TS3- 100 Baby Challenge 2.4: And I'm Gone Again

100 Baby Challenge Chapter 2.4: And I'm Gone Again

Since Blake was born Isabel has had no luck getting pregnant.  One guy came over that night and when they were about to whoohoo said she had issues and left.  The next day the same thing happened with another guy.  The third guy she has high friendship with is always at work.  *sigh*  It's been so long I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Blake ages to toddler.

The triplets all have A's so they age up early.  Clay's new trait is mooch, Crystal's is a good sense of humor and Callie's is vegetarian.

After this my computer started having problems.  I've tried replacing the video card with no luck and so there will be no more updates until I get a new computer unfortunately.  :(

TS3- 100 Baby Challenge 2.3: I'm Back!

Okay so it's been well over a year since I played this challenge.  First, my saves were corrupted and I had to go back to old saves from my backups.  Then, my mods weren't working and (I guess) I was too lazy to fix them.  It ended up being a very easy quick fix.  Anyway, then Sims 4 came out and I wanted nothing to do with Sims 3.  About 3 months after Sims 4 came out this PC stopped working and I switched to playing on my laptop which couldn't handle Sims 3.  Soooo now my laptop has stopped working and, once again, it was an easy fix for the PC I haven't used in over a year.  It only needed a new power supply!  So I've read the last few chapters of the Baby Challenge, which I completed in Sims 4 and plan to complete in Sims 3.  I'm really excited!  The first thing I noticed is that Isabel's first child Katie has an A in school but hasn't been aged up to teen. I lost like a week of play of this family when the game got corrupted, at that point I think Katie was close to moving out and the triplets were children.  So with my very basic updates I'm trying to reacquaint myself with a game and challenge that I haven't played in close to a year and a half!

Katie ages up to teen after she wakes up.  Her traits are disciplined, angler, clumsy and socially awkward.  Yay for her, lol.  Now she can help with the triplets especially since apparently they don't go to school if they age up on that day, weird.

 The day starts with potty-training the triplets.  I learned from a youtube let's play that if you set up the potty train over and over they learn all in one shot.

Here's Clay in the walker while his sisters get potty trained.  By the end of the day he knows all he needs to age up!

Things go a bit slower with his sisters and it's the end of the next day by the time Callie learns to talk.  They'll age up in the morning but ugh I still haven't gotten Isabel pregnant again!  I'm so out of practice!

 Clay loves the cold, is perceptive and lucky.

Crystal is evil, hates the outdoors and is adventurous.

Callie is good, neurotic and a light sleeper.

Isabel invites Jeremey Lin (Katie's Dad) over.  You might remember I changed the rules for the challenge so that each father could be whoohoo'd with 5 times.  I did this because story progression makes it almost impossible to find a single guy.  I didn't bother asking Jeremey if he was single, lol.  So she's preggo and back on track.

 Cole and his twin Cora age up on their birthday with A's.  The weekend ruined an early age up for them.  Cole is neurotic, loves the outdoors and has a good sense of humor.

Cora is artistic, good and insane.

The whole family getting their fun up watching tv before school.  (Kids channel for Mom of course.)  When she stood up to lecture some of the kids I realized that the bus never came to pick them up!  Looking this up on the forums it seems this happens sometimes and you have to go to map view and select the school for each child.  I was about to do so when the game crashed.  *sigh*  I forgot how long it takes Sims 3 to load and save.

Just one. <pout>  His name is Blake and he's artistic and friendly.

Chapter 2.4: And I'm Gone Again

PC problems, Island challenge and some pics...

So about a week ago we had a bad lightning storm and when the electric came back on my pc decided not to boot up.  After messing with it forever I finally got on and reversed it to an earlier time.  Somehow it messed up all of my sims 3 files.  I had a backup of some of them but it was an old backup.  So I had been playing the 100 baby challenge but lost more than a week in sim time of what had been going on.  Also my mods weren't working and I haven't had the energy to try to figure out what is wrong with them.  Since Sims 4 comes out tomorrow and I am pre-loading it right now there's not much point of trying to catch up on that challenge.  I did start the Midnight Sun or Island challenge but then went out of town unexpectedly for the weekend so I've got pics from that challenge to show you but I don't know how much of it I'll play.  But hey Sims 4 tomorrow that's good news!  So here are some pics...

Ghost grandma Ariella comes to visit the triplets and snoozes in the rocking chair.

 The triplets playing.  It was hard to get one with them all together.

This is my Island challenge founder and darnit I forget her name.

People keep popping up, it's really annoying.

Here's the houseboat.  I've added a small basement bedroom since this pic was taken.

My founder and her soon to be hubby that washed up on the island.

 Didn't have money for a bed so he had to get a sleeping bag when he first moved in.  Notice the deer stuck by the mailbox?  I had to delete it, resetting all wouldn't work.

So he pops the question and they soon have a baby.  That's as far as I've gotten in this challenge.

Apocalypse Challenge week 9

With one day left in the floating 10 day age freeze Calvin cleared Education.  Now Sierra has been a pain in the butt since the kids have aged up to children.  All she wanted to do was get on the computer which is restricted and not allowed.  It actually broke and I never had her fix it because it solved the problem.  I had her spend her last days filling up the fridge.  Once Calvin cleared Education and I turned aging back on he was about to age to elder.  He had no athletic so would have had to quit the job anyway so I led Sierra and Calvin to the bottom basement via a ladder and then put the ladder back where it goes.  Calvin turned elder just as Sierra toppled over and died of starvation.  He died 5 hours later.  This may seem cruel but I had a couple good reasons.  One, elders are uncontrolable.  Two, you can't move tombstones.  Their tombstones are side by side because Calvin was morning Sierra when he died.  

Since they died they have haunted several times.  They keep waking up the kids and eating food out of the fridge.  It's extremely annoying.  As you'll see in the pics the basement level was where I was putting all of the dirty clothes piles.  I found out later while reading the Apocalypse Challenge website that you can delete these as they are $0.  *sigh*  

Shortly after their deaths Brian, the heir, aged up.  He got medical.  Which is good I guess, no more smelly sims once he clears that.  I hate the books they have to read every day.  At that point I was frustrated with 4 teenagers and one adult and decided to take a break from this challenge.

Sierra and Calvin in their death cave.

 

 Sierra dies just as Calvin is celebrating his birthday.

 Grim stays to chat with Calvin for a bit.

It was so funny the kids all just plopped down in the snow and started doing their homework.

A quick visit with the supernatural family

I got a bit stressed with the apocalypse challenge and decided to have a quick visit with the supernatural family.  Since I had already built an extra bedroom I decided to get Nadia pregnant.  She ate lots of apples and had a bouncing baby werewolf boy!  Now Dad will have someone to hunt with.  Dad is one level away on his carrer from getting his lifetime wish.  Mom has had no time to fish keeping up with all of the animals and now baby Marcus.  Samantha has met lots of friends in school.  Once the baby was born I instantly got bored with this family again.  We'll see how long it takes to revisit them again.

Ghost daughter Samantha.

 Mommy holding new werewolf baby Marcus.

Apocalypse Challenge... ending the 7th week.

Baby number 3 turned out to be 3 and 4.  That's right I got the twins I had been trying so hard for!  A boy Eddie and girl Ella.  Sierra had one more baby a boy named Ethan.  Strangely enough, child number 2 Stephanie ended up with bright pink hair.  I don't know if it's a bug or what?  I thought it was difficult having so many babies and toddlers but the difficult part started when they became children.  First of all I really don't have room for nor do I want to buy another bed which means that Ethan sleeps in whoevers bed isn't occupied, usually his parents.  Second, snow days!  Brian, the oldest, has gone to school twice... the rest have never gone.  Also I've given up completely on hygiene.  With one sink and 7 people there's no way I can have each one washing hands 30 times a day.  So my kids are the smelly kids.  LOL

I made another basement level just for the hamper, old fridge and dirty clothes piles.  It makes me really wish I hadn't bought a car the first day because then I could build one story up.  Now that the kids are growing up Mom has nothing to do because she had to quit her job.  I am having her spend all her time stocking the fridge.  But darnit if I don't pay attention to her she is trying to get on the computer and make an inappropriate forum post!

Now to the bad news.  Dad was 2 days from going elder when I decided to use my one time 10 day age freeze.  He doesn't have any athletic so he wouldn't have been able to continue work.  At that point he was level 8 in his career.  Right now he's level 9 and his charisma and logic suck.  I don't know if I'm going to be able to get education finished in time!  If not I'm going to be sooooo mad!  I know where I made my mistake.  I spent so much time keeping his hygiene up and not keeping his friendships up and increasing logic. 

As far as the age freeze goes I couldn't find any information on it online except that you can do it for the one time.  I was confused on what to do as far as the kids aging.  So what I did was wrote down the days each would age during the freeze and am aging them.  I have lifted culinary so I am allowed to use the cake.  If I did this wrong oh well.  I would have been stuck with a baby, 2 toddlers and 2 children.  At least this way the kids can up their skills even though I don't know what skills they will need for their jobs.  So that's where I am now.  Praying Dad gets promoted in the next week and skilling up the smelly kids like crazy.

 Brian and Stephanie.

 Stephanie playing chess with Dad.

 The basement where all the smelly things go.

 Eddie and Ella on the floor reading toddler books and Mom feeding baby Ethan.

All the kids skilling up on yet another snow day.

Apocalypse Challege 6 weeks in

So it's been 6 game weeks since the apocalypse challenge started.  Calvin is 10 days from turning elder and is level 6 in his career.  I don't know what to do if he can't make level 10 before become elder.  If you're not familiar with the challenge elders are uncontrollable until unlocked.  It seems most people just kill off their elders.  Eek!  Sierra is 13 days from turning elder and is pregnant with baby #3.  They had baby #2 Stephanie and got pregnant immediately.  I'm not wasting any time.  I keep having her listen to kids music but no twins have showed up.  Oh well.  Just makes it a bit harder.  Calvin's lifetime wish is surrounded by family which is to raise 5 kids to teenagers so I'm aiming for 5 although I don't think I'll have the time.  Brian, the heir, is a toddler and is spending his time reading toddler books.  I don't know what job he'll get so it's an advantage skill wise.  I know I said I wasn't going to play this challenge but I just had an itch to play it so we'll see how long it takes for me to either lose interest or get frustrated.

As you can see Brian got his Mom's hair and skin coloration.  Isn't he a cutie?

Supernatural family update

As you can see Nadia got her lifetime wish.  DD Horse, a unicorn, has joined the household.  So at the moment there is Nadia, Heath and Samantha... a dog, cat, horse and unicorn!  Yea I think it's a bit overwhelming.  I had to find a empty lot and build them a little house because I hated all of the houses in town and I needed space for the horse and unicorn to run.  Heath is level 8 in the criminal carrer so he should get his lifetime wish no problem.  Samantha just turned into a child.  I will try to remember to take a pic of her next time I play this family.

Not really a challenge...

So I've been doing nothing but challenges since I found the legacy challenge online.  I tried the apocolypse challenge but the restrictions kinda take the fun out of the game.  I tried playing the 100 baby challenge again but my heart just isn't into it.  It's the same thing over and over and over: get pregnant, have babies, teach babies, try to get good grades to get the kids out of the house.  I was having fun with it and Isobel has guys lined up to be baby daddies but I just can't keep my attention on it.  I already said I'm finished with the runaway challenge. So I searched for new challenges and nothing caught my attention.  There's only 2 weeks before The Sims 4 comes out.  I don't want to get into something that's going to take longer than that to finish.

So what did I do?  I decided to make a new household with sims I've never played before and wishes I've never done.  So I made a husband and wife.  A werewolf and a ghost.  He works the criminal career and wants to be the emporor of evil.  She wants to tame a unicorn.  So I gave her the fishing job so she can spend time where unicorns show up.  I hadn't thought about the amount of time the fishing areas are frozen over. 

 Nadia apparently ate a bad jellybean.  I thought it looked like a cool ghost.

 This picture is really hard to see but if you look close you can see the unicorn!  She met him fairy early on because I had been searching the map for the unicorn glow.

 Here's Nadia and Heath.

They both had the wish to have a baby and I wasn't going to do it at first but all the fishing spots froze up and the unicorn won't move in until she proves a friend of all animals.  I wanted a werewolf boy and got a ghost girl.  Oh well.  

Nadia has adopted a kitten and puppy to be friends with, next is a horse then she can invite the unicorn again.  I just hope their relationship meter doesn't go too low while she's busy taking care of baby Samantha.

Apocalypse Challenge

The picture says it all.  Hopelessness was lifted because Sierra got the top of her career.  Which is culinary.  This was on a Saturday and I thought oh darn I'll have to wait until Monday to call Calvin over and propose.  Well darned if he didn't show up at the local park while I was there!  So they had a shotgun wedding and Calvin went home with her.  That night Sierra aged up to adult.  She's having a midlife crisis but since I can't lock any wishes the point is moot.  Calvin quit his useless job as a grave worker and the first to pop up in the newspaper was Education.  I guess that's good.  He already has some charisma but no logic.

I had them try for baby on the second day and got the jingle on the first try.  But I still don't know if I want to play this challenge.  It's really difficult.  So keep watching the blog to see if I decide to keep going on the apocolypse challenge or not.

New challenge mabye?

So while looking at the legacy challenge website for information on The Sims 4 I noticed a link to the Apocalypse challenge website.  I read for hours all the rules and started a new game.  I've been playing for 3 sim weeks and have yet to get my founder to lift culinary.  I did the easy start which means your founder goes to university.  She went for 3 weeks but didn't get a degree.  While there I maxed her cooking skill and almost maxed her athletic.  Also, I maxed her charisma and made a bunch of friends.  When arriving home she bought skill books, got her culinary job and I built a little underground bunker.  The only item she brought from college other than some certificates for the wall was a bed.  The rules say 3 items but I really couldn't think of anything else to bring. 

So she's been toiling away at the culinary trade.  Whining constantly that she's hungry.  It's very annoying because I can't do anything with her until peanut butter sandwhich time.  A couple of times she ate at work and I'm going to try to find a way for her to eat earlier so she can also eat at work.  I don't think that's cheating.  On her day off she walked to the only park available to her and met some guys.  One seems to have potential although he doesn't have the right kind of job.  That takes me to the point I'm at now.  This is like the legacy challenge on steriods and darnit I had a hard time with the legacy challenge.  I just don't know if I want to do it.  That's why the title of this post says mabye.  I'm thinking of just going back to the 100 baby challenge and giving this one up.  Anyways here are a couple of pics that I shot during the time I've played it.

 Sierra on the first day taking the aptitude test.

 The first floor of the bunker.  It's really hard to see anything in these pics.

The second floor of the bunker.

Runaway Challenge Finished?

After being completely overwhelmed by triplets in the 100 baby challenge I decided to revisit my runaway challenge for a day.  Despite having quite a bit of money Sophie is having a hard time taking care of herself, Mariah and Fang the dog.  That changes pretty quick when Maraiah and Sophie age up on the same day.  Omar ages up 2 days later and moves in.  Sophie is abducted by aliens!  Then Omar and Sophie get married.  Despite not finishing their lifetime wishes I feel like the "runaway teen" part of the challenge is over.  I could continue to play them and finish their lifetime wishes but I just don't feel the urge to.  I think this challenge is finished.  I realize now that I never got a pic of Omar.  If I ever feel the urge to play this family again I will.

 Sophie holding toddler Mariah after their birthdays.

 Mariah is a child now wanting attention from Mom.

TS3- 100 Baby Challenge 2.2: Twins and Triplets Oh My!

I am completely overwhelmed.  First Isabel has twins then she has triplets!  I saved and quit right after the triplets were born I was just like omg!  Katie is still a child and cannot help.  Luckily the twins had just aged up to children too so it's just the triplets to teach to walk, talk and potty train.  Eek!  On a sad note Ariella passed on right after putting a baby in the crib.

 Grandma rocking baby Katie

 Katie, Cole and Cora in their cribs.

 Isabel ages to a young adult after the twins are born.  Isn't she beautiful?

 Isabel holding Cole.  His Dad has bright red hair so I have no idea where the blond came from but he did get his Mom's purple eyes.

 Death taking away our dear Ariella.  

Cole and Cora playing in the new sandbox.