The da Vinci's All You Can Make Buffet

[Metropolis Man]

The da Vinci’s All You Can Make Buffet


Your hosts, Tom and Kathy da Vinci — ready to craft and cook their way to a fortune.

GOAL:

Try and top the da Vincis as they cook, paint, invent and sculpt their way to Renaissance-sized Household Funds.
 
RULES:

First Things First

• Stating your intent to participate is mandatory. You will then be added to the leaderboard.
• The Ambitions expansion is required for this event.
• Practicing ahead of time is fine. But, once you create characters for the real deal, that’s it—you are allowed a single attempt for score.
• You must be patched up to the most current EA patch.
• No cheats or modifications allowed.
• Exiting without saving to avoid a mistake or an unfortunate occurrence (i.e. burglar or fire) is cheating.

Your Sim

• Create 2 Young Adult Sims (game length = Long) in a brand new Sunset Valley, Riverview, or Twinbrook neighborhood. You can only play/remodel stock neighborhood houses or build one yourself from scratch. The Edit Town screen is off limits.
• The single exception to entering Edit Town is Twinbrook players can add the Book Corral to the town library.
• Aging must be left on and Freewill must be on High.
• No other Sims can be added to your Household*.
• *While your "da Vinci" Sim is Inventing he/she is free to make a SimBot as part of the Career Opportunity chain, but would be required to release them into the neighborhood.
• Your Cooking Sim does not have skill restrictions and may pursue other skills than simply cooking. Just remember that he/she can only add to Household Funds via Cooking.

Skill and Income Restrictions

• A big restriction to this event is where your Household Funds comes from...all revenue must come from cooking, painting, inventing or sculpting.
• One Sim must be designated as your “da Vinci” and all of their revenue contributions is limited to painting, sculpting and inventing. Your other Sim is only allowed to bring in money via Cooking (Culinary career is fine too). He/she is not allowed to paint, sculpt or invent.
• Your da Vinci Sim is restricted to how long they can actively pursue one of their 3 income producing skills — 4 game weeks for each skill. No more. No less (no doubling up and raising two skills at once). So, as soon as the game clock reads Week 5, your da Vinci switches skills and does not return to the previous skill. Ditto for when the game clock reads Week 9 — your da Vinci tackles the last of the 3 skills, not to turn back to the other two.
• Clarification: It's Week 4, Day 7, 11: 59 PM. You're done with painting and have to put down the brush. But, you've finished 2 more paintings after the consignment store closed. Don't worry — you can still sell those paintings and any other "da Vinci" skill items at any time.
• Your Cooking Sims does not have skill restrictions and may pursue other skills than simply cooking. Just remember that he/she can only add to Household Funds via Cooking.
• Most anything related to these 4 skills qualifies as being eligible for a income source with the exception of using inventions to make money (like the Time Machine or Miner). That's NOT allowed. But, sales of these items is fine. Skill or Career Opportunities are also fine. And selling any item made from your skills to the consignment store is also fine.
• The Consignment Store has its share of bugs unfortunately, but I don’t want to ban it. If sales dry up for you, then the best thing to do is to cancel all consignments, save and exit your game, go back and consign everything again.

Additional Restrictions and Info

• The Moodlet Manager is banned.
• Vacations are banned.
• Birthday Cakes are banned.
• Doing anything to facilitate a death is banned.
• As always, discussing strategy on how to achieve certain goals in this thread is not allowed. If you're unsure — don't say anything.
• This challenge ends after 12 weeks (Week 12, Day 7, 11:59 PM).

SCORING:

Household Funds — When the game clock reads Week 12, Day 7, 11:59 PM (the game clock is in the white box underneath the LTW), you stop your game and note total Household Funds in the bottom left of the game screen — this is not net worth. It’s only Household Funds.

Post your result in this thread and I’ll update the table.

This Event is Closed

Challenge Begins: July 30
Challenge Ends: October 10

Good luck to everyone!

Final Leaderboard

Player	Household Funds
Largo The Stampede	$2,518,595
NancyJ	$2,100,640
LenaLJ	$2,054,339
Solstice	$2,046,070
ClayMask	$1,987,469
TommyT	$1,659,994
Metro	$1,611,405
John Allen	$1,468,396
omega2alpha	$1,416,120
Schipperke	$1,347,321
tiff_jewels	$1,314,388
klop90	$1,268,498
alyssa.cole	$1,172,335
TheQuietOne	$1,164,668
Alsier	$1,029,838
tosho	$974,839
Justwright	$937,308
Anushka	$912,027
Joria	$777,447
NeoFelis	$674,901
Nyteglori	$651,717
momofmany	$649,808
gerrr00	$538,882
Pam	$533,887
cndneh	$521,131
Lizzy3272	$474,115
celinegreen1969	$431,726
Beddy_Boop	$334,124
Simaholic	$320,938
YolandaBlu	$319,079

[Schipperke]

Excerpt from a letter:

Dear Mother,

Please sit down while you read this letter.  Leonardo’s Time Machine works!  I am writing to you from the 21st Century, believe it or not.  We are in a town named Sunset Valley, very pretty, much like SimMilan.  The people are friendly but they do wear strange clothing in this time. 

Leonardo is very famous in the 21st Century, so he is going by the name of Lenny while we are here.  We do plan to stay for a while.  “Lenny” has learned of a contest being sponsored by a famous patron of the arts named Metropolis Man.  This contest is for the best sculptors, painters, and inventors, and of course “Lenny” intends to compete. 

I will put this letter in the Time Machine for you.  When you are ready to send a message to me, just put it in the Time Machine and pull the lever.  Don’t touch any of the other knobs, or it may go to another time period!

Your loving daughter,
Lisa



Editor's note:  Lenny & Lisa haven't actually moved in to their lot yet.  They just put in a brief appearance in another game to have their photograph taken.

We're in!  And thank you, thank you, thank you for a challenge with no travelling.

[Metropolis Man]

LOL! Great set up, Schipperke. Yeah, I was debating dubbing the no vacation rule, Schipperke's Mandate.

[AriaGirl77]

Love it, Schipperke!

Now that I'm done with Wishmaster's I'm gonna have to take a break from challenges for a bit, I'll let you know when I'm ready to jump in again.   This looks like a fun one!

[LenaLJ]

I want to join naturally

[NancyJ]

I'm in.

[Lucy360]

I would like to try this as my first challenge please

[omega2alpha]

Sign me up please

[wildredchild]

Sign me up please!

[Metropolis Man]

Lucy360, welcome to the forums and good luck in this event! omega2alpha and wild — you're in.

[Lucy360]

Thank you for the welcolme, I just realised that I will need Ambitions for the Scultping and Inventing and I dont have it yet...Think I will have to miss this one out sorry  

[Metropolis Man]

Ah, sorry to hear that. Yeah, I actually originally had plans to just make it such that your skills were limited to painting, inventing, and sculpting and you can do any amount of these as you wanted. That would have opened up the door to vanilla players, but I really want to give the challenge the da Vinci flavor and force players to do those new skills.

Let me know if you get the expansion and I'll throw you back in.

[Twinmum]

One where I don't have to worry about sending them to work and career climbing yay, I'm in.

Norma

[Alsier]

I'm interested in this challenge.  Some questions though...

• The DVS (da Vinci Sim) only spends 4 weeks pursuing each income skill - does this mean they can only use one skill at a time, or only that they can only make money from one skill at a time (ie, say the first four weeks they pursue painting.  Can they read books on inventing to get the inventing skill up during that time (but only sell paintings), or can they only use the painting skill during that time and not practice any other skill until the next 4 weeks?
• Likewise, it doesn't actually say that you can't use other skills, just can't make money from them.  Does this mean that the cooking sim can garden and then cook the produce from the garden (but can't sell produce or fish directly)?
• How related does a task have to been to qualify as valid revenue?  During the inventing time, can you make money by using the time machine and mining?
• Can you sell furniture you've bought earlier to get some money back, or once you buy it you have to keep it?
• If you have items in the consignment store when a four week period ends, do you have to cancel them so they won't sell outside of their time period?

Thanks

[Pam]

Count me in, please.

Great questions, Alsier!

[Metropolis Man]

I'm interested in this challenge.  Some questions though...

• The DVS (da Vinci Sim) only spends 4 weeks pursuing each income skill - does this mean they can only use one skill at a time, or only that they can only make money from one skill at a time (ie, say the first four weeks they pursue painting.  Can they read books on inventing to get the inventing skill up during that time (but only sell paintings), or can they only use the painting skill during that time and not practice any other skill until the next 4 weeks?

I was wondering how long it would be before someone needed this clarified. Hmmm...I think for the da Vinci character I'll just simplify things and require that only one skill be used in the 4-week period. Then, there's no confusion. Keeps things simpler for you and everyone else. And there's less chance for mistakes.

• Likewise, it doesn't actually say that you can't use other skills, just can't make money from them.  Does this mean that the cooking sim can garden and then cook the produce from the garden (but can't sell produce or fish directly)?

I'll clarify this.

• How related does a task have to been to qualify as valid revenue?  During the inventing time, can you make money by using the time machine and mining?

I'll clarify that too. That example would not be allowed because you're using inventions to turn around and make money whereas I'm seeing this as simply the sales of inventions themselves. Nothing else.

• Can you sell furniture you've bought earlier to get some money back, or once you buy it you have to keep it?

You'd have to keep it since furniture sales have nothing to do with painting, inventing, cooking and sculpting.

[Twinmum]

Another question Metro that Alsier asked and I was wondering too. Say at the end of week 4 I have paintings at the consignment store. Now the next morning (week 5) I ditch the easel and go onto sculpting, what happens to the items I had consigned. Likewise for any paintings I may have finished in the last hours of week 4, can I still sell them?

Norma

[Metropolis Man]

Another question Metro that Alsier asked and I was wondering too. Say at the end of week 4 I have paintings at the consignment store. Now the next morning (week 5) I ditch the easel and go onto sculpting, what happens to the items I had consigned. Likewise for any paintings I may have finished in the last hours of week 4, can I still sell them?

Norma

Absolutely, Norma. That's only fair. I'll clarify that as well. In fact, your example is a good illustration that I'll use.

[Metropolis Man]

I made the edit, Norma. Let me know if it's clear now. And if you already have items consigned and move on to another skill, then items at the shop made with the previous skill are fine as well.

[Twinmum]

Nice and clear, thanks Metro.

I'm playing with a test couple today (a break from my wishmaster group) trying to refine what traits I want to use. Gee I love this game  

[Pam]

Is the Culinary career considered to be cooking for money making purposes?

[Schipperke]

Is the Culinary career considered to be cooking for money making purposes?

Pam, this is what it says in the description of this Challenge in the Tournament Schedule:  "your two Sims can only make money via Inventing, Sculpting, Painting, and the Culinary Career and Cooking. "  Unless this has changed, I think the answer to your question would be Yes.

[Pam]

Thanks, Schipperke.

Metro, can clarify this to match the Tournament Schedule if what Schipperke says is correct?

[Agnes]

Sign me in!

[Zetshia]

You can only play/remodel stock neighborhood houses or build one yourself from scratch.

Wouldn't this drastically effect your starting, and final, household funds? I mean if you bought a big house not only would you start out with less money but you'd also have to pay higher bills throughout the challenge.