A Sim About Town

[Metropolis Man]

A Sim About Town

My thanks to MarianT for another great challenge idea...

Goal
Your Sim wants to go everywhere and do everything. Your Sim wants to see and be seen. Your Sim wants to mingle. And most of all, your Sim wants to make friends.

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create a human YA Sim in CAS. Place him or her in a house.
• You'll need 26 community venues, so you can fill empty lots with venues -- gyms, restaurants, bars, spas, bowling alleys if you have them, etc. You may also add things to lots: climbing walls, telescopes, darts game, etc. Your additions should be made during setup. (Note: Festivals don't count as venues. That said, you can go to the lot next to a festival and use a festival activity as your activity for that lot. Also, your activity can be done in the public area near the lot as well as on the lot.)
• If you are unfamiliar with how to add lots, then here is a helpful Guide article from Carl.
• Added venues must be EA/Maxis made only -- no gallery or player created additions.
• You must choose the Private Dwelling lot trait and the debug cheat to purchase a satellite to prevent abductions.
• The Incredibly Friendly reward trait is banned.
• Your Sim cannot arrange to meet any other Sim at a lot. (No dates, club meetings, or groups). All socializing must be done on community lots.
• Your Sim is required to visit 2 different venues each day. Once they leave these venues they cannot return.
• Before traveling to the next venue your Sim has to complete one unique activity** besides talking with one new friend acquired at the current venue. An activity is considered completed when your Sim decides to end it, i.e., you can't cancel what your Sim is doing.
• Not being able to visit 2 venues in a day and/or not obtaining a friend or completing a unique activity results in a fail -- pause the game and note your score at that point.
• The game ends when your Sim ages to adult.

**Qualifying Unique Activites:

Eat a meal  *  Cook a meal  *  Have a drink  *  Make a drink  *  Watch TV or movie
Play chess  *  Paint  *  Read  *  Fish  *  Tell jokes at microphone
Play piano  *  Play guitar  *  Play violin  *  Play pipe organ
Run on treadmill  *  Workout  *  Punch bag  *  Dance
Listen to music  *  Sing Karaoke  *  Swim  *  Jog  *  Make sculpture
Use telescope  *  Stargaze  *  Cloudgaze  *  Use microscope  *  Build rocket
Take rocket trip  *  Play horseshoes  *  Use water slide  *  Play darts  *  Play foosball
Climb wall  *  Get massage  *  Take yoga class  *  Play basketball  *Play computer game
Bowl  *  Carve a pumpkin  *  Play arcade game  * Play cards * Join a Protest * Use a Bubbletron
Play "Don't Wake the Llama" * Woohoo * Act as DJ * Play video game * Use a Sauna

Scoring
Friends. When your Sim ages up to Adult, pause the game and open the Relationships tab (R). Change the circle at the top from All to Friends. Scroll through the entire list, hovering over each Sim and give yourself 50 points for each Friend and 100 points for each Good Friend. Avoid social contact on your home lot because only friends acquired off your home lot may be scored.

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, 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	Friends
lesleyj42	5250
christinal3106	4850
LenaLJ	4100
GlazeyLady	3250
sdhoey	2150
Eighty8Keys	1950
MarianT	1650
Minnie Mouse	1650
coolsim9999999	1500
Ginj	1450
Metropolis Man	1450
Noyo	1450
Whimsical Peanut	1400
Tuija	1150
fluffyj00	650
TanGuob	600
WriterJunkie	350
CynKuy	150

[WriterJunkie]

Can we put down lots from the gallery, too, or only EA/Maxis lots and our own created lots?

[Metropolis Man]

Can we put down lots from the gallery, too, or only EA/Maxis lots and our own created lots?

Unless Marian disagrees I'll say Maxis/EA only to control the situation and put players on a somewhat level playing field. I'll make the edit.

[MarianT]

Can we put down lots from the gallery, too, or only EA/Maxis lots and our own created lots?

Unless Marian disagrees I'll say Maxis/EA only to control the situation and put players on a somewhat level playing field. I'll make the edit.

Yes, that's fine. I forgot to put that in there.

[WriterJunkie]

So your sim has to make a new friend at each venue, so two friends a day?

[MarianT]

So your sim has to make a new friend at each venue, so two friends a day?

Yes

[Makenziegma]

Can your sim go to work at a career like scientist, doctor, or policeman?

[MarianT]

Can your sim go to work at a career like scientist, doctor, or policeman?

There's no rule against it.

[Whimsical Peanut]

So clubs are forbidden? What if I make a club with sims I already befriended? Can I then use the group gathering?

[MarianT]

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So clubs are forbidden? What if I make a club with sims I already befriended? Can I then use the group gathering?

From the rules:

Your Sim cannot arrange to meet any other Sim at a lot. (No dates, club meetings, or groups). All socializing must be done on community lots.

[LenaLJ]

I normally do my testing before the challenge starts, but didnt have the time this time.
So i now today discovered there might be more different unique activities to do out there, and i will add those to the list latest tomorrow.

[Metropolis Man]

Thank you, Lena.

[CynKuy]

Do restaurants count as venues?

[Metropolis Man]

Do restaurants count as venues?

They do. We mention those as an example at the top of the rules...

• You'll need 26 community venues, so you can fill empty lots with venues -- gyms, restaurants, bars, spas, bowling alleys if you have them, etc.
  

[Whimsical Peanut]

If my sims does several actions at  a venue I would only count one of them as "unique" and can still do the other as "unique" at another venue? Or if my sim does 3 actions at a venue I cannot count the others as unique anymore ?