I finally transitioned to the Roman era! Plantsims really do make generations quicker. I downloaded Midge/ Velco's mods too including fairy and mermaid mods to make supernaturalism more interesting. I don't have any mermaids yet (and maybe won't since the way to get them in game is to teach them the sea shanty, which requires them going on vacation with the oceanography mod), but I have my first fairy!

I'm letting them have pets/ greet strays so werewolves are possible. I assume I can't get vampires, witches/ warlocks during this challenge due to the lack of greeting allowed with non-challenge sims. I might be able to have aliens down the line but no telescopes during Roman era.

I have finally progressed to the „Darke Age“ stage (I played two rotations, and not a single baby in new generation has been born yet.
I have 1 monarh family, 6 lords, 12 vassals and 22 (24) serfs, still adjusting all.
I will have to bypass the rules. Again.
I play vanilla game (8 members in one household). The king and queen are elderly, they have a teenage daughter and one servant, the crown prince is married and has two baby girls. There is no room for more children. I have to move the prince, his wife, and daughters into a separate household to create space for more children.
After adjusting the serfs, each lord will have 2 vassals and 4 serfs.
I have only one Viking family because I introduced changes here. When an adult Viking passes by a serf, he kills half of the household members. If a child is in that half, he takes him along.
I will attach the pictures later.

(English is not my native language, so this was translated using AI.)

Rarely post in Challenge threads because I dont play them as challenges. But thought I could share.

I am kind of playing Test of Time, but Im incorporate different ideas into a gameplay rather than a challenge. I also have played TS2 and TS3 more like a "speed run" type of way where I basically age sims up and adjust relationships and storylines as I go through each household one by one.

Currently Im playing parts of Chicklets original rules and now reached Egypt stage. But I plan to branch out their idea and create a World through time, rather than just a couple of original families. Now Im playing South Africa, Egypt and Native America and try mimic historical events (Not all of them. lol) through each location.

My idea is doing about 12 "Kingdoms" which a couple of families from each location. Right now the time is set somewhere around Ptolemaic era around 300 BC, just after Alexander the Great died. My neantherdal stage was brief..

I probably wont include Hebrews moving to Rome scenario of Chicklet rules, because that event is set by the Bible. Instead I will have invidual families move across different Kingdoms where I see might fit. In Africa kingdom ive Three tribes: South Africa, Arabia and Persia. So they might start a war against Egypt in later generation. Africa used to have 4 families, but one I had imigrate to Egypt as they represent the border between south and north africa.

My overall idea is making a couple of sim generations simulate a couple of hundred years in human history. Of course not 100% accuracy (I like semi-realistic gameplay) but I read history on google/wikipedia as I go speedrun everything.

Dont have much pictures,but below is my neigbhorhood for Egypt Kingdom, . I got lazy and copy and past the lots. I hate building but dont want download lots either.