Long time simmer here! You cracked the joke about the drug dealing expansion early in the video. I would invite you to explore the world of Custom Content. Seriously, it opens up the world to a lot of cool possibilities. For starters, you need Basemental's Drug Mod and MC Command Center. Pretty much everyone has Basemental and absolutely everyone has MC Command Center. MC gives you control over things that you normally wouldn't be able to access and well, Basemental is pretty self explanatory. Next up, I would suggest either Extreme Violence for the hilarious kill counts that happen or the Book of Chaos from the same creator. As for bug fixes, there are plenty of mods that fix the plethora of bugs and glitches. I would highly suggest looking up Little Miss Sam for her bug fixes. Hope this helps!
52:40, damn all this Predz- lore suddenly dropping. Married his childhood friend/sweetheart, knows a bunch of instruments and is a good dad to his daughter. Dude's living the life.
I've been playing for years. In terms of DLC, you're probably best off aiming for Expansion packs first, over Game packs, Stuff packs, or Kits. I would also wait for a sale, especially for DLC you aren't 100% interested in. Also, keep an eye out for whenever kits or stuff packs are available for free. Here's a break-down: The expansions add the most, particularly in terms of actual game play, and usually also come with expansive new worlds (the exception being Seasons, which massively overhauled existing worlds). The most recommended ones would probably be Seasons, Cats & Dogs, Cottage Living, Horse Ranch, and Growing Together, since the things they add are most likely to effect your typical experience. Expansions are all pretty solid, though, so, apart from some being buggier than others. Game packs add more niche gameplay, such as the ability to become a tomb raider, vampire, or the hero of a town. Quite a few also add new, smaller sized worlds. The most recommended ones to get are Vampires, Werewolves, Realm of Magic, Jungle Adventure, and Parenthood. Those are the ones that add supernatural life-states, the cool tomb raiding stuff, and the family stuff. For the most part, game packs are solid, but there are quite a few that are "controversial" purchases. Those are My Wedding Stories (it's probably the buggiest pack), Journey to Batuu (Star Wars promotion), Dine Out (still buggy), and StrangerVillle (linear storyline based on Stranger Things). Stuff packs add some gameplay, but are mostly cosmetics (stuff like new clothes or new chairs). The most recommended ones are Tiny Living, Home Chef Hustle, Crystal Creations, and Vintage Glamor. There are more "controversial" or "bad" Stuff packs. Those include Moschino (unwanted high end fashion brand collaboration), Perfect Patio (pointless), Luxury Party (also pointless), and My First Pet Stuff (half the content is locked if you don't also own Cats & Dogs). Kits are almost exclusively cosmetics, either focused on Build/Buy or Create-A-Sim (CAS). The only exception is Bust the Dust, which didn't go over well with the community and was very buggy when it came out. Kits have had more controversial launches than not, are known to be wildly overpriced, and generally receive "meh" reviews in the long run. As for recommendations, I would probably focus more on the Build/Buy kits, especially ones that add random clutter, and only get the CAS kits when they go for free. The only kit I genuinely wouldn't recommend is Carnival Streetwear, since I strongly dislike it on principal (it was a collab with a specific artist/influencer, and the outfits are specifically made to reflect their personal style, but it was marketed as a "cultural" DLC that represented Brazil and Carnival as a whole).
As someone who used to live in a shoebox flat with two other people, this DLC baffled me to no end. Hey, you maybe have enough space to walk to your bunk-bed, and toilets and showers are communal in another building = superpowers.
Jumping between aspirations and buying alot of the perks in the aspiration shop makes this way easier, especailly the no sleep or eat perks, takes a bit to get about three full aspiration paths, painting, writing and the bodybuiler aspirations make it easiest to get
I was watching this, wishing it was easy to see progress like this in real life; it would make it so much easier to accomplish things. Then I read some Polish, reviewed some words, racked up 12 new mastered words for the day, and marked it off my to-do list where I'm challenging myself to improve in 3 areas daily. And then I was like, hey . . . (Still, music and a flashy icon would be nice when you've done something great.)
@@FreshIceCold If you want to be pedantic, I am reading Harry Potter translated into Polish. But in English, you can shortcut that and say you read Polish--meaning I read something as a means of studying/learning Polish. You can also express ownership of a language in English. I can say that my Polish is not very good.
@@kerim.peardon5551this was the exact way i learned English before my Matura exam xd Harry Potter power 😂 i also have this book in Korean and your comment inspired me to read it! Good luck with Polish!
James Turner has a TH-cam Video about the most liked expansions. He does a survey with his audience every year. So if you want to know what the best expansions are, you could check that out. Or more like if you want to know the worst expansions. A lot of sims packs have a lot of bugs. So the ones with the most bugs usually have the lowest rating. That way you can avoid them (though the most bugged ones are "Dine out" and the wedding pack). I would love to see you play an active career, I don't know why. So maybe have a look at getting "get to work"?
A challenge like this is made MUCH easier with the Get Together expansion. Clubs have the "Rally The Troops" interaction, which means your Sim never needs to sleep. If you create a club immediately and focus on club interactions, you can get that on day 1. There are also ways to change your Sim's mood and increase skill gain. If you work it right, I expect you could complete this challenge in just 50 days with that. I'm not sure if you took them, but the Early Bird and Night Owl traits also help a lot with skill gains. And since you're doing Mixology anyway, by joining the Culinary -> Mixology career, there's an opportunity (at Career level 9) to buy the Snaggle Fuster recipe. That's awesome because it boosts skill gains by an incredible amount for the 3 hours it's active. Another way to make money quickly and get fast satisfaction points is to complete the Soulmate aspiration. Going on dates can cost nothing and give you a reward you can sell for good money. If your partner is in the right mood, the date itself won't take long to get to gold level either.
if you have mood arts (like the focused work you sold from the observatory) you can click on them to enable their emotional auras then they'll give you a moodlet of that type whenever youre in that room (i recommend having one inspired work and one focused work in your computer room, and then switching them on or off based on the skill you want to advance)
Snap dragons and strawberries. When you get to high enough gardening skill you can take a cut from snapdragon plant. Then you can splice it into the strawberry plant and make dragon fruit. Then plant dragon fruit and with like 6 plants you will make good money
I'm very much one to advocate for piracy, so Anadius' sims 4 updater gives you access to all the DLC without taking out a second mortgage on your home lmao
I have it bc I LOVE pirating shit, unless it's from small indie developers who put their heart and soul into a game. Companies: PIRATE. Indie developers: PIRATE then when you have enough money, support them and buy it!
So for expansions i think it really depends what you want to play. Do you like Vampires/Wizards/...? Do you want to do like a family legacy challenge? Do you want to have many new skills and careers? But in general, theres a James Turner Video on what his community voted as the best and worse expansions The Sims 4 has, so feel free to look at that for a general idea :) Also, I know that wouldnt at all be possible for a single video (maybe with only basegame), but i started a challenge a while ago, where i want to complete every skill, every career, every aspiration, get every bonus reward trait, finish all university degrees and get all Milestones (the last two are only with expansions though). That is very fun but it takes ages😂
As a Simmer, I'm impressed. I love your tenacity in nailing the skills! It's too easy to drift off into mundane gameplay and forget to focus on the skills. I recommend Tiny Living for its lot perks, Seasons for Patchy(to help with gardening), Island Living, Eco Lifestyle, honestly, any of them that interest you as long as you get them on a good sale!
Wait, what about the photography skill? If you select the phone next to the amount of money you have you have the action to take a photo which unlocks the photography skill that can be maxed out at level ten. Why has no one mentioned this?
Photography is maxed at level 5 so it's unique. Technically he still has 4 days and it'd take less than a day to take a couple photos to max it out. I totally didn't even notice he didn't do the photography skill though😭
@@kaitlenbennett8459 I was always confused why that one base game camera had 2 swatches only usable if you had get to work but I just looked it up. Apparently the photography skill originally came with get to work then was integrated in the base game later.
Your advice about learning an instrument is much the same I feel about learning a language! I think it’s the fact that if you stick with it you can literally experience your progress; i.e you get proof you’re improving when you can understand/read/talk better and with instruments the proof is hearing yourself play. There’s no better feeling than going to practice and you’re ready to be disappointed but all of a sudden there’s a big change/improvement that’s impossible to ignore!
For game play expansions, I highly recommend Seasons, Cottage Living, Eco Lifestyle, and if you want your sims to have children Growing Together adds a lot. Living off the land with Cottage living is more fun, especially if you also have Eco Lifestyle because that lets you live off the grid and make your own power
The Sulani expansion with the mermaids is my favourite :D I know it's not exactly as dense as it should be, but you could say that of all of TS4's expansions.
I think it just comes with the territory of the content style. 100 days etc is kind of like the shorts of gaming content. Most people I assume just remember a game or find a new one they are interested in, and want to see that played, they want to watch a complete series but not invest in something that’s 30 minutes an episode for 100 episodes, these types of videos are a really good in between for being interested in a game and being dedicated to a playthrough. So they look to the videos for content, not the creators themselves
Possible challenge See how much money you can make in 100 days Would recommend the Get To Work DLC since it adds more money making avenues, such as owning a retail store.
In case you didn't know or it wasn't obvious, you can run on a treadmill to unfat your Sims, and it levels up the athletic skill at the same time. Edit: Looks like you didn't need my advice after all. 😂
this is a very interesting challenge I'm thinking of dumping a big investment on the Sims 4 and get me many expansions, and just have fun. Maybe do some of these challenges. I'll keep this one in mind It's very similar to something I did with my own Sim back in the Sims 2 and tried in the Sims 3: to max out all skills/hobbies/collectables
Don't you dare! Look up sims 4 cracked, you can get the base game and all dlc's for free, my sister showed it to me a bit ago and it's awesome to play with all the packs [withought spending 1 grand on it]
I’m a dirty sims min-maxer and there are so many ways to optimize this challenge. For one, there are very simple actions you can do to get moodlets that buff skill gain. If you have that moodlet and a bunch of other happy moodlets, you can become very focused for example, boosting focused skill gain even more. focusing logic is easiest and boosts skill gain even more. You can swap between all of the aspirations to collect points in order to get the savant, day person and night person perks to maximize skill gain. From there you would save up aspiration points to get the one where your sim no longer has to sleep. Completing the artist aspiration allows you to make paintings that alter moods, so that would be good to do early as well. Gonna have to try this soon.
all the dlc is mostly worth it except my pets stuff that only adds hamsters but requires the actual pets expansion to still work, get to work is the toppest of top tier expansions and adds 3 jobs you can actually follow your sim to
Try Get to Work. You get Baking skill to make food with, and you get to play as a scientist, a medic or a police officer. For single-sim player those careers are great since you get to go with your sim. Scientist maybe. Try and complete some collections while you're at it. Another is that plants grow at 5 am in the neighborhood you happen to be in. So-- maybe Outdoor Retreat for camping gear so one sim can go around making sure all plants are grown or something while learning herbalism. You may also want tiny home stuff pack for the next skill-builder.
the brief side quest that was skillius getting abducted by aliens and then giving birth to an alien baby only to send the baby back was something i did not see coming from this video
Man I want you to do this with every dlc and the camera skill too because this was FUCKING AWESOME DUDE!!!!! Edit: first of since it’s nearly $1000 dollars it might take a while, second off, you could do it for like 200 days
At the risk of feeling like you're doing the same exact, you could buy the Tiny Living pack to get the tiny home lot trait that, if you do some strategic trait and mood planning, can level creative and music skills in a sim day or two. That idea might be best reserved to if/when you buy all the other packs that add skills and make a comparison video to this one.
I'd love to see this as a running series with every expansion pack you buy that adds new skills, considering the total number of skills as of this comment is about 50.
While this doesn't work for all skills, if you go into cas and set all skills to "liked" they'll grow faster, and you can gain fun while working on them as well!
Baking isn't a base game skill, so you kinda didn't need to do that, you just clearly have the Get To Work expansion pack. But omg I was laughing so much when you got abducted and pregnant 😂😂 Gold.
I’m not sure how I would have it. I got the sims 4 for free when it went f2p on steam, unless it was included in the free package? Not sure though. Either way thanks for pointing that out and saving me 40$! 🙏
@@ThatGuyPredz Hmm, weird. Because you definitely have it, aliens come with the pack as well, you couldn't have them either without it. But anyway, glad I could help!
also, you can click the little box thingy (briefcase?) next to your sim's face at the bottom of the screen while at work to "work hard" and you should be able to get promoted basically daily
Heads up! You can swap between aspirations whenever you want by clicking the golden star thingy! It's super helpful for getting that first few thousand points :) (ps: you mightve figured that out already, Im only a few min in)
YOur alien baby!!!!! That was so cool and unexpected! In honor of that I believe you should do a 100 baby challenge or something similar because i think it would be fun!!!!!
Hey hey! I have SO much to say about the sims 4. What /kind/ of gameplay are you into? I think the supernatural expansions are great, but you might like more realistic ones. Assuming you already have GET TO WORK, I would definitely get Strangerville next. It's an odd one, taking place somewhere near Nevada or Arizona. It would go well with Aliens, Mad Scientists, and causing chaos. There's so many cool mods that use Strangerville as a base too! Like zombie apocalypses using the infected townies! ALSO, you can try out the challenges! See if you could beat the 1 MILLION Simoleon challenge in 100 days or less! Great video though! Welcome to the SIMS 4 community!
I don't have much to add other than if you had the Tiny Living stuff pack, you could grind out your abilities 2x as fast due to the micro home trait you can give to your house
As someone with 1000+ hours in the Sims this is kind of like watching a child learn to spell. Not how I do it anymore, but I get how you got there and am happy to see you explore things that are normal to me by now Edit: Just to clarify, this is supposed to be a compliment. I should really take some notes and unlearn the grindset of doing everything "the optimal way"
fav expacks are cats and horses. I'd say see if u can steal every pet, but u'd need a mod to expand ur household. (ask to move in and move their animals to ur household and leave, lol)
You can actually gain charisma really quickly by throwing parties. You can also add lot traits to your house in build mode, some of which also help with skill gain. Also baking comes with Get to Work so I would say it wasn't necessary to complete that skill in this video.
I would like to say if it hasn't been said already... if you don't have any other emotion based buffs active, having earbuds (which I believe are basegame) and use them to play focused music ( which I think isn't in the base game but I don't remember which pack it comes in) makes you focused... So that eliminates having to run back to do some chess all the time.
I challenge you to complete one aspiration in each section and get all skills maxed. I have been passively doing this challenge myself with my immortal wearwolf sim. She is currently working on a wearwolf skill that won't end.
with handiness level 9 you can make your computer run faster when playing games and increase the effectiveness of hacking, so that's one of the first skill any player should build first, since it also help other skills (like logic, by upgrading the telescope or microscope) that skill can make you shower, sleep and clean less often, so it translate into more hours to max skills in the long run
It's been months or even years since the last time I play The Sims 4. But you might have just inspired me to pick it up again. This challenge looks like something I'd love to hate.
you playing sims makes my heart so happy, i watched your 1000 days vids in PZ & you made me fall in LOVE with that game. so it’s nice to see you play a game i already love, imo i think that it’d be fun for you to get get to work, get famous, cats & dogs (your guy deserves a little companionship 🫶🏻) , werewolves (i LOVE werewolves- it has a special place in my heart) really - anything occult in the sims is fun! i wouldn’t touch my wedding stories with a 10ft pole or dine out UNLESS you have mods! which if you’re interested in, the mods community on the sims is VERY generous basemental mods is one of my favs- adds very interesting aspects 😅 anyways! happy simming & i’d love to see you play more 🫶🏻
Brother, I’m begging you to continue grinding the rest of the aspirations, visit the secret sims world, and/or figure out how to stop your sim from aging.
Oh you'd have a *great* time doing the SuperSim challenge! It really forces you to get... acquainted with the game. And some of the expansions make it a truly. special experience
If you ever do this again, I highly recommend playing with seasons installed. You can play on a day called "new skill day" and crank out a lot of exp in new skills that day.
I am only 16 minutes in (watching it in parts mostly) if this is only the base game then it makes sense but you could cut down time waste by getting a pack like “get to work” or “get famous” since they give you the option to go to work and gain skills. Being an actor lets you work on your acting skill and socialism skill and I think guitar? I don’t really know all the skills you can do while at work as an actor I have not checked but it’s likely worth it.
Skillius maximus? I met him in wome! We were introduced by our mutual friend, Biggus Dickus, and his wife... Incontenentia... Inconenentia... Buttocks! {yes, that was a life of brian refrence.}
Useful fact- having a higher Logic skill means that all other skills will level a little faster; so try and max that first!
Oh wow i did not know that!!
Logic make everything easier.
Really? I didn’t know that 😮
Wait what? For real? Thank you for that
Thats a neat feature!
I love how the Sims 4 is just like "Would you like to commit a cyber felony? Ok, you made $118. Hope that's worth 5 years in a penitentery!"
Bro the worst part about that is that it can only afford two rolls of toilet paper
Long time simmer here! You cracked the joke about the drug dealing expansion early in the video. I would invite you to explore the world of Custom Content. Seriously, it opens up the world to a lot of cool possibilities. For starters, you need Basemental's Drug Mod and MC Command Center. Pretty much everyone has Basemental and absolutely everyone has MC Command Center. MC gives you control over things that you normally wouldn't be able to access and well, Basemental is pretty self explanatory. Next up, I would suggest either Extreme Violence for the hilarious kill counts that happen or the Book of Chaos from the same creator. As for bug fixes, there are plenty of mods that fix the plethora of bugs and glitches. I would highly suggest looking up Little Miss Sam for her bug fixes. Hope this helps!
The most sanest sims player
Sanest sex mod user
to be frank, i think he knows of these but they would täke away from his chalöenges
Dude literally immediately said base game and dude said oh here's some mods. Lol dude hasn't a single idea why he strictly went EA only.
But it sucks when you have outdated cc and thousands to double check (better exceptions helps with most of this, but not everything 😭)
52:40, damn all this Predz- lore suddenly dropping. Married his childhood friend/sweetheart, knows a bunch of instruments and is a good dad to his daughter. Dude's living the life.
1 of the many lore drops we have gotten
Sim: daddy why is bobafett living on a plot of land with no home?
Sim 2: just keep walking kiddo... We dont talk about him
I've been playing for years. In terms of DLC, you're probably best off aiming for Expansion packs first, over Game packs, Stuff packs, or Kits. I would also wait for a sale, especially for DLC you aren't 100% interested in. Also, keep an eye out for whenever kits or stuff packs are available for free. Here's a break-down:
The expansions add the most, particularly in terms of actual game play, and usually also come with expansive new worlds (the exception being Seasons, which massively overhauled existing worlds). The most recommended ones would probably be Seasons, Cats & Dogs, Cottage Living, Horse Ranch, and Growing Together, since the things they add are most likely to effect your typical experience. Expansions are all pretty solid, though, so, apart from some being buggier than others.
Game packs add more niche gameplay, such as the ability to become a tomb raider, vampire, or the hero of a town. Quite a few also add new, smaller sized worlds. The most recommended ones to get are Vampires, Werewolves, Realm of Magic, Jungle Adventure, and Parenthood. Those are the ones that add supernatural life-states, the cool tomb raiding stuff, and the family stuff. For the most part, game packs are solid, but there are quite a few that are "controversial" purchases. Those are My Wedding Stories (it's probably the buggiest pack), Journey to Batuu (Star Wars promotion), Dine Out (still buggy), and StrangerVillle (linear storyline based on Stranger Things).
Stuff packs add some gameplay, but are mostly cosmetics (stuff like new clothes or new chairs). The most recommended ones are Tiny Living, Home Chef Hustle, Crystal Creations, and Vintage Glamor. There are more "controversial" or "bad" Stuff packs. Those include Moschino (unwanted high end fashion brand collaboration), Perfect Patio (pointless), Luxury Party (also pointless), and My First Pet Stuff (half the content is locked if you don't also own Cats & Dogs).
Kits are almost exclusively cosmetics, either focused on Build/Buy or Create-A-Sim (CAS). The only exception is Bust the Dust, which didn't go over well with the community and was very buggy when it came out. Kits have had more controversial launches than not, are known to be wildly overpriced, and generally receive "meh" reviews in the long run. As for recommendations, I would probably focus more on the Build/Buy kits, especially ones that add random clutter, and only get the CAS kits when they go for free. The only kit I genuinely wouldn't recommend is Carnival Streetwear, since I strongly dislike it on principal (it was a collab with a specific artist/influencer, and the outfits are specifically made to reflect their personal style, but it was marketed as a "cultural" DLC that represented Brazil and Carnival as a whole).
This is such a good breakdown of the sims 4 expansion packs 👏🏻
The DLCs are expensive so I just "borrowed" them using Anadius' DLC unlocker
with EAs disgusting business practices? just fuckin pirate it
i have always heard good things about StrangerVillle. sure the storyline has no reply value but its nice for what it is.
Or just pirate
I love how fishing was both the first skill acquired and the last to be finished lol
Tiny living is great for challenges like this! You build skills really fast by living in a micro home
Wasn't he playing vanilla? Tiny living is DLC
@@jariiii_ everybody in the comments are suggesting DLCs he should buy. I assume hollyabbott did the same
I thought vanilla means without mods @@jariiii_
@@Camsas14it does but i think he meant base game which is no mods or dlc
As someone who used to live in a shoebox flat with two other people, this DLC baffled me to no end. Hey, you maybe have enough space to walk to your bunk-bed, and toilets and showers are communal in another building = superpowers.
Jumping between aspirations and buying alot of the perks in the aspiration shop makes this way easier, especailly the no sleep or eat perks, takes a bit to get about three full aspiration paths, painting, writing and the bodybuiler aspirations make it easiest to get
I was watching this, wishing it was easy to see progress like this in real life; it would make it so much easier to accomplish things.
Then I read some Polish, reviewed some words, racked up 12 new mastered words for the day, and marked it off my to-do list where I'm challenging myself to improve in 3 areas daily.
And then I was like, hey . . .
(Still, music and a flashy icon would be nice when you've done something great.)
What does even read polish mean xS. Jakby no to nie książka to język lol
@@FreshIceCold If you want to be pedantic, I am reading Harry Potter translated into Polish. But in English, you can shortcut that and say you read Polish--meaning I read something as a means of studying/learning Polish.
You can also express ownership of a language in English. I can say that my Polish is not very good.
@@kerim.peardon5551this was the exact way i learned English before my Matura exam xd Harry Potter power 😂 i also have this book in Korean and your comment inspired me to read it! Good luck with Polish!
@@anastazjawronka5502 I'm about to finish Book 4. I'm hoping to be Level B2 by the time I finish the series!
Good luck with Korean. :-)
The only difference is that we forget things over time :P
I've been playing sims for years and I always like watching people who dont know sims play sims lol. Its really interesting
James Turner has a TH-cam Video about the most liked expansions. He does a survey with his audience every year. So if you want to know what the best expansions are, you could check that out.
Or more like if you want to know the worst expansions. A lot of sims packs have a lot of bugs. So the ones with the most bugs usually have the lowest rating. That way you can avoid them (though the most bugged ones are "Dine out" and the wedding pack).
I would love to see you play an active career, I don't know why. So maybe have a look at getting "get to work"?
A challenge like this is made MUCH easier with the Get Together expansion. Clubs have the "Rally The Troops" interaction, which means your Sim never needs to sleep. If you create a club immediately and focus on club interactions, you can get that on day 1. There are also ways to change your Sim's mood and increase skill gain. If you work it right, I expect you could complete this challenge in just 50 days with that.
I'm not sure if you took them, but the Early Bird and Night Owl traits also help a lot with skill gains. And since you're doing Mixology anyway, by joining the Culinary -> Mixology career, there's an opportunity (at Career level 9) to buy the Snaggle Fuster recipe. That's awesome because it boosts skill gains by an incredible amount for the 3 hours it's active.
Another way to make money quickly and get fast satisfaction points is to complete the Soulmate aspiration. Going on dates can cost nothing and give you a reward you can sell for good money. If your partner is in the right mood, the date itself won't take long to get to gold level either.
The biggest one is actually tiny living. The micro home trait doubles all skill gain
Skillus' biography must be insane. I bet there are podcasts talking about him in the sims world.
if you have mood arts (like the focused work you sold from the observatory) you can click on them to enable their emotional auras
then they'll give you a moodlet of that type whenever youre in that room
(i recommend having one inspired work and one focused work in your computer room, and then switching them on or off based on the skill you want to advance)
Snap dragons and strawberries. When you get to high enough gardening skill you can take a cut from snapdragon plant. Then you can splice it into the strawberry plant and make dragon fruit. Then plant dragon fruit and with like 6 plants you will make good money
Cowplants are the key to immortality and are actually rather easy to get.
I'm very much one to advocate for piracy, so Anadius' sims 4 updater gives you access to all the DLC without taking out a second mortgage on your home lmao
thank you 🙏🙏
I have it bc I LOVE pirating shit, unless it's from small indie developers who put their heart and soul into a game.
Companies: PIRATE.
Indie developers: PIRATE then when you have enough money, support them and buy it!
@@FrauSammie REALEST THING EVER. I have majority of the packs and I'm also out here vibing in the sims 2 🤭🤭
yo that's how i got the sims 4 lol
@FrauSammie I highly recommend the second option, did it with Stardew Valley before I could buy it and now have 1600+ hours.
So for expansions i think it really depends what you want to play. Do you like Vampires/Wizards/...? Do you want to do like a family legacy challenge? Do you want to have many new skills and careers? But in general, theres a James Turner Video on what his community voted as the best and worse expansions The Sims 4 has, so feel free to look at that for a general idea :)
Also, I know that wouldnt at all be possible for a single video (maybe with only basegame), but i started a challenge a while ago, where i want to complete every skill, every career, every aspiration, get every bonus reward trait, finish all university degrees and get all Milestones (the last two are only with expansions though). That is very fun but it takes ages😂
As a Simmer, I'm impressed. I love your tenacity in nailing the skills! It's too easy to drift off into mundane gameplay and forget to focus on the skills.
I recommend Tiny Living for its lot perks, Seasons for Patchy(to help with gardening), Island Living, Eco Lifestyle, honestly, any of them that interest you as long as you get them on a good sale!
Wait, what about the photography skill? If you select the phone next to the amount of money you have you have the action to take a photo which unlocks the photography skill that can be maxed out at level ten. Why has no one mentioned this?
Photography is maxed at level 5 so it's unique. Technically he still has 4 days and it'd take less than a day to take a couple photos to max it out. I totally didn't even notice he didn't do the photography skill though😭
Photography comes with the get to work pack I believe
@@kaitlenbennett8459 I was always confused why that one base game camera had 2 swatches only usable if you had get to work but I just looked it up. Apparently the photography skill originally came with get to work then was integrated in the base game later.
To level 5 not 10.
3:14 Among us😂
Your advice about learning an instrument is much the same I feel about learning a language! I think it’s the fact that if you stick with it you can literally experience your progress; i.e you get proof you’re improving when you can understand/read/talk better and with instruments the proof is hearing yourself play. There’s no better feeling than going to practice and you’re ready to be disappointed but all of a sudden there’s a big change/improvement that’s impossible to ignore!
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Next time I think you should look into lot traits as you can build skills way faster with them and make money from the prairie grass lot challenge
For game play expansions, I highly recommend Seasons, Cottage Living, Eco Lifestyle, and if you want your sims to have children Growing Together adds a lot. Living off the land with Cottage living is more fun, especially if you also have Eco Lifestyle because that lets you live off the grid and make your own power
The Sulani expansion with the mermaids is my favourite :D
I know it's not exactly as dense as it should be, but you could say that of all of TS4's expansions.
yeah idk why you dont have more subs i love your zomboid and other content i enjoy goofy sims stuff and some kenshi etc.....
It’s the way the algorithm pushes him to people who watch similar content
I think it just comes with the territory of the content style. 100 days etc is kind of like the shorts of gaming content. Most people I assume just remember a game or find a new one they are interested in, and want to see that played, they want to watch a complete series but not invest in something that’s 30 minutes an episode for 100 episodes, these types of videos are a really good in between for being interested in a game and being dedicated to a playthrough. So they look to the videos for content, not the creators themselves
gotta love how skillius went from boba fett to paul blart in less than 50 days
Possible challenge
See how much money you can make in 100 days
Would recommend the Get To Work DLC since it adds more money making avenues, such as owning a retail store.
This is pure dedication that challenge is hard maxing out 4 or 5 skills is already a lot
In case you didn't know or it wasn't obvious, you can run on a treadmill to unfat your Sims, and it levels up the athletic skill at the same time.
Edit: Looks like you didn't need my advice after all. 😂
I had no idea alien abductions could happen in the base game?! I thought it was a Get to Work thing
The sims dlc is the most insane and greedy thing I’ve ever seen in my 25 years of gaming, I think pirating the game with all DLCS might be the move.
this is a very interesting challenge
I'm thinking of dumping a big investment on the Sims 4 and get me many expansions, and just have fun. Maybe do some of these challenges. I'll keep this one in mind
It's very similar to something I did with my own Sim back in the Sims 2 and tried in the Sims 3: to max out all skills/hobbies/collectables
Don't you dare! Look up sims 4 cracked, you can get the base game and all dlc's for free, my sister showed it to me a bit ago and it's awesome to play with all the packs [withought spending 1 grand on it]
This was the first video I've watched of you and I stuck around all the way to the end of the vid. Great video man keep up the good work :P
I’m a dirty sims min-maxer and there are so many ways to optimize this challenge. For one, there are very simple actions you can do to get moodlets that buff skill gain. If you have that moodlet and a bunch of other happy moodlets, you can become very focused for example, boosting focused skill gain even more. focusing logic is easiest and boosts skill gain even more. You can swap between all of the aspirations to collect points in order to get the savant, day person and night person perks to maximize skill gain. From there you would save up aspiration points to get the one where your sim no longer has to sleep. Completing the artist aspiration allows you to make paintings that alter moods, so that would be good to do early as well. Gonna have to try this soon.
I freaking love videos like this. It scratches my neurodiverse brain
me: *staring intensely at the "poorly decorated" debuff* hope you figure that out soon bestie ❤
all the dlc is mostly worth it except my pets stuff that only adds hamsters but requires the actual pets expansion to still work, get to work is the toppest of top tier expansions and adds 3 jobs you can actually follow your sim to
Try the supersim challenge with rags to riches extreme version challenge with your narration and sick editing youd make a masterpiece brotherman
Try Get to Work. You get Baking skill to make food with, and you get to play as a scientist, a medic or a police officer. For single-sim player those careers are great since you get to go with your sim. Scientist maybe. Try and complete some collections while you're at it. Another is that plants grow at 5 am in the neighborhood you happen to be in. So-- maybe Outdoor Retreat for camping gear so one sim can go around making sure all plants are grown or something while learning herbalism. You may also want tiny home stuff pack for the next skill-builder.
the brief side quest that was skillius getting abducted by aliens and then giving birth to an alien baby only to send the baby back was something i did not see coming from this video
Man I want you to do this with every dlc and the camera skill too because this was FUCKING AWESOME DUDE!!!!!
Edit: first of since it’s nearly $1000 dollars it might take a while, second off, you could do it for like 200 days
At the risk of feeling like you're doing the same exact, you could buy the Tiny Living pack to get the tiny home lot trait that, if you do some strategic trait and mood planning, can level creative and music skills in a sim day or two. That idea might be best reserved to if/when you buy all the other packs that add skills and make a comparison video to this one.
Focus on painting early on. You can paint art that has mood boosters to help level skills faster
I'd love to see this as a running series with every expansion pack you buy that adds new skills, considering the total number of skills as of this comment is about 50.
While this doesn't work for all skills, if you go into cas and set all skills to "liked" they'll grow faster, and you can gain fun while working on them as well!
"if you eat high quality meal, gives you very inspired. just like inspired but.. very." 😂😂
Baking isn't a base game skill, so you kinda didn't need to do that, you just clearly have the Get To Work expansion pack. But omg I was laughing so much when you got abducted and pregnant 😂😂 Gold.
I’m not sure how I would have it. I got the sims 4 for free when it went f2p on steam, unless it was included in the free package? Not sure though. Either way thanks for pointing that out and saving me 40$! 🙏
@@ThatGuyPredz Hmm, weird. Because you definitely have it, aliens come with the pack as well, you couldn't have them either without it. But anyway, glad I could help!
"F-ing nerds" -The Cosplayer
also, you can click the little box thingy (briefcase?) next to your sim's face at the bottom of the screen while at work to "work hard" and you should be able to get promoted basically daily
cottage living is far and away my favorite expansion pack! the evil chickens alone make my day every time
Rainfurrest is a convention that would be confused if he showed up there unless he had a tail and ears on the helmet lmao .
Heads up! You can swap between aspirations whenever you want by clicking the golden star thingy! It's super helpful for getting that first few thousand points :)
(ps: you mightve figured that out already, Im only a few min in)
That was fun to watch, would love to see skillius again!
If you want them to level up careers faster pick work hard on the little briefcase on your sim. 😅
YOur alien baby!!!!! That was so cool and unexpected! In honor of that I believe you should do a 100 baby challenge or something similar because i think it would be fun!!!!!
I really didn’t think he’d make it in the first half but he got all the way to the end and early too
Hey hey! I have SO much to say about the sims 4. What /kind/ of gameplay are you into? I think the supernatural expansions are great, but you might like more realistic ones.
Assuming you already have GET TO WORK, I would definitely get Strangerville next. It's an odd one, taking place somewhere near Nevada or Arizona. It would go well with Aliens, Mad Scientists, and causing chaos. There's so many cool mods that use Strangerville as a base too! Like zombie apocalypses using the infected townies!
ALSO, you can try out the challenges! See if you could beat the 1 MILLION Simoleon challenge in 100 days or less!
Great video though! Welcome to the SIMS 4 community!
Looks like the frogs are breeding in his pockets, just don’t look down there 😂
I don't have much to add other than if you had the Tiny Living stuff pack, you could grind out your abilities 2x as fast due to the micro home trait you can give to your house
As someone with 1000+ hours in the Sims this is kind of like watching a child learn to spell. Not how I do it anymore, but I get how you got there and am happy to see you explore things that are normal to me by now
Edit: Just to clarify, this is supposed to be a compliment. I should really take some notes and unlearn the grindset of doing everything "the optimal way"
Unfortunately all the expansions are stupid expensive, but if you did decide to get one the wizard one is kinda neat
fav expacks are cats and horses. I'd say see if u can steal every pet, but u'd need a mod to expand ur household. (ask to move in and move their animals to ur household and leave, lol)
or pull a LGIO and open a "vet clinic," and just "forget" to return other sims' pets :P
You can actually gain charisma really quickly by throwing parties. You can also add lot traits to your house in build mode, some of which also help with skill gain. Also baking comes with Get to Work so I would say it wasn't necessary to complete that skill in this video.
I would like to say if it hasn't been said already... if you don't have any other emotion based buffs active, having earbuds (which I believe are basegame) and use them to play focused music ( which I think isn't in the base game but I don't remember which pack it comes in) makes you focused... So that eliminates having to run back to do some chess all the time.
I challenge you to complete one aspiration in each section and get all skills maxed. I have been passively doing this challenge myself with my immortal wearwolf sim. She is currently working on a wearwolf skill that won't end.
I think a part two with all the dlc skills would be fun
with handiness level 9 you can make your computer run faster when playing games and increase the effectiveness of hacking, so that's one of the first skill any player should build first, since it also help other skills (like logic, by upgrading the telescope or microscope)
that skill can make you shower, sleep and clean less often, so it translate into more hours to max skills in the long run
It's been months or even years since the last time I play The Sims 4. But you might have just inspired me to pick it up again. This challenge looks like something I'd love to hate.
fun fact- i can barly keep my first sim alive or awake with a level 7 gutare skill
SIMS CASTAWAYS MENTION 🍾🥂🎉
you playing sims makes my heart so happy, i watched your 1000 days vids in PZ & you made me fall in LOVE with that game. so it’s nice to see you play a game i already love, imo i think that it’d be fun for you to get get to work, get famous, cats & dogs (your guy deserves a little companionship 🫶🏻) , werewolves (i LOVE werewolves- it has a special place in my heart) really - anything occult in the sims is fun! i wouldn’t touch my wedding stories with a 10ft pole or dine out UNLESS you have mods! which if you’re interested in, the mods community on the sims is VERY generous basemental mods is one of my favs- adds very interesting aspects 😅 anyways! happy simming & i’d love to see you play more 🫶🏻
your sim videos are so entertaining thanks for making such great content !
Brother, I’m begging you to continue grinding the rest of the aspirations, visit the secret sims world, and/or figure out how to stop your sim from aging.
41:06 bro said gigity
Oh you'd have a *great* time doing the SuperSim challenge! It really forces you to get... acquainted with the game.
And some of the expansions make it a truly. special experience
If you ever do this again, I highly recommend playing with seasons installed. You can play on a day called "new skill day" and crank out a lot of exp in new skills that day.
The vampires or magic expansion is an amazing expansion that adds alot of content, those would be some i would recommend first
Hi at the start of day 67 you leveled up the baking skill, not the gourmet cooking :D
skankhunt69 is an amazing reference btw!
I'm only at the intro, but the Sims 2 music already makes me love this video
It’s more efficient to have the perfect kid and max the skills of the kid because he will gain skill level so much faster
"Maximus is too dangerous to be left alive"
44:10 I’ve always been curious what this song is called.
I love the content man keep it up and never stop
You missed photography! It's a base game skill, although it's enhanced by Moschino stuff and City Living.
I am only 16 minutes in (watching it in parts mostly) if this is only the base game then it makes sense but you could cut down time waste by getting a pack like “get to work” or “get famous” since they give you the option to go to work and gain skills. Being an actor lets you work on your acting skill and socialism skill and I think guitar? I don’t really know all the skills you can do while at work as an actor I have not checked but it’s likely worth it.
this video is brilliant, so glad i found your channel :)
Need to do one where how many sims can your sim sleep with in 100 days
an astronaut promotion to what? Space Marine?
get evry expension in order and max all skills , you are amazing
“Jack of all trades, master of… wait master of all”
The college expansion woudl definitely be awesome to see! I used to play that one and the work expansions so I say check those out!
Skillius maximus? I met him in wome! We were introduced by our mutual friend, Biggus Dickus, and his wife... Incontenentia... Inconenentia... Buttocks!
{yes, that was a life of brian refrence.}
Day 101 -200 collect ALL collections 😮
i started doing this challenge, and it has made me love the sims again.
This sounds like a fun challenge to do in real life.
i do love cats and dogs, you can become a vet. or get to work idk if they bring more skills
God his gut grows every 10 days edit: forgot about the whole alien pregnancy thing