To complete the 5 excellent books, try writing more children's books. Since they require the lowest skill, and you're a much higher skill, they are more likely to be higher quality.
Some of the frogs you bred didn't seem to count because you weren't in that specific aspiration at the time. So make sure to keep an eye out for that when you go to breed more of them.
Loving this series, you should get Max to do yoga routines before he does programming or writing. It increases their fun and there are different routines that cause different emotions. Mind Concentrating makes them Focused and Brain Boosting makes them Inspired. It will help with those skills whilst also getting the Wellness skill out of the way. Also being focused helps with the Video Gaming skill, and being Inspired will help with Baking and learning all the instruments.
I suggested this before but maybe you should do next Outdoor Enthusiast since you dont want to get Never Weary untill you fullfil that aspiration. That trait is very usefull especially when building traits.
instead of finding a sim in the world to start a family with why don't you use the wishing well to get your true love. that way you are instantly in love with each other and don't have the hassle of trying to get them to fall in love with each other.
also why don't you have him sleep close to the computer so he can instantly be focused when he wakes and its easier if you need to increase work performance
Can't you use that fountain from the Romantic Garden stuff pack to make sims younger? It's not like he's short on money so maybe he could invest in it when you bring her back? Also when are you going to continue furnishing his house and will it be in a live stream like last time?
There is an object you can buy, (in activities and skills I think), to put your elements in as you acquire them. It helps to empty your inventory and keep from having multiples of the same element. Writing books is kind of like painting. There are genres that your sim will be best at usually. Those will usually sell for more and you have a better chance at writing an excellent one the more you write that same genre. Playing modded video games will increase your fun faster. There are interactions with the lab equipment that are unlocked as you move up in the scientist career.Thanks for this LP! I enjoy it immensely.
If you breed the most expensive frogs each time, you will always produce a frog equal to at least the value of the lowest value parent frog (and you have a chance of producing a frog worth more than either parent frog). Then sell all your frogs worth the least except for the two most expensive ones. This is how I got to breeding frogs worth at least $500 each.
I know! I really want to see the family aspiration because James never plays with sim kids and he will actually need to make them successful without just aging them up for this!
When you do the social aspirations you should get the popular trait for your club because it gives you a boost (like I little more green) when you meet people.
You don't have to get rid of any plants James! Just let the gardener take care of them. They didn't do anything to you. And you get money too..... (Yeah yeah, I know Max is one filthy rich guy)
Do the outdoor enthusiast aspiration next so that you can finally get never weary. It will give you more time to do everything else and you'll have all the traits!
Well he has to do at least one to complete one of the family aspirations so why not do all of them, also the social and motor aspirations for kids are SUPER easy
For the elements a few tips: you could use the machine without having any splices. Then you would earn elements over time while using it. And you don't need to call geo lab in order to get elements. Just send them, and check your mailbox a few days later.
Don't get never weary. Sleeping is needed for fast forwarding time which is great for finishing careers since you work less days on the last stages of the careers
He said in an episode before that he would be furnishing the house again when he had more money as he ran out when he built it, hence why it's half done. He will probably furnish again when he starts the family aspirations.
honestly I think it suits Max. Rich, frighteningly sociopathic, hidden age, probably kinda cold and distant. He wouldn't care much for furniture or cozy decor.
+ThatSophie95xX It's where you collect herbs and mushrooms and you can brew them into things like insect repellent, lotions and creams. It comes with the outdoor retreat pack. :)
It's creepy how it was just 5:37 p.m. for me too at that exact moment! I was like lol I'll also check what time it is and then was freaked out by it. hahahah
if you pause the game you can call your boss 6 times for a bonus and that will increase your workperformance a lot. you'll get promoted almost every time you do that
This might be silly but if you have to sleep in a tent, why not buy it on the home lot and sleep there? Or do you need to be away from your home lot for that to work?
Once you publish a book it's gone - the guidebooks usually don't make as much money - they are more for you to keep to help other members of household skill up. You could plop a park in world with the wishing well from romantic garden - use the ambrosia to bring the ghost back to life then have her wish for youth at the well so that she can be with Max. Later you can have Max's kids wish for good grades. It's in the game so it's not cheating, plus you have to wait for the well to be in a good mood (the face) or it will backfire hilariously.
If your married to the elder, if you adopt a kid it will count as you had the child together in the family tree. You could do that if you want to marry her.
So I am just now watching this series and when you paused at 5:37p.m. that was my exact time too! Lol. And it is also Sunday. But it is 2 years later..
In order to get slides from the microscope, you have to click on a crystal or plant in the world and select the "collect sample" option. Not sure if it's even necessary, but you get pretty posters for doing it. You used to use those pictures alot for decoration from DeBug mode.
James, an orchid is a flower, but an orchard is a field of plants/fruits/veggies which is used in agriculture. You make me laugh with your confusion lol
(1) When you're doing a social event and sims are stuck not able to finish a task, just reset whoever seems to be the culprit. Often it's a sim who's trying to talk to yours. (2) Using speed 3 all the time actually gets less done in the game-minutes. For some reason, the idling animations between, say, bites of food take longer on speed 3 than on speed 1. Leveling up skills has also done this to me: I'll be there with a sim hitting 100% of a level at speed 3, then 101, 102, 103% -- but when I go back to speed 1 the clock is just as advanced as it was but my sim is still only at 92% or whatever. (3) I've found it also helps to just hit PAUSE when the game slows down. Sometimes I zoom out and a sim's thought bubble or something changes while the game is paused, and then when I hit resume, things are back to normal. This is one of the things I preferred about Sims 3: because they weren't able to multi-task, sims just did their tasks (or not), but they didn't fake you out by starting a task and then just standing there.
If you want your sim to stay younger longer, there's an option in settings to slow down aging so you won't have to worry about getting potions of youth for a while.
I think in the options menu when you click on the ghost there is an option to ask the ghost to join your family and then you can control the ghost and have it eat the ambrosia
Max is really zooming along! That bug with the collecting is like the best cheat ever. XD I wonder if it's been patched yet or not. . . Anyway, it's always nice to see him making more progress -- and that unevolved garden was starting to bug me, so hooray for getting that fixed. XD Shame that his job currently takes so much out of him, but hey -- gotta do the careers too! Besides, looks like he gets a vacation next episode.
James, could you build a house with every item in the game-maybe you could encourporate all of the get to work doctor, police and scientist items aswell!?
James, buy the moodlet solver potion with all of your points!!! It makes things easier to keep needs up when you have to do stuff (like evolving plants and harvesting)
There is an option to take a sample from plants, crystals etc, that's how you get the slides, remember the microscope was base game so it had functionality before get to work came out - but analyzing the slides just gets you prints, practice analyzing on the chemical analyzer is how you get elements
To complete the 5 excellent books, try writing more children's books. Since they require the lowest skill, and you're a much higher skill, they are more likely to be higher quality.
Some of the frogs you bred didn't seem to count because you weren't in that specific aspiration at the time. So make sure to keep an eye out for that when you go to breed more of them.
If he takes them out of the inventory and puts them back in, it might count the ones he already bred, like the gems, etc.
Loving this series, you should get Max to do yoga routines before he does programming or writing. It increases their fun and there are different routines that cause different emotions. Mind Concentrating makes them Focused and Brain Boosting makes them Inspired. It will help with those skills whilst also getting the Wellness skill out of the way. Also being focused helps with the Video Gaming skill, and being Inspired will help with Baking and learning all the instruments.
Yes!
Yep...I've told him this as well in the past. Thumbing up so hopefully he'll see this time. :)
^^^
JUST DO THE OUTDOOR ONE NOW AND GET NEVER WEARY SO THE OTHERS ARE EASIER
Death By Reindeer
*WHAT ARE YOU SCREAMING FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
@@kaariri_26 no no he has a point
For an 8 hour focused moodlet, take a citrus soak in the tub before work
"...so let's conti... SHADAP LUCAS SCHMIDT! don't want you right now" Love the passionate anger there, haha made my day :'D
i read this just as he shouted it lol
I suggested this before but maybe you should do next Outdoor Enthusiast since you dont want to get Never Weary untill you fullfil that aspiration. That trait is very usefull especially when building traits.
Building skills*
I agree, i don't know why is he putting off that aspiration. I would like him to finish it so he can get never weary already
Yes, let's do it and be done! lol
good idea!
I know Max is bad because he killed few sims but James is even worse. "I know you're sad. I don't care, just collect frogs."
You should stop baking on the cupcake machine. The baking skill goes up more if you just bake with the stove because it is a longer process.
Start on the wellness skill
Yeah! It'll help him get focused for longer periods of time.
Yeah
Wellness level 10 allows you to teleport :)
Good suggestion! It gives also new recipes for baking that affect mood, like making the sims happy or focused after eating.
actually you can teleport at level 7. :)
instead of finding a sim in the world to start a family with why don't you use the wishing well to get your true love. that way you are instantly in love with each other and don't have the hassle of trying to get them to fall in love with each other.
also why don't you have him sleep close to the computer so he can instantly be focused when he wakes and its easier if you need to increase work performance
there are many collectibles in oasis springs in the area on the right
The park in Oasis Springs is loaded with collectibles as well.
Lots of collectibles in Newcrest too.
Can't you use that fountain from the Romantic Garden stuff pack to make sims younger? It's not like he's short on money so maybe he could invest in it when you bring her back? Also when are you going to continue furnishing his house and will it be in a live stream like last time?
Amazing idea!
👍
YES!!!!
YES James use the Magic Fountain
You have to feed the well money and there's a chance it'll age you instead.
There is an object you can buy, (in activities and skills I think), to put your elements in as you acquire them. It helps to empty your inventory and keep from having multiples of the same element. Writing books is kind of like painting. There are genres that your sim will be best at usually. Those will usually sell for more and you have a better chance at writing an excellent one the more you write that same genre. Playing modded video games will increase your fun faster. There are interactions with the lab equipment that are unlocked as you move up in the scientist career.Thanks for this LP! I enjoy it immensely.
Omg i love when James yells "shut up!" when someone calls max, i laugh everytime
I especially love (even though she's dead lol) whenever he would see Katrina and he would shout KATRINA!! anytime he saw her 😂🙈
For outdoor enthusiast why don't you just get a tent and camp in your yard? You don't have to spend 5 nights in a row, just 5 nights
dont sell the violin because you can use it later to build the violin skill
You can buy a thing where you hold all the samples that the geo council sends you (those which look like cubes)
ps. nice joke in the description xD
yes that's what I was thinking too
place a crystal on your lot and "study" it to become focused before work :)
Maybe you could build a basement science lab to put all the machines in.
If you breed the most expensive frogs each time, you will always produce a frog equal to at least the value of the lowest value parent frog (and you have a chance of producing a frog worth more than either parent frog). Then sell all your frogs worth the least except for the two most expensive ones. This is how I got to breeding frogs worth at least $500 each.
How high did you take it?
you should use the skill books you write to help raise your future child's skills for the family aspirations.
I know! I really want to see the family aspiration because James never plays with sim kids and he will actually need to make them successful without just aging them up for this!
You get elements back from the geo council.
In the mail right? Cuz he usually just pays his bills via the phone and I don't think he ever checks his mailbox. James! Check your mailbox!
Yes, he has to check his mail.
Didn't you guys watch the whole episode? he did this
I posted while I was watching the video which had just been uploaded.
Messyca
I did watch the whole video but I was distracted by a toddler. lol I must have missed parts.
When you do the social aspirations you should get the popular trait for your club because it gives you a boost (like I little more green) when you meet people.
You don't have to get rid of any plants James! Just let the gardener take care of them. They didn't do anything to you. And you get money too.....
(Yeah yeah, I know Max is one filthy rich guy)
I think he just didn't want the spliced plants around. Only purebreds for Max the super sim. :D
PearLady This further confirms that Max is one evil SOB.
Weren't you going to sell the store?
Do the outdoor enthusiast aspiration next so that you can finally get never weary. It will give you more time to do everything else and you'll have all the traits!
PLEASE UPLOAD MORE OF THIS CHALLENGE!!! IT'S MY FAVORITE
if you write children's book's they should be exelent because you have a high writing skill and it is a low level book to write
the microphone gets fun and social up and you get the comedy skill if you don't have it yet.
James you know that you have a bed in the "office" type room Max should just sleep in that rather than running up and down the stairs all the time :P
when you have a child you should do all the children aspirations
Yah
Well he has to do at least one to complete one of the family aspirations so why not do all of them, also the social and motor aspirations for kids are SUPER easy
That's a great idea!
plz no. Do you have ANY idea how long that would take?
thats what im doing on my super sim challenge because you can buy a potion of youth for children
For the elements a few tips: you could use the machine without having any splices. Then you would earn elements over time while using it. And you don't need to call geo lab in order to get elements. Just send them, and check your mailbox a few days later.
This is my favorite Sims LP ever
You know James have been on the challenge for a while when he asked "how's my gnome going?"
This is my favorite lp with James!
Feeling bored and jonesing for my fix, and BAM there is Sims Supply to keep me riding
Omg that's crazy! When James got to the part where he made it the same time, it was 5:37 EXACTLY when he did that!
The fact that the curator aspiration is not fixed 6 years later 😂
If you have max charisma go to the computer, then social, then "make connections" and it will boost your work performance
Don't get never weary. Sleeping is needed for fast forwarding time which is great for finishing careers since you work less days on the last stages of the careers
Not me binge watching this series in 2023 … 🤍
Get your sim a garlic friend
what?
lol "garlic friend"
you mean girlfriend? And haven't you been watching this series? :P he's gonna do the family & children stuff the last
?
Autocorrect FTW!!!
When will you livestream the house build ?
I know right! he suggested this ages ago!
Could you put furniture in his house or make another one that isn't so massive? 😁
Yes, please decorate it!
Yeah it's very white and plain but I don't think he cares at all lol
He said in an episode before that he would be furnishing the house again when he had more money as he ran out when he built it, hence why it's half done. He will probably furnish again when he starts the family aspirations.
He also said that he'd be doing it on a live stream
honestly I think it suits Max. Rich, frighteningly sociopathic, hidden age, probably kinda cold and distant. He wouldn't care much for furniture or cozy decor.
I only found this out recently, but there's a "Herbalism" skill, I'm having so much trouble levelling it up!
Never heard of that! What does it involve doing?
+ThatSophie95xX It's where you collect herbs and mushrooms and you can brew them into things like insect repellent, lotions and creams. It comes with the outdoor retreat pack. :)
Tammy Le Ahhh thank you!! I haven't got outdoor retreat yet so that makes sense that I havent come across it. Sounds really interesting though!! :D
I am exactly 2 hours ahead of James and his game, on a Tuesday
This series is sooooo addicting !! Best part of my dayyyy
You can buy an element rack to put your elements in!
LOL he should make a dungeon under his house for when he starts having kids xD
It's creepy how it was just 5:37 p.m. for me too at that exact moment! I was like lol I'll also check what time it is and then was freaked out by it. hahahah
haha, that was funny...when James stopped the time in Sims to match the one he had in real life, I also checked my time here and it was 5:32 PM =))
The gaming rig gets your fun up seriously quickly!
I almost had a heart attack it's 17:40 here as you synced up the times 😂😂
this is the earliest I've ever been for a video. great video by the way
if you pause the game you can call your boss 6 times for a bonus and that will increase your workperformance a lot. you'll get promoted almost every time you do that
This might be silly but if you have to sleep in a tent, why not buy it on the home lot and sleep there? Or do you need to be away from your home lot for that to work?
Maybe because you go to space for fun is why you know so many Aliens .
Deli should make Max a makeover!
When you send the crystals to the geo council they come back through the mail and that is how you get the elements
Once you publish a book it's gone - the guidebooks usually don't make as much money - they are more for you to keep to help other members of household skill up. You could plop a park in world with the wishing well from romantic garden - use the ambrosia to bring the ghost back to life then have her wish for youth at the well so that she can be with Max. Later you can have Max's kids wish for good grades. It's in the game so it's not cheating, plus you have to wait for the well to be in a good mood (the face) or it will backfire hilariously.
Two years later and that glitch still works lmfao. That's how I finish collection day at my scientist job.
You really start working on the wellness skill it also gets you focused
If your married to the elder, if you adopt a kid it will count as you had the child together in the family tree. You could do that if you want to marry her.
*you
You could get the tea maker thing from the kitchen section in build mode to quickly change your sim's moods before work.
I keep waiting for an alien abduction lol. It would get a start on the family aspiration !!!
So I am just now watching this series and when you paused at 5:37p.m. that was my exact time too! Lol. And it is also Sunday. But it is 2 years later..
KEEP THE HARVESTABLES SO YOU CAN BAKE MORE THAN FUDGE
Max should totally be with Lady! We need Lady back!
I know this series is over, but I really want Max to summon grilled cheese! I'm hoping he does it at some point, just to see what it looks like 😊
I think the guide books are only skills from the base game for some reason.
In order to get slides from the microscope, you have to click on a crystal or plant in the world and select the "collect sample" option. Not sure if it's even necessary, but you get pretty posters for doing it. You used to use those pictures alot for decoration from DeBug mode.
TSS-GO catch a James in every corner of the world! Now for a limited time: the legendary KATRINA!!!!!
28:00 proves Max Power is the real salt bae.
the never weary thing sounds good to have whenever you do the family aspirations. max will be awake to do the goals with the children. maybe?
You need to analyse the metals using the chemical analyser to get elements
James, an orchid is a flower, but an orchard is a field of plants/fruits/veggies which is used in agriculture. You make me laugh with your confusion lol
You can use the analysis machine from get to work, to collect elements faster. Just do "practice analysis".
I thought I was the only one that paused the game when it was the exact same time in game as it was in real life! I'm glad I'm not alone hahaha.
James, use colums and spangle things (from build mode) along with curtains to make him a super fancy noice 4 poster bed in his next house!
It's 5:37 PM here too!!!!
(1) When you're doing a social event and sims are stuck not able to finish a task, just reset whoever seems to be the culprit. Often it's a sim who's trying to talk to yours.
(2) Using speed 3 all the time actually gets less done in the game-minutes. For some reason, the idling animations between, say, bites of food take longer on speed 3 than on speed 1. Leveling up skills has also done this to me: I'll be there with a sim hitting 100% of a level at speed 3, then 101, 102, 103% -- but when I go back to speed 1 the clock is just as advanced as it was but my sim is still only at 92% or whatever.
(3) I've found it also helps to just hit PAUSE when the game slows down. Sometimes I zoom out and a sim's thought bubble or something changes while the game is paused, and then when I hit resume, things are back to normal. This is one of the things I preferred about Sims 3: because they weren't able to multi-task, sims just did their tasks (or not), but they didn't fake you out by starting a task and then just standing there.
If you want your sim to stay younger longer, there's an option in settings to slow down aging so you won't have to worry about getting potions of youth for a while.
He doesn't want to do that because it takes away from the challenge of trying to get it done before he ages up.
You get the slides from the microscope from taking a sample from a plant :-)
Put the 'closed captions' (cc) on when watching the video, you won't regret it (try around 25:00)
When Max has low fun, you can send him to swim and he'll get that sport skill up.
the Regina George vibes semaj is putting off at 14:02 are insane
I think in the options menu when you click on the ghost there is an option to ask the ghost to join your family and then you can control the ghost and have it eat the ambrosia
Max is really zooming along! That bug with the collecting is like the best cheat ever. XD I wonder if it's been patched yet or not. . . Anyway, it's always nice to see him making more progress -- and that unevolved garden was starting to bug me, so hooray for getting that fixed. XD Shame that his job currently takes so much out of him, but hey -- gotta do the careers too! Besides, looks like he gets a vacation next episode.
..... holy shit, when James paused the time at 5:37pm I checked the time and it was 5:37pm
James, could you build a house with every item in the game-maybe you could encourporate all of the get to work doctor, police and scientist items aswell!?
Every time I hear the clacking of your key board I think there's a crab in my room.
JAMES please can you finish his house its REALY anoying me!! thanks lol!!
James, buy the moodlet solver potion with all of your points!!! It makes things easier to keep needs up when you have to do stuff (like evolving plants and harvesting)
A slide is a plant cutting. Makes great pictures too.
You should bring Brielle back to life and then once she's in your family just give her a few youth potions and you'll be good to make kiddos!
You should have an alien baby!
James: "Okay Robin, shut up!"
Me: o_o
35:42
There is an option to take a sample from plants, crystals etc, that's how you get the slides, remember the microscope was base game so it had functionality before get to work came out - but analyzing the slides just gets you prints, practice analyzing on the chemical analyzer is how you get elements
it literally just turned 17:37 here now and I didn't even need to come back later. XD
You can have children with elders. My adult sims married an elder and they had 3 kids... Before he died.
Also, the sciency thing from get to work does let you discover elements. You can get an element display case to hold all of them too.
a guy elder yes...but the female, no. It's like real life unfortunately. Could adopt but not have "naturally" at that life state.
and yes, the analyzer does produce elements y selecting "practice analysis".
Was the elder sim a male because I don't think female elders can have children, it would make sense in reality as OAP's are generally infertile.
Male elders can have kids but not female elders - just like IRL