The Adam And Eve Challenge

I_am_bean wrote:
Here is the world I'm using and I highly recommend it. I'm using the version in the post, at the bottom, that has all the lots but is just an empty world:

Forum Post:
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/427474.page


DL link (has all lots emptied)
http://www.mediafire.com/?na9tcfy5yeat4gx

I decided to try this challenge and downloaded Sunset Valley 2. Thanks for the suggestion it looks like it will be perfect. I've created Adam and Eve Gardener and named the town Garden Valley.

I plan to follow most of the rules but not all. I don't plan to use cheats after the initial setup but I do plan to keep my mods. Relativity allows more things to be done in a day and if this was a competition that would be a cheat but since I'm using this as a play guide I'm keeping Relativity and my other mods. I will roll random traits for the first 2 when the babies are born but then the next 3 (when they age up to child, teen and young adult)I will pick according to their zodiac sign. If I pick up special seeds and they turn out to be money trees I will keep the plants as an added source of income (not sure if that is according to strict legacy rules are not).

The only other change is how I'm spending the initial $500,000 and how many generations I will play. I can not see me lasting for 50 generations and it won't take me that long to build the town since I'm not limiting to one community building per generation. Instead of building a big house for the family in the beginning I built a small one-room cabin, with bath, that costs about $36,000. They will move out of it when they have children and it will become the consignment store. I put most of the rest of the money into community buildings.

I put the combined city hall/ military / police station (from the Pets EP) on a piece of land and used terrain paint for walkway - cost $0. A later generation will beautify the lot and/or add the grander looking combined building from LN.

I put in a combined business center / bistro with some landscaping , etc - cost a little less than $5000.

I put a combined grocery / cafe and a combined book store / spa on a piece of land. I used terrain paint and community planters then added about $5000 of park benches, trees, and outdoor tables and chairs outside the cafe.

I put in an altered version of the central park from Great Bear and replaced flooring for sidewalks with terrain paint and removed most of the landscaping, buildings and fencing / edging cutting the cost in half to a little over $65,000. A late generation will fix up the central park.

I removed the remote water falls fishing spot and put in a fishing spot from Great Bear much closer to town - cost a little less than $23,000. I also put in a small park - $2500.

The cemetery on a lot behind the city hall cost a little less than $15,000. I added some special seed spawners since this town had very few.

I noticed that a family with children moved in so put in a school building and added terrain paint sidewalks - cost of $0. A later generation will add a playground, parking, paving and landscaping.

After buying partnerships in the 3 combined businesses and then buying them outright, Adam and Eve had between $40,000 and $45,000 left. By putting most of the money into community buildings my first tax bill was very small. By the time the bills get really big one of them will get "no bills ever" upgrade.