Starting Traits -- Quick Learner + Loves Outdoor + Good + Creative
Never waste time leveling skill, only spend time working on aspiration that requires you to actually do stuff, I'll explain this later.
- Starting: enter the game, buy violin/guitar to convert all your cash to personal inventory.
- Mansion Baron: Befriend Landgraabs and move in with them. I changed all the landgraabs aspiration to mansion baron so they will get credit when I work on my mansion aspiration. Bulldoze the house for cash, then convert all cash to violin/guitar (put them in your personal inventory). I finish all steps except for the last one (have home worth $350,000) -- convert all the landgraabs whim points to moodlet solver / instant fun, I remember it was like 15-16 moodlet solver when I am done with the landgraabs.
- Wealthy: Befriend Goth, move in with the goth, leave landgraabs behind. Complete the last step of mansion baron, then work on wealthy aspiration. Take the violin in your personal inventory and sell them (using the personal inventory sell tab) - this will count as money earn. Sell stuff from Goth house to buy more violins to sell as needed to complete your wealthy aspiration. When done, convert all the cash again to violin/guitars and put in personal inventory, you need these later.
- Next befriend Johnny Zest (only single person household in the game I could find), move in with him and leave the goths behind. Then I move myself and Johnny to Potter's Splay empty lot -- I love this lot, it is by fishing points, have like eight digsite spawn points and 2 frogs spawn points.
- Adopt children from computer. You can adopt them slowly as you need them, but the 1st child is important that you adopt as soon as you can. He/she needs to max a career for your lineage aspiration. I chose the culinary chef career track for that child because that is one career I know I can complete in 3 weeks. Use your violins/guitars to help your child get 3000 points so he can buy "Connections" to start the career. Never start any career at level 1, waste time takes too long.
- Adopt 2nd child work on your family aspirations, like read to child, socialize with child, etc. This 2nd child age up to high school and he/she will be in charge to getting an A from highschool for your aspiration.
- Adopted 3rd/4th child later in the week. These 2 didn't have to do much, I stick them on the computer and have them write books.
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- I use all my beginning points and buy savage / morning sims / night owl first. Then as I get more points, it went towards hardly hungry, never weary, connections, steel bladder, creative visionary, etc etc.
- My sim work on writing aspiration first, the earned $25,000 royalties takes time to build up, you want to get this rolling as soon as possible. I also worked on violin alongside writing, for the fun bar when needed.
- My child start work on Monday while I start work on Friday (culinary branch too). Since I need to get only level eight in culinary branch, I didn't need the full 3 weeks like my child.
- Constantly switch your aspiration as you work through them, I don't just stick with one aspiration. Example: I write books (writer asp), then I see the digsite respawn, I would switch to curator asp and go collect collectibles. Then switch back to whatever you are working on next, always remember to switch aspiration as you work on anything.
- When I adopt first child, I chose boy because I needed him to help me with the 4 grandchildren part too. For culinary track, he gets Tues,Wed,Thurs off - I had him "try for baby" with Dina Caliente and Summer Holliday on Tuesday, and with Nina Caliente on Wednesday. 2 women pregnant should be enough to give you 4 grandchild, but the 3rd woman is just insurance, in case one of the previous two only gives you one child. Choose someone recognizable from town, not some random woman - they could be alien and will impregnate your child, and you will have a hard time getting ahead in your career. Pregnancy messes with the mood and career advances.
- 2nd child high school A on Thursday, it only takes 4 school days to get A. Work hard during school.
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MAIN strategy -- Vicarious reward trait from successful lineage aspiration.
This is so important for my strategy. On Week 2 day 1 (Sunday), my first child got promoted to rank 6 culinary -- my lineage aspiration is all done except for the last part (have child reach the top of career). The game will think you completed this step and give you the aspiration completion done popup, including the reward trait. I know we can't count the lineage aspiration done until my child actually reach rank 10, but that doesn't mean I can't take advantage of the reward trait. I checked with Metro if we wanted to have everyone use cheat to remove that trait, but he felt that wasn't needed.
I also have the big happy family aspiration done by this point. All my children will learn skills extra fast.
After I get vicarious trait -- When I am working on an aspiration (like play violin), I will have all my children stand beside me and work on other skills. When they level the skill, I will automatically get it too. At some point, I have 4 skills leveling (from children) while I work on other stuff, that trait is amazing.
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SUMMARY:Mansion Baron - Use landgraab & goth house to help you finish fast.
Fabulously Wealthy - Same, use landgraab & goth house to help you finish fast.
Soulmate - I use Johnny Zest, the one that I move in with. This is a pretty easy aspiration, not much trick to it.
Serial Romantic - I use the map interaction to my advantage. I already know a lot of people (from friend of the world asp), I would travel to museum with person A, romance them up get boyfriend status. Then I will leave them there and travel to bar with person B, rinse and repeat. I have like 8 boyfriends in 8 different location, never go back to the same location because they will be there and get mad at you for romancing a different person. After I finish and go home, they will come to your house - ignore them, have one of your children send them away.
Big Happy Family - adopt child to speed things up, natural pregnancy too long. Have one of your child woohoo with sims "not" in your household, you get a higher rate of twins for the 4 grandchild requirement.
Successful Lineage - Have child finish all his homework and skill requirement, then go school and use work hard mode. Have a Child Max any Skill - I use my child #1 for this, he max his homestyle cooking skill (needed that for his culinary career anyways). Have a Child Complete an Aspiration - I use wealthy aspiration on one of my child, just drag violin and sell via personal inventory.
Curator - one trick (not the inventory exploit) is the collect 10 collectibles and collect 25 collectibles step can be completed via harvesting. The game counts harvest as collectibles. Also the easter eggs help me get the complete a collection step fast.
Outdoor - did not do, too long. The sleep 5 nights in a tent is too time consuming.
Botanist - child max gardening for me. Johnny Zest work on the garden since day 1, so I already have 15+ excellent plants plus a cowplant laying around the house.
Angler - I save this for last, because I wasn't sure if I was able to complete it. This is one skill (fishing) that my children cannot level for me, the vicarious trait just doesn't work in fishing spot. Reading fishing book doesn't work, reading any skill book doesn't work for vicarious trait, it has to be hands on working the skill. I gather every single person in the household and went fishing - so I have 6 people fishing at the same time (to help with collect 20 types of fish part). Since I already have handiness level 10, getting batfish was easy.
Author - just write the books for the necessary steps. On last step, stop as soon as you finish writing 3 bestsellers, the royalties will slowly trickle in as time goes by, no need to keep writing.
Musician - just play violin, easy and simple aspiration.
Painter - I had child level painting skill for me (to like level 6), then I finish off the aspiration by painting the necessary stuff.
Friend of the World - Child max charisma skill for me. I buy "Incredibly Friendly" and the rest of the aspiration is easily done. With max charisma + cheerful introduction + the friendly reward - you can befriend someone with 1-2 interactions.
Joke Star - Child max comedy skill for me. After I reach culinary track rank eight, I switch to entertainer rank four, work 2 days and get promoted to rank 5 where I can choose comedian branch.
Party Animal - when the aspiration only ask for throw XXX parties/events or attend XXX events, you can just throw the party, attend it, and end it early using the button. Rinse and repeat. Getting gold on parties is easy when you are controlling a household of 6 people - pretty impossible if you are playing as a single sim household.
Chief of mischief - Child max mischief skill for me, the rest is fast and simple.
Public enemy - This one requires criminal career rank eight, since I chose culinary career (for mixology and masterchef), did not have time to do this one.
Bodybuilding - I work this aspiration myself till stage 3, because this one have a lot of workout for XXX hours. After I finish stage 3, I was at fitness skill level 6 or 7 - then I have my child level the balance (to skill 10) for me. Maximum body potential achieved - use protein shake and life weights, shouldn't take too long to get that trigger.
Mixologist - the first week I did level a bit mixology so I can get skill level 4 for my career. Second week onwards, I only mix drinks for the daily task and my child level mixology to max for me.
MasterChef - Reach Level eight of the Culinary Career, doesn't have to be "chef" track. I have my sim choose mixology branch (for the mixology aspiration part), then keep working till I get rank eight.
Nerd Brain - Child max logic and handiness skill for me. Johnny Zest build the rocketship for me. When you have a household full of people and constantly need to pee and shower, you get a lot of broken toilets/shower. I kept all those in the household inventory and pull them out for this aspiration. Fix or Upgrade 5 Objects - definitely do the repair object, much faster. Have very focus mood then repair 5 objects, you will get it done before you finish an upgrade. Upgrade takes too long, even with the focus mood.
Renaissance - This one is a joke. I already have many skills leveled thanks to all my children, have the connections reward, and just join and quit many careers to satisfy all the steps.
Computer Whiz - this one took too long (100 hours on computer), one of the aspiration I did not attempt to complete.
