Quote: Originally posted by indonesiast
WOW!!! if you use cheat to raise a sims career level. What a big penalty!!
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*laughs* Well, since the whole point is to get your Sims to the top of the career, it'd make the challenge rather pointless if you just cheated to do it!
Anyway, I did start this last night. I didn't get very far because it took a while to get their 5-bedroom house (2 Sims to a room) ready and then generate and then prettify (a bit) the randomly-generated Sims. So, basically, I only actually played the lot for two Sim days. I took some pics but was too sleepy to edit them, so I'll post them later. Anyway, this is what I did.
The house cost way more than $50,000 with just basic, mid-quality furnishings. (OK, I gave them a hot tub and a pool. That's not "basic," but...I wanted them to have the pool for body-skilling rather than an exercise machine. They tend to be obsessed with the machines and then I end up with a bunch of Sims with heatstroke.
And I just wanted them to have a hot tub.) So, I family-funded the first Sim enough money to buy the lot and have some left over for clothes (Randomly-generated Sims come in ugly, usually-clashing Maxis outfits which MUST BE CHANGED.
) Then when the beautification was done, I reduced their funds to $500, enough to cover the first round of bills.
I decided to do this with all girls, just so I could have fun with clothes and makeup and such.
I generated all of them randomly. I used CAS for the first one, just using whatever Sim was spat at me, moved her into the lot, and then generated the other nine with the Tombstone of L&D, just so things would be random. I ended up with mostly Knowledge and Romance Sims, with a couple Family, and one Popularity. (Who's already happy because she basically has 9 built-in friends.
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I decided that if a lady had an LTW to top a career that wasn't one of the base game ones, then she could have that career anyway. (I never keep score with challenges, just play to have fun and see if I can do the challenge, so I won't have any advantage or anything in terms of Sims in platinum.) So, I have a few careers like that. Off the top of my head, one was Architecture, one was Oceanography, one was Entertainment, and one was Journalism. (Or is Journalism a base game career? I can never remember what came from where.) There might have been one other non-base career, but I can't remember. One of the Family Sims wants to be Captain Hero, so she got Law Enforcement. The other Family Sim wanted 6 kids, so that's obviously not going to happen. I gave her Culinary, since when she was generated she "came with" points in Cooking and Creativity. I also have a Criminal, which one of the Knowledge ladies had an LTW for. Oddly enough, she and the Captain Hero wannabe instantly hit it off and are already best friends.
Because of this, I made them roomies. It amused me. I also have Slacker, Business, and I think one or two others. Can't remember off the top of my head.
I've been using the computer on the lot to get the ladies their jobs and so far I think five of them have jobs, although some of them haven't actually worked yet because their job appeared on the computer on the day the entry-level job for that career has off. One of the first ones to get a job was my Slacker, ironically. She's already at level 3. (The schedule of the early Slacker career is kind of ironic, too. The first job goes from 5AM-1PM, then the next level goes from that same evening until like 3AM then next morning, then the NEXT position starts at 9 or 10 that same morning. Not very slacker-ish.
She's pretty sleepy. But anyway...)
Since it's a large household, I do what I always do with large houses: I rotate through the Sims and actively control each of them for a few minutes, setting up a queue of actions. When/if they finish that queue before I get back to them, they free will. So far, they all seem to like dancing to the stereo. I get random mass smustlings. I've got a couple who won't leave the chess board, two who fight over the piano, one who makes a beeline for the pool (She has fitness as her True Hobby, and since the pool is the only fitness/body-skilling item on the lot...), and one who seems to be drawn to painting. (No, I won't sell her paintings and break that rule. I'll either stick 'em on the walls or stuff 'em in her inventory.) And one who regularly sets fires in the kitchen. *rolls eyes* Why is it that the Sims who can't cook are the ones who always try to cook? I guess it's OK, though, because the firefighter makes the three or four Romance Sims' hearts go pitter-pat when he arrives.
Swooning all over the place. I think there's too much estrogen in this house...
Oddly enough, no one's touched the hot tub yet.
Anyway, there's my update.
I've got I think half the ladies in careers but the only one who's had a promotion so far (Two of them!) is my Slacker, ironically enough.
The only other one who's actually worked yet is in Business, but she didn't get her promotion because she needs a skill point in Charisma, I think, which she'll get when next I play. Pics later.
ETA: As threatened, pics of my laydeez. Pic 1:
Clockwise from the top left, we have:
1) Abby Handen
Career Represented: Culinary
Aspiration: Family
LTW: Marry off 6 children (Not gonna happen, obviously)
Personality: Playful Aquarius, even though she looks rather...severe, doesn' she? Gotta love randomly-generated Sims!
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2) Celia Alexander
Career Represented: Entertainment
Aspiration: Knowledge
LTW: Become a Prestidigitator
Personality: Nice, active Pisces
(My game seems to randomly generate a lot of dark-skinned blondes for some reason. Usually, I'll change 'em to have dark hair, but I decided to leave Celia as is because I thought she looked rather...unique.
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3) Cleo Golden (My favorite!)
Career Represented: Journalism
Aspiration: Popularity
LTW: Become Media Magnate
Personality: A very outgoing yet perversely grouchy Leo. I think she's adorable.
4) Christa Simpson
Career Represented: Slacker
Aspiration: Romance
LTW: Become a Professional Party Guest
Personality: A nice & outgoing Libra...and an atrocious, pyromaniacal cook. As you can maybe see, I took this pic in the kitchen. No doubt, right after I took it, she set another darned fire.
Pic 2:
Again, clockwise from the top left:
1.) Kara Kramer
Career Represented: Business
Aspiration: Romance
LTW: WooHoo 20 different Sims, which is probably not going to happen.
Personality: Very neat, extremely active Virgo
2) Kiera Lawrence
Career Represented: Criminal
Aspiration: Knowledge
LTW: Become Criminal Mastermind
Personality: Active & playful Sagittarius
3) Corrinna Cooke
Career Represented: Law Enforcement (It would've been cool, given her last name if she'd gotten Culinary, but alas...)
Aspiration: Family
LTW: Become Captain Hero
Personality: Another playful Aquarius
4) Greta Ridley
Career Represented: Medicine
Aspiration: Romance
LTW: 20 Simultaneous Lovers (And she so darn cute that I might see if I can get her there.)
Personality: Another nice & outgoing Libra (Makes me wonder if the Tombstone of L&D is really random...)
Pic 3:
And finally, from left to right:
1) Star Walton
Career Represented: Oceanography
Aspiration: Knowledge
LTW: Become Hand of Poseiden
Personality: Another nice and active Pisces (Random, yes!
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2) Tammy Underwood (My original CAS Sim. I picked her appearance and her name. Everything else was randomly generated.)
Career Represented: Architecture
Aspiration: Knowledge
LTW: Become City Planner
Personality: Extremely, one might say almost OCD, neat Virgo. (But thank GOD someone's neat; the rest, other than Kara, are on the slobby side.)
And a bonus pic: Abby's dancing face.
It's just too funny. She looks like she's getting ready to punch someone!