Runaway Teen Challenge
There are many versions of this challenge around so here is my version:
To start this challenge make your teen sim in CAS. Choose any traits you like but consider not using more than one that will be particularly helpful such as Loves The Outdoors.
Move your teen sim straight onto any empty lot. You do not need to have a YA or Adult sim in your household, teens can live by themselves now in The Sims 4.
Two Purchasing Options:
You can only purchase a bed for your teen or a tent/camping stretcher if you have Outdoor Retreat then using the money cheat reduce your household funds to 0
Or:
Use the money cheat and reduce your household funds to 0 and start on a completely empty lot.
Rules:
1.Your sim must go to school each day and can only take earned holiday days.
2.You may not get a job as a Teen.
3.You may gather wild plants, collectables, fish all you want and use any skilling item on community lots to make money or to help you complete your first aspiration.
4.You can not shower, sleep or cook at sims residential lots until you are a Young Adult.
5.All Reward Traits can be purchased but all potions are banned until you have a house.
6.No initiating conversations with adults and elders. You can only talk to other teens and children to meet your teen's social need. *See notes below
Requirements for Building:
Enough simoleons to build all at once, a structure including (but not limited to) a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom. This can be basic but must include all the necessities.
Completed one Aspiration
Requirements for getting a job as a Young Adult:
A at school on the day your sim ages up to a Young Adult
Completed one Aspiration
Requirements for Using Computers, Phone and Kitchen Appliances:
A house
Traveling at any time is allowed including taking vacation time in Granite Falls as long as no normal school days are missed. (Normal school days = days that are not earned vacation days.)
You can edit community lots and place buildings as you wish, just remember that changes might make your challenge less of a challenge!
There is no scoring as such, the goal is to have an expensive house and a high paying career, basically for your sim to be living the good life after such a rocky beginning.
* Rule 6. A few people asked me about the traditional rule of not talking to adults and elders. I didn't include this originally as sims talk all the time and I didn't want anyone to feel as though they had failed because their sim starts talking to someone at the gym or wherever. So my take on this rule is that only talk to other teens or children for social needs, cancel conversations with adults and elders that get started and do not direct your sim to talk to adults or elders. But don't sweat it if an auto-conversation happens.
