Mission 3: Party Animals

Mission Goals:
Get promoted to career level four.
Get promoted to career level five.
Upgrade your abode when you go to the buy mode.
Throw a raging party.
Move in with Dudley or Mimi.

In this level, you'll have to show off your social skills. You moved in with Dudley or Mimi to start this level. The choice depends on your sim's sex. If you are male, it's Dudley. If you are female, it's Mimi. In either case, both are slobs and hardly do anything for you. They can't even get to work on time sometimes. You'll have to make sure they don't miss their car pool, because if they get fired, the game is over for your sim as well. However, what they can do well is grill on the barbecue, so have them cook burgers for you every day as your meal (they won't cook out of the fridge, though). Dudley will also pay bills, so give him that task. And then don't forget to call a maid to keep the house clean, and have Dudley call a repairman if anything breaks down. With Dudley handling the cooking and the bills, and the maid keeping the house neat, you are free to concentrate on getting promoted and keeping your sim in a perpetual good mood, with all motives satisfied, so you can be a good party host.

At the start of this level, talk to Dudley/Mimi and eat with him/her. Do a few social activities and get your roommate to become your friend. Then move the relationship score to 100. Now you have two friends, which will come in handy later in the game for promotions.

Make Dudley grill burgers every day so you don't have to cook.

Your first goal is to get promoted and save the extra money. Use that money to upgrade your fun items to the next level. And make sure they are social items as well, since you'll be entertaining a lot in this mission. It will be difficult to satisfy your motives, so having a fun item that is also a social item will be good.

When you have fulfilled your promotion and upgrade goals, it's time to throw a party. Make sure you are in a good mood. Have Dudley cook two meals on the grill first, so there is enough food to go around. Then have Dudley call to throw a party. The guests will arrive only a few minutes after that, and they'll gravitate toward the food. As they are eating, having Dudley go into the hot tub in the back and strike up a conversation with a sim. Concentrate on one and then lay the conversation on thick. You want to make sure this party ends with you having made two or three good contacts. Keep in mind that sims tend to leave around 1am, so have the party start well in advance of that so you have time to mingle. With the hot tub and food to spare, you should have your guests in a good mood and thus fulfill the raging party goal. One other thing to make the party go smoothly is to add a door to the back wall of the second bathroom, the one closest to the backyard, so guests can quickly go to the bathroom from the hot tub area. Or add a third bathroom in the back in anticipation of the many sims you'll be hosting.

In the first few levels, it will be hard to satisfy your motives with the cheap default items, so buy better objects to improve your motives faster.

After this is done, take however many days you need to recuperate and beef up your motives. Make sure you have plenty of energy and then call one of your new contacts. If your relationship score still isn't high enough to get a sim to come over, have Dudley call. Have Dudley grill some burgers and then banish him to the bedroom. When the sim arrives, share a meal with him or her and then you strike up a conversation. Talk, watch TV together, or hang out in the hot tub. Get that relationship score soaring to 100.

The next day, throw another party, and go to the sim you hosted the night before. Follow the steps for the previous party to put your guests in a good mood and then ask the sim to be your roommate. With spirits and your relationship score high, he or she should say yes.