Author Topic: The Baby Boomer Challenge (Read 23376 times)

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #125 on:** January 13, 2010, 11:24:52 AM »

Quote from: chelsea on January 13, 2010, 11:21:33 AM

Use of lifetime points isnt 'cheating' right? I'm going to need that fertility treatment.

Definitely not. Be fruitful and multiply.

Pam · « **Reply #126 on:** January 13, 2010, 11:52:16 AM »

Quote from: Metropolis Man on January 13, 2010, 10:58:26 AM

Quote from: Pam on January 13, 2010, 10:53:52 AM

However, if a child really does die without interference from the player, then that's just how it is.

How is this even possible? What are the different legit ways a child could die? Starving to death can only be viewed as intentional by a player. I'm thinking electrocution is not possible. At least for a toddler or child since they would not be able to repair an object.

If free will is turned to high, a child might get into a pool on his own when he's too tired and drown. It's not likely, but it's possible. And fire is a possibility. I've had many fireplaces catch fire and the stupid kids run right up to it and start screaming. I've been lucky enough to get them all put out in time, but it's possible that a child would die in a fire. Not electrocution, I think, because children cannot repair items. A teenager probably could, though. Starving would be intentional, true. To be allowed in the challenge, it would have to be a truly unavoidable accident that the player couldn't prevent or rescue.

chelsea · « **Reply #127 on:** January 13, 2010, 09:52:06 PM »

So they started baby making on day one, resulting in twin boys, then triplet girls, then a boy. Aladdin, tigger, piglet for the boys, Ariel, Cinderella and Jasmine so far woo!
Aladdin and tigger are children, and oh BOY these kids are hardest when they're todlers, managing their moods, and teaching them to walk/talk/go potty?!?! AHH!
But i SERIOUSLY almost burned the house down with a birthday cake on the baby girl's birthday! Oh my. And right before piglet was born!
I like having a big family on the sims (:. I like twins, even triplets, but 6 toddlers is a HUGE challenge oh my.

bellatanci · « **Reply #128 on:** January 15, 2010, 02:52:39 PM »

Is this an ongoing challenge? Like someone i can pick up in a little while? Because this, I'm good at. lol

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #129 on:** January 15, 2010, 03:00:10 PM »

Quote from: bellatanci on January 15, 2010, 02:52:39 PM

Is this an ongoing challenge? Like someone i can pick up in a little while? Because this, I'm good at. lol

Give it a shot if you want. The results from this are not going towards the World Ranking that will be unveiled in spring. I am doing another version of this soon, so stay tuned. And that — and obviously all other current/future events — will go towards your ranking.

annieb · « **Reply #130 on:** January 16, 2010, 01:54:53 AM »

I just found this and decided to give it a shot, but I'm a little bored waiting for them to all age up so they can have more babies.

It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but it definitely had its moments! I needed a theme for naming since I know there were going to be a lot of babies, so they are all named after characters from the office. First they had twin girls, Pam and Karen. Then came triplet boys, Jim, Andy, Dwight. Finally (for now) is a single girl named Phyllis. Five toddlers was interesting! Especially because there was an accidental fire and it took the fire department over 2 hours to put it out! So of course my sims had to stand around (and I had to keep trying to stop them from running to the fire) and all the babies needs just kept dropping. Definitely called the babysitter for help after that!

Right now the twins and triplets are children and Phyllis is about to age up. I just need to get motivated to keep them going!

Pam · « **Reply #131 on:** January 16, 2010, 03:30:25 AM »

Welcome to the forum, annieb! I'm glad you're trying this challenge. I experienced the same lull where it got a little boring. Enjoy it, though, because it'll ramp up again soon enough!

LenaLJ · « **Reply #132 on:** January 18, 2010, 06:39:40 AM »

I'm going to try this out. Seems like a great way to relax a bit from the tournament challenges.

annieb · « **Reply #133 on:** January 19, 2010, 12:52:41 AM »

I think I'll get this finished tomorrow. Currently I'm at 5 young adults out, 1 teen (3 days from YA), 3 infants, and the mom is pregnant again. So I should end up with at least 11 children, but I'm not sure if I can fit in a 12th.

But there was a very brief moment (like half an hour) where there was only 1 child in the household! It was weird, but don't worry, shortly after that the new triplets came home!

annieb · « **Reply #134 on:** January 19, 2010, 02:12:09 PM »

Finished! I had 6 young adults, 3 toddlers, and 2 infants. My last young adult moved out and I had about a day to try and get the mom pregnant again, but it didn't happen. So I managed a total of 11!

My scoring would be 6 x 1600 = 9600, 3 x 200 = 600, 2 x 100 = 200
Total: 10,400

That was a fun challenge! I think I'll keep playing the family because I'm excited to see how many grandkids they end up having! They currently have 1 granddaughter but I'm sure they'll get lots more!

arielle · « **Reply #135 on:** January 19, 2010, 02:19:35 PM »

I know this was started a while back, but I just found your website when looking for tips on career tracks and decided I'd try this challenge. I really hate the toddler stage but I think this will be fun

Wish me luck

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #136 on:** January 19, 2010, 02:39:04 PM »

Good luck. And welcome to the forums, arielle.

Kaibilly · « **Reply #137 on:** January 19, 2010, 06:35:06 PM »

I just found this website, and love these challenges.
I have just finished this one! Definitely a challenge

I finished with 10100

6 x YA evicted 9600
1 x Toddler 200
3 x Infants 100

I didn't know about the watermelon and apple thing, so without even trying there were a total of 7 boys and only the final set of triplets were girls!!

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #138 on:** January 19, 2010, 07:16:42 PM »

Great job, Kaibilly. And welcome to the forums. I'll enter your score.

annieb · « **Reply #139 on:** January 19, 2010, 07:34:17 PM »

Metro, just wanted to let you know that I finished and posted my scores back on page 9. I think they might've gotten missed when we moved to a new page.

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #140 on:** January 19, 2010, 07:57:48 PM »

Quote from: annieb on January 19, 2010, 07:34:17 PM

Metro, just wanted to let you know that I finished and posted my scores back on page 9. I think they might've gotten missed when we moved to a new page.

Thanks, annie. I think that's exactly what happen. I gotcha covered.

arielle · « **Reply #141 on:** January 20, 2010, 04:26:17 PM »

First pregnancy down. Got twin boys! Off to a good start!

I was reading the pregnancy page on here about how listening to kids music & watching kids TV helps your chances of twins/tripletts. Does this work after your visibly pregnant too? I did it after I was for this first pregnancy but I'm wondering if it was that or just luck lol
Anyways this is fun...off to make more babies lol

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Second pregnancy down, twin girls wohoo

AriaGirl77 · « **Reply #142 on:** January 20, 2010, 09:35:32 PM »

Just found your site, love these ranked challenges! How fun!

I went ahead and did this one. I thought it would be a fun place to start. My final score is:

Evicted Young Adults: 3
Teens: 3
Toddlers: 2
Infants: 1

Now that I see other people had SIX evicted YA's I'm thinking maybe I need to start over and try again. lol

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #143 on:** January 20, 2010, 10:07:42 PM »

AriaGirl77, welcome to the forums. Wow, this challenge has received quite a shot in the arm lately. I'm glad I didn't move it to the Graveyard. I'll update your score on the leaderboard.

arielle · « **Reply #144 on:** January 21, 2010, 02:04:09 PM »

Metro, I was reading back through the other pages of this challenge to look for any tips and I think it's hilarious that you didn't even want to do the challenge and you ended up with the highest score, lol. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

TGBlank · « **Reply #145 on:** January 24, 2010, 03:20:09 PM »

Hmm, i'll give a quick try to this one. Let's see if a little trick can break the YA limit.

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #146 on:** January 24, 2010, 03:31:42 PM »

Quote from: TGBlank on January 24, 2010, 03:20:09 PM

Hmm, i'll give a quick try to this one. Let's see if a little trick can break the YA limit.

Take a look at the explicit rules in bold on p.1. I'm mentioning this in case your trick is already forbidden.

TGBlank · « **Reply #147 on:** January 24, 2010, 03:56:01 PM »

Oh, not that, just trying to farm LTH to get fertility treatment on day 1.

meamalso2 · « **Reply #148 on:** January 25, 2010, 09:21:00 PM »

Wow, this challenge is not for me at this time. I have not played the game since I decided to take on this challenge until yesterday when I finally admitted to myself that I was to afraid of it and decided to not take on this challenge. So, maybe at some point in the future when I have started to look after a second adult sim (I have still not done this) I may go for it. But for now I will be taking on different challenge!

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #149 on:** January 25, 2010, 09:25:58 PM »

Quote from: meamalso2 on January 25, 2010, 09:21:00 PM

Wow, this challenge is not for me at this time. I have not played the game since I decided to take on this challenge until yesterday when I finally admitted to myself that I was to afraid of it and decided to not take on this challenge. So, maybe at some point in the future when I have started to look after a second adult sim (I have still not done this) I may go for it. But for now I will be taking on different challenge!

These were my exact thoughts and words when Pam and Carl threw up this challenge.

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Author Topic: The Baby Boomer Challenge (Read 23376 times)

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