Showing posts with label Challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Challenges. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

It's All Going Swimmingly Quest (Part 4)

And the Saga continues...

Because of the error I finally just broke down and spent my last three LPs on the Slide task.

Next is easy, get two Sims in the pool and splash one another (once both are in the pool, select one and the option 'splash' should appear), then they need to chat in the pool (4 min) and go talk to the rabbit out front of the Swim Center for 10 minutes.
Lastly, they will need to spend 1 day talking to the rabbit.

This should bring you to 90%

As an aside, based on the way that this challenge has gone I'm going to guess that the Preteen Challenge that is coming up is going to be even harder.

I'm concluding that you will need to build the Elementary School and I'm thinking that is going to set you back some $200,000 or $250,000, so start saving now.

I was up to $90,000 this morning, then built a Beach House Mansion and moved a family in (which set me back some $58,000) 

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Mysterious Island (Part 2)

After making the Croissants (you should now be at 90%), you are now ready to build your bridge.

It requires $20,000 (ouch!), 30 hours and a minimum of 8 Sims.

Keep in mind that you cannot build two things at once and once you start construction you cannot stop or pause it. 

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

The Mysterious Island Quest (Part 1- first 80%)

Now that you have completed the Beach Front Homes quest (which I will come back to) it's time to get down to some serious infrastructure.
You get 3 days to complete this Challenge and the first 80% is very easy and quick (I'm under the impression all your time is going to be spent building the bridge, which I estimate to take 24 hours.)
You will need to get a tea pot ($500) a telephone (which you should already have from a previous Quest, I recommend the expensive one), a computer (which you should already have) (I use the $1,500 2 star model) and a World Globe ($10,000)- yep $10,000! You need to start saving now.
*You will watch the news (4 minutes) call the construction company (about 10 minutes) watch a special on T.V. (about 15 minutes) call the construction company back, mail a letter (4 seconds), call the construction company again (15-ish minutes), use the computer (about 8.5 minutes) then make some croissants (18 hours), which is as far as I have gotten today.

*I may have the order a little out of place, but overall the first 80% should take only about an hour.

Happy building!

Love is in the Air Quest

So, now its time to start getting your Sims hitched!

This is a challenge which means that it is timed. Complete the challenge in time to unlock a Wedding Bundle which means that you will be able to dress your female Sims like brides. Very elegant!
Every hour that you spend not completing the challenge is two LPs (Lifestyle Points- the yellow diamonds to the right of the Simoleons) you will have to use to make up lost time. And there's no quick way to earn LPs!
You only get about 2 1/2- 3 days to complete this quest.

You can use any of your Sims to complete any of these tasks, with the exception of reaching Relationship Milestones between the two Sims that you wish to be married in the end.

The very first thing is to have a Sim take a 'Rich Lather' shower, 15 minutes.

Now it's time to start building your Sims' relationships. 
Once you have a girl and guy Sim become 'Best Friends'(by selecting them and choosing an option that is green - your best bet is 'Be Nice', which takes 1 minute to do), the option 'Be Romantic' and 'Dance' (both Pink) should pop up. Do these actions until you reach 'Budding Romance' at which point you will be instructed to watch T.V. I think it's a movie which is 1 hour and 45 minutes long, on a 2 star T.V. I can't remember if you have to finish the movie. I don't think I did, but that may have only been a glitch. 

All of this earns you loads of XPs!
You will be required at some point to buy a 3 star bed. The sooner the better!
Then you need to "Sleep through Alarm", which on a 3 star bed takes 9 hours, 11 hours on a 2 star bed. And there is no way to speed up this process!
Once you wake up you'll need to make yourself a cup of coffee. You do that by purchasing a coffee maker from the Home Goods Store. I recommend the cheaper of the two.
Now, it's time to 'WooHoo', 'Ask to Move in' and get 'Engaged'. In order to become ‘Engaged’ you MUST do all of these actions in order
NOTE: The more expensive the ring the more likely they will say yes. The only ring you will be able to choose at first is the Eternity Ring, which will cost 10 LPs.
Before you can get hitched however, you have to build the Park. This is where all your time is going to get dried up. It will take $2,500 to build and 8 hours to complete (if I remember right). Then you'll have to get 5 Sims to the park and spend 15 more minutes talking to ducks before you can finally marry your first set of Sims. I wasted the first half a day and was able to make the challenge with about 2 hours to spare, but I also wound up using quite a few LPs to finish in time.

If I left anything out or you have any questions please comment.