"angelbear;d-1007353" wrote:
The challenge used to be hard but doable. Now with infants, it is much more difficult. Not for the faint of heart. I am thinking of criteria for aging up infants early. The best I have is maybe the sleep-through-the-night milestone, and then they can age. I would do it when they could sit up on their own, but I am having enough difficulty already just keeping everyone's needs met. Between one on the way, a newborn, a younger and older infant, and a toddler, poor mama does not have time to do anything. It may be more accessible when the first child ages up to a teen. I am beginning to think that you might need two caregivers to do this challenge now, however, with how the sims automatically cue to care for a newborn or infant as soon as they start to fuss.
Is anyone else attempting the challenge yet?
What ideas do you have for infants aging up?
Three milestones seemed too easy. They picked them up quickly.
Aging newborns early and raising infants for five days seems like cheating.
This is why I chose to sleep through the night. I figured doing so would signal they were ready to be toddlers.
--However, this might be harder depending on trait/quirk combos.
Kudos to you for braving this challenge with infants!! I am also playing 100 baby challenge right now. For infants, I'm playing them the full 5 days. I'm not sure when is the right time to age them up early, so I just decided to play them the full 5 days. But I totally think it's fine that you're setting your own rules for infants. I think the # of milestones is a good idea....but I'm not hitting the milestones, maybe getting 8 lol...so I don't see aging infants up early in my future if I was to use milestones lol haha.
I also play where my matriarch ages (w/MCCC). I always thought it was too easy to just pop out babies & never age. With the age spans increasing, it seems like this challenge could be completed in 1-2 generations. My trade-off for allowing my matriarch to age....is I play with occult incentives. Any spellcaster, vampire, alien etc babies count as 2 babies when they age to YA (this is part of the optional rules but is huge).
Infants has for sure made this challenge a game changer lol. The struggle is real and I'm only 2 toddler, 2 infants and 2 newborns in lol. Since there aren't rules yet for infants (that i've seen), i'd say make it your own. This challenge is supposed to be fun....so I always think it's cool when Simmer experiment and customize to their playstyle. Happy Simming!
