Career Caps and New Digs

[Metropolis Man]

Career Caps and New Digs

Goal
Your two Sims strive to live in nicer and more luxurious homes as they hit the cap in standard rabbit-hole careers, self-employment careers, and professions. Lots of restrictions in this event, so read the rules carefully. Ready to get your career on?

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

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create 2 Young Adult Sims.
• No Sims may be added to the household, BUT...
• No restrictions on pets.
• Each Sim is allowed 3 vacations — length is up to you. If both Sims go on vacation that counts as one vacation for each.
• You can only move if one of your Sims reaches lvl 10 in a standard rabbit-hole career, self-employment career, or a profession (Level 5 in the Daycare profession is fine).
• All qualifying career/professions must be unique — i.e. only one Sim could max the self-employed fisherman career.
• Treat careers with two branches (i.e. Criminal and Music) as being unique careers.
• Each move must be to a different pre-existing empty house (you cannot build on empty lots) and any house you move into must have a greater value than the house you’re moving out of. You’ll find your house’s value in the lower left portion of the Move screen. Check out the Moving Article on the Guide for more detailed info. Always make sure you select the Sell Furniture button in the Move screen.
• You may never enter Build mode.
• Each Sim may only buy a total of 2 items per house. These must come from either Buy Mode or a register.
• Nothing in any house or on any lot can be changed/moved with the exception of the two items each Sim can buy from Buy Mode and/or a register.
• Any reward object must always remain in family inventory (if a Lifetime Happiness Reward is one of your Sims' bought items, they can be placed/used).
• This challenges at Week 12, Day 7, 11:59 PM.

Scoring
When you move make sure to note the house value of each house you are moving out of. Again, that info is in the lower left portion of the Move screen. You’ll also need to jot down the value of the last home you live in when the clock runs out. Add all of these together for your House Value score.

Cap Mult. The cap multplier score is based on how many total career and profession caps your two Sims hit. Everyone starts with a Cap Mult of 1.00. For each career or profession cap your Sims hit, add 10% (.10) to your Cap Mult.

Here’s an example: You get to Week 12, Day 7, 11:59 PM and you pause your game. The total value of all homes your Sims have lived in is $1,200,576. At the end your Sims were also able to max 13 unique careers/professions. Your Cap Mult score is 13 X .10 = 1.30. You start with 1.00 and add 1.30 = 2.30.

$1,200,567 X 2.30 = $2,761,304.1 (always drop the decimals)

Final Total = $2,761,304

This Event is Now Closed

Final Leaderboard

Player	House Value	Cap Mult	Total
drift9999	10200096	3.30	33660316
GlazeyLady	6686320	2.40	16047168
LenaLJ	50001285	3.00	15003855
lvrugger	3226114	3.40	10986787
BellaClo	3215352	3.40	10932197
MarianT	3441106	2.80	9635096
Chuckles_82	2845796	3.20	9106547
Metropolis Man	3100928	2.90	8992691
annieb	2922354	2.50	7305885
klop90	2902792	1.90	5515305
Precious5881	1947986	2.30	4480367
ratchie	1521588	2.90	4412605
nocturnalie	1969323	2.00	3938646
Anhysbys	1678526	2.30	3860609
CynKuy	1399320	2.00	2798650
Wench	1235450	2.20	2717990
alyssa.cole	1051153	2.50	2627882
Jazzie	1311917	1.90	2492642
iCastl	1237025	2.00	2474050
mismck	1097987	2.10	2305772
SassySimmer	1075319	2.10	2258169
cndneh	1161850	1.90	2207515
Jinx13	996924	2.10	2093540
Nandiara	1082203	1.90	2056185
Joria	1016564	2.00	2033128
rahmbr	879236	2.30	2022242
Noocherenee	882562	2.10	1853380
sdhoey	1090095	1.70	1853161
Sushi101	881918	2.00	1763836
Sportsfan	955974	1.80	1720753
smastbrook	827920	2.00	1655840
sethelD93	1070702	1.40	1498982
icrawbeans	784454	1.90	1490462
Irene Croft	962863	1.50	1444294
themuffinman406	744544	1.90	1414633
Nashee	723105	1.90	1373899
Teresa	691310	1.70	1175227
datzme0687	698922	1.50	1048383
kearn76	504852	1.90	959218
kris1079	560920	1.70	953564
Cugi-teri	522137	1.70	887632
happystayathomemom	415225	1.80	747405
Blyss680	421686	1.60	674697
Catarra Nightshade	346639	1.70	589286
Zelena Curious	317622	1.60	508195
tronella	330798	1.50	496197
abbellire	261859	1.80	471346
lynyeld	299926	1.30	389903
rubywyld	180439	1.60	288702
MomofMany	133700	1.30	173810

[CreativeCrayola]

Jeesh, this looks really hard! Can't wait to try it 

[cathyknits]

Just to make sure I'm clear on a couple things:

1) "Nothing in any house or on any lot can be changed/moved with the exception of the two items each Sim can buy." implies that sculptures, paintings, inventions, and books created by the sims must be either sold immediately or placed in inventory rather than placed in the house - or does it rule out those skills altogether? Likewise, is the Gardening skill therefore off limits?

2) Does the restriction on buying items at the grocery store extend to cooking ingredients? If so, is it also not permitted to use the refrigerator to cook meals that have a price tag on them (which represents the cost of ingredients you don't have on hand)?

[SimPoseyYum]

Would you believe, in all the time I've been Sims3-ing, I've never used a pre-existing house?  Every one of my families has ALWAYS built their own.  Not only that, but I've never moved house.  I did have a family purchase a new lot and build on it (first and last time I ever did that), but even then, they built their own.

Buying pre-existing and moving to pre-existing will be totally new experiences for me.  Looks like I have some practicing to do before January .

[Metropolis Man]

Just to make sure I'm clear on a couple things:

1) "Nothing in any house or on any lot can be changed/moved with the exception of the two items each Sim can buy." implies that sculptures, paintings, inventions, and books created by the sims must be either sold immediately or placed in inventory rather than placed in the house - or does it rule out those skills altogether? Likewise, is the Gardening skill therefore off limits?

No, you can definitely do thing like painting, sculpting, inventing, writing, etc — but none of the end products can be placed in your home or left in your home. They all need to be sold. Otherwise, you'd be violating the "changing" of the house/lot rule. What I'm trying to force players to do is deal with whatever a house/lot has initially and not make any changes at all (except for the 2 allotted items bought).

2) Does the restriction on buying items at the grocery store extend to cooking ingredients? If so, is it also not permitted to use the refrigerator to cook meals that have a price tag on them (which represents the cost of ingredients you don't have on hand)?

Yeah, I remember this came up last year and I think I simply said that cooking ingredients were an exception (store bought or from the fridge). Does that sound good to you?

[Metropolis Man]

Buying pre-existing and moving to pre-existing will be totally new experiences for me.

Awesome. I love to hear that. That's what the challenges are all about — stretching your playing in new ways.

[cathyknits]

Okay. That would still seem to rule out Gardening, then, unless you limited it to two items/Sim/lot starting from store-bought produce, since that would be adding, say, a tomato plant where previously there was none, and that plant would be left behind when you moved.

[cathyknits]

In other news: a rough draft of a spreadsheet is here (Google Docs) - constructive criticism and feedback welcome.

[Metropolis Man]

@cathyknits — I needed to edit out the last sentence of your post above. I'm assuming I do not need to explain why. Remember: never give players ideas of what they might be able to do.

[cathyknits]

Whoops. Sorry.

[SimPoseyYum]

Wait, now that i think back some more, I must have used a pre-existing house once; I don't think  you can do the tutorial without it.  The tutorial forces you to buy a house so they can guide you through how houses work.  And one of my young adults bought a condo in Bridgeport.  But other than that, I've built.  So this challenge will be a 99.9999% new experience for me .

Regarding the 2 items rule: how does that work with consumables, such as recipes or music scores?

[Metropolis Man]

Regarding the 2 items rule: how does that work with consumables, such as recipes or music scores?

Great point. Those should be an additional exception.

[MarianT]

You say there's no restrictions on pets, but to own a cat you need a food bowl, scratching post, and litter box, and toys and a bed are nice, too. Are the pets allowed 2 items each, or are their paraphernalia another exception?

[Metropolis Man]

You say there's no restrictions on pets, but to own a cat you need a food bowl, scratching post, and litter box, and toys and a bed are nice, too. Are the pets allowed 2 items each, or are their paraphernalia another exception?

No. Pet paraphernalia is not another exception. It you want the company of pets, then you'll need to think hard about it because it will eat into your 2 item allotment. On the one hand I did not want to ban pets because how else would someone attempt the horseman career if I did? But, I also really want to make that 2 item rule strict. And for those of you that did the House Hunters Challenge last year, I'm actually loosening up — for that event it was one item per house.

[simfulicious]

So each sim gets to purchase two items per house = 4 items total.  Do these items have to stay with the house when they move, or do they get to keep them for the next house?