Thirty Grandchildren Badge Attempt - ongoing so it now has its own playlist
An attempt to get the badge where a sim has 30 grandchildren.
This one starts out with screen shots as I didn't get the 'brilliant idea' to make videos of them until this morning.
But there is moving video for most of the time. You get to meet the mother, the father and all the kids. But only briefly. I didn't actually introduce them all. You just see them doing stuff and being sim children.
They stay in The Great Southern Land for a few extra days because Chris and Karen both had hugely valuable wishes to have a baby. Chris just wanted a baby and that was worth 4,500 lifetime happiness points. Karen had that same wish plus another wish that was granted on the birth of the baby. It was worth 7,500 lifetime happiness points for her. I don't remember what she'd wished for but the wish was completed and she got the points when the baby was born.
I expected the babies to be delivered at different times but we had a co-ordinated session of labouring sims. I was a bit concerned with the game crashing when they both started at the same time but the game coped.
After the births everyone travelled back to Cake Island.
Kendall and Karen went to live in their new house and we had a walkthrough to see their décor.
https://i.postimg.cc/T32Gn8F8/MadeOverHouse.jpg
Chris and Constance stayed at Gerri's place until Chris made his Plumbot, Cindy. Then they moved to their own home which is a copy of Kendall's house. Joni got a copy of this house too. We only get to see through one version of this house though. There was too much happening in this video to be wandering around in everyone's house. The three houses are much the same. Just some of the décor is different and Kendall and Karen have the most décor in their house.
Clara stayed in Gerri's house until she finished reading her books - recipes and fishing bait books. Then she moved out to her own little cupcake house. She's next door to Cameron. Clara, Bruce, Lucy and Cameron are all imaginary friends made real. Cameron, Lucy and Bruce all wanted, and got, to plant forbidden fruit and ended up with Plant Sim babies.
In this current episode Lucy and Bruce were waiting for their forbidden fruit to be ready to harvest. It was planted in a previous episode. Lucy already had a Plant Sim daughter.
Lucy had a wish to have a birthday party for Lucinda. We enjoy the party down in Gerri's basement. Lucinda became a toddler and completed all of her toddler training. She has only 2 more toddler skill books to complete reading in the next episode and she'll have done all of her toddler training.
Eventually the forbidden fruit was ready to harvest. Bruce picked his first and then Lucy picked hers. Once the Forbidden Fruit had been harvested Bruce moved out to his own Little Cupcake House.
Gerri, Klaus, Lucy, Lucinda and Louise are all living at Gerri's place. They will be the active household for the rest of this series.
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I'm having a bit of an issue with making 15 sims pregnant at the same time. I'll persevere. See what happens. Luckily I saved as with a new name before starting the pollination of everyone. If it doesn't work for me I'll have to start again and spread them out a bit. I just want to get it completed in the next episode.
Today, I'm putting together the video I recorded for Episode 42. I've already moved Cindy and her household out to their own home.
The active household is Gerri, Klaus, Lucy, Luciinda and Louise.
https://i.postimg.cc/g0BLbBG6/Gerri001.jpg
Gerri is the mother of the 15 who all just got married and are going to produce the 30 grandchildren to hopefully get the badge for a sim having 30 grandchildren.
Klaus and Lucinda https://i.postimg.cc/MpqQ7QsX/Klaus-And-Lucinda001.jpg
Klaus is an Evil sim I picked up from the sims I previously added to The Great Southern Land. I grabbed him just for fun as in the past he's done some unusual things autonomously. Such as heading off into town while being played in Barnacle Bay. At the time I was pleased to see him leave the house as he'd been causing mayhem picking fights with everyone. When he'd been gone for quite a long while I suddenly got the 'Big Meanie' badge and I was surprised and came to the conclusion Klaus must have been picking fights with the townies because nothing consistent with getting that badge had been happening back at home with the rest of the household and that's where I'd been playing.
https://i.postimg.cc/FKKkqQX4/Lucy001.jpg Lucy is the Mean Spirited Imaginary Friend made real. She is still in the household because she had planted a Forbidden Fruit seed. She how has 2 plant sim daughters. I was going to move her out but might hang onto her. She might make the next episode or two more interesting. Lucy currently has two wishes - to get married and to grow a forbidden fruit.
In order to get the badge awarded I have to stay with Gerri's household as the active household. I can't go off and activate any other households once the 30 grandchildren start arriving. If I do activate a different household I'll have to start the count again and there's no telling how many grandchildren she'll end up with.
I was thinking having a household with only one sim in it might get a bit dull and that's why I included Klaus. Now I'm thinking Lucy might be worth keeping as well.
I believe Gerri has to have another child once all 30 grandchildren have arrived or the badge doesn't get awarded. Since Klaus's lifetime wish is to be a Master Romancer I thought maybe he and Gerri could have a baby to finish the process. When I was playing yesterday I discovered Gerri and Klaus watching the stars together so it looks like he's already onto it.
Lucy has a wish to get married. It's worth 5,000 lifetime happiness points. I was thinking maybe Klaus and Lucy could get married - but they seem to hate each other so that probably wouldn't work. It'd be interesting to see if I could make it happen though. >:)
By the way, the Master Romancer LTW requires a sim to woohoo with 5 different sims in 5 different places. So far as I know Klaus hasn't had any luck with woohooing with any sims. But there is no telling what he got up to when he was being a townie. He hasn't got his LTW yet. He doesn't have commitment issues so he could get married but I would expect him to be a cheater if he did get married.
I occasionally find Klaus standing patiently beside Lucinda while she reads her book. He's waiting for her to finish her book so he can steal candy from her. So far I've stopped him from doing that and made him fish as he needs to work on his fishing skill.
The final two members of the household are Lucy's plant sim daughters, Lucinda and Louise.
Lucinda https://i.postimg.cc/gkqw20Yp/Lucinda.jpg
Lucinda has been learning her toddler skills and is now almost through all 9 of the toddler skill books.
Louise https://i.postimg.cc/YCRmbCVR/Louise001.jpg
Louise has just been picked. She seems to be a slightly paler green than her older sister.
Now, I've just moved out Clara and Bruce.
https://i.postimg.cc/kXVj0k9W/Clara.jpg Clara had a lot of books she needed to read. I was tempted to just move her out without reading them but she got through them fairly quickly and there were other things going on so she didn't really hold up progress.
Bruce and Lucy had planted forbidden fruit seeds and they needed to wait for them to be ready to pick. Clara was ready to move out just before the plant sim babies needed picking.
Bruce is the cowardly Imaginary Friend made real and was the reason we had to confine Bonehilda to her coffin for a while.
I don't seem to have any new screenshots of Bruce except for this one. He is standing with his back to us on the left of the screen in a grey outfit - possibly it's he sleepwear. https://i.postimg.cc/8C2bft6r/Eating-Lucindas-Birthday-Cake.jpg
The screenshot is of Lucinda's first birthday party. The party will be in the upcoming video.
Here is a pic of the forbidden fruit growing. The crystal plants were needed by Chris to make some trait chips for his Plumbot, Cindy. https://i.postimg.cc/hG0M8nbR/Forbidden-Fruit-Growing.jpg
The forbidden fruit closest to us was planted and picked by Lucy to produce Louise. The other one was planted and picked by Bruce to produce his plant sim son Bert. I don't have a pic of Bert. Bruce and Bert have moved out.
The above information is basically the contents of Episode 42 of The 30 Grandchildren Badge attempt. I'm putting the recorded videos of it all together today. If it takes up 30 minutes then that will be all that'll be in the video. Don't forget the walk throughs of the made over houses, they will be in the video as well. The episode will begin at the double wedding of Chris and Constance and of Kendall and Karen. We will stay in the Great Southern Land for a while as each couple have wishes to have a baby so we had to get them pregnant and wait for the babies to be born before leaving TGSL. That's how Chris got involved in learning the Bot Building skill and that's why Cindy ended up in the household.
I just finished unpacking the inventories of Constance and Chris after moving them and Charlie and Cindy into their new home. It is the house that I made over. The same house I put Jonie and Jack into before I made it over and the same house I put Kendell and Karen and Keith into after making it over.
I saved it to my library after the makeover but before I unpacked Karen and Kendall's inventories into it.
Here are some screenshots of the house after the makeover and before inventories got unpacked and the décor got completed for each of the families. This is the house as it is in my library.
The house was originally built by me years ago for a specific dark world. I now forget which it was but the original dark large stonework was perfect for where it was made to go. The dark stones were inside and out. It is a very dark and gloomy house in its original condition. I wanted to brighten it up a bit.
I changed the paintwork, inside and outside throughout the house. I changed all of the windows and most of the doors. There wasn't much furniture inside and I mostly left that as it was but I added new furnishings. There is still plenty of room for personalisation when each family moves into it.
I will show a walk through the houses in the video as the house is huge and will involve way too many screenshots for me to post here. It would literally take me all day and I want to get this video done and up on my YouTube channel. That is still days away as I have more setting up to do before the 30 grandchildren start arriving.
Anyway, here are the screenshots. I'll add minimal comments here. I think most of them will be fairly self evident. I'll put them behind spoilers too as there are a lot of pictures.
It is a 3 level house but I only got pictures of the first and second levels. The top level is pretty much just a huge room with a few objects in it, they are mostly for skilling.
Front of house https://i.postimg.cc/3wvJd6tQ/Front001.jpg
Front of house https://i.postimg.cc/761HNzvB/Front002.jpg
The front entrance See front door on the left. Look straight ahead to see door to small room with hand basin and toilet. To the right see entrances to the kitchen and dining room https://i.postimg.cc/J4FLZxDr/Level1001.jpg
The front door is on the right here. Looking straight ahead to the steps leading up to level 2. https://i.postimg.cc/7ZTyVz0g/Level1002.jpg
This is a small square room opposite the kitchen door. Looking through to the science room. The small square room has 2 toyboxes and 4 bean bag chairs. All chairs are different. https://i.postimg.cc/tg3G0HrJ/Level1003.jpg
This is the same scene from inside the kitchen looking through the small square room to the science room. https://i.postimg.cc/g0FbB0H1/Level1004.jpg
A small, previously dark and gloomy, living room. Look through the door to the dining room. https://i.postimg.cc/dtpbL0pD/Level1005.jpg
Another view of the living room. https://i.postimg.cc/sx0tPf26/Level1006.jpg
Standing near the front door looking at the doors into the kitchen and dining room. https://i.postimg.cc/L5scZgmg/Level1007.jpg
The kitchen from the front entrance room https://i.postimg.cc/L4CKFDVt/Level1008.jpg
Standing in the dining room looking through doors to the kitchen and garage. https://i.postimg.cc/bvHWC9J2/Level1009.jpg
The dining room https://i.postimg.cc/TwtSG2nd/Level1010.jpg
The dining room again this time looking through the doors to the living room, the front entrance and to the kitchen. https://i.postimg.cc/MHXLGkYy/Level1011.jpg
This room has 5 desks. Two without computers. Looking through the archway to the dining room. https://i.postimg.cc/90SnRxxs/Level1012.jpg
Same room - seeing 3 desks with computers. There is a door to outside at one end of this room. https://i.postimg.cc/05H3BQ8Z/Level1013.jpg
Another small room. It has some chairs and a chess table as well as a door to the outside. Looking towards the science room. https://i.postimg.cc/xTJ7D28Q/Level1014.jpg
Turned around and look back through the room with the desks and computers through the BauHaus door to see Kendall's place across the street. https://i.postimg.cc/FH0BzV0n/Level1015.jpg
Now standing in the science room looking back through archways to Kendall's place across the street. https://i.postimg.cc/X7RPnzBC/Level1016.jpg
The science room seen from outside looking through the big round window. https://i.postimg.cc/8CDn6fHk/Level1017.jpg
Level 2 This is the informal area for the babies and young children to spend time. I also has the bedrooms.
Open area with steps up to level 3. https://i.postimg.cc/NG7F63Bg/Level2001.jpg
Open area with a bedroom door visible https://i.postimg.cc/Nfd0VRKS/Level2002.jpg
Open area https://i.postimg.cc/MpXG8XRT/Level2003.jpg
Only single sim bedroom. This can be changed for the individual family requirements. https://i.postimg.cc/3J8Rntx2/Level2004.jpg
Same bedroom showing door leading to communal bathroom. https://i.postimg.cc/x171jYyP/Level2005.jpg
Communal bathroom. It has 4 or 5 two in one bathrooms plus two wash basins https://i.postimg.cc/KjZZpYxm/Level2006.jpg
Wash basins in communal bathroom https://i.postimg.cc/SQrQ2cfR/Level2007.jpg
Bedroom with two bunk beds - room for 4 young sims here. https://i.postimg.cc/bNVzL8Mj/Level2008.jpg It has a door leading to the communal bathroom and another door leading to the communal area
Bunk beds - from University Life https://i.postimg.cc/mgcT5Jf1/Level2009.jpg
Nursery with 5 cribs. No idea how many babies and toddlers they'll have at one time. https://i.postimg.cc/pXLWDysZ/Level2010.jpg
Stairs leading up to level 3. There is a fire place next to the steps and an area that is currently empty. Might put chairs and bookcase in here. https://i.postimg.cc/44BZNsXh/Level2013.jpg
Stairs leading down to level 1 https://i.postimg.cc/nrRtdY31/Level2014.jpg
Top of stairs from level 1 https://i.postimg.cc/dt3Fhp0N/Level2015.jpg
Outside area https://i.postimg.cc/tTGRP5cZ/Level2-Patio.jpg
Sims seen in these pics are Constance, Chris and their Plumbot Cindy. Their baby son, Charlie is in his cot sleeping.
That's it. I'll now record a walk through after I completed the decorating of it for this family to move in. That'll be found in the video for Episode 42 of the 30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt when I finally get it up onto YouTube.
@DivaDoodle thanks for the feedback. A person who lives in my local area contacted me about a different channel I have and told me I might do better with my nature videos if I saved them in HD. I didn't even know that was possible. He's got a photography channel and so knows a thing or two so I was glad for the advice. Anyway, it took me a few days to work out how to do it and the files are about 3 times bigger so take lots longer to load but they do seem to be much better. I messed up with Episode 41 and it went up as SD so I went back to the software I use to make the videos and worked out what I'd done wrong then exported it and loaded it again and suddenly it was there in HD. I noticed a change in the audio too because I'd just watched it on YouTube in SD.
I'm glad you worked out how to make it appear in HD for you and it was better for you to watch.
That was the final wedding for this series. I haven't started playing for the next episode yet. Actually I have done a bit but I don't think that play will go into it. The two sims who married Kendall and Constance both got 4,500 point wishes to have a baby. They'll lose those wishes if I send them home straight away. So I've kept them in The Great Southern Land and they are now pregnant. The newly introduced sims don't have much in the way of lifetime happiness points. I could cheat them some but I haven't done that yet. I just couldn't pass up on 4,500 points each. I might put a bit of it into the video. Of course they'll get even bigger wishes once their babies are born but I'll have to ignore them. At one point I decided to give all of the new spouses the same lifetime wish to want to raise 5 children from baby to teen so they are all keen to have babies.
Next episode we won't see much, if anything, of the 15 children and their spouses or their babies. I'll be handling it all from Gerri's house and I have to stay put in her house throughout the births of the whole 30 grandchildren. She'll end up with a few more than 30 as there are some already born and none of them will count.
I'm getting really excited about getting back onto some of the other series I haven't touched for a year or more. But this one needs to be completed first.
I was looking into the probability of being stuck with Gerri as the only sim in the household for one or more episodes and thought that might be a tad boring. So I've got a few 'interesting' house guests to accompany her. That should keep me entertained while the babies are arriving.
it took me a moment to find out how to see it in HD as there was a lot of buffering, that was due to my wifi I'm sure, but once it decided to cooperate it was amazing! The sound quality is so enhanced! the visual enhancement, it seems like it is better, brighter! Well done!
it is always so fun seeing the dancing and then slow dancing and of course the developing romance! my favorites! ;)
Your sims are always so great and amusing to watch!
Beautiful weddings and great video! I really enjoyed it! :)
I finally did it. The reload of 30 Grandchildren Episode 41 worked and it is available in HD 1080. I think the sound is better as well as the video. The file I load to YouTube is 2 or 3 times the size of the file loaded when the video is restricted to SD. It took me a few days of struggling with it here to finally work out how to export it in HD but now I know how to do it I will continue to do that. I hope. If I remember each time. I forgot this time and had to re-export and re-load it.
Here is the link to the long awaited video. https://youtu.be/tcopEHYNMm4
The final two of Gerri's 15 children get married in this video.
Romance doesn't go smoothly for the couples. I suspect the future spouses have cheating on their minds. But I only suspect this. I don't know if they are totally committed to their partners. Life could get interesting with them if there video series were to continue. But it won't. It'll end once I get the badge or am convinced the badge is not going to be awarded.
In this video Kendall and his future wife, Karen, as well as Constance and her future husband, Chris, are engaged in getting to know each other while deciding if they really want to get married and have babies together. By the end of the video they do go ahead with the ceremonies but I don't think either Karen or Chris are totally committed to their new spouses. You'll see what I mean when you watch the video. I hope you enjoy it.
Here are a few screenshots taken while recording for this video. Not all made it into the video so I suppose some, if not most, are out takes.
Everyone's favourite maid - Bonehilda https://i.postimg.cc/HxpPbyR6/Bonehilda.jpg The version of Bonehilda in this game is obsessed with gnomes - she kicks them over and stands them up and kicks them over and stands them up - and so on and on and on...
Constance and Chris. I think she's going to have a bit of trouble with Chris. He might have to keep an eye on her too. Maybe they are perfectly matched. https://i.postimg.cc/7YccjbJL/Constance-And-Chris.jpg
Constance really wanted to max her sculpting skill. She made an elephant at one stage. This one didn't make it into the video. https://i.postimg.cc/s2CLD8cd/Constance-Elephant.jpg
Of course there must always be dancing if we are going to have the blossoming of sim romance in this series of videos. https://i.postimg.cc/QxVw6ctP/Dancing.jpg
Eating the cake https://i.postimg.cc/YSNs43n4/Eating-Wedding-Cake.jpg
Karen https://i.postimg.cc/8z63GDLm/Karen-2.jpg
Karen reading in the Dome - didn't make it into the video https://i.postimg.cc/d33HxKqd/Karen-Reading.jpg
Kendall and others https://i.postimg.cc/V6DZgNcm/Kendall-And-Others.jpg
Kendall working on another ice sculpture - you won't see this in the video either. https://i.postimg.cc/2ytcpX6t/Kendall-Ice-Scupture.jpg
Kendall loves to paint. His lifetime wish is about photography. He managed to achieve it. https://i.postimg.cc/BZ7w1tgC/The-Artist.jpg
Kendall waiting for Karen to cut their cake https://i.postimg.cc/pX9cQxcM/Waiting-For-Karen.jpg
Kendall likes to paint - as does Karen so they have a few things in common. Their marriage might work. https://i.postimg.cc/KzBgddMR/Kendall.jpg
Episode 40 of The 30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt is now available on YouTube for you to watch.
https://youtu.be/7qkdXw0I21U
I experimented with this episode and found my experiment worked - I'm so happy about that. This is the first episode available in HD 1080. If you want to view it in High Definition you will probably need to click on the video settings and choose the higher resolution. I think it is a bit brighter than at the SD version that I've always done previously. Please let me know what you think of this improvement.
This episode is set in two worlds. It opens with the sims in The Great Southern Land (TGSL) and we see the household members carrying out various activities including Ice Sculpting; The Scientific Research Station to do Gene Splicing Experiments to convert seeds to Forbidden Fruit Seeds; Gardening; Picking a Plant Sim baby; Sim on Fire; Genie; Bowling Alley; Roller Coaster ride; Arcade Machines.
This episode is about the final 3 of 15 couples of Gerri's family who are destined (required) to produce 30 grandchildren for Gerri.
Each of Gerri's children got an imaginary friend doll at birth.
Cake Island II is an unpopulated world and, to encourage a more lively game, I decided it needed more than the 6 townies I addedat the beginning of the game. I chose to do this by transforming the dolls to real sims with the Imaginary Friend Metamorphium Potion which was made on the chemistry table.
The Imaginary Friends Made Real (IFMR) learn skills and read recipes and fishing bait books before they move out to live as townies in Cake Island II.
In this episode the household includes the final 5 Imaginary Friends Made Real. The IFMR are Clara, Rachael, Lucy, Bruce, and Cameron. Some of the them wish to grow Forbidden Fruit and I grant this wish for some of them.
In this episode you'll see them convert an ordinary seed into a Forbidden Fruit seed, plant the forbidden fruit seed and pick the resulting plant sim baby.
The final three of Gerri's children to meet and marry their future spouses are Joni, Constance and Kendall.
The future spouses were made with traits specifically designed to make them very attractive to the chosen mate. The names of the future spouses begin with the same initial as their future spouse.
In this episode we will see Joni and Jack get married. After the wedding most of the household travels to Cake Island where Joni and Jack move into their own home. Rachael moves out alone, and Cameron moves out with his plant sim baby son, Joseph.
In the previous episode I added an extra sim, the evil Klaus, to the household. He is still learning his skills and reading books. I don't have any clear plans for him. I just wanted a more interesting household than a single sim household while the 30 grandchildren are being born.
Once the 30 Grandchildren start arriving, to have some hope of having the badge awarded, I must stay in Gerri's house. No grandchildren will count towards the 30 needed to get the badge if they were born before I stop activating other households or when I am playing not logged into the Sims 3 site.
By the end of this episode Lucy and Bruce and Clara are still living in Gerri's house in Cake Island. As is Klaus.
After Joni's wedding Joni, Jack, Kendall, Karen, Clara, Rachael, Bruce, Cameron, Joseph and Klaus travelled to Cake Island. Only Constance and Chris have remained in the Great Southern Land.
Eventually Kendall and Karen go on a date and then it is time to return to the Great Southern Land.
They arrive in TGSL and move in with Constance and Chris. Lots of fun and some complications begin. Then we run out of time and the story will continue in Episode 41.
In this episode only one of the three new couples go on dates together and they eventually manage to get engaged. The wedding will be early in episode 40.
I added the brain enhancing machine to the household and a couple of sims took advantage of it for their own purposes. Since a lot of the household members will be returning the Cake Island relatively early in episode 40 I decided it was time to operate on Clara's traits and she is finally rid of that annoying unstable trait.
Some of the Imaginary Friends Made Real have wishes to grow a forbidden fruit. So far two of them have planted their forbidden fruit seeds and one of them has picked himself a plant sim baby boy named Jacob. The other, planted by the evil Lucy, will be picked in the next episode. I haven't played forward so have no idea what'll happen when the time comes to pick it.
Evil Klaus, the new household member has begun learning some skills and doing a bit of reading. He seems to be getting along well with a few of the female imaginary friends. I discovered his lifetime wish is Master Romancer so that'll be why he's got an eye for the ladies. I haven't seen any action yet.
There is a mass outing to the casino where most of the machines and the three types of table (poker, blackjack and roulette) are used by various household members.
Jack and Joni spend time exploring the Magic Gnome's Magical Treasure Park. They ride the roller coaster and balloon. They explore a mysterious little building that is full of mirrors and traps and holes in the floor. Jack finds a magic mirror and has a long chat with it while Joni explores the holes in the floor.
There is plenty going on with this episode. I hope you enjoy it.
@Karritz Ah interesting that you never saw the martial arts reactions before! that is nice to have a surprise! I am so glad you were able to include it in your video!
Hahaha I love the story of Patience, Gobias and Christopher! I just think it is so funny when we see them do something that we aren't expecting! Wow! Gobias proposed to a married woman! I would love to see that happen! Too bad about the children getting the betrayed moodlet, though, very sad well I guess that would be expected. I don't yet have the no jealousy in my game. So it looks like it only works to protect the other lovers from not getting jealous. Thank you for telling me Patience's story! :)
I am so looking forward to Cameron, evil Klaus, Clara and the more expensive brain enhancing machine! Wonderful pics of the 3! You do such a great job! ;)
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