OK I have my blog updated with lots of pics ... here are a few to get you started:
A few of the Noble Ash family members eating in the kitchen
The medieval era was screaming for a medieval castle ... I'm gonna uploaded the Castle Ash to the gallery later tonight
What is a castle without a Throne room?? LOL
I may have a problem. My laptop died so I had to get a new one. I am trying to recreate the challenge, but it might be different. I will try to pick up on the Middle Ages Ara. Thanks guys
@Lydiaa88 Aw, I feel for you. I recently had to do a restart of things myself. Luckily it was only the hard drive that gave up, but still, I know how it is to have to start over. Best of luck to you
Are same sex relations allowed in the Early Civilization era? I was thinking along the lines of Ancient Greece...
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@cefthy I was originally thinking along the same lines, but decided in the end to not specifically allow it, instead of allowing it and then having to disallow again it in the Middle Ages. But, since it's more of a flavour thing rather than a foundational part of the challenge, you are certainly free to go with what you feel is appropriate
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Here is my recap for Early Civilization Era:
I maxed out Painting, Writing and Charisma on Ariel so check.
They only got around 10k for tips with all 5 of them playing for tips.
Took about 30 tries, but I got a gold medal on a party after George turned to an YA.
At the end of the Era, I had 120 collectibles displayed -- I'm proud of this.
And Ariel wrote 17 books of bestseller quality...
George married Jana -- I cannot list their child since I am having to start over with new sims.
I would suggest that in the early Eras you should not be allowed to "safe" woohoo, but you should always try for baby since sims in these ages didn't have access to protection.
@Lydiaa88 You could, if you have room, just recreate one of your ancestors as an elder and just have them do nothing until they die, or alternatively just have the Modern Era Sims meet the earliest still-existing ghost (which I think I made a note for in that goal, in case the game would start deleting ghosts).
As for the paintings, you can count it as if you have paintings for the previous Eras, due to your unfortunate circumstances
EDIT: Unless you come up with some way to recreate the paintings, of course
@JulyaVee I have had that suggested by others, and I have thought of adding a rule like that. Maybe I'll do it in the next rules update. I'm glad you like my challenge
I am sorry to hear you have a glitch in your game Lydiaa88!
I have finally finished my first and main lot for the "Old West Era"! It has taken me hours to complete and ... I had to wait for half walls to be released in our last update ... to finished it. It's been uploaded to the gallery if you wanna take a peek or you can check it on my blog
HI and aww thank you so much cloudseeker ... you have no idea how much time I put into that LOL ... I really did start weeks ago and then just stopped because I new I needed half walls to do it justice ... then about a week later EA simguru's announce the half walls were coming in our last update ... Yeah!! so glad I waited
Now I just gotta figure out what I will do for the townies, library, and museum.
Hi everyone! I'm back from my vacation from Sims (got sucked back into League of Legends... Heroes of the Storm... Minecraft... and Pixelmon of course ) Was just watching TV and couldn't get this challenge out of my head! Somehow my old save file got deleted so I'm going to go ahead and start a new family! I thought the already empty neighborhood of Newcrest would be a great place to start this challenge for obvious reasons. I'm excited to start this challenge again and see what's changed since I played it last!
@Cloudseeker I believe they patched the whole blank paintings thing
Edit: Also, I remember from playing before that I was having some issues with overcrowding... Would be awesome if we had some rules that helped us pick which children are the "Heirs" to the family (specific to each era, perhaps?), and maybe edit the challenge-wide goal of having all family members' headstones/urns on the lot.
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@ewright9 Welcome back! How odd that your save file was deleted, but best of luck to your new start
I must have missed the blank paintings being fixed when I read through the patch notes, very good that that's no longer a problem.
What exactly do you mean with overcrowding? Just the number of Sims in the household? You can always move Sims out to make room. As for Heir rules, I was planning on having something like that originally, but as I realized that it would pretty much just be "firstborn male gets to be heir" for almost every Era, I decided to skip that system altogether, and just go with the "Era changes upon birth of next generation" system.
The headstone/urn goal will be updated as soon as I know whether or not it's possible to maintain a graveyard on a separate lot from the family lot. If that is possible, I will have that as an option, and if not, I'll reduce it to just require the "parents" (the ones who brought in the next generation) of each Era.
Reason for my question is that sims have been swimming...since they could get in water and since ponds aren't able to be swum in I was thinking that if one just dresses a pool up like it is supposed to be a pond (for eras that of course wouldn't have pools lol) would that be ok? Perhaps not right on the lot but maybe one they could go to? I can't imagine the prehistoric era sims going for an enjoyable jog so much as I can imagine them wanting to swim off the dirt and troubles
@Wingzofnocte Yes, pools are allowed right from the start. Just disguise them appropriately, as you said. And it's fine to have one on your home lot, though it may make more sense to have a public "swimming pond" during the Prehistoric Era.
@Cloudseeker with the addition of the new couple DLC's. I have a few questions. When do you want sims to be allowed to go to the spa and when can we purchase dishwashers?
@Lydiaa88 Just off the top of my head, I'd probably say no to dishwashers until the Roaring Twenties, but I might allow spas as early as Early Civilization. I'll have to go through the specifics of each DLC a bit more to be certain, which I'll try to get done in the near future (I have had a lot of other things to do lately). For now, you can go with what you feel makes sense
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A few of the Noble Ash family members eating in the kitchen
The medieval era was screaming for a medieval castle ... I'm gonna uploaded the Castle Ash to the gallery later tonight
What is a castle without a Throne room?? LOL
I hope you like my pics! my blog can be found here: https://tammy329.wordpress.com/
Yes, I had finished Early Civil too.
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Here is my recap for Early Civilization Era:
I maxed out Painting, Writing and Charisma on Ariel so check.
They only got around 10k for tips with all 5 of them playing for tips.
Took about 30 tries, but I got a gold medal on a party after George turned to an YA.
At the end of the Era, I had 120 collectibles displayed
And Ariel wrote 17 books of bestseller quality...
George married Jana -- I cannot list their child since I am having to start over with new sims.
^_^
I have a few questions regarding me starting over at Middle Ages:
- What should I do about having to meet your ancestors ghosts in Modern Era?
- Paintings?
But great challenge idea! I really love it
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As for the paintings, you can count it as if you have paintings for the previous Eras, due to your unfortunate circumstances
EDIT: Unless you come up with some way to recreate the paintings, of course
@JulyaVee I have had that suggested by others, and I have thought of adding a rule like that. Maybe I'll do it in the next rules update. I'm glad you like my challenge
ATM I also have a massive glitch in my game. I can't change sims names. They all have the be the same.
EDIT!: THE GLITCH IS FIXED!! WOOOHOOOO
I have finally finished my first and main lot for the "Old West Era"! It has taken me hours to complete and ... I had to wait for half walls to be released in our last update ... to finished it. It's been uploaded to the gallery if you wanna take a peek or you can check it on my blog
https://tammy329.wordpress.com/
Here is a sneek peek picture
Now I just gotta figure out what I will do for the townies, library, and museum.
@Cloudseeker I believe they patched the whole blank paintings thing
Edit: Also, I remember from playing before that I was having some issues with overcrowding... Would be awesome if we had some rules that helped us pick which children are the "Heirs" to the family (specific to each era, perhaps?), and maybe edit the challenge-wide goal of having all family members' headstones/urns on the lot.
I must have missed the blank paintings being fixed when I read through the patch notes, very good that that's no longer a problem.
What exactly do you mean with overcrowding? Just the number of Sims in the household? You can always move Sims out to make room. As for Heir rules, I was planning on having something like that originally, but as I realized that it would pretty much just be "firstborn male gets to be heir" for almost every Era, I decided to skip that system altogether, and just go with the "Era changes upon birth of next generation" system.
The headstone/urn goal will be updated as soon as I know whether or not it's possible to maintain a graveyard on a separate lot from the family lot. If that is possible, I will have that as an option, and if not, I'll reduce it to just require the "parents" (the ones who brought in the next generation) of each Era.
Reason for my question is that sims have been swimming...since they could get in water and since ponds aren't able to be swum in I was thinking that if one just dresses a pool up like it is supposed to be a pond (for eras that of course wouldn't have pools lol) would that be ok? Perhaps not right on the lot but maybe one they could go to? I can't imagine the prehistoric era sims going for an enjoyable jog so much as I can imagine them wanting to swim off the dirt and troubles