Sims 4 American Dream Challenge
THE STORY: A young couple purchases their first house, a fixer upper. Their lives are looking promising: Person #1 (referred to here with feminine pronouns, but can be any gender) is a budding freelancer and Person #2 (referred to here with masculine pronouns, but can be any gender) is happy as a hacker. Then things take a turn: their money problems are made much worse by the fact that they accidentally fall pregnant and give birth to 6 kids all close together. Can these two still have their dream jobs, build their dream house, and have the perfect family? Or will everything fall apart?
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BASE RULES (These always apply, no matter what packs are owned)
— Settings for the challenge:
1. Lifespans must be set to normal.
2. No mods or custom content that will help you win the challenge are allowed.
— Setting up the build:
1. Bb.moveobjects can be used while building, but no other building cheats can be used.
2. The home must be on a 40 x 30 lot or larger. The house does not need to actually be that big though.
3. The house must start out completely unfurnished and looking very beat up. Using a lot of boxes, lots of industrial clutter items, and lots of plants is required, but the home on the lot must be worth less than $20000. The less it is worth, the better, but you can’t just get around this by having very little clutter.
4. If you choose to assign any traits to the lot, only one of them can be a helpful trait. You must randomize the other two. You do not have to assign traits, however, but once you do, you cannot change them.
— Setting up the household:
1. Persons #1 and #2 must start out as young adults.
2. None of the household members can start out with any skills (they might come that way if you download from the gallery). Skills can only be gained from gameplay.
3. Person #1 may be given only one trait in CAS to help her in her life. The rest of her traits must be randomized. (There are many random trait generators available online, just google search for one.)
4. Person #2 must be given the Hates Children and Non-Committal traits. His other trait must be randomized.
5. Persons #1 and #2 can be given any aspiration except for ones providing helpful bonus traits. The not allowed bonus traits include domestic, muser, business savvy, quick learner, and career-minded.
6. Do not create the children by playing with genetics in CAS. They must be created through gameplay.
— Playing the challenge:
1. No gameplay cheating is allowed, except resetting of a sim during a glitch. Resetting can only be used during a glitch.
2. Person #1 can be any type of freelancer the player chooses, but then cannot have a regular job, be self-employed, or unemployed.
3. Person #2 cannot have a job or be self-employed. Instead he must have a high enough programming skill to hack and can make money from that.
4. Persons #1 and #2 must only have biological children, no adopted children.
5. Persons #1 and #2 must have their children through the “Try for Baby” action in game and not through using a mod allowing for risky woohoo or using the MC Command Center mod.
6. With whatever finances Persons #1 and #2 have left after moving in, the required items for their money making must be purchased before anything else that a sim might need or any furniture or clutter. This way, the house will evolve as they make more money.
7. If there is not enough money left for a bathroom, a bedroom, and/or a kitchen, Persons #1 and #2 can go to a community lot to use the supplies there until they can afford to buy these things themselves. (You can’t just stick a bed in the community lot to help them though, they must use things already there, like benches.)
8. You cannot use any other methods of money making besides freelancing and hacking. No selling gardening, no publishing writing, no money tree, etc. They can use the special money making trashbin though. Teens also cannot have part-time jobs to help their parents.
9. The offspring must all be in the same age range at the same time.
10. Babies can be aged up to toddlers as soon as all 6 have been born.
11. Nannies can be hired during the toddler stage only. Maids are not allowed.
12. Toddlers can be aged up once they max out all of their skills. No toddler tablets can be used to help this go faster.
13. Children and teens must go to school every day.
14. Children can be aged up once they are A students and have maxed out their aspirations.
15. Teens can be aged up once they are A students.
16. You cannot buy any traits from the Rewards Store to help you.
17. You cannot extend a sim’s life for any reason.
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IF ANY PACKS ARE OWNED (If you do not own any packs, skip to the next section. If a pack is not mentioned, you can use it normally.)
— Expansion Packs:
1. Children don’t have to go to school if it’s a holiday where school is cancelled. Obviously. (Seasons)
2. Persons #1 and #2 and the offspring cannot create music and videos in order to make money. (Get Famous)
3. Persons #1 and #2 must be human and not an alien. (Get to Work)
4. Persons #1 and #2 cannot own a retail store. (Get to Work)
5. Persons #1 and #2 cannot own a vet clinic. (Cats and Dogs)
6. Persons #1 and #2 can only belong to a club if the club’s requirements do not go against the challenge rules. The clubs can be used to help them. (Get Together)
7. Persons #1 and #2 and any of the offspring can sell things from a table or at the Flea Market. (City Living)
— Game Packs:
1. Teens must have at least one character value within trait range before they can age up. (Parenthood)
2. Persons #1 and #2 must be human and not a vampire. (Vampires)
3. Persons #1 and #2 cannot own a restaurant. (Dine Out)
4. Persons #1 and #2 can only go on vacation if they bring all of their offspring with them. (Outdoor Retreat, Jungle Adventure)
— Stuff Packs:
1. You can use the wishing well, but cannot wish for money, grades, promotions, a longer life, a child, or a skill. (Romantic Garden)
2. Butlers are not allowed. (Vintage Glamour)
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ENDING THE CHALLENGE
The challenge is ended successfully once the house is a functioning house that looks lived in and all of the offspring have become young adults. The challenge is lost if one of the following things happens:
1. One of the offspring dies or is taken away by social services.
2. Person #1 and/or Person #2 dies before the challenge is complete.
3. One of the rules is broken.
4. One of the offspring auto ages before the aging requirements are met.
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Terms of Use:
The rules of this challenge will be updated every time a new patch or pack is released if necessary. If you repost these rules or play the challenge for an audience, you must credit me. Please provide the link to this original Tumblr post on your post. Please message me if you see anyone claiming that they have come up with this challenge or who have not credited me. If you decide to modify or create a challenge based on this challenge, please be sure to credit me for the inspiration. I’d love if you’d share the families or houses you make for this challenge under the hashtag #ts4americandream on any social media platform or on the Sims 4 gallery! Enjoy!