Hi! I know there are some challenges like thisaround, but I really wanted to create my own version and decided to share witheveryone! This challenge is heavily inspired by llazyneph’s Royalty Mod – themod isn’t required to play the challenge, but both fits really well together.
In this challenge, your objective is to playwith a Royal Family for ten generations and build up your lineage’s prestige withactions and decisions you will make during the course of this challenge. Goodluck!
Concepts
- Monarch: theleader of the Royal Family. This title is inherited by his offspring whenhe/she dies. Monarchs may only work in the Politics career.
- Heir: thechild of the Monarch who will inherit the title of Monarch. The heir is decidedby the Kingdom Laws. Heirs may work in other careers until they become Monarch.
- Consort: theperson who will pair with the Monarch and bring in the next generation of thefamily. Consorts may work.
- Royal Family: thefamily of the Monarch. They are considered nobles, but not every noble isroyal.
- Noble: Simsfrom families/households selected by the player. Must represent theminor part of the world’s population. Nobles may work only in the followingcareers: Politics, Secret Agent, Astronaut, Business, Military, Doctor, SocialMedia and Style Influencer. Teen jobs are not allowed.
- Commoner: Simsthat are not part of the selected households. Must represent the major part ofthe world’s population.
- Prestige: thepoints in this challenge that represent the reputation of the Royal Family.
Setting Up
Your first step is to create your Royal Family.You Monarch must be a YA, Adult or Elder (if male) or YA or Adult (if female).You may create other Sims to be Consort, parents or siblings of your Monarch,but he/she must not have an offspring yet. To start, you’ll have $ 500.000 (usecheats for this) to build or buy your house. Choose wisely because you must notmove during the challenge.
Second, you must choose, download or createother noble families for your save. Since you set this families as nobles,every other Sims in your save are now considered commoners. I suggest at leastthree or four families for your kingdom. Also, I suggest you to mark the noblefamilies as Your Households, so you will always know who they are.
Finally, you may choose, download or createother Royal and noble families. They’ll represent the noblemen of otherkingdoms. In my game, I created a Royal Family and three noble families foreach world available. This is not mandatory, but will help you to have afitting dating pool for your Sims.
Basic Rules
- You must not use cheats or mods thatgive you advantages on the challenge. I recommend using the Royalty Mod and MCCommand Center.
- Lifespan must be normal and agingmust be on for active and inactive households.
- You must only play with your RoyalFamily in this save. Again, I recommend MC Command Center to create some sortof story progression in your save. If you don’t use mods, you may access theother noble families really fast just to marry and procreate Sims (or you cando that using CAS in Edit Household on the map view).
- Before start your game, pick yourKingdom Laws below and stick to it. There are conditions to change your Lawsthat will be explained below.
- This challenge ends when the 10thgeneration’s heir ascend as Monarch. Your objective is to build up your lineagePrestige until this point. If your Monarch dies without any heir or if yourRoyal Family reach -10.000 Prestige Points, you fail the challenge.
Marriage & Inheritance
Marriage and inheritance are very importantaspects of monarchies. You may marry your Sims as you wish as long as allowedby your Kingdom Laws, but keep in mind that marrying commoner will have a greatimpact in your Prestige. The Laws also will say if your Sim will move out ofthe family or if the partner will move in.
There are also Laws that will discuss thematter of inheritance. The Heir will be the first eligible child of yourcurrent Monarch. If your Monarch dies without any child, the throne goes to ayounger sibling – this, however, will not count as a new generation. If thereis no one to inherit the throne, you fail the challenge.
Children born outside of marriage areconsidered illegitimate and can only become legitimate if the Monarch marriesthe non-royal parent. Only legitimate children can be named heirs. You maylegitimize a child if your Monarch and the child have 100% relationship, but itwill cost you some Prestige.
Optional: It is expected that Royal children will have thebest education. Toddlers must have at least one skill level 5 or 3 skills level3, while children and teens must have at least B grade in school. If you failthis, you must randomize a new trait in the moment of the child birthday. Youmay only pick traits if your kids study hard enough.
The Kingdom Laws
You must pick an option for every categorybelow – those will be your kingdom laws. You may change your laws if you meetsome conditions. It will also cost some Prestige, of course.
Lineage
- Matrilineal: girlscome before boys in the line of succession. In addition, when a Sim marries,he/she will become part of the family of the wife.
- Patrilineal: boyscome before girls in the line of succession. In addition, when a Sim marries,he/she will become part of the family of the husband.
- Equality: genderis not considered in the matter of succession. In addition, when a Sim marries,his/her partner will always move in to the Royal Family.
Marriage
- Arranged:members of the Royal Family may only marry if the Monarch have at least 50%relationship with the fiancée and his/her parents (if they have).
- Free: membersof the Royal Family may marry as they wish.
Succession
- Traditional:only Sims related by blood to the current Monarch are eligible to be heir.Royals may adopt, but adopted kids won’t be in the line of succession.
- Modern: adoptedkids will be in the line of succession after blood-related kids.
Inheritance
- Birth: thefirst eligible child of the Monarch will be heir and become Monarch oncehis/her parent dies.
- Merit: themost talented child will be the heir. This means that when a Monarch dies, youmust sum every skill point his/her children currently have (example: 7 logic +3 culinary + 2 piano = 12 points). The new Monarch will be the child who havemore skill points.
- Strength: whenthe Monarch dies, every eligible heir must fight for the throne. The one thatdefeats every other claimant will be the new Monarch.
Taxes
- Low: theRoyal Family can collect $2.500 in taxes in Sundays. However, it will cost -50Prestige Points.
- Medium: theRoyal Family can collect $10.000 in taxes in Sundays. However, it will cost-100 Prestige Points.
- High: theRoyal Family can collect $50.000 in taxes in Sundays. However, it will cost-500 Prestige Points.
Rulership
- Democratic:You may change the Kingdom Laws if you have 100% friendship with allthe leaders of the noble families of your Kingdom. It will cost you 1.000Prestige Points. In addition, Monarchs will be deposed if they have 10 negativerelationships or half negative reputation.
- Moderate:You may change the Kingdom Laws if you have at least 50% friendship with atleast half of the leaders of the noble families of your Kingdom. It will costyou 1.000 Prestige Points. In addition, Monarchs will be deposed if they have20 negative relationships or full negative reputation.
- Authoritarian:You may change the Kingdom Laws whenever you want. It will cost you 3.000Prestige Points. Monarchs can’t be deposed.
Prestige
The Royal Family will start the challenge with500 Prestige Points. Some actions and decisions made during the challenge willadd or remove Prestige Points from your family. Prestige Points will only beearned and lost by members of the active family. Remember: if at some point youreach -10.000 Prestige Points, you fail the challenge.
House& Finance
+2 for having a Maid
+2 for having a Nanny
+2 for having a Gardner
+5 for having a Butler
+5 for each fully-upgraded item inyour house
+50 for every $500.000 your houseworth
+100 for having S1.000.000 in thehousehold funds
-10 every fire that stars on yourhouse (-50 if someone dies)
-100 every time lights/water areshut off
-500 every time your household fundsreach 0
Life& Death
+50 for marring another noble (+10for marring a member of another Royal Family)
+10 for each legitimate child
+20 for each toddler that max outevery skill
+20 for each child that grows upwith an A
+25 for each child that completes anaspiration
+20 for each teen that grows up withan A
+20 for each teen that grows up withmax positive character value
+50 for each Sim that completes anaspiration
+50 for each Sim that reaches thetop of his/her career
+10 for each Old Age death
+15 for each family membermemorialized in a painting
-10 for changing aspiration
-30 for each child or teen thatgrows up with an F
-30 for each teen that grows up withat least 1 max negative character value
-50 for each sim fired
-50 for every death excluding OldAge
-50 for having a child beforemarriage
-75 for each illegitimate child
-100 for marring a commoner (-100 ifhe/she works in your household)
-100 for being caught cheating
-250 for divorcing
-500 for legitimating a child
-1.000 for each child taken awayfrom the household
Miscellaneous
+2 for each pet born in thehousehold
+2 for each bronze social event
+5 for being good friends with a noble from another household (+5 ifbest friends)
+5 for each silver social event
+10 for each gold social event(+10 if royal marriage or coronation banquet)
+20 for every best-seller bookor masterpiece
+50 for each Sim that has fullpositive reputation
+100 for each Royal Family member that becomes a 5-star celebrity
-20 for each pet taken away
-30 for each time a Sim has abladder/energy/hygiene failure in public (-20 if during a social event)
-50 for each failed social event
-100 for each Sim that has fullnegative reputation
