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The Polygamy Challenge (In two flavors!)
This is the Polygamy challenge. It isn't an open marriage or swingers challenge though, sorry! The polygamy is based on religious practices, so some religious rules will have to be obeyed by your sims as well. There are a number of faiths and cultures in the real world that have plural marriages so you can either base your sims on one of them, a mixture of them, or come up with something yourself. There are guidelines, however.
To complete this challenge you'll have to either use a no jealousy and/or multiple marriages mod (there are several out there, only one marriage needs to be "recognized" though so it's not required that the other spouses be listed as wives, romantic interest will do), or if you have the World Adventures mod, you can use a cheat to give each spouse enough lifetime happiness points to purchase the No Jealousy reward (or you can just wait until you can purchase it normally but the challenge will be next to impossible to complete before you can get rid of the jealousy). You may use cheats (such as freerealestate/motherlode/etc) to give yourself the home that you'll use for the rest of the challenge (you can renovate as needed but no moving after the challenge begins so don't start with a dinky little home that you can't expand unless you're a masochist). You may also use cheats at the beginning of the challenge to make sure your patriarch's relationship is high enough with all starting wives so that you don't have to spend 3 days wooing them to begin having him performing his husbandly duties. Once all that is taken care of, use the familyfunds cheat to reduce the available money down to 500 simoleons. If the game starts on your chosen Holy Day, start with 450 simoleons. If you're using a mod to only have to pay bills once a week and it'll be at least 3 days before your first bill arrives, start with 250 simoleons (or 225 if starting on your holy day) instead as the extra money is just to ensure that you can pay your first set of bills. For neither of these challenges can you intentionally kill off or prematurely age any sim. "Man, that old wife just keeps hanging on! What is she, immortal?!" Sorry, you can't just kill her off. haha On with the flavors: Flavor 1: Polygyny (Plural wives) The Requirements:
Optional rules/touches
Points The challenge ends when the second patriarch dies and a third is chosen. +10 points for each child born and raised to young adulthood. +5 points for each skill that children raise to at least 3 before young adulthood. If the skill was 0.1% from hitting 3 when they age up, it doesn't count. +2 points for each point beyond 3 a child earns beyond 3 before reaching young adulthood. (So if a child raised logic to 5 before they aged up to young adult, it would be worth 9 points. 5 for the first 3 points and 4 more for the two points after that). +2 points for every child that ages up to teen on the honor roll and another +2 points for every teen that ages up to young adult on the honor roll. Just having an A isn't enough, it has to be honor roll. +5 points for every 10,000 simoleons you have at the end of the challenge. +5 points for every career level the patriarchs earn over 4. (So starting at level 5... a maximum of 30 points for reaching level 10). If your sim changes jobs (either willingly or not), count only the career they earned the highest job level in. -10 points for any day the patriarch fails to fulfill his husbandly duties (woohoo). This does not include the day they die. This does include if the patriarch is unable to convince the wife to woohoo with him that day. -10 points for every grade level below C children are at upon aging up to teens, and the same when they age up to young adults. So if a particular child drops to failing both as child and teen, it's a cumulative -40 points. (Unless the sims skips the D grade... I've never actually had a sim drop below a C before so I can't be sure. haha If it goes straight from C to failing then it's only -20 cumulative). -50 points for each and every child taken by social services. -10 points if the repo man comes to take your stuff -10 points if any of the patriarch's wives misbehave in public (getting into fights, flirting with other men, stuff like that). Drop to penalty to -5 if the patriarch catches them doing it and scolds them and they don't do it again. -20 points for every wife that does not have a child the current patriarch. This does not apply if the wife is past her childbearing years when a new patriarch is chosen. If any of the former patriarchs wives are still able to bear children, though, the negative counts if the new patriarch fails to have a child with them for whatever reason before they are unable to have children. (Yes, it still counts even if the household is full when the new patriarch is added). The new patriarch just has to wait until there's room in the household (either from an aging up son of the former patriarch, or one of the older wives dying of old age) before he can start trying for babies. Flavor 2: Polyandry (plural husbands) Typically polyandry occurs in societies where resources (such as food) are scarce, so large populations are bad. Normally one wife will marry a man and all of his brothers, but they don't have to be brothers, especially for the challenge. As with the polygyny flavor, use any cheats required to give your sim family the home and relationship status required to start the challenge (along with either a no jealousy mod or adding enough lifetime points for the no jealousy rewards) . After everything is ready to start, use the familyfunds cheat to reduce your household money to 500 simoleons to start (or 250 if using a mod where the first bill won't arrive for at least 3 days). The requirements
Optional rules/touches
Points The challenge ends when the third matriarch dies and a fourth is chosen. (This should allow for approximately the same amount of time as the polygyny challenge since the patriarch can still make babies until the day he dies but the matriarch is limited to her young adult and adult years) +10 points for each child born and raised to young adulthood. +5 points for each skill that children raise to at least 3 before young adulthood. If the skill was 0.1% from hitting 3 when they age up, it doesn't count. +2 points for each point beyond 3 a child earns beyond 3 before reaching young adulthood. (So if a child raised logic to 5 before they aged up to young adult, it would be worth 9 points. 5 for the first 3 points and 4 more for the two points after that). +2 points for every child that ages up to teen on the honor roll and another +2 points for every teen that ages up to young adult on the honor roll. Just having an A isn't enough, it has to be honor roll. +5 points for every 5,000 simoleons you have at the end of the challenge. -10 points for any day the matriarch fails to fulfill her wifely duties (woohoo). This does not include the day she gives birth. Continuing to perform her duties (perhaps at a reduced rate) with her husbands after a new matriarch takes over is fine, but has no impact on the score. -10 points for every grade level below C children are at upon aging up to teens, and the same when they age up to young adults. So if a particular child drops to failing both as child and teen, it's a cumulative -40 points. (Unless the sims skips the D grade... I've never actually had a sim drop below a C before so I can't be sure. haha If it goes straight from C to failing then it's only -20 cumulative). -50 points for each and every child taken by social services. -10 points if the repo man comes to take your stuff -20 points each time the matriarch goes somewhere unescorted -20 points for every husband that does not have a child. This includes husbands that didn't get a child from the former matriarch and the new one kicks him out rather than taking him as one of her husbands. This also includes any husband that dies to accident without an offspring of their own. That's all I can think of, if someone has suggestions for something that should be counted, mention it. Feel free to post screenshots and story details. |
Polyamory Challange
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Hi, I liked your challenge. This particular family is just like a poly family I know. Names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent. Instead of having the patriarch work, I have made him an author. Wife #1 (Alathiel) actually does have a job (her lifetime aspiration is to be a music composer). Wife #2 (Asher) is an artist.
The Patriarch, Vocaven, started this family because he believes that poly is a much better way of living. He hopes having two mothers will help the children grow up happier, and he knows that having two wives will make him happier. They are pagans, so I'm not sure on what I'm going to pick for a holy day yet. |
Yeah there's a big difference between polygamy and polyamory. With pagans, it's usually polyamory. The definition of that is a bit more loose, especially if same-sex attachments exist. Polygamy tends to be founded on religious ideals, where polyamory tends to be centered around being open to different ideas of love. Since you're doing polyamory, you don't necessarily have to include hard rules on religious ceremonies and holy days.
Technically this challenge focuses more on family and spiritual obligation than the simple principle of multiple spouses, but everyone is always free to adjust rules for their own liking and storylines. This is a challenge, not a contest, after all. :-) |
Heh. I had these two brothers (one neat and tidy the other the bad boy) live together with neat and tidy's wife. She bore the bad boy more children than her actually husband. Hrm... I could easily make the next generation into this challenge I think.
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This is brilliant. I've always had a morbid curiosity with religious cults + such. I can't wait to try this!
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The Chandrakant family: Rakesh, the patriarch; Artemis, the second wife; Mizuki, the first wife. I made bathrobes an everyday item I gave them each a bathroom. Mizuki had been outside playing with the sprinkler, thus she's in her bathing suit. This is their first holy day (Saturday). I've discovered something with my egc I'm running. Whoever is the active person in Try for Baby gets pregnant. Rakesh got pregnant by Artemis by accident. That was interesting. So right now, got three baby girls: Usagi, Selene, and Lucine. All are toddlers. If I have four girls I'm going to have to kick one when I have a new patriarch |
I'm pretty bad about remembering to do screenshots but I got a few of Generation 1 and a few more of Generation 2 so I can share those at least. The general concept of this family is a sort of hippie commune meets "cult"... yeah I'm not too skilled at describing families. Basically the Patriarch is supposed to be a prophet. The common family traits I used were 1) They all have Family-Oriented and Eco-friendly traits 2) They never wear shoes or socks to cover their feet (a sort of "let nothing come between you and the dirt from whence you came" thing) and 3) They all wear robes, the colors of which correspond to whatever their "favorite color" happens to be.
Here's the first Patriarch, Seth. He's a charismatic kind of guy, being a "prophet" and all, and he eventually becomes the Leader of the Free World. haha: His first wife, Abagail. She was a sculptor and a born saleswoman, so all the crafted items the family made, she took to the consignment store for sale: His second wife, Cheryl. She was a neat freak and a natural cook, so she did most of the cooking and cleaning: Finally his third wife, Moira. She took care of the garden and painted in her off time: After Seth died of old age (along with his "fireproof homestead" LTR) a fire broke out in the home where a carpet was too close to the fireplace... all three wives decided to run in there and freak out and it was then that I realized there was no smoke alarm in there... and they died while trying to put out the flames. Whoops. Good thing the kids were at school to carry on the family. I made sure the youngest had the fireproof LTR this time, rather than the oldest. *cough* So it was time for a new patriarch... so I moved in the spitting image of Seth, only this time his name was Jacob. I made him a schoolteacher this time, to keep him busy during the day. Here he is with his wives, the three youngest daughters of the ladies above: The oldest is Lilith. She's an inventor, so don't mind all the scrap lying around... she'll make something out of it eventually: The next oldest is Mary. She takes after her mother, being a green thumb, but unlike Moira, Mary likes to cook too: Finally the youngest is Eve. When she's done cleaning the home, she likes to curl up by the fire with a good book: It's probably pretty easy to tell who their mothers are... interestingly enough they inherited their mother's favorite colors too. Seth had some other children as well. The only one I caught a picture of was Haley. Little Joshua is seen doing his homework in the background, as well as Moira painting.: All total, Seth had 12 children... mostly because Cheryl made some ambrosia for herself and her sister-wives so Seth was able to father children until the day he died with his first three wives. Interestingly enough Cheryl kept spitting out the sons until she finally managed to have Eve. apparently Seth has two grandkids so far from story-progression too: Lilith, Mary and Eve are still teenagers so Jacob has to wait a while before he can start having kids. The older wives getting themselves incinerated was a bit unplanned so... ah well. He can be patient. Until then he'll be spreading his message in the schools. The last pic I took was Jacob and his wives having breakfast: |
I really liked your challenge(I thought it was an interesting idea) and I decidet to try it (because I got borred playing the same story every time).
I choosed the seccond one (the one with the Polyandry) and I started playing. This is the Johnson Family.Amestria Luna and the three Johnson brothers. Amestria Luna She is the matriarch from this generation.She is very artistic (she loves to paint) and she's Family Oriented. Charles He has to repair the objects that break in the house and/or upgrade them.And he's doing a nice job. Daniel He is the one who is responsible for the kids.He's also a sculptor. Theodore He is responsible for the garden.Also, he loves to mentain the house clean and to cook. And this is an intimacy moment between Amestria and her husband, Charles.I'm sure that soon, there will be a first baby for the happy family. I'll upload more photos later, as the game progresses and the story line becames more interesting. |
Sorry if this is dumb, but I wondered if your male had to be married to all these women? Could I do this challenge having him not marry at all, as I don't like mods.
This challenge looks really good and would love to do it. |
No, your male sim doesn't have to be married to none of the women from the house for them to have his children.You can simply make them Romantic Intersts.
But it is recomended for your sim to have No Jealousy reward. When I played the first time in my family, my sim, who was also the matriarch hadn't enough points to purchase this reward, so I had to be quite carefully with the other two sims in the house (not the see any romantic sign between them).Then I simply got that reward. Good luck with the challenge and I can't wait to see photos from your story ^__^ Oh, and I also got a new picture from my game.Amestria and Charles had their first daughter, Gloria. Here are the two parents with their new born girl, in the nursery. |
Destynova99- which mods did you use?
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Now this dumb, but how do I post pictures?
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For the photos I'm taking when playing I use a special program to make high quality images (my brother helped me with that and he said it's called Fraps ) but you can simply use the Print Screen hey from your keyboard.
Or, take a photo (you have this option in the game) and upload it on the forum(you know where to find the picture, right?). Use a site like tinypic (because it's faster and you have the resize option) or the uploader from the forum (Manage Atachments). Hope this helps you ^__^ |
Thanks I will give it a try.
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Ok, I can't wait to see the photos ^__^
I'm back with my story and I took some more photos. Here are Amestria and Daniel.As I said, he's a sculptor (he is paid very well for his sculptures, so the family can pay the bills with the money he brings) and now he choosed to sculp his wife in ice. I thought her position was very sweet, so I decided to take a photo with them. Sure, the sculpture was very nice and Amestria liked it very much, so she gave him a reward that evening.Now she's waiting her seccond child. The matriarch and her first daughter.I named her Gloria (the family was very happy that the first child was a girl, because they considered that a good sign of luck). Now Gloria is almost a child and I'm sure she will age up well, because her mother taught her to walk, talk and potty trained her (sure, the fathers helped too) and she also improved her creativity (from the Xylophone) and her logic (from the Baby Brainiac Peg Toybox).Her parents read her some of the toddler books too. She's a very sweet child and she has her fathers colour of hair. Here, her mother, who is now pregnant with her seccond child, teaches her to walk. Unfortunatelly, I forgot to take a photo of the seccond child, but he was a boy and he is now a toddler.He has blonde hair (like his mother and father) and turquoise eyes. Sure, Amestria never forgot her third husband, Theodore, and soon, there will be a third child too. |
I'm back (again).And I have new photos.
Gloria just aged up and she is now a lovely child.She still has her father's colour of hair (dark brown) and also his silver eyes.She loves to study logic and also to paint.After she's done with her homework she likes to play with her little brother, Peter. Here are Amestria and her seccond child, Peter (Daniel's child) in her bedroom.His mother also taught him to walk, talk and potty trained him, while he played the Xylophone and improved his logic.His father loves to read him from the toddlers books. Also, you can see that Amestria is pregnant with her third child(this time Theodore's baby). The night when Amestria gave birth to her seccond son (and third child). A couple of hours later, with her youngest son, Mathew.He is a little noisy because he cries a lot all night and he oftem wakes up his brother, Peter. Mathew is now a toddler.I'm quite surprised to see that he has his mother's hair.I'm not sure about the colour of the eyes, so I'll have to look closer next time. All the family reunited here, in the evening, for a group photo in front of their house.From left to right, you can see: Charles, Theodore, with his son, Mathew, Amestria, Daniel, with his son, Peter and, of course, Gloria (Charles and Amestria's daughter). |
This looks like it could be quite fun, I think I'm going to have to try this one!!! I'll post pics when I have enough to show!
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Its day 3 of mine and everyone is angry! lol.
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I'm not exactly following all of the rules, but my family are still following most of them so I thought I'd post pictures of them here to say I'm (kind of) doing it too.
The husband/father of the family is Amos He has three wives: Mary is the oldest Then Madison and Holly is the youngest Amos' first child is his daughter with Mary - Millie is now a child Then Gwendolen, who is Madison's daughter and Mary's second daughter Julia Holly's daughter Fay has just become a toddler, but I stupidly forgot to take a picture of her, so I'll add that when I've next played. She looks very like her mother. Then the youngest child is also a girl, Madison's daughter Renetta, but she is still a baby so there's no point in putting a picture. |
This looks amazing. What polygamy mod would you recommend?
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This looks intersting! (;
I will try this ... I was just watching Sister wives haha. |
I decided to try this one!
My Patriarch Evan Porter His First Wife Hope who is preggers with his first child right now His Second Wife Love His Third Wife Faith |
So I'm not particularly wanting to do this challenge but I am wanting to have multiple wives. The only polygamy mod that I have found is old by several updates (the one on sexysims) and I have all the expansions so that's not going to work. Does anyone know of a mod or cheat that would allow me to keep more than one wife in the same house? I'm considering trying some of the stuff with testingcheatsenabled true to see if that works since I don't know if I need a real mod.
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This looks interesting though I'm not so big on the religious part of the challange
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Interesting challenge.
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