The Sims 3 Townie DecaDynasty Challenge

[Metropolis Man]

The Townie DecaDynasty



Goal: Start with any pre-made townie family with no children. When the firstborn child (the heir) accomplishes the 10 moving requirements, the whole process begins again in the next townie home. Your DecaDynasty is finished when the 10th heir is in the 10th household and has accomplished all 10 moving requirements.

General Rules

1. Always play with the most current EA patch.
2. Choose a pre-made townie family with no children from any unaltered EA designed neighborhood.
3. Game Options: Length—Normal; Aging—On; ; Story Progression—On; Freewill—High.
4. The Edit Town screen is off limits with two exceptions:

• Twinbrook, Bridgeport, and Hidden Springs players can add the Book Corral to the town library.
• Anyone can use Edit Town to place EA-created buildings and lots.

5. You’re free to choose any traits and use Lifetime Happiness Rewards to change traits and Lifetime Wishes.
6. All mods are banned.
7. 3rd party custom content that alters appearance such as skin tone or hairstyles, etc. is not considered a modification of the game and can be used at the player's own risk.
8. All cheats are banned with the following exceptions:

• Moveobjects on
• PlaceFriezes on
• ResetSim Firstname Lastname (Use this in the event your Sim becomes “stuck.”)

9. Exiting without saving for any reason is cheating.
10. Intentionally killing Sims falls outside normal gameplay and is also considered cheating.

Adding to Your Household

1. Heirs must be the result of two Sims living in a household Trying For Baby and must be born within 10 days of starting in a new occupied Townie house.
2. The first named child born into a new house is your DecaDynasty heir.
3. There are no restrictions to moving Sims in or out of the household, except as stated below:

• Once a Sim leaves the household, he/she may never be invited back into the household of an active heir.
• Sims from the previous household may not move in with a later heir, either when he/she moves or after the fact.
• The heir must remain within the household until they have completed the requirements to move.
• The only items Heirs can move with are Career Rewards and Lifetime Happiness Rewards that they earn themselves. No other objects.

Moving Requirements

For the Heir to be Eligible to Move to the Next Townie House...

1. The heir must get on the honor roll in grade school and high school. Staying on the honor roll is not required.
2. The household must have 10 different NPC friends (all must have different jobs) at moving time—Maid, Repair Technician, Repoman, Baby Sitter, Adoption Service/Child Protection Worker, Pet Adoption Worker, Pizza Delivery, Butler, Bartender, Bouncer, Pianist, Burglar, Police, Firefighter, Grim Reaper, Newspaper Delivery, Mail Delivery, Science Geek, Magician, Tourist, Explorer, Paparazzi, Tattoo Artist, male/female dancers, Venue Proprietor, DJ, Acrobat, Singer, Magician.
3. The household must have 10 different Best Friends at moving time. There can be overlap with other households’ Best Friends and the NPC requirement can serve double duty here if any are also Best Friends.
4. Heirs must max a unique career (rabbit-hole, profession, or self-employed)—no other DecaDynasty heir can max the same career.
5. Heirs must SuperMax a unique skill—no other heir can SuperMax the same skill. SuperMax means that not only is the skill maxed, but all related skill challenges have also been completed.
6. Heirs must complete 10 unique Opportunities (BlackOps) that no other heir has completed. These can be Career, Skill, or Special Opportunities.
7. Each heir needs to purchase one building and one property (2 separate ownerships). The property must be fully upgraded before the heir moves.
8. The heir must be in the Adult life stage.
9. Heirs must acquire a short, rounded tombstone or the larger obelisk resulting from the natural death of a household member. The ground plaque does not qualify (the smallest size). Tombstones must be placed on the lot before moving. 
10. Heirs must leave behind 10 items (no more) of a particular type in the house. No items left can be from previous households. These items must be a) created, b) found, or c) given to you as freebies/perks as part of a career or being a Celebrity. None of the 10 items can be purchased or made on the Display Table. Each house must have a unique item type. Examples of qualifying types — Criminal career objects taken home, Career reward objects (culinary career fridge, law enforcement squad car, Fox statue, etc), celebrity freebies in family inventory, etc.), wedding presents, field trip souvenirs, time travel items, paintings, photos, sculptures, beetles, butterflies, turtles, lizards, rodents, birds, snakes, fireflies, gems, metals, spacerocks, fish, relics, inventions, nectar, books, spirits, Gnomes, Lifetime Happiness Reward objects (i.e. teleporter, collection helper), skill certificates, plants, and any harvestables from Omni Plants. All household members from a given house can contribute towards this requirement.

Additional Restrictions and Info

1. Anything that lengthens life for heirs is forbidden—eating Life Fruit, Ambrosia, make-overs, tattoos, plastic surgery and drinking from Leon's Fountain of Youth (Hidden Springs). Non-heirs have no life-extending restrictions. Once your firstborn makes an appearance and becomes the active heir, you’re free to extend the life of the former heir.
2. No household member can be a vampire/Genie. Potential spouses can never have been a former vampire. However, heirs are allowed to move into a house with vampires/Genies provided all vampires/Genies are moved out the same day the heir moves in.
3. Household members cannot be a mummy, or SimBot. However, Imaginary Friends are allowed to become household members. You're also allowed to have ghosts as household members.
4. Birthday cakes are restricted to household members only and can only be used on actual birthdays.
5. Each household is allowed 10 days vacation. Vacation can be accrued and passed on to the next household. So, if you never take a vacation in your starting house, when you begin playing your 2nd house, you then have 20 days vacation available. For every Sim that goes on vacation that counts against the vacation total—i.e. 3 Sims go on vacation for 3 days = 9 vacation days.

The End of Your Dynasty

Your DecaDynasty concludes when your 10th heir is living in the 10th house and has completed all 10 moving requirements. Congratulations! However, if any of the 10 moving requirements cannot be accomplished resulting in an heir unable to move, then your DecaDynasty attempt comes to an end.

Scoring

The Townie DecaDynasty Challenge is a stand-alone event and not connected with the 13-event Challenge Tournament or world ranking, but you can still keep score.  Scoring is based on the value of the 10 items you leave behind in each house. Before an heir moves, find the value of the 10 items in Buy Mode. When you’re done, you can post the total value of all 100 items in this thread, or feel free to PM me the information. Please take a picture of your 10th heir with the 10 objects in the picture as well.

My thanks to Hosfac and Pam for their editing chops on this rule set. Gheez also deserves a round of applause as she was kind enough to work up a nice spreadsheet for everyone’s benefit. Kudos, guys.

Townie DecaDynasty Spreadsheet.

Have fun and get moving everyone!

Updated 4/9/12

[Gogowars329]

Sounds similiar to Aria's Townie Legacy. This looks great! Although I may not pitch in for this as my dynasty and legacy are enough for now.

[samoht04]

Woow, sounds hard. Doesn't mean I won't try it... 

[RubyLovesSims]

Yay! The wait is over! Looks great Metro, and thanks!
(Yep, underlined, bold and in italics!)

[Esther1981]

Awesome Metro!! If I do try it, 1. I gotta finish my first one and 2. It will be unofficial! It was worth staying up all night for!!  

[samoht04]

Actually it sounds very hard now I have read it twice! I think I'll get the Immortal Dynasty under wraps and my Legacy before this beast gets going, or knowing me I will give in.  

[TheChronicR]

Hmm. This looks quite difficult to accomplish. But that is why it is a Challenge. I am off to create my file.

[jessssi]

I think I'll actually try this. Sounds easier than the Immortal Dynasty.

[samoht04]

Okay I give in, Loading the Game Now. 

[Choccolatee]

Yays it's here! I had to read it over like 5 times before understanding slightly. 
So, my first question to clarify my confused brain is:
First, you pick a household and the heir is born.
After all the requirements are made, the heir moves to another house, and then gives birth to the next heir.
And so on..
Right?

[Esther1981]

I think I'll actually try this. Sounds easier than the Immortal Dynasty.

Really?   Ok my question, if it has to be a townie family with no kids, say Agnes, how would I go about that? Getting another unmarried Sim to marry her?

[TheChronicR]

I think I'll actually try this. Sounds easier than the Immortal Dynasty.

REALLY? In Immortal Dynasty you at least have to do less requirements. And for eight Sims.. This one is ten.. In my opinion, this is very hard. And complicated as well.

[jessiethedog]

Sounds good! When I've got a bit further in my Immortal Dynasty and got Generations, I think I'll try this!  

[TheChronicR]

Really?   Ok my question, if it has to be a townie family with no kids, say Agnes, how would I go about that? Getting another unmarried Sim to marry her?

Great minds think alike. I too thought of Agnes at first, actually.

[simfulicious]

I think it's easier in the aspect that you aren't worrying what 8 sims are doing at every point of the game.  Once your heir completes their stuff, they move to a different house alone, and so you're no longer responsible for the old family.

[jessssi]

Lol, I guess it just depends on how you look at it and how you normally play. I admit, it's a lot of stuff to do but they're not actually hard things to attain.

[Esther1981]

Great minds think alike. I too thought of Agnes at first, actually.

Probably cause we were just talking on Agnes's story!   Anyways this seems actually alot harder than the Immortal Dynasty!! Of course I thought that was impossible before trying it.

[TheChronicR]

Probably cause we were just talking on Agnes's story!  Anyways this seems actually alot harder than the Immortal Dynasty!! Of course I thought that was impossible before trying it.

Well, it is still difficult without cheats. Lol.

[krisztinka]

Great new challenge, just in time for the new expansion!
I have a question: we move the heir to a new empty lot or move them in with another childless family/single sim? It isn't really clear who moves and where after the first heir has completed the moving conditions. Can you explain in more detail?

[Metropolis Man]

Yeah, there's definitely not as much simultaneous juggling as the Immortal Dynasty, folks. The whole moving aspect from house to house is going to give this a completely different flavor than the Immortal Dynasty where you simply stay put forever. Most of you experienced Dynasty players should recognize some crossover with the requirements — i.e. SuperMaxing a skill, the investment requirements, etc. But, that's a good thing. I did not want to recreate the wheel with this one.

[Metropolis Man]

Great new challenge, just in time for the new expansion!
I have a question: we move the heir to a new empty lot or move them in with another childless family/single sim? It isn't really clear who moves and where after the first heir has completed the moving conditions. Can you explain in more detail?

An empty lot? I'm not quite sure how you felt that was an option. No, there are no empty lots you'd be moving to. You start by choosing a Townie family that has no child.

[RubyLovesSims]

I think it's easier in the aspect that you aren't worrying what 8 sims are doing at every point of the game.  Once your heir completes their stuff, they move to a different house alone, and so you're no longer responsible for the old family.

That's one way of looking at it,and I guess it might be easier. Not sure

[TheChronicR]

An empty lot? I'm not quite sure how you felt that was an option. No, there are no empty lots you'd be moving to. You start by choosing a Townie family that has no child.

Metro, I think Krisztinka was asking where we should move the heir, not where we start the challenge. That's what I am wondering too.

[lingeringdreams]

the way I understand it, we're moving from one townie home to another right?

[samoht04]

I'm already lost.  I don't think I can do this...