Eight Dead, No Survivors
Oh no! I've sunk to the depths of posting Sims 2 photo albums!
There's a challenge called the "Freewill Hostel" challenge. You make eight Sims, four of which must be married couples and there must be some blood relatives in the bunch. Put the family on a medium (3x3) lot. Pause the game immediately after entering the lot. Use the motherload cheat five times to give them a total starting wealth of $250,000.
Now, build them an extremeley well-stocked house, with the goal of enabling this family to meet all their needs on their own, with freewill on. For example, there should probably be multiple refrigerators and multiple stoves. Multiple everything, in fact, because the repo man will take a few things.
Once all the money is spent, select one Sim and walk around the house for one Sim hour or less, checking that everything is accessible. If not, fix the problems. Once fixed, you can hire a maid and gardner, if desired, then ... cut them loose. Let the game run for five hours. REAL WORLD hours. You can stop and save, exit the game, then start again, but let the Sims take care of everything by themselves for five hours, no interference from you. You can pause the game for brief moments to take snapshots of amusing/tragic events.
After five hours, pause the game and score yourself using these rules. Then, do another five hours and score again. See if your Sims can survive.
What I posted to the Sims exchange was an album of screenshots detailing what happened to my batch of Sims. I kind of broke two rules, but since I made the mistake of NOT SPENDING ALL THE MONEY, they didn't make it anyways. I now have a haunted house.
Poor Edward!
There's a challenge called the "Freewill Hostel" challenge. You make eight Sims, four of which must be married couples and there must be some blood relatives in the bunch. Put the family on a medium (3x3) lot. Pause the game immediately after entering the lot. Use the motherload cheat five times to give them a total starting wealth of $250,000.
Now, build them an extremeley well-stocked house, with the goal of enabling this family to meet all their needs on their own, with freewill on. For example, there should probably be multiple refrigerators and multiple stoves. Multiple everything, in fact, because the repo man will take a few things.
Once all the money is spent, select one Sim and walk around the house for one Sim hour or less, checking that everything is accessible. If not, fix the problems. Once fixed, you can hire a maid and gardner, if desired, then ... cut them loose. Let the game run for five hours. REAL WORLD hours. You can stop and save, exit the game, then start again, but let the Sims take care of everything by themselves for five hours, no interference from you. You can pause the game for brief moments to take snapshots of amusing/tragic events.
After five hours, pause the game and score yourself using these rules. Then, do another five hours and score again. See if your Sims can survive.
What I posted to the Sims exchange was an album of screenshots detailing what happened to my batch of Sims. I kind of broke two rules, but since I made the mistake of NOT SPENDING ALL THE MONEY, they didn't make it anyways. I now have a haunted house.
Poor Edward!
