Metro's Haven—Yes You Can!

[Metropolis Man]

Metro’s Haven — Yes You Can!

Goal
Every once in awhile we loosen the rules and allow players to use static needs and Buydebug. Rica approached me a couple months ago and said we should do two skill events in tandem that were sort of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde kind of thing going on— a yin and a yang. So, this is what we present...I am the teddy bear on the forum so I got the easy one...Rica typically has the firmer hand so she jumped at the chance of penning the meat grinder version. Enjoy.

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create 2 Young Adult Sims and a Pet (Pets are not mandatory, so you can still score your 2 Sims if you do not have the Pets expansion).
• The only life state restriction is Sims are not allowed to become mermaids.
• No restrictions on adding to the household but only your 3 starting members will be scored.
• All skill points in any given skill must be unique to one of your 3 starting members —i.e. if Sim A has 1 point in cooking, then cooking if totally off limits for the other 2 scoring members (but not other household members that would not be scored).
• 14 days University/travel allowed for each scoring Sim.
• You are allowed to turn on Make Needs Static at the mailbox AFTER a scoring household member has maxed a skill.
• You may purchase ONE skilling object using the Buydebug cheat after a scoring household member has completed a skill challenge. Only skilling objects may be purchased with Buydebug. Non Buydebug skilling objects have no purchase restrictions.
• Make Needs Static and Buydebug are the only allowed cheats for this challenge.
• This challenge concludes at the end of 4 weeks (Week 4, Day 7, 11:59 PM).

Scoring

Note: Only your 3 starting members can be scored.

Maxed Skills — At the conclusion of the challenge, pause your game and look at your notes. Any maxed skill = 1000 points.

Skill Points — For any skill that is not maxed give yourself 50 points per skill level.

Challenges — Everyone begins with a Challenges multiplier of 1.00. Completing Skill Challenges adds 5% (.05) to the multiplier. Important: You can add to the multiplier by completing the various Collecting and Consignment challenges — just remember that those two skills are not true skills that can be maxed.

Total — Add up your Maxed Skills and your Skill Points and then multiply by the Challenges.

Let’s go through an example: The challenge comes to an end and you pause your game. At that point you have maxed 13 skills. You have 5 other non-maxed skills with 30 total skill points. Finally, you were able to complete 15 skill challenges.

13 maxed skills = 13000
30 skill points in non-maxed skills = 1500
15 skill challenges X .05 = .75. Final multiplier = 1.00 + .75 = 1.75.

Total = (13000 + 1500) X 1.75 = 25375

This Event is Now Closed

Good luck!

Final Leaderboard

Player	Maxed Skills	Skill Points	Challenges	Total
SimBlip	26000	0	5.25	136500
LenaLJ	26000	300	4.45	117035
Vesper	26000	450	4.35	115057
ratchie	25000	200	4.25	107100
rahmbr	25000	100	3.85	96635
crth	23000	0	4.00	92000
Metropolis Man	25000	0	3.65	91250
Femke82	26000	0	3.50	91000
christinal3106	26000	0	3.50	91000
alyssa.cole	25000	0	3.60	90000
Vinyl	27000	0	3.20	86400
MarianT	26000	450	3.25	85962
Turoskel	25000	350	3.25	82387
Makenziegma	26000	0	3.10	80600
sweetpea214	20000	400	3.90	79560
charliemaybe	20000	0	3.65	73000
cygnus	22000	500	2.85	64125
Myzteree	26000	450	2.20	58190
CynKuy	19000	550	2.85	55718
math_chick	13000	800	3.05	42090
Deklitch	13000	1150	2.55	36082
Ricalynn	10000	0	1.75	17500
JSBrantner	10000	300	1.15	11845

[Alexandria_]

Wow, interesting! I like how much the challenges differ, but come down to the same scoring system. This should be great. Thanks to both you and Rica for a great challenge idea!

[Alexandria_]

Also, sorry to double post, but you've written that you need to create 2 sims, but then go on to say your 3 starting sims will be scored. Are we meant to have 2 or 3 starting sims?

[Ricalynn]

Two Sims plus one Pet Sim equals 3 scoring Sims.


Which reminds me.   The pet is completely optional.  So if you don't have the expansion, you can still participate in this challenge and it's yang.

[Alexandria_]

I see, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying that.

[Turoskel]

You may purchase ONE skilling object using the Buydebug cheat after a scoring household member has completed a skill challenge. Only skilling objects may be purchased with Buydebug. Non Buydebug skilling objects have no purchase restrictions.

Is this each time somebody does a skill challenge or just one object total?

Make Needs Static and Buydebug are the only allowed cheats for this challenge.

what about resetsim? I know it's banned in the other one so just checking for this one.

[MarianT]

Turoskel, It's one object purchased per completion of one skill challenge.

It will be interesting to see whether each of us gets a higher score on Metro's challenge or Rica's.

[LenaLJ]

My estimate, without having made a detailed strategy yet, will be that i score higher in this.

[EllaTheTaco]

This sounds really fun. I'm going to try this after my very annoying computer is fixed

[Ricalynn]

ResetSim is allowed in the General Challenge rules.  It's only mentioned in rules if there is an exception like in the Asylum challenge. 

For those that don't know - skilling objects are very specific items and if you have any questions about what's allowed as a skilling object - you might want to PM the team to make sure prior to starting your actual challenge file next month.

[lvrugger]

If I were to move in a Sim who has a skill already, does that invalidate the skill for my scoring Sims? My question comes up due to this rule:

All skill points in any given skill must be unique to a given household member—i.e. if Sim A has 1 point in cooking, then cooking if totally off limits for all others.

Only your starting Sims' skill points count towards the score.  So anyone you add is just an addition.  They don't help in anyway.

[Metropolis Man]

Yeah, let me clarify lvrugger...thanks for bringing that up. I'll edit the rules now...

[Makenziegma]

Since this challenge state that general rules apply, I am assuming that we have a choice with town and lot. I understand this is only towns that come from an expansion pack or Union Cove. I just want to make sure we don't need to use the same lot as the other challenge. Thank you!!!

[Ricalynn]

Each challenge has it's own set of rules.   This challenge has nothing to do with the Rica's Asylum challenge.  So yes you can choose your town and lot within the rules.

[aridela]

Hello, I'm a long time lurker in this forum. Just completed the Life States challenge, so I needed something new. This seems like fun, will have a go