, or BV NPC to your home for a 3 day visit. (BV)
Earn all 10 hobby plaques (FT)
Write a novel
Fulfill a Lifetime Want for your secondary aspiration
Hire a butler (AL)
Have a bad reputation (AL)
Play without need boosts for one week. No energizer, snapdragons, fruit juicer drink.... (OFB)
Have the biggest house fire that you can manage.
Have adult sim have affair in front another sim (or their kids). Have the sim who witnessed the affair GOSSIP with the sims spouse. {Long time ago I read that a sim could learn about an affair through gossip. I've tried this but have never got it to work.}
Visit a community lot and pick a fight with everyone you can.
Complete sims fears for the week. Get as many failures as you can.
Dates: Have a really bad date. Then stomp the gift left at the door. (NL)
Have at least one date from each level (great-worst). (NL)
Use the dating social interactions while on a date. The ones in the same area as ASK sim on a date. (NL)
How many love notes (or hate notes) can you collect in one week? (NL)
While on a date, use the karaoke machine. (NL)
Date a vampire, waiter, hostess, cook, Mr./Mrs. Big., or the slobs. (NL)
Have a good date with (your) landlord (AL)
Have a bad date with (your) landlord (AL)
Go on a Blinddate from friend request (AL)
Go on a cheap Matchmaker date. (NL)
Woohoo: Woohoo in bed, hot tub, and/or love tub
Woohoo in a changing booth
Woohoo in the car (NL)
Woohoo in an photo booth (NL)
Woohoo in the elevator (OFB)
Woohoo in tent, hammock 2, or sauna (BV)
Woohoo in closet (AL)
Making Money: Hustle someone at pool. (UNI)
Freestyle for tips. (UNI)
Go to a community lot and play in a band for tips. (UNI)
Perform fire dance for tips. (BV)
Give someone a massage for money. (BV)
Give someone a makeover for money. (OFB)
Make money ONLY from hobbies for a week (FT)
Spend the week selling lemonade from the lemonade stand. (OFB)
Unemployment, everyone loses their job (Elders may retire)
Write a Novel.
Objects: Redecorate a room in your house based on a theme (extreme all rooms)
Counterfiet cash until you get busted. (UNI)
Use the dance sphere. (NL)
Get a car alarm. (NL)
Create one of each item from the Robot Workbench, then use them on your lot. (OFB)
Place 5 of each robot item (except servo) on your lot. Leave them on (running) for 1 week. (extreme 2-3 weeks) (OFB) Hire a butler and see if he will fix the items when they break down. (first try)
Create a servo, then activate him. (OFB)
Create one of each toy (good & bad), then watch your sim as they use it. (OFB)
Join the garden club with the goal to get a wishing well. (Season)
Try to get a lump of coal from Santa. (Holiday Pack)
Decorate your sims house for a holiday. (Holiday Pack)
Put 5 voodoo dolls on a display shelf. Send a sim to view the shelf. (BV)
Buy jewelry and put on your sim. (BV)
Create a Photo Album with the BV album option. (BV)
Place Treasure Chests on your lot.(BV)
Use the genie lamp to make a wish: Peace of Mind, Cheat Death, Long Life, Beauty, Wealth, or Resurrect....
Buy a helicopter.
Buy an object that you don't usually buy and use it.
Clothes: Buy new outfits for your sims.
Have everyone in the families clothes match based on something (color, all have hats, all have glasses, all have makeup, all pirates)
Dress everyone in green for St. Pats Day.
Dress everyone in red,white, & blue for the Independence day.
UNI: Pick a sim to just barely make it through uni. (UNI)
Academic Failure at least one time. (UNI)
Hack grades until you get busted. (UNI)
Start your own Greek house. Pledge people just so you can influence them to do your dirty work. (UNI)
Call to join, then be rude to the Greek house people. Prank them, poke, fight them. Try to make them hate you. (UNI)
Join a Greek House. (UNI)
Tutor someone for money. (UNI)
Be a personal trainer. (UNI)
Get into the secrete society. Then do the wacky shake with everyone you run into. (UNI)
Bonfire Dance. (UNI)
Have a garden while in uni. (seasons)
Go on spring break while at uni. (if it isn't spring call the vacation something else).
OFB Shops: Open a home business.
Close a home business.
Buy a community lot and work it up to rank 10 (or as high as you wish). (OFB)
Dress employees in a theme. Knights, Ninjas, Gorillas, or other. (OFB)
Hire employees to work in your shops. (OFB)
Promote a sim to manager. (OFB)
Call to check in with a manager. (OFB)
Make a customer angry. (OFB)
Hire employees and be mean to them. (evil boss syndrome) (OFB)
Hire a sim to make items on one of the workbenches. (OFB)
Hire a sim, work them until they quit. (OFB)
Win as many Best-Of-the-Best Award as you can. (use boolprop to get the reporter to come to your shop). (OFB)
Get a bad review. (use boolprop to get the reporter to come to your shop). (OFB)
Make massive money with the snap dragon trick. (OFB)
Run a OFB shop that you have never tried before. (venue, restaurant, flower shop, workbench shop, beauty shop, Groc. Store, ..) (another venue with tips)
Try to run a restaurant with only one sim. (have back up help available)
PASS THE PAINTING: Sell custom paintings in a shop. When you visit other playables lot, see if anyone purchased a painting at your shop. (OFB)
Earn 5 top shops with only one shop. (OFB)
Pets: Try to get a pet fired from work.(Pets)
Neglect all pets.(Pets)
Train pets to be bad. Destroy furniture, dig in yard, pee in house. Then give the pet to a playable sim living on another lot.(Pets)
Adopt a bunch of cats but only have one littler pan, one sleeping area, one scratch post. [Extreme: One food dish].(Pets)
Let pets have full run of the lot.(Pets)
Build a pet area for your pets. (Pets)
Have a pet run away who has a collar and doesn't have a collar.
DESIGNATE A PET LOT: This house is now the official pet house. In order to get pets into any other house, they need to come from this family. This lot and its future offspring have the freedom to breed, sell, and give away pets.(Pets)
Call a pet trainer and have them train your pets.(Pets)
Vacation: Buy a Vacation home (BV)
Plan a vacation for a future date.
Plan a honeymoon.
Leave vacation early. (BV)
Send your sim to study when its time to leave vacation. How many times does the shuttle show up and leave before your sim finally gets on the shuttle? (BV)
Go on vacation and stay in hotel or vacation lot. (pick the one you normally avoid) (BV)
Talk to the Unsavory Chariatan (Charlatan). (BV)
Have a bad vacation. (BV)
Invite a guest on vacation. (BV)
Collect a full set of vacation mementos or as many as you can (45). (BV)
Go on vacation and stay in a hotel when you don't have enough money to pay the bill. (BV) *****
Find a new spouse while on vacation. (BV)
Sim gets pregnant while on vacation. (with spouse or a BV NPC)
Enjoy the parade of roses - Sim style. (BV) ***
Vacation objectives based on sims aspiration:
Knowledge Sim - work to max all skills or get abducted by aliens. Learn to fire dance. (BV)
Romance Sim - take 2 or more guests on vacation with the objective to (public) woohoo all of them. (BV)
Popularity Sim - How many best friends can you earn on vacation? Pick fights with other tourists. Have a party while on vacation. (BV)
Pleasure Sim - How many dream dates can you have with locals or tourists? How many unique dream dates can you have (1 dream date per sim), get a massage, give a massage. How many horrible dates can you have while on vacation? (mega challenge - with the same sim) (BV)
Fortune Sim - How many treasure chests can you find during one vacation? How many masterpiece can you paint while on vacation? How many golden fish can you catch? (BV)
Grilled Cheese Sim - talk to locals and tourists about Grilled Cheese Sandwich. (BV)
Family Sim - get pregnant, build sand castle with your kids, learn to cook.
Apartments: Have neighbor watch kids (AL)
Don’t pay rent until you get kicked out. (AL) *****
Have a "block" party.
Get a roommate.
Have a fire in an apartment.
DISASTER CARDS. Major Repo!! Sell ALL furniture.
Mega Disaster Challenge: Earthquake Destroys lot. Live with the most basic items, Small structure for bathroom and infant/toddlers. Use the least numberof items as possible.

Floor Plans for a few houses.

ANY EP: Glitches, Birth Glitch: Baby stuck to moms forehead,

Glitches

2009-09-28T01:09:00.000-07:00

A faceless Zombie Teen with a shadow face floating behind.

Stuck sand from building a sand castle.

Restocking with a trash bag.

Founders

2009-09-27T13:17:00.000-07:00

Capt John Smith and Tina Smith are the founders of a long colony of sims.

All playable sims will be in direct line with the founders. Only NPC or Townies played will be spouses to someone in the direct line.

Generation 2

Group Shot (vote for the ugliest)

Generation 3

Group Shot - G3 Adults

An army of servo's

2009-04-19T01:02:00.000-07:00

Angry Customer

2009-04-19T00:27:00.000-07:00

She shakes her fist in anger.

She stomps her foot. Gives the cashier an angry face. Slings the bag in anger. Then calmly stands in front of the register....

And pays for her items.

Grow up on the beach

2009-04-19T00:25:00.000-07:00

Activate a Servo

2009-04-19T00:17:00.000-07:00

Christmas Tree Fire.

2009-04-18T21:34:00.000-07:00

Single, pregnant, mom of twin kids and twin toddlers.

Disaster Challenge: Turn on Christmas tree lights and leave them on.

This is an easy enough challenge. I rated it hard due to an unexpected outcome.
First thing I did was to put in a Christmas tree and turn on the lights.

Nightfall with the lights blinking.
Oh my stavo! Pregnancy ends in a single birth.
The Christmas tree catches fire just before day break. In a few seconds it a big blaze. I placed the tree outside, thinking it would be safer since there isn't anything around it to feed the fire.

It burns quickly. And to my surprise, catches the grass on fire. The only phone in the house is blocked by high flames. I don't have any controllable sims in the house to call the fire department or to put out the fire. I patiently wait for the flames to go out.
The fire continues to spread and doesn't go out. The mom comes home in the family car (photo #1). The only phone in the house has been consumed by flames. The nanny calmly walks into the house. The school bus arrives with the children. The adult mom is the only sim who I can control to put out the fire.
Without prompting from me, she runs to the fire and stands in the next place the fire moves to. Her vintage dress easily catches on fire. She appears in great agony from the flames. (This was NOT part of the plan.) She isn't gone yet, she may stomp out the flames and survive with a hit to her needs. (It could happen.)

To my delight, the flames under her went out. I click on the flame near her and have her extinguish it. She moves behind the tree to an area that has yet to be touched by flames. (Does that seem like a smart move to you? Maybe the sim knows something I don't.)
This proves to be a fatal mistake on her part. The vintage dress seemed to have protected her before. Maybe she will be able to escape the flame. If she could walk one step forward she would be out of danger and standing on the pile of ash. (come on sim, on small step)
The flames seem to swallow her up. The nanny, calmly walks through flames and into the house.

It's over for the only adult sim in the house. She is now ash.
In a matter of a few hours, the children will be taken to the orphanage. I'm at least happy that I have a nanny on the lot. That should buy me some time. Once the flames go out, I plan to move some items into their backpacks. The items will be a nice treat for their next family.
A few minutes later, the nanny walks out the door and is over taken by the same flame that she casually strolled through a few minutes earlier. (shakes head in disbelief)

There is one little flame left. Maybe it will go out soon and I can still stuff their backpacks before the social worker shows up.
No such luck, the fire moves to more grass and the table.
The social worker arrives and takes the toddler in a strange puff of smoke. (Is she a witch?)

She walked through the wall. ODD. The doors are not locked, there is no reason she couldn't enter like normal. I guess she feels she is above the realm of other sims and makes her own door.
The toddler is gone, but his music plays on.
The social worker SLOWLY takes each child, one by one. The fire continues to grow. A visitor walking by decides to watch the out of control flames.

The children are all gone and the flames continue to burn. The last chair has caught on fire and the end table with the stereo.

THIS WAS A TOTAL DISASTER!!!

I learned a very important lesson. Fire isn't something to play with. I know that seems obvious, but it seemed to have caught me unprepared.

This is the final pop up for this lot. At least the pop up is funny.

I'm not sure if kids can plead for love ones. I was caught off guard by the death of the adult sim that it didn't occur to me until it was to late.

This ended up being a fun lot and a fun disaster card. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Zombie Plantsim

2009-04-14T23:45:00.000-07:00

This was the first zombie that I noticed with a thought bubble of "brains."

Water balloon fight

2009-04-14T23:23:00.000-07:00

Water Balloon Fight!

Toddlers Eat Sand

2009-04-14T22:26:00.000-07:00

This family (toddler challenge group) moved into beach front property. Most of the toddlers went straight for the beach.

Eat Sand is in their queue.

View of the toddlers from the back as they face the ocean.

Shot of a toddler eating sand.

Shopping Vampire.

2009-04-14T22:00:00.000-07:00

Vampire bat in flight with shopping bag floating below.

Vampire turns back into human.

Vampire walks off with shopping bag in hand.

Penguin Fish Hunt.

2009-04-14T21:53:00.000-07:00

Hide fish on the ground around the lot.

Then, watch the penguin find them.

Parade of Roses

2009-04-14T00:05:00.000-07:00

This is the result of many Dream Dates while on vacation.

The roses are not delivered to the vacation lot (hotel or owned vacation home). They arrive in parade style when you get home.

OFB: Venue Shop from an empty lot

2009-04-14T00:02:00.000-07:00

Fishing and snapdragons. A nice mix to work a venue up to rank 10.

Natural Abduction after AL

2009-04-13T23:18:00.000-07:00

I sent 4 sims to stargaze. The more sims that stargaze the greater the odds of an alien abduction.

Bambie, a teen fortune sim, is the first to get abducted.

Bambie returns home.

It took about 2 weeks to get the first abduction. This seemed to go a lot faster than I remember from previous EP's.

Less than 20k Lots

2009-04-13T23:10:00.000-07:00

This was a new neighborhood that I created during a challenge. Probably a prosperity style challenge. It was one that was abandoned. In this section, I put down one of each of the houses I've created over the last few years of playing this game.

This shot showes how many of the lots are less than 20K.

Get a Sunburn.

2009-04-13T22:56:00.000-07:00

Alien with a sunburn.

Garden Club Membership

2009-04-13T22:39:00.000-07:00

Don't Pay The Nanny.

2009-04-13T00:46:00.000-07:00

My sim got fired from work due to a bad chance card. She was needing the pay check to pay for the nanny. She was short paying the nanny the full amount for her service.

The nanny took the BBQ grill.

Then asked if I wanted her to hang out with her?

ROFL... NO I DON'T think so, you just called the sim a slacker and then took her BBQ Grill. Do your honestly think she wants to hang out with you?

I called her back a few days later and she still refused to come back to work. It didn't take long before she would come back.

Call to check on OFB Shop.

2009-04-13T00:36:00.000-07:00

After you hire a manager for an OFB shop, you can call to check on the shop. You earn money based on the last 5 days of sales. Each day the amount will get smaller. If you revisit the shop for a few minutes (long enough for the shop to load then exit), this will reset the earnings.

Become a Good Witch

2009-04-13T00:19:00.000-07:00

Made contact with the Good Witch while visiting a community lot. Built friendship with her by calling her every day or so. Then invited her over. Their relationships was high enough to ask her to make me a witch.

She sparkles as she changes.

After she was changed to a witch, she went next to the mailbox and cast a spell. The lot was showered with sparkling rays of light.

Sim reading the spell book to learn more spells.

Bonfire Dance

2009-04-13T00:08:00.000-07:00

Bigfoot returns from work.

2009-04-12T23:52:00.000-07:00

Become a Plantsim

2009-04-12T23:42:00.000-07:00

Spray lots of infested plants and turn your sim into a plantsim.

Use the Genie Lamp to make a wish.

2009-04-12T00:00:00.000-07:00

Sim wishes for Peace of Mind. This will give her perm plat status.

Early Week 5

2009-04-10T22:05:00.000-07:00

Grim Grotto in winter. A sad lonely town with two houses and one community lot.

The Elm family at the start of the week. Ella is a single mom to 6 kids (3 sets of twins). They all have the same dad.

Andy and Ann are teens, Bart and Bambie are kids, and Candy and Curtis are still toddlers.

Monday, 10:02 am.

Ella will become an elder in one day. The picture shows the lot at the start of the week. Next to the 2x2 pool you can see the remains of the first Butler. So far, he remains at peace (has not haunted). Sims paint if they don't have other wants that I can complete or they are in plat. I'm trying to keep them in plat as much as possible so they can earn their Perm Plat status ASAP. It doesn't always work out. Currently only Candy, a toddler, is in plat.

Monday 3:34 p.m.

Since their is only one day left before Ella is an elder, I decided to send the family on a vacation.

They plan to stay in a hotel in Twikkii Island.

I hire a Nanny to watch the Toddlers, since they can't come on vacation. The Nanny costs $250 as an initial cost then normal rates apply of $10 plus $15 per hour. Since time freezes on the home lot, I wonder how much actual cost is spent on the nanny. Is it $15 per hour while actually away, or just the time it takes the sims to get into the shuttle and exit the lot, plus time to return home until Nanny is dismissed. I'd guess its not actual time, since the clock time on the lot freezes.

Here are a few of the sims getting into the shuttle to the airport.

Here is a shot of the "Marriott Hotel and MORE" vacation hotel that I created a while ago. It has an area dedicated to each vacation spot. This allows my sims to collect more momentoes without loading multiple lots. Kind of a "one stop shop" for vacation. (click link here or above for more details of the vacation lot.)

Ella checks in. $295 per night plus. I reserved another room, then realized no one was using it so took the extra room off. The group (5+2 guests) share a double bed during the vacation. There is a tent in the "Three Lakes" area and a bench in the "Twikkii Island" themed area. The tent isn't available unless the sims check in one of the hotel rooms. It worked nice as extra sleeping spots for this group.

Ella spun a want to win a cooking contest. There is a cooking contest table set up in the middle of the vacation lot. I sent the mom to participate in the contest to complete her want. The cooking table offers me a creative way to feed the group and fulfill a want. Ella won the contest making her $500 simoleons richer.

Here is a shot of the family and Talin, a local (vacation townie), setting down to eat.

There are a couple other family members at a table near by.

The maid didn't clean up when the sims were done eating. When I returned to the lot at a later time, the plates from this meal was still there. Sometimes the maid will clean this area but for some reason, this time she didn't.

Here is a picture of their room. Its a double bed with an area to eat so they can order room service. Bathrooms are in the community area.

I had a horrible time trying to keep the sims in plat while on the Hotel (community) Lot, therefore I ended the vacation early. Even so, the vacation was considered a good one, they got three vacation benefits.

As soon as they returned home, I had Ella buy a vacation lot. She aged to elder just before she called.

She calls to plan another vacation for her bunch.

They arrive at there empty vacation lot.

Here is the lot on Wed. at 12:17. Some sims are painting. Ann is digging. I sent her to dig to see how many treasure chests she can dig up during the vacation. Andy is working at the toy bench, he spun a want to buy one then a want to earn badges on it.

Keeping them in plat was a lot easier on the owned vacation lot. They could also use the energizer making need building less of a struggle.

Ann dug up the map for the hidden area. Here is a shot of the family helping fix all the broken items on the lot. (Thursday at 9:33 am.)

They leave the mystery lot to return to the "Marriott Hotel and MORE." Before leaving their vacation lot, I purchased sculptured to reduce their money down to $387. I wanted to see what would happen if they didn't have enough money to pay for the hotel at the end of their vacation. I hope they get kicked out. :-)

Since I have more money than what they need for one nights rent, I sent them to buy food, learn to fire dance, learn a massage, and buy room service (get a few momento's that require money).

I have Ella call to check on the bill. Current bill is $302 and they only have $74 in cash. If they are going to get kicked out, it should happen soon.

Another day passed and they didn't get kicked out, so I had Ella check out. She got a pop up that said "Staying in a hotel isn't free and since you are lacking the necessary funds to pay for your stay, a bill of $625 has been sent to your home." That is the actual total, they didn't add a processing fee or late fee.

They prepare to return home.

They had $35,456, just after they purchased the vacation lot.

They had $24,548 after they made some modification to their vacation lot.

They currently have $44,860 cash.

They are going home with more than they came with plus the amount lost from building onto the vacation lot. Not bad for a working vacation.

Ann found 3 treasure chests. The amount she earned from them are not in the vacation earnings. I didn't sell those until later in the week. I'd like to try this again and see if a sim can earn more treasure chests.

They return home Monday at 9:48 pm. The pictures shows the Nanny walking in the living room with dirty bottles laying on the floor.

Home lot time:

6:25 pm when purchased lot, I don't have a time stamp later than that.
9:48 pm after I return with the nanny walking around the house.

My guess - I think the Nanny fee is $250 a flat vacation rate. Since time freezes, I'd guess they don't charge for the hours the sims are away on vacation. The normal fees apply to the amount of time she is on the lot while sims leave/return from vacation up until she leaves on her own or is dismissed.

This is a picture of the used energizers in the back of the lot. Just for fun, I'm collecting them to see how many energizers the family uses.

A couple stock ups and downs for the week. I didn't catch them all, but they did get some reports while they were on vacation.

Cheats and Hacks

2009-04-10T21:55:00.000-07:00

G3 Adults

2008-10-18T17:11:00.000-07:00

G3

2008-10-18T15:51:00.000-07:00

Here is most of the children of the G2 sims. I planned to play each generation to adulthood before bringing in the next generation. My objective is watching how long it takes the ugly to go away. I decided it was easier to share the entire generation at one time instead of jumbled here and there.

The parents are at the top, the two adults. Since some household had more than one set of parents I started to put the parents of each child next to the toddler.

Jack is the sim with the born in frown. He has created the most interesting kids. He had 7 kids with Jan.

All of G3 went to uni. This helped to have everyone return to the neighborhood at the same time. I put a shot of the spouse next to the sims who already found matches.

Tammy and Alvin had 3 kids. So far, Anastasia is the only one who has found a mate.

Trish and Orlando had 2 kids. I was playing this household when I added Apartment life into the game. Trish and Orlando are evil (green) witch (not shown). The two kids are good witches. These were the first two G3 kids to age to adult and find spouses. They have a shot from their wedding instead of a full shot of their spouse.

Tori and Brandon had one child together. Tori is a romance sim causing the marriage to not last very long. Brandon divorced Tori, throwing her out of their home. He raised Archie by himself.

Here are the rest of Tori's kids. She is the first in the challenge to have one of Goopys kids. I have a side challenge to have lots of kids by Goopy. So far, I've not worked that hard on it. Tori also had kids with Talin and Charley while they were married to her sisters. Charley is married to Ella. Talin is married to Tonya.

Tonya and Talin had two kids together.

Jack and Cara had one child together. Jack also had the child of an alien.

Sleven (lucky number) married Lilly and had 4 kids. Two of the kids were taken by the social worker. It was an unplanned social worker visit. Something glitchy happened, but don't recall what it was. I decided to save and exit. I figured I can bring the kids back into the game later when the Ugly has gone.

Ella and Charlie had 3 kids together. The last child is the result of a the Butler putting in a few extra hours at work.

Jake and Ella's kids were the most "interesting" looking. I didn't plan to have lots of kids this round. I just couldn't resist the urge to see how the next one would look.

G2 Group Picture

2008-09-27T15:40:00.001-07:00

Out of the second generation, Who do you think is the ugliest sim? Most unique? Pretty?

Generation 2

2008-09-27T14:10:00.000-07:00

The founders are family sims. Even if they weren't, the first line would probably have been several kids. One of my main goals is to see how ugly the two founders will create. Its been a while since I began this attempt. From memory, I started the challenge with a full lot of 8 sims. The founders couple and 6 kids (1-6) were created from either the mother or fathers looks.

1. Jake Smith. (CAS)
2. Tammy Smith. (CAS) Tammy was changed into a werewolf in her adult life.
3. Trish (CAS) Later in life, she was turned into an evil witch. With the addition of apartment life EP, the families got out of order and were not played equally. So far, Trish is the only elder out of the founders offspring.

4. Tori. (CAS). In her adult years, Tori was turned into a werewolf, then a good witch.
5. Tonya Smith. (CAS). In her adult shot, you can see her teeth below her chin.
6. Jack Smith (CAS)

7. Sleven Smith. (game) A nice blend of the couple. Not as hard to look at as some of the offspring.
8. Ella Smith. This little girl looks a lot more like her dad than her mom. A tad difficult to look at.
9. Gerald Smith. Capt. John Smith was turned into a plant sim. Gerald is his first spore. Each plant sim generation spored one child. Cara Smith is a G5 sim.

10. John Jr. Smith. I expected him to be the last offspring. Then realized I needed another to get the mom her 10 kid want since the 9th is only a child of the father.
11. Jeff Smith. I should have stopped at 10, this child is very difficult to look at. (holds eyes... ouch that hurts).
12. Pansy Smith is the final child/spore. She keeps her dads eyes, but has a normal chin line.

My vote for the ugliest girl is Ella Smith (8th child).

My vote for the ugliest boy is Jeff Smith (11th child).

Epcot Style Hotel

2008-08-22T22:50:00.000-07:00

This is my Epcot Style Hotel created for BV EP.
#1 The Orient
#2 Twikkii Island
#3 Three Lakes
#4 Generic motel/hotel with Three Lake decorations

Each section has the items that sims need for collecting momentos. With this hotel or vacation spot, a sim can visit this one lot to collect all the momentos for a section. I've placed this lot in each of my vacation areas.

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#1 The Orient

A view of the oriental gardens. The food counter, zen garden, tea, and more are located here.

This is the honeymoon suit. It has a double bed, living room with TV and dinning table for two, a big bathroom, and a private hot tub. All for the happy couple who wish to pay $1,510 per night.

This is the only hotel room in this area of the lot.

Close up of the food counter with 4 guests eating.
Another view of the sims eating with a view of the zen garden behind them.
Here is a shot of a sim working in the zen garden.

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#2 Twikkii Island

Next section is decorated with the Tikkii Island in mind. The second floor has the big fountain. Whatever you do, don't anger the Gods and put soap in the fountain. YIKES!!!
This side has the food counter, massage table, and learning to fire dance. The available massages are based on the vacation destination. You need to visit each vacation spot to learn the three different massage.
A nice, semi-private, corner to relax with a loved one.

Hotel rooms in the Tikkii Island area. (walls up)
Walls down with prices of the rooms on the doors.

$877 room has a double bed, living room, and full bathroom.

$77 room has a recliner, a table with one chair, and no bathroom. Sims staying in this room will need to use the public bathrooms around the corner.

$137 room has a single bed, table with one chair. No bathroom.

A picture of a sim learning to fire dance.

This area doesn't have the pirate ship since there isn't a beach. I created a beach hotel lot with all the momentos. It worked great in the original place it was placed and built. The ocean front property is a little glitchy when trying to place it down in a new area. I built this hotel without beach front property so it could be placed in any town.

Sims can earn two momentos from the pirate ship. Learn to sing the sea chantey and explore the pirate ship. Pirate ships can be placed on home or community lots with beach front property.

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#3 Three Lakes

A shot of the Three Lake's corner. You can see the log roll, tree rings, a tent and a pond. The food counter and archery are in the corner behind the statue. Sadly, the tent can't be used when the lot is set up as a hotel.
A shot of the Three lakes area from above.

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#4 Generic hotel with Three Lake decorations

The last corner is a log cabin looking building. There is a coffee shop just outside. This area is were sims spend their time if not directed to another place.

You can see the lobby to the hotel that is also part of a shop. Sim can shop for collectibles or clothes. The cash register is outside.
A close up shot of the hotel rooms in this section.

$59 room is the lowest price room on the lot. For this amount, a sim gets a table with one chair and a phone. The only purpose for this room is for sims with low funds who need to earn the "room service" momento.
$295 room has a double bed and table with two chairs, no bathroom.
$152 room, another single bed room with just a table and chair, no bathroom.

I created the lot to have a variety of priced rooms to meet the need of any sim visiting the lot. If the tent would work, I would have had free sleeping. All hotel rooms have a phone so sims can call for room service.

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Middle of the Lot (other)

In the middle of the lot, I have a three stove kitchen area. Sims can cook foods that goes into the sims backpacks. As far as I have noticed, they can cook the foods for free. An interesting way to store up some free food for the frugal sim player.
A nice plus I wasn't expecting, but was glad to see, was the housekeeper for the rooms kept the kitchen area clean. She also cleared tables in the coffee shop area. Sims are not the best at cleaning up after themselves. Serving a plate of hamburgers on a community lot often means a lot of clean up for sims that remain on the lot for a while.

Food judging table. Once the judging is complete, sims are free to eat from the table. The food will remain there for a short while then the judge (or other NPC) cleans up the mess.
Here are three sims eating bowls of comfort soup. The food was part of the food contest entries. Behind them you can see the DJ Booth that allows sims to enter the dance contest. I didn't give it a try, but expect it will work since the food contest table worked.
Room Service for Two. This picture doesn't really add any details to the lots layout but found it worth sharing. I had each sim call room service. The pregnant sim sat down to eat (free will) just before the bell boy delivered the next room service item. I found it funny and very real life pregnant style to see the sim eating while thinking (eyes glued to the next food item) about her next meal. The shot reminded me of a real life experience. A co-worker and I were sharing lunch, both of us pregnant in our last trimester. The conversation at the table wasn't the normal "hows your day going" or current events. The conversation was dominated by what we planned to eat later in the day or had already eaten. There was a non-pregnant coworker with us who pointed out that we were eating and thinking of the next meal at the same time. (heehee)

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I hope you enjoyed your visit to the Epcot Style Hotel. If you like the idea, feel free to create your own version. If there is something you liked about it, post a comment so I know you enjoyed it.

Major REPO! Sell ALL Furniture

2007-10-13T16:35:00.000-07:00

Start up ROLL CALL. 1 Adult (Nicole), 2 kids (Nick and Rick), 4 toddlers (Ginger and Mary Ann, Lisa and Larry)

Sims moved to lot #5 from lot #1
Major REPO: Sell ALL Furniture.

The family didn't have a lot of furniture to start with. Here is a pre repo shot.
After repo... everything gone. I even sold the counters even though that wasn't part of the challenge.

Nanny comes to help out with the 4 toddlers.
Floor plan later in the game. Cribs purchased and tents for sleeping. Table and chairs in what was previously a bedroom.
Blowing bubbles to bring up fun so he will do his homework.

One of the toddlers age to child. Bringing up their fun is a real challenge. Blowing bubbles doesn't work as fast as I had hoped.
A really bad day at work.
I give up on trying to build their fun in new ways and give them a cat statue.

Sim grows up with a red aspiration.
A look at the Lot at the close of the round. Three tents for sleeping and the cribs sold. I replaced the counters.

The most challenging part of this round was dealing with getting the sims fun level up high enough to do their school work.
Roll Call at the end. Nicole (only adult), Rick and Nick are teens (twins), Ginger & Mary Ann (twins) and Larry and Lisa (twins) are kids.

Earthquake, Use Voodoo Doll on Reporter, Romance Vacation, Move in BigF, get caught cheating.

2007-10-13T15:23:00.001-07:00

Sims move to their new lot following the (imaginary) Earthquake that destroyed their other neighborhood.
6 sims: 2 Adults (Apple and Glad) 4 infants (twins Arnold & Bruce, Debra Lynn & Ruport)

The floor plan of the small house.
I purchased the large garden community lot (one packaged after building it up to just before harvest level).

While Glad was working in the garden she noticed the reporter taking a ticket. She pulled out her voodoo doll and used it on the reporter.
He walks over to Glad and gives her a kiss. Then he writes in his notebook. To me, it looked like he was rating her kiss.

After rating the kiss, he gives them a BEST of the BEST AWARD. That was one of the easiest Best of the Best awards I've ever earned.

After harvesting all of the garden items, I build a large pond and have guests fish with my sims.
Not long after fishing starts, the penguin show up. I decide to play a game of "find the fish" with the penguin. It isn't a real sim game, its a created one. What I do is hide fish around the lot and watch the penguin find them. This fish is behind a few shrubs.

He finds it with his special sim radar. Throws it in the air and swallows it down in one gulp.
I learned something new. Visiting sims on a community lot can earn badge points in fishing. I knew employee's could earn badge points, but didn't realize it also applied to visiting sims. This would be a creative way to build townee badges then hire them as managers.
Glad, a romance sim, goes on vacation.

The vacation lot she purchased.
Her LTW is to have 20 loves at once. Vacation EP allows you to invite non-household members on a vacation. You can't control them but can see their stats. I have her invite as many sims as she can on vacation. None of them are in love with her. My objective is to have them all love her before the end of the vacation.
She takes one sims at a time to a community lot. While on the lot she dates them with the goal to get them to fall in love with her and woohoo (for the IW).

I found this picture funny. It looks like she is reading about woohoo.
While on bigfoots lot, I build up their friendship and ask him to move in. He does adding a $1 to the family funds. (rofl a $1)
I took two sims to a community lot to see if I could accomplish two with one trip. Well, I didn't juggle it well and this sim caught Glad cheating. I'm sharing the picture because the pop up says "This vacation is worth every penny" and has a bad memory above his head.

He caught her cheating with the reporter in the changing room. It looks like he was going to punch the reporter.
He didn't, he just slapped the smile off Glads face.
Not long after, Glad turns it around and woohoos with him in the SAME changing booth.

Vacation is over and they all return home.
Bigfoot and Glad arrive home from a nice vacation.
Glad sells the vacation house and purchased another one at a different location. She invites another group to join her on the vacation.

She woohoo's Eye Hatesims in the changing room. Eye was the founder of the Generation Challenge that I played. The Generation Challenge is a version of the legacy challenge that Trudy and I created. Trudy wanted to play Legacy and I couldn't bring myself to play it again by pinstars rules. So we came up with our version of the challenge. Eye was the founder and a personal goal of mine was to keep the founder alive until the end of the challenge. He is currently a plantsim vampire a very FUN combo.
Another notch on the hammock. (sorry that was in poor taste)
Glad wins her LTW to have 20 loves.

Vacation is over and they all pile into the van to go home.

Here is a shot of the sims she took on vacation. I loved this surprise. During the vacation, I didn't realize I wasn't getting the flowers as you normally do from a dream date. A few minutes after returning home, the mob of vacation guests all bring her flowers at the same time. I really like this picture.

Before Benjamin leaves, he blows a kiss to a sim who ISN'T Glad. She was one of the sims who went on vacation with the group.
A couple of the infants after they grew up. Toddlers only a mother could love, that is if the mom wasn't a romance sim.

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Two adults starting over on a new lot wasn't that much of a challenge. I really enjoyed the vacations during this round. I had 200 plus pictures to go through. I trimmed them down leaving out a vacation that Glad and Apple went on together. Apple learned to teleport. Glad made several contacts to add some to her 20 loves at once LTW goal. Lots of other misc vacation shots. To many to list.

Earthquake, Create Ugly Sims

2007-10-13T14:57:00.000-07:00

Roll Call. 2 adult sisters, 2 kids, 4 infants.

Disaster Card: Earthquake.
The family moves to their new lot.
I wanted to see what a sunburn alien looked like.

This very cute infant grows into a very "unique" looking toddler.
Mother and child. I merged the alien mom with Mr. Ugly. I didn't realize that infants didn't have unique features. The features first show up as toddlers. I've created several offspring with my dd special (ugly) sims. I look forward to watching them grow and watching the ugly fade.
Another "hard to look at" toddler. He looks a great deal like his father.

One more toddler to look at...
I had four infants in the house, I must have failed to get a picture of the other one.
I sent the mom to sunbathe among the sand castles.

With 2 adults juggling 4 infants and kids, the lot was basicly uneventful.

Earthquake, Voodoo a love interest, sneak out

2007-10-13T14:08:00.001-07:00

This lot has one adult (non-uni grad) and 6 kids. Only have the 20k that each sim is given to start their life.

DISASTER CHALLENGE: Earthquake destroys lot.... continues.

Here is a neighborhood shot that is now the McCoy subdivision. I start with three tents and a small building for bathrooms.

One of the kids age up on the beach.
Castles built along the waves. It looks like the tide is coming in. As far as I can tell, the game doesn't have tides.
Two kids auto play cops and robbers.

Kids can sunbathe
and get a sunburn.
Voodoo doll magic. Instant love.

Extra disaster card: SNEAK OUT. He managed to sneak out without being caught. Sometimes this is hard to do and sometimes it isn't. Renee didn't seem to care at all. End shot of the family.

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This house didn't end up being much of a special challenge. The kids were able to tend to their own needs. Instead of getting Renee a job I had her dig for money. This can be very profitable.

Mega Disaster Challenge: Earthquake.

2007-10-13T12:41:00.000-07:00

Continue with the Earthquake disaster card. With this lot I plan to give them the basic amount of items. Smalls structure for bathroom and infant/toddlers. The family starts with just the 20k handout. I expect this one to be more interesting.

Brandi and 7 toddlers. The toddlers all take off. The lot is vacant so I wonder where they are going. I freeze the game and click on one of the toddlers.

Brandi and the toddlers were previous residents of Lot #1. Some of the toddlers are hers and some are her step kids.
This is what I saw. "Eat Sand" how funny. You can't take toddlers on vacation, so the only way to get to see this is if you have a family living on beach front property. I continue to follow them as they head for the sand.
A shot of a couple toddlers munching on sand.

Close up of one toddler feasting on sand. The animation is about the same as when the toddlers eat dog food. I didn't think to look to see if it changed their hunger level. If it does, that's even twisted for the sims. ROFL
Several toddlers age up soon after moving into the lot.
While the toddlers are on the beach, I take the time to build a small house for them.

Since one toddler grew up, I needed to take her to school as to not risk a social worker visit. All the toddlers followed Brandi to the car. It looks a little dangerous to back out of your driveway with toddlers on the driveway.
Since there is no "death by car", I guess it really isn't actually risky. It still makes an interesting shot even if the danger isn't there.

I continued to add the basic items needed for this large family of toddlers. I forgot about keeping enough cash on hand to PAY the NANNY. This was a fun surprise. I wish I had planned this, but I didn't. I've only had this happen one other time and it was a result of a chance card that cleaned out my cash on hand, while the maid was at the house. (both funny).
The nanny takes the BBQ Grill as payment for her time.

Then asks.... "Now that I"m done with work, would you like to hang out?" (snicker)

You just took my BBQ grill for not having money to pay you, then ask if I want to hang out with YOU? This nanny must be kidding. If she wanted to be a real friend, she could have given the family a break on the nanny bill. Funny timing. At least she didn't lose friendship with the family for them not having the cash to pay her.
Brandi misses the BBQ grill.
A child feel asleep next to one of the tents. (its to dark to see the tent)

Toddler needs are in red, no nanny, so I sent Brandi to the energizer.
The next day, Brandi has a work day. I call the nanny who refuses to come. I don't remember if Brandi had a vacation day. I think she spent the day digging for treasures in the yard.
Kids come home on the bus. The boy laughs at the toddler sleeping on the ground. I've never seen this before, but found if funny.

The family continues to struggle. One adult with toddlers and kids is a lot for one sim. I hope the nanny will come give her a hand soon.
I try several new things to bring up fun (blowing bubbles, building sand castle). Most things tend to take a long time to get the fun up enough for them to do their homework. Brandi dug up a cat, so I decided to use that to increase their fun.
Building castles in the sand.

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This was a fun lot. A challenge having one adult with all the toddlers.

Earthquake, woohoo in a photobooth,

2007-10-13T11:48:00.000-07:00

Roll Call at the start.
Game running sluggish after BV added. First objective is to reduce the number of sims on the lot to the normal allowed for the game.

Mega Disaster.... Earthquake destroys the lot.

Before I started the McCoy family round, I drew 6 chance cards. I kept drawing cards that wouldn't work for the family I was on (wrong sim age). So decided to draw several at a time and then apply them to the houses that they would work in. Since I drew the earthquake one, I decided to use this as an opportunity to move the full McCoy clan to a new added neighborhood. I added the neighborhood that came with BV that allows for beach front property. Its a small neighborhood, but hope it will be big enough to last to the end of the challenge.

First adult sim picks up the paper and finds her own place.
She is currently Mr. McCoys wife. (wife #3) Ex-wife #2 was a family sim so I decided to leave her in the house and send the other one packing.
I send Brandi with the 7 youngest sims on the lot. This will allow me to try to get Marylena's IW to have 10 kids.

Renee aged to adult (with a little help from boolprop)
The final roll call for the house. Crabs, Marylena and twin girls.
Empty beach front property.

I start by laying down some tiles to decide location of rooms.
Sim magic. Poof. The house is built. Not the most attractive house, but it is sim functional.
Mr. McCoy ages to elder.

Marylena gets her IW of having 10 kids. WTG Crabs and Marylena.
Twins. Yale and Hartford.
First floor of the house. They had a few snaps in their backpacks that were purchased while visiting other sims community lots. I love that option with OFB. Its always a fun surprise to find what items the sims purchased. In this case, it was a great help with the infant care.

Mr. Crabs reaches the top of his career giving him his LTW.
Since I sort of messed up with the chance card, I drew another one. I was suppose to have the sims live with very basic things for a round (as little as possible). Instead, I built them a big house with most everything they needed.

Disaster Challenge: Woohoo in a photobooth.
The married couple woohoo in a photo booth. I didn't do the random sim woohoo, but may attempt that later.

Roll Call at the end of the round.

2 adults, 2 kids, 2 infants.

It was a fun round. I like the addition of the beach front property and the opportunity to build a new home for them.

The mega disaster wasn't much of an added challenge with this family. The next family will need to live with less items.

Floor Plans

2007-10-13T10:21:00.000-07:00

I didn't get a shot of the outside of the house.

Blue Castle house. I think this is one I played in uni.
First floor. This is what the house looks like when moved into it.

Magic steps in the living room, next to the bathroom.

Street side is to the top.

2nd floor. Magic steps is the dark brown spot in the checker carpet room.
3rd floor is balcony. You can see the steps easier now.
4th floor. Top balcony. Its a nice place for pictures or asking someone to marry you.

Yellow Castle.

1st floor. Magic steps are in the kitchen upper left hand corner

Street to the bottom.
Second floor. Sleeps 4 and a bathroom.
Third floor. Magic steps in upper right corner goes to lower levels. Magic steps in right lower corner only go to the balcony.

4th floor.... the final balcony.
walls up
roof up

Dorm created after seasons.
First floor. 9 dorm rooms. Each with double beds. The first room or lower left hand corner has snapdragons at foot of bed. Large study area outside the first three rooms. Large garden area across the hall. Entertainment area upper right corner above garden area. This area was the kitchen. All the dirty dishes kept bringing down environment so moved kitchen to level 2. I should have placed a wall between the cafeteria and the study area.

Second floor. Roller rink.
Cafeteria area. This area was originally used for fruit trees. I was able to place them using moveobjects on. It got to be a little much doing school and tending to a full orchard. I eventually sold the trees.

This area was the entertainment area. Since that was moved to the first floor, it is just a bubble blower. The sims hardly come up here on their own. I don't think they use the roller rink on their own either. If so, it is very rarely.

create a plantsim (detailed shots), Garden Club Wishing Well, take a bad picture

2007-09-25T00:52:00.000-07:00

ROLL call start of house.

John Hatfield moved in. Reunited spouses.

They purchased the large garden community lot. The community lot was packaged at the point that all the trees were ready to harvest and the garden plots were near ready to harvest.
The community lot is the perfect lot for creating a plantsim. I pick a sim to be the plantsim and she is the primary one to spray for bugs.

The sims return home to try for the garden club.
They took the trees from the community lot with them in their backpacks.
Garden Club looking at the yard.

They earn the Wishing Well plus $1,435.
With BV you have a new option to ask a sim to take your picture. In the above shot I decided to take a "bad picture". I got a pop up saying that there was something wrong with the picture and suggested I try it again. I tried this again on another lot to get the pop up... ie took a picture with the head gone... and didn't get the pop up so am not sure why I got that. It was a funny surprise.
Another bad shot for funny.

End roll call.

Birth Glitch: Baby stuck to moms forehead

2007-09-25T00:20:00.001-07:00

Her arm is twisted behind her head and around to the baby.

Baby is stuck to her forehead as if kissing her.

Baby floating in the air in front of the moms face.

Birth of second infant starting. First baby has moved into the face of the mom. Infant still floating in the air.

Baby stuck in the air to the side.

2nd Baby born. 1st baby continues to float in air.

Interesting sort of stretch.

Another shot of the stretch.

First baby pops to the ground. Second baby is stuck in the mothers outstretched arm.

The moms hand is twisted and under the infants bottom. An unusual way to carry an infant in the sims.
Baby pops to normal position. The glitch ends.

Place 5 of each type of robot on the lot. (except servo)

2007-09-23T17:18:00.000-07:00

Roll Call at Start up: 5 Adults, 4 kids, 2 toddlers, 1 pet

Sims who stayed on the lot: Adults: Walt and Kail, Kids: Twins Georgia and New Jersey, Tatanka and Mia Tatanka. Pet-Max
Sims who moved out to a different lot.

The above is more for my tracking than anyone else. I've also decided to reduce the number of grow up shots and use the roll call to track sims progress. With so many sims the grow up shots are overwhelming. I will show those that have unique traits, otherwise I probably wont.

Disaster Challenge: Place 5 of each type of robot on the lot. (except servo).

The robots tend to add interest to the game. I've had clean bots break down while a sim was at work. The sim returns to a lot full of garbage and a broken clean bot continues to spit out more. Munchi bots break down and bring spoiled food. The hydro bot will spray water all over causing weeds. With so many, I hope to have the "break down" issue to add interest to the lot.

Sadly, I didn't have an OFB lot created for my sims to just go and buy the bots, so I have to use most of the time to build the bots. I used the "badge juicer" (boolprop cheat) to give the sim a gold robot badge. Then began making 5 of each robot type.
She gave birth in the middle of her building. It ended up being a very glitchy twin birth. The one infant was stuck to her. One of the most unique birth glitches I've seen.
Lots of time has past. I have 5 of each robot created.

Walter turns on all the robots.
Max plays fetch with grim.

RIP Max.

4 Munchi bots deliver food for one hungry sim. Sadly, I can't store any of the food as leftovers. So the food is either consumed or tossed. I wasn't expecting this.
A toddler plays with one of the toy robots.

End Roll Call: Adults: Walt and Kail, Twins Georgia and New Jersey, Mia Tatanka and Tatanka, Robin and Ned.

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Most of the time was creating the bots, sadly no chaos was caused by having so many on the lot. This disaster shall continue next round. (crossing fingers for major chaos) Sorry for such a dull update on this lot.

Garden Club, tent and hammock woohoo, learn to hula, makeover, caught cheating,

2007-09-23T11:12:00.001-07:00

Adults 2, children 5, toddler 2, pets 2

Disaster Card: Get into the garden club.

The five children aged to teen and sent to uni. (aged using a cheat due to game lag after BV added)

Twins born. (I know a total shocker)
BV: Digging for treasure. One sim hit a water line or natural spring.

You can make pretty good money digging up items. The treasure chest is worth §5,000. Other smaller items, add up pretty fast. I found a neat trick with this too. Once you start digging at one spot, you can queue up a line to continue digging in the same stop. The hole doesn't get deeper and they continue to pull things out of the ground. It saves time filling in the holes. Lots of holes cause low environment.
A shot of the pickpocket dressed in tropical clothes. He is looking for a target.

Sims sing with a ghost. Since it was a community lot, I couldn't turn on the lights in build mode to get a better shot.
BV brings a new woohoo spot.
A sim using a voodoo doll.

She is making friends with the massage NPC. You can see my sim over her shoulder. After the voodoo spell works, the NPC goes over and hugs my sim. The voodoo doll has an option to backfire too.
Another new woohoo spot, tent woohoo.

Interesting note. The two sims in the tent are Melissa and Mr. McCoy. Brandon is outside the tent clapping. He is currently in a love relationship with Melissa, but doesn't get upset with the vacation woohoo. Not sure if this is an odd happening or if your free to woohoo with anyone on vacation without loss of relationship.

For fun, I had Melissa Hatfield invite Mr. McCoy on vacation. While visiting a vacation community lot, he disappeared from my list. When I returned to the vacation home lot, he was on the lot waiting for me. This option to vacation will open up a lot of wonderful variables making vacation ep a really wonderful addition to the sims ep list.
Sims learn to hula.

Picture of my created vacation lot. Its a cheap lot. I've been recycling the vacation homes since there are not very many of them and not much space to add extras. I buy a vacation lot just before sending the family on vacation and then sell the lot once they return home. Items in the house are not deleted. This adds an interesting way to share items between sims households.
Vacation is over and everyone is returning home. I love that each carry their own suit cases.
Custom painting. This is the one option that I really love having that was part of the Pets EP. The sim is painting a picture of a spongebob toy next to a pineapple. Its a picture that I took with my digital camera. I plan to use it in a round of "pass the painting" when and if I ever draw up that disaster card.

Time to work on the disaster challenge. This is the lot before I add the plants and sculptures to prepare the lot for the garden club.
This is the after shot. The garden and trees are newly put down and are neutral in health.

Garden club arrives and I ask for membership. The next few shots are the garden club looking at the yard. I didn't get any negative marks.
The bear and the big tree stump comes from BV EP.
The well comes from BV EP.

Disaster card complete: I got into the garden club with a money bonus. The pop up said I needed to have a bigger garden or take better care of it. No wishing well was earned.
I'm giving a visiting sim a makeover. She is a zombie teen who ran away from home. After loading the BV EP, her face blinked blue and followed her. You can see her blue face over the driveway area. She must have had some cc on her face that the new ep doesn't recognize.
The makeover fixes her blank blinking face. I've had this happen before with sims who didn't have cc. So it may not be related to that at all, just a weird random thing.

The zombie teen is thinking of brains.
Brandon caught Melissa cheating.
Melissa is kissing the massage NPC. Friendship a result of the voodoo doll.

(I think the pictures are out of order. First the kissing, then the caught cheating.)

Interesting twist was that Brandon didn't care that Melissa woohoo'd Mr. Crabs in the tent during the vacation. Nothing changed in their relationship. The above took place the day they returned home from vacation.

Brandon decides to have a revenge affair. He kisses a girl he met on vacation.
Then they spend some time in the car. Both Melissa and Brandon are romance sims. So it was just a matter of time before something like this happened.
Mel slaps Brandon. "How dare you revenge cheat on me."

Twins Alfred and Leigh grow up to toddlers.
They are toddlers only a mother would appreciate. To bad their mom is a romance sim who only appreciates... well never mind.

I think their dad is Bob Ugly.

End of round 5: Melissa and Brandon, Twins Candy and Dan Dee age to child level. Infant twins Alfred and Leigh age to toddlers.

Thanks to the roll call shots, I can actually remember their names.

sim drowns, playing catch, learn to fire dance, chase by bees, combing for shells, house guest

2007-09-23T10:25:00.000-07:00

Start up roll call: Adults 3, teens 2, kids 7, toddlers 4, pets 3.

Disaster Challenge: Sim drowns. Keep the stone for 1-2 weeks.

Elizabeth and Sarah age up and get a make over. The first one has her dads frowning lips. They both have the dads frowning eyebrows. I missed the birth picture of these two.
Twins are born.
Sims go on vacation. This is a shot of their vacation house as they arrive.

This sim walked by and my sim said HI. On their own they started playing catch and I noticed that she wasn't very good at it. In the above series of shots, she is afraid of the ball, then gets hit with it. Then she picks it up and looks at the other sim with an angry face. Then she threw it back to Killer.
Amber gets a gift from the witch doctor. Amber looks delighted.
Killer and Amber learn to hula dance from the witch doctor.

Amber gets a massage.
Amber learns to fire dance while Killer is fire dancing for tips. A local is tipping Killer.
Killer returns from a tour. During the tour a bee flew into the helicopter. I had the option to open up the window to let out the bee or to spray the bee to kill it. I picked to open up the window. When the window was opened, the bee called for help. A bunch of bees flew in the window filling up the helicopter with bees. My sim exited the tour with bees chasing him around the lot. They continued to do this for a little while.

For those who don't have BV, sims can go on tours during their vacation. Each area has three different tours to pick from. You book the tour and then a car comes and takes the sim. Sadly, you don't get to go with them, they just leave in the tour vehicle while you remain on the community lot. While on the tour, you get a pop up like chance card. Your answer can result in a good or a bad outcome. Just like chance cards there is a positive and negative for both answers. The positive can end with a gained skill, money, ... Negatives can end in loss of money, decreased needs, loss of skill, and other things I'll let you discover.

RUN KILLER RUN!
Killer sings with a ghost at the beach.

Amber combs through the sand looking for treasures and finds a crab. (oops)

OUCH!

She didn't learn anything, she is back to combing for shells. Killer is digging for treasure.
Return home. Killer ages to elder. My first elder in the challenge.
He calls over a friend he made while on vacation. I think this is the girl he was playing catch with. They talk about his vacation.

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BV allows you to have a house guest for 3 days. The above sim is actually a house guest instead of invited over for a visit. Sadly, the house guest option is limited to sims at the vacation area. I was hoping to finally be able to invite grandma over for 3 days to help out with kids so the mom could go back to work. It would be nice to have grandma be the babysitter instead of the nanny.

Oh look they are hugging, how cute. Back in round one or two, Killer made friends with a sim and that sim ended up being his second wife. Could this be his fourth wife?
Carla goes for a swim.
While she is floating on her back, resting in the water, Amber (wife #3) visits the side of the pool. Amber just looks at her, but doesn't join her in the pool. (sorry Amber's head got cut off in the picture). Amber sort of looks spooky the way she just watches her. There seems to be something different about the pool.

Carla drowns.
Amber returns to the pool and returns the diving board and the steps. (snicker: Disaster card complete)
Amber changes into Carla's clothes. (hee hee)

ROLL Call: End of round 5. Killer and Amber are still happily married. Twins Elizabeth and Sarah are toddlers. Twin infant Puritan G and Thomas Hooker.

Nicole moves out with 4 toddlers. I moved her out since she is a popularity sim and Amber is a family sim. I'm going to continue to work to get Amber her 10 kid want.

Sims who went to uni this round. I used a cheat to age some of them up to teen to move them out. The lot was running really choppy after BV was d/l. With the low number of sims it runs just fine. Each house will be shrunk with kids aged to teens. I'll have a really swollen college round.

Round 5

2007-09-23T10:01:00.000-07:00

Round 4 (OFB round). With that objective I planned for each lot to have their own OFB lot and work it to rank 10. I managed this ending my personal challenge to work all of the Bluewater shops to rank 10. Bon Voyage (BV) was added during the McCoy round at OFB. Due to the mutliple NPC spawning problem of BV, I added the hack to end the spawning of NPC's. I don't have simpe so the instructions to delete the extra NPC files wasn't possible. Instead, I restored my saved game. I took a copy of N004 just before loading BV and pasted it to a different location on the computer. I used that saved copy to restore my game to the point prior to the massive NPC Spawning problem. This resulted in me losing about 5 OFB rank 10 shops. The loss is minimal, eventually I will work them back to rank 10. For now, I want to explore BV so the rank 10's will have to wait.

Round 5

Objective to continue on with the challenge. Sending some lots on vacation. With the additions of BV my game is running at a really bad lag. I've also lost all my hacks so am again (hip hip hooray) hack free (except the Anti-NPC spawning hack). I no longer have the unlimited sims on a lot hack. So my first objective is to reduce the number of sims on each lot. Reducing the number on each lot has reduced the lag on the playable lot. YEAH!!! There is a really long loading delay between lots. Very annoying at first but has resutled in me getting a lot of needed reading done.

Hatfield Round 5

Story in order Has links from round 1 to round 4 (OFB round), OFB tips and previous challenges played.

Summary: Round 1-3 This has a short summary of what happened on each lot on each round and links to the pages.

Summary OFB Round with links.

Summary of Round 5

Fun Misc OFB shots

2007-09-07T23:04:00.000-07:00

Mr Hatfield (black hat) and Mr. McCoy (white hat) both happened to be at the counter at the same time. Customers join the shop owner as she eats a meal.
One of the customers is looking at an item that's out of stock. He gets upset and gives a negative mark to the store.
Restocking glitch. I'm not sure why she has the trash bag. I just happened to notice she did. She continued to carry the trash bag as she restocked.

A vampire shopping. The bat was flying around with the bag of items floating under it.

The vampire poofs back to sim form.

Now she is walking away with the bag in hand.
I've had lots of zombies but have never noticed the brain thought bubble.
She is walking away from the counter, dragging her foot, and thinking about BRAINS!!! ROFL

I think my graphic settings are higher, so feel that could be a big part of not seeing it before.
One last zombie thinking of brains picture.

Has anyone seen the zombie with the thought bubble of brains? What about the shopping vampire?

OFB: Restaurant/mini shop, 5 top shops with one shop, caught cheating,

2007-09-07T22:18:00.001-07:00

Only change to roll call is Jessica moved to house #4.

Jack purchased the Cacti Cafe.

Picture of the lot before I change it.
floor plan. Its a coffee shop that sells magazines.
I add restaurant items. A restaurant is a little more complicated than the other types, but yet the most dull (IMO). The sims look at the menu and decide if they want to eat or not.

Then the host shows the sims to a waiting table.
Waiter takes the order.
Waiter/waitress serves the food.

You need one sim for each duty or have a sim share duties. Jobs are: Hostess, waiter, chef.

Since I find a restaurant to be a little dull and slow at building rank, I add a mini shop to the area.

If customers are low, one sim can do all jobs. (hostess, waitress, and cook)
Here she gets a tip.
She is also the server.

oh look, he ordered cheesecake. ROFL
She is also the chef.

I place two chef tables on the lot. Once the food is made, it doesn't seem to spoil. In case she gets more than one customer at a time, she can cook the food ahead of time. If inspired to try doing all the jobs with one sim, you could place more than two counters. I wouldn't suggest it, it gets harry at times and customers really back up and leave. Its nice to have back up help in case your sim starts to get backed up.

Here is one of the sims helping out.
Here is a customer leaving who didn't get service.
I forgot to put in a shower. The pregnant sim is taking a sponge bath in the sink. I added bubbles in paint shop for fun.

The zombie plantsim is considering a slice of cheesecake.
Another customer eating cheesecake. Rank 10. To show how you can get 5 top shops with one shop, I'm going to carry on with this lot. I look in the customer loyalty area and find a sim on the lot who has one loyalty star. I talk to the sim a couple times then try to hire them. In the above shot, I hire Goopy the servo. If you look at the loyalty stars, I've lost the one that was his. I freeze the game before the rank 10 count was changed to rank 9.

After I hired the servo, I promoted him to manager. Changed his wages. Then sent him home for the day.

I earn the one lost star from hiring the servo, and earn a two top shop for the owner. I just need to do this 3 more times and he will have his 5 top shops earned.
I try to hire this sim without building relationship. He gets mad and I lose a star. That was easy.
I show him an item. That makes him happy and I get his one star back. (another rank 10)

I decide to "flirt" with a customer my sim doesn't know. This usually results in a negative interatcion.
Sadly, I forgot her husband was on the lot. OOPS.

I'm not sure why he looks on with such worry. (funny)
I hired another servo and sent him home for the day. He had three stars.

Two of his stars replaced.
And the final one.
The last rank 10 completed. A shot showing the lot owner and his 5 top shops.

The lot at the end of the challenge.

Groc Store, Servo Runs Amok

2007-09-07T21:45:00.000-07:00

Roll call: No change.

Brandon buys the Town Center Grocery.

This is the first time I've purchased this lot or visited it. It was a pleasant surprise. I thought I'd at one time or another been to all of the lots.
A shot of the lot before I make changes that suit my playing style.
Close up of the buildings floor plan.

The area I changed. I took out the public bathroom and made a large break room to refresh the playable sims needs. I also placed a flower workbench on the lot.

I created a public bathroom on the lot in the area that the BBQ grill was located. Walls up, showing that the BBQ grill is outside, yet easily available to the workers. The gates and doors to the break area are locked allowing only workers or playable sims to access the area.
First customers. Nothing unique in this shot other than the penguin at the register.

Servo runs amok.
The servo shocks anyone she touches.

She runs around.
More shocking.
and more...

A negative mark for that shocking.
More customers shocked.

Servo runs off.
SHOCKS.

Then runs away.

Brandon looks worried. A customer, burnt to a crisp, waits to pay for his items.
Finaly, the servo calmly walks off the lot.
Last shot of servo before she poofed off the lot.

Two sims calmly play chess. I guess they didn't get shocked or see any of it.

Everything else on this lot was the same. Nothing new to report. The most exciting thing was the servo.

venue with tips

2007-09-07T21:24:00.000-07:00

This lots funds were very low. About 11k. I wasn't able to buy any of the Bluewater OFB shops that are left. I think the lowest one was 60K. The sim purchased the Career Reward lot for a little over 2k.
Here is the basic set up for a starter "venue" OFB shop. I find a venue lot to be one of the easiest to work to rank 10. You can work it up without any sim effort.

I start by putting in a ticket machine and two instruments.
Rank 1 gives 3 customers. One or two instruments work nice at this level. It allows the extra guest to tip the others.

Tips the customer earns on a community lot will be added to your money. This works on an OFB lot or a Uni Community lot. Need a little extra cash in uni, go to the uni community lot and put down some instruments. Then visit the lot, while your there you can study and let the Uni Townee make you a little extra cash.

A customer with his ticket. In the back you can see the extra career rewards that are stocked on the lot.

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TIP: How to make a "sharing lot". If there is an item in the game that you like to use, yet are tired of creating new ones or earning them you can create a sharing OFB lot. Go to the neighborhood screen. Put in a cheap, small, community lot. Load the lot that has the sims who has the item you wish to copy. Have that family purchase the community lot. Send them to the OFB lot. While there, they drop off the item you wish to copy. Then they return home and sell th lot back to the neighborhood. NOW exit the lot. Find the shared lot and package it to file or move it to the lot bin. (one of the ep's allowed you to keep a copy of a lot in the lot bin - I don't recall what ep allows this) Now you can place down as many copies of the "sharing lot" you wish to add to the game. When you have a sim family, that needs the items, have them buy the sharing lot, visit it and take the items they need. They can keep or sell it, that's up to you.

This can be done with snapdragons, robots, full juice machines, a garden ready to be harvested, career rewards, and more.

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A customer tipping another sim.
Another venue money trick is to put in a poker table. Again, you earn the winnings. (unless this was changed with one of the ep updates. I've not rechecked this or the instrument tipping in a while. So it may have changed.)
While the customers enjoy the poker table, the playable sims work at the flower workbench. Venues are wonderful lots that allow your sims free "workbench" time. If you have never worked a shop to rank 10 or earned a gold workbench badge, give this set up a try. While your sims are on the OFB lot, they don't have to go to work, deal with infants or skill building. They are able to focus on workbench skills and needs.

Place things they need to refresh their needs or use the energizer to keep needs high.

Fast comfort building. For female sims, have them set on the most expensive toilet about 4 times. This should nearly fill up their comfort needs. It only works for males if they happen to set down. If they stand, then they don't get a boost to comfort.

Energy Boost: Coffee pot, sleep in a tent, Tai Chi, or Energizer.

Snap dragon tip: Snap dragons put off pink (good) or green (bad) smoke. Pink ones are created when the sim who is making them have plat or gold aspiration. If they have a lower aspiration they risk making green smoking snapdragons. Pink smoking snapdragons give a need burst to everything except energy. Green drains their needs.

Place about 4-8 snapdragons next to a crib and you won't have to deal with the infant needs.

Place 4-8 snaps at the foot of a sims bed, and they wake full of energy and needs.

Place 4-8 next to a chair or sofa used for skill building. The sims will work on skills until energy drains.

Snapdragons give energy boost to anyone standing up to three squares away from them. The power doesn't seem to go through walls. Stacking them (moveobjects on) allows them to have even more energy boosting power. I'd say 8 on top of each other is the max needed no matter the activity. You can get away with less snapdragons near things that use up less sim energy (beds or chairs).

Snap dragons and venue: Place at least 8 snapdragons around the venue. Stack them if you want. In this example, they are not stacked. Price your venue up high. In this example I priced it 900 vs 48 (average cost). You can go higher, just experiment with it. At the higher price, you will have to "work" to get people to purchase a ticket from the venue. You need a sim with a gold badge in sales. My typical combo is "basic sell" then "dazzle x2-x6". With this combo, most customers will come in. Some will not, no matter your combo. You can also add manipulate if you have all the perception perks open.

Dazzle.
The sim took the ticket after this dazzle.
Manipulate. This was done after the sim took a ticket. If you put in as many sales options as you can, sometimes the sim will give you a gold star. Watch for negative marks, if you see those cancel out any extra interactions.
Another dazzle.
My sim is talking to a servo with a pile of money in his thought bubble. [If you come onto my over priced lot, I will enjoy your money. (evil laugh) ]
Rank 10.

This is the sim telling everyone the lot is closed.
As soon as all of the customers leave, the owner of the shop will leave the lot.

Round 1: Cheats, Tips, and Glitches

2007-08-04T12:24:00.000-07:00

CHEAT: Here is a shot of the hacks I have in my game. The elixir is a lot timer. I set it up on both base lots to keep track of how long I've played the challenge. One of the yellow boxes is macrostatics, a major hack for the sims. It allows me to build relationships with other sims with one click instead of repeated clicking on interactions. I'm sure this hack will ward off carpal tunnel problems from excessive clicking. It also has the ability to clean, repair, do homework, and I think skill building. I mostly use it for relationships and tend to forget about the other. The other yellow box is lot debugger. It helps to clear off stuck kicky bags more than anything else Also clears off stuck bills and fixes AWOL headmaster. I think the stack of phone books is used for uni. I use it to give my sims cellphones instead of juggling them around or going to community lot just to buy one. I wish those were in the buy mode. Although this hack, takes care of the long load time just to get the one item. Next is the teleporter shrub. I've not used it for this challenge but may. Then the baby statue is the sim mooder. I use it to give my sims more want locks. I normally, don't give them more want spots. When I do that I get confused who went to uni and who didn't. The last is tombstone of L and D. I use that to check if a sim is pregnant, if I don't have sound on and didn't check by attempting to try for baby. I also have risky woohoo and the love water bed. So far, the water bed isn't in any of the houses. I'm sure it will be at some point.

TIP: The sim on the floor is pregnant. She was so tired she wasn't able to make it to bed. She is also hungry. Her hunger level is dropping and needs attention. I wake her up and send her to make some juice. She should finish the drink before complaining about her fatigue. It doesn't matter what juice, any of them will fill up her hunger. At this point, pepper punch is ideal. That would give her a boost in energy plus help her hunger. The quickest juice to make is fishing boot juice (can't recall its true name). Fish for a little while and your almost sure to catch a boot. The boot goes into the juicer. I like to use the juicer for any sim whose hunger is low to the point they fall asleep in their food or get up from the table to complain they are tired.

CHEAT: If you have "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" turned on, you can shift+click on the juice machine. Click "add fruit". You get a pop up that asks you if you want to add fruit. I click yes. This fills up the juicer without growing or buying the product. At this point, in the challenge, I'm doing this for both family lines. I know I can grow the veggies and fruit, just don't care to mess with it just now. I may challenge myself to only grow it later in the challenge. If I didn't use this cheat, I'd go to a OFB lot and just buy the produce.

TIP: For a long challenge like this, I usually store up a pile of smart milk. Smart milk keeps forever. I'll get a sim in plat., buy as many smart milk containers as I can, process them, then pile the milk in an area of the house. In this pile, the bottles are going all sorts of ways. You can turn them all in the same direction to make it look like one strong glowing bottle.

TIP: Help with homework. This is a skill I usually didn't bother with. Once a child has been taught how to do homework, they are able to finish their home work quicker. If I have a house with several kids, I usually have one do most or all of the homework. Rarely do all kids come home from school ready to do their lessons. Some need a nap or work on fun before they are in a good enough mood. If I have a teen in the house, that is usually the sim that will do all the school work for the others.

GLITCH: I've seen the weird arm thing happen a few times. Sometimes with the "back rub" interaction. In this shot, the nanny was done with her shift. She happen to be holding a baby and was walking to the car with the infant. I've read there is a glitch that if this happens you could loser your baby. Thats an older glitch that I think was fixed. In case it wasn't, I entered "moveobjects on" and took the baby from the nanny arms and placed it on the ground. The sim is doing an "inspector gadget" move to pick up the infant laying on the ground in the front yard.

That ends my Tips, Glitches, and Cheats for week one.

2007-01-20T14:20:00.000-08:00

*** updates ****

toddler mania (finished)

Lost Challenge (finished)

Prosperity Challenge Score page (finished challenge)

Pleasantview Journal challenge Funnies - not a storyline funny glitches or thigns seen during the challenge.

2007-01-02T07:53:00.000-08:00

The Generations challenges was created for the fun and joy of a few wonderful players. If your interested in the rules of the challenge, you can find them under the score and rules link to the side. In short, its based on the legacy challenge taking out many of the restrictive rules and deductions and mixing it with some pet generation goals.

No cheats or hacks are allowed during the short time at uni. After that, any hack or cheat a player wishes to use they may do so. There is no reward or gift if you happen to finish this challenge. So you may as well play it in a way that makes you happy and not someone else.

This is the founder sim. His name is Eye Hatesims. The name was based on a sim that I found wandering around my town. For a while, I thought he was a townie and found it really funny that maxis would create a sim with such a name. I later found out the sim was created by my dh. The sim was living in a different section of the town. When I would call him on the phone, there was no address so it was easy to think he could be a townie.

The skins is a maxis one redressed. He had a very nerdy/slobby look. Had a half untucked shirt on. Funny, but hard to look at. Not that the above, overly inked sim, is easier to look at.

This is a quick snapshot of Eye on his first day at uni.

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Click here to find the story from start to finish.

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Uni - This is were the story starts. If other generations are sent, the uni link will be updated to include that information.

Generation Journal - You will find a page with links to the full story listed in order. Most of the story will be in the Generation Journal area.

Pets - the area I will share pictures of the pets to show what was passed down from previous generations.

OFB - Will list the the progress of the shops owned by the family. Every since OFB was released, I've wanted to work all of the maxis shops to rank 10. Bluewater shops and Downtown. This is my own personal goal and isn't part of the challenge.

NPC Added to Score - The plan is to put one shot of each NPC in this area. There are so many NPC I thought this would be an easy way to keep track of the ones I've managed to score. It is also a way to share how they died or their purpose in the challenge.

Score and Rules - My first post to this section was the rules of the challenge. Future posts will be score updates.

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Generation Challenge Blogs - A list of blogs from others playing this challenge.

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