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valentinevar
28th Nov 2010, 11:35 PM
First off, if you don't have Late Night, I suggest you visit this thread instead http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=349420 for a similar type of challenge ;)

I am a lurker around modthesims and usually don't post anything about anything, but I came across The Family Man Challenge and I loved it! I am not much for Legacies since I tend to get bored after the 4rd generation or so... but this one was quite a lot of fun!

So, I decided to play The Family Man challenge in the town of Bridgeport and I wanted my character to be a celebrity. I found this to be pretty challenging.

Rules:
1- No cheating. You can have story progression mods though, so long they don't affect much game play.
2- No motherlode. That helps impress other celebrities too much.
3- Set your lifespan to normal. No becoming a vampire, eating ambrosia or life fruit. Nothing that would make you live longer. (A healthy lifestyle is alright ;D)

Setting up:
Create a young adult male sim. You can name him whatever you want and make him look whatever you want.
He can have any traits you want. Recommended: Charismatic, Flirty, and Star Quality.
For lifetime wish and an extra callenge go for "Heartbreaker" lifetime wish (but this is optional)
Move him into Bridgeport. Join the acting career OR self employ yourself in a band once you make one.

Objectives:
To have as many children as possible with as many different women as possible AND make your sim a 5 star celebrity that will reach the top of his acting/band career (either or, not both, unless you want to but that'll be hard :| )

Pros of Bridgeport: LOTS OF SINGLE YA WOMEN.
Cons of Bridgeport: LOTS OF SINGLE YA WOMEN that are townies.

Recommended: Getting the girls to move in with you and then kick them out of the house. They'll get their own house and will be able to have up to 7 kids if you use no mods.


The actual challenge: When you have a kid out of wedlock/woohoo in public/cheat on your girlfriend/wife, you get embarrassed in public, which makes you lose friends (including, and mostly the women you've previously woohoo'ed that you need to be in good standards with in order to get them preggers again) and in the acting branch, you need to be friends with your co-workers in order to go up higher.
I found this pretty challenging and by the end of it, Mr. Jared Leto had 50+ kids (a lot of them twins) and I was a 5 star celebrity.

Good Luck! and remember, NO testingcheatsenabled true *raise bar of relationship*. NO! And send in your pictures, tips, & stories :D I can't wait to see them!

Enirei
29th Nov 2010, 09:05 PM
Do stuff like this for fun and have done it with Late Night. My suggestion is when you get public shame, go sue for scandal. On average I've had it work within the first two times and it gets rid of the negative moodlet (plus the compensation covers the fees). Dispel rumors is good for improving relationships after a scandal though I find it funny when the woman in question believes you (she ignores the 5+ kids at home...). My current casanova is a vamp so doesn't work for the challenge. That and I've got jealousy and blood relations limits off.

valentinevar
30th Nov 2010, 06:36 PM
Well, I also had a female rising "star" and she was dating some guy who also had a certain level of celebrity. The rumor got out and about 2 sim hours later the guy was at my door screaming at my sim. I thought it was great. LOL.

VampireRalts
11th Dec 2010, 10:20 PM
By townies, do you mean NPCs who cannot get pregnant as they don't have homes?

I tried something like this, only in Riverview and my Family Man topped the directing branch in film and then quit to adopt babies. It was sort of a Pokemon theme. I fed him Ambrosia so he could adopt 156 kids. :)

Great update to a classic challenge, and I also hate how getting publicly disgraced ruins friendships. Once a Legacy Founder's husband got slandered with 'cheating' on his wife and the poor founder got betrayed. :(

valentinevar
13th Dec 2010, 02:39 AM
well, I found a lot of women that have what seems to me to be non playable apartments. So you know they live in town, but you can't play their lots.

VampireRalts
13th Dec 2010, 04:25 AM
Why do you want to do that? I just peek in their houses to see if they go into labor. I know that means you can't see much into their houses but at least you know they're there. :)

I am making a variant of this challenge focusing on World Adventures. It requires you to travel around, Try For Baby with the locals, and move in one woman from each foreign location and raise their babies so that you can have foreign babies in Sunset/Riverview/etc. Of course, you can kick them out if you want. The love-daddy(Family Man) has to have a wish involving travel like Great Explorer and fulfill it while Trying for Baby. ;)