Author: maplesimmer

My name is Jennifer, also known as Maple Simmer🍁. I do Let's Plays focusing on challenges & new content, News, Tutorials & the occasional Speed Builds & I love sharing tips I've learned in my videos.🙂 www.youtube.com/MapleSimmer

Casting Call for my Drifter Challenge House 4 Let’s Play

Calling for non CC sims to use in my YouTube Let’s Play for House 4 of the Drifter Challenge. I need the following:
1) Young Adults (preferably unskilled) as potential love interests, they can come with siblings/parents, but need at least one other young adult or older in the household,
2) Sims in the Scientist career as co workers (just have them join, they don’t need to have been played in the career) AND
3) Aliens (I may eventually have one move in to my household as that is one goal of the challenge 😊 )
2) and 3) require you to have Get to Work.
Please use #H4MapleSimmer when sharing on the gallery or just comment below if you have any and let me know your User ID. 😊
Here’s my sim, Dominique Driver. She is a genius, geek and a bookworm. Her story starts this Thursday, March 21. Dominique_YAwTraits

After living a sheltered life, our new drifter Dominique Driver returns to her grandmother’s world of Willow Creek to start her first day with nothing in an empty neighborhood (lot is Riverside Roost).  She is fascinated by aliens, since her grandfather was abducted late in life and came back pregnant with her aunt Bridget.

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Will she be up to the following challenges?:

1) To max the scientist career (note if you don’t have GTW, the goal is to max the astronaut career).
2) To build a 2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom Home worth at least $50k Simoleons (after Depreciation)
3) To achieve level 10 of the Rocket Science skill
4) To travel to space and bring back 3 unique Space Rocks or Aliens (*If you own Get To Work, items acquired from Sixam count)
5) Befriend and Move In a Co-Worker (*If you own Get To Work, you may befriend and move in an Alien instead, so this will be my goal)
6) Produce and raise an Heir to the Young Adult life stage; this Heir will become the Main Sim in the 5th House Mini-Challenge.

Note we can only control our main sim in this challenge (apart from a few exceptions, one main one being ‘claiming bed’ and aging up on a cake).

If you’d like to see Dominique’s great grandmother Alicia’s journey, a link to House 1 of the Drifter Challenge is here:

If you’d like to see Dominique’s grandmother Bella’s journey, a link to House 2 of the Drifter Challenge is here:

If you’d like to see Dominique’s mother Charity’s journey, a link to House 3 of the Drifter Challenge is here:

Information on the Drifter Challenge:

The Drifter Challenge is a challenge created by the lovely Lady Vi and you start with both Willow Creek and Oasis Springs empty, except for one restaurant if you have Dine Out. It can be thought of as a generation challenge as well as a building challenge, which each generation, or ‘house’, starts with no money on an empty lot and each ‘house’ has its own set of goals. As you meet certain goals over the generations, or ‘houses’ as they are called, you can also start adding certain community lots (which you can build or download from the gallery or add the original lots back if you’ve saved them in your library). It’s a good way to examine a lot of different elements in the game, and you can skip any generation you don’t want to do. Here’s a link to the main page if it interests you; it further links to the different ‘house’ rules. 　 https://thedrifterchallenge.blogspot.com/

Link to house 4 rules:
Vihisha’s Blogspot: https://thedrifterchallenge.blogspot.com/p/drifter-house-004.html

Where to find Vihisha:

YouTube channel Lady Vi Gaming link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkN_yJd3CP3h7IwC-vCxK7A

Twitch channel link: https://www.twitch.tv/vihisha

Newcrest Family Pool Park

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Updated Newcrest Family Pool Park is now on the gallery. Lots of things for everyone to do, from toddler to seniors!
 
Description: Family and toddler friendly park for Newcrest. Includes the usual park items as well as rare fishing pond, toddler jungle gym, pool, wading pool, basketball, yoga items (mats & stool), easels, mural & secret gaming room which can be made exclusive to clubs.
Secret gaming room is found under the bathrooms and it includes computers, gaming items, void critter station, a full kitchen & more bathrooms so members (or whomever is using it 😊 ) don’t have to go upstairs.  Originally seen in my #Parenthood LP now fixed & UPDATED for Seasons & Pets.  Now has swings, instruments, Get Famous music station & is pet friendly. #NoCC
 
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Alien Encounters Challenge

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Do you have Get To Work? Here’s a challenge I thought of after EA increased the changes of 1) getting abducted and 2) male sims getting pregnant from abduction with the November 2017 patch.

  1. You need to start with a male sim (See *Note)
  2. Have them join the Scientist career.
  3. See (A) how many times your sim is abducted & (B) how many times he gets pregnant with alien children (ie how many children he has) by the time he’s spent one week at the top of the Scientist Career.  The plan is to keep them and raise them, not send them back to the home world. 😊

There are mods, such as MCC, that can help you increase the chances (or stop abductions from happening). The challenge is meant to be done without help from mods, but if you prefer to use them, just mention that when sharing your results!😊

*Note: You can either create your sim or use one that you’ve played through until the young adult age, I did the latter.  Your sim can have a friend or sibling if you’d like them to have company, preferably female so they don’t get pregnant from being abducted.  I chose to have his sister live with my sim.😊

Some optional goals to do while working on the above:

  • To complete the nerd brain aspiration;
  • To try to complete the element collection (inspired by the Not So Berry Challenge);
  • To complete the curator aspiration;
  • To visit Sixam; and
  • If you have Get Famous, see how famous your sim can get as a scientist.

I have a current Let’s Play where I’m doing this challenge, though as an alternative possibility I had an option to marry an alien if my sim never had any alien children from abduction, you’re welcome to do the same. Here’s a link to the playlist😊: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyPCBQSeZfrLodZ-82s9WtGPNUU22h0xJ

 

Blue Cottage

I just uploaded a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath single story family home with a small basement which can be expanded and finished to the gallery. There are a few flowers planted in indoor planters in the shed off the kitchen, ready for some flower arranging.
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Homeless Musician Challenge

🎼 Homeless Musician Challenge 🎼 :

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This is just a short little challenge that I recently did because I wanted to compare earnings from guitar🎸vs violin🎻 in a Rags to Riches challenge. Rules are in the screenshot. Please note that you can licence music you write with your instrument of choice; that is included in ‘making money from that instrument’.😊

I chose to do this with a teen, but you can use any age, teen and up. I have Seasons so I made the school days holidays so my teen didn’t have to worry about skipping school.

Please let me know if you have any questions! I’d love to see how you do! 😊 

Here’s the sim I used, she’s a teen who is creative and a music lover and has the muser trait from choosing a creative aspiration (Musical Genius): Ruby-Ransom-Teen

Here is how I set up the calendar since I have Seasons:

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One of her first whims won’t be able to be completed for a while since she has no house, never mind a door, so I promptly dismissed it!

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Perhaps one day in the not to distant future! Stay tuned to see how she did…

Celebrities in Get Famous (Sims 4)

I recently saw someone ask what celebrities came with Get Famous so I thought I’d take a look and summarize them here.  Let me know if I missed any and I can add them to the list!

Celebrities in Del Sol Valley:
In The Pinnacles Neighbourhood:

  1. Judith Ward: Level 8 Actress, 5⭐️Celebrity, Awful Reputation, single, adult
  2. Bailey-Moon Household:
    * Thorne Bailey: Level 6 Musician, 4⭐️Celebrity, Bad Reputation, married, Young Adult
    * Octavia Moon: Level 6 Writer, 3⭐️Celebrity, Good Reputation, married, young adult
    * Orange Bailey-Moon, their son: Grade School C Student, 2⭐️Celebrity, Good     Reputation, child

In Mirage Park Neighbourhood:

  1. Venessa Jeong: Level 3 Actress, 1⭐️Celebrity, Neutral Reputation, single, young adult


Celebrities ‘Not in the World’:

  1. Brytani Cho: Level 6 Comedian, 4⭐️Celebrity, Bad Reputation, single, adult
  2. Dirk Dreamer: Level 6 Tech Guru, 4⭐️Celebrity, Good Reputation, single, young adult
  3. Dustin Broke: Level 6 Business, 3⭐️Celebrity, Bad Reputation, single, young adult
  4. Holly Alto: Level 6 Painter, 3⭐️Celebrity, Good Reputation, single, young adult
  5. Izzy Fabulous: Level 6 Stylist, 1⭐️Celebrity, Good Reputation, single, young adult
  6. Kayla Flemming: Level 5 Body Builder, 2⭐️Celebrity, Good Reputation, single, young adult
  7. Baby Ariel: High School C Student, 4⭐️Celebrity, Great Reputation, single, teen

 

Background Story for Get Famous Rags to Riches Challenge

Meet my two sims, who unknown to them, are about to embark on a Rags to Riches Challenge.

Felicity Evans, who is a creative teen and who is also a bookworm.FelicityTransp01TeenWPcropped

Jasper Evans, who is an outgoing child.

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They are best friends and have been since Jasper was a toddler and Felicity a child.

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They are both children of Father Winter, who was active in raising them even though it took him many attempts to finally convince their mother to marry him.JasperwFather_FlashCardsWP

So their parents are now finally engaged and they are both busy with plans for their wedding, a toddler, and another nooboo on the way.JasperFeelingBellyWPCropped

Felicity has recently developed an interest in drama and she was able to get her parents to agree that she and Jasper could go to a summer drama camp in Del Sol Valley. Jasper is still more into Scouts, but wanted to tag along with his sister.

Unfortunately their reservation and payment somehow went missing and to top it off, they were robbed of everything but a few basic belongings. They don’t want to tell their parents as they think their parents will make them return home. However, since their parents are busy, they really want to try and survive the summer and summer school all on their own. They are even more determined to succeed in this endeavor since their mom has overcome similar obstacles when she was younger. Will they be successful?

 

Title Chosen: Alien Encounters Challenge

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I ended up choosing Alien Encounters Challenge as the title of my new Let’s Play as it seemed to encompass the fact that the Let’s Play was a challenge and that the main goal was to somehow encounter aliens! 😊

Here’s a link to the play list if you’d like to check it out.  As of the date of this posting, there are four parts up and the regular dates for posting this challenge on YouTube will be Wednesdays and Saturdays!

Help with Title for New Let’s Play!

My sim Eric Bloom, who was the youngest sibling in my Abandoned Kids Challenge and my Abandoned Kids: The Teen Years Let’s Plays, is going to join the scientist career once he ages up to a young adult and I’m planning on following him with a new Let’s Play and I’d love some help choosing a title for this new Let’s Play.

The goals of this Let’s Play are for Eric to:

  1. To reach the top of the scientist career;
  2. To complete the nerd brain aspiration;
  3. To try to complete the element collection (inspired by the Not So Berry Challenge)
  4. To visit Sixam; and
  5. To either see how many alien babies he has from hopefully being abducted, and if that doesn’t happen, to meet and marry an alien.

I also plan to use the new expansion pack Get Famous in this Let’s Play to see if he can become a famous scientist.

Note the idea of this ‘challenge’ stems from when I had two male sims in different saves get abducted and come back pregnant shortly after EA increased the chances of pregnancy from abduction with the pre Cats and Dogs update! I was however waiting for the right sim to try it with. 😊

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Here is Eric as a teen; his traits as a teen are Genius and Geek.

 

 

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His sister Sylvia, who recently aged up to young adult, will be joining him in his journey. Her traits are Creative, Music Lover and Neat.

 

 

 

Now as I mentioned, here’s where I’d love some help.  I’m not sure what to call my Let’s Play!  I have a couple of suggestions, which are:

  • Search for Sixam
  • Quest for Aliens

I would love to see some other suggestions so if you have any, please comment! I plan to do a poll with my two suggestions and any others I get, and will go with whichever title wins the poll.😊

Link to my Abandoned Kids Challenge playlist… https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyPCBQSeZfrLLu_3hVG5aF_MpMDGGnMVT

Link to my Abandoned Kids: The Teen Years playlist… https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyPCBQSeZfrL0sF2zNjqWvYDp-KQZ-2mA