'Speedrunning' The Sims OR A good gameplay benchmark

[damondamore]

I like to watch ZFG's zelda randomizer speedruns in the background. Anyway it had me thinking about a sims 1 speedrun. Animal crossing is a similarly open-ended game, but people speedrun until your mortgage is paid off.

For the sims 1 I came up with the following conditions which must be satisfied, but may be exceeded or completed in any order.

The Beginning:

• Begin with one adult sim.
• Using starting funds purchase a home or lot.
• You may use a pre-built or furnished home, provided the sim can afford it with their starting funds.

The Family:

• Your sim must get married.
• Your sim must have or adopt at least one child.
• Your sim must have at least one cat or dog.

The House:

• The house must contain at least four rooms which meet the following criteria:
• • One room must contain at lest one double bed or two single beds.
  • One room must contain at least one single bed.
  • One room must contain at least a toilet and a sink.
  • The fourth room has no specific requirements, and may contain additional beds, toilets or sinks but cannot count towards either of the bedroom or bathroom requirement.
• The house must have at least two doors which lead outside.
• All interior floors must be tiles.
• All walls must be covered.
• The house must somewhere have a fridge, stove and countertop to make a complete kitchen.
• The house must have at least one bath or shower (placed anywhere).
• The house must have a pet bowl, litter box or dog bath, and something the pet can play with.

And lastly...

• At least one of the adult sims must be level 10 of any career at the time all of the other criteria are satisfied.
• The household must have at least two adults, married to each other and alive.
• The household must have at least one child with a B+ or better at school.
• The household must have one cat or dog.

If...

• Your child is sent to military school, you have to have another.
• Your pet is taken or runs away you must get another.
• One of the adult sims die, they must remarry (however, they do not need to have another child with their new partner).
• The married couple breaks up, at least one of them must remarry (either the original spouse or a new spouse is applicable, they do not need to have another child).

Anything which is not explicitly forbidden is permitted.

[clairecharming123]

I would assume hacks/straight up cheating would not be allowed, but would loopholes in the game like the Japanese fan or Roman tax collector picture be allowed?

[damondamore]

No to hacks because everyone just made everything keep all motives maxed out. Loopholes using anything Maxis gave you are 100% allowed.

However, this is just a personal challenge so if you want to use hacks it's up to you to adapt this to any way you want to play. Maybe just declare them if you share your results.

You could perhaps nix the child but require the pet to win a pet show or something. Or allow learning all spells (even hidden ones) to stand in for the career requirement. There's a lot of other routes you could take that I didn't include here.