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.
You need to start with a male sim (See *Note)
Have them join the Scientist career.
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
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.
You can get it on the gallery under my Origin ID MapleSimmer
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):
Here is how I set up the calendar since I have Seasons:
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!
Perhaps one day in the not to distant future! Stay tuned to see how she did…
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:
Judith Ward: Level 8 Actress, 5⭐️Celebrity, Awful Reputation, single, adult
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:
Venessa Jeong: Level 3 Actress, 1⭐️Celebrity, Neutral Reputation, single, young adult
Celebrities ‘Not in the World’:
Brytani Cho: Level 6 Comedian, 4⭐️Celebrity, Bad Reputation, single, adult
Dirk Dreamer: Level 6 Tech Guru, 4⭐️Celebrity, Good Reputation, single, young adult
Dustin Broke: Level 6 Business, 3⭐️Celebrity, Bad Reputation, single, young adult
Holly Alto: Level 6 Painter, 3⭐️Celebrity, Good Reputation, single, young adult
Izzy Fabulous: Level 6 Stylist, 1⭐️Celebrity, Good Reputation, single, young adult
Kayla Flemming: Level 5 Body Builder, 2⭐️Celebrity, Good Reputation, single, young adult
Baby Ariel: High School C Student, 4⭐️Celebrity, Great Reputation, single, teen
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.
Jasper Evans, who is an outgoing child.
They are best friends and have been since Jasper was a toddler and Felicity a child.
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.
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.
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?
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!
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:
To reach the top of the scientist career;
To complete the nerd brain aspiration;
To try to complete the element collection (inspired by the Not So Berry Challenge)
To visit Sixam; and
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. 😊
Here is Eric as a teen; his traits as a teen are Genius and Geek.
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.😊
Love Day is coming and Star Crawford, recently aged up to a Young Adult, needs a love interest for Love Day. I’ve had a few people create or provide some sims and Star has met them all. We spent the last two parts of my Seasons Let’s Play trying to meet them; Part 32: https://youtu.be/D-vHcecf1Is and Part 33: https://youtu.be/RguorPJ_yQQ.
I usually like to look for signs of which sim my sim is interested in, however Star doesn’t appear to have a marked interest in any of them, so now I need some help picking for her. I’ve created the following poll which will be open until early tomorrow evening and I’d love to get some votes! (Details of who has created them are in the poll, for most you’ll need to show custom content (CC) to see them, though the version in my Let’s Play are CC free).
STUFF PACKS: All stuff packs add 1 or more interactive items, as well as a lot of build/buy/CAS items. Sims 4 does have a lot of stuff packs as they seem to have replaced the store that was used in Sims 3 and compared to that, they seem to offer more for your money than it did. I find I use things from all the stuff packs, but here’s a summary I’ve written about them to see what might suit your play style the best:
Do your sims like to be outside? Backyard Stuff: Adds a lot for outside, including a bird feeder (sims may get attacked, which makes them angry, when filling it, but it’s random), wind chimes, a water slide which can be a fun group interaction and a lemonade tray that sims can use to make lemonade and a couple of other drinks. It also adds 2 six-seater round tables with built in umbrella (so doesn’t work well inside).
Perfect Patio Stuff: Adds a Hot Tub (2 versions) plus a new BBQ, bar and matching kitchen counter/island as well as some more outdoor furniture and other outdoor inspired build/buy/CAS items.
Romantic Garden Stuff: Adds the Wishing Well which can add some randomness to your game as well as the interactive fountain (you can play in and sit on). I’ve added the wishing well to some of the parks in my game. It also added some more flowers if you like landscaping, as well as other outdoor items that are good for building outside.
If you like family play, both Kid’s Room Stuff and Toddler Stuff are good additions. I also find My First Pet Stuff to fit in well with family play: Kid’s Room Stuff: adds the puppet theater that kids can do puppet shows in as well as build social skill and the void critter station which adds a new collection to the game. Since this is focused on kids, it also adds a lot of kid’s CAS items and, as the name suggests, build/buy items for kids’ rooms. 😊
Toddler Stuff: This gives toddlers some outdoor stuff to interact with and adds a lot of cute outfits (plus the toddler play date). The interactive items are a slide (which I’ve found helpful in building your toddler’s movement skill quickly), the ball pit and the tunnels, as well as a new dollhouse that works well outside. It also adds a lot of CAS items (hair and clothes) for toddlers since that’s it’s focus.
My First Pet Stuff: This is a controversial pack as it requires Sims 4 Cats and Dogs to take advantage of everything in the pack, though it can be used without it. It adds the rodent cage (with four types of rodents, Hamster, mini hedgehog, rat & the voidcritter Bubalos which you can interact with, and also introduces a new death type from the new Guinea Pig Disease (which you can also prevent by researching, then buying and taking the inoculation). Without Cats and Dogs, you can’t access the new pet outfits and the pet objects in buy mode become décor items, though the sims CAS items can be used, as can the rest of the build/buy items. I find the build/buy items to be quirky and mostly suitable for toddlers’ and kids’ rooms, which is why I think this is a family friendly pack.
I’ve not categorized the rest😊: Fitness Stuff: This adds some fitness videos to your TVs, the climbing treadmill (I tend to add this to community gym lots) and earphones (which has been patched to give sims fun😊). It did add a lot of fitness wear which I use a lot. I also frequently use the shower and tub that came with it since they are high stats (hygiene, reliability, etc.) for a comparably low cost.
Cool Kitchen Stuff: Adds an ice cream maker which I use to have my sims make Taste of Diet ice cream which can help your sims lose weight very quickly (I find it takes two bowls/cones). If you have Dine Out, you can add ice cream to your menu (it comes with a lot of flavours). It also adds some nice décor items for decorating kitchens and it comes with quite a lot of CAS items for teen and up (I recently compared a bunch of stuff packs as someone was asking me which packs came with the most CAS items, and at that time this was near or at the top).
Movie Stuff: Adds the popcorn maker and some movies your sims can watch on any TV as well as a lot of boho CAS/build/buy items (I use these quite often when playing). Some people have created ‘movie theaters’ though there isn’t a specific lot type for movies.
Bowling Night Stuff: Gives you the ability to add bowling lanes to bars, nightclubs and lounges (i.e. there is no specific lot type for bowling). It added a 5-level bowling skill that kids and up can learn. I find it takes a while to actually bowl, but it did add a lot of mostly bowling inspired build/buy items to the game. I do use the CAS items quite a lot.
Laundry Day Stuff: This is the stuff pack that was made with input from the community. It adds laundry (as the name indicates) in the form of a washer and a dryer, as well as a wash tub that sims can use to wash laundry by hand and a drying line. If your sims use the wash tub to do laundry they will build their fitness skill. There are also three types of hampers that you can interact with. The need to do laundry will only trigger if you add one of these laundry items to your lot and unlike in Sims 3, you only need one hamper to collect the laundry from anywhere on the lot (though it may get full very quickly, so you may want to add more depending on how many sims you have in your household. It also adds some nice build/buy/CAS items, including a round six-seater table.
Vintage Glamour Stuff: Gives sims the ability to hire a butler and a vanity table that sims can interact with to add temporary make up (this doesn’t replace the makeup given to them in CAS and I believe goes away when they shower, possibly when they sleep). It adds build/buy/CAS items in the theme of the pack, including 2 new double beds.
Luxury Party Stuff: This adds a buffet table and drink fountain as well as a few new recipes, sims with mischief skill can also be mischievous with the Drink Fountain. I find the buffet table can be useful for wedding lots and if your sims like to entertain a lot. It adds build/buy/CAS items in accordance with the theme (i.e. it adds more formal outfits in CAS 😊).
Spooky Stuff: Adds a new party (spooky party), a lot of costumes, which some people use for role play (pirate, fairies) a pumpkin carving table (builds handiness for teens and up, kids can also use) and an interactive candy bowl as well as a lot of build/buy items that suit the ‘spooky’ theme.
Moschino Stuff: Adds the new freelancer fashion photographer career, and the tripod, photo marks & a camera you unlock by maxing the career. It also adds two photography skill books and build/buy/cas items that suit the theme. The tripod is a fun addition; if you use it, it means the photos will always be excellent (no more thumbs, blurry pictures or photo bombing gnomes), it gives you more poses, you can take up to 10 photos, you can change the pose and more freely change the angle of the photo you’re taking.
Tiny Living Stuff: Adds the new lot type ‘Tiny Home Residential’, the murphy bed and the all in one television, bookcase and stereo. The murphy bed adds the chance of death and a new ghost type if a sim is killed by the murphy bed. At the time of release the murphy bed breaks every time it is used (see report on EA AHQ https://tinyurl.com/s2noys4 ). There are also mods to eliminate the chance of death, among other things.
There are three tiers to the new lot type, ‘micro home’ which is 4 to 32 tiles, ‘tiny home’, which is 33 to 64 tiles, and ‘small home’, which is 65 to 100 tiles. As the lot gets smaller the property gets more advantages; see screenshot.
I have a couple of speed builds using the new lot type, including some ‘tips’ on how to add more space without increasing the number of tiles.
Nifty Knitting: This is the second stuff pack that was made with help from input from the sims community & the voted pack theme is ‘DIY Delight’. It comes with a new creative aspiration ‘Lady/Lord of the Knits’, the 10 level knitting skill which children can also learn (it will also help children’s motor skill at the same time if that has not been maxed). As sims increase their knitting skill it unlocks additional things that can be knit, including baby onesies. When a sim completes the knitting aspiration they unlock the ability to knit a yarnie toy & the forbidden sweater and the ability to dispel the sweater curse. It also adds Plopsy, which allows sims to advertise things they knit, as well as other things sims craft (paintings & woodworking sculptures {base game}, flower arrangements {Seasons}, candles {Eco Lifestyle}) for a small fee. For those with Parenthood, knitting also helps children and teens with their emotional control.
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