Homeless Shelter

[Metropolis Man]

Homeless Shelter

Goal
Your Sim has noticed that many of the Sims in Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, and even Windenburg have no home. Being kind-hearted your Sim has decided to help these Sims along. He or she will take in 3 Sims at a time with the idea of giving them a skill, a job, and a boost towards their lifetime aspiration.

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create one Young Adult.
• Must choose Friend of the World Aspiration, with Good, Cheerful, and Outgoing traits. Cannot change Aspirations until Friend of the World is finished.
• You are allowed to use the Buydebug cheat for the sole purpose of purchasing a satellite to prevent abductions.
• No moving and no marrying.
• Your shelter must be a house with at least 4 beds, a bathroom and a kitchen, and skilling equipment as needed.
• Your shelter must be finished before asking anyone to move in.
• Your starter Sim can only ask Young Adult, Adult, and Elder Sims currently not living in a home (press M to easily find out) to move into the shelter. Elder Sims that die before your starter Sim turns Elder may be eligible to receive partial scoring credit if they complete certain components (see scoring section).NOTE: Each Sim must be asked to move in separately and only your starter Sim can ask someone to move in. You can't move in an entire household.
• Your starter Sim will not get a job and will not move out.
• All Sims in your household can marry, but spouses cannot be moved in.
• No changing Aspirations for anyone until an Aspiration has been completed.
• The Connections reward is banned.
• Homeless Sims must complete 3 things in order to be moved out:

1. Reach level 3 of a unique job**;
2. Max a unique skill**;
3. Finish one Milestone of their Aspiration (you cannot change their starting Aspiration). NOTE: If your homeless Sim has the Leader of the Pack Aspiration, then you can change it to something else since club content is banned.
**A little clarification - Preexisting skill/job levels of a homeless Sim can count towards the above requirements, but both still need to be unique. So, if you move in Sim A with Fitness level 7, then lucky you - you only have 3 more levels to cap the skill. Sim B comes along with Fitness level 8. Now you'll have to have Sim B start from scratch since Fitness was used to get Sim A moved out. Once you have gone though all available skills/jobs with the expansion packs you have chosen to play with, then you begin a second cycle of skills/jobs and keep the second cycle unique.

• Score is based on how many homeless Sims move out before your starter Sim turns Elder as well as if the remaining homeless Sims in the shelter complete some of their requirements.

Scoring

Moved Out — 5 points for every homeless Sim moved out (fulfills their 3 requirements) before your starting Sim turns Elder.

Remaining — 1 point for each component completed by Sims still in the shelter (skill, job, or Aspiration milestone) when your starting Sim turns Elder.

Make sure to use LenaLJ's Spreadsheet to assist you in calculating your total.

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	Moved Out	Remaining	Total
Nutella	170	4	174
LenaLJ	170	1	171
oshizu	115	5	120
reggikko	105	6	111
GlazeyLady	100	5	105
tjtemple	85	6	91
Metropolis Man	85	6	91
Ginj	70	9	79
Minnie Mouse	75	3	78
sdhoey	65	3	68
MissZoef	65	3	68
mcbalisen	65	3	68
MarianT	60	7	67
rokrchik	60	3	63
Ricalynn	50	11	61
Eighty8Keys	55	6	61
Caterina	55	5	60
sone	50	6	56
jewels129	40	7	47
Teresa	45	1	46
TanGuob	40	3	43
Highlander	35	6	41
SIMantics101	10	9	19

[reggikko]

Do photography and dancing skills count?

[Metropolis Man]

Do photography and dancing skills count?

Yes, just remember you'd have to go through all your available skills depending on what content you have installed - then you could repeat skills.

[GlazeyLady]

Are skills unique just among homeless sims, or do you have to prevent your starter sim from maxing skills?

This really looks like fun!

[MarianT]

Only homeless sims have to be concerned about unique skills.

[MarianT]

There have been 2 additions to the rules:

Each Sim has to be asked to move in separately. You can't move in an entire household.
If you move in a Sim with the Leader of the Pack aspiration, you are allowed to change the aspiration since club content is not allowed.

[Ginj]

• Your shelter must be a house with at least 4 beds, a bathroom and a kitchen, and skilling equipment as needed.
• Your shelter must be finished before asking anyone to move in.

Are additional purchases/upgrades permissible once Sims begin moving in?

[Metropolis Man]

• Your shelter must be a house with at least 4 beds, a bathroom and a kitchen, and skilling equipment as needed.
• Your shelter must be finished before asking anyone to move in.

Are additional purchases/upgrades permissible once Sims begin moving in?

Absolutely. We mainly mean 4 walls and a roof, plus beds, bathrooms, etc and some initial skilling gear. It does not mean no changes once you begin.

[Vesper]

He or she will take in 3 Sims at a time

I presume this means <i>up to</i> three Sims at a time. There's no problem with having one or two, if you've not befriended a third, for a while?

[Nutella]

I presume this means <i>up to</i> three Sims at a time. There's no problem with having one or two, if you've not befriended a third, for a while?

Correct. 

[GlazeyLady]

Your starter Sim can only ask Young Adult, Adult, and Elder Sims currently not living in a home (press M to easily find out) to move into the shelter.

How does pressing M allow you to easily find out if the sim is homeless?  I tried it and it took me to Traveling mode, but I didn't see any way to find out if a sim is homeless - other than rolling over all the occupied homes in all neighborhoods and looking for him.  That didn't seem very easy, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something. 

[MarianT]

Your starter Sim can only ask Young Adult, Adult, and Elder Sims currently not living in a home (press M to easily find out) to move into the shelter.

How does pressing M allow you to easily find out if the sim is homeless?  I tried it and it took me to Traveling mode, but I didn't see any way to find out if a sim is homeless - other than rolling over all the occupied homes in all neighborhoods and looking for him.  That didn't seem very easy, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something. 

That's easier than inviting the sim to move in and finding out at that point. If you already know the households that come with the game (the Goths, Landgraabs, etc.) then all you need to do is look at the ones that have moved in since you started your game.

[GlazeyLady]

Your starter Sim can only ask Young Adult, Adult, and Elder Sims currently not living in a home (press M to easily find out) to move into the shelter.

How does pressing M allow you to easily find out if the sim is homeless?  I tried it and it took me to Traveling mode, but I didn't see any way to find out if a sim is homeless - other than rolling over all the occupied homes in all neighborhoods and looking for him.  That didn't seem very easy, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something. 

That's easier than inviting the sim to move in and finding out at that point. If you already know the households that come with the game (the Goths, Landgraabs, etc.) then all you need to do is look at the ones that have moved in since you started your game.

Thank you!  Yes, you are right, definitely easier.  Just wanted to make sure there wasn't something else right in front of me that I wasn't seeing - because, well, sometimes that happens.   

[LenaLJ]

And now updated with a spreadsheet to help you all calculate the score, enjoy

[Metropolis Man]

Lena, you are awesome - thank you so much .