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Um, I'm still saying "not yet" ... but I seriously doubt that I ever will, it just takes too long and it's too easy and boring now. I don't even remember how old my grandchild sim is ... my score is quite good though, the family value alone is more than 500.000 I believe (not even counting childbirths and such). I'll probably just drop the grandchild in a pool at some point and claim it was an accident =).
In other news, I'm finished! Done! Over! And they ALL survived! The ending was very neat, as well: One day before she had her scheduled three days off, she maxed the last two skills (cooking and creativity), subsequently fulfilled her longtime want to Sell a Masterpiece and thus went to work in platinum, and promptly got promoted.
But I might have disqualified myself by accidentially leaving some hacks installed (they were in a sub-subfolder, and I only found them today) -- most of them shouldn't have had much of an effect (community lot skilling, hygienic swimming and suchlike), but things like Eat More Talk Less and noeatcrap probably did ... so I guess I'll have to do this again and see how it compares.
Call To Meal is an extremely useful feature to survive flu epidemics, I learned (and also to prevent fires, by keeping the idiots well-fed at all times, resulting in very fat sims =) -- when they eat they sit down, which helps them get well. Same goes for inviting to join a game of chess -- even if you quit, the other sim usually keeps sitting there for a while if they don't have anything better to do.
Anyhow, my score is:
+ 100 Basic points
+ 020 Never used Influence (really!)
+ 105 Skill points of fellow patients (my own don't count, right?)
+ 071 Aspiration points of fellow patients (70.400 all in all)
+ 007 Household friends
– 042 Days institutionalized (Turned off aging on day 28, now it's Sunday again (two weeks after) -- hope my math is right)
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+ 261 points
The house looks very nice now, as well (of course that's what I mainly care about =) -- this is on the night she comes home with the last promotion:
Thanks again, I had fun!
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I just have the base game for now, and would really like to play this challenge.
Could there be an alternate ending for those without any EPs?
Such as, "you get out of the asylum when you master your career and prove yourself worthy" or something.
And even though you cannot buy any extra skill items, I would be sure and make my Sim get a job in whatever skill is needed from the item I buy.
Hmm...
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And I had (and still have) the same problem with bubble baths (and playing in the tub!), but I don't think a shower would have been an option ... iirc the rules state explicitely that it must be a tub.
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HunterGreen, regarding the fights: I've started over (with a new family, new house, and no hacks this time) but again I still haven't had any fights after about one sim week ... maybe it has to do with the extreme personalities you made? |
It must be. I forget now what the personalities were like, but I am pretty sure there was at least one or two sims with NO nice points. I noticed before (when I was doing something similar: watching what sims do autonomously), that sims with red aspiration are more keen to fight. In any case, I'm glad I made the extreme personalites, it makes the house all the more chaotic (and its interesting to see certain sims who have enemies and best friends in the house).
I really hate the bubble baths. A lot.
"Look, I don't need this, I inhaled my favorite whistle this morning."
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Still no fights except for beating up visitors ... and only two or three fires that the sane sim managed to extinguish herself (they were basically on gelatin diet). They're all in red aspiration of course, but otherwise seemed quite content most of the time -- I had built a really crap house this time so that they could afford a hot tub, which certainly helps with the hygiene and fun levels.
Score:
+ 100 Basic points
+ 020 Never used Influence
+ 080 Skill points of fellow patients
+ 092 Aspiration points of fellow patients (92.000 all in all)
+ 013 Household friends
– 022 Days institutionalized (they'll be Elders in 7 days)
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+ 283 points
I guess it helped that I had two popularity sims among the uncontrollables this time -- they both scored lots of points for making best friends with their inmates.
It would be nice, I thought, if there was a follow-up to this challenge -- kind of a "level 2", now that they've managed to escape the asylum. What's next? I think I'll just try to populate the neighbourhood (I made a new empty one for this challenge), which should be somewhat difficult given that they've only 7 days left, damaged personalities, no jobs and hardly any money ...
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Just wondered though, are the inmates allowed to make friends with other families from the neighbourhood, for instance if I'm playing another family who visit a community lot and they get to meet one of the inmates, and become friends, can the normal sims invite their new crazy friend over to their house to socialize?
I get it that the non selective sims can't invite any friends they make to the asylum.
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"Look, I don't need this, I inhaled my favorite whistle this morning."
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I've started and my founder doesn't have time to socialize, she's too busy calling the fire department...
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I haven't had any die yet, but one of my non selectable inmates has escaped :confused: She just said "Bye" like a visitor, and left the lot
Has anyone else had that happen?
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I'm having a blast watching the inmates try to function on their own and at the same time attempting to keep them out of harm's way AND am enjoying reading others' stories!
I've spent almost more time keeping track of my sim's story than actually playing, I think. If anyone cares to read it, it's on my website. The site's still sort of under construction, but if you take the Storyville link from the main page you'll get there!
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However, due to popular demand, I did go ahead and play Vincent to the end and finished his story. www.wallypogsbog.com
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