See The World Challenge
I've created my first challenge. I've played it through a couple of times and I like it, so I thought I'd share. It's sort of an open goals challenge with more of a themed play, than goal oriented. ...
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Al was very useful at the Harris home. He spent much of his time saving them from themselves
I did the maid portion of the challenge with the Always Welcome trait, with no issues. When I needed build mode it was easy enough to go in from the world map. I guess one could do it using the freebuild cheat if one wanted to avoid loading screens.
For the gardener portion, Al was hired by the Thebe-Laurent family, who had decided after many years that it was time to replant their family vineyard. Al dutifully planted a few grapes, but had to inform them that it was springtime, and grape vines don't even sprout until fall. I guess the family is really out of touch with the art of grape-growing. Al had the idea to grow four grapevines in a planter box in the little gazebo, where they could be convinced to grow out of season. They're growing slowly though.
The family also wanted to have a more self-sustaining kitchen garden, including a cow and chickens.
I built an old gardener's cottage on the property for Al to stay in
Always Welcome didn't work this time because of the fridges. I learned that a sim can't put ingredients into the fridge of another household. And that's really important if you're doing the simple living challenge.
I added Al to the household. But that gave rise to another problem: When you belong to the household, you have to deal with bills coming. The Thebe Estate's bills are 15k a week and the family doesn't actually have a lot of money in reserve. They were left with a bit less than 4k after paying the bills, building the cottage, and buying the animals. Hilary Laurent is the only one with a job, and it's a low level culinary job. So Al decided to help them out as much as he could. (He didn't want them to be flat broke when it came time to pay his fee, either.)
Al went off to the Henford-on-Bagley garden stand in search of vegetable seeds and advice. The helpful (and cute) gardening expert Kim Goldbloom suggested he try morel mushrooms as a cash crop. They grow in springtime and she had a few in stock. So the kitchen garden is carrots and peas for the fridge, and a bunch of morels for money.
It's also nice that the cow gives a lot of milk. Like, three milkings a day. They have plenty of milk in the fridge so Al is selling the rest. That adds up too.
On the fourth day, the sheltered grape vines produced grapes, so Al was able to plant a lot of the vineyard, and the rest should follow tomorrow.
Tartosa goes to sleep at 6pm and Al isn't done with work until 7, so when he isn't spending the evening with Kim, he's fishing.
I did the maid portion of the challenge with the Always Welcome trait, with no issues. When I needed build mode it was easy enough to go in from the world map. I guess one could do it using the freebuild cheat if one wanted to avoid loading screens.
For the gardener portion, Al was hired by the Thebe-Laurent family, who had decided after many years that it was time to replant their family vineyard. Al dutifully planted a few grapes, but had to inform them that it was springtime, and grape vines don't even sprout until fall. I guess the family is really out of touch with the art of grape-growing. Al had the idea to grow four grapevines in a planter box in the little gazebo, where they could be convinced to grow out of season. They're growing slowly though.
The family also wanted to have a more self-sustaining kitchen garden, including a cow and chickens.
I built an old gardener's cottage on the property for Al to stay in
Always Welcome didn't work this time because of the fridges. I learned that a sim can't put ingredients into the fridge of another household. And that's really important if you're doing the simple living challenge.
I added Al to the household. But that gave rise to another problem: When you belong to the household, you have to deal with bills coming. The Thebe Estate's bills are 15k a week and the family doesn't actually have a lot of money in reserve. They were left with a bit less than 4k after paying the bills, building the cottage, and buying the animals. Hilary Laurent is the only one with a job, and it's a low level culinary job. So Al decided to help them out as much as he could. (He didn't want them to be flat broke when it came time to pay his fee, either.)
Al went off to the Henford-on-Bagley garden stand in search of vegetable seeds and advice. The helpful (and cute) gardening expert Kim Goldbloom suggested he try morel mushrooms as a cash crop. They grow in springtime and she had a few in stock. So the kitchen garden is carrots and peas for the fridge, and a bunch of morels for money.
It's also nice that the cow gives a lot of milk. Like, three milkings a day. They have plenty of milk in the fridge so Al is selling the rest. That adds up too.
On the fourth day, the sheltered grape vines produced grapes, so Al was able to plant a lot of the vineyard, and the rest should follow tomorrow.
Tartosa goes to sleep at 6pm and Al isn't done with work until 7, so when he isn't spending the evening with Kim, he's fishing.
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