Heartache Gameplay

In the Heartache Gameplay, your Time Lord will be aging as normal (24 sim days) while their companions and other sims will be aging as short (12 sim days for YA and Adult). This closely simulates what a Time Lord faces: their companions have a shorter lifespan than them

CREATE-A-TIME-LORD
Create a new game, then design your Time Lord. They can be any gender, color, voice and walk. However, they cannot be a special type of sim (ghost, alien, vampire, etc.).

Choose any traits and aspirations, EXCEPT for Fabulously Wealthy and Beach Life (Island Living). If you want to follow the "Path of The Doctor", pick Mean, Outgoing, Snob and Freelance Botanist.

Likes and Dislikes must remain empty. More on this later.

Their age must be set to Adult. You cannot choose any other age. If you want to roleplay as an Elder, change their hair to gray and add wrinkles in “Skin Details”.

To name your Time Lord, think of a profession, a title, an object or anything. Whatever you choose will be their Last Name. For example, if you chose engineer, then their last name is “Engineer”. If you are having a hard time thinking of a Last Name, go to http://timelord.namegeneratorfun.com

Now that you have your Time Lord’s Last Name, set the first name as “First”. With the example above, your Time Lord’s name should be “First Engineer".

Click the Game Settings, and modify the settings as follows:
  • Auto Age (Played Sims): Active Household Only
  • Auto Age (Unplayed Sims): Checked
  • Sim Lifespan: SHORT
  • Build Mode Items Grant Gameplay Effects: Checked
Once done, save your First Time Lord in your Gallery and click Play.

THE TIME LORD’S SPACE
You must move your Time Lord in a 50 x 50 lot or larger. If the lot is occupied, you must evict the occupying household, bulldoze it and move your Time Lord in. This will be your Time Lord’s permanent lot, which means they cannot move out from it.
 
You can build a house, a TARDIS or both. For a guide on creating a TARDIS, click here for the roleplay section.
 
Lot Traits for your TARDIS must remain empty.
 
Money cheats are allowed such as kaching, rosebud, and motherlode. You may opt not to use any money cheats.

TEMPERAMENTAL TARDIS
The TARDIS has a mind of its own. Sometimes they're cooperating. Sometimes they're erratic. But that's part of the adventure with your TARDIS.

After paying your weekly bills, you must roll a six-sided dice. You can use a physical dice or online: https://www.google.com/search?q=dice+roller

After a roll, you can only use low-level furniture based on the outcome of your dice roll.

1: Low-level Beds (Mod Pod Sleeper, Mod Pod Twin Sleeper, Mod Pod Top Bunk, Mod Pod Bunk Bed)
2: Low-level Showers & Toilets (
Post Modern Shower Stall, The Ambassador)
3: Low-
level Radio (Residential Wall Speaker; Kaboom Box)
4: Low-level Fridge & Stove (Crisponix Budget Dee-lux; The YumCooker)
5: Low-level Computer & Computer Chair (How Low Can You Go Deskblock Computer, Kindermade Chair)
6: No
Low-level Replacement. Or re-roll again if you want to.

When replacing a High-level furniture with a Low-level furniture, you must store the High-level furniture in the Household Inventory to preserve upgrades done to it.

When replacing Low-level furniture with High-level furniture, you must sell the Low-level furniture. Low-level furniture can be upgraded, if you wish.  

OBJECTIVES   
Your Time Lord must earn enough aspiration points for every revitalization and regeneration. Each incarnation will need a total of 8,000 aspiration points (1,500 for the first Youth Potion, 1,500 for the second Youth Potion and 5,000 for Re-Traiting Potion).

There are three objectives to complete: Aspirations, Collections and Mementos.

ASPIRATIONS: Each incarnation must complete at least 1 aspiration. When they complete an aspiration, have your Time Lord take a selfie and rename it to the aspiration completed. The selfie must be kept in the TARDIS.

COLLECTIONS: Complete at least 8 collections before the challenge ends. The collectibles must be kept in the TARDIS. Extra collectibles can be sold to avoid clutter. The plaque for completing a collection must be kept in the TARDIS.


MEMENTOS: Each incarnation of your Time Lord must have 2 mementos. These mementos must be kept in the TARDIS. The following items qualify as mementos:

  • Painting of Time Lord created by another sim
  • Photo of Time Lord taken by another sim 
  • Selfie of Time Lord AND their companion
  • Selfie or photo of Time Lord in a Rental Lot (time travel roleplay) 
  • Highest level crafted item by Time Lord (masterpiece painting, bestseller book, excellent woodwork, etc.)
  • Gold-level reward items from social events
  • Career rewards items
  • Career crafted items

You can have more than 2 mementos per incarnation, but only 2 will be counted for points. You can have dedicated rooms for your collections and mementos, like a museum within your lot. 

LIKES AND DISLIKES 
When the game asks if a certain music genre or activity will be liked or disliked by your Time Lord, you must always accept. If you decline by mistake, you must manually like or dislike that music or activity in "Enter Create a Sim" under the Simology panel.

You cannot pick what your Time Lord likes or dislikes. Let them decide.

ASPIRATION & REWARD STORE RESTRICTIONS
During the course of the challenge, you will gain a lot of aspiration points. You must aim for 8,000 aspiration points per incarnation, which you will use to buy Youth Potions and Re-Traiting Potions. Youth Potions and Re-Traiting Potions are strictly limited to the revitalization process and regeneration phase. You cannot buy these except in those phases.

All other potions are purchasable at any time, and encouraged.

Reward traits that are greater than 1,000 Aspiration Points are forbidden. You can only buy reward traits that are 1,000 Aspiration Points or less.

The following aspirations cannot be chosen and completed: Fabulously Wealthy and Beach Life (Island Living). 

REVITALIZATION
When your Time Lord has two to one day left before Aging Up, you must drink a Youth Potion that costs 1,500 aspiration points. If an expansion/game/stuff pack has an item or activity that resets your Time Lord’s age, you cannot use that item or activity. Only youth potions are allowed to reset their age.

After drinking, you must count the number of Youth Potion consumed. For example, if it’s the first Youth Potion consumed, then count it as 1; if it’s the fourth Youth Potion, then 4. And so on.

To keep track of how many Youth Potion you had consumed, you can take a selfie, keep it in your inventory and then use it as a counter. You are allowed to use the following cheat (stats.set_skill_level Major_Photography 5) to prevent low quality selfies. Or you can buy an Instant Fun potion for 100 aspiration points and not consume it. Another way is to have a notepad on your desktop or cellphone. Or use pen and paper.

For every even numbered Youth Potion consumed, you must begin the Regeneration Phase.

REGENERATION
In the Doctor Who universe, a Time Lord regenerates when they are mortally wounded or in the brink of death. (click here to learn more)

If your Youth Potion counter is even numbered, then you must begin the regeneration phase.
If you do not have enough points to purchase a Youth Potion and/or Re-Traiting Potions, open the cheat console by pressing and holding CTRL-SHIFT-C. In the console, type in testingcheats on and then type sims.give_satisfaction_points 1500 for Youth Potion and/or sims.give_satisfaction_points 5000 for Re-Traiting Potion. A penalty will be imposed when using these cheats, which will be explained below.

Once done, follow these steps for the regeneration phase:
  1. Buy and Drink the Re-Traiting Potion from the Rewards Store.
  2. Pick two new traits NOT used by past Time Lords. The third trait can be a previously used trait or any trait.
  3. To keep track of what traits you had picked, click here for the tracking sheet: https://sims4timelordchallenge.blogspot.com/p/tracking-sheets.html
  4. If you are following the "Path of The Doctor", click here for the tracking sheet: https://sims4timelordchallenge.blogspot.com/p/path-of-doctor-tracking-sheet.html
  5. After picking new traits, open the cheat console. To do this, press and hold CTRL-SHIFT-C.
  6. Type in cas.fulleditmode
  7. Go to the Simology Panel (Hotkey - Y) and click "Enter Create a Sim" under "Likes and Dislikes"
  8. WARNING! If you had enabled cas.fulleditmode and you changed your Time Lord’s age in CAS, all reward traits and purchased traits will be deleted. If you accidentally switched their age in CAS, cancel the edit and return to Step 7.
  9. In Create-A-Sim, randomize the look of your Time Lord. You can tweak their appearance, voice, gender and walk. They should not look like previous Time Lords.
  10. Likes and dislikes must be reset. If there are any music genre or activity that are liked or dislikes, you must uncheck them. You can keep at least (1) Like or Dislike.
  11. Change their first name to the next number. For example, if you are changing the “First”, then you must change their name to “Second”.
  12. Save the Time Lord in your Gallery. This is your backup in case of an unfortunate death. If you want to share, add the hashtag #timelordchallenge.
  13. Press Done
There will be 12 regenerations, giving you a total of 13 Time Lords. 

REGENERATION AFTERMATH
After a Time Lord regenerates, they may experience memory loss, confusion and/or erratic behavior (Click for an example). Also, their TARDIS can undergo a catastrophic malfunction (Click for an example).

For two days, your Time Lord will undergo these regeneration aftermath. On your tracking sheet, make note of the time when your Time Lord regenerated. This will be your guide on when the aftermath ends.

During the aftermath, your Time Lord cannot use Friendly Interactions. They can only use Funny, Mischief, Mean and Romantic Interactions. If you have AUTONOMY ON, Friendly Interaction they do themselves is allowed. However, you cannot cancel any interactions they autonomously choose.

Next,
you must add the "Off The Grid" Challenge Trait on your TARDIS.

After two days have passed, you can now resume normal gameplay. You can now use Friendly Interactions, and you can remove the "Off The Grid" Challenge Trait. While in Build/Buy Mode, save your lot in your Gallery. That way you have a back-up of your TARDIS.

If your Time Lord accidentally dies during the regeneration aftermath, you can reload a previous save of the same Time Lord, or you can retrieve them from your Gallery. This type of death does not trigger a regeneration phase. 

DEATH
If your Time Lord accidentally dies during the challenge, you must retrieve them from your Gallery. All progress that were attained between saving your Time Lord in the Gallery and their unfortunate death will be lost. This loss of progress will be the penalty.

To retrieve your Time Lord from your Gallery, follow these steps:
  1. Go To Manage World
  2. Click your Time Lord’s lot
  3. On the options at the bottom-right, click “More”, “Manage Household” and “Edit, Add or Remove Sim…”
  4. In Create-A-Sim, open The Gallery and click “My Library” tab
  5. Click the recently deceased Time Lord
  6. Click “Place Household”
  7. If placing your Time Lord adds any other sims, delete those sims.
  8. Click “Play”
After retrieving your Time Lord, you must begin the regeneration phase immediately.

SCORING
At the end of your Time Lord’s thirteenth incarnation, you can now add up their score. Total maximum score for the whole challenge is 76 points.

Aspirations (26 Points)

  • 2 Points for each selfie taken for Aspiration completion. Limit 1 selfie per incarnation.

Collections (24 Points)

  • 3 Points for each completed Collection. Limit 8 collections.

Mementos (26 Points)

  • 1 Point for each memento. Limit 2 per incarnation.

Penalty

  • Minus 1 Point for each Potion of Youth purchased with sims.give_satisfaction_points cheat.

  • Minus 1 Point for each Re-Traiting Potion purchased with sims.give_satisfaction_points cheat.

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