Simming Sinfully

For better or worse, The Sims is one of my guilty pleasure games. I know that once I start it'll become an all-day and possibly all-week adventure, so I try not to indulge too often. That said, I adore my sims. I recently lost all of them in a harddrive corruption but I'm undetered. I will start again, and I'll finally make that world in The Sims 3 I've always wanted.

My history with the series is nearly as long as the series itself. The Sims 2 was new when I was playing all of The Sims 1, picking up one of the multi-expansion box sets at a time. By the time I got into The Sims 2, it was well into it's lifespan and I was pirating expansions just to keep up because I wasn't the most well-off at the time and had bigger gaming priorities (mostly console games that couldn't be easily pirated...). Then Spore happened, and I got even more wary about actually buying anything from EA and officially started boycotting them. I got pretty vindicated by the obnoxious The Sims Store for The Sims 3, but fuck if TS3 isn't the game with the most playtime from me with an unbeatable amount of time. I didn't really like TS4 at all. Moods are really swingy, there's too many buffs, each expansion and stuff pack pushes sims to interact with them harder than the items in the last one causing sims to get obsessed with whatever the new hotness is. I've stuck with my heavily modded TS3 game and ironned out every bug that isn't basegame unfixable and I doubt I'll ever give up how good the open world feels. Thanks to Zerbu Careers I don't even have rabbithole careers at all.

I like Inzoi's realistic character creator when making RP faceclaims, but don't much care for all the AI bullshit going on. I just pirate a new copy when I need to make a character with it.

Paralives is cool! Too early to make it my mainstay game, though. I'm watching it grow eagerly.

Placeholder. TS3Tools. Sims 3 Store piracy. Game piracy. https://sims.tarac.nl/sims-3-selective-anadius-method/

Zombie Apocalypse - The most realistic possible, a zombie apoc challenge I don't hate, and it plays a lot better with non-rabbithole supermarkets. if you have a world set up for zerbu, the large amount of lots to loot is also a treat
Build A City Challenge, uses a spreadsheet, but a hell of a way to design a town from nothing
Snatched by the Fae, a fun little story about fae raising a human
The Immortal Heartbreaker Vampire Challenge, til death do we part, with a vampire, 10 times
Midnight Sun Challenge, a classic with many worlds designed just for it, where you've shipwrecked on an island and must survive.
Grow As You Go- A Farmacy, a farming-based legacy where you can't freely upgrade the house or keep your spares
The Vampire Coven: A Challenge, the og coven challenge
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=581971 A vampire coven type of challenge, I use this for inspiration for my own vampires
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=639953 a legacy focused entirely on animals instead of people
https://cuckoolegacy.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/new-isbi-rules-what-fun/ a challenge about an insane founder and herding uncontrollable insane sims around
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=525279 a challenge about randomly rolling almost everything
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=578108 a yandere challenge about kidnapping, murder, and way too many kids
https://randomlegacychallengeapp.weebly.com/ some random rollers for your legacy runs
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=522306 a cult challenge that pairs well with the social clubs mod
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=596854 a very period-accurate victorian challenge involving a lot of sims to manage
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=574340 how will your mad scientist take over the world? open ended, no win condition
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=450267 asylum challenge from sim 2 converted, a classic
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=522017 a mother and their children starting with nothing, trying to make a life after escaping bad circumstances
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=666086 a magical dynasty legacy
https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=6658.0.html challenge about a single family recovering from a civilization-destroying calamity
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=620211 Return of King Arthur for the Sims 4, but easily adapted.
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?s=6f9e3d213753519fbe194392b9c4616c&t=441695 Medieval Charter for Sims 2, but easily adapted.

Everything I have for the ultimate decades challenge
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VKVvnDblpT2ngUs9JE9VcFyfhK9ZKXyqrYYaSun1pl4/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wBj4paqz9u-AWHsZuEKLgbSZ3FjvTyI1tQmVp41E2E4/edit
https://www.patreon.com/collection/1725933?view=expanded
https://www.patreon.com/collection/1778542?view=expanded