The Joy of Painting Sunday, 13 January 2008

So Bo Bross only needed to earn $100 000, sell a masterpiece and max his interest in culture.
I Finished it all today. Also I tested the maternity hack where pregnant sims can wear custom clothes. It worked for me. Yay! The catch is to use a MAXIS dresser and no custom ones, nor recolours.
Ok, back to the topic (lol). So my original plan was for Bo to buy a community lot. He bought Little n’ Local that came with OFB in Bluewater Village.

The Joy of Painting Thursday, 3 January 2008

Bo Bross is the target sim.

This is a pretty straight forward challenge. The hard part would be to earn $100 000. Motherlode won’t work since the sim won’t have the memory; if he marries a rich sim, he still won’t have the memory; if he moves in sims and they have jobs, he won’t have the memory… unless they work in his business – HE has to be the owner.

I cheated to max out the creativity skill. Used the sim modder to max the skill, then downed 1 so that he only has to earn 1 skill point to get the memory. I replaced some of the arches in his home with doors, so that they are lockable. He now lives upstairs in one of the en-suite rooms and has sole access to the kitchen/study. I moved all the paintings in the house to the open area where sims can buy them.

He started a home business as a gallery AND a venue. There’s already a gym, telescope, chess table. As he earned money I added a pool table, radio and hot spring (BV). The entrance is set to average, but every time another activity is added, I reset it. So the sales aren’t that good (at expensive), but he built up his sales skill to gold (only silver was needed). While the customers roam around he works on a still life painting. This got him to max out his creativity skill. He sold the painting, but it wasn’t a masterpiece. He’s working on another still life now.

All I still have to do is max his interest in culture and earn $100 000. I thought about how to go about this.

• He can get a high paying job (like military) and hope to get bonus chance cards.
• He can counterfeit money; however this takes long and there’s always the risk of getting caught.
• He can continue his home venue/gallery business, but that will also take too long.

I decided to combine these and make him get a high paying job… just in case. Also he will buy a small shop, build up a lot of customer loyalty, then sell said shop for huge profit. Buy the same shop, or another one. Repeat until he has achieved the objective. I have the 1×1 lots from MTS2, so the shop won’t be too expensive. He’ll eventually run a newsstand where other sims in the challenge neighbourhood can buy magazines to read.