The Sims 4 Immortal Dynasty Challenge

[Metropolis Man]

So that's your cue to come up with an excellent other type of challenge.  Right?

I see what you did there! You're challenging the challenge Man.

[Joria]

(big eye innocent face)  Moi?  Why, Metro, how could you think such a thing?  (snickers)

[EtnaFan666]

Yeah, I'm doubling daring you, Metro! The Immortal Dynasty rules were put up how long ago? And we haven't seen a hair of another Dynasty challenge yet! I've been patient to a fault - mainly because I am no longer a full-time Simmer and haven't touched my Origin client for a week, but I'm sure you've been cooking up the second Dynasty challenge while you were busy with all your work, right? 

[Metropolis Man]

Yeah, I'm doubling daring you, Metro! The Immortal Dynasty rules were put up how long ago? And we haven't seen a hair of another Dynasty challenge yet! I've been patient to a fault - mainly because I am no longer a full-time Simmer and haven't touched my Origin client for a week, but I'm sure you've been cooking up the second Dynasty challenge while you were busy with all your work, right? 

The team is definitely going to be ironing out another event in the next few months. MarianT had a great idea for a Dynasty and I think we're running with it, so that's about all I will say at the moment.

[Playalot]

Oh how exciting, another type of dynasty?! I can't wait! 

[Nutella]

Newcrest will not be approved for this Immortal Dynasty.  No worries, we will try to incorporate Newcrest in the next dynasty.

[Nettlejuice]

Sorry if I have misunderstood, but can we use Newcrest for building retail lots, spare study spaces for heirs or it's not allowed in anyway?

[Nutella]

You can pick any empty lot in Newcrest as your retail lot, but you cannot filled up other Newcrest lots with buildings, houses, etc etc.

[Nutella]

Starting Lot Changes:

Willow Creek -- Oakenstead (you'll need to move in to any empty lot then use your phone to move household and bulldoze lot).
Oasis Springs -- Landgraab Affluista Mansion (you'll need to move in to any empty lot then use your phone to move household, evict Landgraabs, and bulldoze lot).
Newcrest -- Twin Oracle Point

All Immortal Dynasty players need to begin their game with $10,000.   If you have more than $10000 starting funds, use money cheat to bring it down.

Press Command-Shift-C to open the cheat console
Type testingcheats on, then Return/Enter
Type Money 10000, then Return/Enter
Type testingcheats off, then Return/Enter
Press Command-Shift-C to close the cheat console

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Willow Creek and Oasis Springs still have the same starting lot, we just removed the specific empty lot you have to buy before moving.

Newcrest is added to this dynasty, while you still can't add other buildings in newcrest, you can start your dynasty there and build your retail lot there too if you wish.

Money cheat is added to the rule, this is mainly for players that want to start in Newcrest.  Since Newcrest lot is slightly smaller, your starting funds will not be the same, hence money cheat comes in to balance everyone's starting funds.  This also allows flexibility for future world with non 50X50 lot, thank you @ratchie for bringing this to our attention. 

[Joria]

Requesting clarification on museum pieces, please.  The rules say you can have Focused paintings, from Focus skill, but also says later you can have Paintings, from Painting skill.  So if you are in a position where your Sim is pretty much always focused, and gets a whim to paint a mathematical diagram, this is different from a Sim who is an artist just painting paintings?  What about other emotion paintings?  Anyone can get a whim to paint a flirty, sad, energized, etc. etc. painting.  Are these counted as a separate group like focused paintings or just part of the general paintings group?

[Shewolf13]

I'm not a mod, but I will try to answer as best as I can.  As far as I am aware, the reason that paintings (including emotional ones) are different from Mathematical diagrams is because if you look at what skill actually goes up, all the emotional paintings raise the painting skill, but the focused drawings level logic.  In fact, using the logic drawings does not count toward the emotional painting requirement of Painter Extraordinaire.  So emotional paintings are just a specialized painting, while focused drawings are a separate category because they are part of the logic skill.

[Metropolis Man]

Everything Shewolf13 stated is spot on. The Focused paintings derived from Logic are their own animal - all other paintings...emotional paintings or otherwise...are all lumped into the generic museum category "paintings" via the painting skill. Different emotional paintings do not get their own category.

[ClayMask]

I'm not a mod, but I will try to answer as best as I can.  As far as I am aware, the reason that paintings (including emotional ones) are different from Mathematical diagrams is because if you look at what skill actually goes up, all the emotional paintings raise the painting skill, but the focused drawings level logic.  In fact, using the logic drawings does not count toward the emotional painting requirement of Painter Extraordinaire.  So emotional paintings are just a specialized painting, while focused drawings are a separate category because they are part of the logic skill.

That sounds great, except for one tiny detail.  Focused paintings actually do count towards the painter extraordinaire aspiration, unless they changed thing since I tried it.  They definitely do level logic instead of painting, though.

[Shewolf13]

Hm, yeah, I was just playing a legacy family and tried to use the logic painting and it didn't count for the requirement... I may have to go test it out.

[dethdukk]

That sounds great, except for one tiny detail.  Focused paintings actually do count towards the painter extraordinaire aspiration, unless they changed thing since I tried it.  They definitely do level logic instead of painting, though.

They count as an emotional painting so you can use it for painting your 3 emotionals, but the value of the logic painting is based on your logic skill, not your painting skill.  Also, they'll never be worth more than about $200 from what I've seen.