Congratulations to everyone and especially to GlazeyLady,LenalLJ and Nikitachi who got some impressive scores!
RainbowDash,it's sad that you din't manage to end up on time. 69 points is an impressive score for 3 weeks! I had 54 points at the end of week 3 and finally scored 77 points.
It's the first time I try this challenge and I didn't realize it would be so long. Four weeks managing such a big family with such goals was exhausting,but finally really fun!
The key for me was
a family club always running. At the beginning of the challenge it was a painting club,in order to make money.
Then,every time a toddler grew up,I kicked up a club member so that the new child could be in the club.
None of my family members has ever slept,except sometimes the toddlers who fell on the floor by exhaustion. Everyone leveled up their need bars by "rally the troops " interaction.
The other tips I used:
Pregnancy:-fertile trait lot
-fertile traits for both of the parents when they had enough points
-fertility massages at the spa before each pregnancy
-adopting the 2 babies per week as soon as possible (preferably to pregnancy because it's not tiring for the mother)
-pregnancy test to shorten the lenght of pregnancy
Babies:I had 4 pregnancies with twins,and the last one with a single baby (no more room in the family for two!) = 9 babies
I adopted the 8 other,2 adoptions each week.
As soon as the babies were born or adopted,the parents interacted non stop with them,without doing anything else until they were both good friends with the babies and could make them grow up. It takes a few sim hours.
Toddlers:When I had toddlers at home I put the Child's play lot trait.
Nearly as the babies,the parents were always sticking to them,to help them increase their skills quickly.
The first toddlers sometimes napped on the floor because they were exhausted,poor babies! But when the parents had the parenting skill high enough,they had a parenting social interaction that leveled up the toddler's energy bar (I don't know how to say it in English,sorry)
My toddlers mostly became children the day after their birth/adoption.
Children:As soon as the toddler became a child,he/she was invited to join the family club.
I set up the focused mood with the club and made the child do his/her homework,helped by a parent.
Then I made him/her do a school project with a parent.
I was careful to fulfill all their needs before going to school,and to set up in a focused mood. I then made them "work hard" at school.
I also put the "Godd schools" lot trait when children or teens had to go to school.
By doing so,my children always had B at school in one day.
Their aspirations were mostly the creative one,that I find quicker to do. One of the children had the active one because I planned her to do the Bodybuilder aspiration as an adult. Another one had the mental one because I planned him to do the nerd Brain aspiration.
They took 1 to 3 days to become teenagers,depending on the week days (no school on week ends!) and on the time I spent managing them.
Teenagers:I did the same as for children with homework and a school project,so they had B in one school day too.
Once they have B,they automatically got a teen job level 2 and never went to the job.
Their BFF were always Mummy or Daddy,that was instataneous,just before it was time to blow out the candles
As for the children state,the teenage one last approximately 1 to 3 days for my teenagers,depending mostly on the week day.
Aspirations and skills: I completed the following ones,in this order:
1)Bodybuilder + fitness (teached by the coach of the fitness center,who came at home)
2)Leader of the pack (the quickest one!)+ photography (only 5 levels)
3)Musical Genius+ violin (the sim began leveling this skill in her childhood)
4)Renaissance sim+ video gaming
5)Chief of mischief+ mischief
6)Grilled cheese + bowling (5 levels)
7)Painter extraordinaire+ painting (teached by the mother)
8)Angling ace (the father already had the 20 types of fish to give him) + fishing (teached by the father)
9)Nerd Brain+ Logic
10)Serial Romantic+ dancing (5 levels)
11)Mansion Baron+ media production (5 levels)
12)Freelance botanist (the family already had the plants ready to evolve in their inventory,and the cowplant fished in the magical tree in Willow Creek)+ gardening
I also completed the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration for one of my 4 YA in,but she didn't have the time to max a skill so I couldn't move her.
Another of the 4 YA in maxed the programming skill but didn't have enough time to complete her Computer whiz aspiration.
The 2 other YA in were far away for being moved out
The last baby (the single one!) became a toddler 2 hours before the end of the challenge!
