#ts2 challenges

En portugués Siempre quise jugar el Desafío de la Viuda Negra, pero la mayoría de las reglas que encontré estaban pensadas para Los Sims 4. Por eso, decidí adaptarlo para Los Sims 2 y añadir algunos cambios para hacer la jugabilidad más interesante y adecuada a las mecánicas del juego.

Algunas de las reglas las tomé de aquí.

🖤 Desafío de La Viuda Negra

🎯 Objetivo Principal:

Coleccionar 5 o 10 lápidas de cónyuges en tu lote.

Acumular una fortuna de §200.000 únicamente con herencias y hobbies.

🏠 Inicio:

Crea a tu Sim Viuda Negra y colócala en una casa inicial barata (o construye una sin usar trucos de dinero).

La casa debe empezar siendo sencilla, ya que crecerá con cada matrimonio y herencia.

💰 Fuente de Ingresos:

Prohibido tener empleo fijo o carrera.

La única forma de ganar dinero es a través de hobbies: pintura, escritura, arreglos florales, jardinería, fabricación de juguetes, etc.

La mayor parte de la fortuna debe provenir de las herencias de los cónyuges muertos.

💔 Reglas de los Matrimonios:

La Viuda siempre debe casarse con la víctima antes de matarla.

La pareja necesita tener:

Relación de amistad y romance por encima de 70.

Estado de mejores amigos y amantes.

Obligatorio: El cónyuge actual debe sorprender a la Viuda siendo infiel con la próxima víctima antes de morir.

Solo se permite invitar al siguiente pretendiente a vivir en la casa cuando la tumba del anterior esté en el lote.

🏗️ Evolución de la Casa:

Cada nuevo cónyuge que se mude trae mejoras: agrega una habitación, cambia muebles o aumenta la decoración.

La casa debe crecer en tamaño y valor con cada matrimonio.

Si te mudas a otro lote, la nueva casa debe ser más cara que la anterior.

Puedes ahorrar para una mudanza futura, pero siempre debes mejorar algo en la casa actual.

⚰️ Después de la Muerte:

Cada vez que muera un cónyuge, la Viuda debe celebrar su “libertad” con un ritual de luto extravagante:

Una noche entera en una discoteca bailando hasta el amanecer.

O un día en el gimnasio seguido de un masaje relajante.

O una combinación de gimnasio + bar para “celebrar la nueva etapa”.

🎮 Jugabilidad y Extras:

Envejecimiento: activado o no, pero si lo usas, la Viuda puede tomar Pociones de Juventud (pagadas).

La autonomía total de los Sims debe estar activada.

Puedes tener o adoptar una mascota durante el desafío.

El desafío termina cuando:

Tienes 5 o 10 lápidas en el lote y §200.000 en la cuenta.

O si la Viuda muere antes de completar su colección.

Observaciones:

El objetivo principal puede ser tener 5 o 10 lápidas de cónyuges en la casa, queda a tu criterio. Diez matrimonios es más desafiante y largo, mientras que cinco hace la jugabilidad más rápida.

The goal of this lepacy was for me to re-experience the packs again. There are lots of lepacy’s out but I wanted a bit of spice to mine. So I added in ye faithful random number generator and coin flip. 

Hardcore Mode: 

Play with only the packs you’ve used installed. I use James Turner’s website to disable the packs. Instructions are at the link.

Start with $0 and an empty plot.

Basics:

You start off with a single sim (your founder). I used James’ random trait and aspiration generator/ and then create your sim. (If you are playing with berry or banilla sims, use a random colour generator (refresh page to get a new colour).

You will need to roll between 1-6 for kids, 1-10 for partners and 0-10 for final spouse (0 meaning no spouse). You can make the range smaller or bigger if you want, I did 6 for kids as that’s a full 8 sim household. 0-10 for spouse/partner as the game likes to spit out townies left & right.

You can live in any world.

IMPORTANT: You don’t need all the packs to play this, if you only have basegame that’s fine, keep randomizing the results for every generation!

- I’ve also included my results if you want to play how I played in this google doc.

I can’t sleep so I’m building, and I’ve finished another couple of lots which I forgot to take screenshots of. They turned out really pretty, I think, even if the one I’m proudest of turned into a spider web in hood view and I had to go back in and cut down on the number of flowers. I will be posting tours of those completed lots at around reasonable o’clock GMT. :)

Also, I’ve been thinking about a side hood (again) and have just been putting off both building and going to sleep by trawling through my CC folder looking for stuff to put in that hood. The basic concept is that it’s sort of a supernatural focused reverse-legacy: I’ll start with ten founding households, all different lifestates. The goal will be to reach a point where there is one sim who’s a descendant of all ten families and is all the lifestates at once. I’ll be using Hereditary Supernaturalism by @midgethetree​ but not allowing other mods to transform sims; also, no townie/NPC sims can move into the hood at all. As it’s kind of the opposite of a legacy, I call it an armacy challenge - credit to my aunt for the name. It’ll still require download cutting and building, so Kulo Seeri takes priority for now... but I’m excited about this idea right now.

At the moment I am kind of on a challenge-concept kick. I’ve been looking at my list of all the challenges in the Great Library (aka the two blue crates by the side of my computer desk, both filled with challenge printouts) and coming up with ways to combine elements of different challenges I like. Other concepts in the pipeline include a challenge I can play in Kulo Seeri involving my elemental trait lists, a female-centric challenge that does NOT involve a nonsensical number of babies, and a less ableist take on those challenges where you only have one controllable sim.

So, as you may know, I am a disabled simmer who cannot sit up for longer than like 2 hours on a good day, which sucks because my good computer that can handle loads of CC lives on a desk downstairs, so most of the time I am stuck with my struggling little laptop on my bed.

Now, I find basic TS2 too easy and like a challenge and/or narrative, and there are loads I would love to do based on other people’s stories (especially the historical ones), but most of them require a shit-ton of CC and/or a lot of brainpower to remember and follow the rules (and using lots of brainpower gives me seizures).

So, what I needed was:

- a challenge that isn’t mentally hard to follow,

- a narrative that doesn’t require much CC and mods to make happen.

I may have invented it (with the help of less than 10 mods. No CC really required, though not a problem if you have it, so long as it’s not cheatily inexpensive). I’m still playing it myself to figure out what’s hard and where and how, but the notion is this:

TS2 is really unrealistic for the modern day. What kind of millenial can just leave home/graduate and immediately buy a house of their own, then max the job they want and build up a bank balance of like $100,000 to pass on to their kids? Very few millenials that I know! Life is expensive, friend; you might not be able to buy a house, like... ever, maybe. Start a legacy anyway?

The main mods I’m using? All from Cyjon:

- Bigger Bills (they really are, you get them 6 days a week...)

- Edukashun iz Gud (I’m actually not sure if it’s working in my game right now, still testing - I’ve got the Job Stoppinator as well if it turns out it’s not working right)

- No Life Insurance (when do people get payouts from old age IRL anyway?)

- Slower LTA Gain (honestly, too easy to reach permaplat this way after the first gen normally)

- Smarter EP Check (this is mostly just because I think the rest of his mods need it, not sure what it does other than making them work right)

Thinking about it, really the only thing that’s affecting me so far (just over halfway through the founder’s adulthood) is the bigger bills mod, and that’s still pretty significant. Edukashun iz Gud ought to be affecting me, but my founder managed to reach level 8 in a career before the one he actually wanted came up, so I’m not sure what education level the mod assumes for sims out of the bin. But honestly, life is so much more expensive, I haven’t felt too bad for the fact that he might be a higher job level than he should. You might need it just to be able to really get started...

So basically it’s like a normal legacy, except:

- Lol, life is so much more expensive now

- You can rent an apartment to start with! Like a real millenial! (might even make this mandatory?) Maybe the kids will never leave home because they can’t afford to!

- You don’t have to move onto a 5x5 lot (I don’t even know how much the bills on that would be, I might test it with a spare)

- Your sims probably got their outfits from a thrift store which explains their questionable fashion choices!

- You may just not be able to move up in your career despite being qualified (assuming the mod works)! Because your boss is probably an asshole!

- I very much doubt your family will have so much money you don’t even know what to do with it any time soon!