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Cassandra's bedroom was the first to get a makeover.

Hello everyone! I'm here with a "new" challenge for all of you to try and enjoy... but first, I need play testers and feedback!

This challenge began as an amalgamation of BaCC (Build a City), ToT (Test of Time) and the most basic Legacy challenges because I tend to mash them up in my gameplay anyway. Then, while playing CIV VI, I began noticing things that I could make my sims do as well, and the idea snowballed from there. So, here we are:

THE SIMS 4 CIVILIZATIONS CHALLENGE

Your goal is to advance through the ages of human civilization and build a flourishing kingdom or several. That's basically it. If you want to treat it as a legacy challenge as well, you can have one main family and have them become the rulers of your world. This challenge is still very much a WIP and I've tried keeping the rules as flexible and accessible as possible, so that everyone can enjoy it in their own preferred way without it being too easy nor too difficult. Prepare for it to be LONG, though.

Here's a link to the spreadsheet (WIP) with rules!

...and here's a link to the (very messy) graphic that I use to help organize my thoughts and combine tech/civic trees from different iterations of CIV because I've fallen into a bottomless rabbithole (in case you care about stuff like this).

A HUGE THANK YOU to ts4-bacc (Purzel and DaisyDezem) for their original BaCC rules which I heavily relied on. I hope they don't mind me borrowing their challenge template and tweaking it. HannahCanada also deserves big thanks for their TS3 BaCC ruleset which I also used as inspiration. Go give these wonderful, creative people some love. Really, without their ruleset, this challenge would not exist.

But now, I need all of you's help.

I tried my best to make the challenge as versatile and fun as I could, but I keep hitting creative blocks with the requirements. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear your opinions and suggestions, as I know the community is nothing if not inventive with stuff to make the game more fun (thanks, EA, for forcing us to be resourceful). Please send whatever thoughts, ideas and criticisms about the challenge my way, and I shall try to incorporate them into the challenge.

The long awaited update! And I hope I can get the next one out earlier! I'll have the spreadsheet up right away but the text on the page I'll do tomorrow! This is all done with the help of the BACC discord! So thank you for helping! Let's start with:

Extra update for older packs

For Rent (FR) New option to unlock the Detective career -Unlock townies AND -Have at least three sims with the evil trait in your town or Have at least ten households or Complete the Seeker of Secrets Aspiration Nifty Knitting (NK) New rule for Plopsy - Have a retail shop or thrift store and 2 worlds unlocks

Crystal Creations (CC)

Mystical Moonlight Charging Grid - Have a Spellcaster be the first to buy and use it or use it while completing the Crystal Crafter aspiration and after that it's fully unlocked New option to unlock the Scientist career -Unlock Townies AND -Reach Level 10 in the Fishing Skill or Complete one of the collections (this requirement is fulfilled when the game considers a collection to be complete; so there is no need to collect additional EP/GP items in the list that aren’t included in the “official” count) or Reach level 10 in the Gemology skill

Lovestruck (L)

Cupid corner app - Can be used after you unlock Townies, Services and 3 worlds. Love hotel - Have Ciudad Enamorada unlocked Attractions are similar to Like and Dislikes. It can be chosen freely Ciudad Enamorada can only be used as the third world or later. It can't de the starting world second world! Otherwise it will be a default world. Romance consultant - Level 10 Romance and the sim taking it must have the Love Bug trait

Life and Death (LD)

Occult sim Ghost is now moved away from the "can't be made in cas" section Favor can only be done when townies are unlocked and by sims living in Ravenwood Give Tarot card Reading have Ravenwood or Glimmerbrook unlocked Inheritance and wills - Have someone in the Law career AND have 4 Elder Sim pass away Wishing well (also for Romantic Garden) to use it Complete the Ghost Historian aspiration or the sim that uses it has Level 5 Gardening and Level 5 Logic. Once used it's unlocked for all. Reaper - be BFF with Grim and have unlocked 2 worlds Undertaker - Level 5 thanatology and cemetery unlocked Ravenwood - Is a special world. You can unlock with a rebirth. Cemetery - A active Sim in the BACC gets a golden Funeral

Other Game updates

(Originally published on November 7th 2023)

My husband and I have been watching a great show on Netflix called Bodies (go check it out if you haven’t already!) and once more I thought that I should create these characters as Sims and give them much happier lifes than they had on the show.

So here we are with our first two protagonists, Alfred Hillinghead and Henry Ashe. They gave up on life in the year 1890 and travelled to some more or less modern future. Probably around our time 🙂 

I guess it must be really hard to be thrown into a new life like that, so they have a big piece of land in Chestnut Ridge where they live off the grid and with simple living activated, but most of all happily together.

If french toast falls on the floor but no-one is there to see it, did it really happen? 👀