I hereby present you my own sims 4 challenge. I’ve always loved the challenges other sim players have invented. My problem is a lot of challenges are skills and aspirations focused and these always stressed me out, to the point that I would just work on these and not create any storylines for my sims, which is bad because creating storylines is my favorite part of this game.
Now this challenge, first of all, has nothing to do with the color pink, I was actually inspired by the expression La vie en rose, tried to name this challenge the “Pas Si Rose” challenge, but it sounded way too weird to my French ears, so I ended up going with the Not So Pink Life Challenge (honestly I suck at naming things so this might actually change?)
This challenge heavily focuses on storylines and less on maxing skills and completing aspiration because that’s the way I like to play this game. It plays through 7 generations because I personally think 10 is too long. Also, I’m currently play testing this so the rules and goals might change as I go through them (it might take a while for me to complete this challenge because I do have a full-time job). If you play along and find it hard to complete all the goals, skill and aspiration wise, just complete the storylines because they’re the whole reason I made this challenge.
Below lies all you need to know.
Lifespan on normal recommended (you can add 5-10 additional days to each life stage with MCCC if you find yourself too short on time)
No cheats allowed, unless stated otherwise and for emergencies (ex: your toddler won’t eat and they’re about to be taken away even though they have a plate in their hands)
Mods are allowed (you’re gonna need some for this challenge and frankly speaking this game is unplayable without mods)
Complete all the goals for each life stages of each generations.
You can play with whatever gender you want, just know that Gen 5 has to get pregnant.
Required packs:
Get famous, Get together, Get to work, City Living, Jungle Adventures, Snowy Escape, Parenthood, Discover University (and I think that’s it).
Required Mods:
wonderful whims
woohoo wellness
basemental drugs and gangs (optional)
SNB & SimCity Loans
MCCC
Education overhaul by @adeepindigo & Better school mod (don’t install them at the same time because they can conflict)
Shorter university degrees (you’re gonna need this because a lot of these sims are getting their degrees)
If you don’t have mods or can’t use them, it’s perfectly fine, just make adjustments and do with what you have.
Now let’s get on the juicy part:
You’re an orphan and grew up with nothing, jumping from one foster home to the other. No one ever cared about your well-being or showed you any love so naturally you’ve become closed off and don’t let anyone in. As a teen, you decide to run away and live on your own. No one believed in you, but you’ve sworn to yourself you were going to make it, no matter the cost. Everything you didn’t have as a kid you’ll get, even if you have to walk over people to get it. Problem is you didn’t do that well in school, so you’ve decided to take the easy path to make money fast and become a criminal.
As time passes, you’re starting to make big money. People around you ask what you do for a living so naturally you lie; you say you own a business. Your lifestyle upgrades and you start hanging around celebrities. You marry one and together you become the it-couple.
No one suspects you to be a crime lord and you want to keep it that way. To keep up appearances, you invest in your community by donating money and organizing charity galas but suddenly what you have is not enough. You want to rule the world and so you decide to have a go in politics. It shouldn’t be too hard, after all politicians and criminals have a lot in common…
Traits: ambitious, mean, materialistic
Aspiration: mansion baron
Goals:
As teen: Start off as a homeless teen with 0$
make money by doing part-time job or odd jobs and selling stuff (your choice what you’re selling ;))
don’t do well in school or even drop out
have enough money to rent an apartment/buy a starter house
As young adult/adult:
Join the criminal career
Only date celebrities
Reach level 10 of the criminal career
Become a 3-star celebrity with a pristine reputation
Marry a celebrity and have children
Hold charity galas (1 per season).
Be good friends with a judge or the chief of police
Have a butler
Master charisma and logic skills
As an adult/elder:
Quit the criminal career and become a politician
You grew up with absolutely everything you wanted. Your parents wanted you to have the best of it all: the best school, the best clothes, etc.. As a teen you are the life of the party, you go to clubs every Friday nights and throw your own parties for you and your other elite friends, until your life turns upside down...
Turns out the parent you admired so much all your life is exposed as a crime lord and sent to prison. Your family loses their fortune and everything you thought you knew is gone. Your other parent wants to cling to their luxurious lifestyle, so they borrow loans after loans to keep up the façade. It works for a while until you’re thrown out on the street with a massive debt on your back. The prestigious school you went to all your life is “sorry to let you go but considering the situation, it’s best to part ways now” and the friends you thought you had won’t even look at you. Everything you wanted and had is now out of your reach and you have to start everything from scratch. The thing is, you’re not sure where to start. Who are you without your family’s money and influence?
It takes a while but eventually, you find your calling. You remember fondly all the times you ran to your family’s butler for help - because your parents were too busy – and they listened to you and comforted you while teaching you how to cook, the few times you truly felt happy. You become a chef and decide you’ll do everything to have a happy and warm home for you and your family.
Traits: snob, foodie, outgoing
Aspiration: party animal / master chef
Goals:
As a child:
Have your group of elite friends
Go to private school (using the education overhaul mod)
As a teen:
Have the party animal aspiration
Go clubbing at least once a week, (preferably on Fridays)
Have a good relationship with your butler and sometimes cook together
Go to private school until your parent is sent to jail then go to a regular school
Lose all the family funds (use cheats to do so)
Borrow money (using SNB or SimCity loans)
Lose all your rich friends and your house
As an young adult/adult:
Live in a tiny house/ apartment
Take on your parent’s debt
Master cooking, gourmet cooking, baking skills
Swipe snob trait with family-oriented
Marry a mixologist you met at a bar/club
Have a great relationship with all your children
Cook a meal together with your family every Wednesday.
Be in debts most – if not all – of your life
You’ve grown up loved and supported by your family, even though the house was small; and you didn’t always have your space. You’ve always been very smart, and you’ve always wanted to help people so very early on, you decide that you want to be a doctor. You study your butt off at school because you know the only way for you to get to college and become one is through scholarships.
Always focused on your studies, you don’t really have a social life. You do have friends (2, but who’s counting?), but your love life is non-existant during your school years. You just don’t see the appeal of dating your peers, they’re way too immature for your liking and you’ve always like your crushes older anyway. You get into your first relationship at University, but it’s short-lived because you’re both headed towards different directions after college and you can’t do long-distance.
After you graduate, you’re ready to finally saves lives. You start as an intern and quickly become involved with one of the attendings. You’re just starting your career and they’re a top surgeon, so naturally you keep your passionate affair on the low. Only to find out they’re married (Grey’s Anatomy much?). You tell yourself you’re not a home-wrecker, if they cheated it was surely because something was already wrong in their marriage. You cling to them and convince them to leave their spouse for you. You get married and think you finally have everything to be happy. It doesn’t last.
Your spouse regrets marrying you, blames you for everything wrong in their life which leads to a divorce. You swear off love and decide to focus on your career instead. It works for a while but you’re lonely and the cute cop who comes by the hospital to take your patients’ depositions has their eyes on you…
Trait: Genius, the other 2 are up to you
Aspiration: Anything that makes sense to you
Goals:
As a child:
Master mental skill
Play with the doctor kit set
Meet your 2 friends
As a teen:
Have a part-time job to save up for college
Reach level 3 of the logic & fitness skills
Volunteer at nursing homes every Sundays
Have study sessions with your friends at the library
Graduate high school on an A
As a young adult/adult:
Apply for University and get accepted for a distinguished degree at Foxbury Institute
Have at least 1 scholarship
Study Biology and graduate college with honors
Have your first relationship in college but break-up before you graduate
Join the doctor career (use cheat to start as an intern even though your degree gives a head start)
Have a relationship with a married surgeon, convince them to leave their spouse and marry them
Get divorced
Reach level 9 of the doctor career
Marry a cop & move to a suburban house
Have child(ren)
You grew-up in a happy home even though your parents were quite busy with work. You learnt how to be independent quite early. You were always interested in what the world had to offer and growing up, you only wished to see it for yourself. You didn’t want to spend your life working a 9-5 and coming home to your family only to have a mid-life crisis and regretting not going after your dreams.
So, you decide to work freelance, a job that allows you to work wherever and whenever you want while travelling the world. On one of your trips, you meet the love of your live and together you go on more and more adventures: Mont Komorebi, Selvadorada, you name it, you do it all. You’re happy and soon enough, your family welcomes another life, everything is good. Until the love of your life tragically falls to their death while climbing a mountain.
You’re left alone to raise your child and the spark you had while looking at the world with so much wonder fades. You close yourself off and focus on your child, the apple of your eye, and the last gift your soulmate ever gave you. You almost never leave home, homeschool your kid and focus on their education. You want to protect them with everything you have, so you monitor everything they do, who they see and limit their outings. Basically, you become an overbearing over-protective parent.
Traits: creative, adventurous, active then later on gloomy, paranoid, loner
Aspiration: Extreme Sport Enthusiast or Jungle Adventurer
Goals:
As a teen:
Reach level 5 of the panting skill
As a young adult/adult:
Become a freelance digital artist
Go on vacation every weekend
Meet the love of your life on a hike in Mt Komorebi
Go to Selvadorada with your significant other and explore the jungle
Have a child/get pregnant
Complete the rock-climbing event and have your significant other die
Swipe traits for gloomy, paranoid and loner
Move in a house next to a park
Almost never leave your house
Homeschool your child (with the Better school mod, you’ll have to take out the education overhaul mod)
Don’t allow your child to invite friends over
Send home any visitor coming to your house
Never have another relationship or children
Your childhood was always lonely. You grew-up with a paranoid overprotective parent that never allowed you to do anything in fear of losing you. That leads you to turn to the internet, there you meet people and find actual friends. But as time passes you want to meet them in real life, and you know your parent will never allow it. So, you do what teenagers do best and you sneak out at night while your parent is sleeping. You’re tired of being sheltered and want to actually live your life.
You fall in love with one of your friends and end-up pregnant as a teen. Breaking the news to your parent couldn’t go any more wrong but they agree to be there for you. However, they become stricter and the little freedom you had quickly dissolves into nothing. You decide you can’t live like that anymore and runaway with your baby. Your partner takes you in, but they feel responsible for the rift between you and your parent. With so much pressure, you two drift apart. But it’s alright, having been kept away for so long you relish in your new-found freedom.
You’re free-spirited and you don’t want to be tied down by anything or anyone. The only commitment you make is towards your children. People might judge your life choices and you might look a bit too impulsive for someone with kids but you’re actually a good parent.
Traits: noncommittal, insider, loves the outdoor
Aspiration: Serial Romantic
Goals:
As a teen:
Chat with people online and make friends
Sneak out at night to hang out with your friends
Reach level 2 of at least 3 skills
Date one of your friends
Get pregnant
Have a fall out with your parent
Run away to live with your partner
As a young adult/adult:
Change careers every time you reach level 4/5
Date a co-worker and have their child
Date a neighbor and have their child
Reach level 5 of 5 different skills
Max parenting skills
Live in 5 different worlds throughout your life
Make local friends in every world you move to
Never marry
Always discipline your children calmly
Have your parent reach out to you before they die (cheat this or make it up in your head) it’s up to you whether you make-up or not
Your upbringing was chaotic to say the least. You moved around a lot and you saw your parent jumping from relationship to relationship as if they had an expiration date. Still, you love them to pieces and you can’t deny that even though they lead a very carefree and wild life, they did their best raising you and your siblings.
You make friends easily but you don’t really take the time to form really deep connections with people. As a teen you have this friend who fantasizes about marrying young and starting their family. Needless to say, that is so not you.
It might come from you witnessing your parent’s disastrous love life but relationships and having kids sounds like a hassle to you. You’d much rather be the rich auntie/uncle (or whatever you identify with), the one who comes to family reunions clad in designer clothes with expensive gifts for their nieces and nephews. The one who goes to Sulani on a whim to get a tan because they have the money and time to do so.
And so that’s who you become, you go to college, get a high-paid job and just live your best single and child-free life. That is until that one fateful night. Your family that’s visiting for Winter Fest gets in a terrible accident that kills almost everyone but your nieces and nephews. You might not want kids but you’re not heartless, so naturally, you take them in...
Traits: high maintenance, hates children, unflirty
Aspiration: fabulously wealthy
Goals:
As a child:
Have at least one friend in every world you live in
Max the social skill
As a teen:
Reach level 4 of the charisma and writing skills
Have a large group of friends and acquaintances but no close friends
As an young adult/adult:
Get a communication degree
Join the social media career
Hook-up with people but never date anyone
Never have any close friends
Live in a different world than all your family members
Go the the spa at least once a week
Have all your family die in an “accident” but your nieces and nephews and take them in (if you use the Sim Nation Travel and the Healthcare redux mods by adeepindingo you can cheat a plane crash or a car accident)
Reach level 10 of the social media career (Public Relations branch)
Hire a nanny
Reach at least level 7 of the parenting skills
Fall in love with your nanny and marry them* (optional)
Have a close relationship with your nieces and nephews
Never have children of your own
You were raised by your parent’s sibling after a tragic accident killed most of your family. It was hard at first and needed lots of adjustments but they ended up being a great parental figure and you’re forever thankful for everything they did for you. Installing the importance of education in you was one of them but unlike them, you’ve always fantasized about love.
You go to college to study law, there you meet someone you think might be the one. You graduate and move in together, you get your dream job at a prestigious law firm and your partner actually proposes. Everything seems perfect except for when you go to work because of that one person: your work rival that you just hate. They have the talent to push all the buttons to make you mad. If you could, you’d rip their throat out. You’re both at the same level, so they’re your direct competition for promotions. And competitive you get (steal each other’s cases, “accidentally” spill coffee on their files, break their computer, prank the toilet right before going to court) but hey, all is fair in love and war right?
Everything about them gets on your nerves: their arrogance, the way they walk, the way they talk, their stupid gorgeous face (wait, what?). Well, you’re not blind, they’re also super attractive and it drives.you.mad. Soon enough, this office rivalry is filled with sexual tension. And on the firm’s New Year’s Eve party, you actually cave and woohoo at the office. You think of your fiancé(e) and swear it’s a one time thing. Except it’s not. It happens again when you’re working late on the same case, again after you convince a witness to testify in court together, and again when you’re away on a business trip. You don’t know what’s wrong with you but you just can’t seem to stop. Your fiancé(e) senses there’s something going on and you two break up. Now when you’re thinking of your nemesis (is that even what they are to you now?) you can’t help but wonder: is it just lust or is there something more?
Traits: perfectionist, romantic, hot-headed
Aspiration: Soulmate
Goals:
As a child:
Max social skill
Reach charisma level 1
As a teen:
Reach level 3 of the charisma, research & debate and writing skills
As a young adult/adult:
Get a distinguished degree in Language & Literature
Meet someone at University and date them
Move in with your partner after college
Join the lawyer career
Get engaged
Now this is the part of the challenge where you’ll have to “go to work” with your sim. But since the lawyer career is not an active one here’s what you can do (credits to JC Sims for the idea): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddXwxC5DQaQ&ab_channel=JCSims
Become rival/enemy with a co-worker you find extremely attractive (you can change your sim’s preferences in wonderful whims for that)
Prank your enemy and fight them (verbally, please don’t throw hands in front of your boss) at work
Reach level 5 of the mischief skill
Woohoo with your rival during a New Year’s Eve party at the office
Woohoo with them on 3 other different occasions
Break-up with your fiancé(e) but never admit to cheating on them
Reach level 10 of the lawyer career
It’s up to you to decide wether your sim and their enemy become a thing or not.
If you’ve read all of that, thank you. I hope you have as much fun playing this challenge as I had writing it. I might add one or two extra generations in the future, who knows...
Penelope has arrived at the festival. While waiting for Makoa, she makes some new friends with the islanders. After a while, Penelope decides to wait for Makoa on the beach near the festival.
rules : create a sim or choose one you like then create 4 alternative versions of this sim. You can’t change the body presets / face details / eyebrows. But you have to change everything else in order to create four other sims with the same base.
This was a lot of fun and I chose an old model that I had stored in my gallery, Francis Gentile.
The Cow plant Paula tries to attract Penelope with a delicious cake. Penelope can't stop thinking about the cake! Only hot dogs and grilled fruits! She can no longer see or smell grilled food and suddenly this delicious cake is in front of her nose. Ithink she'll try to eat the cake. No risk no fun, so let’s try the cake! !
🤔 If Penelope dies by trying to eat the cake, then the challenge is over for me! GAME OVER, but i want to try it! So let’s see what happen! 😟
