black widow route

Wanted to document a route I made for Black Widow w/o expansions.

TRAITS
Romantic, Outgoing, 3rd doesn't really matter. Serial Romantic aspiration

SETUP
The optimal sims to meet would be 3 elders and 2 adults.  My setup for this is to wait for an elder to come during welcome wagon that isn't Vivian or Dennis, and afterwards manually visiting their house and meeting them. Probably worth resetting if you don't get the elder during welcome wagon.

POST WELCOME WAGON
-Get required friendship with one adult sim (until you see "ask to move in household"), then send them away.
-Invite the other adult over and marry them asap. 
-When working on romance, make sure to ask them on a date.
-Once married, build a pool and buy a treadmill. Workout with the sim until they get relatively tired.  You can also have them jog but I find it easier to just do it on the treadmill.
-Trap sim in the pool.
-While the sim is working out/drowning, invite the other adult sim over with your main sim and get romance up.
-Once first sim dies, propose to the second asap.  There is a window of time where you won't be 'very sad' so be quick.
-Repeat the process with second sim.
-This time invite the elder over and make sure to ask on date (at your house). After 2 dates you should have enough lifetime points to buy one or two moodlet solvers.
-To kill the elder, repeatedly woohoo them until they die of over-exhaustion.
-Use a moodlet solver and invite the 4th sim over.
-Once you marry and kill 4th sim repeat with 5th sim.


couple notes
-you'll have to be creative and willing to improvise when having to take care of needs like showering and eating.
-if you have a choice of what adults to use, try to use Liberty as there is a chance that she will die on the treadmill because of her traits (rare, but worth the shot). 
-if you have to remove sadness without a moodlet solver, the fastest ways are 'call sadness hotline' (on phone) and 'give self pep talk' (on mirror).

ask me questions if you have them :)

credits go to disdonn and kanaylle for the strats.

Child Protection Services Meta

Below I will be outlining the current meta for the CPS run
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SIM
- Romantic trait (Higher romantic interactions)
- Lazy trait (Nap lazy interaction)
- Slob Trait (No autonomous washing hands)


PART 1: Pregnant
- Purchase Sandtrap flat
- Start timer and immediately sleep/nap lazily in bed
- rapidly flick between 1x and 3x speed until 9:20 to avoid timespeed lag (this is called 'flicking')
- Use toilet + search for job, queing to walk outside (take the Astronaut career)
- Greet the first male you see, goal is to get to 'First kiss' ASAP
- Try for baby when possible (a good time to aim for is getting into bed at 30-32 seconds)
- After the sims enter the bed, cancel the 'Try for baby' interaction and take pregnancy test on toilet
- Ask the male to leave and sleep in bed

PART 2: Birth
The goal is to be sleeping for as long as humanly possible. At 8AM each day your sim will go to work (click your sim's chathead and choose to "Take it easy" while at work to avoid promotion.

- Buy a baby crib whenever possible
- Close the interfaces for career choices if they appear
- When your sim's bladder need gets into the red, switch from 'Sleep' to 'Rest lazily' until the need fills
- Spam click the crib to have a baby while at work on day 3

PART 3: CPS
After the baby is born, quickly randomize a first name and get into bed. The higher your bladder need at this point, the better. Timer stops when your baby is taken by CPS.


ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- You may get a random visitor at some point, this usually results in a dead run unless you 'Ask to leave' quickly
- If the timespeed is stuck while on 3x speed, quickly switch to 1x speed and back to 3x (this is known as flicking)
- Once per day, the father of your unborn child will call you, resulting in the speed being switched down to 1x. It is recommended to spam 3x speed until this phone call occurs, and to deny the call
- It is faster to use 'Try for baby' as a Romantic interaction instead of clicking the bed, however it is a lot less consistent to get it to appear
- 'Try for baby' will only appear on the bed when the Welcome Wagon ends
- Your Sim will always get out of bed at 6AM. This can be countered in a number of ways including napping lazily and spam clicking 'Sleep' when 6AM approaches
- Your Sim will automatically get out of bed to work when sleeping, but not when napping
- If a male takes too long to appear at your house, it may be worth restarting the run
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Thanks to:
momophen
BruisedMomo
& myself

Disable expansion packs without uninstalling

Hey guys, here's a quick tutorial on how to load only the base game without uninstalling your expansions

Step 1 - In Origin, right click The Sims 4 and go to "Game Properties"
Step 2 - Select "Advanced Launch Options"
Step 3 - Under "Command line arguments" paste the following: 
-disablepacks:EP01,EP02,EP03,EP04,EP05,EP06,EP07,EP08,EP09,EP10,GP01,GP02,GP03,GP04,GP05,GP06,GP07,GP08,GP09,SP01,SP02,SP03,SP04,SP05,SP06,SP07,SP08,SP09,SP10,SP11,SP12,SP13,SP14,SP15,SP16,SP17

If you would like to disable only specific packs, you can use this website to do so
https://jamesturner.yt/disablepacks
Credit to James Turner for sharing this!

--
Edit by snowy: the tool linked here also lets you disable all the packs and kits that came out after this guide was posted.

Get Engaged Guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeMefmIuW04&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=momophen

Get Married/Have Baby Meta

Below I will be outlining the current meta for the Get Married/Have Baby run
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SIM 1 (Female)
- Romantic trait (Higher romantic interactions)
- Family oriented trait (For interaction)
- Lazy trait (For nap lazily)

SIM 2 (Male)
- Romantic trait (Higher romantic interactions)
- Family oriented trait (For interaction)
- Third trait doesn't matter

PART 1: Marriage
- Purchase sandtrap flat
- Start timer and immediately "Boast about family" twice (Friendly->Boast about family)
- Use Romantic interactions until "First kiss" is available and use it
- Use Romantic interactionns until "Ask to be boyfriend/girlfriend" is available and use it
- After the Sim accepts to be boyfriend/girlfriend, Propose to them (Romance->Propose)
- Wait for the jump in arms animation to end and "Elope with sim right here"

PART 2: Pregnant and Alone
- "Try for baby" once your Sims are married
- Switch to your female Sim and cancel the "Try for baby" interaction once your sims get under the covers
- "Take pregnancy test" on toilet
- If your Sim is pregnant, hit escape and "Manage worlds" + "Continue without saving"
- Select your Sim's household, manage household and move your male Sim into a new family
- Resume your household with only your female sim

PART 3: Baby
- Immediately after resuming your household, press J and find a job (Take the Astronaut career)
- Sleep in bed until 8AM and go to work
- "Take it easy" when working
- Before you go to work on day 3, open build/buy mode and purchase a crib
- Spam click the crib while working on day 3
- Timer stops when the baby name screen appears

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- You may get a random visitor at some point, this usually results in a dead run unless you 'Ask to leave' quickly
- If the timespeed is stuck while on 3x speed, quickly switch to 1x speed and back to 3x (this is known as flicking)
- Once per day, the father of your unborn child will call you, resulting in the speed being switched down to 1x. It is recommended to spam 3x speed until this phone call occurs, and to deny the call
- 'Try for baby' will only appear on the bed when the Welcome Wagon ends
- If the Welcome Wagon event is still happening when you find out you're pregnant, you will need to manually end it before managing worlds
- Your Sim will always get out of bed at 6AM. This can be countered in a number of ways including napping lazily and spam clicking 'Sleep' when 6AM approaches
- Your Sim will automatically get out of bed to work when sleeping, but not when napping
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Ghost Woohoo% (No Expansions, New Routing)

Ok, so...this is an efficiency thing I figured out when I was learning Ghost Woohoo to try and get a better time (ultimately got me the WR).

Elder Sims can die from overexertion very easily, and that includes from WooHoo. This is a far more consistent/faster way to kill sims, thus creating ghosts, than the usual walled-in pool or accidental fire methods one would usually use. So this is the new routing I would suggest for doing Ghost WooHoo (at least with no expansions, and thus, no way to kill with hypothermia)


Sim Creation: Aspiration - Romance (For better flirting chances)   
Attributes - Romance (for same as above), Highly suggest  the Lazy/Slob combo that is used in CPS %

Route:

Lazily Nap on the couch (house shouldn't matter much, since all the cheap ones have couches near the door) till the Welcome Wagon comes. If no elders are in the welcome wagon try to search for them on screen to chase down to interact with, or reset.

Welcome Wagon - Flirt with an Elder aged sim until you can get the first kiss unlocked then flirt/interact a few more times and get them to WooHoo. Once you WooHoo, keep doing it until the elder dies (up to 5 times in a row). 

Strengthen the physical connection to the urn and sugar skull pray asap

Lazily Nap/sleep and manage needs until ghost shows up (usually around 2nd night after they die)

Woohoo Ghost


Video of the Highlighted PB Run I have atm of making this guide: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/522462588

Precise timing for runs

https://slashinfty.github.io/yt-frame-timer/

If you upload your runs to youtube, you can use this tool to measure time correctly, down to milliseconds.

For Twitch: https://vidtimer.com/

Rosebud% Guide

Terminology:
◆  Preclicking
	During loading screens, there are windows of time in which the player can interact
	with the game, but still be blinded by the loading screen. Interacting in this window
	is known as preclicking.
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Preface: 
Currently, this method appears to be optimal for both with and without expansion packs. I expect there will be small menu optimizations that could save precious seconds, especially involving preclicking. Additionally, the traits/size/aspiration of your sim don't matter.
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Part 1: The setup
Due to the tightness in timing on this category, it is imperative to have as fast an interaction time as possible on menus. For me, the greatest improvement was disabling Laptop Mode, which saved me up to two total seconds of menu interaction time!

I suggest using Razer Cortex to clean up processes that would otherwise cut into your game's processing time.

Finally, there is one (slightly dangerous) way to improve the game's speed. If you aren't computer-savvy, however, I cannot recommend you try this. If your game never gets close to 100% CPU usage, you can open task manager on PC and set its priority to "real time." Real time priority means that the game's processing on the CPU takes priority over EVERY other possible program not in real time priority. As a consequence, if the game maxes your CPU usage, it'll actually prevent you from even using your mouse/keyboard, and you'll need to restart to fix it. Use this at your own risk. 
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The Guide:
◆  Select Willow Creek
◆  Purchase Bargain Bend and move in
◆  Spam click F5 and left mouse click while on the loading screen
◆  Click on "Just Go to Manage Worlds" (Timing begins roughly when this screen opens)
◆  Select the Goth's house while on the loading screen (You'll here a UI click sound if you do this right)
◆  Before the loading screen ends, position your mouse where the triple dot menu in the bottom right is
◆  Select the move out option (top)
◆  Select Bargain Bend and move in the Goths (there will be a slight delay after this)
◆  Click on Bargain Bend, press the triple dot menu, then manage family (leftmost)
◆  Click on the second button from the left on the window that opens (manage family)
◆  Click "Other Households", "Oasis Springs", then  the Landgraab family (the order between Willow and Oasis on this menu appears to be random)
◆  Select all the Landgraab members and move them into your home
◆  Select Bargain Bend (this time there isn't any delay between the merge and clicking)
◆  Open up the same manage family menu
◆  Create a new household (top button) and move everyone out but your sim
◆  Move the Pancake family and Spencer-Kim family in as you did with the goths
◆  Select Bargain Bend one last time, and click to enter it
This loading screen indicates the final completion time of the run, as loading screens aren't included in times.
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Thanks to:
KLucius for theorycrafting on stream with me

Name	Author
black widow route	momophen 5 years ago
Child Protection Services Meta	KLucius 5 years ago
Disable expansion packs without uninstalling	KLucius 2 years ago
Get Engaged Guide	momophen 5 years ago
Get Married/Have Baby Meta	KLucius 5 years ago
Ghost Woohoo% (No Expansions, New Routing)	disdonn 5 years ago
Precise timing for runs	Snowy39 2 years ago
Rosebud% Guide	Zavada 5 years ago