r/Sims4DecadesChallenge

I've got a fresh save ready to start my UDC, but the problem is I don't know how to deal with the NPCs (not even distant relative households, I mean actual NPCs such as other peasants, blacksmiths, royalty, etc) as no one really mentions how they manage them. Could anyone let me know if they do rolls for the NPCs? I'm changing lifespans in MCCC to fit my own so either way they age up, but I feel like managing NPCs in a similar way to player households must be too convoluted, especially once you're generations in??

I’m trying to start my 5th generation but had to fix the marriage of the matriarch! I was finally able to by removing the loyal trait, that trait really starts a messy relationship!

I restarted and redid everything, currently at 1303 wish me luck!<3

Maria asking her brother for his blessing

convincing...

them getting married

the kiss!

my main sim Norman and his daughter

Norman and his wife

Normans daughter Matilda

Normans son Edward

exactly as the title explains, i’m wondering if anyone has given maiden names to their wives and if so, what they do with that information? the way my spreadsheet is set up is very similar to morbid’s in that the wives in the “Sims Info” section are given the husband’s surname automatically. i could change this, but then i’m afraid it would mess up the pattern of every sim having the same surname.

i used to have maiden names picked out beforehand all the way back in 2nd generation. there were 3 women with maiden names (not counting my matriarch because she also never got one) but then i eventually just stopped when it came time to marry off the third generation. aside from those 3, i only have one other example of a wife having a maiden name in 7th gen, where she marries the future governor of salem and her brother (who carries her maiden name) runs off and has an illegal gay romantic relationship with the original governor’s son. not important but i just like the storylines for them.

back to my point, i like the idea of having maiden names, but i have no idea what i would even do with them/how i would log them. my sims tree could include their maiden names but then every wife’s name would be too long to fit on the screen and it would be like it’s not even there

then again. it’s really not that deep and i could easily just not log it and not have maiden names

Okay y'all, I genuinely don't even know how to explain my save anymore, so I'm just going to try.

I bought Royalty & Legacy because I wanted a cute little royal family save.

BIG MISTAKE.

I now have a fucking supernatural royal dynasty where nobody knows who the hell is related to who anymore.

So basically, Grand Duke Tybalt Capp is the King, and he's married to Ermelinda Abrantes, who's an Elder, Grand Duchess of Ondarion, AND the head of the Abrantes Dynasty. They have two infant sons, Todd and Tristan, who are currently the only confirmed humans left in this immediate family.

BUT Tybalt also has another son named Virgilio, who's Ermelinda's stepson, and Virgilio got bitten by this dude Duncan and became the first vampire in the family. Then Tybalt caught his own vampire son drinking blood from a human, and now father and son are fucking enemies.

AND THEN Tybalt himself got bitten by a werewolf, so now the King is turning into a werewolf while his wife is turning into a vampire and his son is already a vampire.

Meanwhile, Duncan, who is Tybalt's son-in-law because he's married to Celeste, decided to cheat on Celeste with Celeste's sister Beatrice, moved out with Beatrice, and they're planning to have a baby together.

BUT Duncan ALSO has a secret affair with Romeo Monty, who is married to Juliette.

AND IT GETS WORSE.

Juliette is actually Tybalt's biological sister, meaning Romeo is Tybalt's brother-in-law, and their son Dante is Tybalt's nephew. Dante is also best friends with Tybalt and somehow became part of the Cap Dynasty despite coming from the rival Monty side.

So basically the King's son-in-law is secretly sleeping with the King's brother-in-law while the brother-in-law is married to the King's sister, and the King's nephew is best friends with the King and has joined the King's Dynasty despite being from the rival family.

AND DUNCAN ISN'T DONE.

Because Duncan also bit Beatrice, Celeste, Virgilio, and Ermelinda, meaning Beatrice and Celeste are becoming vampires, Ermelinda is becoming a vampire, Virgilio is already a vampire, AND Duncan himself is a vampire.

So now the King is a werewolf, his wife is becoming a vampire, his son is a vampire, his son-in-law is a vampire, his son-in-law's wife is becoming a vampire, his son-in-law's girlfriend is becoming a vampire, and the only normal people left are apparently two fucking babies.

AND THEN VIRGILIO STARTED MESSING AROUND WITH TWO WOMEN AT ONCE—Jawara from the Darong Dynasty AND Duchess Cordelia, who's married to Duke Thiago, who is Tybalt's stepson.

Virgilio has already had sex with Cordelia multiple times, so I'm sitting here wondering if she's pregnant while he's simultaneously involved with Jawara.

OH, AND I ALMOST FORGOT:

I was originally going to have Tybalt and Juliette have an affair and a secret baby until I discovered THEY ARE SIBLINGS because apparently their deceased parents, Crodelia and Caliban, are the parents of both of them.

So THANK GOD the flirting didn't work. 😭

At this point I genuinely don't know if I'm playing The Sims or writing Game of Thrones: Vampire Edition.

I just wanted a royal family. 😭

For my UDC players, do you all keep track of every single sim on your spreadsheet or do you let them go at a certain point? Any advice on maintaining both the spreadsheet and save to be at a manageable amount of sims?

I’m 7 generations in, and it’s starting to feel like I do more spreadsheet maintenance and CAS makeovers than play the game lol.

Edit 8/16: Thank for your replies! I think I got into a good system for balancing spreadsheet and gameplay using some of the tips you guys offered. Now it’s just a matter of seeing how well it works lol. Thanks for the help! :)

my sim Ethne O’Ronan was born to Niall O’Ronan and Agnes O’Ronan. She is Niall’s only surviving daughter, he has 4 surviving sons at the moment. It is 1340 and his second son Beathan is getting married either this year or next year, his eldest Eoran works a sailor with his uncle Robin Fletcher to make extra money for the family. Niall also has two other sons, but they’re from his third and current wife and still quite young. Anyway, Ethne is Agnes’ only surviving child. This is where things get complicated.

Agnes O’Ronan (née Emberly) was the daughter of a middle class blacksmith. She was born and raised in London, though her family often travelled to sell their goods. She got pregnant out of wedlock twice, and her father basically gave her to the care of Niall, as he had heard he was a widow with five(?) young children. Niall is a kind guy, he had a fine understanding of english as his stepmother was english. Agnes and Niall never had a good marriage. He deeply cared for her, but she was always miserable. After 4 pregnancies, he let her rest. (horrible wording sorry) Then his half-sister Dorothy began talking about her wishes to move to England. Agnes volunteered to help her reach London safely, and so the two went on. Little did Niall know his wife and half sister had a secret affair… In late 1330 Dorothy sent a letter, writing about an unfortunate incident which led to Agnes’ death.

Agnes is not actually dead, dont worry guys. Anyway, when Ethne aged up to a teen she had a randomised royalty trait which i personally tied to her wanting to raise herself up in class, or at least not work on a farm. However with the plague coming soon…stuff get complicated. She has rolled to marry and have 8 pregnancies. I’ve came up with four storyline options:

1. Have her move to England as a maid at 17 (1343) and have her have an affair with her master, resulting in 1-3 pregnancies. if they survive the plague, they will marry.

Downsides: that would leave us with very little children and after the plague potentially none.

2. Have her move to England as a maid at 17, marry another servant, have 4-5 pregnancies, one may be not her husband’s. if she survives the plague but her husband does not, she will marry the lord and have the rest of her baby tries with him.

3. Have her marry at 16/17 a local irishman, then move together to England, work as a maid, have 4-5 pregnancies. if her husband dies of the plague but she survives, she can marry the lord.

4. i forgot the forth one so alternatively you can suggest me one.

ALSO would Niall allow her to go to england?? i mean she looks SO much like her mother and Agnes allegedly died by going to England. I suppose if she was already married he wouldnt really have a say in it, or he would be maybe more likely to agree if she is with her eldest brother Eoran and uncle who like I said is a sailor. Also her uncle is dorothy’s husband so this story is indeed very complicated… Anyway, I was planning she would work in Kent but her brother’s ship doesnt have a stop in kent. in spring they stop in chester, bristol and london. in summer it stops in plymouth. if she travels by sea in summer it adds another deadly risk because they first would pass by france and there is major conflict going on as we are all aware and since i love making my game complicated i have to roll the dice if they’ll be captured by pirates and if yes i believe atm it will be resulting in immediate death. OK PLS HELP ME DECIDEE i suppose if she stops in london she will just get a carriage to kent.

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I don’t want the work of having to build one historically accurate myself

i’m just starting generation 7 births, and after planning a lot of it out (for like maybe two hours) i am stuck with an insanely crowded timeline sheet and some years i can barely even fit births in so ill have like 10 days of just back to back births. even in doing this it will still take me 20 in-game years to get only HALF my sims’ pregnancies over with, not counting sims that are still children and i dont have their future marriages logged. i am scared that these future marriages will not have space to have children because of the vast amount of children already in spots.

i’m worried that this will get to the point my sims will eventually grow old and die before their generation is over and they can start having kids. it has gotten so bad that i am purposely killing off random sims that aren’t heirs to their family and reducing the amount of births my sims have significantly. it’s getting out of hand really fast and when i look at morbid’s sheet it looks so much less hectic.

is anyone else currently having or had this problem? i really would like to fix this but i love my alive gen 6 sims so far and i don’t want to kill them off as im attached to most (although if i have to murder off a majority of their 7th generation children to keep things calmer for me, i will).

edit: right now i feel my best bet is to maybe double up on birthdays. i plan to do this for generation 8 as most of generation 7 has been mapped out. i really dont wanna put side households on unplayed because my game has been giving my kids 20 identical kids from a glitch, plus i’d like the idea of choosing the kids names myself and aging them up and such

edit 2: i’ve also decided on enacting a rule that each 20 sims years (starting 1700) i will flip a coin/roll a d4 for each sims family, if they roll a bad result, i will kill them off. this will not apply to the main family.

I’m currently doing the Ultimate Decades challenge, but I’m curious is there are any challenges that start earlier… Like are there any that start in Ancient Greece or in pre historic times? I feel like it would be so cool to do a challenge like that. I’m also curious if there’s any challenges that focus on any other countries other than England. I think it would be so fun to play in ancient china or something! Any feedback is appreciated :)