I want all the tea and the drama...

I can definitely share some pics. I added 4 or 5 pages to my Imgur just for Liberty and Matteo's wedding chapter of Under The Tartosan Sun.  I went with the philosophy that if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. 🤣

You can still see the whole chapter with working picture links...

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18309777/#Comment_18309777

I was wrong about the total number of sims in the household. It was only 21, not 27. 🙃

How beautiful!! I completely agree it’s absolutely worth overdoing! 😂🥰 21 is still a huge feat. 

Let's see... gameplay-wise, the most time-consuming things I can think of were:

• Triggering an alien abduction in The Sims 2 (with a household unrelated to the Curious family)
• Turning a sim into a plantsim (still in The Sims 2). Luckily, after the first they reproduced very quickly and I filled several households with them
• Finishing a legacy in The Sims 4 (here I still have two generations left to post on the forum)
• Setting up a Hogwarts-based save (I started it in 2022 and I still find details to adjust)

In terms of difficult to do, but relatively short to play:

• surviving the phases in which several toddlers or infants were present at the same time in the household (I can't stand kids, this alone was making me think to drop the legacy in a few moments)
• Having a sim working full time as a doctor (active career) and at the same time studying in college (three exams per week/semester). She wasn't fired, and she graduated with a B if I'm not mistaken, but she barely had time to sleep for a while

All those things are definitely playing the game in hard mode! 😂 I’ve never done a legacy in sims 4 but found it hard enough with 3 😂 

that doctor must’ve slept for a week when they were done?! 

I don't remember all the details about that doctor, it was some time ago, but if I'm not mistaken she actually had a science baby not much after graduation, actually 😅 I was playing with the normal life length, there wasn't time to waste! XD 

I think that's what we call an overachiever 😂

So sad! I don't let my pets die because I just can't handle it. Honestly, I don't let my Sims die either, unless it's from random happenstance. I play with aging off, lol. (Yeah, I'm just a softie underneath. 😌)

The hardest thing...

When Jungle Adventure came out, I made myself a challenge, and put together a full household for my first trial run of the Game Pack to test how "dangerous" it actually was, before sending one of my other households there. I wanted every age group from child up, plus secret Occult representation (of which there were only two - Vampires and Aliens - at the time) and a pet, so I chose a dog. I gave them each their own agendas and reasons for being on the excursion, decided who was "hired", who was native to the area, and who already knew each other. I gave the 7 Sims plus one dog only one day to spend in town to scoop up supplies, loaded them with tents, chairs and a cooler, and sent them off the next evening. (They had to travel mostly by night because of the Vampire, who gave them some reason in my head. He wasn't allowed to feed on them and he had a certain amount of blood packs.) 

So, the idea was that once they passed through a gate, they could not return to civilization. They could not go back to use the bathrooms or anything at the "park", and definitely not the rental house. They had to camp the whole way, spend at least one night in the jungle on the way there and on the way back, plus a night in the temple itself while they slowly explored before and after. And I'll tell ya....it was probably the most fun gameplay session I've ever had. I had to keep full autonomy on, which meant pausing a LOT, and the bug attacks were crazy. People got poisoned, minds got erased autonomously, the Vampire got hungry, and everything that happened I just wove into the story. And the ending somehow was absolutely perfect. One day I'll share it in the Creative section with screenshots because I took a million, lol. But here's one:

The Omiscan Explorer's League

Hardest I don't know, but worst was probably kill off a grandmother for no good reason by making her swim in winter until she froze to death. At least if you ask my son, who happened to come into the room when I did it. He still remembers it years later and brings it up from time to time. (Luckily he doesn't know that I had already killed grandpa earlier). 

So why did I randomly killed grandma and grandpa? Am I some monster who hates grandparents? Well I wanted story about a single mother and a daughter, but I wanted the family tree to include mom's parents. So I made them only to kill them off and ended up traumatising my son who now believes my sole purpose with the game is killing off little old ladies 😆

LizzielilyyI had the files backed up on an external drive but amongst the commotion I also misplaced, aka lost, that storage with a bunch of other projects. UGH! :(  Now that I think about it, I did actually start another series since then, it was a 2016 project "Life Is", and I did a whole first season of it and then again lost the backups on my external drive and just gave up lol