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Simalleyaile
Rising Ace
5 years ago

The Great Simlish Bake Off!

Anyone watch the Great British Bake Off show? There's one for my country and I've watched a few different ones from around the world. I thought it was a fun idea for my simmies, to have a baking club at a community lot, so I made one as a park.
https://i.imgur.com/sAXr3c6.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/QhFkpzD.png

If you set Clean as a club requirement, you'll get club points for putting baked goods in the fridge.
https://i.imgur.com/RZgsXtb.jpg

A great benefit for any sims who have the FRESH TRAIT is that their baked items will never spoil. So I have a baking club with members that just have this trait.
https://i.imgur.com/qs965Kn.jpg

The finals always have a party for family and friends, so a park works really well for this. While my baking clubs are busy baking, other sims are busy having fun and eating the food they make.

https://i.imgur.com/OFMiGKS.png

https://i.imgur.com/l0Cwh2x.png

It's also really good for players who rotate. Take a group of family and friends to that park, and all the food your clubs have baked are still there. Free day of eating!

You can still use this idea if you only have base game. Use the cupcake machine and the stoves to bake cakes and cookies, or any kind of food really, put it if the fridge for others to eat. And yes, once you get a playable sim to go to the fridge and eat the food, I've seen other non-played sims autonomously take food from the fridge too.

Even if you've never built before, a tent is so easy to make. Just plonk down a rectangle, use spandrels to remove the walls, decorate how you want, and it makes a great spot for the cupcake machine! Though big and ugly, that thing is actually really good gameplay object. Your sims will have fun using it and if you bake with perfect ingredients you can earn up to $2000 for an excellent high level baking dish when you sell them to the local bakery. I had one sim earn enough for him to build an extension onto his San Myshuno penthouse. :)

I'd love to see your tents and your baking clubs.

Also, would anyone else love real baking competitions for the game?

15 Replies

  • "aaronrulz;c-17736529" wrote:
    It would be fun to do a Sim Baking competition but there isn't much of a way to decipher which sim is the worst baker or best baker of a challenge. For example, if I have them all bake a cake - if they all come out "good", then how to decide who wins that challenge?


    Ah, that's the challenge of all cooking shows. They're all often 'good', especially in the finals where they are now often 'outstanding'. That's where the judges come in with their subjective opinions.

    In the game of course, I imagine they'd use some kind of algorithm that uses the sim's skill, their current mood and the quality of produce they use. For example a sim who bakes the level 4 strawberry cake in a Very Inspired mood would win against a sim who bakes level 1 chocolate cake in a happy mood. A sim who uses perfect pomegranates cooking pancakes would do better than a sim using superb grapes. Also, traits could be a factor. A sim with the foodie trait could always have an advantage over other sims. If they want to get really creative, they could add twists into the coding so that things don't get too predictable, with moodlets like: "Clearly Elzbeth was the sim with the highest skill, but her nerves got the better of her, so the winner is John!" The sims could also get a moodlet about winning or losing based on their traits. eg, A hot-headed sim would get angry about losing, a gloomy sim sad about losing, a cheerful and good sim gets a happy moodlet: "I'm happy John won, they deserved it!"
  • @elanorbreton - yes, it's there, though please keep in mind that I build everything just for my own gameplay, so it could use a lot of packs you may not have, like I put Backyard's lawn slide at the back of the tent and City Life's Basketball etc :)
  • "Simalleyaile;c-17738217" wrote:
    @elanorbreton - yes, it's there, though please keep in mind that I build everything just for my own gameplay, so it could use a lot of packs you may not have, like I put Backyard's lawn slide at the back of the tent and City Life's Basketball etc :)


    That's ok, i own all the packs. Is your gallery name same as your forum name?
  • "elanorbreton;c-17738502" wrote:
    "Simalleyaile;c-17738217" wrote:
    @elanorbreton - yes, it's there, though please keep in mind that I build everything just for my own gameplay, so it could use a lot of packs you may not have, like I put Backyard's lawn slide at the back of the tent and City Life's Basketball etc :)


    That's ok, i own all the packs. Is your gallery name same as your forum name?


    @elanorbreton - yes :) Happy Baking!

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