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Lab Assistant
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#1 Old 11th Jun 2010 at 2:14 AM Last edited by Phaenoh : 7th Feb 2014 at 5:09 PM.
Default The Ups and Downs of a Lifetime! (UPDATED RULES)
Welcome to another challenge of mine!

This challenge is about getting your ‘target’ sim through a lifetime of ups and downs from toddlerhood through to old age. In reality we all have a mixture of good and bad experiences in life including loving and heartbreaking memories. This challenge will require your Sim to experience both the good and bad aspects of life. Can you successfully complete all the things on this check list??

First create your ‘target Sim’ as a toddler in CAS and give him/her a family. It can be just a single parent or a family of any size you wish. There are slightly different objectives to fulfill depending on what gender your Sim is and what age, some things may seem stereotypical but it just adds variety.

UPDATE: Due to the lists being so large you can choose the number objectives you wish to fulfill but at least one POS and NEG from each age group should be completed. All others are optional but you should aim high! Each objective will give you 1 point .

Some objectives are EP related so if you don’t have the correct EP just skip that particular objective.

The easiest way to complete this challenge is to print a copy and tick off all the things you have completed. It will take good planning and a bit of time but it will be all worthwhile when you finish! I would advise against motive/money and skill cheats as this takes all the fun out but its up to you if you use them!

TODDLER:
Positive objectives:

- Be potty trained
- Learn to walk & talk
- Drink smart milk at least once
- Have a story read to you by any family member at least twice
- Own a Wobbily Wabbit Head Toy
- Must own a toy box
- Play ‘Peek a Boo’ with any Sim
- Must grow up in Gold Aspiration

Negative Objectives:


- Must fall asleep on the floor at least once
- Must dirty your diaper at least twice (meaning you allow your toddler to have bladder failure by not taking them to the potty)
- Have red aspiration at least once

- CHILD:
Positive:
- Get an A+ report card
- Catch Butterflies at least once
- Make at least one best friend that isn’t a relative
- Have 2 friends (this includes the best friend)
- Reach level 3 cooking
- Reach level 2 cleaning
- Reach level 3 Creativity
- Own an activity table (requires free time), a teddy bear and a toy stove
- Have a parent ‘swing you around’ at least 3 times
- “Show off” to a relative and have them cheer you on at least twice
- Visit a community ‘park’ or recreation venue with a family member
- Complete a painting and hang it in your bedroom
- Visit a beach lot and go swimming and build a sand castle
- Write in a diary at least 3 times
- Play catch or toss football with a parent at least once
- Catch at least 5 bugs and hang the bug catcher frame in your room (found in all Sims inventories after they catch their first bug)
- Go swimming in a pool
- Have a birthday party
- Own a gaming console (so you can play SSX etc)
- Adopt a puppy, kitten, dog or cat OR get a bird or womrat
- Own a kite (must be created on a toy bench by any sim with a bronze toy making badge)
- Get help with homework at least once

Negative objectives:


- See a ghost
- Have your doll house or lemonade stand smashed
- See a fire
- Have bladder failure at least once
- Get rejected for Private School
- Lose a game
- Miss the school bus at least once
- Get a D report card
- Be rejected to ‘play’ with another Sim (i.e ask to play ‘red hands’ and be rejected)
- Aspiration must reach the red at least once
- See vermin (i.e roaches)
- Get sick at least once
- Watch a fight

TEENAGER:

Positive:
- Get accepted into Private School
- Get any college scholarship
- Reach level 5 cooking
- Reach level 4 mechanical
- Reach level 4 charisma
- Reach level 5 logic
- Have a friend sleep over
- Play kicky bag
- Find a new star with a telescope
- Go steady
- Have at least one Dream Date
- Write in a diary at least 4 times
- Watch at least 5 movies (requires free time)
- Get a job and keep it for at least 1 Sim week
- Be promoted in your job at least once
- Have first kiss
- Own a cell phone
- Have a computer and stereo in your bedroom
- Buy new clothes at least once
- Throw at least one good party
- Have 3 best friends
- Become BFF with a relative (if you haven’t already)
- Buy a new video game
- Get any bronze talent badge
- Go on a family vacation for at least 3 days
- Reach platinum aspiration at least 3 times
- Move to college (optional)

Negative:

- Have your pet put up for adoption (or given/sold to another Sim) or deleted (in the case of womrats and birds)
- Burn a meal
- Be electrocuted
- Be rejected for a date at least once
- Be rejected to go steady at least once
- Be rejected for a flirt at least once
- Break up with your bf/gf
- Be in at least one fight (attack or be attack by another Sim)
- Get fired at least once
- Have a bad date
- Reach red aspiration at least once
- Get a C report card
- Pass out
- Get sick


YOUNG ADULT (skip this if you don’t have uni or don’t like playing it)
Positive:
- Own a bubble blower
- Have first Woo Hoo
- Earn $300 in tips
- Reach level 5 body
- Reach level 5 cleaning
- Reach level 5 mechanical
- Visit a night club
- Drink from a bar
- Be a DJ at least once
- Make Dean’s List at least once
- Get A+ on at least 2 exams
- Have at least one Roof Raiser party
- Get a bf/gf
- Have 4 best friends
- Have 2 BFF
- Influence another Sim to do your assignment at least once
- Be accepted into a Greek house, sorority or fraternity

Negative:

- Miss at least one exam
- Pass out
- Be in a fight
- Do not complete at least one term paper
- Be rejected for a date
- Be rejected for a kiss
- Lose a friend
- Miss class at least 3 times
- Make an enemy
- Reach red aspiration at least once
- Have a party broken up by the police

ADULTHOOD:

Gender specific-

Female Positive

- Reach level 8 cooking
-Reach at least body level 6
- Potty Train at least one child (it’s usually the Mothers that do the potty training in real life)
- Get a silver badge in either sewing, pottery, flower arranging, gardening or cosmetology
- Serve Berry Pie at least once for your family
- Have at least 2 babies
- Get a job and keep it for at least 2 Sim weeks. You may quit any time after that if you want to be a stay at home mother. If you choose not to quit then you must earn at least $15,000 and reach career level 7
- Enter and win at least one cooking contest

Male positive:

- Reach mechanical level 8
- Reach at least body level 7
- Buy the restorable car (from free time) and fix it up
- Get a silver badge in either Robot making, toy making, fishing, gardening or pottery
- Reach at least level 7 of your career
- Be the Father of at least 2 children
- Earn $15,000 (you will know when you reach this as your Sim will get a memory of it)
- Serve at least 3 meals made from a BBQ/grill on your home lot

Gender neutral positive:
- Fall in love
- Get engaged
- Have Wedding Party
- Have one child grow up well at least once
- Unlock the Elixir of Life and have at least 5 drinks from it
- Max at least 2 skills
- Teach at least one toddler to walk and talk
- Have 5 personal best friends and at least 8 family friends in total
- Hire a maid
- Get fit
- Own a TV worth over $2,000
- Own one piece of exercise equipment
- Own a dishwasher
- Buy new clothes for yourself at least twice
- Eat in a restaurant
- Go Bowling
- Throw at least 3 bday parties for your offspring
- Go on a vacation with your family
- Own a car (either the one fixed up from free time or another one)
- Fully study at least 2 life skills (i.e fire safety, life long happiness)
- Teach one of your children/teens how to study (simply have your Sim ‘help’ with homework once)
- Get platinum aspiration at least 6 times
- Have at least one child accepted into Private school
- Have all children acquire A+ report cards at one time or another
- Have at least 3 great parties (that arent bday's)
- Receive at least 5 gifts from other Sims (in the form of either having another Sim use the ‘give gift’ interaction or from Networking with Townies)
- Adopt a pet (either a kitten, puppy, cat, dog, bird, womrat or even just having a fish tank)
- Have at least one overachieving teenager (meaning they have an A+ and reach the top of their teen job)
- Have at least one child get a scholarship and enter college
- Unlock the Energizer object and place it on your home lot (or keep it in your inventory and place it in your home when u actually want to use it)
- Have your photo taken in a photo booth with a relative and place the photo in the house
- Have at least 3 bedrooms in your home plus a study room
-Have a swimming pool

Gender Neutral Negative:

- Pass out
- Have bladder failure
- Go in red aspiration at least twice
- Get a visit from the Sim Shrink at least once (from aspiration failure)
- Have at least one of your offspring get a D report card
- Get fat
- Lose a friend
- Make at least 1 enemy
- Be in 3 fights
- Go through at least one break up
- Have one child grow up badly at least once
- Get demoted at least once
- Burn at least 2 meals
- See at least 2 fires
- Be electrocuted
- See a ghost
- Get pick pocketed
- Get burgled once( you cant force this but it normally happens anyway)
- Get a visit from the Repo Man at least once
- Have a bad party

ELDER:

Positive:
- Have at least one of your offspring get engaged
- Have at least one of your offspring get married
- Have at least 3 grand children
- Throw a party to celebrate a Golden Anniversary
- Get at least one gold talent badge
- If you have a job then choose to ‘retire’ at some point
- Buy a vacation home and spend at least 3 days there
- Have at least 10 family friends and 6 personal best friends
- Have a BBQ in the park with at least one of your offspring and a grandchild

Negative:
- Have bladder failure
- Pass out
- Experience the death of a loved one
- Reach red aspiration at least once
- Have at least one grandchild taken from the Social Worker
- See a fire

BONUS POINT OBJECTIVES:

- You can get a +10 bonus for each of the following extra objectives you achieve. (The time you achieve them is irrelevant) These objectives are a bit harder to get.

- Have 10 personal best friends
- Have 20 BFF in the family
- Have 5 dream dates
- Sell 5 masterpieces
- Write 3 successful novels
- Get 3 Gold Talent Badges
- Raise 6 children
- Max 3 skills
- Acquire Lifetime Platinum Aspiration
- Fulfill a life time want
- Own your own business and run it for at least 2 Sim weeks
- Reach the top of your adult career
- Have 10 Roof Raiser Parties in total across your life span
- Die in Platinum Aspiration
- Have 5 vacations
- Learn to fire dance, hula, and slap dance
- Learn to teleport
- Win 5 dance OR computer game competitions
- Raise 3 pets from babies to old age
- Teach a pet 3 tricks (i.e shake, sit, play dead)
- Get a pet to the top of any career
- Get a genie lamp
- Get the highest membership in the Garden Club
- Become a creature (i.e vampire, plantsim etc.)
- Age up in platinum for each birthday you have
- Earn $100,000
- Earn at least 15 vacation memories (i.e met bigfoot, ate flapjacks etc.)
- Have 10 grandchildren

I hope that any of you who decide to take this on will have fun and share your progress! :lovestruc

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My other challenges:
- I cant wait to be an Elder
- Sit back and watch
- The 'Educate 'Em' Boarding School challenge
- Too many toddlers Welfare Center
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Test Subject
#2 Old 13th Jun 2010 at 7:45 PM
Okay, this is officially the cutest challenge ever. I. Love. This. I'll post pictures soon!
Test Subject
#3 Old 13th Jun 2010 at 8:33 PM
This is such a creative idea! I think I must try this one!
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#4 Old 14th Jun 2010 at 1:07 AM
awesome! im glad you guys like it! i love to see pics so dont hesitate to share!!
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#5 Old 4th Oct 2010 at 1:01 AM
i wouldnt mind some more feedback on this challenge...re-reading it make me think that there may be too many things to complete? if you have tried this how did you cope with achieving all the things on the list?
Lab Assistant
#6 Old 5th Oct 2010 at 6:03 PM
Haven't tried it yet, but my first impression is that is includes too many things. It seems almost like a list of all the different things a sim can do throughout their life. What about modifying it so you have to do at least 50% of each positive and negative category rather than all of them?
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#7 Old 23rd Jan 2011 at 9:08 AM
Quote: Originally posted by SamanthaSSJ
Haven't tried it yet, but my first impression is that is includes too many things. It seems almost like a list of all the different things a sim can do throughout their life. What about modifying it so you have to do at least 50% of each positive and negative category rather than all of them?


yes thats what i was thinking too! it does seem too much...im off to alter it. thanks very much!
Field Researcher
#8 Old 5th Nov 2011 at 6:25 AM
fab idea....so well thought out
Doing all the things, and *mostly* not failing.
retired moderator
#9 Old 11th Feb 2014 at 10:30 PM
I really like this challenge. I love that it includes negative requirements as well. That forces more realism into my game without me feeling horrible about it, cuz *you* told me to do it! > Thanks!
Scholar
#10 Old 12th Feb 2014 at 3:40 PM
Quote: Originally posted by aishah2195
i wouldnt mind some more feedback on this challenge...re-reading it make me think that there may be too many things to complete? if you have tried this how did you cope with achieving all the things on the list?

There seem too many objectives in the child-section, but that´s just my impression from reading.
And if I was to play the challenge, I´d mix and match the gender-specific goals. Men are men and women are women, I know, but let´s just pretend it would be different and we could all be persons first!
Test Subject
#11 Old 25th Apr 2014 at 5:41 AM
I like this challenge! I won't be able to do the contest ones, because I don't have Free time.

However, a lot of the other ones, I'll be able to take a crack at. ^^ I have a family in mind for this too.
Test Subject
#12 Old 13th May 2014 at 12:41 AM
This is going to be cool,I did get a little upset with the female/male skills and badges.Not all females are girly.

This is what I can't what to do.
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