The Sims 3 Immortal Dynasty Challenge

[Ricalynn]

Sometimes you just never know with this game.  Go ahead.  Be careful with that tool for a little while methinks.  Sounds dangerous today.

[Turoskel]

Thank you, I was gutted when I saw they had gone, and believe me I will be extra careful in future.

EDIT: Okay I think I found the cause of my oddity and it wasn't the sledgehammer it was a blueprint, I had looked at one when building before, putting it down was okay but as soon as I hit preview my bathroom door vanished, I think it has something to do with the door being near the staircase, put there with move objects on, my pictures were all lined up against each other with move objects so they all fit on one wall, the missing ones left a new gap between the remaining ones.

So it would seem it's wise to be careful previewing a blueprint when you have placed things with move objects. I was watching for it this time and never left build mode so just hit undo and they all came back. Tried with 3 different blueprints and the same thing happens, so I wont be using those again in this game.

[aenito]

I am playing in UC and my gardener went to the cementery because there was a gardener contest at the Arboretum... but he can't enter. Keep protesting about a bush that block the pass.

I cannot buy the lot so i am about to enter Edit Town mode to change the bush but was wondering if that's against the rules.

[Shirin]

It is against the rules unless you already have permission from the Challenge Team.

What happens when you try resetting him (and/or the whole neighborhood)?

[Ricalynn]

I know about the bush.  It's the one flower just to the left of the door.  Go ahead and edit it to move it.  Although instead of Edit town.  Use testingcheatsenabled true to build on this lot.  As soon as you're done turn off testingcheats.

[aenito]

What's the command to build in community lots?

[Trip]

With testingcheats enabled, shift-clicking on the ground of a lot will give a command to build/buy on the lot (and other things, but that's the only command that matters in this case).

[aenito]

Done. Many thanks for the real quick responses.

[Orange Iguana]

Alright I'm looking to continue where I left off after that little hiatus but a poster pointed out a gigantic flaw in my elder spouse strategy.

If the husband dies during his wife's pregnancy, is that the end of the dynasty due to both parents no longer living in the house together? I suppose if you managed to invite the ghost into the family before the baby was born you could save the dynasty but what if it happened very close to the wife going into labor and making that option impossible?

[Shirin]

Immortals must result from natural pregnancies where both parents are living in the Dynasty house.

I don't read that as both parents must be living at the time of birth. I suppose it's open to interpretation, but my personal reading of this rule is only that Mother and Father are both player-controlled Sims when the Try For Baby option comes up.

(In the Life States Dynasty, however, both parents must be living.)

[Turoskel]

That was my reading as well, which I hope is right as one of my spouses died of old age a couple of hours before the baby was born.

I have a bit of a mental block about careers, it doesn't matter what the spares do does it? it's just between immortals it has to be unique? gen 4 has no particular wish for a career, his supermax is martial arts and he's also maxed athletics, I was going to go with military but then I thought of all that time as an elder hanging about the house and only working one day a week, so now I'm thinking about sports which 3 spares have already done but that's still okay isn't it?

For some reason I keep thinking it isn't 

I think I may have also found a solution to my nerd problems, founder and her hubby both got family oriented as there nerd bonus trait and I have never seen her berate ignorance on anybody, nor him before he died or his ghost since, so after peeking into the social data code for Uni it seems family oriented, loser and mooch are traits on the wont berate ignorance list, while genius, mean spirited, perfectionist, snob, and just being a nerd get it as a special interaction.

I bought gen 2 and 3 a degree to give them the family oriented trait, will do so for gen 4 as well and the rest after that will get it for a social trait if not before and hopefully I can go back to enjoying my family without wishing I'd never installed Uni in my dynasty 

[Turoskel]

Thanks Trip, I thought it was but as I said I had a mental block about it, time to go sign him up with the Llamas then.

EDIT: That's odd I replied to a post that has vanished

[Seabody]

I have a bit of a mental block about careers, it doesn't matter what the spares do does it? it's just between immortals it has to be unique? gen 4 has no particular wish for a career, his supermax is martial arts and he's also maxed athletics, I was going to go with military but then I thought of all that time as an elder hanging about the house and only working one day a week, so now I'm thinking about sports which 3 spares have already done but that's still okay isn't it?

For some reason I keep thinking it isn't 

I assume that Trip has already posted this, as I can see that ten minutes after you posted, you replied thanking Trip for what appeared to be this answer. I can't see her post for whatever reason, so I'll post this to make sure.

Spares are exempt from the restrictions, they are allowed to share things with immortals - SuperMaxes, LTR's, Careers, etc. Just remember they cannot eat Ambrosia, do anything restricted to post-ambrosia, or anything blanket-banned.

[Trip]

I'm starting to question my post-deleting habit.

But yeah, careers need to be unique only for immortals. I can't be the only one who likes multiple chefs for multiple fridges!

[Turoskel]

Thank you both 

I'm starting to question my post-deleting habit.

I didn't even notice that you could until this happened, questioned my sanity for a second there.