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

This story has been popular and I'm continuing to include sims from this series in later videos.

@Karritz Sounds like a fun story line. :)

"lanlyn;c-18062614" wrote:
@Karritz It's been a while since you did a video with Oscar. I remember watching a few of those--I think when he was a child. He's a teen now, right?

Yes. The last episode I did of hus story he had a birthday and became a teen. I started a new playlist for his teen years. I've been playing his game this week. Mostly to familiarise myself with the sims in th e boarding school with him and to get most of them ready to return to their homes. I have recorded heaps of video so will start puttingbit together soon.

@Karritz It's been a while since you did a video with Oscar. I remember watching a few of those--I think when he was a child. He's a teen now, right?

@lanlyn that pond does look a lot like one of my lake shots except the waterlilys are yellow and the ones in the lake are light purple. I don't see frogs in the lake either but I went there one night recently and recorded the cachophony of the birds getting ready for sleep and as I walked back to the carpark stopped to record the sound of the frogs. I'll have to try to incorporate those recordings in a future video. I had my camera on Auto and it got a few pictures. Most of the video I recorded was unusable as I was walking along while recording. I can delete the video and just keep the audio from those recordings and add some of the still photos instead.

I'm really glad to see the end of 30 Grandchildren badge. But I gave each of the spouses a different look so I'd love to see how the babies turned out.

After not getting the badge I made a NRAAS Porter file of the entire population of Cake Island and placed them into a fresh game. Then got them all pollinated again and that resulted in another 31 babies (there was one set of twins born). Still no badge. I thought if I was logged in during the entire game from start to end it might help but apparently not.

This week I managed to get all of the second lot of 31 babies merged into their families. Then I started going through them and fixing family trees and culling inventories. I still have a long way to go with the fixing of family trees and fixing inventories. But I will put it away for a while and focus on Oscar's story for now. I'll get back the the Holdens (30 Grandchildren) from time to time and eventually get them into the Big Game.

@Karritz I miss that wishing well fishing activity. It was great having a convenient place for sims to fish at home. I recently built a small park in Sims 4 with a pond. The turtle log I added reminded me of your lake videos. :)
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Amazing family tree! Glad you were able to use the mod to help with that illusive badge! Master Controller and its modules are a must for me. You had lots of pollination going on. :D Big job finding those fifteen females.

I liked the plumbot playing the guitar. That's a nice park with the white sand and rose-colored water. Great seeing Klaus again. I always enjoyed the flower trails that plantsims made. Cute scenes with the new toddler exploring the garden. I like the crystal plants. I think they're pretty. Always fun watching the sims interacting with them too.

It's difficult to say goodbye to the families we've spent so much time with. I can understand why you'd want to continue checking in on them after the badge attempt. Disappointing that the game had so many issues with your trying to reach the grandchildren goal. But you did get the 30+ grandchildren even if the badge award never popped up. Great efforts! ? ? ? ?

Here is the link to the final episode of 30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt.

If I do more videos with the sims from this series I'll probably call the next series something like the 'Holden Family'

Here's the link to the video
https://youtu.be/Nd9vc6xHMjU

We get to see most of Gerri's 15 married children and their spouses in this episode. And the middle bit is spent in Gerri's house with her new housemates. The evil Klaus, the mean spirited imaginary friend made real, Lucy and Lucy's two plant sim toddlers.

They managed to inspire me to do more with all of the grandchildren and plant sims and any other toddlers or babies in the world. I am thinking about moving them all to a new world and adding a boarding school so I can get all of the toddlers and children and probably teens if the game lasts that long. They'll all move through the boarding school in groups and learn skills and get to know each other. When I'm tired of that I'll add their world to my Big Game.

The next video I plan to do is Oscar's Teen Years and he will be travelling around various worlds in the Big Game with his two travel companions Eric and Susanne. I'm thinking Oscar might visit the new world I'm moving the Holdens to and he might meet a few of them. I suppose most of the grandchildren will have to be teens by then for that to work.

Happy Simming and I hope you enjoy the video.

@lanlyn I'm glad you enjoyed the videos and the HD version of the game. Someone living near me sent me a message about the bird videos suggesting I do them in HD and it took me a few days of investigating but I finally worked out how to load them as HD videos so I thought I'd do the same with the Sims 3 videos. I'm glad it has improved them for viewing. I will try to do all of my videos in HD now. I could make them higher quality but the file size goes up. Making them the default size results in an MP3 file that's about 6,000 KB and as 1080p that goes up to about 3,400,000 KB and to get it even bigger it goes up to around 8,000,000 KB and I don't have sufficient space on my hard drive nor do I have the time to load a file that size given the slow internet connection I have for loading.

I have made progress with the arrival of the 30 grandchildren though.

I am so excited. I had left the game to run as I couldn't do much while waiting for babies to be born. I've already recorded lots of video for the next episode. Well I just checked and there are 15 new babies in Gerri's family tree.

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I will turn the computer off for the night now and will get her sons and daughters to start another 15 tomorrow. That'll probably take a couple days of game play, if I sit at the computer and interfere with it. I find I can generate crashes and all sorts of time wasting activities. Best if I just let it run while not in the room. Worst thing it does is stop running to make me OK a phone call or something. If anything deadly happens I can always shut down and reload.

@Karritz I watched vidoes 40-42 last night. More romance and marriages! I liked seeing the different activities too. More great stories. You're getting closer and closer to the badge.

After reading your comments here, I went back and checked the videos out in HD. I have my settings set for auto, so now that I chose HD for yours, they'll automatically play at that highest setting. They look really good. Clean, sharp shapes and colors.

Klaus is sure a unique sim! And fun to see Sims 3's Bonehilda. LOL at her obsession with the gnomes. Bonehilda finally made it into Sims 4 with the Paranormal Stuff Pack. You have to conjure her up with a seance table.
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She still cleans, but she also helps fight off the evil ghost Temperance.
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Your white mansion house is wonderful. Loved it. Beautifully decorated. I like my sims' homes to have lots of walking-around room and places for them to interact--and your homes always have that. Also liked your gardening area in the other home. Lovely.

Those scenes where the two sims were delivering babies at the same time were great. LOL at the one mom stopping her labor to freak out over the other laboring mom! Two more plant sim births too. Very cool. ... And next you're going to have 15 sims pregnant at the same time! Wow, brave gamer. :o :D

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed watching all the new videos. :)

@Karritz I watched a few of your recent videos last night, 37-39. Fun stories! And some beautiful scenes too. You've built so many amazing lots. I enjoy seeing what you've created. And the sims seem to enjoy them all too. I added bowling to my Sims 4 game not too long ago. It's been great fun. I missed playing it in Sims 3.

So cute seeing your sims playing in the waves together. And the wedding venue was lovely. Beautiful bridal gowns too. All the romantic scenes were sweet. And you've provided great homes for your new couples. I like that you make sure they have a good start in life. I also try to upgrade certain appliances as soon as I can, even in starter homes. Those cheap appliances always break or cause bad moodlets for sims.

It was great to see some of the Sims 3 game play again! The gene-splicing machine, for instance. And I loved seeing the baby plant sim's "birth." Those types of births aren't in Sims 4. Thanks for sharing.

I'll be watching #40-42 in the next couple of days! I'll try to catch up on reading the comments in this thread too. :)