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

That's great news, I'm glad to hear it's going well! :)

Hello all. I didn't get lost yet. I've just finished playing the game to the point required to complete the video for the next episode.

The next episode will see Megan marry Mark and Latoya marry Lionel. I have about 3 hours worth of video to edit so it'll take me a few days to do. Hopefully the episode will be on the channel in a week or less.

Happy Simming all.

@DivaDoodle thanks. Well I am an artist. Have lots of watercolours and oils and drawings and things to show for it and plan to get into it more soon.

When I'm logged on it isn't too bad but can be a bit difficult at times. I don't have Origin on my computer so don't have all the problems most people have when they are logged on. My version of the game is from pre 2012 so I can play without Origin. We had something else that Origin replaced originally so that might be why. I pre-ordered my base game so I've been simming for quite a while. Started with the Original Sims and was about to move up to Sims 2 when Sims 3 was announced so I decided to wait for it.

I just hope the badge happens. It is difficult to get and may not trigger. I think I'll move on to some other series regardless if it doesn't happen. I could try again at some stage by just having a sim with maybe 5 children and age them up fast and get each of them to have 6 babies. Could do that in a few days and get a result.

@Karritz I hope it all goes well and that you are logged on when the couples have their kids if that is what needs to be done! And of course Gerri, the super Mom and Granny!

I wonder if it must be horrible to play logged on, I imagine it can get laggy or have ads or something that makes people not want to do it very often!

I am very excited for you to get that Badge!!!

Your play isn't just play, it's an art form! Enjoy your time with your great sims! :)

@DivaDoodle I really just want to get it done so I can move on to other video series. I found my two sisters who have gone to The Great Southern Land to meet and marry their future husbands haven't completed reading their books. I've got almost everyone in the household reading and learning things and some are trying to get a few extra lifetime happiness points. I will do the wedding today some time though. It's just gone 10 am here at the moment.

Next episode will probably see a triple wedding and then that'll be it for all the weddings. The following episode will see a sudden baby boom. Hopefully each couple will have two babies and then I think Gerri, their mother, will have to have one more for the badge to trigger. But only if I remember to log on while playing before all these babies start arriving.

I'm thinking Master Controller might be used to ensure each couple is pregnant. I don't plan to make them all instant babies. All 15 of Gerrie's babies were instant. They arrived in batches of 4 or 5 so it didn't take long. All on the same sim day. She was very surprised.

Happy Simming

@Karritz Wow thanks for telling me about your wedding weirdness, you know, come to think of it I'm thinking that must be what happened with my couple who married at the festival but then the next day they both got the wish to get married at a party that was going on at the house! LOL I was too confused by all the guests at the first wedding to even understand that it had not gone through! hahaha

I just thought it was some glitch and pretended that they had liked the experience so much they wanted to do it again at the party!


Well sounds like Stan is my kind of sim! :D I love when they get confused and do things out of sorts! I'm glad you left that part of is confusion in the video!

Glad to hear you are still working on the big challenge of getting all those sims skilled up and married and moved out! I'm sure it will be another great video! :)

@lanlyn thank you for watching and for telling me about it. I am starting to put the next episode together. I'm planning another double wedding. It should be fun. I'm glad you enjoy your nostalgia hit when watching these old videos. I know I would probably do much better if I moved with the times but I still enjoy Sims 3. I do own Sims 4 but only got the base game and it isn't on this computer as I didn't put Origin on it for fear my Sims 3 would be automatically somehow upgraded to that version that gives people so much trouble. I'm glad you're enjoying your Sims 4. I might think about getting Sims 5 if it ever is released.

About looking inside those community lots. I've never bothered to look inside many of them. They came with the game and @Rflong7 does such a great detailed job of all of her worlds and lots I love to take a peek inside some of those buildings and see what's happening in them.

@DivaDoodle thank you for watching and telling me you watched and enjoyed the video. There will be some romance in the next episode too. I always look for that ask to be boyfriend and girlfriend and do see it when I'm recording the videos but for some reason I can't often pick it when I'm putting the videos together for YouTube.

The reason I shut down and started again with less guests is the game wouldn't progress with the wedding. They stood under the wedding arch and looked as if t hey were about to get married and it would drop out over and over and over again. After spending a really long time trying, I even tried the wedding arch upstairs, and always getting the same result I realised I was demonstrating that definition of madness - expecting a different outcome when doing the same thing over and over again. So I reluctantly shut down, reloaded and decided to test inviting less sims to the wedding and it worked first go.

Yes, Stan got confused. That confusion went on for quite a while in real life but I cut most of it out. Added a bit of it just for fun. I thought it amusing he suddenly remembered who he was supposed to be with and autonomously turned around and went back to her.

I won't do it in the next episode as there are a few too many sims in the household still, but probably the next episode I will sort out Clara's traits. I'm thinking of adding one of those brain enhancing machines to the household and do some experimenting on her with it. I've never used one of them fully. I've always had sims with traits I didn't want to mess up. But Clara's traits are so badly messed up already it is the perfect opportunity to see what can be done with a brain enhancing machine. And it'll be something new to add to an episode. I do try to add new experiences so the episodes are not too much of same thing over and over again.

The two couples getting married in Episode 37 will live across the street from the Coby and Sharonda houses.

I better get to work on that video now.

Happy Simming

Hi @Karritz, I'm watching Episode 36 :)

Clarisse and Coby on a wonderful date, they are very cute! I love watching the dates and romance of your sims!
I think Coby just asked her to be his girlfriend it looked like to me, I love that 'ask' holding hands with the other arm gesticulating upwards in a question, it was a few mins before he proposed, so cute! :)

Love the wedding! Clarrisse's blue hair is so pretty I love that style! Her wedding dress is wonderful! It's so nice to see your weddings! Everything always looks amazing and is so nicely decorated!

Stan & Sheronda wedding next was great! Clara running around in her bikini was funny! I had a laugh with Stan getting confused momentarily and flirting with the guy throwing rice for a moment was priceless! Glad he went back to his new wife still under the alter! I just adore watching sims just do what they do! :D

I know what you mean about too many sims coming to the weddings, I'm sorry to hear you say in your video that you had to start one over inviting less people. I wish that worked for me, I get so many party crashers, even when I check mark the rental space and pay the fee! LOL But I'm not as nice as you are and don't restart it, I just let them be crowded and watch them wade through the jello like air space hahaha. It resolves when they go on to other activities!


The Pink rose house and orange house on butter cream lane were very nice to see and your casino looks great!

It's always so nice to see how you take such good care of and provide so much enrichment for your sims! Great video!

@Karritz I finally got to watch 30 Grandchildren Badge Episode 36. I enjoy watching your Sims 3 videos even though I don't play that version any more. I like Sims 4, but miss some of the game play in 3. The different interactions between sims--many don't appear in 4. All the items from the Store and Packs are fun to see again too. The dancing sunflowers, for instance. And the dome in your video.

The romance scenes were sweet. And the proposals. The double wedding was great. Perfect music background for the ceremonies and receptions. ...I remember that Unstable trait! LOL. ...I liked the household/group photos. ...Nice homes for the newlyweds too. ...Glad you showed inside some of the community buildings--the casino, etc. Thanks for sharing your sims' lives. :)

Hello All. I've been busy and stressed about life in general. But I did finally manage to get the next episode of the 30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt completed and loaded to YouTube. I hope you are able to watch it and enjoy it. Don't forget to give it a like if you do enjoy it and a comment on the actual video in YouTube will do wonders to assisting with the channel growing. But if you want to only comment here that's fine.

Happy Simming.

https://youtu.be/Re6-bT60rUU

In this episode, Coby and Sharonda travel to The Great Southern Land to meet their future spouses, Clarise and Stan.

In the previous episode the final three imaginary friends were made real. There are no more imaginary friends in Gerri's household to be made real. The end of this apparently never ending series is looming.

The last of the imaginary friends to be made real.
https://i.postimg.cc/XYFy7T0w/Lucy-Cameron-Bruce-Imaginary-Friends.jpg
Lucy, Cameron and Bruce - imaginary friends of Joni, Kendall and Constance

The Final Five Imaginary Friends made real are now in the house in The Great Southern Land
Clara, Rachael, Cameron, Bruce and Lucy
https://i.postimg.cc/pXGNjcwZ/Clara-Rachael-Cameron-Bruce-Lucy.jpg
Lucy is evil, Bruce is a coward and Clara is unstable and currently insane too.

I had a few issues with memory in this episode as I had 19 Sims in the household and the computer didn't like it. So I focused on the romance between the two couples and then they got married. They didn't go out and slowly get to know each other in multiple venues.

Coby and Clarise are in the Dome and there is plenty going on there and it's interesting to see. Sharonda and Stan made do with a park. But both couples were very happy to find each other and all went smoothly. Until the wedding. I invited about 6 guests from town. All seemed to be going well until Coby and Clarise never got to the point of actually getting married. They just stood under the wedding arch and did lots of autonomous idle actions. Finally I got the message. I shut down without saving then relaunched and invited only 2 guests and it all went very smoothly after that.

Coby and Clarise got married and cut the cake and there was dancing. This was interrupted by Sharonda and Stan going to the wedding arch and they got married too. This was followed by more cake and dancing.

Clarise and Coby
https://i.postimg.cc/K8R6DrFy/Clarise-Coby.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/P59B3prv/Clarise-Coby-Dancing.jpg

Sharonda and Stan
https://i.postimg.cc/dVTqtvQR/Sharonda-And-Stan-Getting-Married.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/kXGJzKkp/Sharonda-And-Stan-Cutting-Cake.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/tCcqj7bC/Coby-And-Clarice-Plus-Sharonda-And-Stan001.jpg

We get to meet all members of the Great Southern Land household who will be left there when the two newly married couples leave for home in Cake Island II.

The current occupants of the house in The Great Southern Land

Mark, Lionel, Jack, Chris, Karen, Clara, Rachael, Cameron, Bruce, Lucy
https://i.postimg.cc/66hxWpzF/Mark-Lionel-Jack-Chris-Karen-Clara-Rachael-Cameron-Bruce-Lucy.jpg

Then we have a quick look at the houses the newly married couples will live in before returning to Gerri's house and we see Megan and Latoya leaving for their journey to The Great Southern Land where they will meet their future spouses Mark and Lionel.

Their new homes in Cake Island II
https://i.postimg.cc/YSmwMNyx/Coby-Sharonda-Houses.jpg

The Rose Pink House - Coby and Clarise
https://i.postimg.cc/dttPLcx3/Lemon-House-Sharonda-And-Stan.jpg


The Lemon House - Sharonda and Stan
https://i.postimg.cc/sx3FYkfn/Rose-House-Coby-And-Clarice.jpg


The end of the video is in the house in the Great Southern Land again.

The game seems to run quite nicely with 16 Sims in the house so I'll be doing a lot of training of sims before the next episode will be ready. I'll record video of the sims visiting places around the world before the weddings. But there will be a lot of skilling and book reading going on behind the scenes before I post the next episode. I can't wait for this to end. So there will be another double wedding next episode and I'm thinking there will probably be a triple wedding in the following episode.

Mark and Lionel - to be married next
https://i.postimg.cc/MH5Cd9vz/Mark-Lionel.jpg

Final Five Future Spouses
https://i.postimg.cc/9Md5qm2R/Mark-Lionel-Jack-Chris-Karen.jpg

Karen will be the last to marry - I have set the rules that there will be no moving out or marrying anyone else. But I noticed, just as I was shutting down the game last night, that Karen had moodlets indicating she has had her first kiss and first romance, presumably during the weddings. Her romance is with one of the Imaginary Friends Made Real - Cameron. I hope nothing comes of it. She's meant for Kendall. And Cameron just happens to be Kendall's imaginary friend made real.

The couples to get married to each other in the next episode.
https://i.postimg.cc/pTbMT9wM/Megan-Mark-Lionel-Latoya.jpg