House Hunters II

[Metropolis Man]

House Hunters II

Goal
It’s hard to believe that the first House Hunters Challenge was four years ago in the summer of 2010. It was a fun event, so we’re bringing it back for a final time. The goal is pretty much the same—buy as many houses as you can in two Sim weeks with each new house needing to be more valuable than the last. Happy hunting!

General Challenge Rules
The General Challenge Rules always apply. If applicable, exceptions will be noted below.

Specific Challenge Rules

• Create 2 Young Adult Sims. All life states are fine.
• Pets in CAS or adopting after going into Live Mode are both fine, but no other household additions.
• At the start of the challenge you choose an empty furnished home to live in.
• The forum's Union Cove world is banned.
• The Edit Town screen is completely off limits.
• No intentional killing of Sims.
• You can never leave your town—no traveling/no University.
• You can never enter Build Mode.
• Purchasing items from stores or Buy Mode is fine, but homes cannot be altered in any way—no moving, deleting, upgrading, or leaving anything on the lot at moving time**. So, for example you can buy a painting easel and place it, but nothing can be moved in order to place it and when it’s time to move the easel is packed in Family Inventory.
• **In the rare event of a disaster (i.e., meteor, fire, burglary) you are allowed to replace a lost item with an identical item.
• All homes you live in must be different and each home you move into must be worth more than the last.
• This challenge concludes at the end of 2 weeks (Week 2, Day 7, 11:59 PM).

Moving
When you want to move click on the Smart Phone in your Inventory and choose Real Estate and Travel Services > Move > Within this Neighborhood.

Move your Sim that is not making the phone call from the left side to the right side. Note the worth (write it down on a sheet of paper) of your existing home at the bottom left of the dialog box. Make sure to check the Sell Furniture button. On the right side at the bottom click House...and then when the destination screen comes up you select a home that must cost more than the worth of your existing home. Once you select an eligible home click Accept and the game automatically shuffles your two Sims on their way.

Scoring

Total Worth — This is the total worth of all homes your two Sims lived in during the two weeks of the challenge. Keep accurate notes and jot down the worth of each home as you move. Right before the challenge ends you need to obtain the worth of your last home. Use your phone to bring up the Move dialog box (but do not select a new home) in order to obtain the value of your last home. Remember to pack up everything into Family Inventory that you put on the lot of your last home when you assess the value. 

Ch-Ch-Changes
The team does not want to edit and make changes to the ruleset once this event goes live, but we may have to. This seasons’ events are shorter and the team has less time to test potential loopholes. If an exploit is brought to our attention or we discover something else we reserve the right to ask affected players to redo their effort.

Have Questions?
Please think hard before you ask in the challenge thread because it may be strategy. What you may consider an innocent question could cause another player to go — “oh, I did not think of doing that.” It’s always safer to PM everyone on the team (Metro, ratchie, Nutella, and Blackrosea) for clarifications. Thanks.

And the Winner is...
After this event has closed everyone is encouraged to discuss how they approached the event, but the winner especially is expected to do so in detail.

This Event is Now Closed

Player	Total Worth
MomOfMany	1,268,979
Lisa46	1,184,567
bored1	1,104,482
LenaLJ	1,100,522
Chare	1,078,658
GlazeyLady	1,031,718
_Annika_	1,027,295
Tandrael	1,019,408
mayayeti72	1,014,979
Metropolis Man	1,014,464
Femke82	1,014,217
Ferretmania	1,014,090
Turoskel	1,004,674
Abyshep	1,004,170
alyssa.cole	994,111
Deklitch	988,292
Danielle Haydis	954,967
Tiamet	875,183
klop90	866,889
Myzteree	848,849
Pam	793,076
MarianT	526,360
MissZoef	493,591
Ginj	389,253
KRae	307,109
Sarleenia	270,602
SIMantics101	190,677

[Nutella]

Rule:
Purchasing items from stores or Buy Mode is fine, but homes cannot be altered in any way—no moving, deleting, upgrading, or leaving anything on the lot at moving time.

Clarification:
You cannot sell furniture or anything in the furnished home, even if you don't need it.
You cannot move any furniture, even if it annoys you.
You cannot upgrade any item that comes in the furnished home.
You cannot leave any items on the lot at moving time - this is to prevent you from inflating the home value.

[Metropolis Man]

Thank you for the clarification, Nutella. I also just added the following:

• Do not use the forum's Union Cove world due to some bugs.

[Metropolis Man]

Someone PM'd the team the other day and asked about fires or meteors, so I have edited the following:

• **In the rare event of a disaster (i.e., meteor, fire, burglary) you are allowed to replace a lost item with an identical item.

[Metropolis Man]

Changed the Union Cove rule to a flat ban...

• The forum's Union Cove world is banned.

[_Annika_]

Is there any requirement for moving homes?

[Nutella]

@_Annika_

As of right now the only requirement I see is the new home must cost more than the worth of your existing home.

[_Annika_]

Ok, good. I thought I was missing something. I guess I am just used to the longer challenges where there were a lot more requirements to be met first.

[Metropolis Man]

And all homes must be different — i.e. you cannot live in the same home two different times.

[Nutella]

Ok, good. I thought I was missing something. I guess I am just used to the longer challenges where there were a lot more requirements to be met first.

I felt the same!  When I first look at this challenge, I thought I was going senile.  I reread the rules multiple times, thinking I am somehow misreading it.  I kept telling myself maybe i need to get one skill challenge complete before i can move, or something like that. 

[KRae]

This sounds like fun! It's mostly about planning. I love planning.

[KRae]

So no adding missing EA community lots before starting?

[Metropolis Man]

So no adding missing EA community lots before starting?

• The Edit Town screen is completely off limits.

[KRae]

Thanks, I'm glad I realized this now instead of when it was too late.

[Danielle Haydis]

The Element twins have stayed in 954,967 simoleons worth of homes. Thank you to the Challenge Team for the event.