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Completing the Sims 4 100 Baby Challenge

If you are a long time Sims player or member of the Sims community, you've probably heard of the 100 Baby Challenge. The challenge has existed in previous games, but is perhaps the most popular and played in the latest version of the game. In this challenge, you create a matriarch and continuously have babies by different fathers until she is too old to continue. Her youngest daughter then takes on the mantle, carries on the tradition, and has as many babies as she can, each by a different father. The challenge ends when 100 babies have been born total. The goal is to accomplish this in as few generations as possible.


Since you can only fit 8 sims in a single household, you must move out your children to make room for more. In order to move out, your children must age up into young adults. The "official" rules of the challenge stipulate that for a toddler to age up into a child, they must reach level five in three different skills or level three in five different skills. For a child to become a teen, they must achieve an "A" in school, and for the teenager to age into a young adult they must do the same. If you have the Parenthood game pack, there are additional rules that you must follow in order to age up and move out your kids. I decided to make the game more fun for me by amending the rule about toddlers--level three in three skills is good enough for me. I also don't have the Parenthood pack, so that made things easier for me as well.


The mother can never have a job outside the home. In order to make money, she has to find something to do from her house. She can paint, she can write novels, she can garden, she can license music, she can become a freelancer, she can do social media, she can program... The opportunities are endless! Since the mother won't age while pregnant, and she's almost always pregnant, she will live a really long life. She'll live so long that her oldest children will die of old age while she's still popping out babies. Living a long time means that she'll probably max out many skills and complete many aspirations.


Being constantly pregnant, while it does provide a sort of immortality, has its downsides, too. For instance, bladder control becomes a major challenge. I cannot tell you how many times the mothers in my save file peed on themselves mere inches from the toilet. Additionally, having kids crawling around everywhere is a little awkward when you're constantly trying to seduce new men into impregnating you. As a borderline immortal fertility goddess, finding men to sire your children becomes increasingly difficult. You cannot proposition the same man twice, and the town around you will quickly fill up with your own family members as they grow up and move on. Children and siblings will grow old and die, leaving the mother and all her children depressed, at times for days on end.


On the positive side, the mother sim is almost always cheerful. A rotating cast of new lovers keep her excited. While pregnancy is uncomfortable, it is also joyful. Constantly watching her children learn new skills and grow up fills her with pride. On top of that, she'll be well-accomplished with her many skills and money-making schemes.


Since the mother's main focuses are providing for her children and providing more children for herself, the kids often have to raise themselves. Teenagers become conscripted into caring for ungrateful toddlers, bathing them and teaching them to speak. Toddlers become sad or angry, waiting for attention from their often-occupied mother. Children resent unwanted new siblings. It's tough to be one of over twenty children, in some ways nothing more than a statistic on a deranged mother's quest to populate the planet.


In my save file, I chose to name the first fifty babies after US states. The first child was a beautiful baby girl named California. Some names worked better than others. Virginia had a great ring to it! Twin brothers Ohio and Kentucky weren't the luckiest when it came to the names assigned to them. The states only got me half of the way there, though. So for the subsequent fifty children, I used the state capitals. Some of the names were real doozies, and eventually names that would better suit a boy had to be assigned to a girl. Trenton was a girl, Lansing was a girl, Jefferson C. (short for city) was a girl. In the grand scheme of things, girls with slightly masculine names was the least of my concerns.


How long does it take to complete a 100 Baby Challenge? Most casual Sims players, like myself, play the game in cycles. You forget the game exists for months at a time, but then when you pick it up again , you play compulsively for hours a day, for days on end. Some days, things go well. Your Sims obey you, nobody starts any fires, the mother gets pregnant on her first try every time. On a day like this, you can make five, six, seven, or more babies. Somedays, your Sims just can't catch a break, and you'll be lucky if she manages to get her oldest kids out of the house so she can even have the chance at putting another bun in the oven. I began a 100 Baby challenge in 2017 or 18. Then the laptop I began that save file on got stolen. So I started over. This new file followed me as I moved across the country, migrated to a new computer, saw me through different jobs. After over three years of sporadic gameplay, my third sim mother gave birth to the 100th baby in the family tree, a healthy baby boy named Charleston.


Since the mothers cannot get pregnant by the same man twice, they don't have time to settle down or to pursue true love. They're looking for a donation rather than something serious or meaningful. But, after years of dedication to the craft of procreation, I allowed the mother to get married to her final baby daddy. All of her children attended the ceremony. This ceremony signifies not only the beginning of a beautiful relationship, but also the end of an arduous tradition. She can live the remainder of her days, with a slightly more normal life span, resting with her husband and giving her poor body a break (like a foster dog rescued from a puppy mill). A well deserved retirement, in my opinion.


 
 
 

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