Sunset Valley: Attack of the Clones!

[Metropolis Man]

But if you don't mind, maybe you can explain to me how to make so much money in such a short time

Sure thing...tomorrow. I can almost promise you that most of the top players employed the same trick. We'll see.

[Orange Iguana]

What's mind blowing to me is how some players got so many happiness points to buy all the necessary Clone Vouchers in such a short time. Oh, well...

What's mind blowing to me is how the winners managed to acquire the money necessary to buy everything and finish in 13 days. Happiness points was the easy part. Tomorrow cannot come fast enough.

[gracieoscar]

I started this challenge late so never expected to finish on time, but yeah I'll have to be a DNF on this one. I'm still going to keep going, but I haven't gotten any of the unmentionables figured out, so I'm expecting it to be maybe 75 days or so.

Congratulations to everyone who managed it in such a short time!

[ClayMask]

I gotta say that the getting the happiness points to finish in 13 days took more effort than the money.  I'll explain my strategy for both tomorrow whether I am a winner or not.

[Odie]

I gotta say that the getting the happiness points to finish in 13 days took more effort than the money.  I'll explain my strategy for both tomorrow whether I am a winner or not.

If you have enough money from the start, getting enough happiness points would be possible in about 7 days, depending of course on how many homes you've got to fill. To me you are a winner already! I would love to hear from you tomorrow

[tara1727]

DNF because my time is up. I was on week 4 day 2 with and needed to move out 16 more clones. Money was not an issue. Congrats to all who finished, looking forward to learning the winning strategy and 'the unmentionables'.

[Esther1981]

Congratulations to all the ones that actually finished! And congratulations on the ones that had DNF, at least you tried!!  I was doing good until Showtime came out and the dumb patch, and I didn't get Showtime til this month. I know, I could have tried again because I'm fully patched now, but nah DNF sounds good to me.  Can't wait til tomorrow so I can read the strategy! Only one way I know of to get that amount of LHP in that short of time lol hopefully I can read another one! 

[Anhysbys]

Finished - finally - on week 7 day 6.

I make that 48 days, but since one of the main problems I was having towards the end was keeping the numbers straight, I wouldn't swear to it.

[smartburn]

Aaarrgh, I feel like that lady in the Mervyn's commercial from the 80s/90s ("open! open! open!")! I figured out the money part of it, but the points, holy bananas the points...I need to know!

[Caterina]

I had the money thing figured out too.  Even if I had the points part figured out, I still am a bit lost on how to age everyone up and get them out of the house to make room for the new clones.  It seems to me that that would have taken some time.  I hope the winner addresses how they managed that in their strategy post.    I can't wait till tomorrow to find out.

[Odie]

Isn't it already "tomorrow"?! Don't know about the rest of the world, but here it is 11.28 on the 23rd
By the way Metro, Esther1981 is twice on the leaderboard.

[Metropolis Man]

That a wrap! Congratulations to both winners — Nutella and Claymask — for their fantastic score of 13. Well done. Great job to all participants who at least gave this challenge a try. It was not easy was it?  At least I certainly did not think so. Whew. Pretty tough is more like it. Getting the money for me though was just a question of quickly skilling up a guitarist, then getting around 100 performances down via the "I won't if you will" song that cancels out but still registers the performances and then tossing him down in a subway to play for tips. But the huge amount of happiness points for the vouchers is certainly what kept me out of the running.

Nutella and Claymask — just explain your strategies right here in this thread if you want instead of PMing me. I will link here in the HOF feature post. Grats again.

[lvrugger]

I think I know their strategy, but I'll give mine. If I had done a test run I could have cut out at least a week to ten days.
I did the guitar thing like Metro, but with 2 instead of 1. All of the sims and clones got the "swimming in cash" lifetime wish. With ambitious, that's worth 40,000. Only need 5,000 more to get the voucher. If the clone did not get ambitious then I tutored him to an "a" in school then aged him up and picked it. If he did get ambitious, then I immediately aged him to teen. One of the stay-at-home sims would teach the teen how to drive for an easy 2,500 points. It was easy to get them the other 2,500 quickly - between maxed happiness bars and other wishes. As soon as they learned to drive they were aged up to young adult and given the LTW of "swimming in cash." Unfortunately, you can't use a cake twice in the same day, so there was an occasional delay. The two sims playing guitar in the subway could knock out $50,000 in a short time. The clone would go get their clone made and move out.
How I could have been faster:
- Only have one guitarist and have moved out the other one to open up a spot so I could be running 4 clones at a time instead of 3
- Buying items worth $50,000 and storing them in family inventory then selling them to grant the LTW.
- Not picking traits so the clones only had 3 traits and had to get ambitious when they were made. That or picking two traits not available to children.
- Being careful with picking my rewards. I ended up with a motive mobile instead of a clone voucher once and that slowed me down quite a bit.
- Being careful and not watching other things - I had a child clone die at his cake when it caught on fire and I didn't notice since I was watching TV, too.

[MarianT]

Of course! Obviously if each of your originals only has 3 traits, their clones will have to have the same 3 traits, so you'll always get ambitious. Now why didn't I think of that? (Don't answer.)

[Chuckles_82]

The Kamino family all performed roughly 50 songs before going to play for tips (more if I could fit them in). They get wishes to earn specific amounts of tips, and those, plus a few easy random ones, like buy bunkbeds, made up the extra happiness points needed to get each sim swimming in cash LTW. I didn't think about giving them 3 traits that kids could have, and didn't bother with tutoring them. I moved out whichever sims had already bought a clone and had the least number of performances under their belt, whilst leaving the rest to play for tips at the subway. I don't know where I seem to have lost a day, but if I had showtime I would have had 2 more properties, and hence 2 less clones to move out. All in all, I think I did the best possible score with my combination of EPs so I'm quite happy with a tie for second

Initially when I first started practicing I found a glitch where you could join the architect career and go to a renovation, and when you go into build mode, the job would disappear. You could demolish their house and have all the funds go into your own account! A great way to get fast money, and then of course, do the reno properly, and build them a house with the absolute basics. Super cheap to buy for all sims then, too! However, this way took much too long to accomplish, and in the end money wasn't an issue. I did have a lot of fun practicing as the 'evil architect' though!