World Handyman Championships II

[Ricalynn]

I chose Appaloosa as it was a world where I wouldn't have to add too much.   I got a midas touch from the elixir touch and if you use it for the full 6hrs I always get between 400k and 850k simoleans.  So that's where all my money came from.

[Teresa]

I chose Appaloosa as it was a world where I wouldn't have to add too much.   I got a midas touch from the elixir touch and if you use it for the full 6hrs I always get between 400k and 850k simoleans.  So that's where all my money came from.

I have never had any luck using midas touch.  How exactly do you work it?

[Ricalynn]

You take the midas touch elixir and you get a 6 hour buff.  It only works on certain items but my favorite items are statues.   There are some that work and some that don't.   If I have less than 12,250 then I use the shark teeth jaw sculpture.   It's 4000.  If I have less than that I use dining chairs.  However, as soon as you have 12,250 switch to the ambiguity itself statues that came with base game.  It's the big expensive statue with the hole at the top.  I line them up in the yard.

What a midas touch actually does is the Sim that took the elixir has 6 hours to touch items.  It takes a few minutes for it to happen but once the item is touched it turns into gold and immediately doubles its value.  So the ambiguity goes from 12,250 to 24,500.  Rinse and repeat for 6 hours.  I like to line them up in two long lines about 1 square a part so my Sim can ping pong between them.   But like the wish enhancing serum - it seems to be one of the rarest ones that show up in the elixir shop.  In one of my practice files, it took nearly 9 hours for one to show up. 

[Teresa]

Awesome Thanks for the info Ricalynn.  I can't wait to play with that one.

[JudesSims]

Wow, Rica! You know EVERYTHING! I still feel like a newbie some days...

[Shirin]

Well phooey.

Handi Ness must really have not liked me - as I had bad luck with the umbrella upgrading, I stuck with doorbells.

At which point is when I was asked by my roommate why she was attacking the door with the hammer.

Though on reflection, I think I was also getting a lot of stupid game glitch pauses.

Oh well! Maybe next time.

[smartburn]

About doorbells and bathroom objects, I nearly had a fit when I couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to change the doorbell at first, but after I put the toilet outside I chilled out. The sink stayed where it was though - a lonely room with nothing but a light that I stole from City Hall and a sink which may also have been lifted from somewhere. On a random note, the quickest doorbell upgrades for me were standard and joker at roughly 90min each, with occasional posh upgrades in between queues and motive mobile breaks. It wasn't always consistent, but that's how it mostly worked out - haunted seemed to take the longest at 2.5 to 3hrs.

I am also curious where everybody got their money from and which world you chose?

My money also came from Midas Touch, with a little help from the klepto trait in the beginning.

I played in Riverview out of habit, though I wish I'd gone with Appaloosa Plains - besides being able to upgrade the horse trough without having to buy it (not that it mattered by the time I got to that point but I have the frugal trait), I haven't played much there and since this wasn't a challenge where I felt like I really needed to know the town, it would've been a good opportunity to explore it at least somewhat. 

[Femke82]

I had almost the same strategy as everybody. I found out about the umbrella's by accident when I tried to complete as many unique upgrades as possible. Then I just bought 8 umbrella's put them on the ground and upgraded them switching between onbreakable and glow. I didn't think about Midas touch so money was really tight in the beginning.
I learned a lot in this challenge but the upgrade jingle was a little anoying in the end.

Femke82

[Niana]

Not much to add after all those posts I worked in Sunset Valley out of habit, I wasn't going to risk it during a challenge. Lucked into a Midas Touch on Day 2, so money was no longer a problem, and I found the umbrellas' short upgrade time when I was trying to figure out what the missing unique upgrade was - Chuckles, the missing one was driving me insane too!!

I probably could've squeezed a few more upgrades, but I was definitely slacking off toward the end...

[CynKuy]

I started off as a fairy with the fairy house and so I always had something to eat, and I bought the most restful bed. I began the fireman's job, then took five days off, and learned handiness to level 3 at the library.  Then I started upgrading with the self-cleaning toilet and shower.  After doing as many unique upgrades as possible to get to the Fire Alarm upgrade and the Fire Extinguisher upgrade I quit the Firefighting career. 

I upgraded until I got to level 7 and then got the Prepared Traveler LTR so I wouldn't waste much time travelling, I went to China and basically camped by the stores and upgraded the Fortune Cookie machine and upgraded the parasols.  I bought the morsels because they took less time to eat than drinking Pollen Punch and I bought the Showers in a Can because Mummies don't like getting wet.  Of course I stole the books at the base camp and I bought as much relics and gems and metals as I could. 

When I got back home I cut the gems and sent off the metals then I transfigured Tiberium on the XL Display and grew it and sold it at the Alchemy shop also I joined the Alchemy career so I'd just buy what I could and sell whatever I didn't want.  I then turned into a Mummy so I didn't have to go to the toilet or sleep, he was slower but I just set up my parasols in a ring and around he went.  LTW was Swimming in Cash so used Wish Enhancement before that completed.

Then I went to France and bought out the Relic shop again and just took it on the chin for his slowness in getting over to the Nectary to upgrade the Nectar Makers and then back to Town to buy out the relic store over and over again so I could make more Tiberium at home and I just laid out my parasols at the park and played that portable radio.  It did amaze me how many Sims were attracted to him. 

Back home I had to change back to Fairy to get the Fireplace upgrades done.  And right back to Mummy after, I got really tired of upgrading those parasols.  I also used a broom to ride around town on.

[Deklitch]

oh yes ... I did it in Sunset Valley. I virtually had to beat Agnes off with a stick as she kept on trying to hit on Handy Tribble. I guess she really loves blue skinned blue haired sims trying to be a tribble.

[Ricalynn]

One thing I did - I made sure my house was near the junkyard so I could always see it's spawners.   The fortune cookie maker spawned on the 5th day so all I had to do was go salvage it.   For nectary makers, I just bought a property and plopped down the register and island counter.   As soon as someone was working there - off my Sim went to buy a nectar maker.   This way there was no pressure as to where I went.  I actually waited for my adventurous sim to pop the wish before that was "jinglejinglejinglejinglejinglejingle".

[Roxanne07]

Genies have all of the same benefits as vampires?

I believe they do. They move and learn skills as fast, and not just during the night.

[Teresa]

I believe they do. They move and learn skills as fast, and not just during the night.

This I didn't know.  Love all the neat facts we find out afterwards.

[Roxanne07]

Teresa- I read on the Sims Wiki that Genies learned skills faster, and in my practice run I thought my genie learned handiness pretty quickly, but after you asked I just had to be sure. So I went in game and had three Sims start learning a skill at the same time at night. The vampire still was the fastest, and the Genie was no faster than the human. So, sorry about that. How quickly my Sim was going to learn handiness did not really matter to me in this challenge so I guess I just didn't get around to testing that hypothesis.