TS4 Nomad Challege- Tragedy and New Sims

All I need for this challenge is for the U.F.O. plant to be perfect and have the house be worth $350,000.  They've been camping on the lawn through this whole challenge.  I went on the gallery and bought rooms.  They now have the startings of a house.  The bills went up $6,000 a week!

pic:  Dante caught fire cooking when I wasn't paying attention.

pic:  I was shocked when Danielle didn't put him out but routed to safety instead.  Dante dies.

After Dante died the game got really boring so Danielle adopted a girl Emilie and a boy Emilio.

pic:  Danielle bringing home Emilie.

pic:  Danielle bringing home Emilio.

Emilie is angry about new sibling and Emilio is sad.

pic:  The kids fishing.

Brett and Danielle age to adults.

Truthfully this challenge is really boring me.  I don't know if I'm going to continue it.  I might take a break from it, not sure.

TS4 Nomad Challenge- Collections Complete!

If you remember Jade and Jasmine passed away.  The kids take vacation days from school so they can take care of the garden.  When their vacation days run out they all just skip school.  Finally 6 days after their mothers passed away they age up to young adult.

Brett spends his time on space missions while Dante gathers the local collectables and helps his sister in the garden.

I finally give in and buy a fridge.  They waste so much food it seemed worth it even if it doesn't go with the campy theme of the challenge.

Danielle keeps mourning at the gravestones so finally it aggravates me so much I put them in the inventory.

Although it's not part of the challenge so it's not going into the museum but still of note, Brett completes the alien collection.

pic:  After around 15 sim days of constant missions Brett finally gets the U.F.O. plant completing the garden collection!

pic:  Dante completed the crystals collection!

pic:  They all take a break to fish.

All of the collections are complete.  The museum is finished.  Now to get all of the plants to perfect and get a house worth $350,000.  Currently they have just under $200,000.  I'm thinking it's going to be very boring trying to raise the money.  I need to find some way to spice things up.  Sorry this was surch a short post but it was really boring and there wasn't much to report until the alien plant and then the crystal was found.

TS4 Nomad Challenge- Birthdays & Deaths

pic:  Jade ages to elder.

pic:  Jasmine ages to elder.

pic:  The kids love playing with the cowplant.

pic:  Jade completed the metals collection.  The museum is coming along nicely.

pic:  Brett ages up to teen.

pic:  Danielle ages up to teen.

pic:  Dante ages up to teen.

pic:  Brett starting to build his rocket.  Gotta get that ufo plant!

pic:  Brett's first time exploring space.

pic:  Brett crashed the rocketship.

pic:  Jasmine passes away while gardening with her kids.

pic:  Jade passes away while fishing.

I thought I'd let the pictures say all that had been happening for me.  A lot happened.  The kids going to school is a nuisance.  I can't wait for them to be done.  We'll have to see how the kids fare without their mothers now.  Jasmine and Jade died at the same time.  Grim had to finish with Jasmine before he came to Jade though so she laid there for quite awhile.  All I have left is the crystals collection and the ufo plant to get.  Also the plants in the garden aren't all perfect.  Then it's just saving up enough to build or buy a house worth $350,000.  That won't be easy.

TS4 Nomad Challenge- Bigger Suprises

As you might remember from my last post Jade and Jasmine each had a fling while on vacation and ended up pregnant.  Jade gave birth to a boy named Brett.  Jasmine to my horror gave birth to twins!  A boy named Dante and a girl named Danielle. 

pic:  As you can tell Jade and Jasmine were sleeping when they went into labor.   They got out of bed, a basinet appeared and they gave birth one right after the other.

pic:  With 3 babies to take care of the girls garden together and stay close to home.

pic:  Ghost Jax trying to "help" with the babies, but just getting in the way.

pic:  Brett aged up to child.

 pic:  Dante and Danielle age up to children.

pic:  The kids all fishing.

I placed a second outhouse and shower since there are 5 sims now.

pic:  Everyone sleeping in their camping beds.

pic:  Everyone sitting down to breakfast.

I realize that fishing increases children's mental skill.  Very interesting.

I pick up the air beds and buy the cabin-in-a-bag to see if everyone can sleep in it.  They can't.  It sleeps 4.  Back to the camp beds.

After days of not finding the metals and crystals needed to complete the collections Jade goes on vacation alone to search for the last insect needed.

Jade's trip is successful!  She finds the katydids and completes the insect collection.

pic:  A sim in a bear suit comes up to Jade and scares her.  She got all kinds of bad moodlets from it.

I now need 1 metal, 1 crystal and 1 plant to complete my collections.  The plant is the ufo plant.  I plan to have one of the 3 kids be the one to go into space to look for it.  I'm frustrated that when I go places like parks and neighborhoods there don't seem to be dig sites like there used to be.  I can only dig in the neighborhood they live in.

TS4 Nomad Challenge- Two Collections Complete & Two Pregnancies

pic:  Jade maxxed her handiness skill and breaks open the entrance to the Forgotten Grotto.

pic:  Jade fishing in the Forgotten Grotto.  She didn't catch any of the fish she needed on her 1st day.

pic:  Jade completed the elements collection.  They're all on the display rack.

Jade went back to the Forgotten Grotto the next day and caught all 3 of the fish she needed from there.

pic:  Jasmine goes fishing at the Willow Creek pond.  I read it's easier to catch the pirana at lower level.  She tried several days with no luck.  (She ended up catching it in Oasis Springs)

Jade and Jasmine age to adults.  It's time to think about the next generation.

pic:  Jade travels to Sylvan Glade to go fishing.

Jade completes the fish collection!

The girls go on vacation.

pic:  Jasmine meets a guy named Kristopher and they have their first kiss.

Kristopher and Jasmine try for baby then wave goodbye to each other.

pic:  Jade seduces an elderly ranger named Nick.

Jade and Nick try for baby too.  Let's hope there's no twins this time.

pic:  Jade is pregnant!

pic:  Jasmine is pregnant!

Right after finding out the girls were pregnant I had them travel back to their camp but it got stuck in map view.  It took over an hour to get the game to work again.  I thought I lost this whole save.

With pregnancy Jade can't really fish because she has to pee so much so she helps with the garden.

pic:  Jade and Jasmine in their third trimesters.

TS4 Nomad Challenge- And Then There Were Two

It's been difficult having 4 sims to try to keep busy and yet once there were two it seemed like not enough.  RIP Jax and Skyla you were a great couple.

I ended up sticking one of each of the insects into the museum so that Jasmine can get on with her herbalism.

I transfered all of the crystals, fossils and elements from Jax to Jade because I got a notification that his time is coming soon.

pic:  There was another fire!  I'm tellin' ya those fire pits are dangerous.

pic:  Jax had just been playing with the cowplant when he dropped down and passed away from old age.

pic:  Grim comes for Jax

pic:  Grim stays to play with the cowplant.

The days go by with Skyla gardening; Jade collecting, fishing and working on her handiness skill and Jasmine gardening and working on herbalism.

pic:  Skyla passes away.  The girls completely ignore Skyla's death and Grim.

Now that Skyla is gone the garden takes all of Jasmine's time.  She can't work on her herbalism.

Jasmine goes on vacation alone to work on her herbalism a few days later.

pic:  Jasmine brews herbal remedies until her skill gets to 8.

Jasmine finds the last plant she was missing and identifies the 3 she couldn't before level 8.  Now she can plant them when she gets home.  Now to search for insects.

pic:  It's hard to see unless you enlarge it but she found walking sticks.

pic:  Jasmine found dust spirits.

pic:  Jasmine talking to some guy in a bear suit.  She got all kinds of bad moodlets from him.

In 3 days Jasmine got as far in herbalism as I needed for her to identify and plant all the plants, found a crystal they needed and 9 insects they needed.  I'm switching her to the gardening aspiration.

I got Jade and Jasmine the Hardly Hungry trait.  I'm still not sure if I shouldn't have gotten the one that makes them sleep less instead.

Jade completed the fossils collection!

At this point they only need one or two for each of the collections left except the fishing I think they need four.  Some of the plants in the garden are perfect quality.  The confusion is how I'm going to get the simoleans for a house worth 350,000.  They barely have any simoleans.

TS4 Nomad Challenge- 2 Collections Complete

All in all this is a difficult challenge.  The gardening itself takes all day.  I've now completed the frogs collection and the my sims trophy collection.  I have an updated shot of my museum later in the post.  The bills have become astronomical.  I sold as much as I could from their inventories hoping it would help.  Sorry there's not many pics in this post, I guess I got so into playing I didn't think to take many.

I purchase steel bladder and antiseptic for Jax since he spends most of his time fishing.  It turns out very helpful.

pic:  Jax becomes an elder.

The girls have 4 vacation days from school so they go on vacation for 4 days. Every day the principal called.  It was really annoying.  Jasmine collected plants and insects while the rest of them fished.  Jax did find a couple of dig spots but not many.

pic:  Jasmine meets the hermit.  Hopefully this meeting will count for later in her aspiration.

pic:  I couldn't figure out why Skyla stopped fishing then she turned in a shower of sparkles and became an elder.  Sorry the pic is so dark, it was nighttime.

Jax completed the my sims trophy collection.

pic:  My museum so far.  I have the fish written down on a piece of paper so I don't have to carry them anymore.  I still need I think 4 of them.

The twins age to young adult.

As I said in my last post 4's a crowd.  It's hard doing anything.  I'm trying to increase Jade's handiness so she can fish Forgotten Grotto but it's slow going.  Jasmine's herbalism is going even slower.  I can't make any brews for fear it will use one of the insects needed for the collection so all she can do is read the book, which she reads a few minutes then puts down.  I got a notice that it's almost Jax's time so I guess I won't have to worry much longer.  :(