Other Challenges

Apr

2015

Get to Work Challenge Rules Mega-Update

Welcome back portraits. You have been missed.

I am updating ALL of my challenges with the new gameplay additions introduced with The Sims 4 Get to Work. If you are playing these challenges and have NOT bought Get to Work, simply continue under the older rules.

The Legacy Challenge

(Want to see some of these new changes in action? Check out my wife’s stream of her new Legacy family today at 2pm EST on her Twitch channel!)

Added a new Succession Law Category, “Species”, with the following options “Xenoarchy (Heirs must alternate between human and alien) , Xenophobic (Heirs cannot be a different species from the founder) Brood (Heirs must be carried in a pregnancy by the previous heir, regardless of the heir’s gender), and Tolerant (The species of the child has no impact on their eligibility for heir status). Legacy families in progress may pick one of these to begin following them. (Even if past generations didn’t follow the rule)
The founder is allowed to be an alien at start and alien spouses are allowed under normal spouse rules. If a Male Heir is abducted and has an alien baby, that baby may be eligible to be heir (depending on your succession laws).
Funds from owned businesses count toward family net worth for the purposes of the fortune score.
If your family owns a business the 10th point of fortune (Needing 5.7 million) can been replaced with “Buy every business perk for a Legacy Family Owned Business”. This can be skipped if you do not have your family own a business.
Memorializing a Sim via painting is no longer done with a realism painting, but rather a “Paint from reference” portrait. Even though “Paint from reference” unlocks at skill level 3, you need to have it done by a 8+ skill painter for it to count.
You may memorialize a Sim with a photograph taken by a Sim with a 5 photography skill.
You are allowed to follow Sims to their jobs if taking the new Doctor, Detective, or Scientist careers. Since these careers do not branch, having a sim reach the top level will satisfy the ‘both branches’ requirement in the Nature category.
Baking the highest level baking dish can be done in lieu of gourmet cooking to satisfy the ‘Highest Quality version of Baked Alaska’ point.
A single Sim must now max Baking in addition to Cooking, Gourmet Cooking, and Mixiology to earn that point.
Reduced the required death types from 11 to 10. The 11th “Death by rocket ship crash” is now the same as death by fire.

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Apr

2015

Challenge Accepted! An Interview with SgtShaf

Hello everyone, and welcome to another Challenge Accepted! I thought it would be fun to get to know some of the Simmers that play the Legacy Challenge, Wonder Child Challenge, and/or Apocalypse Challenge (and any other challenges that we post here), so I am going to be sending out interview questions to Simmers to learn more about them and how they got into the Sims. If you would like to participate, please let me know!

This week’s Challenge Accepted! features SgtShaf a Sims 4 streamer on Twitch.tv. SgtShaf regularly streams on his channel and will frequently play both the Legacy Challenge and the Block Party Challenge, along with other challenges not made by Pinstar or I (such as the Asylum Challenge). You can find SgtShaf’s previous streams on his Youtube channel. Here is what SgtShaf has to say:

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Mar

2015

A Springboard For Another Challenge?

It is no secret that when I made the Wonder Child challenge, I had the Apocalypse Challenge in mind already. In the original Apocalypse Challenge, you began with a new Young Adult sim in College who was able to spend their time there restriction-free and thus be built up before having to brave the harshness of life in an Apocalypse Challenge.

The Sims 4 didn’t have that sort of mechanic yet. Oh sure, you could just download a sim off the exchange but you would want a sim that was built from the ground up to have as many skill points and traits as possible to maximize the benefit you received from them starting your Apocalypse Challenge.

So now, thanks to the Wonder Child Challenge, we have a healthy crop of brilliant young adults out there, waiting to brave the end of the world.

What if… What if we used them for something else? I’m toying with the notion that the Wonder Child challenge could lead into a business-based challenge where the wonder child is the entrepreneur. Thus they could potentially use some of their starting skills and traits to gain an edge in the business world.

Now I don’t know ALL the details of Get to Work (Sadly I was not invited to Creator’s Camp for this pack, and thus don’t have any early hands-on experience with the game). I can tell you that it will be more than just “Reach a max level business.”

What do you think about having your Wonder Child start a business? Do you think it would add to, or take away from a Business based challenge? Let me know your thoughts!

Mar

2015

Challenge Accepted! – An Interview with Summerfalls

This week’s Challenge Accepted! features Summerfalls a Sims 4 Wonder Child Challenge writer! Summerfalls writes on his blog regularly and is currently working on getting his Wonder Child through childhood and into her teenager years. He also writes other short stories there as well. Here is what Summerfalls has to say:

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Feb

2015

Weekly Stories List – Week of 2/23/2015

Hello everyone! Below are this week’s most recently updated Legacy Challenge & Wonder Child Stories for the week of 2/23/2015!

Please note: I’ve renamed this series as we have now added the Apocalypse Challenge to the list and that would make the title too long. This list still only reflects challenges created by us, and no other challenges.

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Feb

2015

Weekly Stories List – Week of 2/9/2015

Hello everyone! Below are this week’s most recently updated Legacy Challenge & Wonder Child Stories for the week of 2/9/2015!

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Feb

2015

1.01 Rules update for the Apocalypse Challenge

After some feedback from the community and some additional playtesting on my part, I have some updates to the rules. The changes are as follows:

All TVs are now restricted under the eSport gamer restrictions. If you have been using a TV up until this point, you don’t need to restart just stick it in your family inventory.
Rocket Ships are exempt from the “Must be under a roof” rule in the Space Ranger restriction. They must still be within your house’s 8X8 area if Villain hasn’t been lifted, but see the screen shot above to see how you can pull that off without lifting Villain first.
Items in the family inventory (regardless of size) are now restricted, tied to the bodybuilder restriction. You may place items INTO family inventory, but may not take anything out of it until bodybuilder is lifted. For those of you with active challenges, you may pull out any items from inventory on a one-time basis before this rule takes effect so you can ‘rescue’ important items that you thought were previously accessible.

Feb

2015

Weekly Stories List – Week of 2/2/2015

Hello everyone! Below are this week’s most recently updated Legacy Challenge & Wonder Child Stories for the week of 1/26/2015!

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Feb

2015

Weekly Let’s Play List – Week of 2/2/2015

Hello everyone and welcome to another Weekly Let’s Play List! 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).

Please note, with the release of the Apocalypse Challenge, I have changed the name of this series to simply say “Weekly Let’s Play List” as the title would have been too long otherwise. This list is still only for challenges that Pinstar and I have created. We will not be including Let’s Plays of other challenges.

Here are the new episodes for the week of February 2, 2015:

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Jan

2015

The Sims 4 Apocalypse Challenge is Live!

Hey everyone! The time has come! It’s the end of the world as we know it! The Sims 4 Apocalypse Challenge has been released!

You can find the rules here. We also have a FAQ sheet and scorecard for you to check out.

Not sure how to get started on Pinstar’s latest challenge? Check out his getting started video below.

Finally, I will be streaming the Apocalypse Challenge tomorrow morning at 10 am EST on my Twitch channel, for those of you interested in seeing it live! (Mistakes will be made I’m sure!)

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