I take it from that list that the skillset required for the Intelligence career is {Mechanical, Charisma, Creativity} then.

Can I submit the Challenge Challenge?

The default MATY position is that sims should be operated with Free Will off, so hacks to stop this sort of behaviour are probably low priority.

That wouldn't be worth commenting on, would it? No, in the same neighbourhood.

...that my game has given me two of each.

*sighs*

I think this is to stop the "buy a computer; check for jobs; sell computer - if your dream job hasn't come up, do the same again tomorrow" exploit.

There's a Marcella in my avatar.

In Soviet Russia, avatar chooses YOU!

On the subject of sadorandomness, I notice that the three career tracks available in the newspaper seem always to be a subset of the five career tracks available on the computer for any given day. Is this just sadorandomness, or is it the way it is meant to work?

Celebrator. A celebrant is someone who takes part in religious ceremonies.

You rake leaves? No, you set a minimum neatness level on your visitor controller, and then your townies rake leaves for you. You might want to combine this with a Bandatron; that way your townies pay to rake your leaves, and then pay again for the compost. Remember, in Soviet Russia, leaves rake YOU!

Put the refrigerator in a separate room and get yourself an Authorized Personnel Only. It is Awesome and shiny.

So has everybody. There is no easy way for the game to determine whether a Sim can access a particular BYU or not, and so combining it with locked doors is asking for trouble.

There was a somewhat curious incident in the 1999 Cricket World Cup that arose from oddities in the way the scoring system worked. In that tournament, the twelve teams were divided into two roughly-equal-strength groups of six. The top three from each group would go through to a group of six, carrying forward any points they had scored in the first group stage, and then play the top three from the other group. The top four from that group of six would then qualify for a knockout stage to determine the winner.

Going into the final group games in group B, this was the scenario:

Pakistan (eight) v Bangladesh (2)
West Indies (6) v Australia (4)
New Zealand (4) v Scotland (0)

So Pakistan were through. Scotland and, barring some kinds of miracles, Bangladesh, were out. On the reasonable assumption that New Zealand would win against Scotland, Australia knew that they would have to beat the West Indies to qualify. Now here's the sting in the tail: Australia wanted to beat the West Indies without eliminating them from the tournament. Because New Zealand had beaten Australia earlier in the tournament, if Aus and NZ qualified, Aus would reach the second group stage with 0 points, whereas if Aus and WI did, Aus would reach it with 2 points.

West Indies batted first against Australia and were bowled out for 109. Australia therefore needed to make 110 runs off 50 overs (for those of you who know cricket, you'll realize this is a piece of piss for a strong international side). They furthermore couldn't drag the match on longer than 47 overs, because otherwise their run rate wouldn't overtake the West Indies', and they might be eliminated anyway. However, provided they won within the 47 overs, it was to their advantage to win as slowly as possible, to maximize the chances of their opponents' joining them in the last six.

Australia eventually scored the required 110 runs in 41 overs, which is very slow indeed, but New Zealand beat Scotland so convincingly that they qualified anyway.

If you're playing in a competition which uses tie-breakers, the number of points by which you win can be relevant.

(However, this is a stupid way to do it - if you can be confident of taking the Snitch eventually, and of outscoring your opponents over any given stretch of time, your optimal strategy is to stretch the game out forever. In most other sports with an event-based end, the optimal strategy, in terms of tie-breaks, is to win as quickly as possible.)

I think Pescado worked out that using Wornable fridges, and selling and re-buying when they became empty, was cheaper than buying groceries anyway, and therefore fixing this bug was low priority.

OK, moveinfix downloaded. I'll try it out in a bit and report back later.

ETA: *scolds EA for releasing broken game*
*praises syberspunk for releasing fix*

An annoying little bug has surfaced in my game. One of my playable Sims has completed her pledge period at a Greek House, but when her sponsor tries to get her to move in, I get an error claiming that she can't move out because there's a pregnant pet in her household.

What the...?

That sounds quite in-character for Fortune Sims. "Who cares about love?" they ask. "Marriage is so you can get supported by a high-income partner."

Hence the possibilities of the 50 First Dates one. You could probably gain a lot of negative ASP on a date if you tried.

"No strays" patches will not work on wolves because wolves are not strays; they are in fact NPCs.

That's a fine whine. Here is your complimentary cheese.

Yeah, that's a nice solution. You can probably do something pretty nice with Fifty First Dates as well.

I think this is probably an "n different challenges" thing, and the object is to minimize your APS for any given challenge. Earn $100,000, 50 First Dates and Celebrate Golden Anniversary will probably be easiest. Get a score of 0 with a CAS adult on maximizing the Business/Science/Medical careers or Maximizing All Seven Skills, and I'll be very impressed. (I'm sure His Awesomeness can do it, but I'm not sure I could.)