[Live Event] Charming Cottage (13 days)

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[Live Event] Charming Cottage (13 days)

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This is a 13-day Live Event starting from January 24th. (PST)

The infos are based on the experiences with former Live Events.
Requirements: (Subject to change)
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Candles - 39,200
Pottery - 118,500
Jewelry - 97,600
Glassware - 51,500
CC’s - 1,120
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The milestones will give 58 CCs (2x 3, 2x 4, 2x 5, 2x 7, 2x 10)
Plus 1 every 24 hours and 32 + 10 after completing the daily goals.
(Subject to change)
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While you may have the stations in your inventory or on a lot they are unusable until you unlock them again. We still have to progress through the personal prizes to unlock the different craft stations to use.

7 actions are stocked when you purchase a station from the Home Store.
After those 7 are used it takes 2.5 hours to restock it for 9 uses or 10 SPs to restock for 18 uses. If you are using SP it is better to just pay the 10 to get 18 uses as speeding up the 2.5 hours takes 9 SPs.

Note: The lenght of the actions depend on your Sim‘s mood. Inspired Sims will be faster, happy Sims will do the tasks at a normal speed, sad Sims will need more time. Pictures of the stations and different action times can be found here.
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Pictures to follow.

The first of every item is free.

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The following items will be unlocked with the template "Charming Cottage"
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Template "Charming Cottage"
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Not unlocked but included in the Cottage.
Most of the flowers are on a Premium lot only.
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Someone on reddit says one of their houses show an egg on the floating icon, instead of the scissors I’m used to seeing to know which house has craft stations. They said they’re not doing any side quests, just this live event. Does anyone know what that means?
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lollipop369 wrote: 28 Jan 2023, 02:26 Someone on reddit says one of their houses show an egg on the floating icon, instead of the scissors I’m used to seeing to know which house has craft stations. They said they’re not doing any side quests, just this live event. Does anyone know what that means?
The floating egg is the one we saw on the town map while the Chocolate Egg Chase was running. It showed the house we had placed the Egg Hunter‘s Case. Possibly they have placed that case there and it’s now showing the flashing egg? I don’t know what this will do to the Live Event :?

There are pictures at the related topic: [Quest] Chocolate Egg Chase
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I wonder if this longer event is necessary, less prizes (2 identical packs, exactly the same sofa only in 4 color variants, sigh) and more requirements...
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ErinPW wrote: 24 Jan 2023, 10:17

Candles - 39,200
Pottery - 118,500
Jewelry - 97,600
Glassware - 51,500
CC’s - 1,120
Since when did these inventory amounts get so ridiculous?
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3luv4eva3 wrote: 31 Jan 2023, 08:06
ErinPW wrote: 24 Jan 2023, 10:17

Candles - 39,200
Pottery - 118,500
Jewelry - 97,600
Glassware - 51,500
CC’s - 1,120
Since when did these inventory amounts get so ridiculous?
This is a 13-day Live Event and they have adjusted the total amounts.
The per day amounts are pretty much the same like for a 10-day event, so having 3 more days doesn’t help to complete this.
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What bugs me most are the insane prices for the Love Birds. 1,041,500 simoleons for the green ones and 111 LP for the yellow ones :evil: Honestly? After working hard to get the event done we get one of each for free and won’t be able to place more of them. It doesn’t help that the green one is placed on the template.
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I really hate this trend of longer events. Sim Chases used to always be 7 days, now they’re always 9. I’m really hating this 13 day live event, because it just feels like it’s taking forever to collect anything. I hope this doesn’t become a trend. And I’m not looking forward to the new hobby event starting tomorrow (the Afro hair one), because I barely have enough Sims to do it with. The live and yacht events will still be going on, so 16 Sims are already occupied. Maybe I can swap my 2 seniors in for 2 adults in the yacht event, since seniors can’t do fashion design but can (I hope) still dig for minerals. Still, leaves me with only 8 adults to do the hobby event.

When did this game become such work?
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simmare wrote: 31 Jan 2023, 10:50 […]
And I’m not looking forward to the new hobby event starting tomorrow (the Afro hair one), because I barely have enough Sims to do it with. The live and yacht events will still be going on, so 16 Sims are already occupied. Maybe I can swap my 2 seniors in for 2 adults in the yacht event, since seniors can’t do fashion design but can (I hope) still dig for minerals. Still, leaves me with only 8 adults to do the hobby event.

When did this game become such work?
As far as I understand the hobby event will be open the whole month and can be started any time. After starting we‘ll have 7 days to complete it. So you don’t have to start right away, but there are other events going on in this time. Right after Simchase 53 may be a good time to start. Influence Island will also be running then, but only requires 1 Sim (not sure if seniors can do that).
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Hey, when I unlock furniture in this event my game is not counting it as unlocking an item in terms of meeting the daily goals. Is this happening to anyone else?
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