A Bunch Of Jobs and Rewards

[Metropolis Man]

A Bunch of Jobs and Rewards

Goal
Every year we always offer up a jobs/career type of challenge. This year the twist on that is courtesy of Challenge Team member, ratchie — you have to play Sunset Valley’s Bunch family.

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• You’re playing the Bunch family in Sunset Valley and can never switch households or move to a different town.
• You are allowed to use Edit Town before going into Live Mode to move the Bunch family to a different house if you want to. Otherwise, there is no moving.
• No one can move out.
• No changing life states.
• No adding to the household except natural pregnancies for Judy and pets.
• No drinking or throwing elixirs.
• No using herbs, coffee beans, or drinks.
• All maxed jobs must be unique for Teens and Adults—i.e. if Teen A maxes job B, then job B is off limits for everyone else.
• All pre-Young Adult children may be caked up one time for every maxed unique job.  Teens and Adults alike can max jobs to enable caking up. All pre-Young Adult children must be caked up at the same time (Young Adult offspring are not caked up). This is a one time offer per maxed job..use it or lose it. In other words, if Judy maxes her job on a Monday, and Jack maxes his job on a Thursday, you have to cake up all the kids for Judy’s maxed job before Jack would max his job on Thursday.
• 30 days vacation/future travel/University allowed. Everyone who goes on vacation counts against this allowed amount — i.e. if 3 Bunch members go into the future for 5 days, then you have spent 15 days against your allotment.
• The Advanced Technology skill is allowed for this event.
• No Time Machine.
• This challenge ends at Week 4, Day 7, 11:59 PM.

Scoring

Scoring is based on how many unique jobs the Bunch family have maxed (reached the highest possible level) as well as collecting as many different job related rewards.   

Job Cap — Award yourself 1000 points for any maxed job unique to a Sim. All 4 types of jobs qualify: rabbit-hole, self-employment, professions, and part-time.

Rewards — Your multiplier is the total number of physical/placeable objects you get as perks for accomplishing things in some of the various jobs. Rewards (including Skill Certificates) can only be scored if you max a given career associated with an object. Everyone starts the game with a reward multiplier of 1.00. Here's what qualifies as a reward:

• All Career physical reward objects (police cruiser, stereo, special fridge, Fox trophy, etc.)  Reward objects that can be received more than once per job do not count. The following are exceptions.

• Only one horse trophy per type of race regardless of difficulty is allowed to be counted.
• Only one Simfest per career can be counted

• Skill Certificates. Skill Certificates can only be the result of maxed work-related skills (metric or skill learned from career op). Any career opportunity received that opens up a skill must be completed if a player is to count a skill certificate.
• Service Rewards such as ribbons.

It’s recommended you do not get rid of any rewards during the course of the challenge, so you can get an accurate count at the end of the event.

Each reward adds 5% (.05) to your multiplier.

NOTE: Celebrity freebies are NOT rewards in this challenge. Other items that DO NOT qualify as rewards — meals taken home from the restaurant, medical and police beepers, stylist and architect portfolios, items used to increase your job performance (i.e. box of danger or spirit device), any kind of books/journals that are part of normal job reading, paintings and sculptures that were "swiped" in the criminal career would not qualify as rewards. But, similar objects awarded as promotions in the criminal career DO count. 

DO NOT ask in this thread if a certain item qualifies as a reward. PM the team with your question.

Total — Add up the number of job caps from your Bunch family. Then take that amount and multiply it by your rewards. I’ll walk you through an example.

Example: You get to the end of your 4th week and the Bunch family have hit 11 different job caps. They have also acquired 15 different rewards.
11 job caps = 11000 points
15 rewards X .05 = .75. Final multiplier = 1.00 + .75 = 1.75
Your Total = 11000 X 1.75 = 19250


Ch-Ch-Changes
The team does not want to edit and make changes to the ruleset once this event goes live, but we may have to. This seasons’ events are shorter and the team has less time to test potential loopholes. If an exploit is brought to our attention or we discover something else we reserve the right to ask affected players to redo their effort.

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 everyone on the team (Metro, ratchie, Nutella, and Blackrosea) for clarifications. Thanks.

This Event is Now Closed

Player	Job Cap	Rewards	Total
Chare	21000	2.75	57,750
Jagid	18000	3.20	57,600
ratchie	19000	3.00	57,000
LenaLJ	20000	2.85	57,000
Femke82	15000	3.10	46,500
alyssa.cole	15000	2.90	43,500
Metropolis Man	16000	2.40	38,400
Alexandria_	11000	2.85	31,350
mayayeti72	12000	2.55	30,600
Turoskel	13000	1.95	25,350
Kirstie	11000	2.25	24,750
KRae	10000	2.05	20,500
MarianT	11000	1.65	18,150
YukiA	9000	1.70	15,300
Lady Orc	8000	1.80	14,400
rubywyld	7000	1.60	11,200
SIMantics101	4000	1.00	4,000
Deklitch	DNF

[Alexandria_]

All children may be caked up one time for every maxed unique job.  Teens and Adults alike can max jobs to enable caking up. All children must be caked up at the same time. This is a one time offer per maxed job..use it or lose it. In other words, if Judy maxes her job on a Monday, and Jack maxes his job on a Thursday, you have to cake up all the kids for Judy’s maxed job before Jack would max his job on Thursday.

Could you explain this in a different way for me, please? I'm not quite sure I understand.

[Pam]

Ah, this is very clever!  Playing a specific townie family is a nice twist.

[SassySimmer]

I would like clarification on the same point as Alexandria_ please, and thanks in advance

[Abyshep]

Ditto to Alexandria and Sassy.

I read this, that if Judy Maxes a Job you can cake up all kids one level but this needs to be done before any other jobs are maxed. 

Can you confirm please?


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[Metropolis Man]

Ditto to Alexandria and Sassy.

I read this, that if Judy Maxes a Job you can cake up all kids one level but this needs to be done before any other jobs are maxed. 

Can you confirm please?


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You have it right. Let's say Judy maxes her Science career first. You do not have to cake up the kids at all, so let's get that clear. But, if you choose to cake up the kids you have to cake ALL of them up before someone else would max a career and you have the option to cake up again. In other words, you have to choose to cake up after each job maxed. If Judy maxes her Science career and you take a temporary pass at caking up, and then Jack maxes his Military career, what we do not want is you caking up the kids two times. You have to make a one time decision for caking up after each job.

[Alexandria_]

Thank you for clarifying that. Is the caking up just for baby-child stage?

[MarianT]

I was wondering the same thing, also whether you can stop caking up the children once they reach young adult.

[KRae]

I've never played the Bunch family. Time for a practice run.

[Tandrael]

Sounds like fun!

With the caking-up thing I think, perhaps the word "children" is confusing us, because it can mean "the sons and daughters of Jack and Judy" or it can mean the ones that are in the "child" life stage...

What I understand is that before they are YA, they should all be aged at the same time, but once they reach YA, they're not children anymore, so if you want to age up all the children a second time, the two eldest, since they are not kids anymore, don't need to be aged up... But please confirm!

[Metropolis Man]

Sounds like fun!

With the caking-up thing I think, perhaps the word "children" is confusing us, because it can mean "the sons and daughters of Jack and Judy" or it can mean the ones that are in the "child" life stage...

What I understand is that before they are YA, they should all be aged at the same time, but once they reach YA, they're not children anymore, so if you want to age up all the children a second time, the two eldest, since they are not kids anymore, don't need to be aged up... But please confirm!

Yeah let me try and clarify. Tell me after I make the edit if it's better.

[MarianT]

Yes, the edit makes things clear. I was pretty sure that that was what was meant. On the other hand, turning all the Bunch children into elders might be iteresting 

[Abyshep]

• No adding to the household except natural pregnancies for Judy and pets.

So Judy can try for baby and have more kids?

Although after BBV I don't think I ever want to hear those chimes again! :-D


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[Tandrael]

Thanks Metro!… We should have something like a "like" button, or a "got it" button… 

[Metropolis Man]

Thanks Metro!… We should have something like a "like" button, or a "got it" button… 

Just press your index finger against my Barbarian avatar and it serves the same purpose. And if you use your imagination he giggles like the Pillsbury Doughboy.