Happy Monday guys! I am taking my own advice and being somewhat productive on this wonderful Monday because I have already set out a schedule for the week and accomplished a few things on my to-do list, and now I am excited about finishing this blog. If you follow me on Twitter then you know that half of my tweets are literally about me wasting time and playing the Sims (far too much). I decided that since I waste most of my evenings playing this game then I might as well make use of time wasted and blog about some of the challenges that I find the most enjoyment in playing. I also included the parenthetical "(so far)" because there are always new challenges being created and there are also challenges that I haven't gotten around to doing myself, so those are clearly things that I cannot judge at this exact moment. This list might change in time, but that's okay because it's just a fact of life.
*Side note: I did not specify Sims 4 because at least one of these challenges, I know can be done in Sims 2 and Sims 3 as well as Sims 4 because I personally did the challenge in the Sims 2, but some of these do include rules that only allow for a Sims 4 game or some rules will include variations depending on the game. If you are unsure, the links should tell you what game the challenge is created for and most of these challenges can be tinkered with slightly to work for any of the other Sims games.*
My plan with this blog post is to list out my favorite challenges that I am currently doing myself or have done in the past. The numerical ordering is not in anyway an actual numerical list of most favorite to least favorite. It's just the way the cookie crumbles. I will also include a link to the rules of each challenge as I list them a give a semi-detailed description of the challenge and what makes it so intriguing. So let's get started.
1. The Not So Berry Legacy Challenge: http://lilsimsie.tumblr.com/post/157671494755/not-so-berry-legacy-challenge
This is a 10 generation legacy challenge created by Lilsimsie and her friend, Alwaysimming. The goal is typical of most legacy challenges where you start off with your first generation Sim and then you carry on the legacy by establishing an heir and following each generation's specific rules and guidelines until you complete all 10 generations. This challenge is probably the most current and most played Sims legacy challenge at the moment. I mean literally EVERYONE is playing it. The reason people are playing it is because it's insanely fun. In the challenge, each generation has a certain color assigned to them that they are supposed to represent in some form or fashion. Most people tend to dye the Sim's hair that particular color and then to make decorating and style choices based around that color scheme. That aspect alone is pretty fun to play with because you get to play around with clothing and home decor objects that you might not typically use. Another aspect of the challenge that makes gameplay so fun is that each generation's rules and requirements are things that I know I have not personally completed or worked on in any of my other Sims' lives. So the challenge kind of pushes you out of your typical comfort zone, which helps keep the Sims interesting.
2. The Sims 4 100 Baby Challenge: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z7DJgxbyViBnE93PEnBHk6iGSjbWOfoit9xiYPMNM6Q/edit
This challenge is also fairly popular and has been popular for a while. I have yet to finish this challenge still because 100 babies is quite a lot of babies. There are quite a few rules for this challenge, so I recommend a close reading of the rules (that is if you want to follow the rules in a strict manner), and I also keep this document open when I am playing this challenge because I have a terrible memory and I need constant reminders of what I should be doing. The goal of the challenge is simple though. You have a matriarch Sim who needs to have as many children as possible before becoming an elder where you then take her youngest daughter and continue working your way down until the 100th baby is born. What makes this challenge fun, but also difficult, is that the matriarch is alone in taking care of the children, since she can only get pregnant by the same guy once, and she cannot marry, at least until she is an elder. This leaves players with only one adult Sim to take care of up to seven children, and you will commonly have seven children in your household at any time once you get going. There is also the urgency of money early on since your matriarch cannot have a job and you are limited to the funds that you start off with until she starts making money by other ways (i.e. painting, writing, gardening, woodworking, etc.). I really enjoy this challenge because the struggle at the beginning is really fun and then just the constant flow of children in and out of the household is a fun aspect of the challenge because you can easily have your mother Sim have 20-30 children before becoming an elder and this means you can also easily build a community around your children alone. I highly recommend playing this challenge if you want something that follows a pattern and isn't too focused on a lot of different game aspects.
3. The Disney Princess 10 Gen Challenge: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/784536/the-disney-princess-10-gen-challenge-now-updated-for-the-sims-4
This is, yet another, legacy challenge. (I like legacy challenges, OK?). This is similar to the Not So Berry Legacy challenge in that each generation has rules and guidelines that he/she must follow in order to complete that generation. Again, you move down the generations until you finally complete the 10th generation. Unlike the Not So Berry Legacy challenge, the different generations for this challenge are not based around a certain color, but they are instead based on aspects of some Disney princess. For example, Snow White (the first generation of the challenge) has some odd requirements that are symbolic of her character in that she can never answer the door to strangers or elderly women. Each generation has some weird rules and guidelines that again add a new aspect to stagnant gameplay and help keep you interested in the game.
4. Alphabetacy: https://trishawriter2.wordpress.com/category/alphabet-lite-challenge/
*Disclosure: This link does not take you directly to the rules because I had a hard time actually finding the rules to this challenge for some reason, but this link does take you to a simmer's blog where she uploaded her gameplay of the challenge (along with the rules!!!).* It's pretty neat since you get an idea of what the challenge is like and you also get the rules. I will state that this is the lite version of the challenge, the actual hardcore version of the challenge has a lot of rules and takes significantly more time, but the underlining of the challenges are the same. Just imagine one is the easy version and the other is nightmare mode. I chose to play the lite version because I wanted something that took considerably less time than the other legacy challenges that I have already mentioned. As you can probably guess, a 10 generation legacy challenge takes quite a bit of time and brainpower to complete and the 100 Baby challenge takes a lot of time. I also love this challenge because the rules are relatively straightforward and simple, which means I can pretty much do what I want and play the game how I want as long as I continue to name the children in alphabetical order and as long as they marry Sims with the same starting letter as themselves. Other than that, there are not rules dedicated to what that Sim is like or how to play the game. I would recommend this challenge to people who have never done a legacy challenge before and want to start off slow. I also recommend it to people who want something quick and fun they can knockout in a few months rather than a few years (if you play as slow and religiously as I do).
I actually don't have a fifth Sims challenge to talk about (shocking I know), but I think these four challenges are amazing and should keep your hands tied for a while at least. Please feel free to tell me any other Sims challenges that you guys have played and loved because I am always up for a new challenge.
Thanks for reading and happy Simming!
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