A player challenge is a goal which the player defines then attempts to achieve while playing a game in The Sims series. Challenges are not a standard part of the games themselves, but are instead created by players. These players may share their challenges with other players, including successes and failures. Some forms of challenges have become particularly well known within the player community of The Sims.
Legacy Challenge
A legacy challenge is a challenge created by Pinstar that challenges a player to play a family through 10 generations.
The player starts with one adult Sim by themselves in what is known as a "legacy lot". The use of cheats and who the family members can marry are strictly regulated. In every generation, there is supposed to be an heir who keeps the legacy going.
There are many variations to the legacy challenge. Examples include:
- Adoptacy: Sims cannot be born to the family, only adopted.
- Alphabet legacy: Naming the children in alphabetical order for 26 generations. The first generation names start with an "A" like Alice, the second generation names with a "B" like Bob, the third generation names with a "C" like Charlie, and so on until the 26th generation names start with a "Z".
- Cleanacy: Making it so the founder and every heir have 10 personality points in the neatness category/have the neat trait.
- Dominant/Recessive genes: Starting with a Sim who has totally dominant genes like a Sim with black hair and brown eyes, and seeing how long it takes for a totally recessive baby to be born like a Sim with red hair and gray eyes.
- Fatacy: The founder, all heirs, and all spouses, must be fat.
- Genacy: The number of children born each generation reflects which generation the family is in. The first generation would only have 1 child, the second generation would have 2 children, the third generation would have 3 children, etc.
- Immortal: Keeping the founder alive while his/her family goes on for 10 generations, using the Life Fruit, Death Flowers and Ambrosia. Aging must be turned on.
- Matriarch legacy: The founder and all heirs must be females.
- Patriarch legacy: The founder and all heirs must be males.
- Perfect genetics: The founder must have an extraordinary hair and eye color like a Sims with white and pink hair with neon green eyes, and each following heir(ess) must have the founder's genes.
- Prettacy: Starting with a very ugly Sim, then trying to make the prettiest Sim possible in 10 generations.
- Rainbow legacy: Making each generation represent a different color. The color and order is up to the player, so generation one could be pink, generation two could be red, and so on. The color of the generation can be reflected in the Sims' clothes, hair color, house, etc.
- Random legacy: Roll dice or use the Random Legacy Challenge App to randomly determine various gameplay elements of each generation of the legacy. Examples of gameplay elements are which job the heir gets, how many kids they have, and whether or not they can get married, among others.
- Riskacy: Having the founder and heirs marry the first adult Sim of the opposite gender (playable, townie, or NPC) that walks onto the lot.
- Supernatural legacy: Each supernatural species must be present at least once in the family tree. For example, the founder could be human, but marries a witch, the second generation marries a werewolf, the third generation a vampire, etc.
- Uglacy: Trying to create the ugliest Sim possible in 10 generations.
- World legacy: All heirs must be conceived with someone from another country.
- Dilute ugly trait: Start off with as ugly a Sim as possible, then try to completely dilute this gene in their following children.
Legacy challenge links
Super Sim Challenge
The Super Sim Challenge or Ultimate Sim Challenge, is a challenge originally created by 'LLandros09 ' on YouTube but more popularly seen by 'The Sim Supply', on YouTube, for The Sims 3 and The Sims 4.
In this challenge, the player starts out with a single Sim, and their goal is to master all skills, aspirations (Including the hidden Grilled Cheese aspiration), careers (both branches are not required), get all the reward traits, and become a vampire, and reach the 'Grand Master' rank, and start a family as well to complete both toddler skills, child skills, and probably become an 'A Grade Student'. The rules restrict the use of cheats during the challenge. If the Sim dies, they must be resurrected with the use of Ambrosia.
Warrior Cat Challenge
The Warrior Cat Challenge, is a challenge made by Seri! Pixel Biologist!, for The Sims 3: Pets. The challenge is based on the famous novel book series, 'Warrior Cats'.
The player starts with a single cat, working their way to make a big and strong clan in the forest, meadows, rivers, etc., by inviting strays and other cats to their clan. These animals must be wild and have made no human contact. Since a human is required in every household, one human can be created and considered to have been accepted into the clan.
Poverty Challenge
The Poverty Challenge is a challenge, originally created by 'Yinakori' on ModTheSims, for The Sims 2.[1] There are strict rules about which items can be owned, and limitations on objects that can be carried in a Sim's inventory. Starting with only §100 and an empty lot, the player must find a way for the Sim to gain §20,000 without a career or cheats.
Notable examples
Alice and Kev[2] is an example of a modified Poverty Challenge from The Sims 3. It is the story of a homeless family in The Sims 3 created by Robin Burkinshaw, a British web design student. The story follows Alice and her father, Kev. Alice is a loser, unlucky, clumsy, good-hearted and above all miserable. Her father, Kev, is mean-spirited, quick to anger, and inappropriate. He also dislikes children, and he's insane. They live in an abandoned park. Kev and Alice wander around this virtual city, sleeping on benches and digging through garbage bins.
The story attracted a lot of notice, averaging 100 or more comments per post by people who seem to genuinely care about this duo. The response prompted the author to promote charities that support homeless people.[3]
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Other Challenge links
- Mod the Sims - Sims 2 Challenges
- Mod the Sims - Sims 3 Challenges
- EA forums - Challenge list for Sims 3
- EA forums - Challenge list for Sims 4
- Fanlore - List of The Sims Challenges
- 100 Baby Challenge (all The Sims games)
- The Sims 3 Apocalypse Challenge