Well I hit a week in .. I play slow. I'm on the shared Sunday and I like it. It's like a reward/change of pace thing. I developed my own little backstory for them that rolls in the challenge backstory. My favorite parts of the week was watching what Felix .. the uncontrolled sim was up too. I played the Oscar the slob because I wanted to build some good habits for him.. and also because he will be a writer and have never seen them do that autonomously so wanted to start him down that path at least.
Felix (the uncontrolled sim did mostly what I expected spray cleaned his room table and couch after getting home from work very often and watched tv. I couldn't get him an easel until Wednesday and he never painted autonomously until Sunday after I got him started in his painting skill. I started him painting and now he goes right for it. I might have to get him a few easels for his next uncontrolled time. He did do one other thing that I haven't seen happen all that much in the game. He went out and planted seeds that I put on the ground autonomously. It's a habit of mine to put down one of each seed type as I guess a way of collecting them until I feel like planting them and he decided he wanted them planted. He also cleaned up in the common/dining area..
I did get a lot done on Oscar leveled him in a few skills like cooking, handiness, logic and writing. I could have done more writing but wanted him to be able to handle other things too. He did self-publish 3 books with of course minimal return so far. He always came home from work farting and often angry or tense.
Anyway at the end of the first week they have just over 5k.. from frog breeding, jobs, collecting, harvesting, fishing and a little from book royalties. Oscar of course did the extra money making stuff (except on the first day).. Felix doesn't handle collecting or fishing well lol. So yeah glad I started with Oscar. I guess today will be the day I buy them stuff. Might make Sunday the purchase and renovation day for an added layer. They don't need a whole lot so I'll probably buy little and hoard as much money as possible to keep the bills low.. probably.
I did pick good ways for them both to make money with writing and painting so that won't be a problem shortly... I have gotten them to a status where they could be best friends but not sure I want to make that happen yet... and since I controlled Oscar there has been no major fights ... yet.
I'm going to assume I can take Felix's paintings the next time he's not being controlled and hang the finished ones on the walls to sell later...
I might make them a household club to encourage activities that change depending on what I think they need... like Oscar needs to read now for his job but I think soon he might need to write as his daily task and I could force that if I wanted. I think I might just watch him this week though without added control for funsies.
