GENETIC ROULETTE
For the 14th Birthday we have a new Sims Challenge ... Genetic Roulette
This is more a game of chance rather than a challenge, but then again having 14 children can be pretty challenging!!
Why 14 children ... because we are celebrating Boolprops 14th Birthday.
This is a point collecting game, and the points you earn all depends on what your family genetics throw up.
You are from a very colourful family - the last three generations bringing in a new and different colour to your family genetics - your history.
Your sim could have been born with any one of the four colours from your family line, but no, by some quirk of nature they were born completely white!!
However, that doesn't end your family line, it carries on! White makes five colours in your family genes and your sims spouse brings in a 6th different colour.
So how are their 14 children going to turn out ... there are a rainbow of colours that could come out in their genes!!
You will earn a range of varied points for each different hair and eye colour that comes out in the children ... depending on what genetics come out.
We are ignoring skin colour in this challenge ... as skin colour becomes redundant after each generation because the children only inherit their parents skin tone.
We are only concentrating on HAIR and EYE colouring ONLY ... so Sims 2 people, you can play this challenge too!!!
Set up will take a while unfortunately but it is necessary to do this challenge.
The colours I am using for each generation are only an example - you can chose your own colours.
1. So to start this challenge, we need to create 4 Generations of family sims in CAS!
*The ages are done in this way to accommodate TS4 family tree specifications.Example Color Configuration:
[Generation A] Create two elderly sims in CAS. A male (RED hair and eyes) and a female (YELLOW hair and eyes). These two will be used genetically to make:
[Generation B] A mature adult child (ideally taking on either YELLOW or RED hair and eyes). Make them a spouse of a different colour (like, GREEN hair and eyes). These two will be used to genetically make:
[Generation C] A young adult child (with GREEN hair and eyes ). Make them a spouse of a different colour (like, PINK hair and eyes). The combination of these two will lead to:
[Founding Generation] A teenage child (This sim you change and give them WHITE hair and eyes). Make them a future spouse of a different colour (BROWN hair and eyes). This will be your OFFICIAL starting couple!
2. Once created, move your family of 8 sims onto any empty lot of any size
3. Upon entering the lot, the teenage couple can be aged up to young adults.
4. The Generation 1 - 2 and 3 sims can now all be killed off and their graves kept on the lot.
5. This leaves the White and Brown (when following the above example) sims on the lot to start your challenge!
>>>Now is a good time to save a copy of your sims and the family graves - you never know you might want to try this challenge again to get yourself a better points score!!
6. The last thing you need to do is build them a home with the starting money that they have.
Now you are finally ready to play .....!
PLAYING THE GAME & A FEW RULES
Your couple need to get it together, because they have 14 children to create!
It doesn't matter how you play their life, as long as they have a life outside of baby making and raising a family of 14 children.
Goals
- Your couple must have 14 children and raise them to young adult.
- Name your children using a theme or same letter.
- The parents both have to aim to achieve their Lifetime wish or Aspiration.
Rules
- Only one parent can get outside employment. The other parent has a stay at home to look after the children, but they can contribute to the family income by writing, painting, gardening, etc.
- TS4 Story Mode CANNOT be used to create sims, as that give an unfair money advantage!
- Life extenders and occults are allowed. They might struggle to create their 14 children, before becoming elderly, otherwise.
- All the children must have the same two parents to be countable. Any "Affair" / plant / adopted / alien babies do not count as one of your 14.
- Randomly roll all of the childrens traits.
- Multiple births count, and lucky you, you don't have so many pregnancies to endure. However you do incur a points loss for each multiple birth you have.
- No money cheats
- No mod use. Once game play starts, mods can only be used to fix glitches. (You may use mods to ensure the family tree stays intact for all of the genetics to play into the birth of the children, though)
- No using birthday cakes or early aging up. The children must age up naturally in the game. TS4 may use birthday cakes but only on Day 0 of aging up!
- Toddlers need to be taught their skills and potty trained, This means up to level 3 for TS4 toddler skills.
- No boarding school.
- If a child dies, they must be replaced. Each childs genetic colour points only come into play when they become a young adult.
- Once a child has become an adult, they must leave the house.
The challenge ends when the 14th child becomes a young adult, or earlier if either of the parents die.
Each child born will earn two sets of points when they become a young adult.
Points for their eye colour + points for their hair colour.
The colours are scored by which generation they appeared in last and not by the generation they started.
FOUNDER colours = (White & Brown) = 5 points
GEN C colours = (Green & Pink ) = 10 points
GEN B colours = (Yellow) = 25 points
GEN A colours = (Red) = 50 points
Game default colours = 0 points!!
- TS2 and TS3 - A parent's Lifetime Wish/Aspiration achieved +30
-TS4 - A parents Aspirations achieved +10 each
- A parent's Lifetime Wish/Aspirtion not achieved -20
- The death of a child -10
- The death of a parent, which ends the challenge prematurely -20
- A child removed by a social worker -10 each
- Multiple birth -10
...and of course you earn yourself the Genetic Roulette medal for completing this challenge!!
This challenge has been created for the 14th birthday, and at the moment the challenge is pretty basic, and all about the genetics points game.
This keeps it within the birthday theme of Games!!
Next year this challenge will be expanded to create a better and more challenging challenge.