Tag: Rags to Riches 7 Toddler Challenge

Sims 4 University Challenge

I will be doing this challenge with my Chapman family, originally seen in my Rags to Riches 7 Toddler Challenge, then as ‘Super Kids’ and then ‘Super Teens’. The challenge starts when your eight sims are enrolled/enrolling in University. I recommend you use sims you’ve played with before, and if you want to maximize the amount of scholarships available, all should be young adult.

The first part of the Let’s Play for this challenge is scheduled for Saturday, May 22, 2021.

Playlist link

Goals:

  1. All 8 sims need to get distinguished degrees (see note)
  2. Hard mode: do four courses a term & complete the degree in 3 sim weeks.
    Medium mode: do three course a term & complete the degree in 4 sim weeks
    (I’m doing the hard mode)
  3. Each sim must hold some type of job (full time, part time, incl the sports or esports, or freelancer). If do freelancer, or anything that requires doing gigs, do at least one gig a week.
  4. Each sim must join a minimum of 1 student organization and particpate enough to at least go up one level, preferably max it.
  5. Each sim must complete the university aspiration, which is a knowledge aspiration.
  6. Optional added challenge: Have enough money so each sim gets a nest egg to start on their own (you can set the amount). My family consists of one mom, ie the sim who was originally the primary caregiver and seven children. The mom gets the home and needs to be left with 50k. I’m looking for input as to whether each kid should get 50k, 100k or another amount. Once that’s been decided I will update this post with my goals.

Note: If you are starting with brand new sims, as I mentioned above, you need to play with them long enough so they each have enough skills to get into a distinguished degree. I usually prefer starting with teens and then when they are ready, age them up and have them apply then.

I recommend playing with aging off (this is what I am doing) while your sims are at university and having them live in one of the two university neighbourhoods in a converted dorm (ie a dorm converted back to a residential lot).

I have put my sims on the gallery if you’d like to play with them. There will be two sets, one that has been accepted into university but hasn’t yet enrolled: https://tinyurl.com/4z2fpmwr

Plus one that has already enrolled in university (enrolled but not started any classes): https://tinyurl.com/yf3pw3nj

Note regarding my sims: Since they are all young adults (the mom is just a much older young adult), the family on the gallery will not have the relationships.

In order to reestablish a relationship you can do any of these options after first putting them into a new household through Create a Sim (added bonus they should keep their starting funds noted in the gallery description):

  1. Make them all siblings,
  2. Age up the mom to an adult, though I’m not sure what that will do to her scholarships or
  3. If you use MCCC, first set the relationships of the siblings in CAS & then in live mode use MCCC to restablish Norah as their mother (you can do all relationships in live mode but it’s easier to just have to use MCCC for Norah).

Here are the details of all the sims in my Let’s Play:

As mentioned about, these sims are originally from my 7 Toddlers Rags to Riches Challenge, then my Super Kids Challenge and finally my Super Teens Challenge. 😊

If you’d like to use their house, which is modelled after the stand alone student dorm in Foxbury (vs the penthouse ones), here are the details & the link: https://tinyurl.com/ps499cjv

If you’d like to see the spreadsheet I set up to track their course work, homework and class attendance, here’s a link to it on my google drive. This was done using Microsoft Excel.

Here’s a screenshot of the spreadsheet which covers their first week of classes as an FYI:

If you have any questions, feel free to join my Facebook group Sims Sanctuary or send me a tweet on Twitter. Either is also a great way to share how you do in this challenge. My Facebook group is a friendly and supportive place to ask any sim related questions and for sharing anything sims related, be it sim creation, sim builds or your sims stories &/or challenges! 😊

Super Teens Challenge

We are continuing with our seven children from Super Kids Challenge (before that, they were the toddlers in my Rags to ‘Riches’ 7 Toddler Challenge😊), in a new Let’s Play Challenge series as teens.

Here are the finalized goals for what is now called ‘Super Teens Challenge’ (draft name was ‘Life Skills Challenge’).

The children have all completed their child goals and this Let’s Play started on Friday, September 25, 2020.

Super Teens Challenge Playlist link

Goals for our Teens

Here are the goals for all seven when they are teens:

  1. To become grade A high school students,
  2. To get to level six in the following skills:
    * cooking, handiness, gardening, fishing, charisma, fitness, logic, one instrument (FYI, level four allows them to continue with their emotional control), research & debate (requires Discover University),
  3. To do the first & second tiers of the following aspirations:
    * Friend of the World
    * Nerd Brain
    * Athletic
    * Music
  4. To max a part time career or their odd job rating (the latter requires Island Living)
  5. To keep at least 4 character values in a range to be positive, though preferably all 5, when they age to Young Adult, these must include Manners & Responsibility (requires Parenthood).
  6. At a minimum, get to level 3 of their chosen aspiration (or their secondary aspiration, if as teens they can’t reach level 3 of their chosen aspiration)
  7. At a minimum max one skill (this will be determined up front, but will depend on the teen & their interests/chosen aspiration, see their pictures below for chosen skill )

We will also see if any of them make any friends and/or start any romances. As such I’d love to have your teen sims (if they are part of a family and/or have been played with, even better) in my save. Use #MaplesLifeSkillChallengeS , #MaplesLSChallengeSims or #MaplesSuperTeenSims when sharing to the gallery. Please no custom content.

Goals for Norah

While the children are working on those goals, Norah will need to finish the fortune aspiration, complete the gardening aspiration and she plans to start university and perhaps work on her cooking aspirations while attending university.

Also, after raising seven children it might be nice for her to find love so her nest isn’t that empty when the kids eventually leave. I’d love some sims to place in my world for her too, use any of the same hashtags as above. 😊

Pictures of each of them as Teens:

  • Abigail
  • Bonnie
  • Colleen
  • Declan
  • Edward
  • Freddie

Picture of each of them as a Child:

Here is a gallery link to the family (& home when it’s available) if you’d like to play along.

Gallery link to the family when the teens just aged up: https://tinyurl.com/y55tto66

I will add a link to their updated family home as soon as it’s available, the child version is already available and linked below.

As an FYI, here’s the gallery link to the family just after the toddlers aged up to children: https://tinyurl.com/y7b8bvsw

Link to their furnished home as set up for when they were children: https://tinyurl.com/ycfmsyc6

Alternatively, there are also two unfinished, unfurnished versions using base game only available on the gallery:

Version on a 30 x 30 lot:
Gallery link: https://tinyurl.com/y9umjzr3



















Version on a 30 x 20 Lot:
Gallery link: https://tinyurl.com/y7g8ah42
















If you do play along I’d love to see how you do! Please come join my new Facebook group and share how you do in this challenge, or in anything sims related, be it sim creation, build creation or your sims stories or challenges! It’s also a great place to ask any sim related questions that either I or other members can try to answer. Sims Sanctuary

Life Skills Challenge

I’ve asked if viewers would like to see the seven children from Super Kids Challenge (before that, they were the toddlers in my Rags to ‘Riches’ 7 Toddler Challenge😊), continue in a Let’s Play as teens. So far the consensus is yes. As a result I’ve come up with some goals for them as teens in what I’m tentatively calling ‘Life Skills Challenge’, though I’m open to other name suggestions! Timing of when it will go live will depend on when the kids have completed all their child goals, but we’re getting close on that!

Super Kids Challenge Playlist link

Goals for our Teens

I’m thinking of the following goals for all seven when they are teens:

  1. To become grade A high school students,
  2. To get to level four in the following skills:
    * cooking, handiness, gardening, charisma, fitness, logic, one instrument (that allows them to continue with their emotional control), research & debate (requires Discover University),
  3. To do the first tier of the following aspirations:
    * Friend of the World
    * Nerd Brain/Renaissance Sim (the first tier is the same)
    * Athletic
    * Music
  4. To max a part time career or their odd job rating (the latter requires Island Living)
  5. To keep at least 4 character values in a range to be positive, though preferably all 5, when they age to Young Adult, these must include Manners & Responsibility.
  6. To get to level 2 of their chosen aspiration (these will be picked based on ones teens can do)
  7. At a minimum max one skill (this will be determined up front, but will depend on the teen & their interests/chosen aspiration)

We will also see if any of them make any friends and/or start any romances. As such I’d love to have your teen sims (if they are part of a family and/or have been played with, even better) in my save. Use #MaplesLifeSkillChallengeSims when sharing to the gallery. Please no custom content.

Goals for Norah

While the children are working on those goals, Norah will need to finish the fortune aspiration if she hasn’t already done so and she plans to start university and perhaps work on her cooking aspirations while attending university.

Also, after raising seven children it might be nice for her to find love so her nest isn’t that empty when the kids eventually leave. I’d love some sims to place in my world for her too, use #MaplesLifeSkillChallengeSims, same as above. 😊

Let me know in a comment, either here or on the Super Kids Challenge Let’s Play, if there’s anything else you’d like to see added to this challenge or in general for the Let’s Play.

Once the children have aged up to teens I will add a link to the family and their home if you’d like to play along.

Here’s the gallery link to the family just after the children aged up: https://tinyurl.com/y7b8bvsw

Link to their furnished home as set up for when they were children: https://tinyurl.com/ycfmsyc6

Alternatively, there are also two unfinished, unfurnished versions using base game only available on the gallery:

Version on a 30 x 30 lot:
Gallery link: https://tinyurl.com/y9umjzr3



















Version on a 30 x 20 Lot:
Gallery link: https://tinyurl.com/y7g8ah42
















Super Kids Challenge

The vote results were to go ahead and do the Super Kids Challenge with our 7 toddlers from my Rags to ‘Riches’ 7 Toddler Challenge. First part will go live Friday, Jul 3 at 1 pm Eastern.

Playlist link

The goals for all seven children will be as follows:

  1. To max all four childhood aspirations;
  2. To complete all their scout badges; and
  3. To get all their character values in a positive range.

While the children are working on those goals, Norah will continue to work on her fortune, painting and gardening aspirations.  We’ll also see how green we can make their Newcrest neighbourhood. Of course her long term goal is to complete her cooking aspiration, but that may have to wait.😊

I’f you’d like to play along with the same family, here’s the gallery link to the family just after the children aged up: https://tinyurl.com/y7b8bvsw

Link to their furnished home, now set up for children: https://tinyurl.com/ycfmsyc6

Alternatively, there are also two unfinished, unfurnished versions using base game only available on the gallery:

Version on a 30 x 30 lot:
Gallery link: https://tinyurl.com/y9umjzr3



















Version on a 30 x 20 Lot:
Gallery link: https://tinyurl.com/y7g8ah42