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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

Challenge Accepted! An Interview with Drew

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Drew’s Sims 4 Alien Legacy founder, Motie Alien

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 Drew, writer of the Alien Legacy. The Alien Legacy is currently up to the third generation and was founded by Motie Alien and follows his story as he discovers who he is in a strange world. Here is what Drew has to say:

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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

Challenge Accepted! – An Interview with Summerfalls

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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 Summerfalls a Sims 4 Wonder Child Challenge writer! Summerfalls writes on his blog regularly and is currently working on getting his Wonder Child through childhood and into her teenager years. He also writes other short stories there as well. Here is what Summerfalls has to say:

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Posted by Mystic in Challenge Accepted!, Featured, Other Challenges, Sims 4 Stories, Wonder Child Challenge

Getting Ready to Get To Work

 

 

Fan Email AssetIf you haven’t seen the trailers yet, or have been otherwise living under a rock, Get to work is slated to hit next month and with it will come some big things for the site. I will be updating all of my existing challenges to account for changes introduced by the new expansion pack. A brand NEW challenge will be introduced related to the business aspect of Get to Work.

 

Keep your eyes peeled for more updates. There will be a little bit more of a delay between the release of the Get to Work and the release of my new challenge as I was not brought in to attend the Creator’s Camp event for this pack, so I haven’t had a hands-on experience with the game yet. But updates will be posted as I progress in crafting and developing the new challenge.

Posted by Pinstar Legacy in General News, Sims 4 News

Weekly Stories List – Week of 3/2/2015

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Hello everyone! Below are this week’s most recently updated Legacy Challenge & Wonder Child Stories for the week of 3/2/2015!

Please note: I’ve renamed this series as we have now added the Apocalypse Challenge to the list and that would make the title too long. This list still only reflects challenges created by us, and no other challenges.

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Posted by Mystic in Featured, Legacy Challenge Stories, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, Sims 4 Stories

Weekly Let’s Play List – Week of 3/2/2015

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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 (which means that the Let’s Play list will be posted each Monday and the writers list each Tuesday).

Please note, with the release of the Apocalypse Challenge, I have changed the name of this series to simply say “Weekly Let’s Play List” as the title would have been too long otherwise. This list is still only for challenges that Pinstar and I have created. We will not be including Let’s Plays of other challenges.

Here are the new episodes for the week of March 2, 2015:

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Posted by Mystic in Featured, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, Sims 4 Stories

Challenge Accepted! An Interview with Starlight Sims

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Hello everyone, and welcome to a new series here at the Sims Legacy Challenge… 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 over the next few weeks. If you would like to participate, please let me know!

Our first Challenge Accepted! interview is for Starlight Sims aka Whitney. She is a Sims Youtube Let’s Player and has many different active Let’s Plays going at the moment. She got her start on Youtube by doing a Let’s Play of her Sims 2 Legacy Family. Here is what she has to say:

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Latest Sims 4 Update Adds Genealogy and Family Trees!

TS4_440_GENEALOGY_1k_WhiteThis week marks the 15 year anniversary of The Sims franchise and to commemorate that achievement EA and Maxis are giving us lots of cool gifts to celebrate! Most importantly for Legacy Players, the game now includes Genealogy and Family Trees, something that we know many of you have been requesting for quite some time now! So rejoice! You can now view family trees.

MinervaFamilyTreeA word of caution though, you may want to back up your save files before updating. It seems that this update has caused some save files to revert to previous saves. That’s not something that you want to happen in your Legacy Family!

This newest update also includes new Valentine’s themed clothing and items. For more information, check out the full news post at the official Sims 4 website!

 

Posted by Mystic in General News, Sims 4 News

Legacy Challenge & Wonder Child Weekly Let’s Play List – Week of 1/26/2015

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Legacy Challenge & Wonder Child 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 (which means that the Let’s Play list will be posted each Monday and the writers list each Tuesday).

Here are the new Legacy Challenge & Wonder Child Let’s Play episodes for the week of January 26, 2015:

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Posted by Mystic in Featured, Legacy Challenge Let's Play, Sims 2 Stories, Sims 3 Stories, Sims 4 Stories