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LEVEL UNLOCKS: 15 UNLOCKS: penthouse apartments TIME LIMIT: 7 days PRIZE: celeb fashion outfits
Once you have completed the Simtown Express Quest you will be able to find the director in the park to begin this quest to unlock penthouse apartments in the downtown area. If you complete this quest in the time limit you unlock the celebrity fashion outfits for your female adult sims, you can still complete this quest once the time limit is up to unlock the apartments but you won’t get the outfits
You cannot complete this quest at the same time as any other discovery quest
HOW LONG DOES THIS QUEST TAKE TO COMPLETE?
Times may vary depending on the star rating an item has
- Send a sim to the park
- Ask Miss Director what’s wrong- 30 seconds
- Offer to help Miss Director- 12 seconds
- Demonstrate touring ability- 1 minute 36 seconds (thinking man statue)
- Watch simtown stars- 5 hours
- Answer call from director- 48 seconds
- Send 3 sims to the park
- Request an autograph- 2 minutes
- Offer Prim a tour- 7 hours 45 minutes
- Present the thinking man- 1 minute 36 seconds
- Tell a story of the park (I don’t think it matters which option you select so I went for the one with the shortest time!)- 10 hours 5 minutes
- Send a sim home
- Boast about a visitor (click on Prim, again I don’t think it matters which option you select so I went for the one with the shortest time!)- 13 hours 45 minutes
- Celebrate simtown diversity- get 5 sims in one house
- Take a selfie with prim- 2 minutes
- Gossip with Prim- 1 hour 35 minutes
- Place a decoration (buy from decoration section)
- Confess plan for fame- 11 hours 45 minutes
- Ask where to start- 2 minutes
- Clean strange slime from fridge- 17 hours 30 minutes
- Query random acts of kindness- 1 hour 35 minutes (click on Prim)
- Bake donuts in an oven- 8 hours click on oven, select baking and choose donuts (can be started early)
- Give donuts to a stranger- sim needs to NOT be a friend or romance with that sim- 2 hours 25 minutes
- Talk to Prim- 19 hours 45 minutes
- Hug Prim- 4 hours 45 minutes
- Say farewell to Prim- 1 day 2 hours 45 minutes
QUEST IS COMPLETE!
Once you complete the quest you will be able to build the Penthouse Apartments in downtown! Click here for my House Guide to the Penthouse Apartments!
How much does it cost to build a penthouse apartment? The cost varies depending on how many other houses you have already built
You also unlock new penthouse related items:
- Faux Lawn and Wooden Panels (patio paving and balcony paving sections)
- Glass Partition (decorations section)
- Support Column (decorations section)
- Flat roofing (roofing section)
- Exposed Concrete (flooring section)
- Modern Glass Panes (windows section)
- Single and Double Penthouse Doors (doors section)
- Exposed Brick, White Brick, Classic Brick, Warehouse Wall and Simple Concrete (walls section)
- Contempo-Stair-y (stairs section)
Prize: Celebrity Fashion Outfits
Where can I find them? In the wardrobe under outfits for female adult sims
Is it worth it? I don’t really like these outfits so I am not bothered about completing this in the time limit but you might really like them!
Watch my step by step video of the quest here:
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS QUEST
please read before asking
How do I start this discovery quest?
Once you have completed the simtown express quest you can find the director in the park to start this quest
Why can’t I do this discovery quest yet?
You cannot do more than one discovery quest at the same time, if you are currently on another one (the list can be found here) you will not be able to do this one until that one is completed
Can I do discovery quests at the same time as a main quest?
Yes you can
Do I have to do this quest?
If you don’t start the quest you don’t have to do it at all but if you have already started it you need to complete it before you can move on to the next quest
I haven’t started this quest yet, will it still be available when I want to do it?
Yes it will be, you can choose to start it whenever you like
How do I send my sim to the park?
Go to the park and click on the whistle next to a sim who isn’t busy on the simtracker, this post explains more about the simtracker
Does it matter what option I choose for ‘tell a story of the park’?
No but I went for the one with the shortest time!
Does it matter what option I choose for ‘boast about a visitor’?
No but again I went for the one with the shortest time!
What do you mean when you say a goal can be started early?
Any goal that you can normally do can be started early because you will have access to it and any goal that you can’t normally do you will have to wait until you get the goal to be able to complete it
The tip with this method is to put the sim doing that action early in a different house that you cannot go to until you get that goal or it will not work
Help! I can’t give the donuts to a sim, why?
You need to find two sims who are strangers to be able to give them the donuts, they can’t have interacted before
What do I get if I complete this quest in the time limit?
You unlock celebrity fashion outfits
What happens if I don’t complete in the time limit, can I still finish this quest?
Yes you have to finish it to unlock the penthouse apartments before you can move onto the next quest
What do the penthouse apartments look like?
You can find all about them in this post
I didn’t complete in the time limit, can I restart the quest?
No, you cannot redo quests
Can I still get the prize if I don’t complete in the time limit?
No, the only way to get the limited time prizes is by completing the quest in the time limit
I don’t like this quest! Can I just skip it?
No, you have to complete this quest before you can move onto the next one now that you have started it, if you don’t start it you don’t have to do it
Some times are slightly different on my game, why is this?
Times may vary depending on the star rating of the item you are using, as the higher star rating an item has the quicker you will complete a goal
Some times are really off/ different goals show for me, why is this?
This will be because the quest has been updated recently, I try my best to keep these posts up to date but it is difficult as I cannot redo every quest each time the game is updated. If you notice any changes please let me know so I can update the post
Last updated December 2019
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Hi. Thank you for your amazing website. I have a question about the SIMS AND THE CITY QUEST. Although I meet all the requirements, I don’t have access to it. I even force stopped the app and restarted my phone, but it still doesn’t work. Can you please help me?
If restarting your device still doesn’t fix this issue then you will need to contact EA to see if they can fix this for you.
I’m one the quest but when it gets to ” Query Random Acts Of Kindnesd” Prim will not show up on a home lot, is there something I’m doing wrong!? That would be great if you could help me!
Have you restarted your device and looked in every house as well as the park? If she still doesn’t appear you may need to contact EA to see if they can fix this issue for you.
This happened to me, and I checked every house and the park with no luck. She then appeared at the mall when I was checking on my Sims working on collecting make-up styles, and I was able to call another Sim to the mall to talk with her. After that task was complete, everything else went as expected, and she appeared at home lots like she was supposed to.
It worked for me thanks for helping
How long does it take to complete the quest?
5 days 10 hours 51 minutes 30 seconds
OMG… I just finished the quest and I thought that the “celebrity” hairstyle seen on the picture with the wardrobe would be included but NO!!! 😣 I feel kinda disappointed… but thankful of the ability to create penthouses though. 😏
Absolutely love your blogs! I use them all the time for different games! Also for the new pinthouses, any idea what each of them will cost?
Thanks! The cost varies depending on how many other houses you have in your simtown already
I cannot complete this quest or gain access to penthouses because Prim has disappeared and vanished overnight. I had a sim that was saying goodbye to prim and then when I went to turn the game on the next day she was gone and the sim that I had saying goodbye was doing nothing and no sign of prim anywhere.
Has anyone else had this happen?
Have you restarted your device and looked in every house as well as the park? If she still doesn’t appear you may need to contact EA to see if they can fix this issue for you.
Yes I can’t ask prim what’s wrong I tried restarting the iPad I deleted the game and got it back and noting please help
You may need to contact EA then to see if they can fix this issue for you as unfortunately I cannot fix technical issues.
Hiya! I was wondering if anyone has tried to alter their loft apts? I have, and I seem to have lost the lift!
If I put an open doorway where the lift doors were, you can see inside the frame… if there’s no door, it’s just a blank wall.
I’m not overly concerned with it, and have already contacted ea, I was just curious if anyone else has experienced this weirdness.
I cannot figure out how to post the pics using my iPad or I’d show ya!
I can’t even move the lift! When you click on the space does it still show the option to get your daily reward?
Did EA get back to you?
I completed the quest but when I went to look at building a house it said I had to be at Level 50 to build one ((I am at Level 49)! Just thought this was odd considering I have never had to be at a certain level for any other quest prizes. Has anyone else had this issue?
That doesn’t sound right! I haven’t heard anyone else with that issue so I would suggest you contact EA about it unless you have reached level 50 by now and can access them!
Hello, not sure if you’ll read this but, I look at your blogs before I start a new main quest or discovery quest so I know what to expect. As I was reading this, the task that asks you to give donuts to a stranger, can you get an adult to give it to a preteen since all my adult sims already have relationship status’ with each other? Does it have to be an adult giving donuts to another adult sim or does it not matter?
Unfortunately this doesn’t work with a preteen, it has to be an adult, can you not add a new adult sim to the town just to complete this task?
Do you get the hair Prim has if you complete the quest in the time limit? 🙂
No you don’t.
I’m attempting to free build my second loft right now but the floor plan I have in mind requires three levels, do you know if I can build a third level or if two is our max?
I built the largest pre-fab loft initially but because it has a balcony I cannot add a level and test my question.
It looks like you can only have two floors on a penthouse unfortunately
How many floors can you have on a penthouse because if it only 2 that is too bad
It is only two.
Can I unlock the penthouses even though I didn’t finish the quest within the time limit?
Yes, you still unlock the penthouses when you complete the quest even if you don’t complete it in the time limit.
Great Website, helped me a ton. But where do you get all this LP’s from? So much has gone expensive and I am still lagging at almost 30. Can’t build anything.
This isn’t my game, I get to preview the early access version to take a look at new updates and quests before they are released, this comes with loads of LPs so I can speed through all the tasks.
This post may help if you need to earn some LPs though: https://thegirlwhogames.blog/2015/01/14/the-sims-freeplay-how-do-i-have-so-many-lps/
in the second apartment, in the bedroom with the bunk beds, do you know where the carpet is from? It looks really pretty and I’d like to have something like that in some other homes.
The striped carpet? That is available for a limited time every year at Easter so keep a look out for it then!
hey i love your logs to there sooo helpful but on the sims and the city quest, do we get to get prims hair??😂
Thanks! No unfortunately you don’t unlock her hair in this quest.
Hi, does the Penthouse Furniture come with the quest or is it seperate (time-limited)?
You unlock it when the quest is complete, you do not have to complete in the time limit.
Hi.
I wanted to know if I can find a bunk bed in bedroom section after completing Sims and the City quest, even though I haven’t built a penthouse.
No, the bunk bed was only available as a prize in the Teen Life Hobby Event which is not currently available but they will probably bring it back again one day: https://thegirlwhogames.blog/2017/05/27/the-sims-freeplay-teen-life-event/
Dear Weightless magic!
I would like to know that if I didn’t do the Extreme home takeover quest yet (where I can get the romantic beds), and I finish this quest and build the penthouse now, will those fancy beds and the other furniture be in my own penthouse anyway? I see some stuff are even VIPs like the white and blue modern bed and I’m curious since I don’t really want a loft penthouse with basic items you know.
By the way your blog is very helpful for example I was stuck with the stairs and your posts helped me in a second! 🙂
Thank you if you would answer my question.
(Btw I’m really sorry for my weird English. I’m ashamed. I hope you understand what I tried to ask.)
The romantic beds only become available once you complete the Extreme Home Takeover quest so you have to complete that first.
The penthouses available can be found in this post: https://thegirlwhogames.blog/2017/06/05/the-sims-freeplay-house-guide-part-four-penthouse-apartments/ all the items you see in the pictures are what you will get if you build those penthouses.
I’m glad it helps and you’re welcome! Also your English is very good so do not be ashamed! 🙂
Oh thank you for the answer! You’re so sweet. 🙂
You’re welcome!
Hi!! Your blogs are very helpful thank you for posting. I wanted to ask that if I’m doing this quest and haven’t completed the Multi-Story Renovations quest, can I still get the penthouse with already built in stairs or would it be locked?
You’re welcome! You should be able to, I don’t know for sure as I have already completed this quest, sorry!
Is it possible to take donuts to a stranger in another town? I am asking because all of my Sims already have relationships with each other, and I’m at the maximum number of Sims for the level I’m on. Thanks in advance, and I have greatly enjoyed reading through your blog.
Unfortunately it isn’t, you have to complete this in your town. I’m amazed you have no sims that don’t have a relationship with another, that is quite a challenge!
Thanks. I’ll just have to wait until I get to the next level where I can add another Sim! (I like setting challenges for myself in the game, and one of them was to build up relationships between all of my Sims. I didn’t imagine it would ever come back to haunt me negatively – oh well!)
Thank you so much for posting. I have been meaning to find that quest and I couldn’t find it anywhere in the park. I turned off my iPAD and turned it back on. Then, I found the quest.
I’m glad you found it!
I can’t start this quest because I need to complete the: a bumpy ride quest, first. Which I’m unable to do until I level up so I can add another sim to my town.
You could delete a sim if you want to begin this now, this post explains how to do this: https://thegirlwhogames.blog/2014/08/30/the-sims-freeplay-deleting-a-sim/
Hi, thanks for making all these super helpful guides! Just wondering, do the donuts have to turn out right in order to move on to the next task, or is it okay if they burn?
You’re welcome, the donuts task will still complete even if they burn
Is it possible to build basements in apartments?
No it isn’t