Midnight Sun Challenge

[Gurra]

You don't remember much of what happened but the cruise ship sank, your lifeboat broke, and you ended up here. What a lucky life, don't you think?

Welcome to the Midnight Sun Challenge, MSC!

First of all, this challenge is meant to played in a special world, Isle of the Midnight Sun, which is an isolated island and that's what this challenge is meant to be; you are going to be isolated. As a side note; to get the special awesome weather effects the island is going to have (in other words midnight sun!) I recommend to take out any mods that change the weather and sun schemes.

Some pictures of the world:
   
   
   

Download the world here: http://customsims3.com/forums/thread-1644.html

To play this challenge it is recommended that you have the World Adventures expansion, otherwise it is impossible to finish it without breaking the rules. :P

You begin by creating a new game in the Isle of Midnight Sun, and create a new sim who is young adult or adult. It's up to you what your sim is going to look like and all that, no restrictions. :) After your sim is done you move him or her to the isle's only lot, a 10x10 lot worth 13500 simoleons.

This sim is now the beginning of a family whose destiny is to survive on this little island for 5 generations, until the first child of 5th generation turns YA. Your sim is allowed to do whatever he or she wants to in order to earn money, including painting, writing, fishing etc. The only age span allowed is Normal, which with the new Generations patch is considered a life span between 80-100 days in this challenge.

Since there are no other sims in the neighbourhood your sim lives in total isolation. This challenge is created to let your sims live in total isolation, and therefore you are NOT allowed to speak to any mailman or paparazzis showing up on or nearby your lot. The restriction also means that you have to travel abroad to either France, China or Egypt to find a partner for your future children since you are not allowed to adopt. Beware though, that a sim is only allowed to go for a vacation three times in his or her lifetime, and only once per destination. This means that if your sim goes to China he or she is never allowed to go there again, but another family member is.

An important detail is that everyone born on the lot or married into family must live on the isle and is never allowed to leave it until death takes them elsewhere. The only exception to this is the limited number of vacations allowedl. Also, during a sim's childhood you are never allowed to choose his or her traits, they must be randomized. Do NOT try to send your children to boarding school since there is no possibility for a taxi to pick them up.

At last, no cheats are allowed except for when you need to reset a buggy sim or move something that's in the way with moveobjects. Of course it's up to you if you follow the rules or not for this challenge, but you are not allowed to use mods that changes game conditions for skills, moods etc. If you are unsure whether a mod should be allowed or not, you can always bring it up for discussion in the thread! :)

If you feel for it you could share your stories anywhere if you want to because it's always fun reading about what's happening in other people's games and if you have any questions - ask them! ;)

If you have Pets and/or Late Night I deeply recommend downloading the NRaas Register mod to be able to get rid of the paparazzis and wild animals, they could be extremely disturbing.

Good luck on the Isle of Midnight Sun! :D

Perfect Genetics-Midnight Sun Challenge
This combination of my two Midnight Sun and Perfect Genetics challenges has grown popular in the Swedish sims community.
In that combination challenge you just follow the rules of both challenges, except for the MSC 5 generations rule, since PG is 10 generations. It's very funny and I do recommend it if you're looking for a really hard but fun challenge!

Remember that there's a limit of maximum 8 images allowed per reply to a challenge thread!

[Regina]

Gurra, that sounds totally crazy! :bounce: I hope you have some takers here because it would be a lot of fun to read! :MrGreen:

[Gurra]

I thought of what it would be like to combine this with my perfect genetics challenge! You would have to ***** your kids if you got too many since you aren't allowed to move them away...

[Gurra]

I have added a recommendation about a funny combination with this challenge and another one. Read below or in the end of the first post:

(09-20-2011 09:35 AM)Gurra Wrote:  Perfect Genetics-Midnight Sun Challenge
This combination of my two Midnight Sun and Perfect Genetics challenges has grown popular in the Swedish sims community.
In that combination challenge you just follow the rules of both challenges, except for the MSC 5 generations rule, since PG is 10 generations. It's very funny and I do recommend it if you're looking for a really hard but fun challenge!

[lkandak]

Oooh, great idea for a challenge! I'm not really doing any challenges and am playing my one 'hood now but I definitely wanna do this one sometimes :D

[Gurra]

This challenge has been updated with new rules (most of it is the same) and a completely new world that is better than the former! Check out the first post for the changes. :)

[CathrynMcCoy]

Sound's challenging. I will try it. ;)

[CathrynMcCoy]

I finally got my sim in the 8th generation pregnant ... and then a meteorite hit the island ... and I was so shocked, when I saw my sim die ... I saved the game :( ... I guess I'll have to try it again.

[tontrin]

Oh, that is so sad. Sorry. :headbang:

[Gurra]

but Cathryn, there is a backup save file for every game you have in the Saves folder. Just take away the .backup ending and you can use that :D

[tontrin]

Oh it does do that now again! It had stopped doing it, but mine is back to making the backup again. Yay!

[CathrynMcCoy]

Where are we supposed to put all the gravestones? ;)

[Ghost]

A very large series of sub-basements?

Or perhaps Family Inventory?

[oldmacmellon]

Quick question, can I go to the university instead since I don't have WA?
If not who cares, when there is a will there is a way right?

[tontrin]

Hi OldMacMellon and welcome to CS3.

I don't see why you can't change a rule to a challenge to work with the EP's you have, after all, it's your game and you can decide what to do anyway, and you could actually add some new rules and your own twist to the challenge and post that. That could be really fun.