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Apart from the occasional fights between William and James, William was happy to get back to his original duties of providing food and money for his family as he returned to fishing. Caroline meanwhile was happy she could now focus more on the garden and her animals as her husband was back. 

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Life for the Wright’s soon settled into a natural routine. William woke up early every morning to catch fish on the shore which he then sold at the market before coming home to his woodworking, while Caroline spent the day cleaning, cooking and gardening. In the evenings they finally joined together for a meal before falling into bed early and exhausted. The money was also tight and could not be spared for anything other than food, bills and tools for the farm. Still every day they spent happily as they were together and fully in charge of their own livelihoods.

Stage 1 Rules:

General rules:

Only male sims are the heirs

No wohooing between two sims, only select  “try for a baby”

Female sims must move away from home only with their wedded husbands or common-law husbands (not unusual at the time)

the woman can take a dowry with her. The size depends on how much money the family has. For example it may be calculated by taking 5 percent of the funds.

Professions

The family must support itself by gardening,farming/fishing etc.

No career for men

allowed to earn money by gardening, animal farming, fishing, inventing, collecting etc.

No career for women sims

allowed to earn money by animal farming, gardening or collecting  (due to the lack of education for poor women this means no writing or music etc.)

Hobbies:

Has to be suitable to the sim’s gender and also the time period

Men: nature, tinkering, sports, music, science

Women: painting, collecting, cooking, embroidery

Goals max. 100 points (some have been borrowed from the history challenge):

Have both of your sims reach level 10 in one of the following category: fishing, gardening, herbalism, cooking, knitting, cross-stiching, the category can be different for both sims - 20 points

Arrange a party to celebrate the war victory after the war ends - 5 points

Have no family member die of anything other than Old Age – 30 points

Earn 20 000 simoleons from selling rocks, fossils, frogs and/or woodwork - 20 points

Catch an Anglerfish worth at least 1500 simoleons - 15 points

Have both your sims create in total 20 unique items with their hobbies such as woodworking, herb making, cross stiching, painting etc. - 10 points

Chaos factors: 

The revolutionary war of 1775-1783. 

During the 1st stage your male sim must leave to fight in the war and the wife will have to stay at home. 

He has to be away from the lot for a 10 days and he may come and visit only once for 12 hours. 

Once he returns home you have to change his personality (with cheats) by replacing one of the previous one with either gloomy or erratic (due to ptsd from war).

As soldiers earned money from their service, by using the Money X- cheat you can give your family 1000 simoleons once your sim returns

If you want to play a higher risk game, you can roll a dice to see if your sim will die in battle (if the number is 3 the sim dies)

In the case he dies and there is not yet a male heir in the family, your heir’s daughter’s future husband will become the heir and their eldest child after him.

Or if there are no children, the widow must remarry and her new husband will become the new patriarch of the family and their children will become heirs.

High infant death rate

With a high infant death rate, roll a dice once for every sim at some point in their childhood. If the number is either 2 or 4, the sim dies (a mod is needed for this). 

Death in childbirth

Death in childbirth was common as well. Once the baby is born roll the dice and with the number is 2 the mother has to die (by using cheats)

With hard manual labor there is a high risk of work-related accidents.

Roll a dice for both of your adult sims and the result is how many “sick days” you have to give to your sims before they can work again. For example if the result is 4, the sim must not do anything besides cooking and light household chores for 4 days. So this means you cannot earn money during that time.

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All the different portraits taken from the 1st stage of the challenge!

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Although in his absence William had lost his eldest daughter, he had also not yet met his youngest one. He found her to be a bright little soul (with a wilful temper). Catherine however was not quite sure what to make of him yet…

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From the Revolution to the Moon 1770-1970, A Historical Challenge 

The newly married Mr. and Mrs. William Wright have happily settled into the small town of Brindleton Bay where they purchased a piece of land by the sea and built a small cabin on it. Here they hope to live happily together and earn a living for themselves and their future children. 

Challenge rules:

Stage 1: introduction:

“Your life has finally begun as you have just settled into matrimony, and with your inheritance and your wife’s dowry combined you have purchased a small dwelling on a nice bit of land. Unfortunately it has also swallowed almost all your fortune, and now you must make ends meet on your own.  While the industrial revolution has already begun taking place in the more urban areas of the country, you still rely on the old way of living. This means farming, fishing and gathering food is your main source of livelihood. While life may seem simple, it is far from easy. Especially if the rumors of the upcoming war for independence are anything to go by.”

Rules for setting up the challenge:

Create a married starter couple for your challenge (one male and one female)

Due to the customs of the time, the male will act as the heir 

Dress them in a colonial fashion and name them accordingly

You can randomize their traits or choose them yourself

Landscape the lot with plants and other natural elements, no man-made items

Build the house: 

Room that you decorate with only the basic utilities, that won’t need electricity or plumbing (candles, outdoor grill or fireplace for cooking, counters, food storage, beds, table)

Make an outdoor toilet

Place your family on the lot

Using cheats change your money value to 100 simoleons

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I forgot to post the general challenge-wide rules earlier but here they are. Although I will probably to fine-tune these as I go along with the challenge (it’s my first time playing it)...

From the revolution to the moon! 1780-1960’s a North American history inspired challenge for the Sims 4

This is a historical challenge made for Sims 4 which draws inspiration from other previous historical and non historical challenges. It takes your main family through 200 years of North American history from the late 18th Century to 1970’s, or in other words from the revolutionary war to the moon mission in 1969. The rules are also made appropriate for the different time periods but with room for gaming enjoyment. Just a warning, I am no historian or even American so this one won’t be 100% accurate but I have tried to do my research as best as I can.

Introduction: 

The challenge includes 10 different stages, one generation for each so, 10 generations of sims =  200 years (20 years per generation)

The stages/decades include: 1) 1770-1790, 2) 1790-1810, 3) 1810-1830, 4) 1830-1850, 5) 1850-1870, 6) 1870-1890, 7) 1890-1910, 8) 1910-1930, 9) 1930-1950, 10) 1950-1970

Or as they’re called in the challenge 1) The Revolution 2) Industrial Revolution 3) Imperialism 4) Indoor Plumbing! 5) Civil War 6)The gilded age 7)The suffragette movement 8) The roaring 1920’s 9)The depression and second World War 10) Atomic Age and Race to the Moon

I may need to find a better theme/name for the 4th :D

You enter a new generation/stage once the heir of your current heir (for the first 6 generations this is the eldest male child) reaches the young adult stage 

The challenge begins with the first couple moving to a modest lot with one room house that has no plumbing/electricity. The challenge begins with 100 simoleons and the goal is to gain as much money and game points as possible by the 1970’s.

Every generation has a number of time period appropriate goals and also chaos factors which can cause negative effects on the gameplay such as deaths, disasters and loss of money. To counter this there are also some positive chaos factors added in. 

I have most of the expansions and stuff packs so I designed the game for those that I have, so if you have only the base game you may need to make up some rules yourself. 

Points (some have been borrowed from the History Challenge):

Each stage in the challenge has their own goals but there are also challenge wide goals. (I may come up with more as I go along but these are ones I’ve come up with so far)

By the end of the challenge the amount of money your family has gained means the more points you get:

100 000 simoleons = 10 points

500 000 = 20 points

1 000 000 = 30 points

1 500 000 = 40 points

2 000 000= 50 points

over 2 500 000 = 100 points 

Earn 10 gold medals on different types of social events - 10 points

Reach level 10 in 3 careers (can be different sims, either heir or their spouses) - 30 points

Have the same Sim earn at least 20 000 Satisfaction points - 20 points

Complete at least 10 in-game collections, can be different sims – 20 points

Represent each Era with a family portrait/photo – 10 points

Display the graves/urns of all deceased heirs and their spouses on the challenge lot or on a dedicated graveyard lot - 10 points

If you have Get Famous, make your sim earn a pristine reputation and another sim, an atrocious reputation - 10 points for each 

Have your sim father/mother five children with five different partners 10 points

Have the same Sim be father/mother to at least 10 children - points

If you have Get Together, make 10 friends and create a club -10 points

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Once he returned home William could not help but notice how much James had grown in his absence. And although he was proud of him, William also found that James had grown a little too accustomed to being the man of the house which now caused quite many quarrels between the two.

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William visiting his eldest child Abigail’s grave for the first time as she had passed during his absence.