/spanish / woa.. este desafío es el primero que hago, es realmente dificil, yo descargue los lotes de MTS, y la verdad, la primera murieron quemados, mi sim controlable por desgracia fué el primero así que los demás como no podía controlarlos ,murieron,intenté de nuevo y mi sim es un esclavo de esa panda de vagos.. todo lo debo hacer yo, y no tengo comida ni cama, las reglas son muy estrictas,la verdad dudo que alguien haya podido terminar este desafio sin trampas.
Al final empecé el tercero, y solo me permití un baño, ducha y silla en una habitacion para mi, pero como siempre los sims empiezan a llorar, a mearse, tenia la bici estatica sin el mod, y 2 murieron de hammbre, ahora puse el mod de que no se suicidan en la bici,ya que eso es un error de maxis, si no es así me lo teneis que deci y quito el mod,pero la bici esa que viene en el lote, asesina a los sims, es un desastre,me tocó en 2 desafios ser la mano de poseidon, y no lo he logrado, no sé si vale que se mueran todos,si se mueren todos igual lo consigo,ya que solo debo cuidarme yo xD / english / woa .. this challenge is the first one I do, it is really difficult, I downloaded the batches of MTS, and the truth is, the first one died burned, my controllable sim unfortunately was the first so the others as I could not control them, they died, I tried again and my sim is a slave to that bunch of bums ... I have to do everything, and I have no food or bed, the rules are very strict, I really doubt that anyone could have finished this challenge without cheating.
In the end I started the third, and I only allowed myself a bath, shower and chair in a room for me, but as always the sims start to cry, to piss, I had the static bike without the mod, and 2 died of hunger, now I put The mod that they do not commit suicide on the bike, since that is a maxis error, if not, you have it for me to say and remove the mod, but the bike that comes in the lot, kills the sims, is a disaster, I had to be the hand of poseidon in 2 challenges, and I have not achieved it, I do not know if it is worth that they all die, if they all die the same I get it, since I only have to take care of myself xD

Just popping in to say that TheMediocreSulk at Garden of Shadows has posted a rewrite of the challenge concept here. I've always wanted to see a variation on the "only one controllable sim in a household" idea that does not poke fun at mental health issues, and here it is!

I'm considering my own variant where the concept revolves around dealing with roommate drama - possibly involving apartments and Squinge's Multiple Roommates mod. I may have to playtest that now I've mentioned it.

I have suffered from depression since I was a child and I did not feel bad about that challenge, since it is a joke, it is just a challenge, I do not think that it makes fun of anyone, at least I think so, also you should take care of them, but I understand your position, The asylum challenge can also be done like they have been trapped in a house and only one can go out, or as you say a party etc ... I liked it the most and I have achieved it with a sim of knowledge and His lifelong desire was to learn the 7 skills to the fullest, I doubt that it can be achieved in another way, since for professions you must have many friends, or if you choose a family sim and they ask you to see 6 grandchildren married, because the Challenge does not end even with mods.
I think that many write the challenge, set rules and they themselves have not done it, for it to be a challenge, it must have been done and completed, it is not worth setting random and exorbitant rules and whoever can try it and you watch your sims die ... I'm creating one with elders, but I need support for the theme.

Thank you for sharing your viewpoint on this challenge, @Missdabone - although jokes can sometimes be hurtful, I understand your position too, and I enjoy the challenge of only controlling one sim as well. I'm glad that you can play it without feeling bad, and as someone who also has suffered from depression, I wish you the best in healing. Take care

Thanks to you for sharing this page, I downloaded 2 lots, they looked great to do the challenge again with some changed rules. Greetings and take care
P:S: your lots or the ones you have referred have a bug. they should clean them

I freaking finally completed this challenge. Of course, I added my own set of rules. I used premades instead of creating new sims. Anywho, Mary-Sue Pleasant became a City Planner to free everyone from the asylum. Only two sims died (old age), while leaving six other insane sims.

I didn't calculate points or anything like that. I just wanted Mary-Sue to get to Level 10 in her career.

It was a crazy family affair

Just completed the challenge!
I scored 329! (Give or take a few as I kind of lost track of how many days I played... I took away 70 for my final score as in was about that haha.)
I'm going by if resurrecting sims with the genie lamp is allowed- if not i got 309!

I managed to get my Sim to level 9 in an architecture career so we got a lot of money (one chance card with a 15000 simoleon bonus helped.) She was a "Pleasure Sim" with a LTW of "50 first dates." Because of this we had 27 household friends in the end. I got to 30 first dates, then called the matchmaker. You can get a blind date for as little as 37 simoleons, so I spammed the last twenty by having her set me up again and again ^_^ I feel like a career goal would have been easier, but certainly not the hardest.

I've played Asylum a bit yesterday, it was fun.

My first try was in the last year. All my sims died horribly, because I didn't bother to paint walls and buy floor, and they complained all the time neglecting all other needs. One died because of ghost panic attack. I didn't follow rules too closely.

This time I got a LTW to reach the top of Oceanography and I couldn't find it in the newspaper for two weeks or so. I turned on agingoff cheat one day before everybody would turn elder, so I could buy some time. I had a few fires, including one time my PC was cooking some fancy dessert likre crepez susette or something, and caught fire. I broke the challenge to save her with on of the NPC asylium patients. But after this near-death-expierience the stove became bugged; I could order my PC to get the dish but the action was instantly canceled. Another time, all phones broke in a weird way; the interaction spontaniusly camcelled shortly fter pickung up the phone. I could fix the phone bug by selling all phones and buying them again.

I had many parties and there was this time two sims were chatting in the toilet room, blocking the doorway, while dozen or so of other patients and party guests all had that speech bubble, protesting.

I just finished this challenge! It was my first attempt. I used Sim Randomizer and decided to go with one of the knowledge Sims for my controllable Sim, George. His LTW was to reach the top of the Medical career and he achieved it on the first day of becoming an Elder (took a week to show up in the newspaper.)

100pts + 20pts for no influence + 144pts (skills) + 485pts (485k aspiration points) + 11pts (friends) = 760
Minus 60 for three deaths (two in my only fire, one a heatstroke/starvation) and 42 days spent in the asylum so my final score was 658

This house is a great one to use and I recommend encouraging Sims to watch The Yummy Channel so there are fewer fires! Also learn fire safety. It did drag on a bit at the end once I knew my Sim was definitely going to be able to get his LTW but still had a lot of fun. Overall still a good challenge and would recommend

This sounds like fun!
I am going to play it in Pleasantview, and rather than CREATING the 7 non-playable Sims, take one adult Sim from each of the 6 households. For the 7th I’ll move one family from the bin in, choosing which one using random.org . Finally time to create the 8th and only playable Sim!

Feeling the victory with 3001 points! It would have been 3005, but my munty sim decided to not bother taking a promotion right before he had time off and thus set us back a few days.

Every time I've tried this it's not gone well. My current attempt my controlled sim is still waiting for her career to come up in the newspaper and it's been several sim weeks. I've basically been fast forwarding constantly as I currently have nothing to do. Two of my roommates have died, one in a fire, the second one I'm not sure, she was asleep standing up and then she woke up and dropped dead.

My sim rolled a lifetime want of "Have 20 simultaneous Pet Best Friends", so I'm asking if y'all think the challenge would allow for adopting pets and owning pet supplies. Technically pet supplies would be against the rule that you can't buy anything outside of the provided list that isn't purely cosmetic. But then again pet supplies do not benefit the Sims in any way, only the pets. And the list doesn't even contain a cooking counter, which is kinda required for, you know, cooking 🤔

@Emry, I think the challenge was written pre-pets, and never adjusted. I would say you could reasonably reroll the LTW (use the batbox or other hack of choice) or pick another Pop Sim LTW by rolling a randomizer (if you don't want hacks) and play that way, or do what you need to for that LTW in line with the spirit of the challenge.

I think the not buying anything else is for things in the explicitly spelled out categories and then after the challenge starts, although you'd get a lot fewer fires if you don't have counters!