I did it! It took me 11 months, but I wish there was a way to find out how much time was spent on the actual save file, especially knowing that I spent the summer doing mostly building. There is a small personal asterisk, however, and one regret. Between MCCC and neighborhood stories, the adult children who are moved out would go on to create families of their own. So finding new donors was never going to be a problem, and I realized early on I would complete it with just one matriarch - the additional challenge that I set for myself was to find donors that were not directly related to my matriarch, and to do so by downloading/adding as few new households as possible. I succeeded 96.8% of the time. On several occasions there were connections between donors, or between the children. But on two occasions, and to add insult to injury, those occasions occurred nearly back-to-back in the last quarter of the challenge, the donor was one of Malibu's great-great-grandsons. So... those four kids are Malibu's kids and they're also her great-great-great-grandkids. 😕 And lastly, the thing that I regret, was not using MCCC to mark the adult children to never die or never age, because I wish I could have a photo with Warren and Sage and Senna. 100 Baby Challenge Progress10/25/2022 I've just passed the halfway point - kid #54 is an adult now, and kid 61 is born. And my matriarch is right on the edge of aging from young adult to adult - which means I can probably get the rest done with just one matriarch!
I'm trying to take some of my own advice, not stressing myself out with the toddlers, but also I'm not worrying about keeping twins or triplets on the same level anymore. If one toddler gets to 3 before the others, they're geting aged up. But now that I'm over the halfway hump, I'm all in! I'm starting to run into some truly wild interconnections, like royal lineage inbreeding style overlaps. Kid 57 creates a whole lot of wreaths instead of branches. Gold Digging Cabins - Random Update3/16/2022 I have officially started the Millionaire Gold Digger challenge. I'm 2 husbands in, she's pregnant with the 2nd's baby, and while she WAS up by §150,000 or so, she's now down to §11,000 after building a new house. However, this will be her forever house, I'll just have the sugar daddies move in and out.
I've also downloaded TMexi's All Scenarios mod, so now I have access to the scenarios that have already expired, and I might consider tackling a few of the older ones that I ignored. Could be fun! Lastly, I already revamped all the cabins in Granite Falls, but I think I'm going to go back in and re-do a few things. I had no intent on sharing them when I first did them, so I was quite liberal with the CC use. My plan is to go back and re-do them without CC, also I have a couple that used CC bunk beds, which I no longer need. Furthermore, I want to create two versions - one with Peacemaker's Screened In series, and one that will use Snowy Escape windows but I haven't decided which pack has the best doors to replace the screened ones. Island Living is the closest to what I have in mind but it's not exactly what I visualize there. Stay tuned. 100 Baby Challenge Take 2 - Followup2/7/2022 Oh. My. God.
Doing this challenge with all packs - and therefore more little things to use - has been so much easier. First of all - if you are doing this challenge and you have the Tiny Living Pack, if you build your own lot or use one with no traits, you NEED to use the You Got the Touch lot trait. It doubles the skill rate. My kids are toddlers for a maximum of two days (Good Schools from City Living, too). I'm about... a week in at this point, 16 kids have reached adulthood and she's pregnant with #19. I'm making good time. Malibu has 17 days left to young adulthood, when she reaches adulthood I'm going to use mccc to change her days to 24 (normal lifespan) instead of 35 (my custom lifespan), but I think there's a good chance I could finish this challenge with just one matriarch. Might be two, but we'll see. I've always tried to just do single babies (because of those toddlers!) but with that You Got the Touch and good timing, I can make it work. Right now the house is just Malibu, one teen, one baby, and she's pregnant. Can't wait to see what she has! 100 Baby Challenge Attempt #21/31/2022 Well... that was a mild fail.
While the intent was there, using my PS4 solely for my 100BC due to not having any mods or CC to slow me down, realistically, I couldn't do it. Let's be honest, if I'm gonna sit on my PS4 for hours at a time, I'm gonna be playing GTA. I'm honesly surprised I got as far as I did. So - we're starting again. I took a look at what all my mods actually affected, and made a few adjustments. I still have the one that slows down time (my game time minutes are about 1.2x a normal game minute), because that one requires a restart every time you change it, so to offset it, I changed motive decay to go slightly faster as well. I thought that'd I'd changed lifespan to something ridiculously long but I was wrong. Normal young adult and adult lifespan in the game is 24 days for each, and I had changed mine to 35. I increased baby to 4 (game is 3), toddler to 10 (7), child to 15 (13), teen to 20 (13). This is workable. I can use that same mod to give my matriarch 24 days left to the span when she ages up. As far as all the kids, my added days is actually a hurdle if I don't get their skills up/get A in school, because I'm stuck with them longer. But I don't think it'll ever be an issue, I usually get them leveled up in plenty of time. I think I have increased bills so that's at least an extra challenge and not a benefit. I might have to keep a close eye on WW to make sure it doesn't interfere with pregnancy. I can't remember if I checked to box to make the WW fertility//birth control/chance of pregnancy settings apply to regular woohoo... Luckily, I already have a good game plan for getting started, having already started it once. Millionaire Gold Digger1/28/2022 It was watching Kelsey Impicchiche that finally motivated me to do the 100 Baby Challenge, so of course it would be her Millionaire Gold Digger challenge that has inspired me to attempt it at some point. This one might even be easier to mix into my normal gameplay, as it would spawn a lot of extra children to play later!
Okay let's face it, I probably won't do it that way, but I may select one of the ladies in the lineage and start a new save with them. Perhaps one of the sims that I don't choose as my main sim. Who knows. Or maybe I'll finally finish the damn 100 Baby and I'll use my last born girl in that? I do know that I'll steal a tip from her and create a club with single men! 100 Baby Challenge4/13/2021 So after watching Kelsey's 100 Baby Challege, I finally decided it was time to do it myself. Once I remembered that I had a bluetooth keyboard plugged into my PS4, it was a no-brainer.
You see, I'm a PC Simmer. I downloaded Sims4 on the PS4 when it was the free game for PS Plus members but I honestly didn't think I was ever going to use it. What was the point, when I had a game going on my PC that goes back for least 13 generations at this point? I did attempt to start the challenge once. In order to do so, I had to plan ahead to turn off or remove my script mods for MCCC and WW. I have a long lifespan using MCCC, plus child support, and then some of the WW settings would have made pregnancy easier with a lower romantic relationship. Basically, three major things that would have given me a huge advantage, and that's just not the way to play the challenge! I gave up after the second kid because I got tired of disabling and re-enabling the mods each time I wanted to play. BRAINWAVE! Why not just do the challenge on my PS4 version? No mods, no added lag from all the CC, plus I can still play as if I am on the PC since I have the keyboard and mouse. On top of that, all I have is Base Game, so it eliminates the need to check all the extra rules for the challenge (I have since added Island Living). Bingo. Time to play! |
As you might have noticed, my name is Melissa, and I've been playing Sims since The Sims was even a thing. We won't discuss how old I was at the time I first played Sims 1, let's just say that I was not a child.
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