Death & Taxes

[TimSim101]

Thought I'd give it a go even though I don't like Sims 4 in comparison to 3 and 2 and I admit, I did have a lot of fun until Don Crump kicked the bucket himself. I'll also save a question I have until the event finishes.

DNF

[Metropolis Man]

Thought I'd give it a go even though I don't like Sims 4 in comparison to 3 and 2 and I admit, I did have a lot of fun until Don Crump kicked the bucket himself. I'll also save a question I have until the event finishes.

DNF

Thanks for diving in, @TimSim101 -- I see your last event was the Knit Wits one back at the end of 2020. So, nice to see you back.

[Metropolis Man]

All done. My brain hurts from computing my score *glares at @mismck 

Lot value: 61298 X 15% = 91947

Household funds: 2,157,239 X .37 = 798178.43

Total taxes -- 91947 + 798178.43 = 890125.43

I was only able to see 6 unique deaths and got the tombstones too -- TUM = 6 X .20 = 1.20 = 1.00 + 1.20 = 2.20

Final score= 890125.43 X 2.20 = 1,958,275

[mismck]

I’m so proud of you @Metropolis Man for doing math!

[Nandarelle]

Ursula Slager made many friends, but also lost a lot of them.

Household funds: §6,035,683 => §2,233,202 tax
Lot value: §1,500 => §225 tax
Total tax: §2,233,427

Unique deaths: 22
Multiplier: 5.40
Score: 12,060,509

[mismck]

All done. My brain hurts from computing my score *glares at @mismck 

Lot value: 61298 X 15% = 91947

Household funds: 2,157,239 X .37 = 798178.43

Total taxes -- 91947 + 798178.43 = 890125.43

I was only able to see 6 unique deaths and got the tombstones too -- TUM = 6 X .20 = 1.20 = 1.00 + 1.20 = 2.20

Final score= 890125.43 X 2.20 = 1,958,275

Updating your score:
Lot value: 61298 X 15% = 9194.7
Household funds: 2,157,239 X .37 = 798178.43
Total taxes -- 9194.7 + 798178.43 = 807373.13
6 unique deaths and got the tombstones too -- TUM = 6 X .20 = 1.20 = 1.00 + 1.20 = 2.20

Final score= 807373.13 X 2.20 = 1,776,220

[Vesper]

Yikes that's a time-consuming challenge. So much fun.

Lot value 10,522
Funds: 4,285,756
Taxes: 1,578 + 1,585,729 = 1,587,307
Tombstones from unique deaths: 14. TUM = 3.8

Total = 6,031,766

Hope I've done the maths right. It's close to midnight and am hurrying to submit.

[Metropolis Man]

Hope I've done the maths right. It's close to midnight and am hurrying to submit.

I double-checked. Looks good (but, my double-checking will undoubtedly be double checked lol). Glad you had fun.

[Eighty8Keys]

Lot value: 1,500 X 15% = 225
Household funds: 1,877,292 X .37 = 694,598
Total taxes -- 225 + 694,598 = 694,823
10 unique deaths with tombstones -- TUM = 10 X .20 = 2.0 + 1.0 = 3.0

Final score= 694,823 X 3.0 = 2,084,469

[mismck]

Great Scores Everybody!!!
I had very little human time so was only able to play a partial Sim week (and had virtually no plan).

Lot value: 2284 X 15% = 342.6 Property Tax
Household funds: 2,388,790 X 37% = 883852.3 Income Tax
Total taxes -- 342.6 + 883852.3 = 884194.9
7 unique deaths and tombstones -- TUM = 7 X .20 = 1.40 + 1.00 = 2.40

Final score= 884194.9 X 2.40 = 2,122,067

[SueDenim]

Wow.
I thought I had a great idea - but looking at the scores, I did not do well at all.  I had to stop early, but more time wouldn't have helped the score much.


Lot: 441,897
Household funds: 1,586,102
Tombstones: 12

Total:1,567,541

[Metropolis Man]

Wow.
I thought I had a great idea - but looking at the scores, I did not do well at all.  I had to stop early, but more time wouldn't have helped the score much.


Lot: 441,897
Household funds: 1,586,102
Tombstones: 12

Total:1,567,541

@SueDenim -- your score shows no taxes so I needed to attempt to come up with what your score should be. Let me know if I am wrong.

Lot value: 441,897 X 15% = 66284.55 property tax
Household funds: 1,586,102 X 37% = 586857.74 income tax
Total taxes -- 66284.55 + 586587.74 = 653142.29
12 tombstones (we'll assume these are all unique deaths) = 12 X .20 = 2.40 + 1.00 = 3.40

Final score = 653142.29 X 3.40 = 2,220,683

[Metropolis Man]

This challenge is now closed.

Several players mentioned that this was a tough one, and I agree. But, very fun, nonetheless. My thanks to @mismck  for putting this event together. Grats to Nandarelle on the win. This is her 2nd win of this season. Everyone is now free to discuss their strategy.

[Vesper]

Congrats to Nandarelle and her amazing score.

There was a lot of things to strategise about with this one. My suspiciously named sim Notta Killer (and I) couldn't handle too much chaos/ micromanaging so prioritised making money by moving in rich sims (Judith Ward and Father Winter were the MVPs here), getting them 5000 satisfaction points by completing Fabulously wealthy immediately plus researching vampire info online for Master vampire and using this for a money tree seed. It actually would have been more profitable to get everyone connections and cycle through the rewards but I didn't remember how long the trees took to grow, it seemed slow even in a micro home. There was also some painting and flower arranging.

A great discovery I wished I'd found earlier was that you can reuse your death flower scented bouquet for a quick murder. I would have worked on this unique death type earlier had I realised. In any event I helped extra sims out of the household by aging them up to elder with many cakes and then letting them woohoo to exhaustion. Luna Villareal managed to tire out Alexander Goth and then Cassandra in turn

Death types I missed out on: couldn't get vending machine to pop which was disappointing. Also missed freezing due to real life time constraints. Considering how quick my sim in the last challenge died from laughter it took AGES this time. I even had a sim get hysterical then somehow move down to Very Playful when in a playfully decorated room, watching comedy and participating in a hilarious conversation. Lots of death types were new to me as I haven't played like this for many years, maybe since Sims 2. Not sure I can pick a favourite but enjoyed Rabid Rodent Fever a lot.

The whole challenge was chaotic and hilarious and I wish I'd had more time to play it through.

[SueDenim]

Wow.
I thought I had a great idea - but looking at the scores, I did not do well at all.  I had to stop early, but more time wouldn't have helped the score much.


Lot: 441,897
Household funds: 1,586,102
Tombstones: 12

Total:1,567,541

@SueDenim -- your score shows no taxes so I needed to attempt to come up with what your score should be. Let me know if I am wrong.

Lot value: 441,897 X 15% = 66284.55 property tax
Household funds: 1,586,102 X 37% = 586857.74 income tax
Total taxes -- 66284.55 + 586587.74 = 653142.29
12 tombstones (we'll assume these are all unique deaths) = 12 X .20 = 2.40 + 1.00 = 3.40

Final score = 653142.29 X 3.40 = 2,220,683

Thanks!  I forgot to add the 1 to my multiplier.  They were all unique deaths.  It only occurred to me after this morning that I could have used non-unique deaths for profit.

(Strategy that I thought was brilliant - move in with Judith to get lot value. Move in other people with expensive houses and sell those.
High/low points - moving in Moody & McMillan to get gardening 10 to get death flowers & cow plant berries, then killing one through exhaustion and the other through the death flower bouquet.
- completely failing any of the emotional deaths. apparently, being stuck in a celebrity house, having a bladder accident, having someone walk in on you while you're showering, then playing violin badly while being watched isn't enough to become mortified.  And you can stay alive several hours in hysteria sometimes.
- 3 separate sims lived through fire.  As in, trapped in a small room with flammable objects and ALL OF THE OBJECTS burned up around them, but they remained unscathed while all the housemates watched them, traumatized.
- trapped the Roswells in a mini-house with everything they needed - except a kitchen.  They also had a cow-plant, which they didn't need, but did entertain them before she starved to death.  His needs got reset every time he got possessed (I wasn't expecting that.  He wasn't expecting the cow-plant.  So, fair enough.)
- drowning always works.  Murphy beds follow Murphy's law and only go wrong when you don't want them to)