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Test Subject
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#1 Old 1st Sep 2019 at 8:55 PM
Default Midlife Revival Challenge
Requires TS3 Generations.

Summary
Your sim is stuck in a rut and feeling helpless. They have come to the end of their YA life with a low-level career that they hate, in a loveless marriage and stuck with a small home that they hate everything about. It's time for a change... change that may come with their midlife crisis.
Set-up
Any lifespan is allowed, just be mindful that longer lives make the challenge easier!
Create a YA sim. This sim can be any gender and sexual orientation. They may look any way you want to face/body wise, but make sure that the outfit and hair are ugly/frumpy. They may have any traits, sign and favourites that you wish and have any LTW that you like (though a career-based one is recommended). Create their spouse. Again, they can be any gender and sexual orientation and any age. Looks are up to you, but make the spouse's traits, sign and favourites incompatible with your main Sim's.
Move them into a house and cheat to set the sim to a low-level (<5) position in a career. (To do this, type 'testingcheatsenabled true' into the console activated by CTRL + SHIFT + C and then shift-click the mailbox. You should see an action to set career.) You may set the scene for the challenge if you wish to storytell.
Once you are ready, age your sim up. It is recommended to save just before aging up in case your sim doesn't get a crisis moodlet. When your sim finally does get that moodlet, the challenge will begin.
The Challenge
Your challenge is to revamp this sim's life in five major ways : House, Spouse, Look, Job and Experiences. However, there's a catch - you may only work on these goals once a midlife crisis wish tells you to - yes, this includes random events - except for in the last day of your crisis, when you are allowed to attempt to finish all of the goals that you have not yet completed in a race against the clock. If an event results in a progression through your revival without there being a wish or said milestone being 'unlocked' (eg having a child before divorcing your spouse or completing seven other list items), you do not get any points that this would have gained you. If this happens three times, then you fail the challenge (your sim feels helpless despite the change).
The List
House
  • Move house
  • Buy an object worth 1000 or more
  • Remodel New House (unlocked with 2 complete wishes)
Spouse
  • Flirt with another Sim
  • Divorce Spouse
  • Kick Ex-Spouse out (4 complete wishes, must have divorced spouse)
  • Go Steady with another sim (3 complete wishes)
  • Marry another sim (6 complete wishes, must have divorced and kicked out spouse)
Look
  • Get a makeover (replaces Plan outfit and cut/dye hair)
  • Plan outfit
  • Cut/dye hair
  • Get stronger / thinner
  • Work out until fatigued
Job
  • Change careers
  • Reach LV 5 of new career (unlocked with 3 complete wishes)
  • Reach LV 10 of new career (unlocked with 6 complete wishes)
Experiences
  • Travel abroad
  • Buy a car worth > 10,000
  • Adopt a pet (1 Complete Wish)
  • Throw a Party (1 Complete Wish)
  • Have a Child (7 complete wishes, divorced spouse)
Scoring
Positive:
  • 3 wishes complete - +500 points
  • 6 wishes complete - +1000 points
  • All wishes in one category complete - +1000 points
  • All random wishes complete - +5000 points
  • All wishes complete - +10000 points
  • LTW complete - +7500 points
  • Every 10,000 lifetime happiness points - +2000 points
Negative:
  • No wishes complete in a category: -1000 points
  • Any instance of cheats after setup (unless to fix a bug) - Loss
  • Fewer than 10,000 lifetime happiness points total at challenge end: -5000 points
  • No progress towards LTW: -7500 points
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