Setting Up
Q: I want to play this like a legacy. How do I pick my heir?
A: This challenge does not have any strict heir-law, so feel free to make your own if you want one. Biological children, adopted children, alien abduction children, clones, aliens, friends you invite to take over your work or all of the above are allowed. It's up to you to place your own limitations on your game file.
Q: I would really like to do this challenge, but I want to change some things. Is that OK?
A: Feel free to add any additional restrictions or amend rules in order to suit your own play style. It's all about having fun!
Q: I have changed the rules a bit, but would still like to post my progress in the thread. Can I?
A: Of course! Let me know what is going on in your game!
Game play
Q: I can't get the Money X cheat to work. What am I doing wrong?
A: Remember that the X stands for an amount. When you first start the game, have your sims choose a lot and move in there. Open the cheats window and turn Testingcheats on, then type Money 0 in the console. This should give you 0 in household funds.
Q: How does this switching of aspirations work again?
A: In CAS the aspirations are grouped together by type (Food = Master Chef and Master Mixologist). If you choose an aspiration in the food category, you can only switch between that and another aspiration in the same category. This means that you may switch from Master Chef to Master Mixologist, but not from Master Chef to The Curator, because The Curator is in the Nature category.
Q: How do I move to the next neighbourhood?
A: Once you have completed the game play and building goals for a neighbourhood, you will go into Manage Worlds and split off part of the household from your active household. You have to click the “create new household” button before moving over the sims you will bring to the new house. Remember you need to leave at least 1 sim in the original household. You have now created a new household in the “currently not in world” category. Click the new household and choose “move into a new lot”. Choose a lot in your next neighbourhood, and place the household there. Then switch the active household to the newly made household.
Q: What do I do if one of my sims dies?
A: If a sim dies in your household or on your lot, you can either release their spirit or keep the urn around and have the ghosts visit. Or, you can place the urn on a community lot of your choice.
Q: I'm not allowed to sell crystals, but I want to use one to get a sample for the microscope – can I still collect them?
A: Yes, the restrictions only limit how you make money, not what you can collect/create. You are free to create/collect other objects in your game, but those can never be sold. They must be used as decorations or stored in the family inventory.
Q: Can I sell career rewards?
A: Yes you can.
Building
Q: How do I change lot type?
A: At the top menu in build mode there is a house button with an “i” in it. Click there, and a menu opens up that displays details about the lot. Click the button at the far left (it has a stylized picture on it). That opens a drop down menu that will let you choose what type of lot you want.
Q: How do I know how much a lot I am building on is worth?
A: In the top information bar there is a house button with an “i” in it. Click there and a menu opens up that displays details about the lot. At the bottom right Lot value will be displayed.
Q: I'm almost done with my builds in this neighbourhood but I'm not sure what items I have to keep in the house and what items I can sell to raise money to the build fund?
A: You may sell any allowed items for that neighbourhood, any career rewards and build/buy items you don't want to keep in your finished version of the lot. Any non-sellable items you do not want to be placed in the house must be either left in a staying sim's personal inventory or the household inventory. You are only allowed to bring decorative items to your next household (and they cannot be used for anything other than decoration in your future home).
Q: I would really like to add a bar for my sims instead of the gym in N1, can I do that?
A: If you want to keep to the rules, no. But as long as you keep the lot set to a gym and add all the required items on the build check list, you are free to add whatever else you want to your lot.