New Year's Resolution: Party with the Rich and Famous

[MissZoef]

Aw too bad that I could hook up my computer just now and missed the first tournament. What a lot of simmers competing in this challenge

Congratulations @Caterina

[Rainbow Dash]

Wow, nice strategy Caterina! I admit, I forgot about clubs myself but here's how I did things.

I used the Fortune and Mansion Baron aspirations at the start of the game, when I was using the money cheat and renovating the Penthouse. I spent those points on the Never Weary, Steel Bladder and the Incredibly Friendly reward, I later bought Antiseptic, in the meantime I used the potions to fill needs or did it when I got gold early.

I used the incense burner for some emotions and Don Lothorio as a romantic interest, I had the Party lot trait on my Sims apartment and used the pause button a lot, to plan my next move. My Sim never slept, she just threw back to back parties, lol.

Funny thing happened in my practice run. I was testing out the Weenie Roast and made the mistake of putting chairs around the campfire. One Sim caught on fire and everyone ran away, so Grim ended up crashing the party, in the middle of reaping, another fire broke out and Grim stopped his reap halfway through to hightail it with the others, lol. 

Needless to say, I did not use any chairs near that campfire during the actual challenge. One fire did happen, but luckily my Sim didn't even notice until it was almost over, so I still managed to get gold for that one. (Barely). 

It would be nice to everyone else's strategies. 

[cyclonenic]

Well done Caterina.

I did know to play Clubs and Events at the same time but i don't normally play clubs so wasn't sure if it was a bug or not. Got told it likely was so didn't use it, oh well that will teach me to ask

I think i could have done better if i had done back to back, but i decided to go easy for my first challenge since i was going into surgery IRL the day after i completed it so i threw parties at roughly 6am, 2pm and 10pm everyday apart from the first day where it was 4pm and 10.30pm and the last day where it was 5.30am and 12 noon to get them in before aging at 8pm.

Like Rainbow Dash i built the party place first to complete the two Fortune Aspirations and got Observant (to avoid loner, mean and evil sims), Always Welcome (helps sims always accept your invite), Inc.Friendly (combined with Outgoing trait for insta friendship), Never Weary and Steel Bladder.
My sim was Good, Outgoing and had Dance Machine as last option so she could Disco Nap between parties.

The Lot Traits were Party Place, Gnomes and Homey (for quicker cooking and mixology skilling).

To control the playful at Dinner Party i went and dug a MySim up (good old Dr F) and spent the first few hours in a Park meeting people and making insta friends.

Part of the strategy was a befriended 1 teen (in this case Morgan Fyres) to use as my Birthday Sim for the Birthday Party and i made sure the House Party had 1 single Sim in case i needed to flirt (Thanks for volunteering Gavin Richards).
I did these two parties first to a) get them out of the way and b) have one more YA sim to party with.

I also had no elders at a party ever to avoid Grim and did Dinner Parties after the Bday and House until i completed Party Animal aspiration (used Partihaus, Roomies, Caliente and BFF for the other locations as they had a bar, stereo and sufficient dinner table space ) where i then did a few Spooky Parties. I avoided the Weenie Roast like a plague due to fire

To get people to do the "drink 3 at same time" etc i used the group function at the start of the party and disbanded group as soon as i reached gold and left the guests to get on with it whilst Daisy slept and showered and did whims/aspirations to also get Antiseptic, Stoves and Grills, Carefree and Shameless as well as say hi to any sim that walked past i did not know.

I did notice at some point that i started to be introduced to other sims via the sims i already knew- i think this was due to being level 10 charisma but not sure?

[vancanuckfan86]

Awesome to read other strategies....

I did not do a practice run and I thought it would be fun to just dive into it. I have never really played parties in any of the Sims games so I knew it would be a challenge; I didn't realize I'd be this bad at parties!! I had played a few parties in the past so I had an idea of what some of the goals were but not all of them. I always fell one goal short of the gold medal which was extremely frustrating!

I started off with a romantic, perfectionist, goofball Sim. I instantly regretted this as I realized that you didn't need to cook good food to have a good party, lol. I would choose different traits next time. I also assigned lot traits; Party Place, Chef's Kitchen and Romantic Auroa. I would also change some of these next time. For some reason I didn't think of creating a club which would have been the best solution but I decided to just join clubs that already existed to avoid having to make friends.

I had an issue with the first party (birthday party) as I had some weird glitch I'd never experienced and couldn't place birthday candles on any cake I baked. I didn't get any medals for that party. Once that party ran out of time and I started another birthday party the candles worked fine; so that was weird...already off to an awful start, lol! The other party I had fail was the Weenie Roast when my host caught fire (thank goodness a guest put him out) as well as another guest. I only tried the Weenie Roast once.

I was hung up on silver for all the parties because of either have 3 sims listen to music at the same time, have 3 sims be playful at the same time and have 3 sims be flirty at the same time. It was my own fault since my Sim was always inspired due to the chef's kitchen lot trait (worst idea ever).

Just curious how anyone accomplished the 3 sims listening to music at the same time? I had no idea how to accomplish this even though I always had the stereo blasting.

[Sophronisba]

Just curious how anyone accomplished the 3 sims listening to music at the same time? I had no idea how to accomplish this even though I always had the stereo blasting.

You can form a group of three Sims, then you get options to listen to various radio stations together.

[MarianT]

Congratulations to Caterina! It's really great seeing how many people participated. I learned a few things that will be useful in future games, and I hope other people did, too.

[vancanuckfan86]

Just curious how anyone accomplished the 3 sims listening to music at the same time? I had no idea how to accomplish this even though I always had the stereo blasting.

You can form a group of three Sims, then you get options to listen to various radio stations together.

That is what I thought while I was playing and I tried this a few times. I never got the option to listen to music at the same time. I'll chalk it up to another weird glitch. I don't usually have many glitches when I play but for whatever reason this save file seemed to be full of them.

[Caterina]

Thank you for the kudos!

I forgot to mention that my Sim's traits were Dance Machine, Cheerful, and Outgoing.  I didn't want any traits that would put my Sim into a different emotion. 

Her Aspiration was Leader of the Pack which she completed.  She also completed Fabulously Wealthy.  I didn't spend any of her aspiration points.  She had over 9,500 points at the end of the challenge. 

Along the way she maxed Charisma and Dancing.  She had level 9 Cooking skill, level 7 Gourmet Cooking skill, and level 6 Mixology skill.

[lesleyj42]

My strategy for this challenge was almost identical to @Caterina. My sim had similar traits/aspiration except instead of being cheerful she was a goofball.

The main difference was I formed two party clubs and alternated between them. This allowed party guests to go home and handle their needs between parties. Once she had established a romantic interest in one of her clubs, we also alternated between house and dinner parties to break up the monotony.

My one silver party was not because I ran out of time but because I made the mistake of giving my apartment key to some of my friends (chasing whims) and one of them popped by for an impromptu visit (this caused the party to end early). I promptly revoked both my keys so I wouldn't be rudely interrupted again.

I did accidentally kill my landlord by telling too many jokes. I didn't even realize he was hysterical until he collapsed (I was directing all of my jokes at the other guy in the conversation and he was fine). Oops! I still got gold for that one even though Grim crashed it.