Who Says Money Isn't Everything?

[Metropolis Man]

Who Says Money Isn't Everything?

Goal
Money isn't everything? Bah! It's the only thing that matters in this short challenge. Play one Sim until their Adult birthday and make as much money as you can.

General Challenge Rules
The General Challenge Rules always apply. If applicable, exceptions will be noted below.

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create 1 Young Adult Sim.
• No household additions.
• No Gardening allowed - be careful not to harvest wild plants.
• The Outdoor Retreat GamePack is banned for this event.
• No life extension methods allowed.
• If your Sim dies then you are done with the challenge. Post in this thread that you are DNF.
• This challenge concludes when your Sim ages up to Adult.

Scoring

Household Funds — When your Sim ages up to Adult, immediately pause your game and note your household funds. Please take a screenshot indicating the amount in case the challenge team needs verification. When you post your score in this thread, do not include the screenshot.

Ch-Ch-Changes
The team does not want to edit and make changes to the ruleset once this event goes live, but we may have to. If an exploit is brought to our attention or we discover something else we reserve the right to ask affected players to redo their effort.

Have Questions?
Please think hard before you ask in the challenge thread because it may be strategy. What you may consider an innocent question could cause another player to go — “oh, I did not think of doing that.” It’s always safer to PM everyone on the team (Metro, ratchie, Nutella, LenaLJ, and Blackrosea) for clarifications. Thanks.

And the Winner is...
After this event has closed everyone is encouraged to discuss how they approached the event, but the winner especially is expected to do so in detail.

This Event is Now Closed

Player	Household Funds
ClayMask	1,194,190
callycat	1,083,203
DeviousKiwi	1,055,938
LenaLJ	992,147
Nutella	951,634
MeestorMark	935,573
Playalot	901,385
bea.of.idris	632,062
londonsim	523,121
MissZoef	519,388
Poffin	503,451
HelenP	432,428
arimau	426,810
Lisa46	401,825
GlazeyLady	397,629
kirkbysims	386,807
MarianT	356,342
Metropolis Man	340,293
simfulicious	331,552
WriterJunkie	326,824
DotCommon	325,264
DemHealz	319,039
Chaotina	318,869
IronicBeauty	313,128
alyssa.cole	311,693
Margerita	311,222
smastbrook	302,858
Twinmum	291,098
Blossom	287,915
sunshine_2406	286,290
MissTrips	283,676
Nikitachi	282,617
Kirstie	272,875
december22	271,789
limsielou	261,061
Alisailiah	243,226
MIschaMusic	232,322
Slarts	230,045
Shewolf13	212,776
Celebrin	205,928
CynKuy	189,582
Noshien	181,841
TimSim101	180,705
Shikoo	180,616
SGNPU25	180,567
agamble	171,685
CeresIn	166,694
KTK10	152,510
SimsSherry	140,561
Jewel	135,350
mayayeti72	129,302
ManiSims	124,618
Makenziegma	122,564
fluffyj00	118,303
ccarroll0222	111,499
Ferretmania	111,346
thefaeriesgirl	110,046
Jillz	108,360
jodie1234567890	106,572
krzyman21	105,212
Alexandria_	102,808
Starsha	100,244
sethelD93	98,874
pithenia	71,075
Jessa	69,848
Rikki8528	60,713
Ginj	59,120
Ilessthan3TheSims	54,195
charliemaybe	42,150
KayBear	38,858
Ravencloud999	36,480
Sayaka	32,987
sdhoey	32,924
libraryrose4	31,579
Deklitch	23,600
rrturley	17,886
PSDuckie	15,697

[Margerita]

I think I might get a good score on this one, but I need to test it to see if my idea works out.

[ManiSims]

Ooh. Starting out simple, I see. Finally a challenge that doesn't seem intimidating. 

[SimsSherry]

Does "household funds" mean just the cash your sim has, or does it include the value of the lot? Thanks!

[Metropolis Man]

Does "household funds" mean just the cash your sim has, or does it include the value of the lot? Thanks!

It's cash on hand - mouse over the figure under your Sim's emotional state and it says "Household Funds."

[Margerita]

I got two questions: Why is gardening banned?
And how do you get your screen shots to show the interface so that you can have a shot  for the official try in case the team want visual evidence.  Can't really seem to find it so it better that you add a line or two about how to get that for the rules.

[MarianT]

I don't know why gardening is banned, but to take a picture showing your Household Funds:

Go to Gameplay Options;
Click on Camera Controls;
Under Memories and Screenshots, check the box for User Interface.

That should give you a picture that shows your UI, which includes Household Funds.

[Margerita]

I don't know why gardening is banned, but to take a picture showing your Household Funds:

Go to Gameplay Options;
Click on Camera Controls;
Under Memories and Screenshots, check the box for User Interface.

That should give you a picture that shows your UI, which includes Household Funds.

I guess only the team can tell us why it is banned, if they want to that is.

Thanks for the info, first time I've needed to take a shot of the UI in this game, but still good to know for the actual attempt.

[ManiSims]

I'm going to take a wild guess here and say gardening's banned because it's an easy way to make a lot of money and they didn't want to make things too simple for us? Not sure...

[dethdukk]

I guess only the team can tell us why it is banned, if they want to that is.

Thanks for the info, first time I've needed to take a shot of the UI in this game, but still good to know for the actual attempt.

Another (possibly easier, possibly harder) way to do this is Shift + Print Screen.  If you do that, then open Paint and Ctrl-V or just File>Paste it will let you save a picture of your current screen.  The only problem with this is that if you have 2 monitors you'll get both of them in the screenshot.  This method works all the time though, so its also handy for taking pictures of error messages and such.

[Metropolis Man]

I got two questions: Why is gardening banned?

The team is going to discuss this again. Stay tuned.

[_Annika_]

I would assume that gardening is banned because the price of produce fluctuates in a glitchy kind of way.

[MissZoef]

sounds like a fun and short challenge

[1Saved_Diva]

This is all very exciting to me!!  My first ever, of any kind, Sims gameplay contest! So, I want to make certain I understand things before the kickoff on January 1. BTW, LOADS of Great questions being asked. Thank you all because most of them not only would it not have occurred to me to ask, but I didn't even know to consider some of them. So, this question maybe obvious to some but there might be another who is unsure like me. I read ALL the rules and while I mostly get the No CC/mods rule. I want to be 100+% clear: Does this rule mean I need setup a game environment that is totally clean, and how would I do this when I usually use CC/mods? Also, does this include clothing, hair, and other CAS CC that alter the way our sims look without affecting the way they act? Thanks in advance!

[Metropolis Man]

This is all very exciting to me!!  My first ever, of any kind, Sims gameplay contest! So, I want to make certain I understand things before the kickoff on January 1. BTW, LOADS of Great questions being asked. Thank you all because most of them not only would it not have occurred to me to ask, but I didn't even know to consider some of them. So, this question maybe obvious to some but there might be another who is unsure like me. I read ALL the rules and while I mostly get the No CC/mods rule. I want to be 100+% clear: Does this rule mean I need setup a game environment that is totally clean, and how would I do this when I usually use CC/mods? Also, does this include clothing, hair, and other CAS CC that alter the way our sims look without affecting the way they act? Thanks in advance!

Hi Diva - yeah, no mods at all. Period. Including ones that only change appearance. I am not the one to give you advice on how to set up a totally clean game because I never use mods to begin with, so hopefully someone else can. Or maybe ask on the Mods board of the forum.