More challenging challenge
rohina:
I've been thinking about a new sims challenge, after reading lots of Legacy stories, and playing the email challenge myself, with mixed results. The cool thing about the email challenge is that the things that make it - er - challenging are there throughout the duration of the challenge. It seems to me that the Legacy gets a lot easier after a generation. (That is, you eventually get money, and the marrying of NPC or townies is not that big a deal.)
I'm still formulating my ideas, but I was hoping for some feedback and suggestions. Here's the basic idea.
I was thinking about a single family, multigeneration challenge, but adding in a different obstacle for each generation. To make it interesting from a storytelling standpoint, I wanted to frame the obstacles as phobias or personality quirks of the family heir. When the heir becomes an adult, he/she can impose his/her mania on the rest of the family. My ideas for handicaps included the following (they could really be played in any order):
Generation 1 - pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Heir/head of family is opposed to formal education, and prefers to learn by life experience. No bookshelves, no private school, no university.
Generation 2 - virtue is its own reward. No use of aspiration rewards at all, ever. No career rewards allowed, either.
Generation 3 - agoraphobes. No going out, no dates, no parties.
Generation 4 - morals need to be stopped from going down the drain. No personal displays of affection in public, no cheating, no dancing.
Generation 5 - controlling matriarch/partriarch. No one is allowed to move out of the house, even for college; bonus points for having 7 people living in the house at all times.
Generation 6 - we're landed gentry. No one is allowed to get a job.
Generation 7 - reaction to the gentry generation - egalitarians. No hiring of service sims at all, ever.
Generation 8 - superiority complex. No non-family friends.
Generation 9 - popular culture is evil. No electronics.
I think there would be a rule about skipping a handicap for one generation, but then you would have to play 2 handicaps in the following generation. I have some ideas about how the rules would be implemented, but I wanted to know if people thought it was interesting, first.
Regina:
I think it's very interesting. I doubt I would play it but I think a lot of people would. :) The handicaps definitely add more challenge, like you say.
jewels:
I really like this idea. I always lose interest in other challenges, such as the Legacy Challenge, because it becomes less difficult once the family has some money and are established. Of course, no problem here with Pescado's Email Challenge, can't seem to make it a week without losing my perfect score :-\ I really think that this more challenging challenge would be really good.
J. M. Pescado:
You haven't even beat Email yet. You don't NEED a harder challenge.
rohina:
I didn't think email was about winning. I thought it was about zeitgeist. Anyway, I wasn't looking for something harder than email, just emai-like in its degree of difficulty.
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