Off-the Grid Challenge Island Living!
Hello there! So, while diving in (pun intended) to the new pack I decided to start right away with the rags to riches challenge. I always find it more fun to work my way up from nothing. Sometimes eve...
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Sorry to double post but I hope you don't mind I've rewritten the challenge rules and adapted some for my first round of this challenge, as follows:
Here are the rules I’ve merged from kitnkabootle, abbyblueflower and JojoMOMSTAR.
Overboard, Stranded and Alone
Key Points to Being Stranded in Key Point
- Start by being stranded in Key Point, Sulani (Hard mode: have more than 1 Sim*, e.g. toddler and/or a baby, and/or a child and/or a teen**)
- Keep lot traits to Ocean Paradise and Off-the-grid, and can add a third lot trait for your play
- Set funds to §0 to start the challenge (Hard mode: earn §10,000 to build a home fitting Off-the-Grid Island Living aesthetic)
- Survive on Mua Pel’Am (or Key Point for Hard mode) alone until you can get an Outrigger Canoe to travel beyond Mua Pel’Am
- You are unemployed as you’re disconnected from the world--until you've built a home (with at least a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen area and a pier) and own a canoe*** (1 canoe = 1 YA/Adult Sim)
- There is no socialising with wandering Sims or leaving Key Point until you get a canoe!
- Earn §§§ by doing odd jobs. (Hard mode: one odd job a day)
Beachcombing
Fishing
Gardening (Hard mode: Only use Sim-made planters)
Paintings - Sims must autonomously start painting, only allowed during day
Woodworks - sell 3 a day (Hard mode: sell 1 per day)
Writing books is against rules but Sim can keep a journal
The Route to Rescue and Beyond (Milestones & Aspirations)
1. Achieve Beach Life to become a true local and unlock marriage.
2. Achieve Well-off (3rd milestone of Fabulously Wealthy) and Estate of Art (1st milestone of Mansion Baron) milestones to wire electricity into your home for §25,000 (Hard mode: Complete Fabulously Wealthy & Estate of Art Aspirations to buy electricity for your home costing §25,000)
3. Achieve Garden Variety (2nd milestone of Freelance Botanist) to prove you Sims can buy good produce (fruits, vegetables and flowers) from you
4. Achieve Ill at Easel (1st milestone of Painter Extraordinaire) and reach Level 4 Painting Skill before you can sell your art
5. Achieve Fine-Tuned (2nd milestone of Musical Genius) to unlock better music for others to give you decent tips
6. After building a home and completing an Aspiration (as well as the above), you have the freedom to do leave Sulani and go back to on the grid or stay off the grid. Or a bit of both.
7. You can buy a canoe if you’ve got the funds or build your canoe (Hard mode: Get a canoe after reaching Fishing Skill Level 10 & Handiness Skill Level 5). Sim must complete a milestone (Hard mode: Every YA/Adult must complete a milestone) made possible without the use of electricity.
* - There is no daycare, Sim toddlers must go be with a Teen/Adult but Sims babies cannot go on the canoe and must remain on Key Point.
** - If stranded with children and/or teens, they cannot go to school until a YA/Adult has a canoe
*** You can buy a canoe if you’ve got the funds or build your canoe (Hard mode: Get a canoe after reaching Fishing Skill Level 10 & Handiness Skill Level 5)
General Rules
- Cheats are not allowed unless turning funds to §0 in the beginning and if you choose to pay for travel around Sulani (e.g. weekly boat pass).
- Reward traits and items are allowed except for Potion of Youth and Money tree.
- Father Christmas visiting you is optional (as a result of island fever/hallucination or because stranded Sims need all the help they can get)
- Turn Celebrity Off for household if you have Get Famous EP. If you want to be a Celebrity, you must complete Friend of the World before turning it on.
- You may choose or randomise your Sim. (Hard mode: use Child of the Ocean so fish is an an optional meal).
- Choose your difficulty by choosing your life span.
- Once you have electricity you are free to do as you please, you have succeeded and your family is on its way to becoming a true native.
Here are the rules I’ve merged from kitnkabootle, abbyblueflower and JojoMOMSTAR.
Overboard, Stranded and Alone
Key Points to Being Stranded in Key Point
- Start by being stranded in Key Point, Sulani (Hard mode: have more than 1 Sim*, e.g. toddler and/or a baby, and/or a child and/or a teen**)
- Keep lot traits to Ocean Paradise and Off-the-grid, and can add a third lot trait for your play
- Set funds to §0 to start the challenge (Hard mode: earn §10,000 to build a home fitting Off-the-Grid Island Living aesthetic)
- Survive on Mua Pel’Am (or Key Point for Hard mode) alone until you can get an Outrigger Canoe to travel beyond Mua Pel’Am
- You are unemployed as you’re disconnected from the world--until you've built a home (with at least a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen area and a pier) and own a canoe*** (1 canoe = 1 YA/Adult Sim)
- There is no socialising with wandering Sims or leaving Key Point until you get a canoe!
- Earn §§§ by doing odd jobs. (Hard mode: one odd job a day)
Beachcombing
Fishing
Gardening (Hard mode: Only use Sim-made planters)
Paintings - Sims must autonomously start painting, only allowed during day
Woodworks - sell 3 a day (Hard mode: sell 1 per day)
Writing books is against rules but Sim can keep a journal
The Route to Rescue and Beyond (Milestones & Aspirations)
1. Achieve Beach Life to become a true local and unlock marriage.
2. Achieve Well-off (3rd milestone of Fabulously Wealthy) and Estate of Art (1st milestone of Mansion Baron) milestones to wire electricity into your home for §25,000 (Hard mode: Complete Fabulously Wealthy & Estate of Art Aspirations to buy electricity for your home costing §25,000)
3. Achieve Garden Variety (2nd milestone of Freelance Botanist) to prove you Sims can buy good produce (fruits, vegetables and flowers) from you
4. Achieve Ill at Easel (1st milestone of Painter Extraordinaire) and reach Level 4 Painting Skill before you can sell your art
5. Achieve Fine-Tuned (2nd milestone of Musical Genius) to unlock better music for others to give you decent tips
6. After building a home and completing an Aspiration (as well as the above), you have the freedom to do leave Sulani and go back to on the grid or stay off the grid. Or a bit of both.
7. You can buy a canoe if you’ve got the funds or build your canoe (Hard mode: Get a canoe after reaching Fishing Skill Level 10 & Handiness Skill Level 5). Sim must complete a milestone (Hard mode: Every YA/Adult must complete a milestone) made possible without the use of electricity.
* - There is no daycare, Sim toddlers must go be with a Teen/Adult but Sims babies cannot go on the canoe and must remain on Key Point.
** - If stranded with children and/or teens, they cannot go to school until a YA/Adult has a canoe
*** You can buy a canoe if you’ve got the funds or build your canoe (Hard mode: Get a canoe after reaching Fishing Skill Level 10 & Handiness Skill Level 5)
General Rules
- Cheats are not allowed unless turning funds to §0 in the beginning and if you choose to pay for travel around Sulani (e.g. weekly boat pass).
- Reward traits and items are allowed except for Potion of Youth and Money tree.
- Father Christmas visiting you is optional (as a result of island fever/hallucination or because stranded Sims need all the help they can get)
- Turn Celebrity Off for household if you have Get Famous EP. If you want to be a Celebrity, you must complete Friend of the World before turning it on.
- You may choose or randomise your Sim. (Hard mode: use Child of the Ocean so fish is an an optional meal).
- Choose your difficulty by choosing your life span.
- Once you have electricity you are free to do as you please, you have succeeded and your family is on its way to becoming a true native.
