Thoughts and Questions about the Decades Challenge (Emotions, Ethics and Historical Perspective)

"flauschtrud;c-18344311" wrote:

I never count points for challenges. I'm obsessive enough about a lot of things, I don't have to add to this, haha. And I don't mind to take rules more as an inspiration, after all the story should fit for the Sims that you're playing with. But it's helpful to have some guidelines as to how to make the challenge a challenge and I also think it's nice when multiple people play with a similar set of rules, so you can see how everyone else interprets them.

I would also love to read more stories from different cultures and countries. Wouldn't have to be a decades challenge though. But yeah, the game doesn't make it that easy for many I guess.

Incorporating laws is super interesting! Although that would be a topic that I wouldn't be so concerned about if I made any mistakes. I think I could deal with offending a law historian, haha. I think the same about fashion and architecture. I don't think I will be able to nail these even with a lot of effort, but I don't expect this to cause any harm to anybody (hopefully).

That's interesting that the challenge even made you discuss with your husband. I agree that skipping the worst years would not have been right. About which screenshots did you disagree? The ones with the Batuu banners?

Yes, wars are not just black and white, although I'd say that the German history education tends to depict a more black and white picture of history. I can absolutely understand the reasons why but it leads to interesting thoughts. The story that I have been inspired with would have to be set in East Prussia (which is now a part of Russia, Poland and Lithuania) and of course that means that the characters will have to escape at some point. And then I'm having thoughts like: Am I allowed to empathize with German refugees after WW2? It's weird...

@flauschtrud
My words, it's very interesting how people play these challenge and handle the "rules". I was always interested about the late 19th century and I was a fan of the series Abenteuer 1900, and at first I didn't thought much about the law and the society rules at all, I was expecting that I give in early. That's why I had started in the what's happened in your game thread with the story and that's why I have much talked about what I did and had not so much storytelling, I also don't wanted to be that person who abbandon a thread and leave an unfinished business. I made many mistakes at the beginning, but that's okay, it was also learning progress, although my inner perfectionist would scold me. :D



Interesting Idea with the setting, I would love to read about it.
I have lived and worked 5 years in Danzig (Gdansk). The people of this city reached out their arms in reconciliation, the people there love their freedom and they will fight for it. Not every german escaped (or wanted to escape) and they had have a hard time afterwards. But the german minority try to keep their tradition alive, although not many of these people speak german. Luckely most of the polish people now understand that the old inhabitants don't come to take away their home or land, rather the old ones are happy to see their childhood home once again as long as they were able to go, thanks to the EU. As far as I know in Pomeria or eastern prussia (except the landlords) people didn't cry much about the lost land. It was a poor rural area then and it's still a poor rural area today.