Hi everyone, If you like building lots, and playing the game with a challenge this may fulfil those interests.
I have created a new gameplay challenge that involves playing the game, and building lots. If you want to give it a go, I'd appreciate any constructive feedback and suggestions. I'm already testing it and the link to both the challenge rules and my first chapter are below.
** I shall add each chapter as I finish it here **
I’m just going to be starting this myself. I’m using the heir of my previous drifter challenge but I used cheats to remove her skills and will remove the bonus traits she got from growing up when I get to play again. It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun.
That is great, @TheAmazingLee I really look forward to seeing her progress. I'm pretty much done testing it and will be putting up the last couple of chapters soon.
https://i.imgur.com/pBXjSoB.jpg My sim is Alice Driftwood. She's a genius, geeky, bookworm with a desire to be an archaeological scholar. She was on a ship to Selvadorada when it crashed in a storm and she washed up on an island.
https://i.imgur.com/0IKuA72.jpg She'd been in the scouts as a child, and while she never did get very far in them, she at least learned enough to be able to fish. She wasn't a strong swimmer though, so even though she could see some other islands in the chain she wasn't sure she could get to them. They looked just as uninhabited though.
https://i.imgur.com/Pf12IlS.jpg After a few days she had to admit that nobody was going to find her any time soon and managed to set up a camp with the emergency supplies that had luckily washed up with her. She managed to build a little workbench to start work on a more stable shelter.
https://i.imgur.com/z82uLem.jpg The emergency supplies had included some seeds, which she planted along with a few she'd found around the island. She hoped she wouldn't need them, but if she was stuck on the island for any length of time she'd need something besides fish.
https://i.imgur.com/EZUIvWc.jpg She might only have a few bits of clothing, but she did have blankets and the like as well, so she was glad enough of the materials she was able to use to wash her clothing. The detergent wouldn't last forever but she already had an idea about using some flowers.
https://i.imgur.com/zdxnWVp.jpg Just as she was starting to get depressed from her loneliness, she found a teenager who had washed up on a nearby island and made the swim to hers after seeing her campfire at night. His name was Nesheem and he was a Scout-which surely had helped him survive on his own. She happily helped him set up a camp of his own nearby.
https://i.imgur.com/7IzGo9V.jpg Then, not even a few days later (or nights rather) she ran into Alex! The other woman was a bit odd and looked rather sick so Alice offered to help set up a camp for her as well.
https://i.imgur.com/zLiKCQg.jpg It'd been an entire season since Alice got shipwrecked and she was having to repair things around her camp now. She almost had enough material to build a sturdier shelter, which she was excited for. She'd been through a few rainstorms now and she knew her tent wouldn't stand up to a thunderstorm.
https://i.imgur.com/pn56Afb.jpg With the help of Nesheem and Alex, she was able to build a little shed, and promised to do the same for them. They had to build it at night because Alex was sensitive to the sun. After Nesheem had left, Alex stayed behind and revealed to Alice that she was sickly because she was a vampire and she hadn't been successful at all at finding any plasma fruit on the island. She promised she wouldn't do anything to harm Alice or Nesheem, but Alice couldn't help but feel worried...
https://i.imgur.com/3GPNDQ4.jpg Alice really enjoys her scavenged and repurposed kitchen. It's a good thing so many appliances washed up from the ship she was on. Or maybe other ships that wrecked too. She's just happy she was able to get them to work again...or at least, work for the most part.
https://i.imgur.com/UaBTbKZ.jpg Pranav is another survivor she met. He's a little bit distant but she's quickly becoming friends with him. Poor guy doesn't have any supplies at all, so she's happy to share with him. He's handy too and figured out how to make little umbrellas from the materials around them, so now she doesn't have to get soaked all the time.
https://i.imgur.com/LmZAxVs.jpg She's supposed to be building materials to build her friend's shelters but she got a bit distracted making a horse shoe range. Nobody's really complaining though, since now there's something fun to do when they come visit her. And they certainly visit more now.
https://i.imgur.com/XsMB5WH.jpg Speaking of friends, she was able to solve Alex's problem! It took some work but she has a steady supply of frogs to breed now, and Alex can turn those into plasma! Maybe not as tasty as the actual thing, or even plasma fruits, but it's good enough. She could have done it with fish too but Alice and the others need the fish to eat.
https://i.imgur.com/1tqlRP8.jpg At the end of summer, Alice was able to convince Pranav to move in with her. He doesn't even have a tent so there's no way he could survive in the colder weather coming. She's also discovered to her dismay that she's falling in love with him. The only problem is that he has a wife and toddler daughter off the island and he's still convinced he'll see them again...
https://i.imgur.com/Pule8PQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gSo39Pq.jpg At the end of summer this is what her lot/house looks like. She's also almost made enough to build another shelter (Probably Alex's because I dunno how to get Neeshem to move into his alone since he's a teen). So she isn't quite going to make the deadline of fall but she might manage winter. She'll be fairly warm at least!
Ooh, I can't wait to meet their baby. I really liked how you told their rescue!
I had a question-they can't start a family until they build on all the lots right? So they need to build the other three residential lots and the community one first?
Gotta get one more residential lot then, and a community lot. After she has her shelter is she able to find more survivors (besides her spouse?) Or is it just another one if she doesn't get with one of the first two?
https://i.imgur.com/nI9bMCn.jpg Fall has arrived, and with it rain. The laundry is stacking up like crazy but Alice is too focused on building shelters for her friends to build any sort of lean-to to keep her clothes dry. Other than that, things are going pretty well.
https://i.imgur.com/aL7144S.jpg For one, when the weather IS good, Pranav has taken over the task of doing laundry. Turns out he's skilled in sewing and has managed to patch together some new outfits that actually look almost new, out of scavenged cloth and clothing he's found on the beach while fishing.
https://i.imgur.com/rScQzvN.jpg Alice is feeling pretty nice in her new clothes and it gives her a push to finish Alex's shelter. Now she just needs to get Neeshem's done before winter so he doesn't turn into a sim-Popsicle.
https://i.imgur.com/wWTZxqc.jpg Things have heated up between Alice and Pranav too. She wasn't going to act on her feelings, what with him still mourning being seperated from his wife and daughter, but close quarters and extended separation from their previous life has resulted in the two of them getting closer than mere friends. They don't really talk about it though, since both feel a little guilty.
https://i.imgur.com/cragNGr.jpg Pranav can even make sweaters! They have pretty cute warm clothing. She manages to cheer him up on the morning of Harvestfest. It's a hard holiday, since it's the first one they've had since being wrecked. It's especially awkward what with their romantic interaction with each other and the unspoken problem of his love for his wife.
https://i.imgur.com/kP49rGK.jpg Alice managed to make a little seating area and served up a Grand Fish Feast (because fish is love, fish is life). Alex obviously didn't eat but she really enjoyed the camaraderie of enjoying everyone's company and being thankful for what they have. Like shelters, because Alice even managed to finish Neeshem's. Sort of like a birthday present, as he's now a young adult.
https://i.imgur.com/m69Rqwe.jpg Pranav ages up into a full adult, which really cements home how long he's been stuck on this island. His wife was quite a bit older than him, so he has to come to the sad conclusion that she's probably passed away of old age by now. Which means there isn't really anything to feel guilty about with Alice...
https://i.imgur.com/4kKpY6B.jpg Alex's shelter! You can see Alice's home in the background there. It's pretty basic inside, having the bare necessities.
https://i.imgur.com/r2Lr6SS.jpg Neeshem's shelter! Basically a copy of Alex's, which is in the background there.
So when Alice first started it took almost the entire spring season to find a single person (besides her younger brother who apparently likes to hike on the island but has not been seen since he aged up to teen), but now they're everywhere! It's hard to take a picture without some random sim photobombing it!
Pranav actually was miserable on Harvestfest because his wife died and he got major sad moodlets. At least now he isn't cheating...Moreover, he doesn't know, but he actually has a son as well as a daughter. That'll be interesting to discover...
Once you have your shelter if none of the two you meet first and stay in contact with become your partner, then you are allowed to choose another sim that crosses your path, but only one until you are "rescued so to speak" and get back to civilisation. In other words you don't have any other contacts besides the two you choose to befriend (the survivors) or the one you come across that does become your partner while on the island. You can't go anywhere to socialise as such, to meet someone until after you have your partner moved in and all the lots are built.
For eg. If the two you keep in contact with do not become compatible, then you find another that you like the look of and choose that one, you cannot change his or her aspirations or anything until they have moved in. So if you come across one that doesn't like children, or non-flirty etc, you have to put up with that until you've wooed them enough to get them to move in so you may then choose to change their aspirations.
Hope that makes sense. If not get back to me. :) ;)
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