WEEK 8Sunday and I set up the house for a house party. I added a bar so there could be drinks. I invited about 8 sims over, hired a mixologist and a caterer. Tip: bake a cake before the party. One of the tasks is for 4 people to eat cake. Luckily I had enough time left when it popped up that I got a cake made and people ate it in time. So I was able to get a gold medal for the party. Another couple tips: The Sims 3 expansion lamps are an awesome way to satisfy tasks like Have sims all be playful at the same time 0/3. Just get the Pets lamp and turn on the aura. Done! And for tasks like Have 3 sims listen to music together – it requires the Listen To... interaction. The easiest way to do this one is get a group conversation going with enough people to satisfy the task and then click on the stereo, Listen To... and you'll see there's a Listen To [fill in radio station] Together. It's an easy way to satisfy that task. Last tip: make sure to have the recycling trash can bought before the party. There are SO many dishes and glasses from the party that I was constantly dragging them to the recycling bin and getting $20 for each one. So I made more money from the party than it cost to host it. Not bad. For their first House Party, they did really well.
Monday is a great day for Alexander as he's head hunted for a new position as they think he's the Next Big Thing (Start Up Entrepreneur branch). He's still trying to finish that third app for the aspiration achievement. Roxann came home and finished the 10 hours of piano playing which should give her a nice boost tomorrow at work and a likely promotion. She hopes to have more time soon to get a couple more songs written.
Tuesday is a good day for Alexander and he's back hard at work on that last mobile app. Roxann was supper excited to be offered a place with the symphony as a string player. Her new performance tasks are level 6 in piano and level 6 in guitar or violin (Roxann has both). She also now needs 10 friends. So she'll be heading back to the gym on days off. Knowing what I know now, I think I would have switched the ageing to Long while she was a teen and worked on leveling all three instruments.
Alexander heads off to work on Wednesday and Roxann hits the guy with Aileen, Cassandra and a couple other people (one was still a friend but getting low and the other had just dropped to acquaintance. She was able to return that person to a friend state and make a new friend as well. One more to go for the performance boost.
Alexander came home from work and got right on to trying to finish that mobile app and finally finished it! Yey!
The biggest thing of note for Thursday was Roxann completed her third song. One more to go for phase 3 of Musical Genius aspiration. Also, Alexander’s last phase in Computer Whiz requires the following:
Reach Level 5 of the Tech Guru Career (done)
Have Spent 100 Hours on the Computer (done)
Have Earned $5,000 from Livestreaming or Gaming Tournaments
I don't have access to Livestreaming yet.
On Friday Roxann started on a new song, a haunting melody. She'll be working on it whenever she can. Alexander is working on his video gaming skills after work each night and he'll be doing it a lot over the weekend. Roxann came home from work with a new promotion! Instrumental Wonder (9). Her performance boosting tasks are:
Achieve level 8 Piano Skill (she's 7)
Achieve level 7 of Guitar or Violin Skill (done)
Write a Song (0/1)
Very convenient that this next song will complete two different tasks. She's still working 5 days a week (interesting since at this level in Sims 3, most had only 3-4 days they had to work – another example of it being a bit more challenging). She off on Sunday and Monday though. I think it's the first time she's had two days off consecutive in a very long time. She'll be song writing like mad. I've built a large Victorian home for them when they're ready to start a family. I think that will be once they've both maxed their careers. They're going to need a net worth of around $80,000 to move in a furnish the house. I'd be happier with $100,000. The money is mounting up more and more though. By the way, you send written songs off for licensing. However, you can only license one song at a time as far as I can tell. I'm not sure that's intended or not. Although, all of my songs are violin songs and the mailbox says “Roxann has already licensed a violin song.” So maybe you can license one of each from the three instruments. I think you should be able to license any song you write. They take long enough!
Saturday Alexander spent a lot of time gaming. Trying to improve his skill so he might have more chances to win at tournaments. Later, he took a walk about the neighbourhood and did some digging. Amongst other things, he found a couple crystals. He's going to send them off to the Geo Council and see what elements he might get. After work, Roxann came home and had some quality couple time with Alexander before he got too sleepy. After he went to bed, she buckled down on her song and finished writing it. This completed her career performance boost task and, more importantly, phase 3 of her Musical Genius. Phase 4 requires are:
Achieve Level 10 in an Instrument (done)
Have Spent 100 Hours Playing Musical Instruments (done)
Mentor Others in Music for 15 Hours (0/15)
So I'll be figuring out Mentoring for her days off and I purchased the Mentoring Satisfaction Points reward item.
