The Fortunate Fortnight

[Metropolis Man]

The Fortunate Fortnight

Goal
Completing lots of wishes and racking up your Sim’s Happiness Points — that’s the simple goal of this two-week event.

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create 1 Young Adult Sim (any life state is fine).
• You may also create a pet or add a single pet after going into Live Mode. No other household additions.
• No drinking Wish Enhancing Serum.
• All completed Wishes must have different names. For example, “Be Worth More Than 25,000 simoleans” and “Be Worth More Than 50,000 simoleans” are similar, but because of the different values in the name of the wish your Sim can complete both.
• No name changing at City Hall.
• No changing a pet’s name after going Live.
• No Ambitious trait.
• Traveling is banned.
• This challenge concludes at the end of 2 weeks (Week 2, Day 7, 11:59 PM).

Scoring

Happiness Points — At the conclusion of the challenge, click the Lifetime Happiness tab of your starting Young Adult Sim (any pet would not be scored in this event). Put your cursor over the treasure chest to obtain the Total Lifetime Happiness Acquired number (spent points + unspent point points). Do NOT use the number to the right of the treasure chest because that number is only unspent happiness points.

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.

And the Winner is...
After this event has closed everyone is encouraged to discuss how they approached the event, but the winner especially is expected to do so in detail.

This Event is Now Closed

Player	Happiness Points
christinal3106	181,927
Jack Alltrades	172,496
charliemaybe	169,440
Lisa46	166,839
LenaLJ	165,927
Femke82	146,582
Chare	140,692
alyssa.cole	137,595
lvrugger	136,100
Metropolis Man	124,745
Turoskel	124,326
mayayeti72	122,690
tirajm	115,451
Tiamet	111,028
SassySimmer	108,875
KRae	106,945
sunshine_2406	105,926
tiffieleigh	104,290
nikkiheat	105,675
rubywyld	103,845
susiesue	101,480
Sarleenia	98,381
bored1	98,272
MarianT	98,141
Kaydda	97,865
LivvieLove	92,432
Kirstie	90,184
sethelD93	89,231
aalikane	85,924
P4n1kh0u53	78,187
SlinBrigid	76,861
Myzteree	63,698
SIMantics101	51,639
Deklitch	36,484
Alexandra88	28,280
Lali	27,280
Tandrael	DNF

[Pam]

Okie dokie.  I got this one on the Forum calendar!

[Blackrosea]

Okie dokie.  I got this one on the Forum calendar!

Thank you Pam

[Metropolis Man]

Just a reminder of this rule that is in the General Rules:

Options > General Settings > uncheck the Enable Interactive Loading Screens box

It's kind of hidden so I did not want players to forget about that and think that spamming the load screen and restarting 20 times for more happiness points is something you can do hehe.

[EtnaFan666]

No worries! I never play the 'find the thing' mini-games in the loading screens, my computer lags when I do that. 

This sounds like a challenge I could do - just playing a single person and the goal is to get as many happiness points as possible using as many unique Wishes as possible. It sounds daunting but I might try that when I am not busy with my unofficial 4x4 Dynasty. (I was making it an Immortal Dynasty but I stupidly forgot to paint the 2nd generation as a toddler!)

[Lisa46]

I never play the 'find the thing' mini-games in the loading screens, my computer lags when I do that. 

Oh, I thought I was the only person who had this problem! It started after patch... 1.67 or so?

[eelfated]

Yea, my machine lags, too when I have that enabled. It's a neat feature, but kind of a resource hog. 

[sunshine_2406]

• All completed Wishes must have different names. For example, “Be Worth More Than 25,000 simoleans” and “Be Worth More Than 50,000 simoleans” are similar, but because of the different values in the name of the wish your Sim can complete both.

Does this mean that you can only lock in an "Improve ... Skill" once and complete it etc?

[Metropolis Man]

Does this mean that you can only lock in an "Improve ... Skill" once and complete it etc?

If the wish is for one particular skill, such as "Improve Cooking Skill" then yes, you can only complete that one once.

[sunshine_2406]

Thanks, doing my test run now.

[Metropolis Man]

Just a reminder that it is really important to write down all wishes your Sim completes. It would be easy to accidentally disqualify yourself by completing two wishes with the same name.

[Lali]

are we allowed to use expansion packs in this challenge?

[Nutella]

Are we allowed to use expansion packs in this challenge?

Yes.  All the official expansion packs are allowed, but please be careful as certain items from different expansion packs are banned (general rules).

All the EA official expansion packs:
1) World Adventures
2) Ambitions
3) Late Night
4) Generations
5) Pets
6) Showtime
7) Supernatural
8- Seasons
9) University Life
10) Island Paradise
11) Into the Future

[Lali]

So do I just post my score here?

[Lali]

I got 27280 lifetime Happieness