Simvivor?

[Antalia]

Thanks to rarespawn's idea, I rapidly created a bunch of young adult Sims with interesting, varied appearances that I really like. I started thinking about mini-games I might create in order to play them all together.

I thought about how it might be fun to move them all in to a houseboat (or apartment), and do some kind of elimination challenge, kind of like the reality show Survivor (or its many descendants). What if I could set up some rules to kick one Sim off the boat every X days, until I was left with one winner? The winner could perhaps be rewarded with a shiny new mansion in town.

I was thinking of elimination methods I might use. Because there aren't separate wallets for each Sim in a household, I couldn't run a moneymaking contest.

The way that an audience votes people off of reality shows is appealing, but my Sims lack a real audience.

Lifetime Happiness points might work--whoever has the lowest generated at the end of the week has to go. But, I feel like Lifetime Happiness points are too closely tied to my own decisions to feel like a real contest. For example, if Sim A has a wish to do something with Sim B, and Sim B doesn't have a wish about Sim A, should Sim B spend his time working on his own wishes, or should I interrupt him to help Sim A? I think that type of question would crop up a lot, and it would feel unfair.

I mainly play the game for the screenshots and stories (and I also enjoy interior decorating). So, I'd probably be doing this mainly to create a picturebook or to write a story about it.

Has anybody done some kind of Sim elimination game before? Or, do you have an idea about how I might run it? Thanks in advance!

[Namaya]

I always played Big Brother in sims 2 and I always tried to set up contests. Usually I put them on a treadmill and whoever got the skillpoint last was out. But if you do this, you have to make sure they all start at exactly the same time to make it a fair game.

You can also do it like the Big Brother challenge here in the forum and have them vote each other out. This means that a sim will vote for the sim it has the worst relationship with. But in this case, you have the same problem as with the Life Time Happiness Points, because your way of playing is a great influence on their relationships.

Or, if you're going to make a story in the forum about it, you could have your readers vote on whoever is eliminated but this also means that you cannot play too far ahead (something which really annoys me when I play my legacy).

[Antalia]

Great ideas - thanks Namaya! I devised something and did a quick trial run, and am fine-tuning it now.