LTW - Create 3 Monsters. . . . . . .

[pdxwinn]

I have been enjoying Ambitions - exploring the new LTW and new careers, etc. Today I got the option - 'Create 3 Monsters' as a lifetime wish. It gives no clue as to how to go about doing it or what career to work. I checked the Guide for guidance and did not see it listed so . . . . has anyone else gotten this as a lifetime wish? And if so, can you steer me in the right direction to complete it? (lol!)

Thanks!

[Pam]

We don't have a guide written for this one yet, but we're working on it.  You might find something in Carl's Inventor Guide.

[pdxwinn]

I wish I had the description in front of me right now. It made me wonder even more on what career to follow. It states you may make the monsters via any way you can - science, invent and/ or the occult (something like that - lol!) I have done the Devinci lifetime wish but my Sim was registered as a sculptor - so I didn't know you could make Simbots as an inventor. Even at level 10 in inventing I couldn't make a Simbot - apparently only registered inventors can.

Hmm, I'm rambling - I've completed Divinci and the the Ghost hunter lifetime wish and neither gave me the option to make a monster. I have never done the Science career so have gotten her a job there as I've heard they can create hibrids (is that right?).

Anyway, thanks for the response. If you hear anything - please pass it my way.

[wildredchild]

Here is what it says in the Prima Guide :

"
Monster Maker"

*Create 3 Monsters

For some Sims, the ultimate pastime in the unending search for new types of Life.  Whether crafted through mystical,laborical, or convergent methods, occult creations are wondrous achievements for Sims who prefer to dabble in the unknown.  Some may call them "monsters", but to their creators they are just another member of the family.

I would say creating Simbots and/or mummies would fit that bill.  Just my 2 cents.

[pdxwinn]

I'll switch to the inventor path and see if Simbots count.

Thanks, I'll let you know how it turns out.

[NancyJ]

Simbots do count but you need to complete the chain of opportunities to do it (requires 1 chunk of palladium, 1 heart shaped pink diamond and 10 life fruit), that will give you the option to 'create mystery invention' on the work table. After that you just need the ingredients (palladium, pink diamond and life fruit) to make another one.

[Arkaine]

An easy way to do this is to get to 10 inventing and 7 gardening, take a bunch of special seeds and hope for a lifefruit plant while waiting for the simbot opportunity. To find pink diamonds the miner big invention seems to be a very effective way, you can also get palladium this way. Grow 30 lifefruits, find 3 pink diamonds and 3 palladium and start building.

Shouldn't take that long.

[Branr]

An easy way to do this is to get to 10 inventing and 7 gardening, take a bunch of special seeds and hope for a lifefruit plant while waiting for the simbot opportunity. To find pink diamonds the miner big invention seems to be a very effective way, you can also get palladium this way. Grow 30 lifefruits, find 3 pink diamonds and 3 palladium and start building.

Shouldn't take that long.

Of course the Miner doesn't count for collecting gems (for the heart-shaped cut), so you still need to actually find all the different gems, either through collecting in the wild, exploring tombs, or breaking space rocks.

[ik]

Actually I think it might be easier and/or quicker to take a few trips to Egypt and collect urns and sarcophagus fragments there to create a bunch of mummies. With my style of playing I would choose the mummy creater route.

[AriaGirl77]

I'm wondering if reviving a ghost would count for this wish?  Either through the special opportunity that comes up now and then or through ambrosia, or maybe through some special opportunity as a ghost buster.

This sounds like a good LTW for Swede. lol

[Swede1992]

This sounds like a good LTW for Swede. lol

Ha, ha, you bet! My simbot has this LTW, not because I know exactly what defines a 'monster' (but I'm guessing simbots count), but because the world shall be ruled by mechanical monsters! *evil laugh*

I'm gonna' have him produce these babies until the human infestation is eradicated from Twinbrook.

[Pam]

I'm gonna' have him produce these babies until the human infestation is eradicated from Twinbrook.

Be sure to keep us apprised of that situation. 

[Saltypaws]

We know who deep down has an evil trait *looking over shoulder making sure Swede is not behind me* lol

[Arkaine]

Of course the Miner doesn't count for collecting gems (for the heart-shaped cut), so you still need to actually find all the different gems, either through collecting in the wild, exploring tombs, or breaking space rocks.

You don't need "all" gems, you need 10, with WA installed you can get it without any of the rarer gems. With the collecting guide maps it should take you a sims day or so to get it given you take a short trip to france and find at least one of the rarer gems, if you got no luck than it might take up to 3 days but that would be surprising.

Actually I think it might be easier and/or quicker to take a few trips to Egypt and collect urns and sarcophagus fragments there to create a bunch of mummies. With my style of playing I would choose the mummy creater route.

I thought about mummies, too, and gave it a try. It depends on how you count the "time", there is also a big luck factor in this LTW (no matter the way you choose). I think that in real-life time, inventing is fastest simply because you will spend almost all your time in fast forward as it requires little micro-management. If you count it in sims days though, it can get pretty close and luck in finding the pieces will pretty much make the difference as inventing is limited because it needs to grow lifefruits (never had trouble finding rare stones with miner), and mummy probably win in terms of non-travel days. And easy... well the inventing path revolves around 4 commands (invent, read book, tend garden and drill) so as far as easy goes... that is pretty much it. But nothing in the sims is particularly difficult anyway.

[Leto85]

Hi pdxwinn,

I'm working on the LTW Create 3 Monsters Guide while I am writing here. I think it will be done end next week and if you want I can give you a related PM when I'm finished.
Thanks for opening this topic though, I can maybe use it for some information that I can have overlooked.

[LlamaMama]

I'm gonna' have him produce these babies until the human infestation is eradicated from Twinbrook.

Be sure to keep us apprised of that situation. 

And screenshots, lots of them!

[templesmom]

Hey, in Leto85 awsome walk thru he uses his life time points to buy his third monster. Does that mean that you can do this life time wish but just buying three simbots? just want to clearify.

[Nora]

Any SimBots created through the "My Best Friend" Lifetime Reward do count towards the Lifetime Want.

[templesmom]

Awsome. Thank you.

[Pam]

Any SimBots created through the "My Best Friend" Lifetime Reward do count towards the Lifetime Want.

I believe they do.  I got a sneak peek at Leto's guide for this LTW and he wrote that getting a Simbot through the lifetime rewards completed the LTW for 3 monsters.

[Leto85]

Hey, in Leto85 awsome walk thru he uses his life time points to buy his third monster. Does that mean that you can do this life time wish but just buying three simbots? just want to clearify.

Robots and mummies will do, they will count as a monster. No matter how you will get them. Although, for the mummy: you need to create one yourself, with the canopic jars. You cannot turn your sim into one because that will not count. I have tested that and included it in the guide.
Ghost will not count in any way or situation. And I find that very pitiful.
Thanks for the compliment by the way!

[Schipperke]

Hey, Leto, here's one for you:  what about the clones my game keeps creating whenever my sims travel?  If they don't qualify as monsters, they should, the way they keep messing up my game!  Just kidding, I guess.   

[Metropolis Man]

Hey, Leto, here's one for you:  what about the clones my game keeps creating whenever my sims travel?  If they don't qualify as monsters, they should, the way they keep messing up my game!  Just kidding, I guess.   

Let's be more specific — they're not just monsters. Those are your demons. 

[Schipperke]

Let's be more specific — they're not just monsters. Those are your demons.  

Got that right.  Demon hunters, anyone?

[Castastic]

Got that right.  Demon hunters, anyone?

Now I'm thinking of "Supernatural" and the hot monster-hunting Winchesters (and the hot and socially incompetent angel), but they don't only hunt demons there, they hunt ghosts, vampires and werewolves too (and a mass of other stuff)! If we ever get that amazing EP filled with supernatural creatures, I want to have a "Hunter" career; as in a hunter of the supernatural, not poor animals! We don't only need more monsters, we need people to hunt them down and kill them, too!   *insane glee*
*clears throat* Yeah, this LTW sounds a bit tricky for newly made sims, but for sims you've already played with for a while and gotten some collecting and gardening done with already, it shouldn't be hard. My sim Arianna would be able to make a SimBot her first day, she already has a mass of Lifefruits, gems and metals to spare. And she sure needs someone to do the chores for her and her family, as I never give the family break enough for ridiculous things such as cleaning, gardening, doing the dishes, emptying the potty, etc.   They have Masterpieces to write and paint, and lots of things to collect around town, after all. A slave SimBot would be very useful, and I can't wait until getting Ambitions!
Hope I didn't go too much off-topic...   *innocent smile*

[LlamaMama]

Now I'm thinking of "Supernatural" and the hot monster-hunting Winchesters (and the hot and socially incompetent angel)

Great, now I am too! :sigh:

[RoyalPlumbob]

Hey Leto, congrats on the article!

I was thinking... the tradition is to introduce a new horrible monster ( G SB M) supernatural being in every E.P., right? Well, maybe the new creatures in future E.P.s could count to complete this LTW!

P.S. A shame it's only worth 20k LHP, now if you excuse me, I will apologize to my Ghost, SimBot, and Mummy Sims .

[RoyalPlumbob]

Hey Leto, did you also try to make a Ghost Baby? Just saying, because nobody seems to have thought of this.

Edit: Hello?

[wildredchild]

Hey Leto, did you also try to make a Ghost Baby? Just saying, because nobody seems to have thought of this.

Edit: Hello?

Leto may have not signed in today for him to see your previous message.  Please be patient and wait for the other members that live around the world to have a chance to read the forums. 

[AriaGirl77]

I'm not Leto, but I'll chime in anyway!

I've made a few ghost babies and they're kind of fun!  The only part that I don't like about them is that they make exactly the same noises as adult ghosts, which doesn't seem right to me.   

[Swede1992]

Hey Leto, did you also try to make a Ghost Baby? Just saying, because nobody seems to have thought of this.

Edit: Hello?

Hmm, I haven't tested this LTW on ghost babies, but how do we know that ghosts are even supposed to be counted in this? Isn't it possible that it's just an exaggerated assumption?

By the way, Leto's Dutch, so he's in the same time zone as me and to me, your post was made 1.32 AM.

[Saltypaws]

It is actually 8:30am here and the forum time says 10:20am.  Wasn't trying to get off topic, but saw that you mentioned it.

[Swede1992]

It is actually 8:30am here and the forum time says 10:20am.  Wasn't trying to get off topic, but saw that you mentioned it.

I actually took that into account. Don't know why the forum does that. Well, you're right; no more off-topic here! I'm a moderator, so I can be mean and say that noone should respond to me! (If you really do want to discuss the forum time, do so in another thread

[RoyalPlumbob]

Hmm, I haven't tested this LTW on ghost babies, but how do we know that ghosts are even supposed to be counted in this? Isn't it possible that it's just an exaggerated assumption?

By the way, Leto's Dutch, so he's in the same time zone as me and to me, your post was made 1.32 AM.

As I said, nobody seemed to have thought about it, I could do some testing. Let's see... it says "laborical (SimBot), Mystical (Mummy I guess, since you summon it in a kind of ritual), and Convergent means." Maybe the convergent part means a hybird, and could be Sim/Ghost.

I'm going to test right now.

[samoht04]

In Leto's Walkthrough it says Ghosts can't be counted?

[Swede1992]

What I'm thinking is, try what happens when you revive the ghost using your own money (i.e. not free from the skill opportunity, but afterwards). I have a hunch it may be a difference there.

[Archer0]

Supposedly you can also transmute 8 of the same color spirits on the carter display and get back remains that can be resurrected.  Have not confirmed this though.  Might be another way to test the ghost counting for the LTW too.

[Leto85]

Hey, Leto, here's one for you:  what about the clones my game keeps creating whenever my sims travel?  If they don't qualify as monsters, they should, the way they keep messing up my game!  Just kidding, I guess.   

Haha, sorry for posting to you so late. I didn't saw this one before. Your way of cloning sounds familiair to me. To familiair I'm afraid. I had that to, with my rich sims. I don't know if that have anything to do with it, but their house was probably to big for my family so the game begin to protest... in a cloning way.

[Leto85]

Hey, Leto, here's one for you:  what about the clones my game keeps creating whenever my sims travel?  If they don't qualify as monsters, they should, the way they keep messing up my game!  Just kidding, I guess.  

Haha, sorry for posting to you so late. I didn't see this one before. Your way of cloning sounds familiar to me. Too familiar, I'm afraid. I had that, too, with my rich sims. I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but their house was probably too big for my family so the game begin to protest... in a cloning way.

Hey Leto, did you also try to make a Ghost Baby? Just saying, because nobody seems to have thought of this.

Edit: Hello?

Sorry for responding so late. It's that my personal life is calling big time these days. If I don't respond, I probably haven't see your post. But if the question is very important for you (or anyone else) you can always pm me. Because if I have little time (and I have that more often now ) I will find the time to check my mail here. At least.

But to get back to your question. I haven't tried to 'create' a baby ghost. I know how to do that, but I haven't done it before. I'm too busy with building and stuff (fooling around with Create a World whenever my computer likes to allow me). But to be honest, I am mostly the more 'realistic' player. Looking at my guide, I know this sounds pretty weird, but normally I play the Sims as much as I can compare that with the real life.

And for the guide, I just liked to do the exact same thing the other way around. Haha, monsters everywhere.

[Schipperke]

I had that to, with my rich sims. I don't know if that have anything to do with it, but their house was probably to big for my family so the game begin to protest... in a cloning way.

So you think that moving them into a smaller house would help?  (I assume you're kidding).  Actually, I think I have a solution to the problem.  A lot of people are having their sims turn invisible when they travel, while my game keeps churning out clones that are all too visible.  If anyone needs a replacement for missing or invisible sims, just let me know - I'll be glad to send over a clone or two.  This doesn't violate any Challenge rules, does it Metro?  

[Leto85]

So you think that moving them into a smaller house would help?  (I assume you're kidding).  Actually, I think I have a solution to the problem.  A lot of people are having their sims turn invisible when they travel, while my game keeps churning out clones that are all too visible.  If anyone needs a replacement for missing or invisible sims, just let me know - I'll be glad to send over a clone or two.  This doesn't violate any Challenge rules, does it Metro?  

Hahaha, I like your way of writing. But actually, no, I was not kidding. I will not answer a question from you with a joke you can't do anything with because that is just annoying. You're asking for help (I thought you did , so I will not joke around. Okey, I will joke, but only if I can compare that with real working answers.

To get back to your post, I really think that I somehow have bugged the game by letting my sims live in my overgrown millionaire's mansion. My laptop just didn't like that. Because it was only then that the game shows itself to me in a real lagging way and I saw my sims moving like I was watching a photo/ dia presentation.

It asked a lot of my patience, what I didn't have at the moment and therefore I moved my sims out after one of them got cloned. I have that posted in another post months ago. Maybe you remember that.
When I moved my sims out, the problem was solved. No more cloning behind my back. So yeah, it is probably something that has lagged your game, and although I really hate it, I can't say for sure that this is true.

[The Illuminator]

What laptop are you using Leto? A better laptop may solve your lagging problems, at least it did solve my problems.

[Leto85]

What laptop are you using Leto? A better laptop may solve your lagging problems, at least it did solve my problems...

An acer Aspire 6920. Bought 2 years ago. But I already have bought a huge computer which can play the Sims 3. That one has a solid state drive (no kidding) and is capable of starting up in 15 seconds or faster.
But that one has problems, too (Pinnacle doesn't work), so I have to wait with my creative outbursts before I can do anything.
I don't play The Sims 3 on this laptop anymore. My mother is so kind to me. I can borrow hers until I get my machine back.

[AriaGirl77]

I think the problem with big houses and many objects becomes a rendering issue.  The more stuff you have on a lot the longer it will take your computer to render all those objects and therefore your game will slow down.  I get this a lot when I've got a bunch of relics or a huge garden.

I think what it comes down to, the less stuff you've got the smoother your game will play.

And now I think this topic should head back to the LTW - Create 3 Monsters subject.  If there are any additional questions about computer speed or technical issues it can be brought up in the miscellaneous help forum.

[Swede1992]

And now I think this topic should head back to the LTW - Create 3 Monsters subject.  If there are any additional questions about computer speed or technical issues it can be brought up in the miscellaneous help forum.

Hrmm, Technical Help would be a better idea...
I'm agreeing with AriaGirl, this is off-topic!

[Keyofgb]

OK, so frustration sets in when all I need is the dang rainbow gem so I can get the heart shaped cut for my pink diamond.  Finally, done!  Off to the science facility to get (I forget what it's called) to make my monster.  Good, one monster down, two to go.  I have everything I need to make more... pink diamond, palladium, life fruit... but the science facility doens't care.  What am I missing to make another monster so I can achive my life time wish? 

[samoht04]

I don't think you have to go to the Science Place, you can just make one from the station?

Simbots Guide

Leto's Monster Maker LTW Walkthrough

[Keyofgb]

Wait, I don't need that thing (whatever it's called) to make more?  Arg!  I can't believe it, you're right.  Thanks :-)

[Pam]

You're referring to the Life Core.  Right, you only need the Science Center the first time.  After that, you just need the elements and you can make it yourself.

[Dangerous_Storm]

Is there any other monsters you can create? I saw this guide an he created a frankenstein dude. I believe it was magic. How do you use magic?

[folcon]

At this time, there is no magic sims can use, nor are their any frankenstsins.  I'm not sure what you saw.  Though I am curious, if creating a vampire counts for the LTW.  And has anyone tested the ghost babies yet to see if they count?

[loveSims]

I think he mean that scary sim that was used in the lifetime reward guide. If I remember right Leto write it.

[folcon]

Ah, that one.  That one isn't a monster.  Not an actual one anyway.  He was still created in CAS to be the utility sim to take care of needs while the inventor worked on the LTW.

[Dangerous_Storm]

Ok, why in the description does it say:

"Monster Maker"

*Create 3 Monsters

For some Sims, the ultimate pastime in the unending search for new types of Life.  Whether crafted through MYSTICAL,laborical, or convergent methods, occult creations are wondrous achievements for Sims who prefer to dabble in the unknown.  Some may call them "monsters", but to their creators they are just another member of the family.

[Seabody]

The "Mystical" part refers to creating Mummies. You put 5 Canopic Jars (spelling?) in a Sarcophagus, and choose "Summon Mummy" (you need World Adventures to do this).

And welcome to the forum.