College, Week One

This is an apocalypse challenge, and I'm planning to stick it through to the end!

I'm starting with the easy university start, where you're completely unrestricted until you leave college.

I'm doing this as kind of an informational blog, observing the strategies I take and why I'm taking them (in part to keep myself on track). If you want a purely instructional blog, Gary's doing a fantastic one here.

So, Janie McRae is the randomized name for my founder. I rolled her up with:

- Slob

 This is one that pretty much everyone can agree on; it makes it so your sim doesn't care about being stinky, plus you can eat rotten food without vomiting.

- Workaholic

 Also pretty obvious; workaholics can work hard for longer.

- Ambitious

 Raising skill in school and work faster and more efficiently since forever. Also more LTR points!

- Genius

 Get me some scholarship money!

- Friendly

 Making friends is good for basically everything ever.

Not a bad set, certainly. As predicted, I get a scholarship for Business that knocks 6 credits off of what I need for it. I rolled a 4 on Founder Option 2, which gives me - as no surprise to anyone - Master Thief. One of the best possible lifts for a founder, I certainly am not going to complain that a business degree does little to nothing toward skilling you for the Criminal career path.

Incidentally, I prettied her up a little bit, but beyond the first outfit, she's one of the more stylish sims I've had come out randomly.

So then it's time to buy me a dragon!

It took me a couple of tries to get the dragon I wanted (precisely three) because I didn't pay enough attention. I went with the armored black dragon because you waste a lot of time in college sleeping. In the Easy Start, you're unrestricted - so I'm choosing not to sleep or eat.

Pretty awesome stuff, and I'm using Dragon Valley, to boot!

With my first 10k LTR points, I buy Multitasker late Wednesday. This is a good all around LTR. I'm planning on snagging Bookshop Bargainer and - well, the rest will be decided later on. Probably Fertility Treatment, though, since I'm planning this one to be pure 'normal' humans (despite the Amazing Technicolor Population of Dragon Valley). Apparently Elves come in all kinds of colors. Crazy.

I'm deciding to put absolutely zero effort into making money - it's more effort than it's worth to crest $83,080 (having successfully done so without duplicating plasma bugs) and with bookshop bargainer and - hopefully - three skills already maxed by the end of college, I won't need more than $8308 to get off the ground.

I have enough money by Thursday to have bought the Sleep Slave Double Bed, three different copies of the dragon egg (selling back the two purple dragons I spawned), a brain enhancement machine, and the Vorn truck without even budging my profit meter, thanks to hitting the academic center and applying for funds a couple of times. I occasionally get this bug where my Sim can't check the job board for anything - that's struck again, which is part of my decision to not bother with cash.

On Friday, Janie breezes through her (singular) final exam, lands on the Dean's List, and scores an A grade for the semester.

Her final stats for the semester are:

4 Logic

7 Athletic

10 Charisma

1 Cooking

1 Social Networking

Rank 4 Nerd

Multitasker

Fertility Treatment