The Sims 3 Immortal Dynasty Challenge

[Orange Iguana]

I feel like I as so many questions...I just want to get this right :p Anyhow, when it comes to Opportunities...these are those little pop up boxes that say things like 'Go Eat At A Restaurant' and the like right? Just make sure you're not doing the same 6 for every immortal person...does this mean that once one person does an opportunity, like deliver cookies, no other immortal can do it as well? My head is spinning trying to keep it all separated and clear.

Yep, those are the opportunities each immortal has to complete. Just make sure that no immortal completes the same opportunity and that you're not redoing the same opportunity because doing something like "Best Food in Town" twice isn't going to count as 2 opportunities.

It would really help if you wrote down each opportunity an immortal completes so that you can check the list and make sure an immortal isn't doing the same opportunity.

[Sportsfan]

Yes to everything

[simsissy]

So Old Friends are the same as Best Friends?

[Ricalynn]

Only if the relationship bar is as full as it should be for best friends.  Good friends and friends can become Old Friends, too.  Best Friend status is based on the fullness of relationship bar, too. 

Also - @lila - you can put pets up for adoption, yes.  Pets aren't held to the same restrictions as Sims.  The only thing that's the same for pets as it is Sims is life extending.  No gourmet pet food and no young again potion for pets.

[lila711]

Thanks .
I currently have 1 elder, 2 adults, one toddler, 2 adult dogs and 3 puppies... I'm relieved I can get rid of 2 .

And thanks for the heads up on gourmet food

[Pam]

I feel like I as so many questions...I just want to get this right :p Anyhow, when it comes to Opportunities...these are those little pop up boxes that say things like 'Go Eat At A Restaurant' and the like right? Just make sure you're not doing the same 6 for every immortal person...does this mean that once one person does an opportunity, like deliver cookies, no other immortal can do it as well? My head is spinning trying to keep it all separated and clear.

Are you using the online spreadsheet?  There's a link in the rules on the first page.  It helps a great deal when you're trying to keep everything organized.

[simsissy]

I actually downloaded it...and then copied the labels out in my notebook and have been jotting things down in my notebook as I played because I just /had/ to take the hard way about things. Sculptures and Photos /are/ still optional correct? And thank you for the clarification about Old Friends...I've noticed as the Sims age and their friends do too...their friends keep dying before you can get to ambrosia, you just have to hurry I suppose.

[Seabody]

Yes the Photos and Sculptures are optional.
For friends, if you want an easy method of getting friends - pull a Recipe Man and befriend children. Meet them as they leave school and then go to their house and befriend them.

[Pam]

My strategy about friends is to wait until later in your Sim's life to befriend people.  That also gives your Sim some time to learn Charisma, which makes it very easy to make friends.  I can get to Best Friend with just an introduction when Charisma is high and the skill journal challenges have been met. 

[lvrugger]

With opportunites, I like to just take the ones related to their supermax skill or career. That way, I don't have to worry if another immortal took that opportunity or not.

And I have been using the same trick as Pam for the best friends.

[Orange Iguana]

My strategy for making friends consists of throwing parties repeatedly since you get a relationship boost when they tell you your party rocks. Another thing I discovered is that playing tag with a kid while your sim is also a child seems to get relationships to best friends really fast.

[simfulicious]

My strategy for friends is to become friends with vampires because then they'll be alive for awhile, even if they're elders. 

[simsissy]

Is it normal for there to be a death flower bush in the cemetery one day...and then it be gone the next? In Riverview that is.

[Esther1981]

Is it normal for there to be a death flower bush in the cemetery one day...and then it be gone the next? In Riverview that is.

If you harvested it, it won't be able to harvested again, at least not for a long time. If you're saying it disappeared, I've never had that happen so no it's not normal!

[The Anonymous]

Is it possible for a townie to harvest it, if they have the required skill?