| Flip This House | season-1, Game play contest

[tabbs]

The House: ($24,071)






D O W N L O A D

The Skinny:
So you have a few investors who are willing to give you 25% of the base cost,
which amounts to $6,018 - this is what they are willing to invest in this house.

Then you have: Maintenance, repairs, and remodeling to think about.

The previous owners were PIGS, almost completely destroying this property.
The neighbors are so happy they are gone that they are chipping in to give the gift of an exterminator.
However it is up to you to decide if you want to pay other sims for they're services (maids, gardeners, repairmen, servos, and workers) to help you out with this property mess.

Info on Workers:
If you move in alone (you don't have any workers)
If you need help create a group of sims/servos to help you out. (but they must be paid 100 dollars a day - until you sale. FOR EACH WORKER)
If you hire any help (besides the exterminator) you must deduct they're fees from 30,089.).

Raising More money:
THINGS ARE ONLY RESALABLE after the LOT is Cleaned and repaired!
So then you could...
Have a yard sale (OBF buisness - but you can only sale whats on the property. NO RESTOCKING)
Or...
You could simply sale everything back in buy mode.

How to play:
- Take screenshots of when your sim arrives, who's on your crew, when you start working.
- Take screenshots of FUNDS, moods etc. (whatever you think is awesome cool!)
- ONLY Maxis Objects & Recolors (Custom Build MODE are welcomed)
- Custom Walls & floors are welcomed
- You are ALLOWED to change the floor plan & add on rooms (sun rooms etc.)
- You are NOT allowed to completely change the house (the house must still resemble the base house - it needs to be recognizable when done)
- NO Mood hacks, Aspiration HACKS.

Things to keep track of:
- Furnishings SOLD/BOUGHT
- Walls & Floors SOLD/BOUGHT
- BUILDING COSTS
- DAYS in progress (for workers)
- Helper Costs (maids, repairmen, etc.)

Totaling:
After you have remodeled your home.
Figure in Both the base cost of the house & the investors donations: 30,089.
Then find the Net Worth of your lot.

Winner:
THE Winner will be decided by: Overall-Curb appeal & Profit Made (anything over 30,089.)


OTHER NOTES:
This house was built with these games = Base, UNI, NL, OBF, Seasons, Pets, BV, FT
This house was built with these stuffpacks = Glamour life, Celebration Stuff, H&M, Family fun, Teen Stuff & Kitchen /Bath.
This house requires: Ladder w/ custom animations by marvin (also included in the package - maybe not the mesh though)


I sincerely hope that I have covered everything - but if you have any questions please feel free to ask.

This post has been edited by tabbs on Aug 3 2008, 01:32 AM

[tabbs]

Judges:
1 - Tabbs
2 - PENDING
3 - PENDING

This post has been edited by tabbs on Aug 3 2008, 02:03 PM

[tabbs]

Contestant House's

This post has been edited by tabbs on Aug 3 2008, 02:03 PM

[Sephiramy]

Tabbs, this is SUCH an awesome idea!!

It really makes me wish I still had Sims on an active comp of my own 'cause I'd totally give it a whirl! Maybe I can find a way to do it at Kay's house? I hope...!

Does the house REQUIRE all of those expansions up to FreeTime or should it work okay if I use Clean Installer...?

[tabbs]

It should work with clean-installer. I think I used basically base game objects & possibly NL.

This would be cool if you could find a computer LOL - would be fun to see *cheesy grin*

[H.K]

sucks that you need to have all the eps

i currently only have base installed and it will crash any other games because it's saved as a seasons file

[tabbs]

Maybe I can create this for different EPs, let me research this

[H.K]

I got everything but freetime working since freetime doesn't come for mac ...
hmmm

im going to try the lot as is since i dont think there's a mac clean installerr... we'll see

OHH!! OHH!!! If someone wants to try it I know there is a program that allows you to start your game without certain EPS so someone could go in without freetime, save the house and upload? If the file doesn't work of course
Ill update later

edit: yup, it doesn't work

This post has been edited by H.K on Aug 4 2008, 07:17 PM

[tabbs]

I think I know the program you are speaking of - Is it from Numerator? (what ever his name is?)

Here is the program: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=250555

I will see if I can just make this Base Game Compatible.

This post has been edited by tabbs on Aug 4 2008, 07:56 PM

[janelle]

GAH. I am so so in!

Now, so just to clarify, we can create ONE sim to work on this as the flipper, but if we create more, all of them after that would be considered workers and would need to be paid the §100/day?

And don't mind me, I find ALL challenges confusing to mah small brain, so I'll probably have probably close to a bajillion more questions soon.

This post has been edited by janelle on Aug 4 2008, 09:42 PM

[tabbs]

Yes, yes that is correct Janelle

I think I'll make it though - that if you CREATE a servo to help you on the lot then you wont have to pay them or other helper robots - Just so long as they were created by your main sim. (because you took the time to create them)

[janelle]

ohh, okay. And I like that crafting= no paying. I can't wait till i have some more free time to do this.

[Sephiramy]

Are our Sims allowed to have pre-existing skills upon entering the lot? i.e. mechanical, creative, etc.

[tabbs]

Yes Yes, you can level up ANY sim you want. Because some people get into real estate later on, ya know - I think it adds more to the game play to leave things Open to the player

[janelle]

I just realized that I'm going to be away for two weeks, and I wont even have internet, nevertheless the sims, so what's the time line for this?

[Sephiramy]

I'm gonna try my ultra-best to give this a shot. I'd have to do it through Kayzig's game, though, which I only have limited access to, seeing as... we don't live together!

Dooooo we know... if it's base-game compatible yet...? Or... I mean, we have up to Seasons installed, now. Bon Voyage makes the game buggy on her compy, and we are worried about even attempting FreeTime. Any suggestions?

I am writing this at her place right now, and will be here for about 2 more hours, so if we get a reply in that time that'd be awesome! But if not, no worries! We will work it out. ^___^

This post has been edited by Sephiramy on Aug 7 2008, 12:33 PM

[tabbs]

I think it should be compatible with Seasons. I wanted to convert it over to just base game but I packed up all my Expansion packs... Maybe I can look for them this weekend ?? LOL

Also there is no time limit - I just want this to be a relaxing challenge to everyone

[H.K]

it doesnt work with up to BV installed i know that much

any news on fixing that tabbby dear?

[Emmie]

WEEEEEEEEEEE love this, reminds me kinda of Clean House!!! Love the yard sale idea so cuteness.

The only EP I don't have it Pets or any stuff packs. I don't think that will make a difference though. This could be team done, like two of your sims. And they have 6000$ to to the project.

I will try it in game tomorrow and see if it works :S

[H.K]

soooo has anyone done this? i'd love to see some entries

[janelle]

Shall I move this for now, or has the packaged lot worked for some people?

If no one's participating by October 24th, I'd say we should save this (wonderful) challenge for a different time. I'd really like to see this happen, though, at some point in the future.

[tabbs]

I think we should move this for now. Until I can get just base game to work - but I'd have to do some unpacking to find all my games, so I think it would be a good idea to move this until I can get a base game house.

[Versailles]

This is such an AWESOME idea. I love the show, I never thought about incorporating it into the Sims world :]

I wish I could participate, but with mid-terms coming up it'd be a death trap for me. I'll definitely be following this, though.