Right. This time I am NOT boolproping. But I am inteening. Ill take away the points. No fear. I don't actually care.

i must admit i am still on my second generation of starving artists and she's still a child... lol... a very long challenge indeed. hehe, i will get back to it in a few days and see where it goes for the next generation... if all is well and life continues for each generation i will post updates as i go along. ten generations is a lot! if i was going to re-write this challenge i'd suggest trying to do it in five generations.

When my game starts working again, this is totally happening. xD

Ooo, this looks fun! Quick question - are you allowed to use the lamp/genie thing that the gypsy leaves?

Hm, I have never tried a challenge before. I think I'll give this a whirl. It might be a good starter. I'll post updates when I get somewhere. =D

If a teenager loses his/her mother, Won't the social asistant come to fetch him/her?

Teens can't be taken by Social Services, in The Sims 2. They just die horrible deaths when you mistreat them, because they're no longer adorable/innocent. This is also why you can't adopt teens.

I had this sim loose her parents ,My original plan was to make them split up ,have the younger daughter move out with the dad and then kill the mother ,But when you split them up the other one gets kicked out. So I killed the dad the day after they moved ,made the oldest daughter get a part-time job ,on sunday I killed the mom 2 days before the younger one turned into a teen. Both are teens ,older sibling 5 days untill adulthood. I only have nightlife so ,They have as big house ,the urns are on each side of the parents bed ,the side the parents slept on the first night there. Both of the teens have part time jobs at level 2. Kyra Jean and Valentina Rose Temptest are the teens. They only have about 3k right now. Only money they've made from paintings; 106 sim dollars. All of Krya Jean's paintings are all so pretty :lovestruc so I hung them up on the wall ,There's a painting of the dad's dining room chair in the parents room framed in gold ,and a portrait of Valentina Rose in the girls' room. She painted the same painting twice so I sold it ,Kyra Jean is also only 1 skill point away from mastering the creativity skill.

Chloe93: still with us! I really like your story, especially your graphics. I don't know how to do any of that, only "go advanced", find the snapshot and attach it.

My computer broke so I lost all of my progress. I have a new one so I'll have to restart the challenge. I WAS SO FAR

Trying this challenge again for the first time in ages, and I have a question: Crafting benches. Can my starving artists be potters or tailors (or a world champion flower-arranger)?

Sims 2 doesn't work properly in my windows 7 so I havent installed the expansion packs(I only have University and Nightlife). So I started this challenge only on the base game. And so far it has been fun fun fun!!!

I started off with Debra Morgan and her teenaged daughter Lilian Morgan. I killed Debra off soon enough and there is a grave in the lot now. Lilian is quite pretty and she maxed out creativity before she became an adult. and She was a straight A+ student!! Whoa!! Was earning pretty good from paintings.. and wrote a novel too.. For a humble life it was a pretty good. She then adopted Jonathan as toddler.

Jonathan grew up pretty fast into a child with Platinum aspiration. and both of them are earning by painting now. Lilian has started another novel. And they still find time to socialize. Not that they have many friends though. Loving the fact I havent cheated a bit till now. Jonathan maxed out his creativity before he became a teen!!!!! Wow!!

I will surely post some pictures later, though do not expect good ones as I am not good at it at all..


Also I want to keep Lilians genes as she is pretty so is it possible to have more than 1 child in household? Or I have to move someone out?

This is awesome! :D
I will try this as soon as I find time to play the game XD

I don't know why but this challange is SUPER easy- and very UNchallange like. I even have 3 free roaming ghosts and it's still not really difficult. I'm on my 3rd generation and all three have gotten into private school- only my first generation went into aspiration failure (because he caught his boyfriend cheating) and I have more than 40,000 simoleans to boot!

First thing I did was get a 3x5 lot and make a small one room house. Highest bed, highest stove, and an easel were my main furniture. Killed off mom, not too hard- and paint, paint, paint...did a romance/ intelligence combo. Fished at the community lot for food, got into the seceret lot for art, and eat out at the grills. Maxed my creativity so I moved on to cooking...once that was maxed and my grades were A+ I called the headmaster. Got in using a lobster dish I made for the cooking contest.

The only thing mod that would affect this is my 'no jealousy' mod- I actually took it out at the start but my entire neighborhood had become one big fight fest, with even newly created sims being targeted that I had to put it back in.

OH I do have on question- does anyone know why the child of two sims ONLY loses relationship points with the parent they live with if they see them cheating? He's been in the same room as the other parent when HE cheats but he doesn't have a reaction...but he'll always be in the negative with the 'mother'??

Forgot to mention that my founder was making OVER $3,000 per novel and $700 per painting- he could do like 3 paintings a day- I've expaned my building, bought the most expensive car and what not but I don't know what I'm doing wrong to make it soo easy...
And since toddlers can MAX their creativity the second generation is 1000xs easier!

I've been working on this for a couple days now its great exactly what i needed to break up the monotony thats been creeping back up and its difficult in all the best ways! Thanks for making and posting it.

This challenge was going fairly smooth for me. I was having a lot of fun, it was easy to keep up with school (my starving artist, Kaia Docker, had perfect grades), and she maxed the creativity skill with 6 days left of teenage-hood. As a teenager, I had Kaia become best friends with a NPC named George Something-or-Other When she had her birthday, they started being lovers and then I accidentally moved him in when I tried to do something else, soooo I tried to kill him with a fire and I was planning on locking Kaia outside the house until the fire was contained and George was, well, dead. I thought I locked the door but I actually didn't so George died, Kaia died, and I became depressed. Definitely retrying this though!

I am going to start this challenge myself. I will use a very, very brown teenager with a white-as-possible dad, and black mom.

She will have her paintings done in the basement.\


Edit: FAILURE.
Sim Died Of Fright. I Killed A Whole Family Of 8 Sims On The Lot Before I Moved her In. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I just started this challenge and so far, my sim is doing good. I'll post some of the pics here when I get past the first week.

I have a question however, the challenge of the game is to only make money through painting or writing a novel. My question is, is the money tree allowed? According to the rules, Aspiration rewards is allow, but wouldn't the money tree be a loop hole in that? lol. I just want to clarify before I use some of my aspiration points.

Edit: I've posted my challenge here , if you're interested.

I bet this would work for sims 3. I'm going to try this but only as a test!