The Pixel_Trade Group Uglification Challenge (PTGUC)!
Some of you might be wondering what my previous post in the community was about. Others probably have suspected that I might be up to something. Well, there's the thing: I WAS. Something BIG. And something I've been wanting to do for a long time.
Ever since I saw some of the great "ugly" sims up for download here at pixel_trade, I've been wanting to do an uglacy of my own. And up until recently I thought of doing just that. Then I thought about something...
You see, back in 2006 members of LJ on a pretty much now-defunct community called unbeautifulsims had a Group Uglification Concentration Challenge, featuring families with the last name Ishkabibble, which was known as GUCCI. You might recognize the name from some of the sims up for download on here. I was not part of the sims communities then, but looking back in entries from those who did the challenge, and some that have yet to catch up and finish theirs, it really looked like it would be a fun thing to do again!
Because I had discovered it so late, it just didn't feel right for me to join in. So here I was, just waiting for somebody to start up something like it- until only recently it just hit me that I mod a community where I could start one myself. It's not only because I've always been interested in sim genetics, but also because it's a great way to unify such a large community like this one.
Okay, I'll shut up now. Onto the actual challenge...
For the most part, we will be using the same rules as the previous Group Uglacy challenge which can be found here, but there are twists involved to keep it related to pixel_trade.
-Like the GUCCI challenge, we will all start off with the same founder for everybody. They are to have the same hair, eye and skin colours as they were packaged with. However, and here's the first twist: you can change their gender! That's right, we don't mind if they start out life as a male or a female. Let's face it, under all that "physical" stuff like parts, the genetics are still the same whichever way you go!
-The founder for the first PTGUC challenge is Maudlin Resk, by brilliantcat. She has blonde hair, green eyes, and is S1. She is a Knowledge sim with Grilled Cheese as a secondary if you have Free Time.
-It is suggested (though you don't really have to use them) that the personality stats be 10/2/6/3/4 and her turn ons are Good Cook/Glasses and turn off is Stink.
Here's what she looks like normally:
And here's her as a male:
Pretty cute, huh? Of course, you can change the clothes, makeup and hairstyle. You can even change the hair color- once he/she is onto the lot and out of CAS using the mirror.
From now on, they will be known as...
(insert a name of your choice) DOOHICKEY! Yup, Doohickey is the surname your sims will have to keep throughout your challenge. Hopefully the sims will end up being as funny looking as the name sounds throughout the generations. ^_^
Download her here!
The Rules:
-More than one spouse/donor can be used to create a single generation of offspring, but the first three that are born are the only ones that can be named heir.
-These MUST be sims from other people. DO NOT create your own uglies for your own personal use!
-Like in the regular
pixel_trade legacy, to create diversity among the player's choices you can only pick two sims per creator. And yes, sims from the previous Group Uglification Challenge (the Ishkabibbles) can be used.
-You can still download more than two to from a person to populate the neighborhood (because well, I sure did) to be used if you'd like to play the spares, but those "extras" cannot be used in the uglacy if you have already used two from that particular person.
-The sims that are downloaded from other people can either be a) turned into townies, or b) put in a lot with a phone so the founder/heir has a chance of meeting them. You cannot summon them to the house using InSim or the Teleportation Shrub, and you also cannot use Quick Relations to make them fall in love faster.
-It is preferred that you create a new neighborhood for this, but it is not manditory.
-Also, you cannot use cheats or hacks to age up kids, and you also cannot have any sims use the Elixer of Life.
-Since we are focusing on genetics, you do not have to send sims to college if you don't want to. But maybe you might! After all, Uni. is a great place to send your unwanted spawn if you don't have any room in the house for them.
-Hacks such as preg for all genders and also genetic mergers (since I have the objects version of InSIM, know it as the microwave) are allowed if you want to make two males or two females have a baby. However, If you want to do that make sure that the two sims are at least in love first before you make one of them pregnant.
-What you can't do with InSIM is force alien impregnation. It is okay if a sim gets abducted, but that baby will not have a chance of being heir. Alien spawn downloaded from other people are definitely allowed.
-The cheat faceblendlimits off is not allowed. This is because with the features of the parents not blending together, the offspring are bound to look uglier because of it. This is a challenge to get the ugliest sim possible, and chances are that not everybody is going to use this trick. Since we are hoping to have a vote for the ugliest sim ever to come out of this, it would be like cheating.
-There are a few people who offer some great candidates for this challenge on the master list already. These include madame_ugly (of course!),
nutmegdealer ,
pixel_and_bean , as well as
simmiesworld , and
mjo5oh .
We still need more though! If anybody else has some more ugly sims (born in-game or made in bodyshop) and they would like to contribute, feel free to post a small picture of them and a link to download on this page. Products of previous SimSperiments (such as Edsel's children) also can be put up for download on that page to use as well.
-Once the challenge is started, we will put up a seperate downloads page for the offspring. However, these spawn will not be able to be used as spouses in the challenge. This is because we would like to see genetic variety, and we definitely would not have that if we start using past heirs from other people participating in the PTGUC.
-If you want to follow along with the participants, I highly suggest that you friend their journal. To keep everything organized and not have the enties flood people's friends list with advertisements, ads can only be posted once per week like on
thesims2 and
simstorytellers . Eventually, this will go for the EFMOC and other posts here as well.
-Every two weeks one of us will make an update post telling who is up to where in the PTGUC, and any other challenge that we do so people will still be able to catch up and see what is happening. I will put this new rule on the userinfo, along with a link to the newly tagged PTGUC posts so you can get to all of them easily.
If you have any questions, please ask them in a comment to this entry.
dragancaor and I have been planning this for quite a few days now, and we are very excited to actually get it started. We would love to see if there are any more recruits for this thing! You don't have to do it if you don't want to- and there's no deadline to get started as of yet. As many rules as this challenge has, the main idea is to have fun! You can tell this as commentary, or even a story. Is anybody with me?!