Hi 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).

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)