The Survival Experiment

@artistju
Hi,
I decided to try this challenge as well but put a bit of a twist on it. I created all the sims through story mode, so they were all randomly generated. So, they started with random skills, random jobs, etc. and they also get the job reward traits this way, too. When I made them through story mode, I also just randomly picked answers to the story-mode questions.

I started them off in Newcrest on the Twin Oracle 50 x 40 lot. The premise for my story is that this is an apocalyptic world, and these survivors are stuck in this "shelter" together to rebuild the SimWorld. I downloaded a lot from the gallery and revised it a bit, so that there are just the bare necessities on the lot, and I put a fence around the whole lot and a gate so they cannot go anywhere. There are 3 dumpsters (from Eco Lifestyle), 5 "pee"/nap bushes and two 2 debug shower/washroom stalls from Jungle Adventure, a campfire from Outdoor Retreat, and a debug fishing pond. The lot has a mailbox so they can sell items through plopsy, and also get the bills. When I created the lot, I did it separately as a generic lot with the landfill lot traits to start generating the garbage in the dumpsters. The group was placed on another lot in Newcrest and I had them visit the Twin Oracle lot once and were permitted to each dumpster dive twice to see what they could find. I then brought them back to their empty lot and went into Worldview and changed the Twin Oracle lot to residential, and then had the group move to that lot. The Twin Oracle lot has all of the negative lot traits, such as off-the-grid and simple living. I also gave the lot Geothermal and Natural Well. The group started off with 0 simoleons (other than the simoleons they made dumpster diving). Season is Summer, 28 days, weather effects are on.

For the sims who had jobs, since they are "locked in" and can't leave, they will all be missing work. They will all quit their jobs and they cannot get another job. This also includes any work-from-home jobs. So no one will receive any simoleons coming from jobs. All are young adults. They can make simoleons by selling items on plopsy, selling items in inventory, roylaties from books, songs, hacking funds, selling to collectors, etc. When possible, items will be re-used. So, fish can be used for food, bait, decor, and fertilizer for plants. The only things that can be bought in build mode are skill items or eco items (water collector, solar panel, wind turbine) for their lot.

Here is the build I started with.
https://i.postimg.cc/6QKyB0f9/apocalypse-shelter-original.png

And the revised build front and back.

https://i.postimg.cc/W1L47nKM/the-revised-lot.png

https://i.postimg.cc/zGrgf8JZ/back-of-revised-lot.png

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Here are the items that they started off with from jobs that were randomly generated from story mode.

https://i.postimg.cc/WbQ76BTX/stuff-they-got-from-their-jobs.png

Here are the items that they found from their initial dumpster diving (2 dives each) when the lot was a generic landfill site. They also found some simoleons.

https://i.postimg.cc/3xXby8mg/2-dives-each-take.png

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Meet the sims - Wish them luck!

https://i.postimg.cc/52D7kH1d/end-of-the-world-survivors.png