Hello all, I'm brand new here and a few days ago I started the Immortal Dynasty - it's the first time I've tried a challenge of any kind!
I've just attained Immortal status for my founder, phew! It was a close call really, I kind of dove straight in thinking I'd find a male sim with the painting skill for my female founder but it turns out there are none when you start Sunset Valley (after much searching around town I looked up every male sim online) so I wasted a fair bit of time in the beginning. Then I was reading some of this thread and found out Agnes would have been a great choice to move in as a friend, but I had only been checking the guys!
I thought never mind, I'd already settled on Christopher Steel as he could also cook while I was at work and I had already started him painting. I thought I had plenty of time! I chose the science career and for some silly reason chose to supermax fishing without much time to go! My founder Pearl aged to elder with 100 or so fish left to catch and she spent so long fishing that her relationships had declined. Also my special seeds kept turning out to be Death Flowers or Plasma fruits so even when Pearl caught the last of her fish and made several desperate phone calls I was still waiting on the life fruit.
Eventually the life fruit showed, and oh my I never did notice before just how long it spends in the growing and mature stages. I could practically feel the Grim approaching! Finally it appeared and I had one last hiccup - when Christopher finished chopping the Ambrosia ingredients he just stopped as if something was in his way, using my precious life fruit in the process. Luckily I had four, so I tried to get him to make a different meal. Same again. I had to use resetsim and then it worked, so I made my Ambrosia! So by the time Pearl was able to eat it, she was over a week into elder status
One thing I wanted to ask is, when I checked online for male sims with the artistic trait the only one I found was Marley Williams and he's part of a family in the library. The rules say edit town is off limits apart from a few things but it doesn't mention placing the EA-created families so I'm guessing that isn't allowed. But since EA-created buildings are allowed why isn't placing the families? Sorry if this has been asked before!