The Sims 3 Townie DecaDynasty Challenge

[Trip]

French grapes, and I think the nectarmaker in question has to do all of the gardening work. Or so I've heard. If someone who has completed the challenge can chime in, please do.

[Shirin]

How it is supposed to work: French grapes, not base game (since the skill came with WA, like the grapes); by the sim who's doing the nectaring. Setting that sim to harvest only does not create the gardening skill, but if he's already got 1 or 2 points in it, then I believe it does raise it. But even with that, should not raise it to 10.

Of course, it doesn't work like that, since a Sim can sneeze and reset the challenge

(I did it in my Immortal Dynasty, without any travelling, and something like 1k French grapes.)

[Lady Orc]

Thanks very much for the input, I'll expand the grape garden and have him harvest away.

[sunshine_2406]

I don't see anything in the rules about ageing down Townies, is it allowed? Am I, for example, allowed to throw a fountain of youth elixir at my heir's future wife who has turned elder?

[Trip]

Yep. I can think of at least one player who did that. So age down your townies at will!

[Lady Orc]

So, I'm rather sick of the sight of grapes, and after keeping count I'm sure my sim has used more than 400 homegrown bunches of grapes, but still no 'Vizard of Vine'. May I please count it all the same?

[Metropolis Man]

So, I'm rather sick of the sight of grapes, and after keeping count I'm sure my sim has used more than 400 homegrown bunches of grapes, but still no 'Vizard of Vine'. May I please count it all the same?

Yes you can.

[Deklitch]

Thinking of trying this, and have read through the rules. Just a question. Does the following (point 5 under General Rules)

5. You’re free to choose any traits and use Lifetime Happiness Rewards to change traits and Lifetime Wishes.

mean that the machine available through Uni Life that can alter traits can not be used for this purpose?

[smartburn]

Deklitch, I would imagine that the freedom to choose and change traits in this dynasty using in-game mechanics includes the ability to use the science machine thingy to do it.

[Nutella]

smartburn is correct. 

[MarianT]

There's never been a ruling on whether a heir and spouse can move to a different house after getting married, but the assumption has always been that the family will stay in the spouse's house.

I'm bringing up the issue because my heir and his spouse are going to have to move again in the same neighborhood after they've just moved in. My computer doesn't like their house at all -- it keeps crashing whenever I move the camera upstairs. I'd like to move them to an empty lot, but don't want to risk disqualification at this point ( they're expecting Generation 9).

[Nutella]

@MarianT

Try evicting your family to clipboard and also if you can do the same to the house - then put them house and family back in.  Will that solve the crashing problem? 

[MarianT]

Moving them out and moving them back in again seems to have solved the problem. I'll have to try that in Dragon Valley. I'd love to play there, but the crashing drives me crazy.

[Kaiko E. Mikkusu]

Heh. Well, I need you stop you already. No, you start with any household that does not have a child.

The household must not have children.

Yes.

You got it.

Of course.

What if the household had children, but they were not related to the founder in the family tree? Like the Unfettered with Feathers household, or other households (not families) with teens and younger in it? Excluding the single moms because Fiona legally adopted River and Sandi seems to be Molly's biological daughter? Are there premade non-homeless kids that live with unrelated adults? What if you start with someone like Holly Alto or Bebe Hart and you have them age up early and have them as founders? Can the spouse be a premade that used to be a teen living with relatives? I.E. VJ Alvi or Parker Langerak?

[Trip]

No households with children, period. It doesn't matter if the child is unrelated, or an adult living with their parents, or whatever. If you want to start with someone from a household with a child, start in an eligible household and have someone choose them as a co-founder.

No founding a dynasty with a teen and starting in their household. You can start in an eligible household and marry a teen when they come of age, but because aging up early is not allowed for this dynasty, not every teen will age up in the necessary amount of time (six days or less). So while Bebe Hart would be eligible for a founder to pursue because she ages up to young adult in three days, VJ Alvi is not because he's too young.