2020 Tournament Finale: Ghost Family

[CynKuy]

Tyrone Powers and his ghosts finished Week 3 Tuesday at 2:58 AM.
22738 Points.

[Nelleam]

The Ghost Makers Club finished Week 3 Friday at 1:14 am, for a score of 26954 minutes.
I had a lot of fun with this.  I don't often kill my sims, and I almost never play with a full household.  Things got very frustrating for the last sim week as I had a lot of bad luck in a row, and ghosts love to break stuff a bit too much, but it was fun.  Thanks for another interesting challenge.

[pinkflamingo1014]

I need help   After I move into someone's house the whole upstairs becomes not playable. Anything I click on upstairs the sims can't get to it. It shows steps above their head and crossed out. I've tried deleting the stairs and reinstalling the stairs. Is there something else that may work?
Thanks

[Teresa]

Definitely sounds like a pathing problem.  Check for any walls with missing doors. Then move them in incremental steps.  Can they get to the bottom of the stairs, do they still have a problem trying to just go to the top of the stairs.  It will take a little investigation to find where the path is blocked. 

[pinkflamingo1014]

Definitely sounds like a pathing problem.  Check for any walls with missing doors. Then move them in incremental steps.  Can they get to the bottom of the stairs, do they still have a problem trying to just go to the top of the stairs.  It will take a little investigation to find where the path is blocked.

No unfortunately they will not use the stairs at all. I just moved into the home so I haven't personally deleted or added anything. I'll keep looking for  something that may be blocking the path. It's so strange. Thanks for the advice

[pinkflamingo1014]

Finn Reaper and his family are all ghosts         
   Week 1 Thursday at 6:40am   
       
   What a fun challenge!!!
 According the Lena's sheet   5680 minutes

[Nandarelle]

Hi challenge team,

quick question:
is it ok to move in Sims through marriage?

[GlazeyLady]

Hi challenge team,

quick question:
is it ok to move in Sims through marriage?

If we were at the beginning of the challenge instead of nearing the end, I would have said yes, and added it to the rule. But we are way down the road now, and others could have done that except that the rules only allow for "Ask to join household" and "Ask to move in". It's really too late to change that rule, but I do apologize for not thinking of that move-in screen before the challenge started.

[Nandarelle]

Thanks, GlazeyLady!
If only I had thought to ask it earlier....

[Nikitachi]

Hi challenge team,

quick question:
is it ok to move in Sims through marriage?

If we were at the beginning of the challenge instead of nearing the end, I would have said yes, and added it to the rule. But we are way down the road now, and others could have done that except that the rules only allow for "Ask to join household" and "Ask to move in". It's really too late to change that rule, but I do apologize for not thinking of that move-in screen before the challenge started.

I am confused now. If, let's say, I added someone through marriage, should I replay my game without doing it?

[Metropolis Man]

Hi challenge team,

quick question:
is it ok to move in Sims through marriage?

If we were at the beginning of the challenge instead of nearing the end, I would have said yes, and added it to the rule. But we are way down the road now, and others could have done that except that the rules only allow for "Ask to join household" and "Ask to move in". It's really too late to change that rule, but I do apologize for not thinking of that move-in screen before the challenge started.

I am confused now. If, let's say, I added someone through marriage, should I replay my game without doing it?

Given Glazey's ruling above, then yes, go ahead and redo your effort if you added someone through marriage.

[GlazeyLady]

Given that the question of moving a sim in through the marriage screen just came up and it's really too late to change the rules, anyone who did that can restart.

[Sruixan]

This may have been the only time I've ever despaired that my sims weren't getting themselves killed. Seriously - between their pixellated brains, a scattering of bugs (one of which I'm pretty sure was a post-patch problem 'cause it sure didn't crop up in practice) and some gaps in my knowledge that revealed themselves when I had to improvise around the aforementioned... yeah, it was absolutely hilarious and great fun to play, make no mistake, but at the same time things got oh-so frustrating...

I'd like to give a shout-out to two of my sims: the first outfoxed three separate methods of death through a combination of ignorance and jamminess before successfully enduring a sequence of events with (to the best of my knowledge) a <1% survival rate, and the other was Casper Mullholland himself, who you would have thought would have been more than willing to snuff it at the first opportunity given that, strictly speaking, this whole shebang was his project, but noooooo... anyway, enough of my griping. For now, I mean. I'd like to have a proper moan when the challenge is over, but at least then I'll be able to provide pictures!

The eighth ethereal member of the Mullholland household was warmly (re)welcomed Wednesday Week 1, 9:08pm, for a final score of 5108 minutes. That's almost 24 hours longer than what I'd estimated it would take me based on prac- okay, okay, I'll quit grousing and go to bed now...

[MomOfMany]

Are we aloud to make the Potion of Plentiful Needs if we don't bottle it and just discard it?

[Metropolis Man]

Are we aloud to make the Potion of Plentiful Needs if we don't bottle it and just discard it?

That's fine. It's using it that is against the rules.