New Year's Resolution

[Metropolis Man]

New Year's Resolution

Goal
First there was the leftover candy from Spooky Day, then 5 holiday parties culminating in the New Year's Eve party of the century. The result? Your Sim is going to have a hard time achieving that goal of becoming a Star Athlete and Bodybuilder.

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create one Young Adult with maximum weight and minimum muscle. Traits = Lazy, Glutton, and Gloomy.
• No adding to the household.
• No moving.
• No changing aspirations until you've completed Bodybuilder.
• You are allowed to add one Maxis-made spa venue to Willow Creek, Oasis Spring, Magnolia Promenade, or Newcrest.  Choose between these four: Perfect Balance Spa, Center of Center Massage, Aham Ashram Yoga Studio, or Luxe Health Club.  Choose wisely which spa venue you want to add, no changing after you start your game.
• The insta-lean potion, slimify serum and diet ice cream are banned.
• This challenge ends when your Sim has completed the Bodybuilder Aspiration and maxed one of the athletic careers.

Scoring

Scoring is the total minutes it takes to complete your task of capping an athletic career and completing the Bodybuilder Aspiration. When you have done both, pause your game and write down the day and time, including AM or PM. Also, open your Simology tab and note your days to age up and your current Life Stage  - i.e. Young Adult or Adult.  Post your information and we will manually calculate the total minutes for you.     

Minutes — Total minutes needed to cap an athletic career and finish the Bodybuilder Aspiration.

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. 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, LenaLJ, Trip, and MarianT) 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	Minutes
Playalot	23822	Week 3 - Tue - 9:02pm
Nutella	24900	Week 3 - Wed - 3:00pm
Nikitachi	25260	Week 3 - Wed - 9:00pm
thekatie0409	25260	Week 3 - Wed - 9:00pm
LenaLJ	25260	Week 3 - Wed - 9:00pm
christinal3106	29581	Week 3 - Sat - 9:01pm
reggikko	31021	Week 4 - Sun - 9:01pm
Metropolis Man	31021	Week 4 - Sun - 9:01pm
Ginj	34980	Week 4 - Wed - 3:00pm
GlazeyLady	35340	Week 4 - Wed - 9:00pm
Tipi	35340	Week 4 - Wed - 9:00pm
oshizu	35341	Week 4 - Wed - 9:01pm
HelenP	35342	Week 4 - Wed - 9:02pm
FrancescaFiori	35342	Week 4 - Wed - 9:02pm
MissTrips	35343	Week 4 - Wed - 9:03pm
Nandarelle	38221	Week 4 - Fri - 9:01pm
mayayeti72	43980	Week 5 - Tue - 9:00pm
Tigerskin	43982	Week 5 - Tue - 9:02pm
Magpie2012	43985	Week 5 - Tue - 9:05pm
MissZoef	45420	Week 5 - Wed - 9:00pm
MarianT	45421	Week 5 - Wed - 9:01pm
Teresa	48300	Week 5 - Fri - 9:00pm
Tboy002	48300	Week 5 - Fri - 9:00pm
sone	48301	Week 5 - Fri - 9:01pm
smastbrook	49741	Week 5 - Sat - 9:01pm
december22	49741	Week 5 - Sat - 9:01pm
Makenziegma	49742	Week 5 - Sat - 9:02pm
CynKuy	49743	Week 5 - Sat - 9:03pm
tjtemple	51180	Week 6 - Sun - 9:00pm
MissWulfy	51182	Week 6 - Sun - 9:02pm
Brisayshi	51183	Week 6 - Sun - 9:03pm
kearn76	51187	Week 6 - Sun - 9:07pm
PSDuckie	54061	Week 6 - Tue - 9:01pm
Sophronisba	54061	Week 6 - Tue - 9:01pm
Deveroux	54195	Week 6 - Tue - 11:15pm
jewels129	55501	Week 6 - Wed - 9:01pm
mens0067	55502	Week 6 - Wed - 9:02pm
BarbaraAnn	58382	Week 6 - Fri - 9:02pm
Randingo	59475	Week 6 - Sat - 3:15pm
kirstydalgleish	59821	Week 6 - Sat - 9:01pm
Eighty8Keys	59822	Week 6 - Sat - 9:02pm
sdhoey	61262	Week 7 - Sun - 9:02pm
Annabec	71341	Week 8 - Sun - 9:01pm
crstasse	DNF

[Nutella]

Reminder:

New rules for 2016, please read the updated one here: http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,25338.0.html

Biggest change -- moodlet solver / book of life / reward store potions / clubs are all banned.

[Metropolis Man]

I have been wondering why the challenge team allows the plumbob lamps since not all players have access to them. It seems like they give a fairly significant advantage since the player who has them does not have to do any work to get Sims very inspired, focused, etc.

Well, if enough players speak up and feel an additional ban to the lamps is in order, then we can certainly make that ruling for 2016. Buying all those lamps at the beginning of a file to set yourself back financially is not something everyone wants to do. And it's debatable how much of an advantage being in a "Very" state vs the regular state of an emotion really is - especially if the goals of a challenge are not really tied to emotions.

[reggikko]

Thanks for the reply. You were quite fast! I removed the post and was going to send a PM instead because I figured I might be treading on "strategy" a little too closely!

You must have been replying exactly when I was deleting.

And for clarification: Reward traits are allowed, just no potions?

[Nutella]

And for clarification: Reward traits are allowed, just no potions?

Correct.

[Tipi]

It seems that you cannot pick traits Glutton and Foodie for the same sim. My game says these traits conflict.

[MarianT]

It seems that you cannot pick traits Glutton and Foodie for the same sim. My game says these traits conflict.

Sorry -- changed Foodie to Gloomy.

[Tigerskin]

More of a general question for challenges but: Can I just confirm (never played a challenge before), it says start from scratch regarding a sim with challenges.

Say I make a sim (completely new from scratch) for a test file, finish the test file and do not save the sim - except from when it is originally created in the library. Am I still not allowed to use the same sim for the actual challenge?

I think I might give this one a go and wouldn't want to accidentally disqualify myself!

[MarianT]

You have to start from scratch for the actual challenge. Glad you're going to try the challenge!

[Tigerskin]

Thanks for confirming MarianT. I assumed as such but thought best to clarify.

I still have a lot to learn from the game I think and I think doing a challenge might motivate me to strategise a bit more. Plus I'd just like to participate 

Helps this seems pretty easy. By that I mean there is not a lot things to remember!

[Magpie2012]

Huh, I might actually try out the challenges this year I think after 3 years it's about time lol

[PSDuckie]

Looking forward to this!  One question though.

Get Together: allowed or banned?

[Metropolis Man]

Looking forward to this!  One question though.

Get Together: allowed or banned?

All club content in GT is banned in the General Rules for 2016.

[PSDuckie]

Looking forward to this!  One question though.

Get Together: allowed or banned?

All club content in GT is banned in the General Rules for 2016.

I'm not talking about the club content; I know that is banned.  I'm talking about the expansion itself, similar to how OR, GTW, and Spa Day were banned in some of the 2015 challenges because they were too new.

[Metropolis Man]

Looking forward to this!  One question though.

Get Together: allowed or banned?

All club content in GT is banned in the General Rules for 2016.

I'm not talking about the club content; I know that is banned.  I'm talking about the expansion itself, similar to how OR, GTW, and Spa Day were banned in some of the 2015 challenges because they were too new.

As far as I know the team did not feel other GT content would give unfair advantages, so you're fine.