The Perfect Challenge

[Metropolis Man]

The Perfect Challenge

Goal
Perfect plants, perfect recipes, and perfect fish. How many different perfect types of each can your two Sims acquire in just four weeks? How could you not think this was the perfect challenge?

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create 2 Young Adult Human Sims (no pets).
• You may not change lifestates and you may not add to the household.
• No moving, no additional homes (home town or vacation) and no purchasing any Real Estate (residential, buildings or property).
• You are only allowed to plant on your starting lot.
• You are allowed 18 total days of vacation/future travel/University. Each Sim that goes on vacation or travel to the future/past or attends University counts against your allotment. So, if both your Sims go to Egypt for 3 days, then you have spent 6 days of vacation.
• No Singing/Acrobat/Magician careers.
• No Science skill.
• No Sonic Shower.
• No Drinking or Throwing Elixirs.
• Mermadic Kelp Reward.
• You cannot add herbs to recipes in order to make them Perfect.
• This challenge ends at Week 4, Day 7, 11:59 PM.

Scoring

Always look at items listed in your 3 Skill Journal Tabs (Gardening/Cooking/Fishing) to gain information for your scores. DO NOT look at your Collection Journal.

Plants. Open up your Sim’s Gardening Skill Journal and scroll down to the Plant History section. Count the number of different plants listed as Perfect in the Highest Quality column. Give yourself 1000 points for each Perfect plant. Note: You may only give yourself credit for those plants that are listed in your Skill Journal.

Recipes. Unfortunately, the game does not track how many different perfect recipes you have created in the Cooking Skill Journal, so you will have to do this yourself. Give yourself 1000 points for each different perfect recipe. If the same recipe has variations because of different ingredients (i.e. apple pancakes vs. banana pancakes) you only give yourself credit for one recipe.

Fish. Ditto for fish — the game does not track the different perfect fish you have caught. So, keep accurate notes and give yourself 1000 points for each different type of perfect fish caught.

Example: You get to Week 4, Day 7, 11:59 PM and you pause your game. Your Gardening Skill Journal lists 15 different perfect plants.

15 X 1000 = 15,000

You have made 21 different perfect recipes.

21 X 1000 = 21,000
 
Finally, you have caught 23 different perfect fish.

23 X 1000 = 23,000

Total = 15,000 + 21,000 + 23,000 = 59,000

Have Questions?
Please think hard before you ask in the challenge thread because it may be strategy. What you may consider an innocent question could cause another player to go — “oh, I did not think of doing that.” It’s always safer to PM the team (Metro, ratchie, Nutella, and Blackrosea) for clarifications. Thanks.

This Event is Now Closed

Player	Perfect Plants	Perfect Recipes	Perfect Fish	Total
Nutella	60,000	64,000	49,000	173,000
LenaLJ	60,000	64,000	49,000	173,000
Elena	60,000	64,000	46,000	170,000
_Annika_	56,000	64,000	48,000	168,000
alyssa.cole	57,000	64,000	42,000	163,000
drift9999	60,000	60,000	40,000	160,000
Metropolis Man	56,000	60,000	40,000	156,000
ratchie	52,000	61,000	42,000	155,000
GlazeyLady	54,000	62,000	39,000	155,000
christinal3106	56,000	54,000	39,000	152,000
enchantedwolf	56,000	52,000	41,000	149,000
Femke82	55,000	59,000	34,000	148,000
halls	56,000	58,000	34,000	148,000
math_chick	54,000	55,000	37,000	146,000
lvrugger	45,000	60,000	41,000	146,000
Turoskel	57,000	51,000	36,000	144,000
enderkay	50,000	52,000	38,000	140,000
Tiamet	53,000	49,000	33,000	135,000
Chare	54,000	47,000	33,000	134,000
kearn76	58,000	39,000	37,000	134,000
mayayeti72	42,000	52,000	39,000	133,000
CynKuy	53,000	43,000	37,000	133,000
melisma	40,000	51,000	39,000	130,000
MarianT	52,000	38,000	38,000	128,000
sunshine_2406	35,000	56,000	36,000	127,000
saltpastillen	53,000	32,000	39,000	124,000
klop90	42,000	40,000	41,000	123,000
Joria	47,000	29,000	39,000	115,000
SassySimmer	45,000	29,000	39,000	113,000
Kirstie	45,000	43,000	25,000	113,000
Canucklehead044	43,000	34,000	34,000	111,000
Jiske	41,000	38,000	32,000	111,000
Tandrael	41,000	33,000	32,000	106,000
susiesue	39,000	34,000	32,000	105,000
ibbygidge	41,000	26,000	31,000	98,000
Blossom	32,000	20,000	38,000	90,000
rubywyld	19,000	50,000	19,000	88,000
SlinBrigid	27,000	28,000	34,000	88,000
MomOfMany	33,000	25,000	28,000	86,000
Nandarelle	25,000	28,000	31,000	84,000
Especial	20,000	28,000	25,000	73,000
Sarleenia	25,000	15,000	33,000	73,000
sethelD93	18,000	20,000	34,000	72,000
SIMantics101	30,000	14,000	28,000	72,000
Alexandria_	21,000	18,000	31,000	70,000
CeresIn	27,000	21,000	23,000	71,000
Annie321	25,000	6,000	37,000	68,000
purpletiger	6,000	30,000	28,000	64,000
junegem	13,000	18,000	32,000	63,000
Simittysimsim	31,000	13,000	18,000	62,000
Pam	14,000	20,000	24,000	58,000
bluebelle	16,000	3,000	36,000	55,000
Heathwyn	17,000	3,000	32,000	52,000
grbell	4,000	19,000	26,000	49,000
KayBear	28,000	3,000	17,000	48,000
YukiA	14,000	10,000	18,000	42,000
MissyLovesSims	14,000	4,000	23,000	41,000
eelfated	10,000	2,000	19,000	31,000
vabbity2	5,000	5,000	19,000	29,000
Deklitch	14,000	0	4,000	18,000

[KRae]

So any life state is acceptable as long as it's not changed?

[simfulicious]

No, the rules say 2 humans

[KRae]

Sorry, I need to learn to read more carefully.

[simfulicious]

Its ok.  Its easy to miss.  Metro, maybe you should bold the required lifestate so it sticks out when we are reading the rules?

[Metropolis Man]

Its ok.  Its easy to miss.  Metro, maybe you should bold the required lifestate so it sticks out when we are reading the rules?

done

[LenaLJ]

•You are allowed 18 total days of vacation/University. Each Sim that goes on vacation or attends University counts against your allotment. So, if both your Sims go to Egypt for 3 days, then you have spent 6 days of vacation.

Im guessing days into the future do count under the 18 days aswell?

[Nutella]

Im guessing days into the future do count under the 18 days aswell?

Yes. 

[Nutella]

12/15/2013 -- Rules Addition (in bold):

You are allowed 18 total days of vacation/future travel/University. Each Sim that goes on vacation or travel to the future/past or attends University counts against your allotment. So, if both your Sims go to Egypt for 3 days, then you have spent 6 days of vacation.

[Metropolis Man]

Ah, thank you Nutella for clarifying the future days in the rules. It has been quite a while since the last perfect recipes/fish/plants challenge — lots of new expansions since then, so it will definitely take some planning.

[Blackrosea]

The following has been changed in the rule set:

No drinking elixirs to No elixirs.

[Metropolis Man]

I just added the last two sentences to the following rule:

Plants. Open up your Sim’s Gardening Skill Journal and scroll down to the Plant History section. Count the number of different plants listed as Perfect in the Highest Quality column. Give yourself 1000 points for each Perfect plant. Note: The game does not list ALL plants in the game. If you are able to obtain perfect varieties of plants not listed in your Journal, you may still give yourself credit for those missing plants.

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Added a few more bans:

• No Science and/or Advanced Technology skills.
• No Dream Pod.
• No Sonic Shower.

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Well, for now we're banning Advanced Technology and the Dream Pod in the General Rules. So, you cannot do that stuff in any event. Although we will inevitably have an ITF challenge where all that stuff is fine.

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The list just keeps getting longer lol —

• No Food Synthesizer.

[Metropolis Man]

Since we have had some additional restrictions added to the Handyman challenge today as far as what you are allowed to score:

Objects Upgraded. Open up your Sim’s Handiness Skill Journal and note the Objects Upgraded stat. The mayor is paying your company $1000 simoleans per object upgraded. If by chance you upgrade an item and it does not add to the Objects Upgraded stat then you still only can count what the Journal lists.

Upgrades Completed. Below the Skill Challenges section in the Handiness Skill Journal is the Upgrades Completed section. Count the number of different upgrades in the list and award your company $2000 simoleans per upgrade. If by chance you upgrade an item and the unique type of upgrade is not added to the list then you still only count what the Journal lists.

…Blackrosea wisely pointed out to me that the above restriction is not consistent with the Perfect Challenge scoring component where we do allow players credit for plants not in the Journal:

Note: The game does not list ALL plants in the game. If you are able to obtain perfect varieties of plants not listed in your Journal, you may still give yourself credit for those missing plants.

So, with all of that said we are now restricting your score to ONLY the plants that are listed in your Gardening skill journal. With the Fish and Recipes you are still on your own for tracking everything yourself since the game does not do it for you. Please make sure you write everything down in case the team needs to verify any scores. Thanks.

[_Annika_]

Using the time portal to go the future and return just once increases your Advanced Technology skill. Does that mean future travel is off the table all together?

[Seabody]

Using the time portal to go the future and return just once increases your Advanced Technology skill. Does that mean future travel is off the table all together?

It doesn't increase your skill level, if I remember correctly, only gives you a boost towards the next level. So you should be fine.