I enjoyed Rohina's stories, but I missed this thread at the time, so I wasn't quite sure why the sims were being hermits. Oh well
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I'm sure it would be possible to make this challenge more awesome [1], by simply tightening up the rules. Here's what I came up with in 20 minutes of evil plotting.
baratron's modified rules for the Lying Low Challenge, originally by Huzzah at Shoo FleeOBJECTIVE: Make an Adult Popularity Sim in CAS and play them for the span of adulthood without allowing them to meet another sim. Try to keep them from going into Aspiration Failure... and try to keep the Social Bunny away. The challenge ends when they transition into an Elder.
RULES:1. No cheats except where specifically permitted. You may use move_objects or the debug cheat only to move or delete stuck objects and sims, or force errors on the same. You may not delete sims to refresh their moods.
2. You must start with an adult sim created in CAS, with 10 Outgoing points and Popularity aspiration.
3. Your sim must remain a Popularity sim! You must never change their aspiration.
4. Your sim must remain human! Turning them into a vampire or zombie is prohibited and will forfeit the Challenge! Cheating to turn them into a robot is also prohibited.
5. Your sim must start on an empty lot! No other inhabitants are allowed. Should pets come into existence, they are also prohibited.
6. You may never move anyone new in. No Move In, Marriage or Adoption is allowed.
7. Your sim must not go to work!
Exception: You may take a job to fulfill a Want, but must never actually go to work.
8. Your sim must never meet a service NPC! They must ignore the postman and newspaper deliverer. If an object breaks, the sim must repair it themselves or buy a new one. If they run out of food, you must sell the fridge and buy a new one.
9. You may use any hacks, but may not use them to cheat. No magic mood refreshers, hacked money trees etc. [2]
10. No moving between lots unless the home lot becomes irreparably bugged.
11. NO SAVING AND RELOADING unless a bug occurs.
RESTRICTIONS:1. You are allowed to use any Maxis items or custom contents,
except for telephones, cell phones or computers. You
may use a computer that is hacked so its only function is "Write Novel" [3].
2. You may use any of the aspirational awards
except the ReNuYu Senso Orb and Energizer, but they must be paid for. You may not purchase them with hacked collections. No more than 5 Money Trees per lot.
3. You
may not use any career rewards, as your sim may not go to work to earn them.
4. Your sim may visit a community lot, but may not meet anyone while there.
5. Your sim must live entirely with money earned on the lot.
Exception: Busking is allowed on community lots.
6. You may not receive money from another lot. You may send money to other lots, but you may not receive any back.
TERMINOLOGY: For the purpose of the Challenge, "met someone" is defined as gaining the memory of having met a sim. No memory editing cheats allowed [2].
SCORING:-1 for every day there is a Money Tree on the lot
-2 for every Social Bunny
-3 for every Aspiration Failure
-5 for every time your sim goes to work
-10 for every sim met
-100 for every time you use kaching (yes,
kaching;kaching; counts as two times)
-10000 for every time you use motherlode
+1 for every day spent in Platinum Aspiration
+1 if, at the end of the Challenge, the Social bar is in the green
+1 if, at the end of the Challenge, the house is completely clean (no options to Clean) and there are no broken appliances
Now the Challenge becomes more about finding the loopholes in the rules and the bugs in the game code
. I can think of at least two solo activities in my current build of Sims 2 which increase Social even when the sim is alone... Also, there is an interesting loophole in one part of the Scoring - I'll leave finding that to the experts.
Notes:
[1] This Challenge is now more awesome, but not More Awesome. I hope you understand the difference. baratron has
still not finished the Ethiopian Challenge, therefore is not More Awesome, so cannot issue More Awesome rules.
[2] SimPE and other external sim editing programs count as cheating in this context.
[3] I do not know whether a hacked computer of this sort exists, I am merely stating a rule to be obeyed.