The Sims 4

Weekly Stories List – Week of 6/15/2015

LegacyWeeklyStories2-9-2015Hello everyone! Below are this week’s most recently updated Sims Challenge Stories for the week of 6/1/2015!

There are a lot of stories to go through, so if I missed anyone, please let me know in the comments below and I will add you!

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Posted by Mystic in Apocalypse Challenge, Immigrant Challenge, Legacy Challenge Stories, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, Sims 4 Stories, Wonder Child Challenge

Weekly Let’s Play List – Week of 6/15/2015

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Weekly Let’s Play List!

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.

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!

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT – While compiling today’s list I came across a user that is blatantly copying other Simmer’s videos and not only posting them as their own, but also monetizing them. Not only is this not cool, this is copyright infringement and reportable. Make your own content or get off of Youtube.

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Posted by Mystic in Apocalypse Challenge, Immigrant Challenge, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Other Challenges, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, Sims 4 Stories, The Sims 4, Wonder Child Challenge

Weekly Let’s Play List – Week of 6/8/2015

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Weekly Let’s Play List!

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.

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 Apocalypse Challenge, Immigrant Challenge, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Wonder Child Challenge

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

Legacy Challenge Rules Clarification: Who Earns Points

All of the Sims here can earn the family points as long as they remain within the Legacy Family house.

All of the Sims here can earn the family points as long as they remain within the Legacy Family house.

There has been a little confusion and a little ambiguity regarding spares, non-primary spouses, cadet branches, and the children of spares in terms of who can earn points for the family. I hope this post will clarify a few things. If this post contradicts any past rulings I’ve given on the subject, this update takes precedence. With Alien pregnancies, adoptions, and the plethora of different succession law choices, having an open rule like this makes it a lot easier to figure out scoring without fundamentally changing the challenge.

Anyone who is living in the Legacy House is eligible to earn you points, period. Be them heirs, spares, primary or non-primary spouses, spouses of spares, children of spares (aka cadet branches)…if they are in the active house, they can earn the family points. Keep in mind that certain distinctions are very important for other parts of the challenge. Who your eligible and ineligible heirs are (based on your succession law) is important for future generations, who your “Primary Spouses” are is important for the Love category of points.

What is important is that they MUST be in the Legacy family lot in order to earn you points. Keep in mind that any mod that allows you to exceed the 8-sims per household limit would be considered cheating, as it would give you an advantage over a player who was limited to 8 sims max.

You may move out Sims (besides the heir) at any time. When you do this, they cease to be allowed to earn you points. Any points they HAVE earned thus far can be kept, and you may do things like spend all their aspiration points for youth potions for points…but once they are out of the house, they cease to earn points. Parts of the family who have thus been moved out but who still live in the neighborhood are known as “Cadet Branches”.

Don’t forget that once a Sim has moved out of the Legacy household, they may never be moved back in.

There is no need to restart your current Legacies with this change. Just grandfather in the new rules as you see fit. If you want to keep the rules more strict, feel free to stick with the old way.

Posted by Pinstar Legacy in Featured, Legacy Challenge Rules, The Sims 4

Challenge Accepted! An Interview with Fallon of SimNationTV!

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Hello everyone, and welcome to another Challenge Accepted! I thought it would be fun to get to know some of the Simmers that play the Legacy Challenge, Wonder Child Challenge, and/or Apocalypse Challenge (and any other challenges that we post here), so I am going to be sending out interview questions to Simmers to learn more about them and how they got into the Sims. If you would like to participate, please let me know!

This week’s Challenge Accepted! features Fallon of SimNationTV. Fallon is one of three co-hosts on the SimNationTV podcast on their Twitch.tv channel and frequently will stream Sims 4 from that channel as well. You can also find Fallon’s and the rest of the SimNationTV crew’s past broadcasts on their Youtube channel. Here is what Fallon has to say:

 

Mystic: When did you start playing The Sims?
Fallon: Started with Sims 1, and have been playing ever since. I think I still have the cd’s somewhere!
What made you decide to try the Legacy Challenge and/or other player-made challenges for the game?
I had never done the Legacy challenge before, I normally don’t play with aging turned on in my games, aha. I wanted to try something new and at the time I had gotten turned off to Sims 3 and Sims 4 was about to come out so I thought it was a good time to try.
What is your favorite game and expansion pack for the franchise?
I really like Sims 4. I think the goofy ways they act are so cute, especially the faces they make sometimes, and I also prefer the way these sims look over the Sims 3 version….I know people don’t like the “plastic” hair but by god, it’s 1000 times better than Sims 3 base game hair. But my favorite expansion of the ones that I played would probably be Nightlife for Sims 2 because you could have the Grilled Cheese Aspiration, which is freaking awesome. Also at that point in the series it was the first time you could have your own car. It was like an updated version of Hot Date which was also fun.
What is your favorite Sims challenge to Let’s Play/Stream/write about?
I must admit the only challenge I tried was the Legacy Challenge. I knew that it was pretty popular by now though. I’m a big baby when it comes to having my sims grow old.
Of all of your Sims, who is your favorite?
I actually don’t have a favorite sim. I always try to make a sim version of myself, and sometimes I make sim versions of my family, but other than that I make random sims with random names. That way I can have them do super awesome and amazing things that I can’t do in reality.
Of all of the Sims games, what is your favorite lifetime wish/aspiration?
Grilled cheese aspiration!!!!!!!! Who doesn’t love grilled cheese?!
Do you have any tips for people that are just starting out playing Sims challenges?
Hmmm, I would say don’t stress about it. I don’t think the challenges are meant to punish you, but give you a sense of direction and an opportunity to play in a way that you might not normally play. I have all the feels for you though if you get sad thinking about your sims growing old and dying, because I hate to see any of my sims die in the game, well….except that one time…..but I wanted some ghosts to haunt my house……anyway! You don’t have to play for points if you’re worried about it =P
Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions, Fallon!
Posted by Mystic in Challenge Accepted!, Featured, Legacy Challenge 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

Challenge Accepted! – An Interview with Cristina321

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Hello everyone, and welcome to another Challenge Accepted! I thought it would be fun to get to know some of the Simmers that play the Legacy Challenge, Wonder Child Challenge, and/or Apocalypse Challenge (and any other challenges that we post here), so I am going to be sending out interview questions to Simmers to learn more about them and how they got into the Sims. If you would like to participate, please let me know!

This week’s Challenge Accepted! features Cristina321 a Sims 4 Twitch streamer and Youtuber. Cristina frequently plays Sims 4 challenges created by us on her Twitch channel and will upload the videos to Youtube for you to watch whenever. She has played the Wonder Child Challenge, Apocalypse Challenge, and the Legacy Challenge. Here is what she has to say:

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Posted by Mystic in Apocalypse Challenge, Challenge Accepted!, Sims 4 Stories, Wonder Child Challenge