Yet another scenario gameplay thread
Table of contents Scenario gameplay with the Detroit/rotational save sims Too many toddlers: Read on Perfectly well rounded: Start with this post. Making money: Start with this post Surviving...
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Our next goal is to attend social events (not neccesarily parties) in five different places and host three parties of silver level or better.
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For starters Tamara decided to take the teens, Emma, Alice and Tane, to a dance party as their adult supervisor. Tane kept going on about how the Renegades had a much better party place on an island in Lake Erie, but secretly he enjoyed being here.
Result: Dance parties aren't scored.
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Next was an informal barbecue in the park with the Cahill household and the Thornton family. The idea here was to strenghten the emerging bond between the two families.
It was a very relaxing event.
Result: Silver
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Emory Thornton inviting Tammy to a workout much to my surprise counted as a social event.
In between doing push-ups, the man kept looking at a poster of his wife Tamara has put up and clapped excitedly. Apprantly they are still in love like the first day and he adores her :-)
Result: Neighbor visitors aren't scored either, but may I remark that Reese probably has scored jackpot with her hubby?
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Geek Con didn’t count as a social event.
Result: Tammy won a computer at the Hackathon!
Her score was a mere 14%, so apparently the festival management fudged the numbers to let the sim most in need for money win. Or maybe Tamara mixed the announcements up and the computer was actually the price for the best costume?
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Next was a Kava party upstairs at the Bowling Alley.
The drawback of this kind of party - random sims inviting themselves - was actually a benefit in this story. Among others, Tamara met the inventor Elijah Kamski, a man she couldn't just have approached normally in her "Partygirl from the countryside" persona. In fact, El for the longest time was an npc that I only played in side saves. He is far too (in)famous to walk around random venues in Detroit (also a bit of a recluse). Only recently did he become more approachable.
Of course in her real identity as Governor of Michigan Tamara Donner could easily approach Kamski whenever she wanted. El in turn is totally oblivious to whom he is really talking to here. I doubt he’d recognize anybody outside his techie circles. (Their cars maybe).
Result: Bronze (mainly because the "Call to" glitched and without sims taking kava I couldn't toast them for the higher tier goals.
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And finally Tamara planned a pool party (houseparty) in the Kamski villa.
The guest list was filled exclusively with androids this time, because Tamara imagined this as a Meet & Greet of the android inventor and several ordinary androids of later generations that he hadn't personally planned/programmed anymore. Sadly the androids weren't interested in their distant creator and El wasn't interested in run of the mill androids that didn't turn the world upside down.
Result: Bronze
Not only preferred the sims to watch a movie on Elijah’s showy TV in the basement over using the pool, they didn’t even move aside to let Tammy play on the console to fulfill a secondary objective. This was the first party since starting this scenario that ended in a desaster. Yes, technically it reached Bronze, but in practise it was just awful.
Next: Who's going to pay for all of this, by the way?
https://abload.de/img/19.11.21_20-05-49cakkd.png
For starters Tamara decided to take the teens, Emma, Alice and Tane, to a dance party as their adult supervisor. Tane kept going on about how the Renegades had a much better party place on an island in Lake Erie, but secretly he enjoyed being here.
Result: Dance parties aren't scored.
https://abload.de/img/20.11.21_01-11-41qtkyb.png
Next was an informal barbecue in the park with the Cahill household and the Thornton family. The idea here was to strenghten the emerging bond between the two families.
It was a very relaxing event.
Result: Silver
https://abload.de/img/20.11.21_01-43-14lqjqq.png
Emory Thornton inviting Tammy to a workout much to my surprise counted as a social event.
In between doing push-ups, the man kept looking at a poster of his wife Tamara has put up and clapped excitedly. Apprantly they are still in love like the first day and he adores her :-)
Result: Neighbor visitors aren't scored either, but may I remark that Reese probably has scored jackpot with her hubby?
https://abload.de/img/20.11.21_01-51-28e4jka.png
Geek Con didn’t count as a social event.
Result: Tammy won a computer at the Hackathon!
Her score was a mere 14%, so apparently the festival management fudged the numbers to let the sim most in need for money win. Or maybe Tamara mixed the announcements up and the computer was actually the price for the best costume?
https://abload.de/img/20.11.21_01-29-51q4jt9.png
Next was a Kava party upstairs at the Bowling Alley.
The drawback of this kind of party - random sims inviting themselves - was actually a benefit in this story. Among others, Tamara met the inventor Elijah Kamski, a man she couldn't just have approached normally in her "Partygirl from the countryside" persona. In fact, El for the longest time was an npc that I only played in side saves. He is far too (in)famous to walk around random venues in Detroit (also a bit of a recluse). Only recently did he become more approachable.
Of course in her real identity as Governor of Michigan Tamara Donner could easily approach Kamski whenever she wanted. El in turn is totally oblivious to whom he is really talking to here. I doubt he’d recognize anybody outside his techie circles. (Their cars maybe).
Result: Bronze (mainly because the "Call to" glitched and without sims taking kava I couldn't toast them for the higher tier goals.
https://abload.de/img/20.11.21_02-01-3986j6q.png
And finally Tamara planned a pool party (houseparty) in the Kamski villa.
The guest list was filled exclusively with androids this time, because Tamara imagined this as a Meet & Greet of the android inventor and several ordinary androids of later generations that he hadn't personally planned/programmed anymore. Sadly the androids weren't interested in their distant creator and El wasn't interested in run of the mill androids that didn't turn the world upside down.
Result: Bronze
Not only preferred the sims to watch a movie on Elijah’s showy TV in the basement over using the pool, they didn’t even move aside to let Tammy play on the console to fulfill a secondary objective. This was the first party since starting this scenario that ended in a desaster. Yes, technically it reached Bronze, but in practise it was just awful.
Next: Who's going to pay for all of this, by the way?
