"Lexers615;c-17061690" wrote:
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@Karritz I have/had many households. Some were dedicated for "fun" and some were expandable and dedicated for achievements, as I was feeling bad to put my main households through some of those. That emotional string did get in the way sometimes.
I've got a few series in my YouTube channel that relate to badges. For example, The Isla Paradiso Bunch started out as me starting a special save just to get a badge for making 300 elixirs. I still haven't managed to get that badge. When I gave up on it for the IP Bunch save I decided to add a few extra sims and try for the Island Paradise Badges that I didn't already have. Then I decided I needed to learn a bit about YouTube and started putting the Isla Paradiso Bunch videos onto YouTube. This thread, and others, alerted me to the realisation that I wouldn't get the IP Badges I was missing with a multi Sim household. So Caroline and Friends video series began.
With Caroline and Friends I managed to get all of the missing Isla Paradiso Badges. Now I've added an extra 6 sims to the household and moved them all to Sunlit Tides. They are now beginning to work through the 46+ badges I'm missing from University Life Expansion plus any other badges they might be able to get along the way. One of the household is evil and she's going for some of the criminal and evil related badges.
Then there is my 30 Grandchildren series in which I'm trying to get the Head of the Family badge. I'll probably keep that one going until I finally get the badge. It may take a few attempts though.
I got the 15 children badge a while back when I made a male sim and used a few female sims living in separate houses. He managed to have 15 babies with about 3 female sims. I think, if I recall correctly, one of them found out about the other two and refused to have anything more to do with him after she'd had 3 and so he had to convince one of the others to have an extra baby. I think it was all done in Starlight Shores. I hope I still have that save but haven't looked for it for a while now. I didn't make a video of that as it was before I started making videos.
Edit: About the issue of needing a single sim household to get the Island Paradise badges.
This is apparently because some of the badges have multiple steps to them and each step towards the achievement of the badge is randomly allocated to sims in the household. If there is more than one sim in the household it is likely that none of them will get the badge as none of them will be seen by the game to have completed all of the steps.
When I said something about this previously, someone called me out on it as they had managed to get the badge with a multi sim household.
If they did manage to do that, then that would be consistent with it being a random allocation of progress towards the achievement.
It is not impossible for the same sim in a multi sim household to randomly get all of the achievement steps allocated to them. If it is selection with replacement, then each sim in the household would have an equal chance of getting credited with each step towards the achievement. Therefore, some people with a multi sim household should be able to get the badge(s) awarded. But it would be a rare event because most people with multi sim household would not get the badge awarded due to the random nature of allocation of credit for progress towards the achievement. So if anyone wants to get the badge, having a single sim household would be the way to ensure success.
