Sims 4 News

Mystic is Back with an All New Legacy Let’s Play!

Hey everyone! For those of you that followed my Youtube Let’s Plays a while back know that I had gone on hiatus for several months. Well, I am back! Now that Pinstar and I are busy with trying to move to a new state, Let’s Plays are going to work much better with my very busy schedule. I had been on Twitch.tv for the last year, but trying to schedule streams just isn’t really going to work right now.

So, Let’s Plays are a thing again! I have several in the works right now, but I’ll be starting off with a Legacy Challenge Let’s Play. The Leet family (founded by Rydia Leet) will be my new Legacy family. You can check out episode one, below!

Posted by Mystic in Featured, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Sims 4 News, Sims 4 Stories, The Sims 4
Random Trait Generators Updated to Include Jealous

Random Trait Generators Updated to Include Jealous

Hey everyone! Just a quick post to let you know that we have updated both the single Random Trait Generator and the All Traits at Once Random Trait Generator to include the newly added “Jealous” trait. We also fixed a conflict where the Generator was allowing Sims to be Neat and Lazy at the same time. That will no longer happen.

Happy Simming!

Posted by Mystic in Featured, General News, Legacy Challenge Rules, Sims 4 News, The Sims 4
Website Updates and the Random Trait Generator

Website Updates and the Random Trait Generator

Hey everyone!

There have been several questions over the last couple of days about when we will be adding the “Jealousy” trait to the Random Trait Generator.

We are aware that the Random Trait Generator needs to be updated, however I do need to let you all know that it might be a while.

Pinstar recently started a new full time job in another state which requires us to move. There is a lot that needs to get done in real life in the meantime for the move to happen. We need to sell our old house, find a new house, and find a new school for our kids. Pinstar is already working at the new job which leaves me to work on all of the Sims website stuff on top of handling all of the real-life move related stuff and, most importantly, taking care of our two little boys.

We do not update the Random Trait Generator ourselves. We are not adept at programming and had a friend of Brian’s help us with it. I will email him today letting him know about the updates to the generator, but it might take a week or so before you will all see the changes to it.

I apologize for the slowness of the website updates lately, but real life comes first. We will try to make the changes as we can. I will also be trying to finish up the website renovations as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience everyone!

Posted by Mystic in General News, Legacy Challenge Rules, Sims 4 News

Live in 10 minutes with more Sims 4 Fantasia Legacy Fun!

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Just letting you all know that I’ll be live in 10 minutes (1pm EST) on my Twitch channel with more Sims 4 Fantasia Legacy fun! The chat voted last week and Menolly is our generation 3 heiress! Can’t wait to see what happens today!

 

It is completely free to join, follow, and watch on Twitch if you don’t already have an account.

Posted by Mystic in Featured, General News, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Sims 4 News, Sims 4 Stories, The Sims 4

Live Sims 4 Legacy & Cool Kitchen Stuff Gameplay at Mystic’s Twitch Channel Today!

TwitchMysticRealmHey everyone! Just a quick little post letting you know that I am making my grand return to streaming today, August 12th, at 1pm EST at my Twitch channel. I will be continuing my Sims 4 Fantasia Legacy and checking out all of the new awesome kitchen content in the Cool Kitchen Stuff pack.

If you have never used Twitch before it is completely free to join and watch streams. You do not need to pay anything and can just sit back and watch.

Feel free to join in the conversations in chat and ask me any questions about The Sims 4, my Legacy family, and the new expansion pack!

 

Posted by Mystic in Featured, General News, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Legacy Challenge Rules, Legacy Challenge Stories, Sims 4 News, Sims 4 Stories, The Sims 4

Weekly Let’s Play List – Week of 5/27/2015

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Weekly Let’s Play List! It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these lists! I wanted to get back into posting these weekly as this was a popular series here.

Each week we will post a list of new Let’s Plays and chapters in separate posts so that you can check out what others are doing and stay up to date with them. I will be posting the Let’s Play list today and the written story list tomorrow (which means that the Let’s Play list will be posted each Monday and the writers list each Tuesday).

If I missed anyone, please let me know. It can be difficult to make sure I include every Let’s Play related to our challenges as there are a lot of them. So just comment below if you know of one that I missed!
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Posted by Mystic in Featured, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, Sims 4 News, Sims 4 Stories

How to Engineer a Death by Laughter Easily

For those of you trying to get this ghost color for your Legacy families, I’ve got a handy dandy Legacy Challenge legal way to engineer it. Take a look at the video below.

 

Posted by Pinstar Legacy in Legacy Challenge Rules, Sims 4 News

Get to Work Challenge Rules Mega-Update

Welcome back portraits. You have been missed.

Welcome back portraits. You have been missed.

I am updating ALL of my challenges with the new gameplay additions introduced with The Sims 4 Get to Work. If you are playing these challenges and have NOT bought Get to Work, simply continue under the older rules.

The Legacy Challenge

(Want to see some of these new changes in action? Check out my wife’s stream of her new Legacy family today at 2pm EST on her Twitch channel!)

  • Added a new Succession Law Category, “Species”, with the following options “Xenoarchy (Heirs must alternate between human and alien) , Xenophobic (Heirs cannot be a different species from the founder)  Brood (Heirs must be carried in a pregnancy by the previous heir, regardless of the heir’s gender), and Tolerant (The species of the child has no impact on their eligibility for heir status). Legacy families in progress may pick one of these to begin following them. (Even if past generations didn’t follow the rule)
  • The founder is allowed to be an alien at start and alien spouses are allowed under normal spouse rules. If a Male Heir is abducted and has an alien baby, that baby may be eligible to be heir (depending on your succession laws).
  • Funds from owned businesses count toward family net worth for the purposes of the fortune score.
  • If your family owns a business the 10th point of fortune (Needing 5.7 million) can been replaced with “Buy every business perk for a Legacy Family Owned Business”. This can be skipped if you do not have your family own a business.
  • Memorializing a Sim via painting is no longer done with a realism painting, but rather a “Paint from reference” portrait. Even though “Paint from reference” unlocks at skill level 3, you need to have it done by a 8+ skill painter for it to count.
  • You may memorialize a Sim with a photograph taken by a Sim with a 5 photography skill.
  • You are allowed to follow Sims to their jobs if taking the new Doctor, Detective, or Scientist careers. Since these careers do not branch, having a sim reach the top level will satisfy the ‘both branches’ requirement in the Nature category.
  • Baking the highest level baking dish can be done in lieu of gourmet cooking to satisfy the ‘Highest Quality version of Baked Alaska’ point.
  • A single Sim must now max Baking in addition to Cooking, Gourmet Cooking, and Mixiology to earn that point.
  • Reduced the required death types from 11 to 10. The 11th “Death by rocket ship crash” is now the same as death by fire.

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Posted by Pinstar Legacy in Apocalypse Challenge, Featured, General News, Legacy Challenge Rules, Other Challenges, Sims 4 News, Wonder Child Challenge

The Sims 4 Get To Work: Retail Then and Now

Sales Socials have changed, these three are just the the introductory ones, many more become available once the customer is curious.

Sales Socials have changed, these three are just the the introductory ones, many more become available once the customer is curious.

(Below are my first impressions of The Sims 4: Get to Work. If you’d like to see the game in action, my wife, ImaginingMystic and I will be livestreaming an early access version of the game from EA on her Twitch.tv channel tonight at 8pm EST.)

When The Sims 4: Get To Work (aka GTW) was announced my number one point of excitement was the reintroduction to a *proper* business aspect. The Sims 2: Open for Business (aka OFB) is a stand-out in my mind as the greatest expansion pack of the entire Sims franchise because of the the gameplay it introduced. Comparing the old retail system of OFB with the new one introduced in Get To Work will be the topic of this article.

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Posted by Pinstar Legacy in Featured, General News, Sims 4 News

A Springboard For Another Challenge?

Sims 4 Apocalypse ChallengeIt is no secret that when I made the Wonder Child challenge, I had the Apocalypse Challenge in mind already. In the original Apocalypse Challenge, you began with a new Young Adult sim in College who was able to spend their time there restriction-free and thus be built up before having to brave the harshness of life in an Apocalypse Challenge.

The Sims 4 didn’t have that sort of mechanic yet. Oh sure, you could just download a sim off the exchange but you would want a sim that was built from the ground up to have as many skill points and traits as possible to maximize the benefit you received from them starting your Apocalypse Challenge.

So now, thanks to the Wonder Child Challenge, we have a healthy crop of brilliant young adults out there, waiting to brave the end of the world.

What if… What if we used them for something else? I’m toying with the notion that the Wonder Child challenge could lead into a business-based challenge where the wonder child is the entrepreneur. Thus they could potentially use some of their starting skills and traits to gain an edge in the business world.

Now I don’t know ALL the details of Get to Work (Sadly I was not invited to Creator’s Camp for this pack, and thus don’t have any early hands-on experience with the game). I can tell you that it will be more than just “Reach a max level business.”

What do you think about having your Wonder Child start a business? Do you think it would add to, or take away from a Business based challenge? Let me know your thoughts!

Posted by Pinstar Legacy in Featured, Other Challenges, Sims 4 News