100 Baby ADOPTION Challenge!

A curious idea! I like it!

https://youtu.be/JsgEi3gubRU

I've made my first 3 videos!! Please take a look and let me know what you think!

oh this is kinda cute! ive always wanted to do the 100 baby challenge but the whole mess of getting a partner was sort of killing my buzz. now i can get a little creative with the kids appearances

@mattiemayhem
I know right! And I find a lot of people quit after a while because it just takes sooo long!! And yes then you never know really what your kid might look like :smile:

> @Elly_Jones said:
> @mattiemayhem
> I know right! And I find a lot of people quit after a while because it just takes sooo long!! And yes then you never know really what your kid might look like :smile:

I think I'll go ahead and do this variation. I've seen it around a bit but this cures my worry of not being able to have my independent person, romance in the sims can be so boring in challenges and hard to come by organically xD

Oh @Elly_Jones this does sound fantastically fun! I am kind of 100 baby deficient because I started that challenge in 2015 and I have only 19 babies. I don’t play that game file very often. I’m also not very good at ageing them out until they have really good skills so I take a very slow approach which is a hinderance in100 baby where the objective is to rush them out.
The 100 baby rules state that you don’t have to move your children out but once you’ve moved them out you cannot move them back in.

If you want elders to be able to adopt babies I would suggest that the family keep a teenager around once the parent gets a little bit older that way there is someone to finish raising the younger siblings that are adopted at the end. I usually do this with the last cohort in a family anyway because the grown-up children can work and bring in money until the next matriarch is ready then the older siblings start leaving oldest to youngest. That might be a bit cheaty but I really like the family relationships in this save file.

This approach also creates an interesting challenge because there is always conflicting priorities between adding to the house or maybe building a greenhouse or similar and having money to adopt. Are you leaving it wide open when they can adopt, or are you stating that once there is a certain amount of money they must adopt?

Also interesting is if you have teen jobs during the gap from the last adopted a baby joining the family to when they are grown up you should be able to save some money in between so that the next parent has a bit of savings for the next round of adoption fees.

I would gladly jump into this with you with 2 feet but as you know I have my own challenge to finish play testing and that is going to be a while.

Pregnant SIMs are miserable so this variation has the advantage of not having to coax a pregnant SIMs through everything they need to do.

A fun aspect of this challenge for me is building what I call “stretchy houses” so that I can know what I’m adding ahead of time and where and I don’t have to go in and redo a bunch of landscaping or move a staircase.

Anyways! Following!

*bookmarks thread* Nice challenge :)


Edit:

The newest video is up!!!!

https://youtu.be/BaDbyIOnC5A

Episode 5!!!
https://youtu.be/7kNURv3EIgM

Since I am not an especially good 100 baby player I have only one pro tip.

Here is my one and only pro tip: When a child becomes a teen I have another Sim paint a paint-from-reference portrait of them. Each painting is renamed, #of the child first name last name. So, the first baby was Juanita. Her portrait is titled: 1. Juanita Vega. She was the daughter of the mailman. My house has all the gameplay on one level and an art gallery for the portraits (as well as gym equipment? bit of a mess) on the second floor. These portraits are so i don't get lost since I don't play that file very often.