TOURNAMENT UPDATE: Prestige Witch change

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: PRESTIGE WITCHES
The rule to marry or breed with only witches is changing to marry or breed with only humans. However, the heir must be a witch. When you are able to create or buy the Bottled Witches Brew you can use it on your spouse.
http://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Supernatural+Sims

Note: If you are using a Story Progression mod that pushes witches into your game or causes the existing witch families to actually breed, then you can continue your challenge with the legacy rule that states you may only marry or breed with other witches.   The above rule applies if you are only using EA's Story Progression.  This will likely be tweaked again after the tournament.

TOURNAMENT CLARIFICATION: LEAVING WORK/SCHOOL EARLY
Sometimes your Sim will leave work (or school) early for no reason within your control (most frequently, a werewolf transformation; can also happen with a birthday). If that happens, you just send them straight back to work or school. These are covered by Master Thief and Education.

https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Education
https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Master+Thief

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: THE AMAZING NATURALIST
You are now counting PLANTS rather than SEEDS for Amazing Naturalist collectibles, and in addition can now count fish as well.

https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Bonus+Points

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: Into The Future Rules for Alien Technology Clarified

There are a couple of clarifications on the lift.
1. Occults do not have to have a DNA donor for the Engineered Baby of their same species. The donor can be a mundane sim.
2. You must edit Oasis Landing to provide an apoc legal bed and a refrigerator. The only Advanced Technology restricted items you may use are the All-In-One bathroom and elevator.
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If you violated a rule, no problem, just correct it and move on. No bloopers are required.
http://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Alien+Technology

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: WEIRD CHILDREN
The wiki has a brand new page that details what you can do with Sims that join your household through abnormal means. TL;DR version is "they can lift a restriction if they're the child of an heir, but cannot become the heir."

http://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/What+About+These+Weird+Kids%3F

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: PRESTIGE GHOSTS
The rules for prestige ghost occults are changed in response to feedback. The TL;DR version is that ghosts are now like a hybrid of vampires and werewolves; they may only marry mundane humans, but can breed with either their spouse or any ghost of a different colour. And they may (if they have Oh My Ghost access) kill their spouse and remarry them to guarantee ghost offspring.

This is definitely an area that will come under sharp focus in our post tournament analysis; we apologise for the inconvenience.

http://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Supernatural+Sims

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: CHILDREN AND TODDLER TOYS

Children and toddler toys are restricted by Entertainment. You may purchase a single teddy bear for your children and toddlers. Toddlers may read the toddler skill books by themselves.

Wiki has been updated.

http://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Entertainment

If you had purchased any of these items, you are allowed to sell them back even if Business is not lifted and you do not have to take a blooper or lose points.

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: NATURALIST TEENS

You can't start collecting seeds, harvesting plants, or buying fish holding gear until your Naturalist Sim has started the Science career. So you can't declare your teenager is GOING to be doing Naturalist and start collecting seeds early.

https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Naturalist

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: RANKED CHESS

Before Gamer is cleared, you may only invite players over for a ranked chess match if it is a Monday or Thursday, and you must send the invite between 0600 and 1900 unless Military is lifted. You have to play outside if the opponent is not a Friend and Espionage is not lifted.

If the opponent may be someone you could not normally interact with (for example, a paparazzi, a service Sim, or an elder for prestige occults), you are still permitted to challenge them - multiple times if necessary - but must immediately ask them to leave upon beating them.

https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Gamer

TOURNAMENT CLARIFICATION: FIRST WEEK PROTECTION MONEY

There appears to be some confusion about whether or not the first Monday you have to zero your funds after paying bills. You DO have to do this; there is no first week exception anymore as it is unneeded with the new Criminal restriction.

If your founder is not using a rabbit hole lift, be careful to save enough from your building spree to pay the first lot of bills. Otherwise most of you will likely have almost no money left anyway after building your house.

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: MISSING BUILDINGS

If you have started the challenge and not realised that one or more rabbit hole buildings are missing, you can place them as soon as you realise it. It counts as one blooper per building you place.

TOURNAMENT CLARIFICATION: Hard/Prestige Uni Protection Fees

The protection money for Uni (Hard/Prestige) is $100 per controllable Sim per day, payable on the day you return home. This is consistent with https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Criminal but was previously inconsistent with https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/University+Life

TOURNAMENT RULE UPDATE: BUSINESS RULE REINSTATEMENT - UNREINSTATED

The following rule was accidentally removed from the Business page and was added back in:

• Due to broken supply chains, sims may only use the sculptor's bench or the inventor's work bench or the easel or the drafting table (the drafting table is also restricted by Architect) to make one item per sim day (only one of these objects may be used per day).

After much consideration we have decided to REMOVE it.  This is no longer a rule.

TOURNAMENT RULES UPDATE: PRESTIGE PLANTS

We've revisited the rules for Prestige Occult Plant challenges to be more in line with what is actually possible. The details are here:
http://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Supernatural+Sims

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: ELEVATORS AGAIN

Tube Elevators are now restricted by Advanced Technology, Architect, and Science. Deco Elevators are restricted by Architect and Science.

http://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Architect
https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Science

TOURNAMENT UPDATE: ELEVATORS

Elevators (use and building) are now restricted by Science.
https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Science

Welcome!

Welcome to the update blog for the Sims 3 Apocalypse Challenge. This will be used primarily to list rules updates - especially important for tournament players during tournaments, but also for casual players. From time to time we may make other announcements as well.

This is not intended as a replacement for the Facebook Group or the Forum Thread - in particular, we do not guarantee we will answer questions on the blog. (Though we might. Comment if you like). Instead, it is intended as something you can stick in your favourite RSS tool to just keep track of when rules change.

Who Are We?
We are Miki M Gain, Audrey Floor, Sarah J Davis, and Gary Sturgess. Miki is, of course, the creator of the challenge (based on Pinstar's original Sims 2 rules), while the other three of us are the adjudicators of the tournament.

Why Do You Make Changes Mid-Tournament Anyway?
We try not to, but the challenge is quite complex and despite our efforts at play testing beforehand, there are inevitably areas we didn't consider, or overlooked, or otherwise underestimated that can only really be discovered in play. We consider it fairer to patch these rules immediately as needed, though we are always generous in not punishing retroactive rules infractions.