Ghost Town Challenge - Updated 11/28

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5 years ago

Stage 1: Survive as a baby, toddler then child without being taken away.
Rules specific to challenge 1 only:

Lot challenges are optional.
Any child that ages up to teenager must move out. You can delete the teen from the household, kill the teen or age the teen up to adult to move out. That teen must then be replaced by a new toddler. The new toddler does not count for scoring.
If you only have one adult, then keep a cake with candles around. If the adult dies, age up the oldest child to a teen before grim comes. In order to keep adults in the household, any adult that dies may be replaced by the next child to age up to a teenager. That teen does not have to move out or be replaced by a toddler, but the teen must wait to age up to adult until it's the sim's birthday. This also counts as an additional adult for scoring purposes. If the teen goes to school with no adults in the household, then hire a nanny to take care of the toddlers and babies. Do not send them to daycare.

Scoring:

Keep track of all starting funds and money cheated as you will need to pay it back. The easiest thing to do would be to cheat the household funds to 1,000,000 simoleons before buying a lot and building a house. When the founder moves out, subtract the remaining funds from 1,000,000 to figure out how much debt you have. For example, 800,000 in household funds means you spent 200,000.
Score is determined by having as little debt as possible. The calculation is: (amount spent x number of adults) / (number of children). Children count as half points (0.5), but toddlers count as 1 full point for this calculation. The founder counts as 1. Even if an adult dies, that sim counts for the total including the parent of the founder. Minimum of 2 adults will count for scoring. If a child is taken away before reaching teen and moving out, that child doesn’t count for the score. This means that having more adults will cost you, but having more children will lower the debt.
Nannies and butlers do not count as household adults since their services cost money.

Stage 2: Establish the Legacy.

Once the founder is a teenager in stage 1, calculate the score and move out. You cannot take anything with you except homework, scouting manuals/boards, awards and photos.
You may purchase any lot and build any house you like, but keep track of how much is spent.
Keep the lot traits from stage 1.
Enable all lot challenges and change the lot type if needed.
Cheat enough money to buy the items to start making money with the chosen method. Some areas do not have a public bathroom or bench to sleep on, so you may choose to buy a pee bush or toilet and bench to nap on. You must buy a hamper if you have laundry day.
Your debt is (score from stage 1) + ((cost of house and lot + starting household funds) * 2)
The number of lot challenges to keep will be based on the starting debt for each generation. For each $20,000 in debt, you must keep an additional lot challenge. Round up to the nearest whole number. Number of challenges to keep = debt / $20,000. If the number is higher than the number of available challenges, then you have taken too much debt.

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