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[coolsim9999999]

Thanks a lot, Metro

[sone]

I have never both loved and hated a challenge so much XD

Final score:
Both toddlers maxed for 300 points
All 6 kids fully maxed their skills, go an A and had all 9 badges for a total of 870
My teens went full ham. All 6 have A's for 90 points, all 6 maxed 4 part-time jobs for a total of 360.

My multiplier is 32.54 [took a long time to add up all the individual skills @-@]
kid 1- 273 skill points [after subtracting 20 for maxed skills]
kid2- 258 skill points [after subtracting 40 for maxed skills]
kid3- 254 skill points [after subtracting 60 for maxed skills]
kid4- 286 skill points [after subtracting 20 for maxed skills]
kid5- 268 skill points [after subtracting 20 for maxed skills]
kid6- 238 skill points [after subtracting 40 for maxed skills]

for a total of 1,577 skill points, 1+[1,577x.02]= 32.54

300+870+360=1,530 points X 32.54 = Total score of 49786.2

Edited to add Spreadsheet gave me a very different score, possibly because of being unsure how to put in maxing out multiple part-time jobs? It also gave me a different multiplier, unsure if it counted some of the maxed skills or not?
Spreadsheet says: multiplier of 33.02, total of 77,266.8

[Metropolis Man]

@sone - I let sdhoey know about your score, so she will verify it later. Grats on a great effort.

[Quirlette]

Hey, not to be weird about the scores or anything, but to my understanding, no one's scores should end in anything other than a 0 or 5 until after the multiplier kicks in because we're not counting levels of skills towards points, only to multipliers, and all the values in the scoring section end in 0 or 5 for points. Also, unless you're counting afterschool activities as jobs, there's no way to score over 990 in the teen column. There's 10 part time jobs and an A grade for each teen, for 6 x 11 x 15, giving 990 for all 6 adoptees.

[sdhoey]

I will be rechecking ALL scores today.

[sone]

There's ten part time jobs? Jeez, I only see 6 with the packs I have. I see Barista, Fast Food, Retail Employee, Babysitter, Manual Labor and Lifeguard; what else does the game have?

[Metropolis Man]

There's ten part time jobs? Jeez, I only see 6 with the packs I have. I see Barista, Fast Food, Retail Employee, Babysitter, Manual Labor and Lifeguard; what else does the game have?

That's for discussion tomorrow after the event ends.

[Nandarelle]

My score (for a classic case of 'started too late'):

toddlers: 300
kids: 665
teen: 30
subtotal: 995

unmaxed skill levels: 121
multiplier: 3,42

score: 3402

[Quirlette]

Finally finished. @___@ This was a rough one:

2 Toddlers x 5 maxed skills x 30 = 300
All 6 children:
4 maxed skills = 480 points
A's=120 points
9 badges = 270 points
Total = 870 points
As teens:
Alana had an A and had maxed 7 part time jobs, for a total of 120 points. She did not max any skills and had 118 unmaxed skills (2.36 multiplier)
Blanca had an A and had maxed 5 part time jobs, for a total of 90 points. She did not max any skills and had 95 unmaxed skills. (1.9 multiplier)
Anita had an A and had maxed 8 part time jobs, for a total of 135 points. She did max 1 skill and had 94 unmaxed skills. (1.88 multiplier)
Khloe had an A and had maxed 5 part time jobs, for a total of 90 points. She maxed 2 skills and had 93 unmaxed skills. (1.86)
Cheryl had an A and had maxed 3 part time jobs, for a total of 60 points. She did not max any skills and had 94 unmaxed skills. (1.88 multiplier)
Hana had a A and had maxed 4 part time jobs, for a total of 75 points. She did max 1 skill and had 105 unmaxed skills. (2.1 multiplier)

In total, I had 570 teen points and a multiplier of 12.98.

300+870+570 * 12.98 = 22585.2

*Sorry, mis-multiplied on the child badges

[Metropolis Man]

Nice score, Quirlette. And welcome to the forum. Thanks for participating in the challenge.

[Quirlette]

Thank you! I've been reading along for years so I'm glad I finally got up the courage to make an account and actually start participating.

[coolsim9999999]

I had fun!  Good luck to everyone finishing up.

[Eighty8Keys]

This was so fun, but I ran out of time. I hope it's okay to post a partial score:

2 Toddlers x 5 maxed skills x 30 = 300

All 6 children:
4 maxed skills = 480 points
A's=120 points
9 badges = 270 points
Total = 870 points

Teens:
Colleen had an A and maxed 1 part time job, for a total of 30 points. She did not max any skills and had 84 unmaxed skills
Grant had an A and maxed 2 part time jobs, for a total of 45 points. He did not max any skills and had 60 unmaxed skills
Ariana had an A and maxed 1 part time job, for a total of 30 points. She did not max any skills and had 53 unmaxed skills
Keira had an A and maxed 1 part time jobs, for a total of 30 points. She did not max any skills and had 62 unmaxed skills
Lorelei had an A and maxed 0 part time jobs, for a total of 15 points. She did not max any skills and had 40 unmaxed skills
Journey had a A and maxed 1 part time jobs, for a total of 30 points. She did not max any skills and had 43 unmaxed skills

Total teen points = 180

Multiplier = 1 + (342 skill levels * .02) = 7.84

(300+870+180) * 7.84 = 10584

The score above is what I get when I calculate it manually. When I plug everything into the spreadsheet my score is 11289.6. I think the difference is in points awarded to the children who get an "A" in school. It's giving them 15 points for the "B" plus 20 points for the "A" instead of just the extra 5 points. That extra 90 points total for the six children, times my 7.84 multiplier equals the 705.6 difference in the two scores.

[techiechick]

I flat ran out of time on this challenge - my family only made it to Week 2, Day 7. My scores:

Toddler 300
Child 870
Teen 330
Multiplier 12.98

for a total score of 19,470.

Oof... Skilling 6 teens at once makes for slooooow gameplay! 🤪

[Metropolis Man]

The score above is what I get when I calculate it manually. When I plug everything into the spreadsheet my score is 11289.6. I think the difference is in points awarded to the children who get an "A" in school. It's giving them 15 points for the "B" plus 20 points for the "A" instead of just the extra 5 points. That extra 90 points total for the six children, times my 7.84 multiplier equals the 705.6 difference in the two scores.

Hmmmm. Interesting. Okay, we'll go with your manual calculation I guess. If sdhoey has time tonight maybe she can verify if that cell in the spreadsheet is doing something funky.