"Karritz;c-16123561" wrote:
Thanks. I thought I read somewhere that you can't buy the gnomes at the festival or anywhere else. You just have to find them. I'll try buying one and see what happens. Might wait to see if one turns up first. I had the winter gnome turn up in my McFluff save in Hidden Springs but none showed in the current save.
I have, on many occasions in many different games, made as many snowmen and igloos and snow angels as could fit in a yard and still no winter gnome has showed up. But they can just appear when I've made nothing. The first time I got a summer gnome I wondered what it was just standing beside the mail box. But having endless bar-b-ques has never convinced one to show up in any of my games.
This time I have the seasons set to only 7 days so I suspect there will be more than one of each season before I get them to make 300 elixirs.
I thought I'd just get them to use their own elixirs on themselves to get the Self-Saving badge.
I usually an inundated with the spring gnomes but didn't get one until the very last egg she collected on the last day of Spring and there were no more eggs there to be found. I generally get them just showing up. They seem to breed like rabbits once one of them appears.
I haven't tried the tanning booth. I have had a sim suntanned a few times by lying out in the sun but I've always been too busy to maintain their tan. Maybe I'll buy them a tanning booth. I never use them.
I've been putting off the parties because they are still establishing their home. I will be adding a pool to a basement I suspect. But I could probably put one in ground for the Summer as Summer has just started in this game. I think they should start having parties this time round the seasons. So I guess it's a pool party for Summer. It seems weird to me having the Christmas type party in the winter as it is always the hottest time of the year where I live and everyone goes to the beach or the pool and has bar-b-ques outdoors. Or stays indoors in the air conditioning if possible.
Regarding "Seasonal Gnomes", there's always at least one on the map somewhere. At set hours, it teleports somewhere, likely somewere near a seasonal interaction took place. Like most magical gnomes, if your sim is on the same lot, you can drag the "Gnome" and drop it on your sim it becomes yours. However, they may be well hidden, and since big families can generate a very large amount of "festival tickets" while having fun on the "festival grounds", and "tickets" can be moved from a sim's inventory to another sims', "redeeming" tickets to purchase the gnome is easier.
Regarding "Elixirs", I remember couple challenges help a lot. At one point, your sims start making more elixirs at every brew, and at another time, each elixirs made refunds some of it's raw material for reuse, both boni being enhanced some more by a "Witch" sim.. Helps a lot making the required 300, though it still take a lot of time. So, well, have a "Witch" attend the "Elixir" class at the "Vault of Antiquity" and then just brew... You might also consider having that sim "register as self-employed" "elixir maker"...
