Baby Boomer 2018

[Metropolis Man]

Baby Boomer 2018



Goal
It's time once again for the annual forum favorite - Baby Boomer. As always the goal is for your starting couple to have as many kids as possible - age them up quickly in order to make room for more kids.

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create two YA in CAS (relationship = spouse), the father must be Alien or Human and cannot change. Other household members' life states are player choice.
• The "Genius" and "Creative" traits are banned for the whole household.
• You must choose the Private Dwelling lot trait to prevent abductions, and no moving allowed.
• No more than two adoptions (babies only) allowed per week. Weeks begin on Sundays at 8 a.m.
• The only additions allowed are adopted babies or babies born in the household to the mother.
• Completed Teen aspirations should be unique.
• The game ends when your father ages up to Elder.

Aging Up and Moving Out the Kids

• A Baby may only be aged up early if both parents are Good Friends with the baby.
• You may only age up a Toddler early if they are potty trained and have lvl 2 in all skills.
• You may only age up a Child early if they have finished an Aspiration and have a B school average.
• You may only age up a Teen early if they have a B school average, lvl 2 at a teen job, and a BFF.
• You may only move out a Young Adult if they have finished a unique Aspiration and maxed a unique skill.

Scoring

Your score is based on how many Young Adults have been moved out at the point when your father ages up to Elder. You also receive points based on the life stage of the remaining offspring in the household:

YA Out — 5 pts for every Young Adult moved out.
YA In — 4 pts for every Young Adult remaining.
Teen — 3 pts for every Teen remaining.
Child — 2 pts for every Child remaining.
Toddler — 1 pts for every Toddler remaining.
Total — Add all the columns together to obtain your Total.

A spreadsheet to help keep you organized can be found here. Thanks, Lena.

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, LenaLJ, MarianT, and sdhoey) 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	YA Out	YA In	Teen	Child	Toddler	Total
oshizu	85	20	--	--	--	105
GlazeyLady	85	12	--	--	2	99
LenaLJ	85	4	6	2	--	97
Tynynounours	70	12	--	--	1	83
sdhoey	50	8	3	--	1	62
BallerinaHippo	50	4	6	--	1	61
Isabelalabe	45	4	3	4	2	58
HelenP	40	8	--	4	--	52
Eighty8Keys	30	12	3	2	1	48
JocyMc	30	12	3	--	2	47
SueDenim	30	4	3	4	2	43
Nikitachi	25	4	6	6	--	41
Whimsical Peanut	25	8	3	2	1	39
Nomac	30	--	3	4	1	38
workingmum8	20	8	6	2	1	37
Metropolis Man	25	4	3	2	--	34
jewels129	20	8	--	--	2	30
coolsim9999999	--	20	3	--	--	23
Noyo	20	--	--	2	1	23
CynKuy	--	12	6	2	--	20
junegem	--	8	9	2	--	19

[BallerinaHippo]

Should the two YA sims start as "married" or "roommates"?

[Metropolis Man]

Should the two YA sims start as "married" or "roommates"?

Oh, good question. I am surprised that did not come up as the team was looking over the rules. Hmmmm....I guess it comes down to either we want it a little harder or easier in the beginning given a married couple will have that base relationship strength. Let's go with married. I have always looked at Baby Boomer events as a couple starting a family on day 1, not two Sims meeting for the first time.

[oshizu]

Aging Up and Moving Out the Kids
A Baby may only be aged up early if both parents are Good Friends with the baby.
You may only age up a Toddler early if they are potty trained and have lvl 2 in all skills.
You may only age up a Child early if they have finished an Aspiration and have a B school average.
You may only age up a Teen early if they have a B school average, lvl 2 at a teen job, and a BFF.
You may only move out a Young Adult if they have finished a unique Aspiration and maxed a unique skill.

I have two questions about the early age-up conditions.
They are probably obvious questions, but I'd like to be sure.
1. Does "potty trained" mean Level 3 potty skill?
2. May the BFF live either inside or outside the active household?

[Metropolis Man]

Aging Up and Moving Out the Kids
A Baby may only be aged up early if both parents are Good Friends with the baby.
You may only age up a Toddler early if they are potty trained and have lvl 2 in all skills.
You may only age up a Child early if they have finished an Aspiration and have a B school average.
You may only age up a Teen early if they have a B school average, lvl 2 at a teen job, and a BFF.
You may only move out a Young Adult if they have finished a unique Aspiration and maxed a unique skill.

I have two questions about the early age-up conditions.
They are probably obvious questions, but I'd like to be sure.
1. Does "potty trained" mean Level 3 potty skill?

Yes.

2. May the BFF live either inside or outside the active household?

Your choice.

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Question #3 from me: Where have you been lately in the Tournament? Lol.

[oshizu]

Thank you for your responses!

Question #3: I'm on my way back! I even started a practice file for Jokers Wild.  *cheesy grin

[GlazeyLady]

Thank you for your responses!

Question #3: I'm on my way back! I even started a practice file for Jokers Wild.  *cheesy grin

I'm loving your Sharebears, but I'm really glad to see you getting back into the challenges!

[Metropolis Man]

Added the word "completed" to the following rule...

• Completed Teen aspirations should be unique.

[Rinkils]

Added the word "completed" to the following rule...

• Completed Teen aspirations should be unique.

Another question: What if a Teen / YA completes more than 1 aspiration - do all completed aspirations need to be unique, or will just one per Sim do?

[Metropolis Man]

Added the word "completed" to the following rule...

• Completed Teen aspirations should be unique.

Another question: What if a Teen / YA completes more than 1 aspiration - do all completed aspirations need to be unique, or will just one per Sim do?

As long as every Teen has one completed Aspiration that no other Teen has completed (i.e. unique), then it does not matter how many your Teen does.

[Rinkils]

Added the word "completed" to the following rule...

• Completed Teen aspirations should be unique.

Another question: What if a Teen / YA completes more than 1 aspiration - do all completed aspirations need to be unique, or will just one per Sim do?

As long as every Teen has one completed Aspiration that no other Teen has completed (i.e. unique), then it does not matter how many your Teen does.

Ok, thanks a lot.

[Metropolis Man]

@MissSeaGal -- I deleted your post because it might give others ideas. The answer is yes.

[MissSeaGal]

@MissSeaGal -- I deleted your post because it might give others ideas. The answer is yes.

Great, wanted to make sure I followed the rules, and I didn't read it in the rules so just,wanted to clarify.

[Metropolis Man]

Nikitachi, I deleted your question as well. The answer is "yes." Just a reminder to everyone that many questions would be better asked in a PM to the team...

Have Questions?
Please think hard before you ask in the challenge thread because it may be strategy.

[Tynynounours]

Hello. Just to be sure, the banned traits are for everyone, or only the parents?