EnglandHi all!
We wanted to add a place where people can suggest new runs, rather than creating new forum posts every time they had an idea. We'll be adding the skills/aspirations as they come out with new packs (if they're not up in a week or so after the pack coming out, please poke!), but there's lots of potential runs we could do!
Feel free to chuck your ideas here, and we can discuss the best ways to do them! try to keep them as doable runs if you're adjusting community challenges too (100 baby challenge is a fun challenge, but I did a run with breaks and it took about 35 hours... so maybe not that one in full).
excellent! i'll get making a new forum post for a suggestions tabs! and get the skills/aspirations/scenarios sorted too :)
(also if anyone is wondering where the get married/have a baby and the cps runs have gone, i was trying to add further options and it's messed them up, so i've archived them temporarily while the site admin helps!)
Hi hi!
I've had a bunch of irl things come up the past few months, so I've not been as free to help out here D: Hopefully things are easing up a bit more now so I'm going to be continuing the spring cleaning!
I was hoping we'd be able to add the skills to the levels as a separate category, but I think a good way round is to have an aspiration and skills category on the main menu, then the individual ones when you click in (I wish this website would let us add multiple level categories but we're limited). I think I've figured out how to do it, and I'm hoping to start moving the runs over to the new categories today!
100% I'd love to add more silly challenges or ones based on larger community challenges we've found fun ways to run. I'd thought that maybe some of the scenarios would be fun runs too. Some are just grindy for skills/career progression but some are more involved. I love the strangerville aspiration run because there's more of a challenge to it. Perhaps if we had a new run suggestion post here, then we can discuss potential new runs together! There's always the option of adding extra variables to runs, so in the 10 baby run for example, we could have an adoption one and a... normal way I suppose xD As much as I enjoy runs that have skill building, I think runs that involve more fun routing to figure out are more enjoyable to play.
I've gone through most of the rules now, so they should be adjusted to show that expansions are everything and w/o has more detail to explain it. I've not renamed with/without expansions, but hopefully the rule clarifications should help everyone. Also a bunch of the rules just didn't make sense or were repeated so hopefully it's easier to understand them a bit now!
They changed the social menu a little while ago, but there's an option in settings to use the traditional social menu. I think if we mention that in the set up rules then there should be no reason to need a new run for it.
Hi hi!! Sorry I was away for a few weeks but there should now be someone ready to verify runs. Going through all the back ups today
@Snowy39 that's fair. i think lots of runners use their own library not the gallery to grab a sim they've been using to run which is fine. the skills and extra traits don't show in the gallery, so someone might grab a sim they like the design of without noticing (which obviously is on the runner to see, but it's been missed in the past). it's more for further clarification of the rule, which can't be a bad thing, considering that we've had issues previously with runs being verified that don't follow them.
hi all! i wanted to quickly clarify the use of the gallery in runs since it's been a while since i ran the game, and i want to make sure that going forward everyone has the correct rules in front of them before they attempt a run (and note that i'm going to be going through the categories and cleaning them all up in the next week or so, so that the rules match and are accurate).
to me, it makes sense to allow the gallery use for build/buy and not cas. this would allow all players to pre-build their ideal lot for the run, making use of unlockable items, full grown plants etc, but still requires the player to make the correct choices in the run and allow for some variance. if we allow cas, i think it'll really cut down on the competitiveness of runs, especially the skill ones. if for example, a player is doing a max x skill run, they'd be able to upload a sim that has x skill almost maxed (since the gallery saves skills), add them to the family, do 1 action and then immediately finish the run. whilst we're aiming to be the fastest, this doesn't show off the player skill or tricks in the run since this is all pre in-game clock and the majority of the work done for the run isn't seen.
i know that everyone has access to the gallery, so it's not about fairness, but instead to encourage more people to run a category. if someone's maxed a skill in 15 seconds because their sim was 99.99% there, and the only way to beat that is to have a better computer, then what's the point in having that category? we all like records, but it's not as fun if there's only 1 runner in the run.
also going forward, all aspirations/skills that require an expansion to use will be valid to run at the "without expansion" run if they're only using the bare minimum, and "with expansion" if they use extra packs.
hi speedy simmers~~
i used to run this game a bunch a few years ago (even without submitting most of them) and sadly had to stop when my computer wouldn't run sims and obs at the same time xD but i wanna get back into it properly! just looking at the runs on here... they kind of seem a bit jumbled. the skills and aspirations haven't been updated to add in the newer ones, the basic rules aren't the same across all the runs, and there are some runs that have been verified that didn't follow the rules (whether we want to update the rules or just... not allow runs that don't follow them xD)
i've not been a mod on here before, so i don't know what's possible. but is there a way to have the skills in their own area rather than being in the misc column with other random runs? i don't know if you can have multiple level run types, or if you can create a separate drop down on the full game section, but it might be nice to reorganise the runs we have atm if we can for new runners!
i know we have a bunch of runs with nothing verified for them, so maybe it's not smart to add more runs xD (but also, there's only so many times you wanna speedrun maxing x skill). but maybe it's be fun to add in some new runs that aren't based on skills/aspirations. there was another post about adding in the 100 baby challenge or other runs based on community challenges. and while the 100 baby would take forever (trust me, i did it over multiple days and it took 36.5 hours), maybe we could do a 10 baby version? there are more in game achievements that could be fun runs, like "have a sim die while running a store", "bring the hermit back to society", "cause 10 npc deaths on your home lot", "play a household for ten generations or more", "get in and out of every emotion in 24 hours" or "have a sim die at their own wedding". they don't really add achievements in anymore, but they'd be fun and not super grindy. scenarios were suggested before too, and while some of them have been time limited, there are a bunch that are always in the game now. maybe we could do a 5 or 10 scenario run? or just other fun ones, like have an entire household of 8 sims die in different ways.
i also have a question about some of the skill runs. is there a reason why the vampire lore or parenting skill runs "without expansions" says that it's "not a valid category!"? is there a reason why for skills/aspirations that require packs, that the "without" one isn't just the base requirements? so bg + whatever 1 dlc it needs, rather than adding everything into the "with expansions" category... i'm sure we all know how expensive it is to buy a bunch of sims packs, so it seems kind of mean to say that someone with the bare minimum has to compete with someone who has every pack and therefore more stuff (like tiny homes to give the skill boost). expansion runs are a free-for-all which is fine, but it makes more sense to me to say that the "without expansions" runs are just whatever the base reqs are for that run (also this is just in the rules for like, strangerville... so there's inconsistency across all the rules at this point).
i also noticed that people had said they had issues with mods not getting back to them about why their runs weren't verified so they couldn't make changes or upload a good run, or that people were verifying themselves (i'm guessing because there aren't enough active mods since there are several who've not been active for years), but maybe we could get another mod or 2 to help. i've been out of the game for a bit, but i'd be more than happy to help out!
sorry this is one big ramble, but i love speedrunning sims 4 and i'd love to get more people back into it! (also i just want to spring clean so badly)
I would love to do scenario runs. We can at least do the non-time limited runs, though I do know of mods that have added them back in. Might be a way for PC users to run them
So time starts as the in game clock starts? Just to be extra clear. Seems fair, though if players have low-end PCs they're still going to suffer if there are other loads in the run.
Hey all! I was wondering if people'd be up for adding/changing up the categories a bit? It might be cool to add the aspirations as separate categories instead of the single lifetime wish one. Most of them take a little longer than the current record one, and it'd be nice to run some of the others. Maybe separate them like the skills? Also I'd so be up for some death runs XD Bit morbid but it's classic Sims :)
