Hello, All.
To y’all I am new because I have never posted anything in the forum. But to me, I have ~known~ all of you who have written guides and tips for many years from playing Sims 3 with my daughter. We just made the jump to Sims 4 this Christmas & I am so excited to be able to do challenges with you guys now.
Probably everything I know how to do I learned from you guys! Lol. But since I was able to get my lot value over 100k, I will post the strategy I used. My strategy had 2 phases. The first phase was the accumulation of satisfaction points to buy rewards and reaching level 10 in the skills. The second phase was cranking out the sculptures & paintings.
Painter Traits: Art Lover, Perfectionist, Creative & Muser
Woodworker Traits: Genius, Cheerful, Perfectionist & Quick Learner
Lot Traits: Home Studio, Natural Light & Homey
Accumulation of Satisfaction points: By whims and from completing these aspirations:
Painter: Creativity fully completed
Masterchef- she got partially thru level 2.
Grilled Cheese- partial level 1
Fabulously wealthy reached partial level 4 in phase 2
Mansion Baron reached partial level 2
Soul Mate – partially thru level 3
Curator- partially thru level 2
Woodworker: Fabulously wealthy fully completed
Mansion baron- partially completed level 2
Curator partial completed level 2
Renaissance sim- level 1 finished.
Rewards Purchased:
On Day 4 the Painter was able to purchase Connections and the woodworker purchased Marketable. I wanted Connections to get the Easel from the Painter Career and the career rewards that had focusing décor for the woodworker. (astronaut, tech guru, scientist, doctor) I also used the Writer’s PC to order upgrade parts and for the Woodworker to Browse simpedia. All career rewards were in family storage at the end of the challenge, as required.
On Day 5 the Painter was able to purchase Creative Visionary.
On Day 6 the Painter was able to purchase Marketable.
On Day 7, both Sims reached Level 10 in their skills. This began Phase 2. All painting / All sculpting/ all day all night. Mood Solvers round the clock for the rest of their young adulthood. No more woohoo, no more sleep, no more grilled cheese. Lol.
The Paintings: I learned from a study on this forum that the Surrealism paintings were found to be of the highest value. So my painter painted Surrealism only.
The top 5 highest values were: 16134, 15447, 11513, 11207, 10337
4 of those were the cow with the apple on his nose and one tree with red background.
Sculptures/ All Mascots: 4475, 4381, 4374, 4344, 4328
(I think an interesting twist on this challenge would have been if the sculptures and paintings had to be unique.)
Furniture Replacements:
Mirror 350 (Interesting this is only one not affected by "Marketable")
End Table 513
Dining Chairs 536, 525, 490, 447
Dining Table 1858
Bathtub 4466
Toilet 644
Mood Management: By phase 2 when the valuable stuff was being made, the Sims were Very inspired/ Very Focused all the time. The Painter got inspired by Cloud/Star gazing and admiring art. The Woodworker mainly had to be in his bedroom with all the focusing décor, maybe occasionally studied a crystal or fossil. They got the VERY from renewing their vows every other morning for the +3 happy. (At the park there’s a wedding arch.)
All of this = End lot value of $ 109,259.
Thank-you for the fun challenge.
I am looking forward to reading how I could have done better.
