Thirty Grandchildren Badge Attempt - ongoing so it now has its own playlist

This is Part 2 of the 30 Grandchildren badge. It's quite short. 13 minutes 28 seconds according to YouTube.

You see the basement I built under the house they live in. I didn't want to destroy the look of their house as it's such a pretty building.

They have basic living quarters in the basement with 8 bunk beds and I set up some easels and a few other skill objects for their use until they age up to teens. I'll be aging them up as soon as each one gets on the honor roll.

Same thing when they become teens.

There are no set skills they have to learn as teens so I'll just keep them learning stuff and as soon as they get onto the honor roll I'll age them up to YA and they can start having the grandchildren.

Here's the link to the video of Part 2 of my attempt to get this elusive badge.

https://youtu.be/AfQA2V5dqec

In the video you will see the basement and some of the ground floor living area plus a makeover of Gerri, their mother, who is a 2009 Base Game sim. I thought she needed a little makeover and you get to see her getting it if you'd like to watch.

Happy Simming

I got the 30 Grandchildren Attempt Part 3 video loaded to YouTube.

Here's the link.

https://youtu.be/Pc7ZRStEUgg

The children are playing together and going to school as well as fishing.

They won't all be children for much longer. They'll age up to Teens as soon as each one gets an A in school.

The attempt at getting the 30 Grandchildren badge (part 4) is now on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/7xHzYjL_fik

Some of the children age up to teen. They all go to school and a few play tag in the rain.

Happy Simming

I loaded Part 5 of the 30 Grandchildren Badge attempt to YouTube. It is quite short, almost 7 minutes. Here's the link.

https://youtu.be/kD8L_patPaE

Megan ages up and becomes a handy sim who fixes broken stuff and upgrades things around the house before school.

Javon achieves his lifetime wish.

Most of the teens decide it's great fun to rake leaves.

Gerry discovers how to make some potions at the chemistry table.

30 Grandchildren Part 6 is now available on YouTube

https://youtu.be/hnc2T6_jrko

Update on the teens and they get up to a few interesting activities.

Love these impossible wants! I am currently attempting to have one sim complete all six degrees from University! Keep going!!! I want to see your progress!

I had something interesting happen to me in my 30 Grandchildren game. I'm currently working on the next video in this series.

I haven't done an update for that video series since late September so decided to do one before getting back to Oscar's Childhood. I'm expecting problems playing and recording for Oscar's arrival at the boarding school due to having too many sims in the lot. And I noticed a lot of people are watching 30 Grandchildren so decided to do an episode of it before getting back to Oscar.

I'm doing short videos for 30 Grandchildren - trying to go for 15 minutes or less.

Well, the 15 children are now all teens.

In order to make the videos a little interesting I'm trying to get each of them to get to A Grade at school and to complete their Lifetime Wish.

I'm trying to take full advantage of anything fun or unusual that happens in the game.

Some of the teens can't do their LTW yet and will have to wait to age up to start due to the nature of some of the Lifetime Wishes. A couple of them still haven't got a lifetime wish.

I've got at least one who had already completed their LTW and a few others who are well on the way. For example, by the end of this video one of them has to catch 2 more minor pets in the wild to achieve her LTW. And some still need to get to level 10 in one or two more skills and are almost there. Of these at least two did get to level 10 in a skill in this current episode I'm working on.

One of them wants a Perfect Private Aquarium as a Lifetime Wish. She has a long way to go before she gets all 13 different types of perfect fish. I'm keeping the fish in her inventory in the meantime - they die too fast in those fish bowls.

I started giving each of the teens their own bedroom. This is an expensive exercise. They are currently all sharing a single bedroom - with 8 bunk beds and many piles of smelly, dirty laundry.

I'd like to get each of them to level 7 in fishing skill - because then they'll be able to read all of the fishing books and this is one goal I always set for my boarding schools. Another goal for my boarding school children is getting to level 7 in gardening because they can then plant any seed they might find.

The household in this game hasn't started their garden yet so none of them have any gardening skill. They all have some fishing skill. We've seen them fishing a few times in earlier episodes.

I'm also doing opportunities. As a result, I need to send some of them to France. I counted how many and wrote their names down - there are 10 of them who have to go traveling and the longer it takes to get that trip organised the more need to go on it. A few of this group need to visit France to fulfill an opportunity specifically set in France, but mostly they just need to find specific metals, gems and/or insects. I've found the world they live in doesn't spawn much. At least, it has spawned almost nothing so far in this game. They've found a few things but it's been very slim pickings.

At this point, Javon is the only one who has completed his Lifetime Wish and he still has a way to go to get to Grade A at school so he can't age up just yet. In the episode I'm currently working on he's been concentrating on doing laundry. If you've been watching the videos you'll know their dirty laundry situation is dire. He made some progress and reduced the number of piles of stinking laundry in their one shared bedroom, but he still has a long way to go. I was tempted to buy extra washing machines and dryers but there is a shortage of Simoleans. I did buy two clothes lines and he used them as well as the electric clothes dryer.

I was looking through inventories to see what could be sold. Of course, looking through inventories regularly (and selling or otherwise removing items from the inventories) is necessary housekeeping in this game if you want to avoid lag.

There are 16 personal inventories to look through.

While looking through the inventories, apart from looking for things to sell, I was looking for extra perfect fish to help Demetria who needs perfect fish for her Perfect Private Aquarium wish.

I managed to build, and partly furnish, six new bedrooms and three new bathrooms before running out of Simoleans.

They need nine more bedrooms to be built and furnished if everyone is to get their own room.

Meanwhile they continue to share one single bedroom with the eight bunk beds and lots of smelly dirty laundry piles. And there is that trip to France to be funded. I have to send 10 of them to France. It'll be expensive.

I moved Perfect fish from some of the inventories to Demetria, she needs them, but that didn't achieve much as she doesn't need multiples of perfect fish. She just needs one of 13 different types of fish. She already had multiples of several perfect fish and the others combined didn't seem to have any new varieties for her. Not to worry. I sold lots of fish from inventories and made a few useful Simoleans. They really need a garden to make money somewhat faster. Or maybe I'll buy them some sculpting stations as sculpting is a very lucrative occupation.

Now, Gerry, their mother, had a Normal Deathfish in her inventory so I kept it just in case she has a pressing need for Ambrosia at some point. So far no one has died. They don't have death flowers though so Grimm could make an appearance and take one or more of them at any time.

I noticed a few of them had seeds in their inventories. They've been collecting things occasionally but this world doesn't seem to be spawning much. That's one of the reasons so many have to travel. They need to collect things to complete opportunities. Some of those opportunities are left over from childhood and I'm not sure they can be fulfilled as teens. I'll find out eventually - after they've been to France and collected the stuff they need to find.

Some of them need to get to level 10 on 2 or 3 skills. I noticed two of the ones needing to get to level 10 in multiple skills were close to level 10 in fishing skill. I sent the three needing to fish, for whatever reason, fishing in the ocean as the ponds were all frozen. By the end of the day, Sunday, they caught a few different types of fish but only one extra Perfect fish.

Demetria has a long way to go to get enough different perfect fish to get her Perfect Private Aquarium Lifetime Wish.

Those who are trying to get to level 10 in various skills achieved more towards their personal goals during the day. One got to level 10 in handiness.

Anyway, I haven't got to the interesting bit yet. But it is related.

I was looking through inventories.

I had started moving sims from the one huge bedroom with eight bunk beds so each will have their own room.

As I said, I made, and furnished, six new bedrooms. I placed double beds in each room. I ran out of Simoleans to finish decorating the bedrooms and still have to make, and furnish and decorate, nine more. This led me to start selling all fish except for at least one perfect fish of each type. Still getting to the interesting bit. Sorry.

Well, I'd noticed something a bit odd in one of the inventories.

I don't know when this odd thing first appeared but it's been there for a while. Probably a few episodes.

Since they were all going on field trips and participating in after school activities I assumed it was some weird thing he had picked up on a field trip. Or something. But when it came to selling the stuff they had in their inventories I just had to take a peek at this odd thing and got a shock.

This is the interesting bit.

I do recall in the dim distant past, long before Sims 4 was released and I started adding mods to my game and therefore my games were buggy and often got corrupted I had a game with a child who found a genie lamp. I had no idea where that lamp came from. But the game got corrupt and I couldn't keep playing it so never got the chance to use it. I never did anything with that lamp.

Ever since that time I've never gotten another genie lamp.

Most of my games are populated with many different occults including genies - but ALL of those genies were made in Create A Household. I've never played with a genie from a lamp.

I know you can get one with Lifetime Happiness Points, but I never bothered. I always had other more mundane things to buy with those precious lifetime happiness points. Besides, I wanted to find one in the wild rather than buy one.

Being unfamiliar with the genie lamp I didn't recognise one in an inventory until I looked closely. Yep, this weird object I didn't recognise is a genie lamp.

I double and triple checked to make sure I wasn't dreaming. But it was still a genie lamp.

I can only assume Robbie picked it up from the mausoleum when they went on a school field trip some time back while they were all still children.

If you've been watching the videos you may remember when they all went on a trip to the mausoleum as children in a much earlier episode.

I don't have screen shots to show as I was making a video.

I avoid getting screen shots while making a video for several reasons.

Firstly, I'm concentrating on getting the best possible shot for my video
Secondly, when I take a screen shot there is a flash on the screen.

I need to edit the flashes from screen shots out of my videos. This leads to two problems.
1. Lots of screen shots lead to lots of cutting out of disconcerting bright flashes.
2. This cutting out of the flashes often leads to cutting out all evidence of interesting things that happen and I want those interesting things in my videos.

Back to the point of this post - I've never played with a genie that came from a lamp before. In this video, the genie appears but the school bus arrives to take the teens to school so Robbie put the genie back into the lamp.

It looks like I've got until I record more video for the next episode before I get to decide what to do with this wonderful new thing. The current video already has more than enough recorded to do a 15 minute video. I still have to narrate it, and I'll have a busy day tomorrow and be out of the house for most of the day but I'll get it narrated and loaded to YouTube asap.

If anyone has any suggestions of fun things to do with a genie from the lamp, please let me know and I'll use at least some of those suggestions in the next episode. If I can.

Currently the genie is still in the lamp and no wishes have been asked for. All he did was run upstairs and get wet trying to find a lucky coin in the wishing well. He had no success. Just kept getting dunked in the wishing well. That's going to be in the current video - at the end.

The other thing you might be able to help me with are those missing lifetime wishes.

Sims needing a lifetime wish:
Coby - Artistic, Animal Lover, Green Thumb, Clumsy (maybe Perfect Garden LTW?)
Wilfred - Savvy Sculptor, Family Oriented, Good, Friendly
Sharonda - Animal Lover, Clumsy, Eco-Friendly, Friendly

I don't want any lifetime wishes that'll take a long time to do as I want them to have a chance to actually achieve them. Do you have any suggestions. I think I'll give Coby the Perfect Garden LTW though as I want them to have a garden and I discovered I've already set up a large area in a basement for a big garden.

Lifetime Wishes already in the game. I'd like to avoid all of these if possible as they are already in play: Renaissance Sim (3); Visionary (1); Illustrious Author (1); Zoologist (3); Presenting the Perfect Private Aquarium (1); The Perfect Garden (1); Become a Creature Robot Cross Breeder (2); Master of the Arts (1).

Some of the listed lifetime wishes are already in play with 2 or more sims - see the numbers in brackets for how many of them already have that LTW.

That's it for now. I hope you enjoy the videos.

Happy Simming.

@Karritz It sounds like you have some nice goals for your 30 grandkids. ...So funny about all the dirty laundry! ...Cool that the inventories provided enough money to help build bedrooms and baths. ...You sure were raising the anticipation level for the "interesting bit!" :D

...A genie lamp! Awesome. While the genie is still enslaved in the lamp, a sim can do most activities with him while he's summoned, including befriending or even romancing him.

...And here's a list of wishes your sim can make (and other genie info). Genie Wishes and Info

"Fortune" might be a good wish for this household so you can get those bedrooms built. ;) Make 2 wishes, then use the 3rd wish to free the genie. I hope there isn't a problem with that if you have a full household. You may have to add him with NRaas after he's freed. ??

Some quick suggestions for Lifetime Wishes based on traits:
Descendant of Da Vinci (Max Painting, Sculpting, and Inventing): Savvy Sculptor
Bottomless Nectar Cellar (50 bottles in your nectar cellar totaling §50,000): Green Thumb
One Sim Band (Max the Guitar, Bass, Drums, and Piano): Artistic
The Animal Rescuer (Adopt 6 Stays or Shelter Pets): Animal Lover
Super Popular (20 Friends): Friendly

@lanlyn thank you for that awesome info. I think I like the Bottomless Nectar Cellar for Coby. Hadn't thought of that one. I've done it before and know it is doable. They'll need to get some extra money before the trip to France so he can afford a nectar making machine as well as pay for all their travel expenses and buy some books.

Hadn't thought of Descendant of da Vinci either. I do plan to get Wilfred working on sculpting for the next episode. I've discovered how lucrative sculpting is once the initial learning phase is over. They might get the simoleans they need for their trip to France and purchase of the nectar making machine from sculpting.

I've not yet been able to achieve the Super Popular LTW with any sim as far as I recall. Sharonda might have a chance though as she has so many siblings. If they count. I'll have to think about it. There are not many other sims in the world. I'll need to add some as future spouses for them eventually. I already did that but I see they are pairing up with each other and having babies already so another lot will need to be added.
This might add enough for her to make 20 friends. But - another one I've never tried is The Animal Rescuer and that one might suit her too.

Thanks for the ideas on the Genie too. I had memories of my first encounter with a SimBot when I finally got a sim to make one. It took such a long time to do and the household already had 8 or more sims in it. The SimBot jumped down off the inventing bench and ran outside, jumped into a taxi and vanished never to be seen again. With this genie, as soon as he wafted out of the lamp he ran upstairs and I was sure I'd lost him for good - but he just wanted to try to steal coins from the wishing well. He failed. But got very wet after several attempts. I think he'll make a very brief appearance at the end of the video I'm currently working on. He's very colourful.

I'll do some research on the genie before I play the next episode.

I think I got a bit lost in the middle of my very long post above - but I ran out of time and had to just post it as it was. I was having some fun with it. :) I didn't achieve much with sims or videos today - I had too many distractions and was out of the house for several hours early in the day. It's after 11 pm here now and I was trying to work on the video - but I think I'm too tired. I might just call it a night and start fresh in the morning.

Thanks. Happy Simming - or else just continue having fun. :)

EDIT: By the way, I now have a strategy that works for me when making a simbot in an overstuffed household. I watch that simbot making process carefully and as soon as it is made I pause and use NRAAS Master Controller to add it to the household. Haven't lost any since I started doing that.

"Karritz;c-16862466" wrote:
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EDIT: By the way, I now have a strategy that works for me when making a simbot in an overstuffed household. I watch that simbot making process carefully and as soon as it is made I pause and use NRAAS Master Controller to add it to the household. Haven't lost any since I started doing that.

@Karritz That's exactly what I do in similar situations with stuffed households: quickly pause the game and use NRaas to add the sim. I've done that with pets, resurrected ghosts, and even with an alien baby. :# Good thinking about using NRaas for a simbot too. It's been quite a while since I've created one. To go to all that trouble and then have it run out the door!. Yikes!

Glad the LT Wish suggestions were helpful. I was trying to find wishes you didn't already have and that could also be accomplished before YA. I use that list on the Carl's Sims website a lot when looking for Wish choices. I did a page search using the traits you listed to check possible Wish matches. :)