I only do one challenge per iteration. That's Pinstar's Legacy Challenge. I like the 'rules' that are applied. I first did this challenge with Sims2, where I started my Sims Odyssey. Prior to my taking up that challenge, I always played with autonomy off. Big mistake, I learned in the long run. Never once in the entire time I played that game (and I became addicted rather swiftly, too) and played several hours every day of the week, did I have a Sim swing from the fridge out of boredom. I completed the challenge and in the course of it, I had many 'firsts' occur in my game. A male Sim was abducted by aliens and (drum-roll, please) he came back preggars! (There were points for that if memory serves.) Since then, I've made it a point to play that challenge in each iteration. Sadly, I did not complete the Sims 3 version. My young heiress had the Gold Digger aspiration and she ended up stealing her auntie's life-long unrequited love-interest. She managed to get preggars (the niece) forcing the very rich Sim to marry her, and from then on plotted ways to put an end to the old Geezer's life to fulfill said aspiration. She tried to drown him by removing the ladder from the swimming pool, but he just kept climbing back out of the side. (Heretofore, a Sim couldn't do that. :O) Before I could resolve the situation I experienced a catastrophic health event and ended up in the hospital in another state for about three weeks. Even when I was allowed to travel back via car to the state I was living and still live, it was not to go home to my house, but to stay at a facility akin to a Convalescent hospital for another two weeks. Got out just prior to Thanksgiving. I made the decision to finish the mini-series in my siggie by treating it like a job. Every morning I carefully climbed the stairs to reach my loft office and ignoring my emails, this forum, and my game, I wrote all day long. About ten months later the story was finally done. Yay. All of this to say, that by the time I got back to my Challenge save, I had quite forgotten what I was doing, where my Sims were going. In other words, I was so totally detached I was too overwhelmed to even pick up where I'd left off, which honestly I couldn't remember where I'd left off. LOL So, that's the only one I didn't complete.
I remember anxiously awaiting a Legacy Challenge for Sims4 and not long after the game launched Pinstar and his now wife, had it up and running. I began mine in Oct. or Nov. 2014. I messed up bad due to not rereading the heir rules and not recalling that there was a codicil if the would be heir didn't have the trait (something I had chosen myself to be one of the three things to chose an heir by) and how I could resolve it. smh Instead, I moved him out of the household, (a major league no-no in this challenge). I was going to recreate my second generation, instead, but that's when I discovered that the walk-bys were one of a kind and they didn't regenerate. My Founder's wife had died in the game. :open_mouth: I was so very discouraged at that moment that I deleted the save as I did in Sims 3. (Yeah, sometimes I'm too rash.) About a year later I decided to throw caution to the wind, and I restarted my Legacy Challenge. I kept my Founder Sim as I really liked his backstory. I was now emotionally ready for this Challenge. So, I went into my blog post and deleted all of the chapters from the old defunct challenge and then instead of copying and saving the backstory part I wanted to keep to post it anew, I just deleted the parts that no longer applied and picked things up from there. That's why that one chapter has the year 2014 as the date it was posted. The rest were from 2015, I believe. It took a year to complete, but that's mostly because I still wasn't playing this game everyday as I did Sims2 & 3. I'm playing that way, now, however.
