The Legacy Challenge for TS3

I didn't ever play a legacy with the sims 2, but I'm a huge fan of apocalypse. I think that some of the sims 3 is just made for it; particularly the negative moodlets like going stir crazy from not leaving the house

Awesome, I can't wait!

I have been thinking about starting something for myself this week. What is great though, is when you move the non family heir out, they will just move on with their lives and the sims that your family know, will continue to have friends that grow up with them.

This is going to be awesome! Bring it on!

Good to see that you're back, Pinstar! I really enjoyed the Legacy challenge for The Sims 2 - The Black Sheep master bonus was my favorite - and will be eager to see how The Sims 3 Legacy Rules turn out.

Thanks.

Cannot wait...

I may actually have to try a legacy challenge!

yay!! a legacy sims 3 style! in sims 2 i tried like a million bagillion times. but failed... maxmotives... lol! i should do better though. =)

I attempted a legacy in Sims 2, but my Dell crashed before I got too far.

I kind of already started a legacy... ish. I never used the money cheat, or any cheat. I didn't start on an empty lot because I didn't know how, but I moved them to an empty lot. My sims are married with a kid and another on the way.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new rules and if I can finally finish it.

Simposter wrote:

McDaniels wrote:I never knew about the "legacy challenge" in ts2. Would anyone care to enlighten myself and everyone else who has no idea what this is?

One of the first rules for the challenge in TS2 was you had to start with a single sim and meet a townie and build a relationship and get married and start a family. Then do that again for a total of 10 generations. You also couldn't use cheats and had to start on an empty lot. I hope my Prima Guide arrives before the rules for LegacyTS3 do or I may not even know HOW to move a sim into a required lot and start it

So how do you win, or what is the objective of the competition? Is it to see who can get the most net worth in 10 generations or something?

McDaniels wrote:

Simposter wrote:

McDaniels wrote:I never knew about the "legacy challenge" in ts2. Would anyone care to enlighten myself and everyone else who has no idea what this is?

One of the first rules for the challenge in TS2 was you had to start with a single sim and meet a townie and build a relationship and get married and start a family. Then do that again for a total of 10 generations. You also couldn't use cheats and had to start on an empty lot. I hope my Prima Guide arrives before the rules for LegacyTS3 do or I may not even know HOW to move a sim into a required lot and start it

So how do you win, or what is the objective of the competition? Is it to see who can get the most net worth in 10 generations or something?

Part of the challenge is to hit generation 10 in the first place. If the line is broken, the challenge fails.

But the Sims 2 Legacy had all sorts of semi arbitrary rules along the way. Like "Collect one of each ghost", "Roll a die to choose aspiration", "Collect one of each supernatural", "Buy but don't use as many Exlir of Life as you can, get 1 point per 25" and so on. Considering that Sims 3 is almost made for legacy style play, this could get interesting pretty fast. For each bonus objective you complete, you get a number of points. At the end of the challenge, tally up your points.

Oh dear... I have a horrible idea for an optional rule. "Epic Legacy". 10 generations, on Epic aging scale.

Ha ha, great to see you here Pinstar! I'd so love to play a legacy for TS3, shame my game won't work right now. But one day it will...or I'll have a new Pc and then I'll play it for sure.

I'd be really interested to see what new things you add and how the different gameplay features of TS3 work in a legacy. Also I love how you could have the whole neighbourhood just plod through ten generations with you while you just play the one family...it'd be nice to see other things change with you while you can still concentrate on your family goals.

Mist

This is wicked! I was considering trying to tweak the old legacy rules to fit this so I could do one, but now I won't have to!

I find that playing TS3 is much easier without cheats than it was in TS2. That will help immensely when it comes to getting through the legacy!

Yay! Now that my game is working smoothly this was actually the first thing I thought of, I can't wait to play legacy! TS3 seems to be made for something like this. Eeee! I can't wait to read all the new rules.

Yes! Yes! Yes! (Guess I should have chosen Excitable for myself as a trait, eh? )

So glad to hear you're doing this, Pinstar. I'd like to personally thank you for creating the whole Legacy Challenge to begin with. It's quite a rewarding thing to take up, and I've had hours and hours of game play fun due to it.

I look forward to the new New Rules.

~GalacticGal