Welcome to the Sims 4 Neighbourhood Legacy Challenge! This legacy challenge is designed to showcase the best of every neighbourhood within the Sims 4. Each generation will be based within each Sims 4 neighbourhood - so this will require all of the current packs! However, if you don’t have a certain pack, it’s totally ok to skip a generation or mix it up to your tastes! We have 8 out of 11 generations complete so far, so I will get to work on these ASAP! Let’s get started with your founder:
Starting Out:
~ Create a young adult sim (any gender/preference). They may be any species (alien, vampire, berry etc.) CC is allowed! ~ Select your aspiration and traits for your founding sim - you must pick one trait from 3 out of the four different categories (one emotional, one hobby, one lifestyle or one social - any combo) e.g bro (social), lazy (lifestyle) and bookworm (hobby). This will be the trait selection style for each sim born into the legacy. You may wish to make this harder by randomising a trait within each category as well! ~ Set your lifespan to long or normal - long is recommended ~ At the start of each generation you must move your sim into the neighbourhood and lot required for this level of the legacy. Your sim may not move, but is free to travel to any world they please ~ You must complete all aspirations unless specified in the generation ~ No cheats apart from MOO, resetting sims etc.
Generation One ~ Fall From Grace (Del Sol Valley - Get Famous Required)
Required Trait: self absorbed + 2 traits from other categories Career: Acting Aspiration: World Famous Celebrity, Master Actress/Actor or Mansion Baron
~ move your sim into the 64x64 lot in the pinnacles. Bulldoze the lot and give yourself $5,000 to build a house then take away the rest! This is your temporary dwelling whilst your lavish mansion is being built ~ join the acting career and reach the top of the career - you want to be a household name ~ Max the acting, charisma and mischief skills ~ befriend as many celebrities as you can and throw lavish parties at least once per season (requires seasons) or every two sim weeks ~ earn a pristine celebrity level and buy all the positive fame perks ~ meet your spouse on the way to an audition and fall in love at first sight ~ have a big fancy wedding and take time out of your career to start a family, but start a social media profile to blog your parenting adventures ~ once you are an adult and hit a pristine fame level, have a midlife crisis and begin an affair with a coworker ~ get caught and your spouse finds out. Book a celebrity cleanse to reset your fame tree, then purchase all of the negative fame perks. Pick fights with the press and be dismissive of your fans as people keep shaming you for your affair! All press is good press, right? ~ get divorced and your spouse moves out, taking your family with them. You never remarry but spend the rest of your life reforming broken ties with your family and restoring your public image, realising the error of your ways
Generation 2 ~ Humble Beginnings (Oasis Springs, base game required)
Required Trait: Loner + 2 traits from other categories Career: Self employed (make money via skills) Aspiration: Freelance Botanist, The Curator or Angling Ace
~ move into one of the 20x15 lots in Oasis Springs ~ use your starter funds to build a starter house (or download one from the gallery). You cannot move to a bigger lot and must build the best house you can on this lot ~ you may not have a career, but you may make money from any of the following physical skills: fishing, handiness/woodworking, gardening, flower arranging (seasons required) ~ max two “practical” (as above) skills and max a bonus “hobby” skill in your spare time - painting, cooking etc. ~ complete the frogs and fossils collections (at least base game ones) ~ make friends with the welcome wagon - become best friends with all of them and fall in love with one, later to be your spouse ~ have a quaint wedding and only invite your family but not your founding sim - you’ve cut ties since they tainted your family name by going off the rails ~ have two children, but keep them close and try to encourage them not to socialise and make friends. You want to protect them from people discovering that they are related to your founder
Generation 3 ~ Breaking Out - (San Myshuno, City Living required)
Required Trait: Ambitious + 2 traits from other categories Career: Critic, Political or Social Media Aspiration: City Native
~ move into an apartment in the spice district and use your starting funds to furnish as you please ~ choose your career and make your voice heard - join a protest (political), paint a mural (critic), or check in at a hotspot (social media) at least once a week to get yourself noticed - you want to be on top like your grandparents! ~ reach level 10 of chosen career ~ max charisma, singing skills and a skill pertaining to your career (eg painting/cooking for critic, logic for political, comedy/programming for social media) ~ focus on your fame level (optional - get famous required) ~ learn all of the recipes San Myshuno has to offer - you want to experience everything this city has to offer! ~ join any protest that you see no matter what career you are in ~ unlock the street performer outfit and perform for tips as a street performer at least once ~ gain a crush on someone unobtainable (family friend, someone already dating etc.) and date around trying to find someone to replace them, but you can’t get them out of your mind! ~ have a child/children with one of the sims you date, invite them to move in and get engaged but don’t get married ~ as an elder, your unobtainable crush has been widowed. Leave your current partner and marry your crush - finally being with the person of your dreams!
Generation 4 ~ A Wild Ride (Windenburg, Get Together required)
Required Trait: Insider + two traits from other categories Career: Entertainer or Culinary (mixologist branch) Aspiration: Leader of the Pack then Serial Romantic
~ move into one of the lots in Old Town in Windenburg, you want to be up close and personal to all of the nightlife! ~ join the entertainer or culinary career (mixologist branch) so you have an excuse to get paid to party! Your work is not your main focus, so you do not need to max this career ~ start a singles club and meet some other like minded individuals. Gain a club with at least 8 members and ~ Complete the leader of the pack aspiration, then take on the serial romantic aspiration when you realise settling down is not for you ~ host a dance party every weekend and attend singles nights/themed bar nights when you can ~ max a skill pertaining to your career: (guitar/comedy for entertainer, mixology for culinary/mixologist branch). Max your dance and DJ skills so you can be the life of the party ~ Have a minimum of two children with one of your lovers, or have each child have a different father ~ Have one of your children’s fathers propose to you, but decline the proposal as that level of commitment is not for you. ~ You may remain single or have one of your children’s fathers move in with you to help raise your family, but remain in an open relationship
Generation 5 ~ Settling Down (Willow Creek, Base Game required)
Required Trait: Family-Oriented + two traits from other categories Career: Writer or Doctor (get to work required) Aspiration: Big Happy Family or Super Parent (Parenthood required)
~ using funds from the previous generations, move into a large family home (3 or 4 bedrooms) in the Courtyard Lane district of Willow Creek ~ immediately join the job of your choice and aim to max your career ~ adopt a pet to give you company whilst you search for a spouse (cats and dogs required) ~ go on a few speed dates (one date only) with some sims you meet, but no one seems to be the right fit for you. ~ become close to a co-worker and finally realise they are your soulmate ~ host a wedding in your backyard where you invite all of your family to try and reunite everyone back together after all of the difficult times you have been through ~ max a skill for your career (logic - doctor/writing - writer), parenting (parenthood required) and baking skills (get to work required) ~ have four children and have each child earn the happy toddler/top-knotch toddler trait and max a childhood aspiration ~ each of your children must earn at least one positive character value trait and earn a special relationship type (parenthood required) ~ have one of your children collect all of the void critters (kids room stuff required) ~ buy each of your children a minor pet ~ hamster etc (my first pet stuff required)
Generation 6 ~ Furry Friends (Brindleton Bay, Cats and Dogs Required)
Required Trait: Dog Lover or Cat Lover + two traits from other categories Career: Business, then Vet Clinic Aspiration: Friend of the World
~ move into the Cavalier Cove district of Brindleton Bay and immediately purchase a lot in Sable Square for your vet clinic, then use the remaining funds to build yourself a starter house ~ get a day job in the business career to earn yourself enough money to purchase your vet clinic ~ As soon as you have earned §5,500 - build yourself a starter clinic and quit your day job - it’s time to follow your dreams! ~ Continue to expand your clinic rather than your house and achieve a 5 star clinic, having the best trained staff possible ~ Adopt four stray animals and have at least one cat and one dog or have a litter of puppies or kittens ~ Max the veterinary and pet training skills (cats and dogs required) and photography skill (get to work required) ~ complete the feathers collection ~ Once you age up into an adult, realise that you need to have a family to continue your family’s legacy and seduce the next sim that visits your home lot ~ You can choose to get married or remain single, but have one child with your chosen sim but never get close to them, you are closer to your pets than your child
Generation 7 ~ Back to Basics (Granite Falls, Outdoor Retreat required)
Required Trait: Squeamish + two traits from other categories Career: Self-employed (make money from things you collect) Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast ~ choose a “wooded” world such as Willow Creek, Windenburg or Brindleton Bay and select a secluded lot, building yourself a small cabin to live in ~ you want to be as eco-friendly as possible, so do not include any electrical appliances in your house (no tvs, computers etc.) ~ aim to travel to Granite Falls for at least five days in every two sim weeks ~ max the herbalism skill and gain at least level five in fishing, guitar, handiness, wellness (spa day required) and gardening skills so you’re a camping expert! ~ complete the insects collection and collect the fish/herbs that can only be found in Granite Falls - you must keep at least one of every insect to have a collection at your cabin ~ purchase the survivalist, great storyteller and stoves and grill master reward traits ~ meet the hermit in the woods and gain wisdom from them - they suggest it is not good to spend your life alone and it would be good to find a like minded individual to settle down with ~ find a sim with the loves outdoors or vegetarian trait, fall in love and have a private wedding ~ have between two and four children and ensure that as toddlers they all earn the top knotch toddler trait ~ when your offspring become teens and children, do not let them attend school - instead having them max the children skills/aspirations and working on their skills as teens ~ have all of your children join the scouts career and max it (seasons required) ~ once your aspiration is complete, try to mentor your children in skills you have learned to influence them in later life
Generation 8 ~ A New World (Selvadorada, Jungle Adventure required)
Required Trait: Genius + two traits from other categories Career: Self Employed Archaeologist (making money from artefacts) Aspiration: Jungle Explorer then Archaeology Scholar ~ choose a world with a “hot” climate e.g Oasis Springs, Del Sol Valley etc. and build yourself a 2-3 bedroom home with space for a large library/artefact room ~ move in with your heir and a sibling (the sibling may join a career where they can work from home - gardener etc.) or make money from a skill (music, painting etc.) ~ book a trip to selvadorada but don’t go exploring yet - instead spend as much time as you can getting to know the locals and max the selvadoradian culture skill ~ once you have maxed the selvadoradian culture skill, you learn the secrets of the jungle and may now explore - max the archaeology, logic and fitness skills ~ complete the ancient omiscan artefacts collection and the omiscan treasures collection ~ learn the new dance, food and drink recipes to really embrace the local culture ~ meet a local that you feel attracted to and become increasingly distracted from your jungle explorations every time you visit, much to the distaste of your sibling ~ invite your chosen sim out to the bar, drink a bit too much juice and share your first kiss and woohoo. Depending upon your gender, either have your sim get pregnant or impregnate the sim you fall for ~ once the baby is born, decide that you are going to give up the tomb raiding and invite your lover to move in with you ~ unfortunately, fate isn’t going to work the way you wanted - so your heir must either die from poison or die from combustion whilst on an expedition to Selvadorada. ~ your lover cannot bear to leave your work unfinished, so they stay living with your sibling to raise your heir’s only child - but the negativity between your lover, child and sibling has a negative impact on your future heir!
Generations 9, 10 and 11 to follow!
I will be following and reblogging posts for this legacy challenge to my new blog @neighbourhoodlegacychallenge so please tag your posts with @neighbourhoodlegacy or #nlchallenge for me to reblog your posts :D
