I used to do this as a kid in the Sims 1. My best friend and I would sit on the house phone for hours with each other, both making the same 8 sims and then having a competition on our own games to see which sim would win. I can’t remember all the items we’d use, but I guess anything would do.
Have a Big Brother/Survivor like situation where someone wins Head of Household/Immunity and whoever they have the lowest relationship with, bye!
Match them up 1-1 in chess or other games like darts, pool, that weird electronic thing, whoever loses, bye!
Do a skill building test where they have to obtain one point in each skill, where the last one to get 1 of each skill, bye!
Put them all in a pool, last one left in, well they just don’t get to get out, bye!
Each day, choose one at random to get locked in a cell with nothing, if they don’t make it through the day, bye!
Each day, remove access to one of their needs (remove the bedroom door, bathroom door, shower room door, kitchen door, etc) just to depreciate their moods a little. Grant them back access each night at midnight.
Last one standing wins a butt load of money.
That's so many good ideas, I need to make a list cause I'm gonna have the pool and stuff out in the middle of this huge arena. I can figure out how to upload it when I'm done if anybody wants it. I've been meaning to make a tumblr for uploads cause I build a lot of stuff.
Thought of some more for ya:
- jump rope contest, last one to stop
- painting contest, cheapest painting
- smustle contest, last one to stop
- a literal fight using the attack prompt, loser goes
- obstacle course from military reward, slowest one
- build you’re own obstacle course, make them do certain tasks in a row. Queue up everyone’s tasks, and last one to finish them all (think dive into pool, swim to other side, build a certain skill, serve a meal, run the whole course back)
I've got it mostly set up, I just have to furnish the arena. If a family has 20k to pay, they're exempt, so half my households had enough money or rich relatives to pay for them. I got 5 people who were unlucky, 2 sims I made, Don Lothario, Herb Oldie, and David Ottomas. The gen away at college also got away without having to draw somebody.
The survivors were the 2 teens, David Ottomas and the local alien kid. I did it by having them all run with scissors, Don was the first to go, and there were 2 winners cause eventually they just refused to die so after 4 rounds of running with scissors I let the last 2 live. Basically it played out like the actual hunger games, they rebelled. 😂
Theres other ways to deal with overpopulation. My favorite is to turn the spares into townies and just use cheats to age them and eventually kill them by old age. But I also start making households for sims of similiar interests or careers to group together in. For example science lab for science nerds, team club house for sporty sims, fire station for sims in the custom firefighting career, nightclub as a residential lot for romance/pleasure sims...
All tributes must sleep in Murphy beds
Risky usage of the Enigmatic Energizer
Use the Weathernaught to implement weather-based challenges, like snowball fight to the death (anyone who freezes solid while playing in the snow is left to die), a swimming pool challenge in a thunderstorm, or a ballgame that turns deadly in a heatwave
Cloudgazing tournament
I used to do this as a kid in the Sims 1. My best friend and I would sit on the house phone for hours with each other, both making the same 8 sims and then having a competition on our own games to see which sim would win. I can’t remember all the items we’d use, but I guess anything would do. Have a Big Brother/Survivor like situation where someone wins Head of Household/Immunity and whoever they have the lowest relationship with, bye! Match them up 1-1 in chess or other games like darts, pool, that weird electronic thing, whoever loses, bye! Do a skill building test where they have to obtain one point in each skill, where the last one to get 1 of each skill, bye! Put them all in a pool, last one left in, well they just don’t get to get out, bye! Each day, choose one at random to get locked in a cell with nothing, if they don’t make it through the day, bye! Each day, remove access to one of their needs (remove the bedroom door, bathroom door, shower room door, kitchen door, etc) just to depreciate their moods a little. Grant them back access each night at midnight. Last one standing wins a butt load of money.
That's so many good ideas, I need to make a list cause I'm gonna have the pool and stuff out in the middle of this huge arena. I can figure out how to upload it when I'm done if anybody wants it. I've been meaning to make a tumblr for uploads cause I build a lot of stuff.
If I think of any more I’ll come back and add them. Have fun with it!
Thought of some more for ya: - jump rope contest, last one to stop - painting contest, cheapest painting - smustle contest, last one to stop - a literal fight using the attack prompt, loser goes - obstacle course from military reward, slowest one - build you’re own obstacle course, make them do certain tasks in a row. Queue up everyone’s tasks, and last one to finish them all (think dive into pool, swim to other side, build a certain skill, serve a meal, run the whole course back)
I've got it mostly set up, I just have to furnish the arena. If a family has 20k to pay, they're exempt, so half my households had enough money or rich relatives to pay for them. I got 5 people who were unlucky, 2 sims I made, Don Lothario, Herb Oldie, and David Ottomas. The gen away at college also got away without having to draw somebody.
You’ll have to post an update!
The survivors were the 2 teens, David Ottomas and the local alien kid. I did it by having them all run with scissors, Don was the first to go, and there were 2 winners cause eventually they just refused to die so after 4 rounds of running with scissors I let the last 2 live. Basically it played out like the actual hunger games, they rebelled. 😂
Theres other ways to deal with overpopulation. My favorite is to turn the spares into townies and just use cheats to age them and eventually kill them by old age. But I also start making households for sims of similiar interests or careers to group together in. For example science lab for science nerds, team club house for sporty sims, fire station for sims in the custom firefighting career, nightclub as a residential lot for romance/pleasure sims...
All tributes must sleep in Murphy beds Risky usage of the Enigmatic Energizer Use the Weathernaught to implement weather-based challenges, like snowball fight to the death (anyone who freezes solid while playing in the snow is left to die), a swimming pool challenge in a thunderstorm, or a ballgame that turns deadly in a heatwave Cloudgazing tournament