May 14, 2018

The Couch-Surfer Challenge


In this challenge, your sim is a couch-surfer.

He/she is a young-adult, fresh out of high-school who has left his/her parents' house and is doing a gap year before figuring out what to do with his/her life.

The idea is that your sim will always sleep at someone's house, hence is a couch-surfer.

That means you have to get your sim invited to stay over at someone's house every night (or just behave inappropriately at people's houses by sleeping there).

You must first choose a pathway for your couch-surfer, from the 4 below:

1) The Hippie (likes nature, goes fishing and hiking - basically, pick the nature and lakes places to spend your days and meet people; sell fish or collectibles or harvestables for money or eat it);

2) The Starving Artist - This pathway has 3 possible choices: you can be a musician (have a guitar and play music on the streets for money), a painter (find easels and paint for money); or a writer (find computers and write books);

3) The Part-Timer Partier (get a part-time job somewhere that allows that for young adults and go around having fun partying the rest of the day and sleep in people's houses);

4) The Hacker (have a computer if possible or go on people's computers and hack for money);

The challenge ends when your sim becomes an adult, by which time they will have found a path for their life.

In the meantime, you will have to make sure you find a house to sleep in every night and your sim will have to make money in the ways described above (or just eat at people's houses if things are really bad) - no full-time jobs are allowed!

The hard part of this challenge is that you keep getting kicked out of people's houses for 'behaving inappropriately', which means you'll rarely ever get a good night's sleep.

To make the challenge harder, play more than one sim!