Sims 3!

[helens78]

I picked up The Sims 3 a couple days after it came out; I blame telesilla and one of my RL friends who mentioned it. I completely skipped The Sims 2, so all I'd ever seen was the first couple of expansions from The Sims 1. 3 is like having this wild futuristic version of 1, where all the things that annoyed me are gone (introverted player is introverted; I so don't have the patience to socialize in-game, and now I don't have to cheat to avoid it!), and there are all kinds of new opportunities and career paths.

What I'm wondering about are things like challenges. I don't really know much about them, other than that telesilla mentioned them for Sims 2, but it sounds interesting -- anyone know what they are or how I'd go about doing one?

In the meantime, torachan linked to Alice and Kev yesterday, which is the adventures of "homeless" Sims and is pretty fascinating.

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[telesilla]

The only challenges I know about are for Sims 2.

There's the Legacy Challenge They don't explain it very well there, but the idea is to play through ten generations. A lot of people post screen caps and write ups; its' kind of fan fic for Sims. legacychallenge will give you a good idea of what people do with it.

There's a subset of the Legacy challenge that's called I'm Surrounded by Idiots (or) ISBI where you go through ten generations but you have the added burden of only controlling one Sim per generation.

I played the Asylum Challenge which is kind of a variation on ISBI. It was a lot of fun. Of course, I didn't bother calculating the points or anything.

There's also the Poverty Challenge.

[helens78]

Those look so neat! I'm definitely going to have to try them. Thanks! :)