I attempted to try this challenge for the first time last night and everything seemed to being going fine. There was a fire but that was expected. Then on day 2, about 4 sim hours until my sim Tiana was due back from work, another fire started. So those 7 loonies were left to fend for themselves. 5 of them died in a fiery death while the stove, fridge and 4 counters burned down. Tiana made it home in time to plead for 2 of the other sims lives but the relationship wasn't high enough for either.

I decided to play a little bit longer out of boredom, and noticed the only ghost that seemed to scare Tiana and the other two sims was Naomi, the one no one seemed to like very much. Tiana tried to save her but I think their relationship was at 13/13, but still you'd think Naomi might be grateful! She scares Tiana every 5 minutes. Hmm, maybe Naomi didn't like Tiana very much.

I decided not to save because I really liked the sims I made. So, I'll start over later today.

This challenge looks like it could be hilariously fun, but I'm sadly EP-free, so none of my Sims have Lifetime Wants. So, for myself any anyone else who DOES want their player-sim to eventually escape, I have a few idea for challenge-finishing goals.

It wouldn't be too hard to set a goal like "reach top of *random career*" for anyone, or "Be BFFs with every other sim on the lot" for popularity sims, or "full skills points" for a knowledge sim... I could manually track money for a wealth sim, too. Family sim... I dunno. Any ideas? Romance sims could be... "whoohoo with every other sim on the lot" or something like that.

Suggestions?

I'll go ingame later and try to find a list of LT wants for you. I know the fortune sim has a LT want of make 100,000 and another of reaching the top of career, and I think a Romance sim has a LT want of woohoo with 20 different sims, and a Knowledge sim has a LT want of maxing all of their skills.

Sounds like a plan If you want to play the challenge just set your sim a goal that mirrors the lifetime wants you get with EPs. Reach top of career, have 20 simultaneous best friends, have 20 simultaneous lovers (ie. the red heart), woo hoo with 20 different sims). The family sim ones are difficult because they usually want to have 6 grandchildren or graduate 3 kids from college or reach golden anniversary, which would be impossible for you. They also have lifetime wants related to some careers - basically the "non-aggressive" careers, like cooking, medical, business.

So give your sim a goal and go for it!

Edit: OK, I found this list of lifetime wants (taken from University FAQ by Warfreak at www. gamefaqs.com):

Reach Golden Anniversary
Have a Family Reunion (**I've never seen this one come up!)
Have X Children Abducted by Aliens (** never seen this one either!)
Max Out 7 Skills
Have X Lovers at Once (** 20)
Have X Best Friends at Once (** 20)
WooHoo with X Different Sims (** 20)
Have X Grandchildren (** 6)
Have X Babies (** usually 10, I think)
Marry off X children (** 6)
Earn §100,000
Reach the Top of the Military Career
Reach the Top of the Medical Career
Reach the Top of the Law Enforcement Career
Reach the Top of the Athletic Career
Reach the Top of the Criminal Career
Reach the Top of the Slacker Career
Reach the Top of the Politics Career
Reach the Top of the Science Career
Reach the Top of the Culinary Career
Reach the Top of the Business Career

The numbers in brackets are the numbers I have seen in my game associated with that want.

And again from Warfreak:

Fortune Wants
Earn §100,000
Reach the Top of the Athletic Career
Reach the Top of the Business Career
Reach the Top of the Criminal Career
Reach the Top of the Medical Career

Knowledge Wants
Max Out 7 Skills
Have X Children Abducted by Aliens
Reach the Top of the Medicial Career
Reach the Top of the Science Career
Reach the Top of the Criminal Career
Reach the Top of the Law Enforcement Career

Family Wants
Marry off X Children
Have X Children
Reach Golden Anniversary
Reach the Top of the Law Enforcement Career
Have a Family Reunion

Romance Wants
WooHoo with X Different Sims
Have X Lovers at Once
Reach the Top of the Slacker Career
Reach the Top of the Culinary Career
Reach the Top of the Athletics Career

Popularity Wants
Have X Best Friends
Reach the Top of the Political Career
Reach the Top of the Military Career
Reach the Top of the Culinary Career
Reach the Top of the Law Enforcement Career

I have deleted the University-specific Lifetime wants from the lists above.

I don't know if Scout is still around but maybe it would be a good idea to have this list somewhere close to the front of the thread (like amongst the rules in the first post ) so that those who only have the base game don't feel like they don't have anything they could actually achieve with this challenge.

Awesome~ thank you both! ^^

LOL Engram, you beat me to it. I was just about to post that same thing.

Whoot, I just finished this one with 384 points total. Most everyone maxed out their creativity and their logic, since the only two real "fun" objects were the chess table and the piano. They fought like crazies over the piano. I finished it a day before the start of day--sorry, week-- 5.

There was only one close call when a fire went off seconds after my sim left for work for the day. Luckily, though, I answered a chance card correctly earlier in the day and she came home early enough to call the fire department and extinguish it herself before anybody died.

This was actually a lot of fun, and I think this challenge was good for spicing up my game when I needed a break between Legacy generations.

My "winner", Caprina Magnolia, was a knowledge sim with the LTW to max seven skills. She moved out of the Asylum and straight into the Messy Messalot challenge. I fear I'm being cruel to her, but the truth was I liked her too much to let her go into sim normalcy just yet.

I finished mine a few weeks ago - Sim-me and 7 women. I managed to get 315 points. I was lucky no fires started when "I" was at work.

I blogged it starting here : http://shinybrian.blogspot.com/2008/02/begin-begin.html

Be warned, it contains strange humor and turned into a bit of an epic love story.

Today I fineshed my first challenge. I really loved this one. My fellow Latvian Simaddicts are really enjoying this challenge too, I had translated it in Latvian.
At first try I 'failed because I hadn't found the right job to fulfil my sims LTW when all the patients had died in fire accident.
But now I finished with a score of 303 ^_^
Had somebody actually counted and posted here their final score?

what if my sim wants to marry off six children as a lifetime want? how am i supposed to do that in this challenge?

Use the Lot debugger to re-roll the LTW.

I don't think that want was supposed to come up in the first place... The controllable sim isn't supposed to be Family (see first post). But the Lot Debugger will allow you to re-roll the want to something doable, anyway.

Get the version for your particular set-up from here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/

I just found the other Asylum thread and have moved my post to there. Apologies for bumping this up unnecessarily.

This is fun. It is the only challenge I have done really couldn't see myself lasting for the legacy one. My fortune sim is really suffering though he has gone into aspiration failure loads of times as has my pleasure sim. I don't know what aspiration one of my sims is but is constantly going from green to platinum. Two sim days into the challenge though One of my sims libby died. Death by exercise bike really I would avoid this and get a treadmill. Most of my sims collapse after refusing to come of the bike. Officially the sim died of starvation but after raiding the fridge she goes upstairs and cheers the toilet. I am halfway through my lifetime want so when I am finished I am going to stay there a while and treat them to a life of luxury with motherlode. They have suffered so much

yah I did it. I only had one death. Thing that got me though in the beginning I didn't have a single fire but four of my sims ended up with 2-3 cooking skills and there were four fires one of which I started on 6 cooking skills luckily I was there for all of them so no big deal. Finished with 422 points and wads of cash well 20 000 as I couldn't buy anything but food and pay bills. as for the bike I put it in my inventory so no more death by bike. Came very close on many occasions so I think removing it was a bit cheaty. The only sim not in melt down at the end was the family sim and controllable sim the family sim was the one who kept going platinum. Off to build my simmies a mansion through continous use of motherlode.

I, also am a rule bender- I think I've done this thing a couple of times now, and I always put way to many chairs in-my excuse is it gives them more of an oppurtunity to interact I also tend to peek at their wants and mood, so if one of them dies at least it won't come as a shock.

Well im def trying this! Would it be considered cheating if i had my controllable Sim call the other Sims to a meal??? Or should they just be left to eat join the meal their own?

i just finished this.....not as chaotic as i expected :/

Details:

Deaths=0
Sims passed out= 0
Aspiration Failure= 0
Number of times Sims peed themselves= 2
Sims got sick= 2
Fires:1 (stupid sim caught fire while making Crepes Suzette)
Burglaries: 0

Sims had Platinum aspiration=3
Sims maxed a skill=1 (my controllable sim!!)
Heatstroke= twice

House only had the allowed items...didnt seem to matter that there wasnt enough chairs or beds for everyone..they adjusted which was kool.

So they all made it into old age...thats when i decided to control them all and fulfill their aspirations. 4 got married after they aged....

Its not that it wasnt fun but i expected a lot more chaos....

I shall try this [AGAIN]. They will live in an actual hospital, as this is meant for fun, right?



Founder: Zedrom, Olivia
Age: Teen [So what!? I'm bending the rules a little, so why not a teen?]
Aspiration: Knowledge
LTW: Max all skills
Style of writing: Diary
Current place: Home
Place going to soon but she doesn't know yet : Mercy Hospital
Mother: Zedrom, Janet
Father: Zedrom, David
Sister: Zedrom, Freya

Diary entry 1, the day of the indecent.

A portrait of my loving family. This might keep me sane for what might happen today.





Today I will sneak out to do the ultimate plot. I shall show the school what I think of the new rules. I will EXPRESS myself as I am told to.





Thats all for today, folks.

Last edited by Mai2008 : 23rd Dec 2011 at 05:28 PM.

I would get a somewhat hard lifetime want to achieve- golden anniversary...but they can't be related ?! CRAP. Oh well. I can have more fun watching the insane :D
Here's a little video I put together in like 5minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=991z...feature=mh_lolz
I feel like the song fits well.

This is going to be fun. *MUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA* *cough, hack* Yes, my sims never saw it coming, XD Going to totally do this! Thanks.

Family aspiration isn't an option for the controllable sim, due to the fact that most of the Family LTWs don't work for this challenge.

LOVE this challenge! I lost it the first time I played: my controlled Sim died in a fire :-(
So I created a new batch of crazies and plunked them into Whitehall Institution for the Mentally Unsound. There are already 4 ghosts from the last time I played: so my poor patients have to contend with being scared by ghosts!

My blog o' crazy: http://butler-legacy.livejournal.com/1743.html

Last edited by meginmd : 26th Dec 2011 at 08:52 PM.

Never done a Sims challenge before, so this can be my first! Lets see how this goes...

on my second attempt of this challenge finished the first time last week, had soo much fun, just had to have another go at it...lost the first time round, all but one of the roomates died, usually thru catching the flu & then spending way too long on the exercise bike. For some odd reason they all choose to kick the bucket in the tiny toilet room, where my playable was unable to get to Grim.

Been playing round2 at the "AmIsaneyet Asylum" for 3 sim days. Previous inmates still 'reside' in a shadowy corner of the lot, & they left quite a mess behind for the new inmates to try to sort thru. One of the previous inmates (my Playable Hope) had planted a garden in the hopes of making the groceries last a bit longer (the delievery truck seemed to be at the front door daily), sadly she died not long after the tomates broke ground. When the next group moved in, my new playable, Alton, had a lot of work ahead of him to exterminate all the pests on the tomatoes. He had only been at it for 2sim hours (fresh from CAS) when *poof* he turned into a Plantsim! Apparently every last plant (24 in total) was infested.

My questions are: has this happened to any other inmates in the various asylums out there? What did you do with the plantsim? change him/her back or just play on?

What I thought was interesting, was that he automatically was given a Gold Badge in gardening as soon as he transformed. Now, this is only the second time I have ever had a plantsim. Usually it seems to take forever, & the sim in question usually has already had the gold badge. If I do call the garden club for the potion, will Alton keep his badge?
Is this normal for a badge to be given after a transformation?