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The Apocalyptic Terrarium Challenge
https://i.imgur.com/0YigVCO.png APOCALYPTIC TERRARIUM CHALLENGE https://i.imgur.com/597PNy8.png This challenge requires Eco Lifestyle, Cottage Living, and the Romantic Garden Stuff pack. Could you play this challenge without those packs? Maybe, but it would fundamentally change the challenge and make it way less fun. Disclaimer: I made this challenge entirely from my own brain! I specifically did not search up other apocalypse style challenges while I was making this so I wouldn’t inadvertently copy someone else's work. If this bears any resemblance to someone else’s challenge, then hey, we’d probably get along! You’re welcome to take elements of this and make your own challenge. PREMISE The apocalypse has occurred, the world has ended, and your Sim may be the last Sim alive. Fortunately for them, a luxury fallout shelter was being built right next door! Unfortunately for them, the builders prioritized the luxury gardens rather than the self-sufficient survivalist utopia. Your Sim finds themself deep underground in an unfinished fallout shelter, with nothing but a few workbenches, seed packets, and a mysterious well that seems to whisper to them as they sleep… Can your Sim rebuild the world from their post-apocalyptic terrarium, or will they succumb to the fallout just like everyone else? https://i.imgur.com/5t6gehA.png PARTICULARS This is an open-ended hardcore Sims challenge where your Sim starts with very little to their name, and must claw their way to surviving the apocalypse, rags to riches style, with nothing but some leftover construction materials and a mysterious wishing well. This challenge requires an understanding of the Sims Eco Lifestyle gameplay, as well as Sims gameplay in general, in order to thrive. If gardening and fabricating weren’t hard enough, the wishing well whispers in their ears, demanding sacrifice. Every Sunday, Sims must make a donation to the wishing well and make a wish. Results of this wish cannot be reloaded. Your Sim starts alone, and can ONLY acquire partners by wishing through the wishing well. Your Sim may never have contact with any outsiders, because everyone else on the planet is probably dead. Your Sim must grow their own food, and can only acquire furniture through fabrication, building at the workbench, and dumpster diving. Lastly, every day you must generate a number between 1 and 100 (googling “pick a number between 1 and 100” will do it for you). On a 1, you must kill a Sim. The wasteland is cruel. BUILDING GUIDE (AND GALLERY ID) Building the setting for this challenge is limited to some strict layouts and objects. I’ve detailed them below, or you can place my pre-built shelter from the gallery, which uses only the required packs and which comes with all the items you need. The Gallery ID is InkyGrimalkin, and the starter shelter is on the front page. If you want to build your own shelter, read on! Author's note: Apparently trying to place the gallery lot on a smaller lot size will sometimes cause the basement levels to not appear. If that happens, turn moveobjects on and try again. I tested this on a 40x30 lot and it placed correctly the second time around, although it still forgot to put the roof on over the top. Just slap a roof on that baby if it happens to you. Begin on the largest lot size. I prefer to bulldoze the park in Oasis Springs and turn it into a residential lot for that apocalyptic vibe. You may use any flooring, wallpaper, doors, windows, walls, roofs, fences, and other build mode items that you wish, so long as they don’t affect your Sim. You may place any lights that you wish, but remember that your power supply is limited to start. Build a lush garden underground (using the "moveobjects on" cheat to place trees and bushes, and “grass” flooring). Build a small, enclosed ladder down to the garden, and a small room to the side. https://i.imgur.com/wuRlTaa.png Example layout In the small side room, place a Fabricator, Dumpster, Recycler, Candle-maker, Easel, and a Woodworking Table. If you have the knitting kit, you may place a knitting basket. In the garden, place the Whispering Wishing Well, one large garden bed, and an insect box. When the game goes live, you can purchase either kind of insect for the insect box. Above ground, place two dew collectors and two solar panels. https://i.imgur.com/HCwJN1U.png I prefer to place a glass domed roof over the top of the garden, to allow my Sim a rare glimpse of sunlight. And for that terrarium vibe. Your Sim does not start with a toilet, bed, shower, or sink. The ground is your bed and your toilet! Purchase one packet of starter vegetables, one packet of starter fruits, and one packet of starter herbs. Place those wherever you wish. . Lastly, in the challenges section of the lot traits, select Off-the-Grid, Reduce and Recycle, and Simple Living (optionally, if you have city living or Island Living, Quake Zone and Volcanic Activity make for some good ambiance). You may use any positive lot traits you wish, but I recommend Homey to start. Great Soil and Natural Well are allowed. CREATING A SIM Start with a Young Adult sim. You may play any occult besides a vampire. You may choose any aspiration that you wish, but remember that many aspirations cannot be completed when you cannot leave your lot. You can choose any trait besides Freegan (too easy). I recommend Genius (for the focused trait, leveling handiness and gardening) and Creative (for creating paintings for our lord and savior, the wishing well). They can wear any clothing that you wish, but create one extra outfit in any slot that contains as much coverage as possible (full body suit, gloves, hat, boots, etc.). This will be used to brave the nuclear wasteland to repair any malfunctioning solar panels/dew collectors. https://i.imgur.com/JYsmQC9.png My Sim wearing the mask from Island Living. If you don’t have Island Living, the fullest coverage will do. They must wear this outfit every time they go outside. Use the cheat freerealestate on to purchase the shelter for your Sim, and once inside, use the cheat Money 0 to remove all your Sim’s money. The challenge officially begins. Author's note: If you click on the wishing well and there's no wish for romance option, you are experiencing a bug! Scroll to the bottom for my workaround. TL:DR: They need to have known at least one Sim before they can wish for romance. You can simply meet someone on the street and never talk to them again to make the wish for romance option appear. RULES No cheats may be used except the initial set-up cheat and those used to fix bugs (moveobjects is okay). No mods that offer unfair advantages may be used, but mods that add realism are encouraged. Your Sim must “unlock” items using the dumpster, woodworking bench, and fabricator. You cannot buy items directly unless specified. The dumpster contains many helpful items, such as beds, showers, TVs, counters, toilets, etc. You may keep any item in reasonable condition, but must place items in the world before selling them (to remove their extra value). Anything you get from the dumpster can be sold OR recycled. - Once you have unlocked a particular version of an item (say, the “Post Modern Shower Stall”), you may use that item in place of any future item you get of the same type. - For example, if you scavenge two showers, and you like one of them better, you may sell the one you dislike and replace it with an identical version of the one you prefer if you can afford it. This is an option rule for ~aesthetic~ purposes, mainly because I hate a kitchen with eight different counter types. You cannot freely place as many showers as you want, unless you have that many showers to give in exchange. - The dumpster does not appear to be able to generate bookshelves, so whenever you want a different style of bookshelf you may “trade” a fabricated bookshelf for a purchased one. - You may freely change the swatch of any item. - If you reach the point where you desperately want one particular furniture or appliance to really tie the room together, you can directly purchase that item if you trade one equal piece of furniture (chair for chair, fridge for fridge, etc.) AND you use the money cheat to remove 30,000 Simoleons (in addition to the cost of the item). If you want to replace a burned item from the dumpster, you must remove $5000 Simoleons from your reserve in addition to the cost it takes to replace it. Choose which items you want wisely. Every day, or 7 times on a Sunday, you must generate a number between 1 and 100 (googling “pick a number between 1 and 100” will do it for you). On a 1, you must kill a Sim, provided you have more than one young adult or older Sim in the household. If you have only one YA+ Sim in your household, you must delete a bed of crops. Every Sunday, you must make a donation to the wishing well of as much as you can afford (if you have $4099 simoleons, you’re donating $1000. $5001 simoleons, you’re making a 5k donation. 5k is the maximum), and you must make a wish. You cannot reload after a bad wish. The wishing well is life. - Optionally, you may make as many additional donations to the wishing well as you would like (of a minimum of 5000 simoleons), any other day of the week. This rule is in place as a safeguard, in case your luck is bad and you’re simply not getting a romantic partner via the once a week wish. - I suggest making a holiday out of donating to the wishing well so you don’t forget. https://i.imgur.com/Ah86Y4l.png The wishing well generating a romantic partner for your Sim. Spouses can ONLY be obtained by wishing for romance from the wishing well and hoping the wishing well generates a Sim for you. If your pair of Sims is incapable of having a child on their own, you may edit either Sim in CAS to allow pregnancy, and if your new soulmate is not flagged for romance/woohoo, you can change their orientation. You may not adopt or create a science baby. The wishing well provides. You may edit your spouse’s appearance in CAS, but not their traits. When the wishing well generates a Sim for you, move them in immediately. There's nowhere else for them to go, after all. - If your Sim is abducted by aliens and becomes pregnant that way… sure, why not. - Children can be obtained by wishing from the wishing well, but it’s recommended you wish for a partner and have children that way. Children born from the wishing well are not counted in the end total or point scoring. - There is a very small, but not impossible, chance that the wishing well will give you a ghost soulmate on a very bad outcome. If losing a challenge due to random chance is not your cup of tea, you are allowed to delete the ghost sim or humanize them with cheats as you see fit. - You may not bring in any money from marrying your wishing well spouse. You may not purchase any infant/toddler furniture, including cribs and beds. These must be earned via the criteria in the “milestones” section. If your pregnant sim goes into labor and does not have a crib, they cannot go to the hospital and must wait the labor out. All your childrens’ traits must be randomized. Living in a shelter makes for erratic Sims. You may re-roll only if it’s a trait that is not applicable to isolated underground living (like Child of the Ocean). All Sims must live for half of their normal lifespan before you can age them up early, rounded up. So for example toddlers must be 4 days old (out of 7), teens must be 11 days old (out of 21). You may only age up Sims if you can make them a cake, otherwise they must age up on their own. You may “banish to the wasteland” any Sim you don’t like by moving them out. Once that Sim leaves you may never talk to them again. No phone calls, no visits. They are gone. You must pay your Sims’ bills. Consider that disappearing money to be morale slipping away in this unforgiving world. You may not leave the neighborhood for any reason (specifically, the neighborhood as loaded around your lot-- no traveling via phone/map), and no Sim can come visit the lot for any reason. You must keep your outside doors locked for everyone but your household. You must ignore any neighbors that knock on your door; they’re not real. Your Sim cannot have a job, and they cannot order deliveries. You may not grow plants or house animals above ground. The atmosphere is too dangerous for them. For children/teenagers, you may use any mod of your choosing to prevent them from attending school, or you can make every day on the calendar a “holiday” to keep them home. If you absolutely cannot prevent them from going to school, you can let them go, but they cannot socialize while they are there, and they can attend no extracurricular activities. We’ll pretend they’re out scavenging. It’s a harsh world for children. You MAY build upon the space you are in by creating new rooms, and continue to use any doors, windows, fences, wallpaper, paint, and lighting for those rooms. You may furnish those rooms only with items you scavenge or create. You may size objects up and down freely, and use item movement cheats. You MAY gain money by selling anything you create, including paintings, wood craft items, candles, crops, etc. You may purchase any build mode plants and rocks, so long as they do not offer any benefit to your Sim, to spice things up. You may not purchase medicine when your Sim is sick. Power through. Your Sim may leave the shelter to perform repairs on the power-generating objects, and to fish or collect collectibles, but may not speak with any Sims they see on the outside. If a Sim approaches to speak with you, you must return to the shelter. They are figments of your imagination. Your Sim may not use the phone/map to travel: they are limited to collecting and fishing in the area directly outside their lot. Your Sim may not use Social Bunny or Plopsy, or the phone outside of gameplay necessities. Do not answer if it rings. There’s no one out there. Your Sims may create a club, using only members of their own household. Your Sims may wear whatever clothing they wish– we’ll just say the fabricator is very good at clothing. You must turn down the game if it offers to give your Sim the Freegan trait. Your Sim does not actually enjoy this life. If you get money tree seeds from the dumpster, you must delete them/sell them and use the money cheat to remove the profit. You may NOT purchase a money tree as an aspiration reward. Aging must be kept on, on a normal or short lifespan. MILESTONES By using the money cheat to remove 15,000 Simoleons, or once a week beginning two weeks after you start the challenge, you may purchase one skill item or one children’s item (such as a chess table, activity table, nesting blocks, high chair, etc.). By using the money cheat to remove 40,000 Simoleons, or once every three weeks beginning one year after you start the challenge, your Sim may “find” an animal in the wasteland. This can be a stray cat or dog, a chicken, a cow, bee box, another insect box, a llama, etc. You may scavenge (purchase) basic items needed to care for these animals, such as the chicken coop or a dog food bowl, since these items cannot be crafted. Animal aging must be kept on. You may incubate chicken eggs freely and “trade” animals for meat. By using the money cheat to remove 5000 Simoleons, or once a week, you may purchase one skill book… provided you have a bookshelf. Every time you donate 5k Simoleons to the wishing well, you may purchase a power or water generating object (provided you can afford it). https://i.imgur.com/Sji01VE.png STARTING TIPS: WHAT THE HECK DO I DO? This challenge is meant to act a bit like Minecraft’s Skyblock– a contained world with endlessly generating material that allows you to build out and create your dream. Using the Reduce and Recycle lot trait means the dumpster is no longer bottomless, and will fill with trash. Dumpster diving for deals and meals will pull random items from that trash. Of course, you need trash to fill the dumpster. Trash will accumulate in a few different ways, among them uprooting plants, repairing broken items, or discarding a dish instead of washing it. (What’s the lore reason for getting a TV from a discarded plate? Er… slightly malfunctioning matter replicator?) To start, much of the initial challenge will be simply keeping your Sim up. Eating harvestables barely fills hunger and may make your Sim sick. (Eating the LAST one of any harvestable means you won’t have access to that particular vegetable again for a long time.) Without a toilet, shower, or bed, your Sim will be in a constant state of misery. Dumpster diving is gross. As your Sim gains fabrication and woodworking skill, they will unlock items to furnish their home. Gradually, life will improve for them. How far can you take it? How successful will your Sim be in this world? It’s all down to you and your resourcefulness. https://i.imgur.com/OOBif9z.png POINTS CALCULATION AND END GOAL This challenge is meant to be more open-ended, to challenge you to see what you can make from nothing. That said, there are two potential endings to this challenge. The first, Repopulate the Earth, occurs when your Sims have birthed twenty-five children in total (children made from the wishing well do not count). This can occur all in one generation (poor mama) via banishing children to the wasteland, or over the course of multiple generations. The second, A Whole New World, occurs when your tenth generation reaches adulthood. Your tenth generation discovers that the world outside has been rebuilding, and there’s more people out there than your Sim has ever seen in their life. The world outside the shelter is strange and alien, full of things your Sim has never heard of (a movie theater? A grocery store?), and they are ill-equipped to handle it. It’s up to you whether your Sim forges out to explore the unknown, or retreats to their shelter to live out their days in isolated safety. POINTS SCORING +10 points the first time your Sim has full needs and no negative moodlets after the first day +20 points for every skill your Sim raises to max level +20 points when your Sim gets their first lifetime partner +10 points for every Sim baby that is born (wishing well children don’t count) +50 points for every child that survives to adulthood +20 points for every animal you acquire +20 points for every Sim that dies an elder +10 points for painting a portrait of a Sim (limit 1 per Sim) +5 points for every Sim that you banish to the wasteland +10 points for every fully-furnished room you create +50 points when the 5th generation is born +50 points when the 25th child is born +100 points when the tenth generation reaches adulthood Here is a google docs link to the challenge for reference. Optional, Recommended Mods MC Command Center and UI Cheats Extension to manage glitches Any of BrazenLotus’s mods to allow your Sims to create sugar, wheat, and other food/crafting options so your Sims aren’t limited to mushroom soup all the time. If you download the wheat/flour making mods, you are allowed to trade any appliance in exchange for the mill. Lot 51’s Free-Range mod, which allows you to place invisible markers in place of a massive stone barn for your cow. Those stone barns look really weird in a fallout shelter. https://i.imgur.com/XO1tRhq.png Better living underground Fixing the 'No Romance' Bug Edit 6/30/23: After some more testing, it appears this bug is tied to your Sim not having formed any prior relationships before trying to wish, which is probably why it's only noticeable when you're playing an isolation challenge! This has an easy fix-- before you send your Sim down into the shelter, have them meet someone on the street. It's kind of annoying, but if you have MCCC you can clear the relationship once your Sim gets their soulmate-- or you can just say that this is someone they knew from before the apocalypse. Fix number two below still works, but if you delete the Sim instead of removing them from the family, your sim will no longer have any relationships and won't be able to wish again. Weird stuff. - I initially thought this was only a bug that happened to me, but I've had a few people comment on it since so I figured I had better share my workaround. For some reason, some Sims do not have the ability to wish for romance on the well, and this bug often overlaps with being unable to initiate romantic interactions with other Sims-- not that you'd notice, being stuck in a fallout shelter. There are two potential fixes. Fix number one: If you're using a Sim that was on the gallery or used in another game, they may have the hidden 'skeleton' trait from Jungle Adventure, which prevents romance. To fix this, open the cheat console, type testingcheats on, and then try sims.remove_buff Buff_Skeleton and traits.remove_trait Trait_Hidden_Skeleton_ServiceSkeleton. See if the option to wish for romance is now there. Fix number two: If the skeleton blessing thing wasn't the problem, my strange little workaround that seems to help is to type in cas.fulleditmode and then go into CAS with your Sim. Save them to the gallery, and then download them into the household so you have two copies of your Sim. This often 'shocks' the game into letting one or both use the well for romance. Figure out which of them has the 'wish for romance' option, and then banish/delete the other one. Many thanks to Aelaer, who has provided a lot of very valuable feedback on this challenge and helped me refine it.A Pet Hangout Business
#EAPartner, #EACreatorNetwork, Thank you, EA, for the copy of Business & Hobbies. I'm having so much fun with it. __________________ I've started a little business with pets, and here is my family My founder is Adan Miles, he was so cute for a day or so Now he's a little rough around the edges, taking care of all those pets His family, as of now We started with $0 simoleons after purchasing a 64x64 lot The lot traits were Off-Grid and Recipes, but to get it to work the way that I want it to, I have to turn OFF the off-grid while running my business on the same lot. I only wish for a Kiosk that will work off-grid someday. The first day opened, I went in the hole because the off-grid not working with the kiosk. After figuring out how to do it, I opened back up and still went way in the hole as you can see in this picture. The opening fees are a little tough, but will be something I need to keep my eye on. Yup, you guessed it! I got a burglar right while I had no money or not much stuff they could steal, but the few things I had, I really needed, so Rootie the dog nabbed the burglar and ran her off. I was super lucky there. **bleep** got sick, and Adan had to rush her to the vet clinic to get her fixed up. Those darn pesky squirrels keep biting her. We didn't have much money, so we had to get the basic treatment for her. poor girl I have a super lot of trouble keeping my pets cleaned said Adan. They love playing in the water and the trash. Opened for business again for day 2. Turned off the off-grid and opened the business, and the day two tally was a little better at least Adan made some money. I'm enjoying this way of playing so much and plan on sharing more of Adan and his pet hangout business adventures soon.Share Your Newest The Sims 4 Creations Here!
I thought I would add this spot to The Sims 4 Lots and Sims 4 related items! We have one kinda like this set up for The Sims 3 that SimGuruHydra set up for us! It is simply a place to showcase your newest TS4 creations!! So please share in this thread all your newest creations for The Sims 4!! I thought it would make it easy for everyone to see what everyone is creating in The Sims 4!! Please don't forget to add your Hashtags, your EA App ID, & Download Links, so people can find you and your builds/creations in the Gallery!! Please Feel Free to Share all your Sims Creations here, Rooms, & Sims also!!! We would love to see all of your wonderful creations!! Start the Sharing Please!!!Share Your Newest Sims 4 Creations
A place to come share your creations Come join in the fun everyone, and Share your Newest Sims 4 Creations here, don't forget to add your pictures and links to make it easy for everyone to find your wonderful creations. Share Your Sims Households Sim Pets Sims Lots & Rooms and enjoy seeing what everyone makes! Thank you for sharing BreeMiles
Sims4 Mega Garden Challenge
Goals: Set your money to $0 (This is required) On PC hold Ctrl+Shift+C to show the cheat bar. On a console press the four trigger buttons. Type: money 0 (You now have $0). Finding a garden (You need $50,000 to make your own) Find a park and harvest plants there. Travel to a home with a garden and plant your plants. Making Money You are not aloud to make money in any way. The only way you can make money is to harvest plants. No painting, No playing music, no writing books, no anything. Only gardening. Having a Home You can make your own home with the money you made from your plants. While you wait for your plants to grow, you can sleep on park benches. You must have a home with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 living room, and 1 dining room. You must have level 5 in gardening, level 5 in fitness, and level 5 in logic to make your home. You are aloud to spend the night at other people's homes if your friendship is 100% full. Completing the challenge You must have level ten in gardening skill and every type of plant. If you need to know if you have all plants just go to your sim's inventory, then go to household collections. Rules: Cheats The only cheats that are aloud are: money 0, cas.fulleditmode, and bb.moveobjects on Aspirations The only aspiration you can have is the gardening aspiration. Lifestyle You can not have food from a bar or fridge. You have to eat your harvested plants. You are aloud to rummage in trash for food until your plants are grown.
Pac(k)-Man Challenge - Official Rules and Versions **UPDATED DEC2023**
Hi there! As you might know I have created a Play It All challenge which can also be found at the official Sims 4 Challenge List. Why play this challenge? When you got all packs it can be difficult to create a new story line, especially since there is so much to do within Sims! With this challenge I encourage you to explore the packs further and take the most out of it. You can find the challenge and it's rules here: Google Docs, This document will also be always the most up to date. :D Therefor, I have decided to share my versions on this forum page together with rules. The most recent version will be in the first comment, after that I will keep up the two most recent versions as a legacy after that. Happy Simming you wonderful people <3
Build-n-Share #191 **Spring Designer Showdown**
Welcome to BNS 191: Spring Designer Showdown Spring is here, and it's time to celebrate nature and sustainability! Your sims want to celebrate spring with an outside party. Your task is to design a space that seamlessly blends the elegance of a garden party with the principles of eco-friendly living. Build a greenhouse or gardening space with room for either an indoor or outdoor party. The garden/greenhouse must be both functional and decorative. It can be any kind of party - tea party, birthday party, wedding reception, something else entirely. Whatever type of party you pick, it needs to be designed for hosting spring gatherings with seating, dining and lighting. The focus should be on eco-conscious design, with sustainable features and practices. Note: Eco Lifestyle is not required. If you don’t have the pack, use your imagination. CC is absolutely allowed. The Brief: Budget: $75000 Lot size: 30x20 or larger Build a greenhouse or garden space Set up a party area with seating, lighting, and decoration. The party should evoke the spirit of a celebratory spring gathering. Guests will need at least one bathroom Include at least three sustainable elements (e.g., solar panels, compost bins, upcycled furniture, rainwater collectors, vertical gardens). Use a spring color palette. Optional Bonus Objectives (You don't have to do all 3) : Integrate small surprises or “Easter eggs” into your design, such as hidden gnomes or bunny statues. Blend vintage and modern design styles by using repurposed materials. Incorporate unique vertical space features, such as living walls or hanging installations. Remember to include the hashtag #bns191 with your build so it can be found. Entries are due by Wednesday, April 30, 23:5:59 New York Time/EDT BUILD OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM CHALLENGE #191: Spring Designer Showdown FORUM ID: ORIGIN ID: NEW LOT LINK: LOT COST: GALLERY COST: TOTAL COST: (Lot cost plus gallery cost) LINK TO ENTRY SLIDESHOW: ENTRY DETAILS: (Tell us about your lot.) CREDIT FOR CC/RECOLORS: SPACE FOR PICTURES:(No more than 2 please) Facebook: (optional, makes it easier to tag you.) Twitter: (Optional, makes it easier to tag you.) SIM ENTRY FORM CHALLENGE #190 - A Bar in the Woods FORUM ID: ORIGIN ID: HOUSEHOLD: LINK TO ENTRY SLIDESHOW ENTRY DETAILS: CREDIT FOR CC/RECOLORS: SPACE FOR PICTURES: (No more than 2 please) Facebook: (optional, makes it easier to tag you.) Twitter: (Optional, makes it easier to tag you.) ROOM ENTRY FORM CHALLENGE #190 - A Bar in the Woods FORUM ID: ORIGIN ID: ROOM: (Link to where the room can be found on The Gallery) GALLERY COST: LINK TO ENTRY SLIDESHOW: ENTRY DETAILS: CREDIT FOR CC/RECOLORS: SPACE FOR PICTURES:
Novel Story Dialogue Question
In regards to dialogue again, I just have a question about writing regular story dialogue. I know the basics. For example: "We should totally go out on a date to the movies," John said to Alisa. "It would be awesome!" "Oh, John!" Alisa replied. "That would be so romantic!" Now, are you allowed to put a giant paragraph with several sentences of dialogue in quotation marks? For example, here is the dialogue. John: Alisa, I think we should totally go on a date to the movies. It would be fun, and we would be able to get to spend some time together. Of course, I'll let you pick the movie! After the movie, we can go hangout by the river and talk underneath the moonlight. What do you say? You up for a date?! "Alisa, I think we should totally go on a date to the movies. It would be fun, and we would be able to get to spend some time together," John said. "Of course, I'll let you pick the movie! After the movie, we can go hangout by the river and talk underneath the moonlight. What do you say? You up for a date?!" Alisa: Oh, John! I was wondering when you were going to ask me out on a date to the movies. We've known each other for five years, and I've been waiting for this moment forever! I get to pick the movie?! Well, how about a romantic movie?! I love romantic movies. Also, I would love to spend some time with you by the river. We got a date, John! "Oh, John! I was wondering when you were going to ask me out on a date to the movies. We've known each other for five years, and I've been waiting for this moment forever!" Alisa replied. "I get to pick the movie?! Well, how about a romantic movie?! I love romantic movies. Also, I would love to spend some time with you by the river. We got a date, John!" So, is it proper to add all that dialogue like that?
Rags To Riches Mega Challenge
Rags to Riches Mega Challenge Are you prepared to do whatever it takes to completely change your sims lifestyle to get them from living in rags, all the way to riches? In this challenge you will find a creative twist on raising to the top. You will also be able to customize most aspects of it to fit your gameplay style in hopes that you don’t feel too stifled by the bulk that sometimes can be overwhelming in challenges like this. Below you will find that some aspects of this challenge are similar to the original but I have since edited it to hopefully be a little less daunting. In the Rags to Riches Mega Challenge you will have main goals to complete and inside of those goals are steps you must finish before you can start it. In the edited version of this challenge I made optional goals. You no longer are forced to have a family, or get married, or work a traditional job. You can customize the optional challenges based on if you have the packs for them or if that type of gameplay even fits your style. This challenge may look a bit daunting but when you take into consideration that most of the information here are optional goals you can choose to add, it becomes much simpler. Below you will find that this challenge is broken up into multiple posts to make it a bit easier for you to pinpoint exactly what you are looking for. This is a bit of the backstory on why this challenge was created. Completely optional to read, feel free to ignore it. Hello there, I am SimishGamer also known as LadyAlitear on some platforms. I created The Sims 4 Rags to Riches Mega Challenge back in 2017. At the time I had been doing the basic Rags to Riches challenges and hadn’t completed it a single time because I kept losing interest in the middle of it. I had decided one day to go through the forums and look for a new challenge. I scrolled for hours and liked some aspects of other challenges but to be honest none fit how I wanted to play. So I sat down with a pen and paper and decided that I was going to write out a challenge I wanted to play. When I made the original version of R2RMC it was back before Get to Work came out. I edited it to include some of that a while later but then I completely forgot about my challenge. Years later in 2021 I was part of a streaming community and one of the girls was doing a Rags to Riches challenge on her stream. It seemed familiar to me and I had her post the link. Funny enough that link led me right back to my own page. I quickly read through it since I had forgotten most of the information in it and realized that it was massively outdated and was shaped to fit how I play The Sims. Now, at the time I had not expected that in those few years that I forgot about R2RMC, that it would get as popular as it did. I came back to people asking lots of questions and wanting more out of the challenge since it was so outdated. It is now 2023 and I have realized even more that with the changes I made in the challenge with the updated post, that it is still structured to fit my gameplay style. I am currently working on restructuring both the main goals and the optional ones. I am also trying to add more onto the optional section as packs continue to be released for the game. I am attempting to rectify some of the questions or things that don’t quite make so much sense to some people. So please if you have any questions or suggestions throw them my way. I am more than happy to answer them.
My Sims 1 Save File Progress
I've been working on recreating The Sims 1 in The Sims 4 and it's still quite a work in progress, but I'd like to share what I have done so far. I had shared some already on another post where I had started playing as The Newbies, but I've added some more since then so I decided to make a new discussion for it. I started with Neighborhood 1 and decided to place it in Newcrest. I'm using 20th Century Plumbob's map replacements. We'll start with Lot 1: 1 Sim Lane - The Jones Family You know the saying? Keeping up with the Joneses? Well, the Jones family are doing pretty well for themselves. Or are they? Every family has their quirks. Edward works in business, Barbara is a stay at home mom, and Bobby is doing well in school. Sounds perfect, right? I guess we'll have to wait and find out.
The Whittaker Saga - 1960s (updated 04/05)
I was vastly inspired when reading the decades challenge, and as a history teacher, I could not stop myself from giving it a try. Of course, true to my nature or refusing to do things by the book, the first thing I did was break the rules. How? By creating as my protagonist a single, working woman living on her own! Gasp! Why? Partly because a story popped into my head, but also, partly, to honor the many women who - by choice or necessity - actually worked, and worked hard for their living in the 1890s. We tend to forget them, but the working women were there - from the hard working farmers that we often downgrade by calling wives, as if they weren't an essential part of the economy of the farm, to the working class women working as domestic help or in the factories where they were only payed half of a man's wages. So with that, I introduce Abigail Spencer, a single, working, middle class woman in 1890s Willow Creek: As middle class there is only a few jobs available to Abigail, that of governess or that of teacher. Abigail is therefore a teacher, teaching at Willow Creek Elementary School. She lives right next door to the school, in a small shotgun house with a few chickens and a patch of land to help her make ends meet (teachers really were not payed a lot during this time either). Obviously, her biggest goal in life is to find a husband, get married and start a family so that she won't have to work. (In fact, a teacher, as well as many other working women, automatically lost their job if they got married during this time.) But to get married, she needs to find a husband. Meet Willow Creek's eligible bachelors: Matthew Godeau: Matthew is one of the richest men in Willow Creek. A bit too old to still be a bachelor he lives with his widowed mother in Ophelia house (yes, eventually this family changed their names and became the Goths. Ophelia house is named from Matthew's mother). Pro: Matthew is creative, just like Abigail, as well as a romantic and would be sure to bestow lots of attention on a wife. He lives in one of the biggest houses in town, and is a wealthy business man. Abigail would have a good life with him. Con: His mother. Ophelia is a woman set in her own ways and she is not about to let some silly girl interfere with how she runs her house! Ophelia is mean, materialistic and an overachiever. She is not likely to see some middle class teacher as good enough for her son. Add that she has raised her son to be not only creative and romantic, but also incredibly self absorbed and the household may prove hard to be comfortable with. Joseph Whittaker: Joseph is a novellist, living in the stately Whittaker house, which with time, will be turned into the well renowned Willow Creek Archive. He has no mother (a definite pro), but two very young children. A son and a daughter, from a previous marriage. Pro: Joseph is a bookworm, just like Abigail and is sure look favourably on her past as a teacher. They are also both family orientated which means they are a good match in personalities and would likely find a lot of common ground. The house is ripe with books, and Joseph's two motherless children desperately need a mother to tend to their needs. With two live in maids it's a comfortable life focused on the family and the books she so loves. Con: Joseph very much mourns his dead wife, and keeps her picture on the wall over the fireplace. Can he ever truly love again, or will Abigail forever live in the shadow of the woman he loved and lost? Loyd Brennan: Loyd is the owner of Brennan's Groceries and Dry Goods, the biggest (only) shop in town. He lives with his sister Mary and their dachshund above the store. Pro: Loyd is outgoing and friendly and easy to get along with. He's self assured, but unlike Matthew, not self absorbed. He works hard and provides a good home. As a working man he does not mind a working wife, so Abigail would do more than sit around being pretty. He loves dogs, and anyone who does cannot be bad - right? Con: Living in a store would mean working in the store. There is no way the wife of a store owner is not in that store working along side her husband. Without money for a maid, this involves not just working in the store but running the household as well. The apartment isn't really big enough for a large family and unless Mary gets married, it's bound to be crowded. Then there is the fact that she and Mary does not really get along well. Paul Heydale: Paul is a farmer, living with his entire family at Garden Essence, a farm with a cow, chickens and a whole lot of crops. They're a tight knit family who works hard for what they have. Pros: Paul, like Abigail is both creative and family orientated. He dreams of becoming a painter rather than a farmer. By marrying him, Abigail would be wrapped up in a large family who would be there for her, something she'd never had before. His family is also very friendly, and Abigail teachers his younger sister and has already met and chatted with his mother and father and really likes the entire family. Con: Marrying a farmer would be a step down the social ladder, and the life of a farmer is hard! Is Abigail cut out for working out from early morning to late evening without ever more than making ends meet? And the house is crowded as is, with Paul's parents and two younger siblings (so far). Where would more children live? Is Abigail prepared for the hard life that accompanies this choice? Now I wanted to make a poll, but apparently you cannot do this in this section of the forums. So I'll leave you with a question instead - who do you believe Abigail will most likely fall in love with and why? Matthew Joseph Loyd Paul Finally, here is my Willow Creek in 1890: *** An important note about the future postings in this story: After trying and fighting the forum to get the posts up and running as they are supposed to work, I have now decided that it's simply too much work. Instead, I have started a blog that (hopefully soon) will contain all of the chapters from here and the old forum. I am currently at 1891 and moving forwards quite rapidly. Here the posts of each chapter will be replaced by a link to the chapters in the blog as I move forwards, though I will leave any comments as they are. The massive perk with this is that I do not need to worry about editing in all images manually, and the loading time will decrease enormously without them. The process of reading is also easier at the blog - and while the blog itself is in the wrong order, I have set up a list of all chapters in chronological order for new readers as well as a search function if you are looking for a specific chapter. Another perk is that I have some new options, like character pages where you can get a summary of each of the main character in the story (warnings for spoilers) and a separate page about the challenge, how time moves. I hope I will be able include a link to the family tree as well. It will take some time to get everything set up, and I do appreciate input in the process. I do promise that the story will go on, and hope you will keep reading it and commenting on it either here or on the new blog. Link to the blog.
Well this will be 2.0 (updated 4/5/25)
Remember that fixer upper farmhouse I shared a few weeks ago that I was going to have my Sim renovate? Well I'm doing it again, this time with a fixer upper even worse than the last. The difference is I'm going to actually play in this house once it's renovated. The story I have going for this house is two of my Sims, Teddy and Kelly, a young engaged couple, decided to start their new lives in Henford on Bagley and since Teddy is a rancher at heart, he decided to run a ranch. The thing is they are young and broke so they only had enough money to buy this run down piece of junk farmhouse. It's poorly lit too as you can see. XD This isn't my build, credit goes to Vejrupperne on the gallery. This is their build. So without further ado, the before pics. What a mess. Unlike last time, I will renovate this house from funds they get from selling the junk on the lot, like if I get money from any of the trees or fencing or fruit that's on the lot, etc. Kelly is a painter so she will help out too with money. They will get married and start their family AFTER this house is fully renovated, and nicely furnished.The Merfolk of the Sulani Seas
Overtime, I'll add to this post to expand the Table of Contents and make it easier to access the chapters. Table of Contents Use the links in the Table of Contents to read the chapters in order. The links are working and will take you straight to a chapter. This should save people the trouble of scrolling through the thread. Eventually, I plan on trying to put the "Meet the MerSims" Section in the comments of this thread along with the chapters. I am adding links to each of my posts to help with navigation. The Little Merman Arc Chapter 1: The Shadow of the Sea Witches Chapter 2: Swimming to Zalia Grottos Chapter 3: Life's Full of Tough Choices Chapter 4: A Change in the Tides Chapter 5: The Embers of Love Merfolk of the Sulani Seas Lore My merfolk won't die from old age, and I'll be following many rules for my merfolk outlined in the following link. I expect that it could be easier to cheer for a specific character since they won't disappear anytime soon. Merfolk of the Sulani Seas Technical Details SimLit Tips in the New Forums One of the things I noticed when the new forums were created was that not everything transferred here looking the way it was supposed to. I opted out of having my story transferred for me and took a great deal of time working through a lot of troubleshooting to find the easiest way to share longer posts. In the comments of this thread, I had a great deal of help from the community as I worked on transferring chapters from Answers HQ. Now that the transfer to the new forums is complete, I think I found the best way to get around the Forums tendency to Auto-Refresh the webpage and erase all progress instead of saving it. My suggestion is in the following link. I will update it with any other findings and suggestions can be shared there so everyone can benefit from them. It's possible this has been fixed while I was away, but I think this suggestion can still be helpful. SimLit Posting Suggestion after Troubleshooting With the list of merfolk in my story expanding over time, I wanted to set aside a space for the character profiles involving the merfolk in my story. Character Profiles will be organized around the Family Groups, or pods, my merfolk belong in. Check out the linked thread to stay updated on the Merfolk Pods in all my stories. Meet the MerSims Mods Credit Since a lot of this story wouldn't be possible without certain mods, I do want to give the mods I use the credit they deserve. I will update this as quickly as I can to credit the awesome modders that created the mods and poses that make telling this story possible. Spinning Plumbob Mods The Expanded Mermaid Mod "Neverland" Mermaid Tail CC The "Down Under" Set CC "Sea-nery Stuff" Build/Buy Set Occult Preferences Mod The Serenade of Shadows Poses Merfolk Poses MerMay 2024
Crumplebottom!
Have you ever been minding your own business and a grumpy old lady show up yelling at you. Not just that, she whacks you with her old lady bag! Well that's good old Missus Crumplebottom. She hates public affection. I ended up turning her into a vampire against her will because she hot me three times on a date. That got me thinking. Why not invite her over and mess with her. First I tried to make friends with her but that proved impossible despite my many friendly traits. So I went with the inevitable. I froze her. yup, you heard me. I froze her with my freeze ray. I left her that way too. She deserved it. Now, the devs have a heart and made it where Sims eventually defrost when you freeze them. It was fun while it lasted though. Grabbed a nice shot of Frozenbottom before she left. She deserved it.Sims 4 Restaurant Build Challenge
Your job is to build the best can make. You don't have to have any packs but you can use them if you want to. Dine Out is also not required, just do your best. When you finish send me the link and I will check your build, each restaurant build is 1 point. No Packs Required. Feel Free To Use Move Objects. Always Do Your Best. No CC (Custom Content) or mods. Feel Free To Use Money Cheat. (If not in free build mode)Sims 4 Gallery Showdown!!
This is a challenge, and a showdown, also a Build-It challenge. (I named the challenge series Build-It) See the scoreboard for all the challenges here. For this challenge create any type of build you would like, then upload it to the gallery. We will have a showdown. The type of showdown is who can put there build in the gallery first, and put the lot type, lot cost, lot link, and details. (Details are optional) No CC or mods please. Well.... what are you waiting for? We start......NOW! Lets Build-It! Good Luck👍!
Mid-Century Modern TV Show
I like the idea of a gay Golden Girls, so I decided to give it a try. This is my version as I have only seen clips of the show on YouTube. I wanted to capture the spirit of the idea of the show and, hopefully, I've done that. I searched the internet for Mid-Century house plans with four ensuite bedrooms. That was not as easy as I had hoped. I finally found one that I liked. It has a master for Bunny with a nice private bath and access to a small, private garden to relax. Off the kitchen, is a big bedroom suite for Sybil (R.I.P. Linda Lavin). On the right side of the house is a wing which contains two more private bedroom suites and a flex room containing a laundry and home gym. The blue suite is for Jerry and the green is for Arthur. There is a pool and hot tub with a barbecue area. Off the foyer is a terrace with a firepit. Beyond that is a Spirit House and three contemplation stools for the boys to find their inner peace. I placed this lot in Del Sol Valley on the Ward Den lot overlooking the city. Download the house here: #dannydanbo58, #midcenturymodern Download the household here: #dannydanbo58, #midcenturymodernThe Birdcage
While watching the Birdcage, it occurred to me that this would be a great live-over business. I found a floor plan of the apartment and, using it as a building outline, built the club and apartment above. The apartment is on the third floor as the building was at least three stories and the outside terrace pool required a floor for the pool itself without sinking into the club below. In this timeline, Val is living at home and a teenager in high school. They never showed a bedroom for Agador and assuming he was a live-in, he has a bedroom on the second floor with a private bathroom. In that area around the pool base is a playroom for games. The club has an entrance room with male/female bathrooms. Beyond is the club proper with a stage where Starina preforms on a karaoke machine. Behind the stage to the left is a small dressing room for Starina to prepare. To the right, is a wardrobe area including the costume trunk so Starina can dress to impress. When she isn't preforming, patrons can use it to entertain the club. Under the apartment area I added a public gym and a bistro. I placed this lot on the PBP club lot in Del Sol Valley. This lot has a parking lot next to it with cars and a couple of limos. Down the street are TV News vans searching for stories. If you play the story out, they will come in handy. Download the club here: #dannydanbo58, #birdcage, #armondandalbertgoldman Download the household here: #dannydanbo58, #birdcage, #armondandalbertgoldman
