Lonely Hearts: Sims 4 Gameplay Challenge by EQ and BG
Created and tested by
@EuphorialQueen and
@Buttonsginger
Disclaimer: To the best of my knowledge this is an original challenge. If anyone has created the same or similar challenge please send me a link and it will be added to give proper credit.
This can be a short or long term challenge depending on player preference.
The idea is to take Single Sims and find the perfect partner.
There is a catch however.
They cannot have more than one matching trait.
Example:
Sim A = Gloomy Snob Art Lover
Sim B = Can have only one of the same traits. No matching traits is even better.
Sims created for this challenge and shared in the gallery with suggested hashtags
#LoveLorn #LostLove #LonelyHearts
You may also use Sims created by someone else but must give credit to the creator.
Start a household using no money cheats.
Start with a Single Sim of your choice. Looks and traits are up to you.
Any lot in any neighborhood is fine. You may move your household to a better lot if money allows.
Your Sim(s) may have a Job/Career.
To maximize time together building a relationship you can earn money crafting, collecting, gardening, fishing or Retail if you prefer. (Living space on a retail lot is allowed).
Goal 1: Establish a positive relationship with any Sim of any gender.
Goal 2: Must go on at least 2 dates
gold medal rating with your intended.
Goal 3: Become Boyfriend/Girlfriend
Once this goal is completed you are allowed to move in a mate after an accepted proposal
Goal 4: Marry your intended.
Goal 5: (Optional) Have at least one child together. Same gender couples can either adopt or create a child in CAS.
That is it ... Challenge complete.
You can either move to another couple or repeat the cycle with the children if you want to continue the same household thru multiple generations.
Additional comments:
As long as points are earned they can be spent on Potions and additional Traits.
Mood enhancing items can be used if you wish. Examples include paintings, lamps or other items.
Bonus Goals
Maximize a skill.
Complete an Aspiration.
Romantic goals are based on the Soulmate Aspiration Objectives:Milestone I: Amore Amateur
Have a Boyfriend or Girlfriend
Go on 2 Dates
Milestone II: Marriage Material
Become an Adult
(or be a YA)
Be Married to BFF *This is the last Romantic related step required to complete the challenge.
Optional Goals Milestone III: Love Handler
Earn Silver on 2 Dates with Spouse
Achieve Soulmate Relationship with Spouse
Milestone IV: Soulmate
Perform 50 Romantic Gestures with Spouse as Soulmates
Earn Gold on 3 Dates with Spouse
Note 27Dec2018: Challenge and comment threads by
@EuphorialQueen {Me} are checked on a regular basis.
Rules for challenges are reviewed for potential updates each time new content is added to the game.
Please feel free to comment if you have questions.
Comments
Additional guidelines for extending the challenge to the next generation are being worked out.
More to come.
Legacy Option:
Unfortunately, the first born child of each generation of your founder has inherited the "lonely heart" stigma. To guarantee a blissful love life one love/family aspiration must be completed during the heir's lifespan.
Chose one aspiration for each heir (must be first born child) to complete:
*Big Happy Family Aspiration
*Successful Lineage Aspiration
*Serial Romantic Aspiration
*Soulmate Aspiration
Aspirations may be done in any order but not repeated. If you want to play past 4 generations then start the list over in any order with out repeating through generation 8 and so forth.
My name is Penelope DePlain. I am a young adult with no hopes of ever finding true love. You'll have to forgive my outlook on romance but I am gloomy by nature and I don't like being around people much. I also like the finer things in life and am not shy about telling you my opinion. As you can see, Marcus Flex....one of my so called friends.....is shocked by something I've said.
Since my last boyfriend broke my heart I have agreed to participate in the "Lonely Hearts" challenge. Why? Well honestly, it can't hurt. I'm required to follow some guidelines and complete some help for the lovelorn goals. You can read what I'm rambling on about in first post in this thread.
Come and join the fun, I insist.....what have you got to lose?
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Okay, so one of the key concepts to finding to romance is to get out there and smile....well, I got out there alright. All I got a for my effort was a sunburn.
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Date One; gold medal
Date Two: gold medal and bears
Marriage to BFF.
Pregnancy.
Delivery.
Meet Susan. A genius, of course.
Goals 1 through 5 met!
Penelope and Gunther did not stop with one child:
Meet Seth and Sookie....twins! Seth is a genius and Sookie is creative.
Susan is the first born so she carries the "Lonely Heats Stigma": She chose the Serial Romantic aspiration.
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Mini Micro Builds Challenge
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The Sims Creators' Consortium
By special request the very talented @Buttonsginger created a pair of Sims to use to begin this challenge.
Please follow the links to give the creations of @Buttonsginger some Fav Love.
Carefully follow these steps.
**Important to keep from spawning bookcases outside the lot**
Have your Sim go to somewhere near the center of the library and pause the game.
I went into build mode after moving my Sim.
Open the cheat console and type testingcheats on
Next use the following code to Spawn Library Books
objects.gsi_create_obj 0x0000f52e
A special library bookcase will appear near your Sim.
You only need one for the skill books to spawn in all the library shelves.
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River Kurosaki (my Vogel legacy Gen 8 Spare) has started out on an empty lot but used his remaining money to purchase the family Art Gallery.
can't remember how much it cost but it was less than 10'000 we built a tiny apartment below with an easel and used the last few simoleons to create paintings to sell. We opened for one day and our customers browsed but bought nothing (The pop ups actually said there is nothing here that interests me)
Did you know that retail sims can beg customers for a sale. Never successful though at least not for River.
So we shut up shop and walked/jogged around the neighbourhood looking for a romantic interests. Made a few friends but been rejected for romance 3 times already. His highest relationship (level at romantic interest) Rejected him for a first kiss but he refused to give up and they are about to go on their first date. My once cheerful always smiling River was miserable, Tense and spent most of his time asking for reassurance Hopefully Scarlett Edge will be the one to keep him smiling.
Fun challenge
forgot to add. Ended up just selling paintings to collector. When he starts painting masterpieces we'll try selling them in the gallery again.
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I hope River finds a reason to be Happy ... Ever After with a true Love. Thank you for doing the challenge and sharing here.
I thought I'd post a quick comment from my start of the challenge. Then I'm off to be a slave to RL again.
My name is Penelope DePlain. I am a young adult with no hopes of ever finding true love. You'll have to forgive my outlook on romance but I am gloomy by nature and I don't like being around people much. I also like the finer things in life and am not shy about telling you my opinion. As you can see, Marcus Flex....one of my so called friends.....is shocked by something I've said.
Since my last boyfriend broke my heart I have agreed to participate in the "Lonely Hearts" challenge. Why? Well honestly, it can't hurt. I'm required to follow some guidelines and complete some help for the lovelorn goals. You can read what I'm rambling on about in first post in this thread.
Come and join the fun, I insist.....what have you got to lose?
Mini Micro Builds Challenge
Sprucer Upper Challenge: A Play to Build Challenge
The Sims Creators' Consortium
Mini Micro Builds Challenge
Sprucer Upper Challenge: A Play to Build Challenge
The Sims Creators' Consortium
Okay, so one of the key concepts to finding to romance is to get out there and smile....well, I got out there alright. All I got a for my effort was a sunburn.
Mini Micro Builds Challenge
Sprucer Upper Challenge: A Play to Build Challenge
The Sims Creators' Consortium
Hope the sunburn doesn't last too long. *ouch*
I certainly hope Mr Greenpants isn't my blind date!
Mini Micro Builds Challenge
Sprucer Upper Challenge: A Play to Build Challenge
The Sims Creators' Consortium
To avoid!
Are we allowed to use the CAC (Create-A-Club) filters to find potentially compatible mates?
With the upcoming stuff pack, are sims allowed to wish for children (probably great alternative for LGBT sims)?
The next pack is available next week. I was wondering about that Wishing Well.
Will discuss options to wish for children with @Buttonsginger and get back to you.
Great ideas @EmmaVane
My Sim for this challenge is Cecilia Pickett. Cecilia is a Young Adult. She is Gloomy, Loves the Outdoors and a Loner. She has the Freelance Botanist aspiration. She's going to be gardening to pay the bills (And doing a bit of collecting to earn some money on the side but only if we happen to be somewhere and see stuff or she rolls a whim for it. I won't be spending too much time searching for stuff).
I found this cute little cottage on the gallery and plopped it down on the small 20x20 lot on the island in Windenburg and move Cecilia into it. We only have a small bit of money left over after we're done with the purchase.
Cecilia uses most of her remaining funds on some planting boxes and seeds to get her garden started.
After she's done with the garden the welcome wagon arrives. I apparently did not get any pictures of it. She becomes friends with Sergio Romeo to fullfill the first goal of the challenge (Have a Positive Relationship With Any Sim) but unfortunately he's not single so we can't pursue him romantically.
Cecilia spends most of the rest of the day exploring her new home and trying to meet people. We didn't really have much luck finding anyone who was single.
We eventually run into Candy Behr in one of the cafe's. She's cute and she's single. We also don't share a single trait with her so she's definitely on the top of my list of potentials but I know there are other singles that live in Windenburg so I would like to check them all out first. I was hoping that Candy would invite us out to a party that evening after we became friends but she didn't. I didn't have Cecilia join the Spin masters yet but I'm thinking I might have her do so. It's not really her style/personality but I could see her doing it in an attempt to fit in.