The Sims 3 Townie DecaDynasty Challenge

[PeregrineTook]

It's not allowed to be counted, sorry.

Okay.  I figured as much, but I just wanted to make sure.  As I said, she should have no problem still getting enough opportunities.  Thanks for the feedback and help.

[Trip]

There have been some updates to the DecaDynasty.

1. Two new collection types were added to the list, after input from users:

10. Heirs must leave behind 10 items (no more) of a particular type in the house. No items left can be from previous households. These items must be a) created, b) found, or c) given to you as freebies/perks as part of a career or being a Celebrity. None of the 10 items can be purchased or made on the Display Table. Each house must have a unique item type. Qualified Item List — Criminal career objects taken home, Career reward objects (culinary career fridge, law enforcement squad car, Fox statue, etc), celebrity freebies in family inventory, wedding presents, field trip souvenirs, Stolen Items by a Sim (not rabbit hole steals), afterschool activity trophies, time travel items, paintings, photos, elixirs, sculptures, beetles, butterflies, turtles, lizards, rodents, birds, snakes, fireflies, gems, metals, spacerocks, fish, relics, inventions, nectar, wildflowers, books, spirits, Gnomes, Lifetime Happiness Reward objects (i.e. teleporter, collection helper), skill certificates, plants, fancy festival eggs, samples from the science skill, street art, seashells, messages in a bottle, Nanites, gifts given by parents to sims in the Daycare career, preserves/jam made by sims via the Canning Station, and any harvestables from Omni Plants. All household members from a given house can contribute towards this requirement.

2. I updated the Eligible Townies List for eligible founders. Something messed up the formatting and I'll try to fix it, but I wanted to finally get the changes out after over a year of waiting. There are two big changes to this list:

• Isla Paradiso, Midnight Hollow, and Roaring Heights finally have townie lists. Please notify me if they need revision.
• Previously, sims who were of a banned life state could be spouses, but not founders. I didn't see the logic behind that at all. As long as they're cured before being moved in, who cares?
  
  This naturally meant that the lists for Bridgeport and Moonlight Falls got expanded. There is a small caveat, in that you must cure them, and you can't start in a household with a banned occult, but I think we're all fine with that. In the lists, otherwise eligible townies of a banned life state are marked with a square (■).

[Deklitch]

Am I able to toss long lived occult potions (vampires, genies, fairies, werewolves) at townies that aren't in my family at the start of the game, then at some point down the track toss potent cure potions at them and then Young Again potions at them to make original townie blood available for future spouses?

Additionally, do the collections of things like wildflowers/spacerocks/metals/gems and the like need to be 10 different wildflowers/spacerocks/metals/gems and the like, or can one or more of them be the same. EG Can I have 2 gold, 1 silver, 5 copper and 2 mercury, or do I need 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 copper, 1 mercury etc

[Trip]

I looked over the rules and nothing says you can't.

I'd probably do the same thing.

Your collections can be either, or even all of the same if you like consistency.

[Deklitch]

So with black ops in this one:

Heirs must complete 10 unique Opportunities (BlackOps) that no other heir has completed. These can be Career, Skill, Special Opportunities and up to 3 adventures/day jobs/dares/social group opportunities per heir.

Can the opportunities kids get at primary/secondary and in afterschool activities count, as in the Immortal Dynasty or not? Or am I getting confused with another Dynasty challenge?

[Trip]

They count for this. It's the Life States and 4x4 Dynasties that can't count them towards the main/adult requirements.

[Deklitch]

Regarding requirement 7 - building/property ownership. I'm guessing that these need to wait until the heir is teen or older. I can't send a parent to purchase the building/property once they are born and have it count, can I?

[Trip]

Correct.

[Trip]

I don't think any of us were expecting any sort of new update to TS3, but there is going to be an Origin patch that releases the Expansion and Stuff Pack Manager.

From what I can gather, this program more-or-less has the same functionality as the Sims Selector 3.0. However, without any knowledge of how well it works, and knowing that it's a PC-only release at the moment, I ask that dynasty players hold off on using it until I can get a look at how it functions.

[Trip]

(Late) Final Thoughts on the New "Patch"

- It does not affect actual gameplay aside from being able to pick and choose EPs, so players don't need to patch up if they don't want to/can't.

- However, I recommend that players use the new official way of picking EPs if they can. But don't fret if the old third-party game selector is the only one that works. Stuff happens.

[christinal3106]

I was reading through the tips and tricks, and I noticed that I may be breaking a rule.  The thing is, it isn't in the rules, not that I have seen anyway.  My main strategy in marrying all townies is that the ones that I am interested in were turned into fairies by an elixir, and they will be kept young with a young again potion.  Is this against the rules?  If so could you show me where it is said in the rules.

[Trip]

As far as I'm concerned, it isn't against the rules to do that.

If you were playing an Immortal Dynasty, I'd be telling you otherwise.

[christinal3106]

Yeah, if I ever tried an immortal dynasty again, I would use clones.  Thanks, I am relieved that is allowed.

[susiecue]

Hi!  This is a really great looking challenge.  I started a few legacies many moons ago but always had to give up due to extreme bugginess once I had too many ghosts on the lot.  I like the idea of moving each generation a lot. 

There is one thing that's driving me nuts though:

5. Heirs must SuperMax a unique skill—no other heir can SuperMax the same skill. SuperMax means that not only is the skill maxed, but all related skill challenges have also been completed.

Why does this not say "no other heir can max this skill"?  After 80+(!) pages of reading, that seems to be what you mean.  It would be much clearer to newcomers like me since maxing a skill is only part of supermaxing, and the other parts of supermaxing don't appear to be banned.  If I understand correctly, I can (for example) have all my heirs make enough friends to get the friendship boost upon meeting new sims (one of the charisma skill challenges).  So, it's confusing for "nobody else can supermax" to apply to part of supermaxing but not to other parts.

[Trip]

@susiecue: Welcome, and you do bring up a good point about the wording.

Maybe a clause of "no other heir can max or SuperMax the same skill"?