Congrats
@Rainbow Dash on your first win. I was so so close, but I made a mistake that cost me a couple hours at the end, but that is how it is.
Before starting the challenge, I had several questions I had to test out in game which answers greatly helped me. First of all, a dark form isn't required, so they saves a lot of time whenever a vamp turns someone, drinks, spars, etc. Secondly, I had to find out if it was quicker to grow the plants needed, or to just make the money. It was definitely faster to make the money and buy the seeds from the computer. A total of 74,750 simoleons where needed to make all the potions, and I had to use photography for that.
So, basically this is what my lovely vamp did. The first day, she read the vampire lore books until she purchased all 3 vampire energy and the vampire creation power. Turning sims takes a lot of energy, so it was important that she could do it with as little rest as possible. So around 7pm of the first day, she traveled to the dance club in Windenberg. (discothepan or whatever) There, she was able to turn 10 sims, using one dark meditation between them. At that time, she returned home to sleep in her coffin until her energy was about half full and traveled to the roomies house. There were 4 sims there, 3 to turn, and one to feed off of. It was around 5 am when all the turning was complete. When done, she returned home and finished reading off the last vampire lore book. Throughout the day, I switched her aspirations back and forth through the vampire ones, and she did buy one award, and that is savant.
So, after the exciting night biting sims, she had a very, very dull day ahead of her and that was to make the $74750. Had no choice, it had to be photography. The two hours of my life that was doing that, I couldn't help but think, the things I do for challenges. So, once all the seeds were bought and opened, she had to make all the drinks. Then she was ready to cure and spar 13 vampires, just as night fall approached. She went across the street to Caleb and Lilith's house, and they were the first she spared and cured. Also, before the curing began, she bought the vampire strength power, all three tiers. Then, to give the townies she turned a little more time, she also ran into Vlad and three other randomly generated vampires, sparred and cured them. Then, when there were no other vamps to be found, she threw a house party. and made the mistake of only inviting the first 7 vampires she turned.
The party was a huge sparring/curing fest. The party itself wouldn't be long enough, so I locked them all in her house. When the first 7 townies were sparred and cured it was around 3 pm on Tuesday in game. I then had to throw another party and just wait for the last 6 sims to turn. If I would of invited them all to the first party, I would of saved 3 hours since they had to be on a lot your sims was on to turn.
A few other things, absolutely nothing else was required to reach grand master level than what was required of the challenge itself. Also, I used the natural light, vampire nexus, and private dwelling lot traits. Besides the thousands of pictures I had to clean out of my folder, the challenge was a lot of fun, and I am looking forward to doing the handiness one next.
