Ghost Hunter Bingo II: Let the Spirit Move You

[Metropolis Man]

Ghost Hunter Bingo II: Let the Spirit Move You

Goal
Ghost Hunter Bingo is back from three years ago. Making as much money as possible in the Ghost Hunter profession is important, but the real fun will be roaming your neighborhood and catching spirits to try to make as many “bingos” as you can.

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create 1 Young Adult Human Sim.
• No changing life states.
• You may not add to the household.
• All revenue is limited to Ghost Hunter related activity — career jobs, Ghost Hunter career opportunities and/or spirit sales. This is an extremely important rule. If you make money any other way — even if it’s an accident, then you are DNF. Don’t make a mistake—for example, do not sell the camera in inventory or the University starter kit. And do not sell any furniture from personal or family inventory. Pay attention to where all household funds comes from. Save your file regularly and in the rare event the game tosses you some free money out of the blue, save your file under a new name, stop playing your file and PM the team with details.
• Once a spirit is captured and in its container it cannot be released.
• If your Sim is struck with the no uniform bug (your Sim appears naked or won't change into the GH uniform and is wearing the same thing they were wearing before starting the "job") here is a simple fix: have your Sim go to the wardrobe and click "Plan Outfit." Click on the career tab, pick a career outfit, and then exit the wardrobe. This bug can also cause you to not complete jobs and opportunities correctly and may cause your game to crash if it is not corrected.
• Traveling is banned.
• Because of the bugs associated with the Ghost Hunter profession it is wise to save often and use different file names just in case you get a .bad file — i.e. Town Name GH 1a, Town Name GH 1b, etc.
• This challenge concludes at the end of 2 weeks (Week 2, Day 7, 11:59 PM).

Scoring

Household Funds — At the conclusion of the challenge, note your Household Funds. Remember, during the 2 weeks of the challenge, all revenue must come from Ghost Hunter career jobs, career opportunities and/or spirit sales. Nothing else. Can’t sell furniture or items you have on your Sim.

Bingos — A "Bingo" is achieved when you mark off "3 across" or "7 down" in a straight line on your scoring sheet. For example, if you find a Kind Young spirit, a Kind Old Spirit, and a Kind Ancient spirit — you've made a Kind (3 across) Bingo.

Your bingos are a multiplier for your Household Funds. Different bingos have different values. The values listed are a percentage added to your multiplier that starts at 1.00. Below is the table with all possible bingo values. My thanks to Pam for designing the Ghost Hunter Bingo Sheet for everyone. You allowed to print out ONE sheet. No more. 6 bingo cards are on a sheet.

Kind (3 across) — 1
Friendly (3 across) — 2
Frightened (3 across) — 3
Lost (3 across) — 4
Wrathful (3 across) — 5
Young (7 down) — 6
Jealous (3 across) — 7
Old (7 down) — 8
Evil (3 across) — 9
Ancient (7 down) — 10

***Each Ghost Hunter Service Award you receive counts as one free X on any bingo card.***

Total — Jot down your Household Funds. As an example, let’s say it’s an even $50,000.

Now it’s time to compute your bingos. Start with one of the six cards on your sheet. Look at the values of all possible bingos in the list above to see the total value of all bingos on that one card. When you’re finished, then move to the next card.

Add up all bingo values from the 6 card areas to get the correct percentage added to the multiplier. So, let’s say all of your bingos are worth 67 points. Your final mutiplier then is 1.00 + 67 = 1.67.

Your final challenge score = Household Funds ($50,000) X 1.67 = 83,500.

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	Household Funds	Bingos	Total
Blackrosea	89,531	2.39	213,979
Nutella	85,414	1.99	169,973
Femke82	68,787	2.09	143,764
LenaLJ	62,387	2.21	137,875
GlazeyLady	68,966	1.92	132,415
Tigerbalm	69,125	1.75	120,968
ratchie	63,284	1.91	120,872
Metropolis Man	62,787	1.78	111,760
Playalot	61,181	1.80	110,125
Alexandria_	60,484	1.76	106,451
mayayeti72	54,737	1.92	105,095
Chare	58,702	1.74	102,141
alyssa.cole	64,128	1.70	109,017
Turoskel	53,497	1.81	96,829
Tandrael	47,872	1.78	85,212
sethelD93	49,015	1.73	84,795
jesirose	46,111	1.82	83,922
KRae	48,539	1.72	83,487
Simittysimsim	42,828	1.70	72,807
Kirstie	42,387	1.60	67,819
Deklitch	42,155	1.57	66,183
bored1	39,983	1.53	61,173
ve1ocity	41,220	1.48	61,005
Nandarelle	43,229	1.40	60,520
MomOfMany	40,402	1.49	60,198
YukiA	39,746	1.33	52,862
nikkiheat	37,568	1.40	52,595
CynKuy	34,503	1.50	51,754
Tiamet	30,249	1.70	51,423
SassySimmer	34,737	1.46	50,716
kearn76	34,735	1.33	46,197
bluebelle	34,782	1.22	42,434
Genevive	30,722	1.38	42,396
MarianT	30,953	1.36	42,096
purpletiger	32,188	1.30	41,844
Sarleenia	30,174	1.35	40,734
CeresIn	29,976	1.21	36,270
MissTrips	29,246	1.16	33,925
rubywyld	26,818	1.14	30,572
aalikane	22,585	1.18	26,650
Alexandra88	11,360	1.07	12,155

[Blackrosea]

I am looking forward to this one. I love the Ghost Hunting profession. It's going to be hard with my awful memory to remember not to sell anything but captured ghosts in this challenge (silly camera in my inventory).

[KRae]

Are service rewards used upon receipt, or can they be used later? Also, any town restrictions?

[ratchie]

Service rewards can be used when you want so long as it is before the two Sim weeks are up. So do not use them past 11:59 pm on week 2 day 7.

No restrictions on towns just remember to only use the towns that are permitted in the general challenge rules.

Rachel

[Tandrael]

Sounds so much fun! I enjoyed so much the ghost hunter career the time I played it!

If it is about funds, shouldn't there be a lot restriction? Or maybe players should be asked to use the "cheat" to start with the same amount of funds…  I'm just saying, cause one lot to another there is a big difference in money.

[Tiamet]

I'm confused about the starting funds as well.  Should we be at $0 in a bare lot, or are we allowed to get a house and use the remaining starting funds?

[ratchie]

I will bring your questions to the attention of the team and one of us will get back to you all.

Rachel

[Gogowars329]

I remember loving this challenge three years ago! I don't think, while I may not be participating in any other events, I will be able to pass this challenge up but we will have to see. The original bingo was even my first challenge!

[Metropolis Man]

If it is about funds, shouldn't there be a lot restriction? Or maybe players should be asked to use the "cheat" to start with the same amount of funds…  I'm just saying, cause one lot to another there is a big difference in money.

I'm confused about the starting funds as well.  Should we be at $0 in a bare lot, or are we allowed to get a house and use the remaining starting funds?

Guys...here's the deal — everyone does start with the same amount of money...$16,500. What you decide to do with it is all part of the strategy. Nuff said.

[Tandrael]

Yes, of course, I thought about that later, its up to us if we want to use the starting funds in the mod expensive house that amount of money can buy or not…

I do have another questions: it says that we can only print ONE bingo thingy… can I still make a practice run, and print another bingo page for my practice run? I'm not sure how this bingo works, I think I'll understand better after I play it. Thanks you all!

[Metropolis Man]

Oh, you can print as many as you want in practice runs. It's just one sheet you are limited to during your scoring run.

[KRae]

Am I correct in assuming that the spirit positioning device does not count as a service award?

[Metropolis Man]

Am I correct in assuming that the spirit positioning device does not count as a service award?

No, service awards are these.

[MissTrips]

As I'm not a bingo player, I'd like to clarify something about the sheets.  We get 6 sheets to mark spirits down on.  Now if I capture one Kindly Young spirit, do I mark that down on *one* sheet only or all six?  Or is it do I catch six Kindly Young spirits to mark that category off all six sheets?

[Trip]

For one spirit, you mark one sheet.