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Paradox Announces a Competitor to The Sims

On Monday, March 6, Paradox Interactive announced a new game called Life By You. It appears that it will be a simulation game and a competitor to The Sims franchise.

Paradox Interactive is responsible for incredible games like Cities: Skylines (a successful competitor to Sim City), Crusader Kings (Sims meets RPG set in medieval times), and may other games. Not only that, but Rod Humble (a creator of Sims 2 and Sims 3) is also on the team working on this new game.

With this sort of gaming pedigree, Pinstar and I are extremely optimistic that this will be a viable competitor for a franchise that has had a monopoly on this particular type of life Sim genre for decades.

Also, for those of you wondering, yes, if we are able to make a Legacy Challenge (along with any other of our challenges) for this game, we will be.

Paradox will be releasing more info on March 20th, so stay tuned!

Posted by Mystic in General News

Let’s Play List – 8/10/2016

Hey everyone! I decided to split up the Creator’s List after all as it seemed a bit too long to keep all in one giant list. So I am posting the Let’s Play List today and will have the written stories list up in a few days or early next week!

Unfamiliar with what these lists are? Every week or so, I post a list of links to the latest episodes/chapters of let’s plays and written stories that revolve around one of Pinstar’s or my challenges (Legacy, Apocalypse, Wonder Child, Immigrant, Block Party) for the Sims 2, 3, or 4. I hope it’s a good way to help you all discover new creators out there that you would like to follow!

As always if I’ve missed anyone, please let me know! Continue reading →

Posted by Mystic in Apocalypse Challenge, Featured, General News, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Legacy Challenge Stories, Other Challenges, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, The Leet Legacy, The Sims 4, Wonder Child Challenge
The Leet Legacy #9 is now live on Youtube!

The Leet Legacy #9 is now live on Youtube!

Hey everyone! I hope those of you that celebrated Thanksgiving had a wonderful day! I got home yesterday after traveling for the holiday so I am working on getting back into the swing of things with the website. House craziness is starting to settle down for the moment as we are going to be putting our house search on hold until after the Christmas season which means I should have more time to dedicate both to the Legacy Challenge website and my Youtube channel. I am hoping to get back into posting the Legacy Stories and Let’s Play lists weekly as well as upping my Youtube video activity as well.

I have quite a few plans for my Youtube channel over the next month or so, and I will be making an announcement video in the next few days that will highlight my plans.

In the meantime, I have a brand new Leet Legacy episode for you guys to check out! I should have a new Let’s Play and Stories list up by the middle of the week as well.

The new episode can be viewed below or directly on Youtube.

Posted by Mystic in Featured, General News, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Legacy Challenge Stories, Sims 4 News, Sims 4 Stories, The Leet Legacy, The Sims 4

Weekly Stories List – Week of 7/13/2015

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Hello everyone! Below are this week’s most recently updated Sims Challenge Stories for the week of 7/13/2015!

There are a lot of stories to go through, so if I missed anyone, please let me know in the comments below and I will add you!

I’m also still working on updating the main links list. It should be done soon!

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Posted by Mystic in Apocalypse Challenge, Featured, Immigrant Challenge, Legacy Challenge Stories, Other Challenges, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, Sims 4 Stories, The Sims 4, Wonder Child Challenge

Weekly Stories List – Week of 7/6/2015

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Hello everyone! Below are this week’s most recently updated Sims Challenge Stories for the week of 7/6/2015!

There are a lot of stories to go through, so if I missed anyone, please let me know in the comments below and I will add you!

Also, I realized that I have been slacking on keeping up with the main links list on the site. So I will be working on overhauling that one over the next few days to include all of the stories that you see here every week. I will be combining all pages of the links list (for Sims 4, 3, and 2) into one list to make it easier to navigate. Stay tuned!

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Posted by Mystic in Featured, Legacy Challenge Stories, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, Sims 4 Stories

Weekly Let’s Play List – Week of 5/27/2015

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Weekly Let’s Play List! It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these lists! I wanted to get back into posting these weekly as this was a popular series here.

Each week we will post a list of new Let’s Plays and chapters in separate posts so that you can check out what others are doing and stay up to date with them. I will be posting the Let’s Play list today and the written story list tomorrow (which means that the Let’s Play list will be posted each Monday and the writers list each Tuesday).

If I missed anyone, please let me know. It can be difficult to make sure I include every Let’s Play related to our challenges as there are a lot of them. So just comment below if you know of one that I missed!
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Posted by Mystic in Featured, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, Sims 4 News, Sims 4 Stories

New Sims 4 Expansion Pack: Get to Work

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Earlier today, I was able to participate in a conference call hosted by Rachel Franklyn (The Executive Producer in the Sims studio) and  Ryan Vaughan (Producer of Sims 4).

While the trailer was leaked earlier today, the conference call gave us some very juicy details about the first full expansion pack for The Sims 4.

The first expansion pack this coming April will be titled “The Sims 4: Get to Work”.

It is being touted as a combination of The Sims 2 Open for Business and The Sims 3: Ambitions

There are three new careers being added with this expansion pack, but not in the traditional sense. The three careers are Medical, Police, and Scientist. This helps explain the absence of these staple careers from the original game. Rather than include them as vanilla rabbit hole careers, the devs opted to save them for this pack which makes sense since they are being done in Sims 3: Ambitions’ style. Where as some of the other careers chosen for vanilla rabbit hole careers (such as secret agent and astronaught) would not be as feasable to do as a hands-on Ambitions style career. It also points to that they haven’t forgotten about the original careers that have been around since the Sims 1, they just wanted to expand on them.

 

The first of the three new careers is Medical. This is what we were told about it:

Your Sim will be able to diagnose and cure illnesses at a brand new hospital venue. There is a new surgery table item that a skilled doctor can use. (No word on what happens if a non-skilled Sim tries to use it). And for the first time in Sim’s history, your Sim can actually deliver babies! No details were given about the possible benefits of the new hospital births versus the home births but it DOES hint at possible story progression. If the game is to generate ‘ailments’ for your doctor Sim to deal with while on the job, presumably it will need to include women in labor. While this could just be random female Sims who are generated, give birth, and vanish from existence once they leave the hospital, the potential is there for townies or other non-player Sims to randomly get pregnant and need to come in for a delivery.

 

The second new career is the Detective career, an echo of the old Police career from earlier installments. Here, your sim is tasked with investigating crime scenes, finding clues, and will receive a new police station venue where you can interrogate suspects. This also hints at possible story progression as the game would have to generate crime scenes…and criminals for your Sim to investigate and interrogate. Just as burglars of the olden days existed as real NPCs in the world even after being generated just to rob your house, the same could be true with the criminals.

The third career is Scientist, who can experiment and craft new items with the brand new invention constructor. To quote Ryan Vaughan, “It [the invention constructor] is like a combination of a 3D printer and Jarvis from Iron Man”.

While it doesn’t look like this career will have its own venue, the complexity of the objects and the inventions sound like it will be vast. No confirmation of being able to make servos, but he did say you could “use your inventions for good or evil”. We will have to wait for more details to come in the following weeks to know exactly what kinds of inventions can be made.

 

Open For Business

 

The fourth new “Career” is that of a business owner. By every sound of it, this is exactly what we got from the original OFB in the Sims 2 and that is a GOOD thing. You can make ANY kind of retail business, from clothing to art galleries to bookstores. It sounds like you can sell both build mode items as well as your Sim’s own creations if you wish. You can hire and fire Sims, set prices, and shmooze the customers into buying. It was not made clear if restaurants where Sims order food or ‘club’ style venues where Sims pay a fee just to enter and stay on your lot will make a return, but with or without them, this is going to be a very awesome addition to the gameplay (and likely the subject of my next challenge).

 

Two New Skills

There are two brand new skills being introduced with this expansion pack. Baking and Photography.

Baking sounds like an expansion of the cooking skill in the same way that gourmet cooking is, and ties into the OFB, where your Sim can run a bakery to sell their wares.

Photography has me the most excited. When giving feedback about the announcement on the call, I presented a hypothetical idea of a Sim obsessed with toilet paper able to make an entire business selling it. Rachel Franklyn added “You could sell toilets along with the toilet paper and then use the photography skill to take pictures of toilet paper and sell those too.”

Let’s break that down a moment. “…use the photography skill to take pictures of toilet paper and sell those too.” If I am interpreting this statement correctly, this means that portraits are back in the game. If you are able to capture something via Photography and make it into an object depicting the subject originally captured, this missing bit of functionality could be making a return. There was no mention of painting and if it will be able to capture portraits for paintings the way that photography could with the camera, but presumably yes, if they’re developing the technology to accomplish that. Again, this is just speculation.

 

More information will be coming out in the following weeks so keep your eyes peeled. This is a very exciting time for the Sims 4!

Posted by Pinstar Legacy in Featured, General News, Legacy Challenge Rules, Sims 4 News

Announcing The Sims 4 Block Party Challenge!

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Hey everyone! I’m not normally the one to come up with new challenges on our website, that’s usually Pinstar’s domain. I’m usually the one that quietly works in the background making sure that posts get published on time and that questions are answered.

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Posted by Mystic in Featured, Other Challenges, Sims 4 News, The Sims 4 Block Party Challenge

Introducing the #MonthofSims Twitter event!

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As some of you know, the other game that I play a lot of along with The Sims 3 and the dozen or so indie titles that I love is Guild Wars 2. When 2014 rolled around one of the players started up a Twitter event called #GW2Project365 which involves posting a screenshot from the game once a day for a year. I thought it might be fun to do something similar for the Sims!

Rather than do the event for the remainder of 2014, I thought maybe I would start small and have this event last for the month of March. So I came up with the idea of #MonthofSims. If you are interested in participating all you have to do is the following:

-Post a screenshot from any of the Sims games (1, 2, or 3) once per day throughout the month of March with the hashtag #MonthofSims

-You can either upload the screenshot directly to Twitter or post it on your website and then link to there, either way is fine.

-Share the event with others so that more Simmers know about it. The more that know, the more that can participate and the more awesome Sims screenshots you get to see!

-HAVE FUN!  Enjoy posting silly, funny, sad, serious… basically any kind of Sims related screenshot that you wish (they do NOT need to be related to the Legacy Challenge, it can be anything Sims related!). Just make sure the hashtag #MonthofSims is included on the Tweet so that others can find your screenshots!

This will be a great way for fans to celebrate the game that they love so much, by sharing screenshots of their Sims with others.

I’ll start things off on March 1st on my Twitter page, but if you live in a different time zone and March 1st comes earlier for you than it does for me (I’m in EST) then feel free to get things started!

Posted by Mystic in #MonthofSims, General News