ONE MILESTONE:
-- Easiest requirement out of the three.
-- Most aspiration are easy to complete, but I find that the "Bestselling Author" aspiration takes too long. Seems like if you sit down and not stop to finish one book it takes 4 hours, if you take a break and come back to write the same book later it takes way longer than 4 hours. It never used to be like this, not sure why it was happening.
-- Another tedious aspiration is "Grilled Cheese". You have to sit down and eat 2-3 grilled cheese in a row until you get the popup saying the aspiration is unlock on the top right corner of your screen. If that message doesn't popup, you don't get the talk about grilled cheese social option.
-- Eating 10 grilled cheese takes forever, but you can cut the time down by having your other sim eat half of it first, then store it in the household inventory. The grilled cheese aspiration sim can finish it up later.
UNIQUE CAREER:
-- I play this challenge without "Get To Work", mainly to avoid the Doctor and Detective career. I have to follow the sims to work to get promoted from level 2 to 3, which I find annoying, wasting my time as I can get a lot of things done if I don't follow them to work. Without that expansion pack, I had 10 careers to rotate.
-- All careers from level 1 to level 2 only takes one day.
-- All careers (except business) from level 2 to level 3 takes two days.
-- Business career is the only one that I found which take only 1 day to get from level 2 to level 3.
-- Trick is need to stay in "very energized" throughout the workday while working hard.
-- I use Deep Tissue Massage with incense for +2 happy (24 hours), fertility massage with incense for +2 happy (12 hours), muscle relaxing soak with incense for +2 energized (12 hours), and energy centering yoga with incense for +2 energized (8 hours). Adds up to +8 to stay very energized for the whole work day.
-- My business homeless sim is always YA or adult female, because if not they can't get the fertility massage for the moodlet.
-- For the entire challenge, I only found one homeless sim with preexisting career, I use "Ask about Career" social interaction.
UNIQUE SKILL:
-- I have 22 skills to rotate, the trick is to invite homeless sims in with preexisting skills, preferably max skills.
1. Charisma - Great Kisser reward. I use a homeless sim with soulmate aspiration, easy to get 3000 whim points to buy the reward.
2. Comedy - Hire Comedian.
3. Homestyle Cooking - Cook grilled cheese while very inspired.
4. Gourmet Cooking - Cook caprese salad while very inspired.
5. Dancing - Dance while very confident.
6. DJ - Hire Headliner DJ. Don't use the DJ that spawns in bar, they might not have max skill. If you hire the most expensive DJ, they will always comes with max DJ skill.
7. Fishing - Fisherman, always max skill.
8. Fitness - Gym Trainer, always max skill.
9. Gardening - Gardener, always max skill.
10. Guitar - Hire Guitarist.
11. Handiness - Repairman, always max skill.
12. Logic - Amysdelight, very focused, and mentoring.
13. Mischief - Mischief socials while very happy.
14. Mixology - Find a mixologist that is high level. Visit bars, click on the bar to check the mixologist level. I manage to find a level 9 mixologist, couldn't find a level 10.
15. Painting - Prose and pop, very inspired, and mentoring.
16. Piano - Hire Pianist.
17. Programming - Amysdelight and very focused. This one is quite hard to level, I did not like this skill at all.
18. Rocket Science - Amysdelight and very focused. This one is difficult too, as bad as programming.
19. Video Gaming - Amysdelight, very focused, and use an upgraded gaming mat. Have your homeless sim with max handiness upgrade the gaming mat for fast skill gain.
20. Violin - Hire Violinist.
21. Wellness - Hire Massage Therapist.
22. Writing - Prose and pop, very inspired, and mentoring.
Few Tricks:
-- I had my created sim level logic, painting, and writing. These are the 3 skills that she max so she can mentor homeless sim with the "Mentor" reward.
-- Hire Pianist/Guitarist/Violinist, have these NPC sims play the instruments in your home. Make sure you have money and keep rehiring them, while they play the instruments in your home, they will level the skills. After about a week, you can check to see which NPC have max skill. Example: have your original sim pick up a violin and start playing, then click on the Violinist, check to see if the social "Have XXX mentor" is available. If it is, then that violinist have max violin skill. If the mentor social is unavailable, keep hiring them back to play.
-- Hire Comedian. This work the same way as instruments, except there is no way you can check to see if the NPC comedian have max comedy skill. So I kept rehiring the comedian for like 3 weeks, pretty sure he was max skill by the time I invited him into the household.
-- Hire Massage Therapist. All massage therapist comes with wellness level 9 or 10. I will hire therapist and have my original sim keep getting massage from this therapist. Yes, you do spend a lot of money from massages, but you are also leveling their wellness skill.
-- Dancing. This one you can actually invite homeless over and dance with them together. It will level their dancing skill, but you must have free sim around to dance with them.
