"Sims and Friends: Share Your Stories!!
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Charlie: Welcome and your story looks really exciting and I will read it once I get my postings completed. Please feel free to pop in an visit and share your stories, pictures, and life's ups and downs. Congrats on your new baby.
Welcome to you as well Jay and I will try to read your story as soon as I can.
Here is my Challenge idea for anyone who wants to try. Jazen & Zephyr are already doing so.
The Realistic Genealogy Challenge
Description: In real life most people's ancestors have different last names. Example: Traditionally daughters take on the last names of their husbands while sons keep the family name going. In this challenge, I thought it would be interesting to see what your Sim family's last name is at the end of 10 generations or how ever long you choose to play.
Goal: Play at least 10 generation starting with one founder and see what the family's last name is at the end of the last generation of play.
Some Rules or Guidelines for extra challenge
1. Start with one founder: For fun I thought instead of creating the founder look in the studios of Simming friends for single Sims with the least amount of downloads and choose one to begin your story with. (Remember to let your friend know you're using their Sim and make sure they get updates on their Sims' progress)
2. As for using cheats: Only use if:
A. needed to help your Sim avoid life threatening situations like if your Sim is almost starving to death and is not near a food source like at work, then you can increase that mood meter enough to hold him/her over until they can eat something.
B. To help your Sim get out of minor game glitches that pop up from time to time. like the 'resetSim' if your Sim seems to be stuck in one spot or has the 'bowl' stuck on his/her wrist.
3. First home: May purchase or build home staying within the Sim's starting cash flow. Only purchase upgrades to home when affordable.
4. Give your Sim as much free reign to do what they want on their own.
Examples: A. Put them in career they wish for at the beginning of game play. If they don't come up with a career wish at first help them achieve desired skills which may lead to a career choice.
B. Buy upgrades to their home according to their wishes.
C. Decorate the home with your Sims' favorite colors in mind.
D. Even let your Sim pick out their outfits in 'plan outfit' by going through the top and bottom clothing until you get a favorable response from them. (i.e If you click on 'everyday clothing' tab and your Sim says something like 'so-so' or 'baghdad' that usually means they don't like what they're wearing or if they respond with the expressions 'oh' or 'un-huh' it usually means they like it) How you dress them though is up to you.
5. Finding their soulmate or spouse
-- Similar to above look for people that your Sim makes friends with through there jobs or other means like sharing drinks with a local after dinner.
-- Wait for that relationship to develop to a point where your Sim wishes to date the person or that person asks your Sim to move in with them. If the later occurs then you can help them take the relationship to the final stage of marriage.
-- For those who end up in same gender relationships maybe flip a coin or use some other metric to determine which last name they will take on.
-- If you see you're Sim is interested in other Sim but the relationship is going slowly feel free to guide it along just as long as your help is invisible in your story.
6. Family size: Try to go according to your Sims' wishes as to when they want to have children or if you want to decide roll a dice.
7. For legacy to work there will need to be a combination of son/daughter heirs throughout the generations. You can put the heir to a vote, ask your friend whom you got your Sim from to choose or roll a dice to see which child is chosen for variety.
8. Marrying: Female heirs must take the last name of their husbands while male heirs keep the last name they were born with.
Exception: If your heir ends up in a same gender relationship use some random means to choose the last name.
9. Have fun while let your story play itself out and writing about what has happened in each game sessions. Since there will always be glitches of some sort with Sims make up things to cover them up. Move your family to a new town if necessary, save to your bin or clipboard, and have a back-up heir just in case.
10. Please feel free to use your Sims' happiness points to help in your story progress.
Hope you have fun and that this challenge doesn't take anything away from other challenges that have been created by other Simmers.
Welcome to you as well Jay and I will try to read your story as soon as I can.
Here is my Challenge idea for anyone who wants to try. Jazen & Zephyr are already doing so.
The Realistic Genealogy Challenge
Description: In real life most people's ancestors have different last names. Example: Traditionally daughters take on the last names of their husbands while sons keep the family name going. In this challenge, I thought it would be interesting to see what your Sim family's last name is at the end of 10 generations or how ever long you choose to play.
Goal: Play at least 10 generation starting with one founder and see what the family's last name is at the end of the last generation of play.
Some Rules or Guidelines for extra challenge
1. Start with one founder: For fun I thought instead of creating the founder look in the studios of Simming friends for single Sims with the least amount of downloads and choose one to begin your story with. (Remember to let your friend know you're using their Sim and make sure they get updates on their Sims' progress)
2. As for using cheats: Only use if:
A. needed to help your Sim avoid life threatening situations like if your Sim is almost starving to death and is not near a food source like at work, then you can increase that mood meter enough to hold him/her over until they can eat something.
B. To help your Sim get out of minor game glitches that pop up from time to time. like the 'resetSim' if your Sim seems to be stuck in one spot or has the 'bowl' stuck on his/her wrist.
3. First home: May purchase or build home staying within the Sim's starting cash flow. Only purchase upgrades to home when affordable.
4. Give your Sim as much free reign to do what they want on their own.
Examples: A. Put them in career they wish for at the beginning of game play. If they don't come up with a career wish at first help them achieve desired skills which may lead to a career choice.
B. Buy upgrades to their home according to their wishes.
C. Decorate the home with your Sims' favorite colors in mind.
D. Even let your Sim pick out their outfits in 'plan outfit' by going through the top and bottom clothing until you get a favorable response from them. (i.e If you click on 'everyday clothing' tab and your Sim says something like 'so-so' or 'baghdad' that usually means they don't like what they're wearing or if they respond with the expressions 'oh' or 'un-huh' it usually means they like it) How you dress them though is up to you.
5. Finding their soulmate or spouse
-- Similar to above look for people that your Sim makes friends with through there jobs or other means like sharing drinks with a local after dinner.
-- Wait for that relationship to develop to a point where your Sim wishes to date the person or that person asks your Sim to move in with them. If the later occurs then you can help them take the relationship to the final stage of marriage.
-- For those who end up in same gender relationships maybe flip a coin or use some other metric to determine which last name they will take on.
-- If you see you're Sim is interested in other Sim but the relationship is going slowly feel free to guide it along just as long as your help is invisible in your story.
6. Family size: Try to go according to your Sims' wishes as to when they want to have children or if you want to decide roll a dice.
7. For legacy to work there will need to be a combination of son/daughter heirs throughout the generations. You can put the heir to a vote, ask your friend whom you got your Sim from to choose or roll a dice to see which child is chosen for variety.
8. Marrying: Female heirs must take the last name of their husbands while male heirs keep the last name they were born with.
Exception: If your heir ends up in a same gender relationship use some random means to choose the last name.
9. Have fun while let your story play itself out and writing about what has happened in each game sessions. Since there will always be glitches of some sort with Sims make up things to cover them up. Move your family to a new town if necessary, save to your bin or clipboard, and have a back-up heir just in case.
10. Please feel free to use your Sims' happiness points to help in your story progress.
Hope you have fun and that this challenge doesn't take anything away from other challenges that have been created by other Simmers.
