Runaway Teen Challenge - Cats and Dogs
(Note: This is a challenge for one sim and one dog)
To start this challenge make your teen sim in CAS. Choose any traits you like but consider not using more than one that will be particularly helpful such as Loves The Outdoors.
Make one pet dog. Consider using one of the more challenging traits i.e. stubborn or aggressive. But most of all use traits that will be fun for you.
Move your teen sim and dog straight onto any empty lot.
The first time you travel it must be to a gym where you will go into build mode and place down a cheap bath. This is so you can bathe your dog, we’re not about animal neglect here!
Lot Traits:
This is up to the player. Using lot traits can make this challenge easier though so if you want a harder challenge use lot traits like Cursed etc. Using lot traits is a good method of manipulating the difficulty level.
Two Purchasing Options:
You can only purchase a bed for your teen or a tent/camping stretcher if you have Outdoor Retreat and one pet bowl then using the money cheat reduce your household funds to 0
Or:
Use the money cheat and reduce your household funds to 0 and start on a completely empty lot.
Rules:
1.Your sim must go to school each day and can only take earned holiday days.
2.You may not get a job as a Teen.
3.You may gather wild plants, collectables, fish all you want and use any skilling item on community lots to make money or to help you complete your first aspiration. Your sim may not use a community skilling item until they are companions with their pet and have successfully trained one command. Your sim may sell any item a pet finds.
4. Your sim must take their pet with them every time they travel.
5. Your pet must have a vet check up once a sim week and you must always attend to your pets needs if they have a red icon color indicating some need has not been met. Your goal is to have your pets icon neutral or green at all times.
6. You can not shower, bathe, sleep or cook at sims residential lots until you are a Young Adult.
7. All Reward Traits can be purchased but all potions are banned until you have a house.
8. No initiating conversations with children, adults, elders or other animals. You can only talk to other teens and your pet to meet your teen's social need. Your sim may talk to other animals if they are completing or working on the Friend to the Animal Aspiration*See notes below
9. Set your Seasons as you wish, if you want more of a challenge then leave weather effects on etc.
Making Money
Your teen sim may make money anyway they possibly can.
Requirements for Building:
Enough simoleons to build all at once, a structure including (but not limited to) a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom. You must place one pet door. This can all be very basic but must include all the necessities.
Purchased pet items: bed, toys, cat condos if applicable.
Completed one Aspiration
Master the Training Skill
Requirements for getting a job as a Young Adult:
A at school on the day your sim ages up to a Young Adult
Completed one Aspiration
Requirements for Using Computers, Phone and Kitchen Appliances:
A house
Traveling at any time is allowed including taking vacation time in Granite Falls as long as no normal school days are missed. (Normal school days = days that are not earned vacation days.)
You can edit community lots and place buildings as you wish, just remember that changes might make your challenge less of a challenge!
There is no scoring as such, the goal is to have an expensive house and a high paying career, basically for your sim to be living the good life after such a rocky beginning.
* Rule 8. Only talk to other teens and your pet for social needs, cancel conversations with children, adults, elders and pets that get started and do not direct your sim to talk to children, adults, elders or pets. But don't sweat it if an auto-conversation happens or if an animal approaches your sim. Talking to other animals is banned unless your sim is doing the Friend of the Animals Aspiration, this is just to add some level of difficulty back into the challenge.
** Before your teens house is built, as a general rule - placing any item on the teens home lot is ok as long as this item can be dragged into a sim personal inventory in-game.
Once your sim builds their house all items may be placed as you wish.
