A stork like challenge brainstorming... chime in!

[Apocryphallen]

I was thinking a bit about coming up with some kinda of challenge and I started wondering about making some kind of Stork challenge.

You make a sim and your job is keep adopting children. You have to learn about your neighbours and basically deliver those adopted children into the most suitable household or something like that.

So you can use the cheats (make active + add sims to family etc..) when you finally find the right family.

I've never made a challenge so thinking of all the rules/ points etc are kinda over my head... so I am looking to brain storm or get ideas and feedback if this is a good challenge or how we can make it a good challenge.
So far I'm thought up some basic rules like... you have only so much time to complete it.. you have to adopt one child every so many days... child has to suit the family ie if they have a toddler already give them a child.. or similar traits/race etc...

Oh well let me know what you guys think! :)

[Prawler]

I think the concept is good but the playability is limited. (unless you came up with a strict points system or something)
On TS2 i used to do a challenge where you start with the Foster family- a couple or single sim who adopts lots of babies, naming each after the next consecutive letter of the alphabet. The game ends when baby Z is grown up or the foster parent (s) die.

The rules were something like:
no cheats/mods/hacks
no hired help
if it was a couple, then one would have to get a job

the children adopted would have to begin as babies, get a job as teens, and move out as an adult
teens would also have to help take care of the other children
you cant adopt another baby until the last baby has become a toddler



Sorry, I havent been much help x

[Prawler]

I think the concept is good but the playability is limited. (unless you came up with a strict points system or something)
On TS2 i used to do a challenge where you start with the Foster family- a couple or single sim who adopts lots of babies, naming each after the next consecutive letter of the alphabet. The game ends when baby Z is grown up or the foster parent (s) die.

The rules were something like:
no cheats/mods/hacks
no hired help
if it was a couple, then one would have to get a job

the children adopted would have to begin as babies, get a job as teens, and move out as an adult
teens would also have to help take care of the other children
you cant adopt another baby until the last baby has become a toddler



Sorry, I havent been much help x


just found a similar A-Z kids challenge for TS3: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=368584 :cylon:

[KayMacd]

I think the basic idea of the challenge is good. There isn't much to it, but that's just because it's a simple challenge.
I don't think you need points unless you're trying to compete with somebody, so I think you're good there.
As for rules... I came up with a few.
1) No cheats besides the one to get the kid in the right family.
2) You get a kaching every time you find a good family for the kid, but you can't have any other source of income.
3) The kid has to have at least one trait in common with one of the parents, and their skin has to be the same color. (Maybe that's too hard, though...)
4) If the baby grows up to a child before you find the family, you have to randomize their trait.
5) If you can't find a family for the kid by the time they're a teenager, they must become rebellious or something like that. Maybe they stop doing homework?
6) If you don't find a family by the time they're a YA, you fail.
7) If the social worker comes, you fail.

That's all I can think of for now, but I hope that helped!