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Build-n-Share Challenge # 27 - Two builds!!! Rags-to-riches
Thread for this week’s challenge: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/152682.page
This Week’s Challenge Specifics:
“…I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from my home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person in the place, and with very little money in my pocket.”
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
The “rags-to-riches” myth is a core story in many cultures. When he left his hometown of Boston, the young Benjamin Franklin arrived in New York “fatigued with travel, rowing, and want of rest.” He writes, “I was very hungry; and my whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar, and a about a shilling in copper.” But by the end of his life, Franklin’s name was one known around the world as a printer, scientist, writer, and diplomat. Through hard work, and his famous plan for “Arriving at Moral Perfection,” Franklin was one of America’s first self-made men.
Over the next two weeks, you will create a sim to reach this purpose…to start with nearly nothing and to rise slowly through his/her own stubborn effort day in and day out.
This challenge consists of two builds. The first is a legacy home. If you are unfamiliar with the Legacy Challenge, please check out Pinstar’s AMAZING challenge: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/39862.page. If you enjoy your work this week, you should definitely give the Legacy Challenge a try. You might even use your sim from this week as your founder!
The legacy home should be built immediately and will be the only lot your sim will ever live on (at least during the course of our challenge). It should be built on a 60x60 lot at either 15 Summer Hill Court for Sunset Valley or 345 Riverblossom Drive in Riverview, per Pinstar's requirements. With the home built, the total cost must not exceed 16K, the amount given a single starting sim in Sims 3. This leaves you about $1300 to build your home. This is not much, but it can be done! At the very least, for our purposes, you must include the following: a bed, a fridge, and a toilet. I would also strongly suggest an indoor light for your sim’s happiness. It won’t be beautiful, but it will be livable, and that’s what you’re looking for right now.
Next, create your sim. You can assign attributes any way you wish. Move your sim in and upload the occupied lot to the Exchange. Please link this lot here so we can rec it.
Over the next two weeks, work to achieve your sim’s dream. Because this is a building challenge, work to create the best home you can with all the money your sim gains by natural means (NO CHEATS ALLOWED!). You may not restart if something bad happens (ie. getting fired) unless the sim dies. You may move in a sim through marriage. No moving people in and out for money. Once they are there, they will stay in the home until their NATURAL death.
At the end of the two weeks, upload your home and family to the Exchange. On your official entry form, please include links to the original starter and your “final” legacy home. Please note the age of your founding sim, or if he or she has passed on (if you’ve played a bit more and he/she died of natural causes), note the sim’s age at death AND how many days passed since that time. Additionally, please include the household value at the time of upload. The purpose of this is to gain a point of comparison amongst the entries to see whose sim has made it the farthest, achieving the rags-to-riches dream!
Winners: The legacy starters will be judged by our three level judges. The final legacy homes will be voted on by the Builders’ Boulevard community on the Yahoo! Group. The “winner” of the challenge itself will be the simmer whose sim has made the most gains. If there is a large disparity in time played, we may create categories to allow for a bit more fairness in the polls.
Addict
Additional Challenges:
Document the development of your legacy home with a story. ***HIGHLY ENCOURAGED!***
Share the story of your sim’s success.
Create homes for any of your sim’s offspring.
(Be sure to share links to these creations as well so we can rec them!)
Official Entry List
Beginner
Amy Valkyrie
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1791658
Final:
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=152814
Final:
FleshJenn
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1809659
Final:
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=152963
Final: http://fleshjenn.wordpress.com/justin-starts-a-bns-challenge/
hazentw
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1791867
Final:
Link to media:
Starter:
Final:
JadedCat1983
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1790881
Final:
Link to media:
Starter:coming soon
Final:
Rawla
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1813455
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849097
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=155051
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=155051
Intermediate
amchristian
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1775567
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849333
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=150920
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=158117
ciaracaff
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1779736
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849505
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=151604
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=158152
Desine77
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1792990
Final:
Link to media:
Starter: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/0/139517.page#1829294
Final:
LandaX
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1784272
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1847814
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=152029
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=157971
Optional Challenge:
Chapter 1 - http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=152057
Chapter 2 - http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=157375
Linday
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1776977#
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1848117
Link to media:
Starter: http://img46.imageshack.us/slideshow/player.php?id=img46/5112/1
262248860tbt.smil
Final: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/60/135517.page
Optional Challenge:
http://lotsoflinday.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/from-rags-to-riches/
lizjordanuk
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1809319
Final:
Link to media:
Starter: http://s752.photobucket.com/albums/xx163/lizjordan...20and%20Share%2031%20and%2032/
Final:
mryjn1976
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1781715
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1841593
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=151687
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=157316
Racncone123
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1781754
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1846180
Link to media:
Starter:
Final: http://racncone.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/the-rose-...d-n-share-legacy-lot-part-one/
Sherry1968
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1836911
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849310
Link to media:
Starter: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/158906.page#1882131
Final: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/15/158906.page#1896870
Tamlyn
Link to the posted assets:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1818072
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849569
Link to media:
Starter
Final: http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c157/nylmat/Sims...tion=view¤t=8318573d.pbw
Advanced
TFBob
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1778250
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1846203
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=151184
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=157834
Results:
Beginner - Judge: Robodl95 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/690/47204.page
1st place - Hazentw
2nd place – FleshJenn
Intermediate - Judge: lkadas http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/720/47204.page
1st Sherry1968
2nd Linday
3rd amchristian
Advanced - Judge: Kitkat7145 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/675/47204.page
1st place - TFBob
Thread for this week’s challenge: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/152682.page
This Week’s Challenge Specifics:
“…I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from my home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person in the place, and with very little money in my pocket.”
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
The “rags-to-riches” myth is a core story in many cultures. When he left his hometown of Boston, the young Benjamin Franklin arrived in New York “fatigued with travel, rowing, and want of rest.” He writes, “I was very hungry; and my whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar, and a about a shilling in copper.” But by the end of his life, Franklin’s name was one known around the world as a printer, scientist, writer, and diplomat. Through hard work, and his famous plan for “Arriving at Moral Perfection,” Franklin was one of America’s first self-made men.
Over the next two weeks, you will create a sim to reach this purpose…to start with nearly nothing and to rise slowly through his/her own stubborn effort day in and day out.
This challenge consists of two builds. The first is a legacy home. If you are unfamiliar with the Legacy Challenge, please check out Pinstar’s AMAZING challenge: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/39862.page. If you enjoy your work this week, you should definitely give the Legacy Challenge a try. You might even use your sim from this week as your founder!
The legacy home should be built immediately and will be the only lot your sim will ever live on (at least during the course of our challenge). It should be built on a 60x60 lot at either 15 Summer Hill Court for Sunset Valley or 345 Riverblossom Drive in Riverview, per Pinstar's requirements. With the home built, the total cost must not exceed 16K, the amount given a single starting sim in Sims 3. This leaves you about $1300 to build your home. This is not much, but it can be done! At the very least, for our purposes, you must include the following: a bed, a fridge, and a toilet. I would also strongly suggest an indoor light for your sim’s happiness. It won’t be beautiful, but it will be livable, and that’s what you’re looking for right now.
Next, create your sim. You can assign attributes any way you wish. Move your sim in and upload the occupied lot to the Exchange. Please link this lot here so we can rec it.
Over the next two weeks, work to achieve your sim’s dream. Because this is a building challenge, work to create the best home you can with all the money your sim gains by natural means (NO CHEATS ALLOWED!). You may not restart if something bad happens (ie. getting fired) unless the sim dies. You may move in a sim through marriage. No moving people in and out for money. Once they are there, they will stay in the home until their NATURAL death.
At the end of the two weeks, upload your home and family to the Exchange. On your official entry form, please include links to the original starter and your “final” legacy home. Please note the age of your founding sim, or if he or she has passed on (if you’ve played a bit more and he/she died of natural causes), note the sim’s age at death AND how many days passed since that time. Additionally, please include the household value at the time of upload. The purpose of this is to gain a point of comparison amongst the entries to see whose sim has made it the farthest, achieving the rags-to-riches dream!
Winners: The legacy starters will be judged by our three level judges. The final legacy homes will be voted on by the Builders’ Boulevard community on the Yahoo! Group. The “winner” of the challenge itself will be the simmer whose sim has made the most gains. If there is a large disparity in time played, we may create categories to allow for a bit more fairness in the polls.
Addict
Additional Challenges:
Document the development of your legacy home with a story. ***HIGHLY ENCOURAGED!***
Share the story of your sim’s success.
Create homes for any of your sim’s offspring.
(Be sure to share links to these creations as well so we can rec them!)
Official Entry List
Beginner
Amy Valkyrie
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1791658
Final:
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=152814
Final:
FleshJenn
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1809659
Final:
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=152963
Final: http://fleshjenn.wordpress.com/justin-starts-a-bns-challenge/
hazentw
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1791867
Final:
Link to media:
Starter:
Final:
JadedCat1983
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1790881
Final:
Link to media:
Starter:coming soon
Final:
Rawla
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1813455
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849097
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=155051
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=155051
Intermediate
amchristian
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1775567
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849333
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=150920
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=158117
ciaracaff
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1779736
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849505
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=151604
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=158152
Desine77
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1792990
Final:
Link to media:
Starter: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/0/139517.page#1829294
Final:
LandaX
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1784272
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1847814
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=152029
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=157971
Optional Challenge:
Chapter 1 - http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=152057
Chapter 2 - http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=157375
Linday
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1776977#
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1848117
Link to media:
Starter: http://img46.imageshack.us/slideshow/player.php?id=img46/5112/1
262248860tbt.smil
Final: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/60/135517.page
Optional Challenge:
http://lotsoflinday.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/from-rags-to-riches/
lizjordanuk
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1809319
Final:
Link to media:
Starter: http://s752.photobucket.com/albums/xx163/lizjordan...20and%20Share%2031%20and%2032/
Final:
mryjn1976
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1781715
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1841593
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=151687
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=157316
Racncone123
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1781754
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1846180
Link to media:
Starter:
Final: http://racncone.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/the-rose-...d-n-share-legacy-lot-part-one/
Sherry1968
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1836911
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849310
Link to media:
Starter: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/158906.page#1882131
Final: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/15/158906.page#1896870
Tamlyn
Link to the posted assets:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1818072
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1849569
Link to media:
Starter
Final: http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c157/nylmat/Sims...tion=view¤t=8318573d.pbw
Advanced
TFBob
Link to the posted asset:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1778250
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1846203
Link to media:
Starter: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=151184
Final: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=157834
Results:
Beginner - Judge: Robodl95 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/690/47204.page
1st place - Hazentw
2nd place – FleshJenn
Intermediate - Judge: lkadas http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/720/47204.page
1st Sherry1968
2nd Linday
3rd amchristian
Advanced - Judge: Kitkat7145 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/675/47204.page
1st place - TFBob
