Sim Strategy Discussion
Lion:
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Ha, there's a new random event for us - teenager runs away from home!
I roll a "when to move out" for teens at their transition, including "Runaway teen". Others are When graduates from college, When finds a job, When in crush, When in love, When becomes an adult, When gets married, When has a child, Runaway teen, When starts a business, When becomes a managers, and Never. I haven't had a runaway teen yet. I'm thinking either slide down the relationships with family memeber (not preferring), or move the teen into one of the "On the street" lots where only other runaway teens, hobos, bullies, criminals, etc., can visit.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Lion on 2008 June 06, 12:35:01
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Kids pay a ton of money if they want to go to college. They can take out student loans if they can't afford it.
How much is your college tuition? I set $200/day for private gradeschool, $300 for private high school, $500/day for community college, and $7500 total for a university.
Private school fees are handled by Monique's computer. I have hardergrades (or is it harderhardergrades?) and due to my lacksadaisacal approach to skilling, most of the kids are at C or B level. I have a few smarty-pants ones. So most kids are paying $300-$250/day for private school. For college, I have two colleges.
Renwarr College - Mascot: Cow, because he's so avant garde! Cost: $5k/year, or $20k/entire education. Majors supported: all. Housing: Three 14-room dorms on 1x3 lots, two four-unit apartment complexes or greek houses on 2x2 lots, six single-sim (can be stretched up to three residents) homes on 1x1 lots. Community lots: quadish thing with diner, gym, and bookstore...classrooms with vanilla skilling objects...two other lot imposter classrooms. Atmosphere: in its own little neighborhood nestled in a valley. Very modern buildings.Tou Laine Tech - Mascot: Llama, because he does it for free. Cost: $2.5k/year, or $10k/entire education. Majors supported: Sciences, Math, and Philosophy. Housing: One dorm, split into male and female sections. One. 16 rooms. Just a place to sleep and eat. Community lots: quad/park, large classroom building including bookstore, gym, and classrooms that contain aspiration reward skilling objects relating to the taught majors. Atmosphere: in the middle of a lot imposter urban neighborhood. Brick & drab.A sim who works for their scholarship can pay for Tou Laine on their own. In fact, I have four on their way to Tou Laine right now because the one's family really can't afford to pay for his schooling (Raul Outlaw; his mother is the daughter of that shack dweller who killed himself, and she and the hubby are still about $40k in debt). The other three kids could be paid through Renwarr (barely), but the twins, Benjamin and Michael Bleu, are Pleasure types who really don't give a crap, just wanting to troll for boy-candy (they are both gay), and their cousin Stone Lowe (also a half-brother, not that they are aware of it) is best friends with Raul and wants to go to college with him.
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I have them meditate at home to make up for the time they spent at the biz...so let's say they have a bakery open from 10am to 6pm. They leave right before 10am, come back technically at 10am again, but I shove them out of sight meditating until 6pm.
Zazazu, you can use Crammyboy's community time project. They came back from a community lot the time they actually went home. It's working well for FT.
For everything else, I don't want community lot time consistency. I really, really don't.
pixiejuice:
In the spirit of sharing, I thought I'd throw my random file out there too, since you all are sharing such great ideas. I've already added in a couple I stole from this thread, and there are probably a couple more I stole a long time ago from wherever... so have fun! :)
J. M. Pescado:
Heh, my only university is STFU.
Zaleth:
I haven't run a business away from the sims home yet, only did Home Business which work well if you build the business and stock it before you call and make it a home business. That way you are not losing money from the start. I had to also make sure my home was the way I want it because after you make a home a business as well everything you purchase is an expense from the business and will make your profit go down.
I moved all the people out of pleasentville and moved them to the one that came with seasons and moved some of the people in strangetown to the one that came with Freetime. I play only those two hoods now, I set each one up with all three colleges, and BV spots along with Downtown and Bluewater. Then I took the time out to redo all the hoods the way I wanted. Rich section with big expensive houses a shopping area low income ect. It looks like a real town now and also renamed all houses for the streets they are on. I did this with college, basic hood, Downtown and Blue water so no matter where they go it looks more real like. I even made a custom cemetery and moved all the goths and the other graves from Downtown to it. So when my sims die I send them there. If sims want to see a ghost at night I go there or if they want to mourn their loved ones. I saved all the commuinty stuff I did so I could pop it in each hood as needed without having to redo it time and time again. The sims live in the hood or Bluewater and Downtown depending on the sim and where I think they would like to live.
Goth Family is working on 4th generation, the longest family so far is 6th generation. I do sent most kids to college even make some flunk out ;D because not everyone is good at everything! The biggest challenge for me is running a house with 8 people ususally two adults and the rest kids without using Max motives. Mind you I do not use Motherlode and only use kaching for each family to have 2k to purchase clothing only on start up because people have more than one outfit!. I also play the challenges from TSR though I have not finsished many of them of late. I do agree that some of them are not worth the time.
I use Monique's computer for my sims to be able to "get a loan" when they need money rather than use the cheats. This way they have to pay it back and that can get out of hand if they borrow to much. I also use the bank for making sure those that can afford it give thier children a "college fund" and use it to sent them to Private school where it actually takes money out of the funds for them to go. I also use it for emailing of friends. So each house hold has one of Monique's and the rest are normal from the game so I do not lose the Freetime functions. Also if your sims have amassed way to much money you can use it to give it away to charity as well. I really like the funcition to purchase things online so I don't have to keep leaving the lot just to get a dress or a pair of pants! Of course if you have maxed out your sewing to gold badge you can sew clothing so that does tend to help as well, but that is a long process! A last thought about this item, if you run a business it helps if you use it to study stocking, cash registar, and sales before you open up the business.
I will have to try a business away from home and do the life time "own 5 top business" next to see if I can actually pull it off!
One question how do you set your college costs to a higher amount? And do the other things you talk about Darcee? While I am not new to the game, I am new to editing and creating things for it.
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