The Bucket List Challenge: Whims before Grim

[Metropolis Man]

The Bucket List Challenge: Whims before Grim



Goal
Your Sims have worked hard all their lives. Now that they've reached their golden years, it's time to relax and do only what they want to. How many of their last wishes can they fulfill before the Reaper arrives?

General Challenge Rules
The General Challenge Rules always apply.

Specific Challenge Rules

• In CAS, create two Elder Human or Alien Sims.
• You are allowed to use the Buydebug cheat to purchase a satellite to prevent abductions.
• No adding to the household.
• No cancelling Whims.
• No extending the Elder life stage via any means.
• The challenge ends when your two Sims are close to meeting Grim on their last day. Stop the game on Friday at 7 AM.

Scoring

Whims. On your Sims' last Elder day (this will be a Friday) pause the game at 7 AM. Press the Simology tab (Y) and then click the Stats button at the top right. Scroll down to Total Whims Completed -- add the numbers together for both Sims to get your score.

Traits. Go back to the Simology tab (Y) and count all traits for both Sims (including both Sims' initial 4 traits). Give yourself 10 puts for every trait.

Total. Just add your total Whims completed between your two Sims and their Traits score for your Total.

Example: On your last day at 7 AM you pause your game and look at the stats button for your first Sim and jot down 256 Total Whims completed. You also count 9 different traits for your first Sim.

For your second Sim, you note 343 Total Completed Whims and 12 different traits.

Whims = 256 + 343 = 599

Traits = (9 + 12) X 10 = 210

Total = 599 + 210 = 809

Spreadsheet: To help keep you organized find the spreadsheet Here

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, sdhoey, LenaLJ, and MarianT) 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	Whims	Traits	Total
GlazeyLady	187	650	837
christinal3106	369	420	789
Rinkils	278	440	718
LenaLJ	233	480	713
Nikitachi	301	410	711
fivebyfive	395	290	685
xyliajames	324	310	634
mens0067	345	280	625
Metropolis Man	345	250	595
BallerinaHippo	156	420	576
Rainbow Dash	168	390	558
mxshining	225	320	545
LazyKatie	214	330	544
Tynynounours	144	420	534
SarahSims	230	300	530
simemie	264	210	474
SueDenim	172	300	472
Whimsical Peanut	179	290	469
Eighty8Keys	173	280	453
sdhoey	177	250	427
workingmum8	167	240	407
Nomac	163	240	403
MarianT	102	250	352
JocyMc	142	200	342
jewels129	148	160	308
MissSeaGal	137	150	287
CynKuy	103	180	283
kethrydrake	98	150	248

[Metropolis Man]

The spreadsheet is coming.

[LenaLJ]

Spreadsheet added, its just a simple one to add togehter the numbers.

[Rainbow Dash]

Hey @Metropolis Man guess whose back?!  I've been taking a break from Tournament Challenges and Sims in general because life is has been pretty darn full on, but I'm looking forward to participating in this challenge so I want to check a couple of little things  before I get around to practicing. 

No adding to the household.
No cancelling Whims.

Does no adding to the household include pets? About not canceling whims, is that just whims that have been pinned or all whims in general?

[Metropolis Man]

Hey @Metropolis Man guess whose back?!  I've been taking a break from Tournament Challenges and Sims in general because life is has been pretty darn full on, but I'm looking forward to participating in this challenge so I want to check a couple of little things  before I get around to practicing. 

No adding to the household.
No cancelling Whims.

Does no adding to the household include pets? About not canceling whims, is that just whims that have been pinned or all whims in general?

Hey, Rainbow Dash! Pets occupy a slot, so yes, no pets too. On the whims question...no canceling any whims in general.

[Rainbow Dash]

I'm actually looking forward to this one, it reminds of the Elder Scrolls challenge and that was a lot of fun. I don't what it is exactly, but somehow using Elders in these challenges is quite entertaining, I wonder if anyone else finds that is the case for them too? 

(Now I think about it might be the whole racing against the clock thing, those challenges always seem more exciting to me).

[Nomac]

Hi everyone,

err... about not cancelling whims - has anyone ever noticed how the Sims 4 whims system is faulty, as in showing whims that cannot be fulfilled?
For instance: while at home, your sim might have the whim to paint on an easle, but when at someone else's house or a community lot, the easle there is not recognized as such, so the only whim coming up is "buy an easle" - which you can't do at someone else's home, and doesn't fulfill the whim at a community lot.
Especially messed up are the whims popping up when energized, as while at home sims will wish to buy a, let's say punching bag, and the minute they got it, they want to use a punching bag at the gym. Naturally, once you arrive at the gym, they want to buy a punchig bag again. It's driving me nuts.
(If you have any contact in EA; PLEASE do something about that.)

So, I guess my question concerning the challenge is this: what about whims that truly (by default) cannot be fulfilled, not because of the player, but because of the game - are we allowed to cancel those? And it is ok to pin whims, right?

[Metropolis Man]

@Nomac -- yeah, I agree. Some Whims are kind of botched. But, we all have to deal with it, so it's not like anyone has an unfair advantage. And yes, pinning Whims is fine.

[Metropolis Man]

I think the team felt the following was obvious, so we did not originally did not make it a rule, but we have gotten several questions, so it's now a rule...

• No extending the Elder life stage via any means.

[SueDenim]

BTW, thanks for making this a short (5 days! 2 Sims!) challenge after the last one.

[Nikitachi]

Whims = 145 + 156 = 301

Traits = (20 + 21) X 10 = 410

Total = 711

I think there's a mistake in the spreadsheet... it doesn't multiply the traits by 10... unless I'm missing something.

[Metropolis Man]

Whims = 145 + 156 = 301

Traits = (20 + 21) X 10 = 410

Total = 711

I think there's a mistake in the spreadsheet... it doesn't multiply the traits by 10... unless I'm missing something.

Oh, thank goodness the two components seem balanced with each other. I was guessing when I gave traits a value of 10. Grats on finishing up quickly. Hopefully, Lena will look into the spreadsheet soon.

[LenaLJ]

Whims = 145 + 156 = 301

Traits = (20 + 21) X 10 = 410

Total = 711

I think there's a mistake in the spreadsheet... it doesn't multiply the traits by 10... unless I'm missing something.

Thanks @Nikitachi mistake fixed.

[workingmum8]

Hi,
 I finished this one nice and quickly, although I haven't really done all that well.  It was a lovely change of pace to the last one.  The most difficult thing was reminding myself not to cancel the whims, I'm so used to do doing that.

Ian had 93 whims and 12 traits, Pearl had 74 whims and 12 traits.  That's 176 =240 for a score of 407.

[mens0067]

Whims 170 + 175 = 345
Traits (14+14) x 10 = 280

Total = 625