okay but I can see both Judith and Nancy picking up trash as a PR stunt. like someone called them out for their private jet overuse and they're trying to clean up their image.
if you blow the conch, all the mermaids nearby will come up and squeal at you. then, once you ask them about their strange reaction, they’ll come clean. nalani is so secretive for no reason 😭😭 like girl you’re in the TRAILER, we know you’re a mermaid.
I know he doesn't want to get out of tiny home just yet, but I feel like it would be cool if the money he gains from putting the occults into the household is spent on creating rooms designed for each occult. Like the mermaid would get a beach theme room, spellcasters get a magic room etc..
Also James, sorry if I'm telling you something you already know, but apparently the merge households bug is only on sims that don't otherwise exist in the world. So if they're in a household somewhere, you should be able to marry them just fine
The money you get from each occult should fund their addition onto the house, in true Weasley style - just add on random rooms hanging off the sides of the original structure! And they can be super themed for each new member of the family to spend all the free money.
@@AKA_Studios I don't think Lilith has sun resistance unless you play her long enough to get the points for it. I remember accidentally killing Lilith once by being too slow to open my front door because I didn't realise she was there until too late. By the time my sim invited her in she was was toast.
@@AKA_Studios Lilith has superspeed, it's her brother Caleb that has sun resistance. Lilith is made sick by food, too (unlike Caleb), but she keeps trying to eat food in my games for some reason.
when you thanked us for being patient at the end for videos being fewer and farther between, and said you were exhausted and run down i almost wanted to shake you - don't push yourself when you're in new puppy days! of course you're exhausted, and you've got so much on your plate being such a big creator. Look after yourself first and foremost and keep making things that make you happy and excited and it will shine through. Your audience loves what you produce but also ofc doesn't want you to burn out, your humanity is respected by this community you've built. the time and effort you put into your videos makes them so easy to return to and re-watch, we can all survive if you went to a less frequent publishing schedule and took whatever steps needed to stave off burnout. That being said, i'm really looking forward to this series. i love the extra challenges you set for yourself to make gameplay more interesting, it's really improved the way i play the game myself which used to be way too conservative and needed a bit of chaos and a bit of challenge. the challenge graphics and the interactive aspects on your websites look class too! always a perfectionist.
commenting to boost this!!! james has a wide variety of content and it's genuinely enjoyable to re-watch past series. i especially love his two point hospital vids haha. i hope he knows he doesn't need to worry about producing constant content. his community respects him and has compassion for his well-being. we want his genuine happiness over anything!!! i just totally agree with your comment and wanna reiterate it :) 🤍
Ohhhh similar to the fishing club, it may make sense to have your occult household also be a club so you can more easily roll up to lots together/always have the squad be together and get some benefits along the way.
James, since I feel like you're often looking for fast ways to befriend Sims, mentoring is one of the best ways to do it. It gets their relationship up really quick. You can ask Vlad to mentor you in pipe organ at his house, and you can ask Lily Zhu to mentor you in fishing. This could be a good way to befriend more occults this series!!
Shouldn't you use some of the money to start on the rocketship? It's gonna take some time to get to sixam. Although, to be honest, I would personally like to see the alien being added by pregnancy after alien abduction. Since you have a male sim, it just seems like an obvious move 😄. Plus, since you used the rocketship to get to sixam in the previous challenge, it might be for a change. Maybe you could increase your chance for an abduction doing the scientist career (while working on the other challenges) and if you somehow don't get abducted and impregnated (man, talking about the sims makes you say weird stuff 🤣) before getting the portal to sixam thing, you can use that to complete the challenge.
He doesn't have to go to Sixam - he can just go to alien night at the bar, or the like, lol! The challenge lists several ways to meet aliens that are okay!
@@christabelle__ There are the requirements of what he has to do. I guess he could also use the scientist career to get the device that allows you to call aliens, but that's another point for going in that direction. I guess that is faster than going to Sixam. But yeah, when I was talking about going to Sixam, I was thinking about the requirements for getting an alien in the household, not about how to meet one.
Definitely think each occult needs their own themed bedroom tacked onto the house. Also, don't forget to have an umbrella stand for your future Vampire sim to make sure they don't burn up in the sun 😂
I think Nalani should have the swimming pool as her room. Add a cute roof and some nice decorations, rocks and plants around the pool. Then she has her own ''room'' without adding to the floortiles :)
As Uka and Nalani are totally both Mermaids. 😂😂 As I love and am obsessed with Sulani it was funny watching James question it but so much better that he didn't rememeber and wasn't 100% sure.
I think James should build a room designed specifically for each occult as they move in. For example a smaller version of Sulani for his mermaid. A vampire nexus for his vampire. A sixum themed room for his alien. Yeah it will cancel out the tiny home but that is ok by me. It would look super cool. Like those theme hotels in Vegas! lol
Only thing is that the vamp nexus is a lot trait, for the entire property, not just one room, isn’t it? Especially since he’s not using For Rent in this one.
"when we add an occult to the household they have to come with us and do everything we do"... my dude I am so glad that you got the woohoo an occult mini-challenge out of the way first in that case 😂
Oh hell yeah, I am so here for this era of challenges. I love the long-term, legacy-esque pack based rags to riches challenges, but I am glad there is SOME positive outcome to the game being too buggy for that, lol! I wonder if/when James will do Deli's (delightful!) new tiny town challenge, though- it seems right up his alley!
Yay you're back! I think it would be cool if each occult would get their own space & something for them like the pool for the mermaid (maybe Nalani could sleep in a double bed with semaj tho because they're romantic). Also I think starting with the robotics skill and building the countless parts you need soon would be a good idea as it takes so long.
I think it'd be super cute to make Nalani join the Island Conversationist career so she has a link back to her home. And for you to build a themed room for her. Like using Island Living decor, myb an indoor pool for when it's cold outside (and/or put heater vents in the pool outside). You could make it like a mix between a secret mermaid grotto and an island getaway. So even if she's in Moonwood Mill she's got home bits of home. I think it'd be interesting if the house grew that way with every occult having a space that reflected them even if it doesn't match the OG house, or the rest of their rooms. It'd also be cool for if you were to switch it to a residential rental later. Esp if things between Simaj and Nalani end up with kids or something.
Just want to send my appreciation and respect for the extra attention you put on editing and amount of time this single video must have taken. I'm genuinely curious how long it took to make. The challenge graphics/check lists and the mask around the wheel looks REALLY nice. I’m only an amateur self-taught editor so designing the graphics and creating the wheel mask (even if I just found the mask online) and then adding them to the video would take a good chunk of time. I know it wouldn’t take as long for someone experienced but it’s still a lot of extra effort “just” to make a nice looking visual aid to help viewers understand and follow along easier. It didn’t have to be so pretty and professional but it is. And then, you added it to your website. With so many individual graphics. Like, did you create each custom octagon icon? Just creating the folder in your computer with each individual octagon icon, versions of each one labled, versions of them grouped together and then versions grouped with labels, in addition to the actual completed graphics would take time. The small details on your website like hovering over the logos of the packs used so it says the name of each pack even takes extra time. This doesn't even include your build, testing some challenge gameplay, and then actually filming and regular video/audio edits. I just have a lot of respect and appreciation. I'm really excited for this series!! I'm writing this section for me out of my own curiosity. It would take amature me (and lets pretend I can build as fast as James does) possibly ~23-24 hours for this 1 video. Maybe more, maybe less. Some of my estimates are no doubt too high and too low but still.
My Estimated Breakdown: 1 full 8 hour workday w/ breaks to create all the graphics with different sizes, orientations, and file types. (don't have photoshop so would use canva) 1 hour: draft and write out the challenge on website. 2 hours: format and add the graphics. (not sure if formatting the graphics and icons is easier when you have a coded website. On Wordpress, resizing is very very annoying and hard to put wherever you want on the page) 5 hours: build the house, set up the save game, and player test the challenge. Possibly 2-3 hours of filming gameplay? I'm not sure how long James played the game but if this is a 46 minute video, he probably had to play around 2-3 hours right? I feel like just figuring out if she was a mermaid and building the relationship probably took 40 minutes. 15 minutes (I'm inexperienced with video content): set up/check OBS, lights, mic, greenscreen and camera. 2.5 hours: Trim and cut the recording and adjust audio levels. 1 hour: Adding the graphics and music. Once finally exported from final cut pro and uploaded to youtube 10 minutes: add link to the challenge post on website in description, add end cards, and proof read before scheduling youtube video.
Well thank you for your kind words, I really appreciate it! It did take a few days to actually put this video together with making all the graphics, editing and posting to the website. I did make all the individual octogon graphics. Obviously some of the icons are from the game themselves, others I had to make or modify such as Bonehilda, that one doesn't exist but I just drew a little maid hat on it haha Going forward Part 2, 3, 4, etc will be much quicker as all the graphics are already done. But yes, this particular video did take a few days of work to get it all together. I actually recorded a whole other video that took 3-4 hours and it didn't actually work out, so I had to go back and change some of the challenges to ones that worked and were fun!
What you should do with the money that you will inevitably get with each sim is to build and decorate a room that matches that sims occult. Like the mermaid would have an indoor pool and lots of greenery. Inside and out to make the house look that much more just tacked on to each other.
The Sulani cleanup and the club points would both go faster if you added five sims to your club from the start instead of three - so you have six people earning points instead of four - and select "Conservation Activities" as an approved club activity as well as fishing. Club members that don't fit on the beach to go fishing with you should automatically do cleanup around the island instead. Incidentally, that lot is one of my favourite in the whole game to live on. It's 50x50, so if you demolish the existing building you can fit quite a large dwelling there and still retain the gardens around it. You don't have the Ohan'ali Town activities, but you do have swimming and fishing and cleaning up and watching the baby turtles hatching, and you'll see merfolk swimming around the corner by the underwater temple. All this while still being able to do all the normal at-home things sims do at home on any normal lot!
A year or two ago I made a sims household to play while streaming with friends. I called it the Chaos Household and had one of each occult and they lived in a haunted house. It was both chaotic and fun! This reminded me of that! But I’m looking forward to more of this challenge!
I really, really, really like watching James play cause you can always tell he actually plays the way he wants, with what he wants, and not just what he thinks we want to see. His enjoyment is contagious. Thank you James!
Yes! And it has encouraged me to play the sims in ways I thought were uninteresting before. I almost always played with money cheats because the grind for money was boring and then over too quickly. By the time I had the money to build the house I wanted, I was bored with the family. But seeing how creative James is with different “rules” and implementing various features together has really changed the way I play for the better! I even have an actual legacy save now which I never would have done before lol.
The haunted house one will get Temperance and Guidry at the same time easily! However, the haunted house trait is a CHORE so I would do that later in the series near the end maybe, so your house isn't so cluttered with haunted items. Same with Bonehilda, maybe start working on her later on, as you have more sims and need someone to help clean up (and remember - you need to buy a coffin for her to sleep in...she DOES get tired! ...and can't use beds.) And yes! Move into the shipwwreck on one of your Bigwallets and renovate it!!
I feel like the 20K from each occult moving in should go to building them their own room, added haphazardly on to the house. Each room should reflect the occult / pack they come from. After building the room, any funds left over can be used however you like.
I think You should add a room for each occult that joins the household and made it themed accordingly to them, so if we have a mermaid now, she should have an island-mermaid themed room :) Love the idea of this new challenge!
I think it would be cool if when you add the new occult to the household, you have to add on a room for them themed for that occult using the money you gained from them 🤷🏻♀️ but still somehow fitting with the style of house
It's just so buggy! I wish it would have worked how it was supposed to, I was super excited for that series and pack before it came out. What a bummer.
Fiiiiine, I'll play with occult sims too But seriously I'm so hooked on these challenge runs you've been doing lately! I had an absolute blast doing the Checklist Challenge combined with the Every Lot Challenge you did, so I'm pumped to tackle this one too!
Im so excited for this series! I think Semaj should work on building a servo asap and just work on it throughout the lp since they take so long to make. Also I love the bedroom idea that was suggested.
Fun fact about where baby fish come from that may or may not apply to mermaids: the majority of fish species do not woohoo. The females lay unfertilized eggs, and the male then fertilizes them externally by 'releasing' over the clutch. There's a fun magic school bus episode about salmon spawning where Mrs Frizzle makes the kids be the eggs while a daddy salmon does his business on them.
As soon as the house was shown off, I thought an "underground spring" pool for the mermaid would be super cool! Also, please please please save super often!! Mermaids are VERY glitchy, and have a lot of problems that require rolling back the save to fix! I really hope that this series doesn't run into that, but I get at least one every time I play longer stories/challenges with a mermaid in the household! (Not a mod/cc issue, I've had it on a never modded PC.)
@@JamesTurnerYT Just the Sim, not the save! The biggest bugs I've seen are the lower half of the mermaid Sim will disappear, or the needs will glitch. The lower half of the Sim disappearing persists through restarting the game. If it's only the mermaid tail, you can modify them in CAS while swimming to restore the tail. But if it's also the legs (when on land), or if modifying in CAS failed to fix the tail, the rollback is needed to fix the sim. The needs glitch is weirder, they just all drop to 0 suddenly and usually the Sim dies. I guess you wouldn't need to roll back if you didn't mind the sim dying? Tends to be a problem for people, but you do need a ghost! I haven't seen this one since right after HSY, so it's unlikely to show up, though I have been getting some unrelated random old, marked as previously solved on AHQ, bugs popping up lately in general, so who knows what else might resurface. Mermaids also get minor glitches such as the dry scales one getting stuck on the Sim indefinitely, but they usually have solutions like the dry scales can be removed with a potion or cheats. Mostly, I just hope if anything does go wrong, there's minimal impact! The game's been kinda rough on everyone lately, and I imagine it's much worse when you're also trying to record. This is a really cool series start, and I hope it continues well!
As someone who lives in a coastal state; this warms my heart. The fact James started a series on occults. Including beach conservation in the first episode. (Two parts of the Sims 4 people avoid in series.) Goes to show what a great simmer he is. I adore that he loves to play the game fully. No shame on others who prefer to avoid occults or the conservationist part of the Sims 4. I just mean it's refreshing to see the beginning of the series... Focus on things I'm interested in. Things that are important for the environment too. I've always wanted to do a beach cleanup. Though, I can't right now. Since, I'm focusing on other things. I might binge this series tonight is all I'm saying 😅 Also I have a joke: Only James Turner would know the point system of beach combing in the Sims 4. 😂
This challenge is a cool idea! I've been trying to make up an occult legacy challenge for myself, but I keep losing interest. I think I'll need to try this and see if it works out better for me.
I love it! Every occult sim should have a themed room, very distinct from one another. Perhaps going for the spellcaster next will be a great addition to the household
I think the money you get when you move a new occult in should go to an addition to the house. Like she gets an island living themed room bc she’s a mermaid. The vampire gets a vampire room etc
Great idea, James. I just finished purchasing all the packs with occults so I'm particularly excited for this one. You and Deli have both been knocking it out of the park with the challenges lately! Thanks and keep i t up!
Nalani is a mermaid. Mermaids always deny it even if you catch them swimming in mer form. 😂 Edit: Huh. Never had a mermaid bestie before. So I thought they always denied it.
Such a fun challenge James! You always come up with such cool ideas, I will enjoy this series. Btw renovating the shipwreck build would be so interesting, I feel like it needs a serious renovation and you would make it very cool.
Watching this let's play after finishing the Every Lifestage challenge and the Tiny Town let's play (the 3 parts that are online at least) and I just couldn't stop watching these! For me personally, this is some of the most fun content James has made in a while. I love the Bigwallets, don't get me wrong, but I like to watch a let's play from the very start and let's just say, that's gonna take a while to do 😂 I love these smaller challenges in between, they're so easy to get into and I love to see the amount of progress that's made with every episode, thanks for the amazing content James! ❤❤
aw thank you so much James for dedicating your time in creating these challenges and putting everything together! you have the best TS channel! playing with occults is sooo much fun, they are underestimated! and please take your time, get some rest and don’t push yourself into making videos, you are human and we understand that we all need to slow down or even a break sometimes! also hope the new puppy is doing okay! ♥️
I thought this challenge was you need to BECOME every occult Sim at some point, and change back. That could be fun; you have to design the alternate forms, maybe complete some goal related to each occult before you can change back, and even design maybe a room or aspect of the house based around that occult life. I still want to see where this challenge goes. :)
Oooh I am here for this LP series!!! I rarely play with occults, trying to get more into it, had a vampire baby with Vlad, she immediately died as a teen from sunlight exposure 😭😂 but yes looking forward to the chaos that will follow this series!!
Honestly think I've won the lottery more often than I've gotten kelp from the cave and that's only happened a couple of times. Perhaps just get mermaid kelp, even from the reward store.
I loooove this challenge idea ! I clicked so quick when I got the notification XD I don't have the ask to join household problem i tried several time to check (saving before hand XD). I can do it normally, so are we sure it's a bug and not due to a mod ? Also technically Nalani (who's the mermaid in the island living trailer) didn't lie to James ! She says "A mermaid, what give you this idea ?" That could mean how do you came to that conclusion ? That doesn't necessarily mean she's not a mermaid XD And also, being a mermaid... you would not tell everyone that you are one. You have to be best friend with that person. So you can trust hem, I would think ^^ So... she waited until she became best friend with James. That checks out ! ;)
with the money from the occults you should build individual rooms for each occult and maybe something in the shared area that affects them (like the mermaid build a pool/pond and a bathtub, maybe the spellcaster will buy a cauldron for the whole occult family to eat out of, etc.)
I'm 100% here for James renovating that shipwreck build. It's such a cool idea, but the build needs a lot more stuff to make it interesting.
It would also be a fantastic lot for a shipwrecked/survival challenge!
I agree! He would make it so much better!!
Didn't he have to start off with 20000 dollars?
Me too!
Yes please! I’d love to have it renovated into a more intentional community lot.
It would be cool to add bedrooms for each occult member and have it be a themed room based on their occult.
This is a fantastic idea.
Totally agree 👍🏾
Yes, they could also be a different colour on the outside and stick out of the already awesomely weird house
@@rosegoldlilly that would be so cool!
Also a great use of the 20k for adding them to the household
19:34 "is anyone here a mermaid?" James asks plaintively, whilst standing next to the mermaid from the trailer for Island Living 😂
It's PTSD from the Island Living LP 😂
😂😂 I was like 'while standing next to the obvious mermaid' 😅😅
For the second time lol
I kept pointing out everybody who is a mermaid, but he never listened. 😂
@@aeli999 same!
James having an archeology table and a robotics table but not a kitchen sink is hilarious to me
In my microhomes I always default to no kitchen sink but 2 counters so my sims can cook together😂
Threw everything but the kitchen sink at it
'What have you packed?'
'Everything but the kitchen sink!'
okay but I can see both Judith and Nancy picking up trash as a PR stunt. like someone called them out for their private jet overuse and they're trying to clean up their image.
yes!
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this is exactly what i was thinking 😂
my thoughts exactly 😂
That collection of sims in the fishing group was like they were sentenced to community service
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Love the moment he called it similar to "the burrow" and somehow the Landgrabs stayed with him. Its like having the Malfoys stay with the Weasleys. 😂
Imagine the Malfoys calling up the Weasleys like: "So, we need a place to crash for a couple of nights..." 🤣🤣
@@msmichellewinchester then Draco just claims Ron's bed
@@shutterbug8860😂👏🏻
lol! I didn’t catch him say that’s but noticed right away because I’ve been trying to build the burrow!
@@msmichellewinchesterand I'm pretty sure Weasleys would somehow accommodate them.
For the ghost you should go to the castle place in Windenburg and befriend Mimsy- our underrated ghost queen deserves recognition
yes!!!
Yes!!
If that works, it'd be nice!
Wasn't she the pianist at Sydney and Ava's wedding in the High School LP?
But there isn't enough room in a household to add her husband as well...
if you blow the conch, all the mermaids nearby will come up and squeal at you. then, once you ask them about their strange reaction, they’ll come clean. nalani is so secretive for no reason 😭😭 like girl you’re in the TRAILER, we know you’re a mermaid.
EA underestimating their playerbase again..!
James: why are you being mean
Judith: *has the mean trait*
James: why are you evil laughing?
Malcolm : *has evil trait*
I like the idea that Judith Ward and Nancy Landgraab just joining thinking they could fund the project to look good without doing work
100% and living like a "poor" person with semaj as well, would be another way of her being like I'm just like you!
Hahah yes!! I thought the same thing 😆 I was hoping a paparazzi would show up when they were cleaning up the beach
I know he doesn't want to get out of tiny home just yet, but I feel like it would be cool if the money he gains from putting the occults into the household is spent on creating rooms designed for each occult. Like the mermaid would get a beach theme room, spellcasters get a magic room etc..
i 100% agree!!
Also James, sorry if I'm telling you something you already know, but apparently the merge households bug is only on sims that don't otherwise exist in the world. So if they're in a household somewhere, you should be able to marry them just fine
Ahhh that's good to know.
Oh that's why I couldn't move Kyle Kyleson in with my Sim
this explains a few things lol
oh thank you for info❤❤❤
Oh interesting! I didn't know that, that's handy to know. Hopefully they also just, you know, fix the dang bugs!
The money you get from each occult should fund their addition onto the house, in true Weasley style - just add on random rooms hanging off the sides of the original structure! And they can be super themed for each new member of the family to spend all the free money.
Having the sims go with you everywhere is probably gonna end up being a chaos and I'm so here for that. Love this challenge!
Would recommend getting an umbrella for the vampire. Since they do not like sun.
@@simsplayer9952 I was just going to say how many vampires will he burn :D
The vampire should survive if they have sun resistance (such as Lilith, I think)
@@AKA_Studios I don't think Lilith has sun resistance unless you play her long enough to get the points for it. I remember accidentally killing Lilith once by being too slow to open my front door because I didn't realise she was there until too late. By the time my sim invited her in she was was toast.
@@AKA_Studios Lilith has superspeed, it's her brother Caleb that has sun resistance. Lilith is made sick by food, too (unlike Caleb), but she keeps trying to eat food in my games for some reason.
when you thanked us for being patient at the end for videos being fewer and farther between, and said you were exhausted and run down i almost wanted to shake you - don't push yourself when you're in new puppy days! of course you're exhausted, and you've got so much on your plate being such a big creator. Look after yourself first and foremost and keep making things that make you happy and excited and it will shine through. Your audience loves what you produce but also ofc doesn't want you to burn out, your humanity is respected by this community you've built. the time and effort you put into your videos makes them so easy to return to and re-watch, we can all survive if you went to a less frequent publishing schedule and took whatever steps needed to stave off burnout.
That being said, i'm really looking forward to this series. i love the extra challenges you set for yourself to make gameplay more interesting, it's really improved the way i play the game myself which used to be way too conservative and needed a bit of chaos and a bit of challenge.
the challenge graphics and the interactive aspects on your websites look class too! always a perfectionist.
commenting to boost this!!! james has a wide variety of content and it's genuinely enjoyable to re-watch past series. i especially love his two point hospital vids haha. i hope he knows he doesn't need to worry about producing constant content. his community respects him and has compassion for his well-being. we want his genuine happiness over anything!!! i just totally agree with your comment and wanna reiterate it :) 🤍
I hope he reads this. This community is the best.
i’ve not even watched that much but i can already tell this will be such a fun and slightly chaotic series, love your videos, james
Ohhhh similar to the fishing club, it may make sense to have your occult household also be a club so you can more easily roll up to lots together/always have the squad be together and get some benefits along the way.
James, since I feel like you're often looking for fast ways to befriend Sims, mentoring is one of the best ways to do it. It gets their relationship up really quick. You can ask Vlad to mentor you in pipe organ at his house, and you can ask Lily Zhu to mentor you in fishing. This could be a good way to befriend more occults this series!!
I would also make use of reward points and buy the one where sims befriend you immediately when you greet them. Super practical
Playing chess or using the swing together also works well with few interactions if the sims don't have high enough skills to mentor
Shouldn't you use some of the money to start on the rocketship? It's gonna take some time to get to sixam. Although, to be honest, I would personally like to see the alien being added by pregnancy after alien abduction. Since you have a male sim, it just seems like an obvious move 😄. Plus, since you used the rocketship to get to sixam in the previous challenge, it might be for a change. Maybe you could increase your chance for an abduction doing the scientist career (while working on the other challenges) and if you somehow don't get abducted and impregnated (man, talking about the sims makes you say weird stuff 🤣) before getting the portal to sixam thing, you can use that to complete the challenge.
There was a bug that gave you lots of robot upgrade parts when doing experiments in that career which will help make a servo
He doesn't have to go to Sixam - he can just go to alien night at the bar, or the like, lol! The challenge lists several ways to meet aliens that are okay!
@@christabelle__ getting to Sixam is a requirement in the challenge before you’re allowed to add an alien to the household
@@christabelle__ There are the requirements of what he has to do. I guess he could also use the scientist career to get the device that allows you to call aliens, but that's another point for going in that direction. I guess that is faster than going to Sixam. But yeah, when I was talking about going to Sixam, I was thinking about the requirements for getting an alien in the household, not about how to meet one.
love the idea of his sim getting pregnant!!!
Definitely think each occult needs their own themed bedroom tacked onto the house. Also, don't forget to have an umbrella stand for your future Vampire sim to make sure they don't burn up in the sun 😂
Nancy getting a redemption arc with her "fishing for a cause"😂
I think Nalani should have the swimming pool as her room. Add a cute roof and some nice decorations, rocks and plants around the pool. Then she has her own ''room'' without adding to the floortiles :)
And Mermaids can sleep in water. But James would have to add the geothermal lot trait to stop her freezing in winter.
YESSSSS
honestly these are my favourite types of videos by James. The challenges. I prefer these to the let's play's lol. they're so fun and chaotic
As Uka and Nalani are totally both Mermaids. 😂😂 As I love and am obsessed with Sulani it was funny watching James question it but so much better that he didn't rememeber and wasn't 100% sure.
Same here!! He met 2 official mermaids almost immediately and still was in the dark. I loved it!! 😆
Isn't the eating animation also for gluttons? Maybe that's why he's eating like that 😄
he is a glutton
I thought that too
He's a merman fr
Omg I am so excited for the vampire, werewolf, and spell caster to have issues with each other 😂 the DRAMA
I think James should build a room designed specifically for each occult as they move in. For example a smaller version of Sulani for his mermaid. A vampire nexus for his vampire. A sixum themed room for his alien. Yeah it will cancel out the tiny home but that is ok by me. It would look super cool. Like those theme hotels in Vegas! lol
Only thing is that the vamp nexus is a lot trait, for the entire property, not just one room, isn’t it? Especially since he’s not using For Rent in this one.
YASSSS I was having withdrawals from the every lot challenge 😭❤️ it was so funny
"Malcolm took my bed!" was like a "Charlie bit my finger!" moment. 😅
"when we add an occult to the household they have to come with us and do everything we do"... my dude I am so glad that you got the woohoo an occult mini-challenge out of the way first in that case 😂
THANK YOU! for not forgetting plant sim, everyone always does.
NANCY CREEPING IN THE BUNKER HOLES had me DYING😂
I would like to see every occult getting their own little themed room as they move in ❤
Oh hell yeah, I am so here for this era of challenges. I love the long-term, legacy-esque pack based rags to riches challenges, but I am glad there is SOME positive outcome to the game being too buggy for that, lol! I wonder if/when James will do Deli's (delightful!) new tiny town challenge, though- it seems right up his alley!
I'm looking forward to that challenge! Letting Deli play through it first though, don't want to do it at the same time :)
Yes renovate the shipwreck! Make it a cool hang out spot! Oo! Two renos. One a cool community place and one a house.
This is the type of chaos I need in my Sims 4 content binge-ing life! Reminds me of the good ol' days of the asylum challenge!
I did in fact miss “spin that wheeeeeeeel”. I’m glad you know us so well.
I feel like each new occult should get their own themed room
YES it will look like one of Dr. Gluon's hotels lmao (also nice pfp)
James creating better challenges than the Sims themselves lmao, let's go king.
Epic intro
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making nalani go swimming to see if shes a mermaid reminds me of men saying to take women swimming as a first date 💀
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3:38 I think going to Batuu and convincing a Batuu alien to move on with you should be an option for the alien sim.
The laugh I laughed when Nancy came over with that graduation cap 😭
James is the king of coming up with cool new challenges 👑 LET'S GOOOO
Facts
Slight issue with the Perch being an invasive species. They're freshwater fish, not saltwater, and would kinda die. lol
But, as always, Sims. . .
Maybe it can turn into a saltwater fish on that specific day..!
They're so invasive they started living in a completely different water type to spite other fish 😆
Yay you're back!
I think it would be cool if each occult would get their own space & something for them like the pool for the mermaid (maybe Nalani could sleep in a double bed with semaj tho because they're romantic).
Also I think starting with the robotics skill and building the countless parts you need soon would be a good idea as it takes so long.
I think it'd be super cute to make Nalani join the Island Conversationist career so she has a link back to her home. And for you to build a themed room for her. Like using Island Living decor, myb an indoor pool for when it's cold outside (and/or put heater vents in the pool outside). You could make it like a mix between a secret mermaid grotto and an island getaway. So even if she's in Moonwood Mill she's got home bits of home. I think it'd be interesting if the house grew that way with every occult having a space that reflected them even if it doesn't match the OG house, or the rest of their rooms. It'd also be cool for if you were to switch it to a residential rental later. Esp if things between Simaj and Nalani end up with kids or something.
Just want to send my appreciation and respect for the extra attention you put on editing and amount of time this single video must have taken. I'm genuinely curious how long it took to make. The challenge graphics/check lists and the mask around the wheel looks REALLY nice. I’m only an amateur self-taught editor so designing the graphics and creating the wheel mask (even if I just found the mask online) and then adding them to the video would take a good chunk of time. I know it wouldn’t take as long for someone experienced but it’s still a lot of extra effort “just” to make a nice looking visual aid to help viewers understand and follow along easier. It didn’t have to be so pretty and professional but it is. And then, you added it to your website. With so many individual graphics. Like, did you create each custom octagon icon? Just creating the folder in your computer with each individual octagon icon, versions of each one labled, versions of them grouped together and then versions grouped with labels, in addition to the actual completed graphics would take time. The small details on your website like hovering over the logos of the packs used so it says the name of each pack even takes extra time. This doesn't even include your build, testing some challenge gameplay, and then actually filming and regular video/audio edits. I just have a lot of respect and appreciation. I'm really excited for this series!!
I'm writing this section for me out of my own curiosity. It would take amature me (and lets pretend I can build as fast as James does) possibly ~23-24 hours for this 1 video. Maybe more, maybe less. Some of my estimates are no doubt too high and too low but still.
My Estimated Breakdown:
1 full 8 hour workday w/ breaks to create all the graphics with different sizes, orientations, and file types. (don't have photoshop so would use canva)
1 hour: draft and write out the challenge on website.
2 hours: format and add the graphics. (not sure if formatting the graphics and icons is easier when you have a coded website. On Wordpress, resizing is very very annoying and hard to put wherever you want on the page)
5 hours: build the house, set up the save game, and player test the challenge.
Possibly 2-3 hours of filming gameplay? I'm not sure how long James played the game but if this is a 46 minute video, he probably had to play around 2-3 hours right? I feel like just figuring out if she was a mermaid and building the relationship probably took 40 minutes.
15 minutes (I'm inexperienced with video content): set up/check OBS, lights, mic, greenscreen and camera.
2.5 hours: Trim and cut the recording and adjust audio levels.
1 hour: Adding the graphics and music.
Once finally exported from final cut pro and uploaded to youtube
10 minutes: add link to the challenge post on website in description, add end cards, and proof read before scheduling youtube video.
Well thank you for your kind words, I really appreciate it!
It did take a few days to actually put this video together with making all the graphics, editing and posting to the website.
I did make all the individual octogon graphics. Obviously some of the icons are from the game themselves, others I had to make or modify such as Bonehilda, that one doesn't exist but I just drew a little maid hat on it haha
Going forward Part 2, 3, 4, etc will be much quicker as all the graphics are already done.
But yes, this particular video did take a few days of work to get it all together. I actually recorded a whole other video that took 3-4 hours and it didn't actually work out, so I had to go back and change some of the challenges to ones that worked and were fun!
Laughed out loud at Malcolm claiming the bed, then Nancy's attire, then Geoffrey's attire...😂
I think it would be a good use of the money each sim brings in to build them their own room, themed to their occult and needs
What you should do with the money that you will inevitably get with each sim is to build and decorate a room that matches that sims occult. Like the mermaid would have an indoor pool and lots of greenery. Inside and out to make the house look that much more just tacked on to each other.
The Sulani cleanup and the club points would both go faster if you added five sims to your club from the start instead of three - so you have six people earning points instead of four - and select "Conservation Activities" as an approved club activity as well as fishing. Club members that don't fit on the beach to go fishing with you should automatically do cleanup around the island instead.
Incidentally, that lot is one of my favourite in the whole game to live on. It's 50x50, so if you demolish the existing building you can fit quite a large dwelling there and still retain the gardens around it. You don't have the Ohan'ali Town activities, but you do have swimming and fishing and cleaning up and watching the baby turtles hatching, and you'll see merfolk swimming around the corner by the underwater temple. All this while still being able to do all the normal at-home things sims do at home on any normal lot!
A year or two ago I made a sims household to play while streaming with friends. I called it the Chaos Household and had one of each occult and they lived in a haunted house. It was both chaotic and fun! This reminded me of that! But I’m looking forward to more of this challenge!
Mr Turner you are spoiling us. This challenge looks awsome!!! Cant wait😊❤
Poor semaj can never catch a break lmao
He has it rough!
I really, really, really like watching James play cause you can always tell he actually plays the way he wants, with what he wants, and not just what he thinks we want to see. His enjoyment is contagious. Thank you James!
Yes! And it has encouraged me to play the sims in ways I thought were uninteresting before. I almost always played with money cheats because the grind for money was boring and then over too quickly. By the time I had the money to build the house I wanted, I was bored with the family. But seeing how creative James is with different “rules” and implementing various features together has really changed the way I play for the better! I even have an actual legacy save now which I never would have done before lol.
The haunted house one will get Temperance and Guidry at the same time easily! However, the haunted house trait is a CHORE so I would do that later in the series near the end maybe, so your house isn't so cluttered with haunted items. Same with Bonehilda, maybe start working on her later on, as you have more sims and need someone to help clean up (and remember - you need to buy a coffin for her to sleep in...she DOES get tired! ...and can't use beds.)
And yes! Move into the shipwwreck on one of your Bigwallets and renovate it!!
Probably will need 2 coffins ⚰️. One also for the vamp. 👍🏻
Bonehilda can sleep in the coffins?!??! 😮
I feel like the 20K from each occult moving in should go to building them their own room, added haphazardly on to the house. Each room should reflect the occult / pack they come from. After building the room, any funds left over can be used however you like.
I think You should add a room for each occult that joins the household and made it themed accordingly to them, so if we have a mermaid now, she should have an island-mermaid themed room :) Love the idea of this new challenge!
I think it would be cool if when you add the new occult to the household, you have to add on a room for them themed for that occult using the money you gained from them 🤷🏻♀️ but still somehow fitting with the style of house
Ive been playing sims 4 for years. Ive never heard of the tragic clown! Im here for this
Fun fact, The Tragic Clown first appeared in The Sims 1. I believe it's been in every pack thus far. 🤡
@@SyntheticGoth yep, never encountered em. Only had sims 2 the urbz and sims 3 basegame.
You and Deli really run the Sims community at this point with your challenges and contributions
LETS GOOO I'm so excited for this!! ALSO THE EDITING?? Semaj's videos always getting better even when they're already great
James uploading is always the one thing I look forward to
i LOVE the way james avoids rags to riches for rent 😂❤
It's just so buggy! I wish it would have worked how it was supposed to, I was super excited for that series and pack before it came out. What a bummer.
Fiiiiine, I'll play with occult sims too
But seriously I'm so hooked on these challenge runs you've been doing lately! I had an absolute blast doing the Checklist Challenge combined with the Every Lot Challenge you did, so I'm pumped to tackle this one too!
Im so excited for this series! I think Semaj should work on building a servo asap and just work on it throughout the lp since they take so long to make. Also I love the bedroom idea that was suggested.
Absolutely loved watching James desperately try to befriend someone in hopes they’re a mermaid directly next to a person who is a mermaid
Ooooh yes, super excited for this! Semaj is gonna struggle so much with a vampire in the mix 😂
Definitely needs to give vamp an umbrella for the sun.
Swimming around with people who you suspect is a mermaid would be the quickest way if it’s been a while and you forgot.😂
Fun fact about where baby fish come from that may or may not apply to mermaids: the majority of fish species do not woohoo. The females lay unfertilized eggs, and the male then fertilizes them externally by 'releasing' over the clutch. There's a fun magic school bus episode about salmon spawning where Mrs Frizzle makes the kids be the eggs while a daddy salmon does his business on them.
I don't remember that Magic School Bus episode, but now I'm kind of glad. That's just wrong on so many levels. 😅
oh NO Miss Frizzle WHY
I haven’t laughed this hard watching TH-cam in actual ages. Your comedic timing and jokes are always on point!!! New fan!
As soon as the house was shown off, I thought an "underground spring" pool for the mermaid would be super cool!
Also, please please please save super often!! Mermaids are VERY glitchy, and have a lot of problems that require rolling back the save to fix! I really hope that this series doesn't run into that, but I get at least one every time I play longer stories/challenges with a mermaid in the household! (Not a mod/cc issue, I've had it on a never modded PC.)
What kind of bugs? If it doesn't break the save I don't mind tbh. Like if they just glitch out I don't really mind haha
@@JamesTurnerYT Just the Sim, not the save! The biggest bugs I've seen are the lower half of the mermaid Sim will disappear, or the needs will glitch.
The lower half of the Sim disappearing persists through restarting the game. If it's only the mermaid tail, you can modify them in CAS while swimming to restore the tail. But if it's also the legs (when on land), or if modifying in CAS failed to fix the tail, the rollback is needed to fix the sim.
The needs glitch is weirder, they just all drop to 0 suddenly and usually the Sim dies. I guess you wouldn't need to roll back if you didn't mind the sim dying? Tends to be a problem for people, but you do need a ghost! I haven't seen this one since right after HSY, so it's unlikely to show up, though I have been getting some unrelated random old, marked as previously solved on AHQ, bugs popping up lately in general, so who knows what else might resurface.
Mermaids also get minor glitches such as the dry scales one getting stuck on the Sim indefinitely, but they usually have solutions like the dry scales can be removed with a potion or cheats.
Mostly, I just hope if anything does go wrong, there's minimal impact! The game's been kinda rough on everyone lately, and I imagine it's much worse when you're also trying to record. This is a really cool series start, and I hope it continues well!
Thanks for the info!! Hopefully we will be ok!
As someone who lives in a coastal state; this warms my heart. The fact James started a series on occults. Including beach conservation in the first episode. (Two parts of the Sims 4 people avoid in series.) Goes to show what a great simmer he is. I adore that he loves to play the game fully. No shame on others who prefer to avoid occults or the conservationist part of the Sims 4. I just mean it's refreshing to see the beginning of the series... Focus on things I'm interested in. Things that are important for the environment too. I've always wanted to do a beach cleanup. Though, I can't right now. Since, I'm focusing on other things. I might binge this series tonight is all I'm saying 😅
Also I have a joke: Only James Turner would know the point system of beach combing in the Sims 4. 😂
This challenge is a cool idea! I've been trying to make up an occult legacy challenge for myself, but I keep losing interest. I think I'll need to try this and see if it works out better for me.
I love it! Every occult sim should have a themed room, very distinct from one another. Perhaps going for the spellcaster next will be a great addition to the household
I think the money you get when you move a new occult in should go to an addition to the house. Like she gets an island living themed room bc she’s a mermaid. The vampire gets a vampire room etc
LOVE this, James! Between this and Deli's Tiny Town Challenge, you guys are killing it.
Maybe Semaj could attend university in order to build his Robotics skill, then apply the knowledge towards working on the Servo?
Great idea, James. I just finished purchasing all the packs with occults so I'm particularly excited for this one. You and Deli have both been knocking it out of the park with the challenges lately! Thanks and keep i t up!
Yay new video! Thank you James for always being awesome!
I'm absolutely doing this challenge. I've been in a rut and this sounds like a great side game to my legacy play. Thanks for writing it out for us.
Nalani is a mermaid. Mermaids always deny it even if you catch them swimming in mer form. 😂
Edit: Huh. Never had a mermaid bestie before. So I thought they always denied it.
Same! The only way I've got them to admit it is with the shell. Like I can see your tail, and they'll still deny it 😂
Such a fun challenge James! You always come up with such cool ideas, I will enjoy this series. Btw renovating the shipwreck build would be so interesting, I feel like it needs a serious renovation and you would make it very cool.
The Landgrabs may have been wanting to try living among the poor, lol
The build is one of my favorites! The dirt floor room is great for displaying a shell collection.
Loving the idea of this challenge! Cannot wait for the next episode! 🎉
Watching this let's play after finishing the Every Lifestage challenge and the Tiny Town let's play (the 3 parts that are online at least) and I just couldn't stop watching these!
For me personally, this is some of the most fun content James has made in a while. I love the Bigwallets, don't get me wrong, but I like to watch a let's play from the very start and let's just say, that's gonna take a while to do 😂
I love these smaller challenges in between, they're so easy to get into and I love to see the amount of progress that's made with every episode, thanks for the amazing content James! ❤❤
Me: *has over 600 hours in The Sims just on my most recent computer*
Also Me: ...Since when have skeletons been a thing??
It’s in Jungle Adventure and kinda hidden really, if I remember it’s what happens when you cure the green swirly illness you get from the insects 😊
Ohhh thank you!!
aw thank you so much James for dedicating your time in creating these challenges and putting everything together! you have the best TS channel! playing with occults is sooo much fun, they are underestimated! and please take your time, get some rest and don’t push yourself into making videos, you are human and we understand that we all need to slow down or even a break sometimes! also hope the new puppy is doing okay! ♥️
Is anone here a mermaid?
Literal mermaid from the trailer: 👁👄👁
I thought this challenge was you need to BECOME every occult Sim at some point, and change back. That could be fun; you have to design the alternate forms, maybe complete some goal related to each occult before you can change back, and even design maybe a room or aspect of the house based around that occult life.
I still want to see where this challenge goes. :)
Hi James! Each occult should get their own room themed to them
Oooh I am here for this LP series!!! I rarely play with occults, trying to get more into it, had a vampire baby with Vlad, she immediately died as a teen from sunlight exposure 😭😂 but yes looking forward to the chaos that will follow this series!!
James she is literally THE mermaid omg.
Honestly think I've won the lottery more often than I've gotten kelp from the cave and that's only happened a couple of times. Perhaps just get mermaid kelp, even from the reward store.
I loooove this challenge idea ! I clicked so quick when I got the notification XD
I don't have the ask to join household problem i tried several time to check (saving before hand XD). I can do it normally, so are we sure it's a bug and not due to a mod ?
Also technically Nalani (who's the mermaid in the island living trailer) didn't lie to James ! She says "A mermaid, what give you this idea ?" That could mean how do you came to that conclusion ? That doesn't necessarily mean she's not a mermaid XD
And also, being a mermaid... you would not tell everyone that you are one. You have to be best friend with that person. So you can trust hem, I would think ^^ So... she waited until she became best friend with James. That checks out ! ;)
with the money from the occults you should build individual rooms for each occult and maybe something in the shared area that affects them (like the mermaid build a pool/pond and a bathtub, maybe the spellcaster will buy a cauldron for the whole occult family to eat out of, etc.)
I like the idea of an underground grotto and then you can change the lot type to haunted house to get Guidry.