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Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« on: July 16, 2015, 06:39:16 AM »
Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality

Goal
Congrats! You've entered the twilight of your life and are now an Elder. Modern Maturity subscription? Check. Talked to your local travel agent for that awesome around the world cruise? Check. Have everything in hand to make Ambrosia? *gulps* What?! You better get on that pronto before Grim shows up, grandpa. In fact, unless you want to be the laughing stock at that next shuffleboard tournament you need to see if you can make Ambrosia faster than your old fogey friends. Need me to speak louder?

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

Specific Challenge Rules
  • The Spa Day Game Pack is banned.
  • The Cool Kitchen Stuff Pack is banned.
  • Create one Elder Sim.
  • You are allowed to use the Buydebug cheat for the sole purpose of purchasing a satellite to prevent abductions.
  • No adding to the household.
  • The Science career is banned.
  • Traveling to the Science lot is banned.
  • Completing more than one Aspiration is fine, but no switching Aspirations until the first one is completed.
  • The Fortune Aspirations are banned.
  • This challenge ends when your Elder Sim has made and eaten Ambrosia. In the event you did not achieve this before Grim visits you, then post your score as DNF.

Scoring

Scoring is the total game minutes played in order to make and eat Ambrosia.   

Minutes — When your Elder Sim has finally made and eaten Ambrosia, then pause your game and note your age as well as the game clock time (hour, minutes and AM or PM). Plug in all the necessary info into Lena's spreadsheet and it will calculate the total minutes that you needed to finish.

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. 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, LenaLJ, Trip, MarianT, 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                            Minutes     
ClayMask                            7547     
thekatie0409                            8170     
ratchie                            8550     
Nikitachi                            9216     
LenaLJ                            9347     
Metropolis Man                            9528     
christinal3106                            9775     
sdhoey                            10716     
Ginj                            11094     
kirkbysims                            12206     
GlazeyLady                            12790     
december22                            12955     
rokrchik                            13351     
Rainbow Dash                            13423     
SIMantics101                            13784     
KayBear                            14258     
krzyman21                            14509     
HelenP                            14604     
Brisayshi                            DNF     
Shewolf13                            DNF     
fivebyfive                            DNF     
MarianT                            DNF     
Nelleam                            DNF     
rubywyld                            DNF     
PSDuckie                            DNF     
Teresa                            DNF     
fluffyj00                            DNF     

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2015, 07:38:35 AM »
Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality

Goal

  • Completing more than one Aspiration is fine, but no switching Aspirations until one is completed.


Metro, I'm a bit confused.  Must each aspiration be completed before choosing a new one or are we free to switch uncompleted aspirations once the first one has been completed?



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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2015, 07:59:37 AM »
Metro, I'm a bit confused.  Must each aspiration be completed before choosing a new one or are we free to switch uncompleted aspirations once the first one has been completed?

Let me clarify that with what I feel the team had intended.

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2015, 10:19:18 AM »
How about "no switching aspirations until the current one is complete."

Also, your challenge titles are becoming more and more hilarious. As a gamer, I get the reference you made with this challenge. Also, this is a good challenge to help those who want to try out the Immortal Dynasty by helping them learn how to create Ambrosia.  ;)

DEAR EA: Before you create a Sims 5, I humbly suggest you edit the Potion of Youth in this game so that it does not share the same properties of Ambrosia. Many of us people doing the Immortal Dynasty are VERY p'ed off that we have to make Ambrosia which is more labor-intensive than simply just buying the Potion of Youth itself and drinking it. May I suggest changing the Potion of Youth's effect to the same effect as the Young Again Potion from The Sims 3 Generations?
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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2015, 10:51:00 AM »
How about "no switching aspirations until the current one is complete."

Because the way the rule reads now it reflects the team's feeling that we do not care if there is switching after the first Aspiration is done.

Glad you like the title ;).

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2015, 01:47:09 PM »
I'm going to turn Tiber Septim into Talos again :).  It's just a question of how quickly I can do it.

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2015, 04:09:12 AM »
How do we manage not using the Spa Day Game pack? Do we uninstall it while participating in the challenge or just be very careful not to use any of the interactions or items etc?
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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2015, 07:13:52 AM »
How do we manage not using the Spa Day Game pack? Do we uninstall it while participating in the challenge or just be very careful not to use any of the interactions or items etc?

Uninstalling it would be the safest route because if you do not do that, then you'll have to make a list of everything you can't do - Wellness skill, going to the spa, etc.

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2015, 02:24:21 PM »
I'm very interested in finding out how we can uninstall certain EP's.
So far, I have not been able to uninstall a particular segment of TS4.

Edit to add: No without installing almost everything else, that is.

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2015, 03:01:53 PM »
I'm very interested in finding out how we can uninstall certain EP's.
So far, I have not been able to uninstall a particular segment of TS4.

Edit to add: No without installing almost everything else, that is.

Sadly there is no real option to do that, EA hasn't made it easy for us in this case.

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2015, 03:11:46 PM »
I think if you don't work on the wellness skill, don't place the spa, and don't use the furniture (incense burners, massage table, etc.), you'll be okay.
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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2015, 01:51:57 PM »
Tixxis pointed out a little possible trick, so we're making things a bit harder - sorry, we're making this ban at the last minute...

  • The Fortune Aspirations are banned.

Thank you, Tixxis.

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2015, 10:46:40 AM »
Dr Who finished in 12955 minutes. I'm sure I'll be at the top of the leader board for an hour or two. Good luck to everyone  :)

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2015, 10:54:28 AM »
Wow! That is brilliant!
I have to switch gears here.

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Re: Elder Scrolls: Race to Immortality
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2015, 01:02:20 PM »
Wow! That is brilliant!
I have to switch gears here.

I'm sure you'll knock my score out of the park Tixxis