First thing first, I did not create this challenge! There is a similar challenge called “The Perfect Sim Challenge”, see the challenge rules here, but there is also the Super Sim Challenge done by The Sims Supply on YouTube, which can be found here.
In this guide, I will go over basic questions and explain the order that I believe is the easiest and makes the most sense timeline and gameplay wise. I tweaked the rules a bit for my gameplay, so this is all open to interpretation. Make it your own and have fun!
Do I need all the packs to play the Super Sim Challenge?
The short answer is no, you do not need all the packs to play the challenge, but they do help. I answered an ask here that goes into detail of why each of these packs are helpful for the challenge, but I do recommend having these packs: Get to Work, Get Together, City Living, Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Vampires, Parenthood, Jungle Adventure, Strangerville, and Bowling Night Stuff.
Do I need to start as a YA or can I do it from toddler+?
I started playing my challenge as a YA, but that was before Parenthood came out. I advise starting as a toddler because there are traits that you can get as a toddler, child, and teen, that help you complete the challenge.
What exactly is the Super Sim Challenge?
The Super Sim Challenge is basically having one sim complete all aspirations and skills, and acquire all the traits, whether they be from the reward store, career-based, or aspiration based. In my gameplay, I have chosen to also complete all the collections.
How do you keep your Super Sim young?
Some people play the challenge generational, but I enjoy having one sim complete them all, so I use the “Potion of Youth” that can be bought in the reward store. You could also play as a vampire if you wanted to ^^
I’m going to put a read more below that goes into depth of the order that I completed or would complete the aspirations, skills, and collections.
There are two different ways that you can start this challenge, so if you do not want to start as a toddler then skip ahead to the “City Native” aspiration.
Something that I wish I had done was start my challenge as a toddler! There are a lot of traits you can achieve as a growing sim, and they keep adding more, so I recommend starting your challenge as a “family.”
Create your Super Sim as a YA and then age them down to a toddler and make their parents accordingly. Play as the parents and shape your SS to achieve either of these toddler traits:
Happy Toddler (level 3 of all skills)
Top Notch Toddler (max all toddler skills)
When your child ages up there are four traits you get for completing all four of the child aspirations, and these traits help you gain certain skills faster, and they are:
Creatively Gifted
Mentally Gifted
Physically Gifted
Socially Gifted
Now with this is where the Parenthood game pack comes in handy. With the character value system, there are a total of 10 new traits, but you can only achieve 5 of them. Which traits you want your sim to have is all up to you! They can have all 5 negative traits, all 5 positive, or a mix and match between the two, but achieve a trait from each of the categories:
Responsible
Irresponsible
Good Manners
Bad Manners
Emotional Control
Uncontrolled Emotions
Mediator
Argumentative
Compassionate
Insensitive
As of May 4th, 2019, there is only one more trait to acquire as a child/teen, and that is by being a level 5 scout, and the trait is called Scouting Aptitude, which boosts your progression of earning skills.
There are certain aspirations that will take you longer because they really require you to play through the entire pack, but the two that you should automatically start off doing are: City Native and Outdoor Enthusiast.
Some tips and pointers for the City Native aspiration:
Start with the Politics career! There is part of the aspiration that requires you to join in on a protest, and this will be really helpful for you.
So you do not get sick of going to festivals, do not go to the festival unless you are on that tier of the aspiration! Sometimes it takes a while for the festivals to come around, so instead of just going to all the festivals, do other aspirations in between.
Make sure to eat at food stalls at the festivals and eat the spicier foods to get: Spice Hound and Chopstick Savvy hidden traits.
Some tips and pointers for the Outdoor Enthusiast aspiration:
First and foremost, GO ON VACATION ALONE. The aspiration requires a lot of “skill grinding” that will just be easier with one sim.
You will most likely have to do the aspiration in two vacations, so try to get the first three tiers of the aspiration done in the first one, and then the last tier in the second one.
This is the one aspiration that will be really hard as a vampire because you have to sleep in a tent, overnight, for AT LEAST 6 hours, for five nights.
I would do this one pretty early on with your Super Sim so they don’t have other reward and aspiration traits that can hinder sleep time.
There are a select number of aspirations that you will be able to complete in-between these and there is no order to complete them. You can wait until you want to start the fame/popularity aspirations or you can disperse them between the others, and these aspirations are:
Painter Extraordinaire
Musical Genius
Bestselling Author
Bodybuilder
Nerd Brain
Serial Romantic
Freelance Botanist
The Curator
Angling Ace
If you have Get Famous, some of those aspirations will really help you gain fame, so you could even work the World Famous Celebrity into this list.
There are quite a few aspirations and traits that require you to get to a certain job level and the most important of them is the Renaissance Sim aspiration. You will have to come back to this one multiple times while you are working in different jobs. There are two careers that give you traits, and I honestly think you should get these done pretty early also because of the grind you have to do, and these are:
The Doctor Career gives you Sickness Resistance and this career is a mess and super buggy, BUT I will say it is worth it, and after you get past all the bugs, the Get to Work careers are fun.
The Arts Critic branch in the Critic career gives you Critically Connected, it’s not that great but if you buy a lot of art in the buy mode then I guess?
The other aspirations that require you to get to a certain level or branch of a career are:
Master Actor/Actress: You have to progress to the top of career because you have to be in movies.
Public Enemy: You have to be in either branch of the Criminal career
Master Chef & Master Mixologist: Both of these aspirations require you to join the Culinary career, but the Master Mixologist, requires you be in the mixology branch of the career. I would do these simultaneously.
Computer Whiz: It requires you to get up to level 5 of the Tech Guru career.
Joke Star: This aspiration requires you to join the Entertainment career and advance into the Comedian branch.
Now that we have gone into the nitty gritty of the aspirations, let’s talk about the order of doing them! There isn’t a required order, so tweak it for your playstyle, but this is the order that I would complete it with how the packs have been released.
Start with the City Native aspiration, and in-between completing the tiers, I would focus on the Painter Extraordinaire, Musical Genius, Best Selling Author, Bodybuilder, and Serial Romantic aspirations.
Move out of the city onto a lot that has room for a garden and start these aspirations: Freelance Botanist, Angling Ace, and Curator. While you live on a small lot, this is when I would go on vacation and start the Outdoor Enthusiast aspiration. After you go on vacation, you should have most of the other Nature aspirations completed, so you can either come home, finish the aspirations, and then go back, or extend your stay until you have finished the Outdoor Enthusiast aspiration.
While doing these nature and idle aspirations, I would also encourage you to build your Flower Arranging Skill.
This is where you can tweak it to your play style. While you are playing through these aspirations, you can join any career you want. I joined the political career to help me with City native, but it is not required so you can start the Doctor and Critic careers to get the two career traits. After these are completed, move onto the Popularity aspirations.
If you have Get Famous, move to Del Sol Valley and buy a lot that has enough space to buy a rocket ship so you can idly work on the Nerd Brain and World Famous Celebrity aspirations while you work on the other Popularity aspirations.
All the Popularity aspirations can be done alongside each other, but I would start with Joke Star. Work on mastering the comedy skill, do comedy shows and work on leveling your fame.
After you complete Joke Star, join the acting career and start the Master Actor/Actress aspiration. While doing this career and aspiration you can easily complete the Friend of the World and Party Animal aspirations. The more you introduce yourself to sims and host parties, the higher your fame will get.
Join a club! Your fame will be extremely helpful with the Leader of The Pack aspiration that comes with Get Together.
At this point, you should have completed 16 aspirations and maxed quite a bit of skills, or at least have gotten close to maxing them. This is when I encourage people to do the Jungle Adventure aspirations. It gives you a break and the skills you have maxed will be really helpful in the jungle.
You won’t be able to complete both aspirations in one trip unless you extend your stay, but you will be able to max both skills and complete the Archaeology Scholar aspiration.
You can extend your stay or come back to the jungle with your family and gradually complete the Jungle Explorer aspiration. You’ll get close to finishing it, but it requires you to get multiple temple treasures so it will need to reset in order to get them.
You are living the lifestyle of the rich and famous (Good Charlotte reference anyone?) so buy yourself a nice big lot and start a family!
While you build or buy yourself a new lot, you will most likely complete the Fabulously Wealthy and Mansion Baron aspirations, if not, they are incredibly easy to complete when you are rich.
Start the Soulmate aspiration, and then start a family, and work on the Successful Lineage, Big Happy Family, and Super Parent aspirations.
This is also a great time to start the Master Chef and Master Mixologist aspirations, and probably also complete the Renaissance Sim aspiration.
At this point, there are only 8 aspirations left, three of which require you to be a vampire, two require you to be mischievous, and one requires a lot of grilled cheese.
Become a vampire and start all of these aspirations simultaneously: Public Enemy, Chief of Mischief, Master Vampire, and Vampire Family.
After those are completed, finish the Good Vampire aspiration. You can cure your vampirism if you want, but it’s all up to you.
To get the Grilled Cheese aspiration, you have to eat lots and lots and lots of grilled cheese one after the other. This doesn’t have to be near the end, but it doesn’t really fit in with the others so do it at your own pace. All that is left is the Friend of Animals and Strangerville Mystery aspirations.
Move to Strangerville, adopt some happy pets, and wait until the next pack release to continue your quest to be a Super Sim!
hello! i am doing the supersim challenge myself and i've got a question. when your main sim found a loved one and they moved in, what did you let them do? my loves one is kind of just doing nothing. any tips? thank you!! have a nice day ❤
Hello!
Caleb, honestly, does nothing too LOL. A lot of the time I have him take care of whatever kids we have but he has maxed a lot of skills and even some aspirations. He loves to paint and is actually a celebrity Author. I advise doing the “Best Selling Author” aspiration for your partner so they can write the “Book of Life” for your Super Sim!
Besides maxing skills, I just kind of let him do whatever. I stopped bringing him on crazy adventures because he has gotten close to death too many times, but it’s also personal preference.
Caleb has so much chaotic energy in your save and tbh I'm surprised it took so long for him to die lmao. I'd say RIP disaster husband, but it looks like he's gonna have a nice, long life to keep setting himself on fire and birthing alien babies. What a legend
THANK YOU NONNY!
This ask literally made my day. I’m honestly surprised that he has made it this long too but that’s mostly because I stopped taking him on adventures that could result in him getting killed, but if he gets abducted another time and gets pregnant then we might just have to leave him dead next time.
Are you still able to complete the Sugar Skull and Motivational Poster collections for your super sim challenge? Or do you leave those out?
The Motivational Poster collection and aspiration I completed when it was running because it was a limited time challenge that happened to come out when I was playing my game.
With the Sugar Skull collections - I believe you can still complete it if you have Jungle Adventure. I read on CarlSims4Guide here that you can buy some of the skulls at vendors in the jungle and you can leave a “sugar skull offering” at graves and someone will come around for you to collect more skulls.
In my save, I have only completed the Motivational Poster collection because of the Challenge and I haven’t played with collecting the Sugar Skull collection in this save just yet, but I can keep you updated and see if it works for me!
do i need all the pack to do to super sim challenge? also other than super sim challenge, what are u other fav challenges?
Hi nonny!
You do not need all the packs to do the Super Sim Challenge but the ones I recommend having are the ones that add new skills and aspirations. Although I know plenty of people who have started the Super Sim Challenge without having all the packs and it’s perfectly fine!
The way that I play it is based on when they are released and how they tie in with what I have left to complete. For example, Get Famous gave us two aspirations and two skills but the whole celebrity system is really helpful with the Base Game and Get Together aspirations that are underneath popularity. If you want, I can write out a suggested order for following the aspirations and packs, but I honestly just did it at my own pace.
The packs that add aspirations are:
Cats and Dogs
Get Famous (2 Aspirations)
Vampires (3 Aspirations)
Parenthood
Jungle Adventure (2 Aspirations)
City Living
Outdoor Retreat
Get Together
Strangerville
The packs that add skills are:
Cats and Dogs (2 Skills)
Get to Work
Bowling Night Stuff
Get Famous (2 Skills)
Get Together (2 Skills)
Jungle Adventure (2 Skills)
Outdoor Retreat
Parenthood
Season
Spa Day
City Living
Vampires (2 Skills)
Now in my game, I also buy the satisfaction reward traits from the store and I am trying my best to complete the collections - but it’s all up to personal preference. I have seen many people who play the Super Sim Challenge buy the satisfaction reward traits, so the packs that have reward traits are:
Outdoor Retreat (3 Traits)
Seasons (6 Traits)
If you want to get the hidden and career reward traits, these are the packs you need:
Get to Work - Sickness Resistance
City Living - Critically Connected, Chopstick Savvy, and Spice Hound
Seasons - Scouting Aptitude
Now for my other favorite challenges, my favorites are: The 100 Baby Challenge, The Black Widow Challenge, and I like the idea of the NSB Challenge. I am very new to challenges but honestly love SSC and am excited to play more challenges in the future.
I love seeing your Super Sim Challenge! It looks like so much fun! I was gonna ask if you do find it enjoyable because I'm stuck a lil n wanting to do a challenge and I'm not sure which one to try out. Anyway hope you have a great day/night!
Hi!!! First of all, THANK YOU!! I get so excited when I get asks about my Super Sim Challenge, so I’m happy you are enjoying it.
Ultimately, I do enjoy the challenge! There are things that happen within my gameplay and the order that I want to complete things, but that will come with any game. I always encourage people to do a challenge when they are stuck in gameplay and I always mention the Super Sim Challenge. I honestly got into it because I was watching The Sims Supply’s Let’s Play of it and wanted to do it myself. It’s a lot of work and I have honestly thought of trying different challenges in-between.
Some other challenges that I have wanted to try are: The 100 Baby Challenge, The Midnight Sun Challenge, and The Black Widow Challenge! I’m not too great with legacy gameplay, so challenges, where I can focus on one sim, are perfect for me.
Hey, I only just came across your simblr today but I've spent hours on it and I'm curious... do you have ageing turned off for Hana? I was looking at the challenge and it wasn't one of the rules so I was just wondering as I want to start this challenge too but one sim lifetime just seems too short ya know? :D Anyways have a great day and I look forward to more posts!
Omg this made me so happy! I never get asks about my Super Sim Challenge and this literally made my day!!! So, for the Super Sim Challenge, you have to get all the traits, skills, aspirations, etc done on one sim, and so since Hana is a regular sim, she takes the “Fountain of Youth” potion every 25 or so days so that she doesn’t age up!
