Oliver Evans -- Eighth Generation
Lifetime Wish: The Culinary Librarian
Career: Culinary
Supermax: Mixology
Lifetime Rewards: Better Mixologist, No Jealousy, Fertility Treatment
Real Estate: The Warehouse, Perfect Paradise Pool
Portraits: Toddler, Child, Teen, Young Adult, Adult, Elder
Opportunities: Research Project, The Boiler Room, All-New Bi-Pedal Dishwashing Machine, Learn a Recipe, The Politician's Ball, Big Business Mixer
Best Friends: Jerrod Galindo, Kelley O'Hara, Shea Shaffer, Cedric Hamm, Dustin Wilkerson, Barnaby NumbersTraits: Couch Potato, Hates the Outdoors, Neat, Natural Cook, Perfectionist, Hates the Outdoors [Rebel], Over-Emotional [Honorary Degree]
Four males, four females, exactly how I wanted it, exactly like last time. Going into this, the first thing I said to myself was "man am I going to be glad to get rid of that nursery once he grows up." Sure enough, once Oliver became a child, everything in the nursery had to go. So long stereo blasting tunes to give the babies music moodlets. So long toddler swing that became too much effort for me to care about. It was pretty hard to allow myself to get rid of a perfectly good fireproof fireplace though.
I decided in advance that Oliver was going to do the cooking career, but because Jack banned cooking way back when the dynasty started, Oliver needed to supermax something else. If you'll notice on the past immortal's real estates that no two properties are the same type (hangouts, parks, etc.) I had been preparing a mixology immortal since the very beginning by doing this. My goal was to make sure Oliver would be able to complete the Professor of Drinks challenge no matter what. If worse came to worse though, Oliver is the last immortal which means he has permission to buy every single property in Lucky Palms if he wanted. Having four million dollars in the household, I became very tempted to do just that. I haven't even discussed the cooking skill itself. Oliver bought a child's oven and maxed out children's cooking on it so that he can get a headstart on his lifetime wish, The Culinary Librarian. With enough expansion packs installed, you only need to level the skill to around 8 or 9 and that's if you don't buy recipes from the bookstore.
Before beginning Oliver's supermax, I had him buy a lifetime wish change into The Culinary Librarian, then downed a wish enhancing serum and got to work on that LTW. I also made sure to hire a maid because supermaxing mixology leads to lots and lots of dirty glasses. It can be such a mess that they often have to send two maids and it's still not enough. The good news is that if the house still isn't clean by a certain time, all of the dirty glasses and dishes will phase out of existence. Anyone who has supermaxed the skill before knows how tedious it can be. You're required to make a set of drinks a minimum of 125 times, tag team with another sim to get the serving challenge done, and if that's not enough, you need to either have the Bridgeport buildings in your neighborhood or put professional mixology bars on a bunch of properties. This requires actually owning the property to begin with.
Regardless of which option you choose, supermaxing mixology is impossible as a teenager because they're too young for the Master Mixologist challenge. It requires the "tend the bar" interaction, which teenagers cannot do. What's surprising is that Oliver was still allowed to go to various properties with bars installed and learn the drinks there. The rest of Oliver's teen years were spent bar hopping for drink recipes because that just so happened to be possible. Once he hit young adult, Oliver didn't have to worry about curfew anymore, allowing him to stay longer and get more shots at learning the recipes. A couple of days were dedicated to tending the bar and having Pamela order drinks until Oliver served her 60 times. All that was needed now was for Oliver to max a career and get his opportunities done.
For those wanting to supermax mixology: These were the properties that gave Oliver the drinks needed to finish the challenge: Large Park, Pool, Art Museum, Graveyard, Hangout. If I'm missing any, then try the alchemy consignment store.
Because Culinary requires that you befriend your boss and co-workers, Sean found a use for the first time since his young adult years. I had Oliver buy some ingredients for potent friendship elixirs, had Sean make them, and then made Oliver throw them at his boss and co-workers. With that taken care of, the rest of the dynasty was left on autopilot, checking back to make sure work hard is set as the work tone and all messages like date requests, chatting on the phones, etc. are exitted out of. The immortals managed to get even dumber and lose the ability to use the laptops in their inventory on their own which meant no more raising social autonomously, but that was easily by fixed by simply taking the laptops out of their inventories and putting it on the tables they eat on.
Once Oliver had hit level 10 in the Culinary career, I had him take 5 days of unpaid time off, then locked him in his cell until elder. With no one else to look over anymore, the rest of the dynasty went by pretty quickly. Once Oliver finally ended his adult years and joined the elder clan, he got his portrait painted, his six best friends set up via Jack's social networking skills, and it was ambrosia time for the last time in this dynasty.
Ladies and gentlemen, this dynasty is now complete.
