"SimAlexandria;c-17670820" wrote:
"Zora1327;c-17669174" wrote:
@Zora1327 That sounds fun too :) My first time around I did something similar with the names.
Gen 1 was alphabetical up to the letter L which is when that gen ended.
Gen 2 was place names
Gen 3 was Nature names until we hit the last 14 babies of the challenge. At that point she finished what the first matriarch started by going alphabetical from m-z. I posted all their names here at that time: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/965751/just-had-to-share-that-im-done-100-baby/p1
Also, I'm aging up kids/teens on their bdays right now because my graphics card is broken so I can't see menus in game. Adds some more challenge haha. But I can't tell what grade my kids have or their traits so for second round I'm not worrying about it, except tots as I can see skills. I also can't choose sims which makes it really hard. For example... if my sim clicks on the potty she can't pick which tot to potty train and therefore can't train any... UNLESS only one can be trained and then it automatically goes to that tot. (And vice versa for kids asking for potty help) so I have to make sure that all tots other than the one needing trained (or bathed, or whatever) are asleep before potty training one. Highly annoying. Also Can't do things right now like cook (because I can't open the menu to choose the foods but she can "serve dinner" with the expensive wheel menu options you buy, just not the normal choices), view family trees (very annoying), order services like a maid or gardener, get reward traits, or anything like that haha. I need a new computer.
First time around my kids never had fathers, as their fathers all seemed to die somehow by the time they were tots (mostly weather related deaths) so observent wouldn't have helped any haha.
Thanks, haha! I looked at your posts from the 100 baby challenge one and it seemed interesting! :)
But I wonder how it must be to have no menus in the game? That must be VERY annoying, indeed! :/ Oh, also, are you able to pick any traits for the kids or is that broken, too? And how are you managing? I don't think I can go a second without checking traits, grades, life left, family trees, etc, because I'm like that, lol. I also tend to have a lot of multiples (I got twins the very first time I played ts4 and my sims got pregnant!) so they become toddlers at the same time and so I have two or three toddlers at once and if I had that problem then I won't be able to potty train them or bathe them. And then I'll have stinky toddlers with poopy diapers, haha. I also don't think you need a new computer, but you might need to replace your GPU with a new one. Just so you know.
And I have had some weather-related deaths (haven't gone far enough in my challenge to get family-related deaths yet) in my game, too, XD. A few of them were Nancy Landgraab and Mortimer Goth XD. It usually switches my camera to them whenever they die like that. Because they were dying, I couldn't save or do anything of the sort which was annoying (I usually save every minute or so as I don't want to lose ANY data, lol). One townie sim even died on my lot and I got her gravestone. It also prompted my matriarch to go witness it, but I cancelled it. It was pretty strange, honestly. I got angry so when I saw a sim turning blue, (I have MCC cheats) I changed their outfit to the cold-weather one and they were normal again. Never got any hot-weather deaths yet, though, XD. I had a broken mod in my game for a while, though (took it out now thanks to the 50/50 method, I kept it through many updates of the game for whatever reason, idk) and it made those dying sims resurrect and start walking on the streets again. They were removed from their households as usual, but they were normal sims, XD.
I decided on the idea of taking on the father's traits because it felt strange to just randomize it, lol. Never had any fathers die yet, btw. At first, Zandra had to get to know the fathers' traits but then I realized a trait existed for that, the Observant trait. I never found any use for it previously, but now I have! XD It is cheap and I'm having Zandra be kind of like a super sim XD and getting whims as well, so she has a ton of satisfaction points. Having Zandra be a super sim makes the challenge more interesting as well. (It won't be realistic for her to get everything in her lifetime and being a busy matriarch, but I'm getting as many things as I can! :smiley: ) I might do something different with the new matriarch when she comes, though, XD.
And talking about the 100 little lumberjacks challenge, I think this name theme is interesting, XD. In my old 100 baby challenge save (the one I lost), I used the -a & -e suffixes for girls and -iah, -as & -on suffixes for boys, and the hard "c" sound is slightly similar to that, haha.
So... I fixed the menu thing! Yay! In time to get the first kid the A. I had to do a bunch of driver updates etc. I'm sooo glad but I may still need a new computer. Mine is a fairly new gaming laptop but it had an accident. Think kids toy on the floor, large bowl of cheerios and milk type accident. It may not show big purple dots on the menu anymore but the side of the screen is stil missing as well as I don't have a proper space bar, n, l, 1,4,7, enter and a few other keys. Hard to type and doesn't really work like it did before that fatal breakfast.
I'm so glad! I hated not being able to check those things but it was that or not play at all haha.
If you have any hard "c" name suggestions for boys let me know haha. I have about 4 or 5 more girl ones I can think of but not many boy ones
"SimAlexandria;c-17670991" wrote:
Okay I can see kids grades, but still can't choose stuff on other menus and now even if only one adult/toddler is available it still doesn't let me potty train. Potty training is officially impossible on my computer right now... which means that unfortunately, unless I can fix it, all toddlers will have to be given the indepedent trait so they can train themselves. I wanted to randomize it but yeah, not an option at this point in time for me
I can relate (not ts4 but another app called wondershare filmora9, a video editor), and it kept lagging and crashing and turning black and all that. I updated my GPU and it still does it. Perhaps it's a little better than before, but it is definitely
NOT fixed. *sigh* I want to edit my videos without any nonsense happening but I wonder when that's going to happen. I also can relate to the broken keyboard incident on an old laptop I used to have. My brother accidentally pushed me while I was drinking orange juice and it spilled onto the arrow keys. Luckily the right and left arrow keys survived but the up and down keys were dead. I had to use WASD when playing games and I had to use the mouse to go to certain paragraphs when editing documents and such. Perhaps only a year after that it died and never turned back on. Luckily I had a black laptop (Windows 10) that I could use (the one I use to play The Sims 4) to do my daily things. I also remember having an external keyboard whose half of the keys were broken, and we had to get a new one. *siiiigh* As they say, technology is useful until it stops working. :s
Glad to see you can see the kids' grades now, but now you can't potty train? It must be
really stressful to play the sims 4 in this state. :( Just wondering, what does it look like when you try to potty train using an adult? And is anything else broken?
In my old 100 baby challenge, one of my boys were named Caron and one of my girls were named Kailani. In the new one, my third child (and girl) is named Chrysanthemum. Only hard "c" names I had in my challenges so far, XD. I
am thinking about using a boy name, Kale, for my "k" child (since my matriarch is having twin boys). It's short for Kalen or Kayle, I guess. Although Kailani and Kale are "k" names, sooo.... I'm rambling, aren't I? XD
Anyway, here are some boy names: Callum, Craig, Cash (one of my old matriarch's baby daddies, lol), Colin, Connor, Keenan, Keeran, Killian
Girl names: Carlina, Catherine/Katherine, Chrisanta (variation of Chrysanthemum), Kathryn, Katharine, Caralyn, Cora
