Author Topic: Political "Traiter" to the World (Read 22468 times)

nobi_fawkes · « **Reply #25 on:** April 07, 2010, 04:34:00 AM »

I'm in.

The scoring is going to give me a headache (all numbers do) but I'm pretty sure I'll get the hang of it. And I think I'll need to do a test run again for this

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #26 on:** April 07, 2010, 05:52:09 AM »

Quote from: NancyJ on April 07, 2010, 12:20:37 AM

I'm in.

Just to be clear though - we create 2 Sims but only one of them counts for scoring purposes...

Right, Nancy. Your other Sim is a "utility" Sim just to make things a little easier for your Politician. They can work as well if that's your choice, but they cannot go into Politics.

Abyshep · « **Reply #27 on:** April 07, 2010, 07:25:39 AM »

Me please Metro!

Once I've finished the other two challenges obviously. Looks like it's going to be a long, happy Sim filled weekend for me!

Thanks

AbyShep

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #28 on:** April 07, 2010, 07:29:17 AM »

Quote from: Abyshep on April 07, 2010, 07:25:39 AM

Me please Metro!

Once I've finished the other two challenges obviously. Looks like it's going to be a long, happy Sim filled weekend for me!

Sounds like my kind of weekend as well.

You're in and good luck.

Saltypaws · « **Reply #29 on:** April 07, 2010, 07:55:11 AM »

I found my little mayor and funny thing is, he is the father of the BB1 challenge, lol. So, I am going to have two parties and see what I can find out. Should be interesting, to say the least.

Saltypaws · « **Reply #30 on:** April 07, 2010, 08:20:51 AM »

This is what I found out. You can ask for donations during he party and it does not go into the total at the end of the party, they are seperate. I had my sim give a party, his individual donations were 6,387. At the end of the party, I wrote down the donations that the guests give when they leave, then added them up and the individual donations were not included.

Saltypaws · « **Reply #31 on:** April 07, 2010, 08:28:09 AM »

Oh, btw, count me in on this one Metro. Will try to finish BBII, but not looking good. If the lowest score could win, I would win BBII handsdown. lol

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #32 on:** April 07, 2010, 08:39:13 AM »

Salty, thanks for doing the testing for me!

You saved me a lot of work this morning since I had no active Politician file. I appreciate it. So, it looks like the rules basically need no amending. If individual contributions received during a Campaign Fundraiser party DO NOT get added to the total amount announced at the end, then it does not matter if players want to ask for them or not. Good news.

Saltypaws · « **Reply #33 on:** April 07, 2010, 08:46:20 AM »

Forgot all about my little BBI mayor sim. I have done quite a few political careers, but when they reached Leader of the Free World or Mayor, I usually changed their LTW, so he was the only one left, except the townies that are in the political field. This should be an interesting challenge. Thanks Metro.

Carl · « **Reply #34 on:** April 07, 2010, 09:23:31 AM »

Way, way too interesting to pass up! Count me in

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #35 on:** April 07, 2010, 09:45:38 AM »

Quote from: Carl on April 07, 2010, 09:23:31 AM

Way, way too interesting to pass up! Count me in

You're in!

Also, for everyone's information I just added another restriction to Campaign Fundraisers—

....Also, you can never end Campaign Fundraisers early. They must run for their entire length.

That's an important one. It prevents players from cutting parties short and just exploiting them by spamming 4 or 5 in a day.

NancyJ · « **Reply #36 on:** April 07, 2010, 10:12:28 AM »

You can cut parties short? I didn't know that - I guess you just ask everyone to leave?

I'm going to start my testing tonight, sounds like a fairly straight forward one. I think I know how I'm going to approach - but then again I thought that about the career grandslam and my final strategy ended up nothing like I thought it would

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #37 on:** April 07, 2010, 10:31:06 AM »

Quote from: NancyJ on April 07, 2010, 10:12:28 AM

You can cut parties short? I didn't know that - I guess you just ask everyone to leave?

Exactly. So, if you know what you're doing and can throw great parties, then it simply becomes an exploit and I just don't want to go there.

NancyJ · « **Reply #38 on:** April 07, 2010, 10:41:02 AM »

Good to know for the future though - some guests just don't know when to leave! Usually I just send my guys to bed and leave them to it.

...only 4:30... oh well, what's the point of being self employed if you can't decide to ditch work early to play heh.

[Edited for language. -Pam]

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #39 on:** April 07, 2010, 12:44:35 PM »

It's time to kick up the sleaze factor. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his wife, Patti, are making a special appearance for this challenge.
Rod (speaking to me): "Hey, Tom, let me know if I can help your challenge in any way. Anything at all. I'm there for you. And let me just say, that Carl and Pam, wow, you're so lucky to work with pros like that. I remember back when I was Gov....."
Me: "zzzzzzzzzz."

Pam · « **Reply #40 on:** April 07, 2010, 01:33:49 PM »

I'm frightened by how much that Sim looks like the Gov. The conversation sounds just like him, too! Hilarious!

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #41 on:** April 08, 2010, 11:30:35 AM »

It occurred to me that because this event is so short, there's really no need to force someone to play at Normal lifespan if they would rather create the file and play at a longer setting to enable some more game time once the challenge is over. So, I edited the following to give an option:

Create 2 Young Adult Sims w/Normal OR Long Lifespan (relationship does not matter) in a brand new neighborhood. Make sure to leave Freewill on High at all times.

simone23 · « **Reply #42 on:** April 08, 2010, 04:43:00 PM »

LOL I love the Blago! Sign me up with Jack and Jackie

Here's hoping the image shows correctly. If not, you can find it on the exchange under my name.

Pam · « **Reply #43 on:** April 08, 2010, 04:46:04 PM »

Great job on Jackie! That suit is spot on!

MomOfMany · « **Reply #44 on:** April 08, 2010, 08:26:05 PM »

Well I am going to dive into this one as well. I don't know much about the political career so I will have to practice with this one a little but it will be fun!

MomOfMany · « **Reply #45 on:** April 08, 2010, 09:34:33 PM »

Quick Question to clarify this for me. The note about the NPC's means that it is possible to score for 3 maids as long as they are different Sims?

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #46 on:** April 08, 2010, 09:37:13 PM »

Quote from: momofmany on April 08, 2010, 09:34:33 PM

Quick Question to clarify this for me. The note about the NPC's means they it is possible to score for 3 maids as long as they are different Sims?

That's correct. That's why you need to jot down names. And you would need to become Best Friends AND learn all possible traits for each maid to receive credit.

Saltypaws · « **Reply #47 on:** April 09, 2010, 08:20:12 AM »

If my memory serves me correctly, you don't get the "ask to leave" option when hosting a fundraiser, but be careful about quiting a party. I did that a couple of times and one of those times you didn't get any money. So am I to assume there is no limits on parties?

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #48 on:** April 09, 2010, 08:27:05 AM »

Quote from: Saltypaws on April 09, 2010, 08:20:12 AM

If my memory serves me correctly, you don't get the "ask to leave" option when hosting a fundraiser, but be careful about quiting a party. I did that a couple of times and one of those times you didn't get any money. So am I to assume there is no limits on parties?

Yes, there are clear limits in bold print on parties. You can only host the fundraisers on the weekend (Saturday/Sunday) and you cannot end them early by asking anyone to leave. I am unaware that you could not end a fundraiser early. I'm pretty sure with any kind of party you can "Ask Everyone to Leave" which would, in effect, end the party. But, this is not allowed, so hopefully it should not be an issue.

Saltypaws · « **Reply #49 on:** April 09, 2010, 08:34:29 AM »

The only reason why I brought that up, when I was doing the experiment for the fundraiser, when I clicked on someone, that option didn't come up, but I suppose it was because I was at the beach front and not at home, so that might have been the reason.

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Author Topic: Political "Traiter" to the World (Read 22468 times)