MBTI Legacy Challenge
16 Generations Inspired by the 16 Myers-Briggs Types
A TS4 Legacy Challenge by @windslar
The MBTI Legacy Challenge is inspired by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator – a pseudoscientific self-report questionnaire that measures one’s preferences on four dimensions of personality type. The test attempts to assign a value to each of four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. One’s four-letter test result represents 1 of 16 possible types. The underlying assumption of MBTI is that each type has specific preferences in the way they interpret their experiences.
This legacy challenge is about diving deeper into the personalities of your sims beyond the limitations of the game. Each type’s preferences underpin their interests, needs, values, and motivation. And in exploring each generation, decisions are made with that particular personality in mind. There are no backstories; rather, there are detailed descriptions and curated lists of aspirations, traits, and careers that are deliberately left open-ended so you can create unique stories. There are also scenarios and prompts specific to each type that affect the lives of your sims in relation to their career, love life, and relationship with their children. No two MBTI Legacy Challenges will ever be the same. This challenge is for players who love structure but also love the freedom to be creative in their gameplay and storytelling.
The official tag for this challenge is #MBTILC
For challenge rules, generation descriptions, and more:
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This looks like a very interesting, in-depth Legacy Challenge. And having been a Psychotherapist for much of my professional life, it seems like a natural fit, for me anyway. I hope others will look into this one as well.
oh hi there! i haven't posted here in a while, but i just watched the barbie movie a few days ago and needless to say, it is now my entire personality. so here's my first ever legacy challenge based on barbie's many, many careers and achievements!
apologies in advance, this challenge uses a lot of packs! i'm sorry! i might try to make a base game version at some point
portuguese translation by @demaciana-sims
sims 3 version by @appaloosawhims
challenge rules below the cut
All heirs must be female and named Barbie. (non-heir children may have any name)
You may use the freerealestate cheat for your first house, but try not to use money cheats after that!
You are allowed and encouraged to use lot traits and rewards to boost skill gain, anything that’s in-game is fair game.
Packs you will need:
EPs: Get To Work, City Living, Cats & Dogs, Get Famous, Island Living
GPs: Spa Day*, Parenthood
Optional packs (for the optional generations):
EPs: University, Cottage Living, Horse Ranch
GPs: Strangerville
*You only need Spa Day for the High Maintenance trait in one of the generations and nothing else, so it's fine to skip out on it.
You've been raised with traditional values: find a good man, start a family, be a homemaker... But you want your children to aim higher, so you'll make sure to set them up for success.
Complete Successful Lineage aspiration
Max Parenting and Cooking skills
Have at least 3 kids and 1 pet, each child must complete at least one child aspiration and they must all max out their grades in school
Must have Family-Oriented trait
Your mother was happy staying at home, but not you. You're ready to fight your way to the top and make enough money to support your family for generations to come.
Complete Fabulously Wealthy aspiration
Max Charisma and Logic skills
Max Business career (Investor branch)
Must have Ambitious trait
Your family is pretty wealthy, so you've used your funds to open up your very own vet clinic and follow your dreams of being surrounded by furry little guys all day! But it might be more difficult than you thought...
Complete Friend of the Animals aspiration
Max Veterinarian skill
Run a 5-star vet clinic
Have at least 3 pets and be good friends with all of them
Must have either Cat Lover or Dog Lover trait
You grew up surrounded by pets, and you now want to explore even more of the animal kingdom... So you're going underwater! What magical secrets will you discover on your journey?
Must live in Sulani
Complete Beach Life aspiration
Max Conservationist career (Marine Biologist branch)
Become a mermaid
Max Logic and Fitness skills
Must have Child of the Ocean trait
Your mother had an almost supernatural level of fitness at sea, so now you've been inspired to master fitness on land! You're determined to reach your full potential in physical performance and become a world class champion.
Join Cheer or Football team as a teenager and reach highest level
Complete Bodybuilder aspiration
Max Fitness and Charisma skills
Max Athlete career (Athlete branch)
Must have Active trait
Your family has achieved many, many accolades, and you've set out to capture all of it in an epic Tell-All novel that you spend your entire life writing!
Complete Bestselling Author aspiration
Max Writing skill
Write Book Of Life and bind it to your parent, use it to successfully bring them back from a premature death
Must have Creative trait
Movie stardom is the next logical step for your lineage, so you set out to conquer the silver screen. Will you catapult the family name into even greater heights, or will it now be associated with infamy?
Complete Master Actress aspiration
Max Acting skill
Must reach at least Proper Celebrity status
Must have a secret affair with a fellow Actor!
Must have High Maintenance trait
As the child of a successful actress, people may roll their eyes and immediately write you off as yet another nepo-baby trying to start a music career... So you must prove them all wrong by becoming a proper rockstar!
Complete World Famous Celebrity aspiration
Max Singing skill
Max skill in at least 2 instruments
Max Entertainer career (Musician branch)
Must have Music Lover trait
What's next after conquering so many careers and reaching worldwide fame for the family name? World domination, of course! Become the greatest Leader this nation has ever seen!
Complete Mansion Baron aspiration
Max Politician career (Politician branch)
Max Charisma skill
Must have Self-Assured trait
Now that you've conquered the world, it's time to venture out into Space! There's so much to explore out there, and Barbie must leave her mark all across the galaxy.
Complete Nerd Brain aspiration
Max Logic and Rocket Science skills
Go to SIXAM at least once and bring a souvenir
Must have Genius trait
Still want more? Here's some extra Barbies that you can play with!
Countryside Barbie
Complete Country Caretaker aspiration
Max Gardening skill
Must make all money from gardening, farming, wine making, etc. No day job!
Must own a horse and have it max every skill
Must have Animal Enthusiast trait
Army General Barbie
Must live in Strangerville
Complete Strangerville Mystery aspiration
Max Logic and Charisma skills
Max Military career (Either branch)
Must have Erratic trait
Scientist Barbie
Complete Nerd Brain aspiration
Max Scientist Career
Be abducted by Aliens at least once
Must have Genius trait
Ultimate Barbie
Set lifespan to long
Complete at least 2 child aspirations
Complete Renaissance Sim AND Academic aspirations
Max 10 skills
Have 12 or more traits
Graduate from college
Reach the top of any career
Have a house worth 1 Million Simoleons
Have at least 5 kids and max your relationship with all of them
that's about it! if you play this, please use #sims barbie legacy
this is pretty much a conversation from the sims 4 barbie legacy challenge by @sims-himbo but i did change up some of the generations as well just to use more features from ts3 that arent in ts4 as add some extra optional ones for occult/supernatural players
mods i recommend downloading
• nraas porter (for moving towns without traveler file bloat)
• nraas master controller
• family secrets (in case you wanna add drama)
rules
• all heirs must be female and named barbie
• you can use money cheats just starting out but nothing after that
• do not sell the future portal that is summoned when you first start a save, to get rid of it “testingcheatsenabled true > shift click > delete” no free money here
gen one: housewife barbie
• complete the surrounded by family lifetime wish
• you must never get a job, earn money through opportunities, painting, playing the guitar for tips, etc
• have at least one pet
• must have the family oriented and nurturing traits
gen two: business barbie
• complete the ceo of a mega corporation lifetime wish
• be worth at least 50k simeoleans
• master logic and charisma skills
• must have ambitious and born saleswoman traits
gen three: equestrian barbie
• complete the ark builder aspiration
• dont have an actual job and make money through horse riding competitions
• all of your children must have a small pet of their own (by small i mean snake, lizard, turtle, etc)
• must have the equestrian trait
gen four: sea pearl barbie
• move to isla paradiso
• become a mermaid
• master the grand explorer lifetime wish
• live on a houseboat
• master the scuba diving and logic skills
• must have the loves to swim trait
gen five: best seller barbie
• complete the professional author lifetime wish
• max writing skill
• master the journalism career
• must have the artistic, bookworm and virtuoso traits
gen six: academic barbie
• complete the perfect studio lifetime wish
• max out the nerds social group
• master the science and painting skills
• earn a fine arts degree
• must have the socially awkward and genius traits
gen seven: movie star barbie
• complete the superstar actor lifetime wish
• become a 5 star celebrity
• have a secret affair with a fellow actor
• master the film career (acting branch)
• fall in love with a non celebrity
• master the charisma skill
• must have the star quality, schmoozer and charismatic traits
gen eight: rockstar barbie
• complete the one sim one band lifetime wish
• master the music career (rock star branch)
• must have the virtuoso trait
gen nine: president barbie
• complete the leader of the free world lifetime wish
• be the richest sim in town
• max the politics career
• never be lower than a 2 star celebrity
• must have the charismatic trait
gen ten: time traveling barbie
• complete the made the most of my time lifetime wish
• become best friends with emit relevant
• build a plumbot
• master the bot building, advanced technology, and handiness skills
• own a jetpack
• must have the ambitious and bot fan traits
optional generations
gen eleven: vampire barbie
• move to midnight hollow
• complete the turn the town lifetime wish
• must have the proper and night owl traits
gen twelve: fairy barbie
• move to moonlight falls and live their for the rest of the legacy
• complete the mystic healer lifetime wish
• marry and fall in love with a werewolf since fairies live longer do not get into another relationship after they die
• must have the gatherer trait
gen thirteen: werewolf barbie
• complete the leader of the pack lifetime wish
• purchase the alpha wolf lifetime reward
• must have the loves the outdoors trait
gen fourteen: witch barbie
• complete the greener gardens lifetime wish
• master the fortune teller career (scam artist branch)
• master the charmisa, logic, gardening, and alchemy skills
Hello everyone! This is my take on a Barbie challenge, inspired by @sims-himbo 's Barbie Legacy Challenge, and it's a beast! This is my first challenge made, so I hope it's descent, and if anyone has suggestions, please let me know. Now, let's get started!
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This challenge can be played in three different ways: Legacy, Super Sim, or a mix of both depending on your playstyle.
Legacy gameplay is best done using groups of siblings as desired, but if you like the challenge of a 48 generation save, who am I to stop you! The main importance is to always, regardless if blood or adoptive relative, have your sims be a direct descendant of your first Barbie, so that the family tree remains unbroken.
For Super Sim, I recommend having your primary Barbie be the parent of Barbie's friends and family, so that you can have many sims earn their own Potion of Youth for her, and always keep her young! Additionally, though it's not truly in her spirit, you may also sacrifice sims to a Cow Plant. She may not, however, turn into a Vampire or Werewolf for immortality. It's Barbie!
For a mix of both, I would reccomend a legacy with Barbie as the start, and then her descendants going through the career paths and earning Potions of Youth for her as you go, that way there is always variety of new unique sims but you have one main one you're keeping alive and well. If you would like, she could be on her own track going through any or all Sims 4 careers and lifetime goals alongside her dedicated team of Barbie descendants, who are being their own embodiments of their paths. The choice is yours! There are many careers or paths not included in this long list, so you may also focus on those if you desire.
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To continue on a thread mentioned, aside from your first sim being Barbie, each sim played as "Barbie" does not need to be her herself, she can have variations of the name Barbara, be one of Barbie's friends or family, and, if you aren't looking for a matriarchal legacy, even be Kens, Allans, etc!
With all those choices out of the way, let's establish rules: all modding is free game, as I'm not going to say how you play your game, but no aging or money cheats. If at the start (or anytime, truly) you wish to do a rags to riches you may cheat money down to 0. Also, choice of where to live is up to you, the bigger the better in my opinion, but if your chosen (bulldozed, as no free mansions, though regular houses without any cheats are fine as is) lot is too expensive you may use freerealestate to get it. Since the former doesn't add and the latter gives the challenge of higher bills early on, these are the only exceptions. If you wish to disregard, obviously go ahead, but this gives your early sim some challenge that later sims will not have, as they will be swimming in generational money! If you so choose, of course.
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Now it's time to address the elephant in the room: 48 career paths! You heard that right! I went through a list of Barbie's careers through the years, and then picked out ones in chronological order that matched a Sim career to make this challenge.
As this post is quite long already, under the cut I'm going to first list out the career paths in order, and then make a longer list giving information and details (WIP). When it's available, I reccomend using desktop to be able to ctrl+F any you have questions on, but all should be self explanatory as any non careers will say Business or Freelance. I will also be discussing the history of each choice, and may include photos of the respective first Barbie's of the career! I may also make it a seperate post, however... We'll see. :)
I also want to address why I made this challenge: while I enjoyed the concept of sims-himbo's challenge, I couldn't personally connect with the legacy originator being a housewife! She's Barbie! She deserves more credit than that, as historically and presently being a housewife is a thankless, paycheck-less job, so I wanted to go back to her roots for this challenge instead. Barbie is a career woman first and foremost, and I wanted to honor that.
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So far, the gamepacks needed for this challenge are:
Expansions: Get to Work, City Living, Cats & Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Island Living, Discover University, Eco Lifestyle, Cottage Living, Horse Ranch
Game Packs: Outdoor Retreat, Dine Out, Strangerville, Dream Home Decorator
But any you don't have are easily skippable, and are not necessary for experiencing the fun of this challenge, as there are many careers like Firefighter I wish I could have added but are not available. In fact, there are packs I included that I don't even have, but they're there because Barbie did them. So don't be afraid to join in as is, roleplay, or mod for your own fun!
And now, the list!
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Style Influencer: Trendsetter
Style Influencer: Stylist
Singer Freelancer
Athlete: Professional Athlete
Part Time: Babysitter
Business: Management
Entertainer: Musician
Astronaut: Space Ranger
Education: Professor
Doctor
Equestrian Freelancer
Actress
Part Time: Fast Food Attendant
Veterinarian Business Owner
Bakery Business/Restaurant Owner
Military: Officer
Military: Covert Operator
Restaurant Owner
Culinary: Chef
Part Time: Retail Employee
Part Time: Lifeguard
Part Time: Scuba Diver
Paleontologist Collector Freelancer
Shop Business Owner
Detective
Florist Freelancer
Politician: Politician (lol)
Secret Spy: Diamond Agent
Part Time: Barista
Photographer Freelancer
Pet Breeder Freelancer
Criminal: Oracle
Civil Designer: Civil Planner
Engineer: Computer Engineer
Conservationist: Marine Biologist
Game Developer Freelancer
Artist Freelancer
Beekeepee Freelancer
Farmer Freelancer
Engineer: Mechanical Engineer
Chicken Farmer Freelancer
Insect Collector Freelancer
Law: Judge
Writer: Journalist
Civil Designer: Green Technician
Athlete: Bodybuilder
Conservationist: Environmental Manager
Interior Decorator
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Here is the beginning of the next, longer list, as a teaser...
1. Style Influencer: Trendsetter
This Barbie's original career, as seen on her box, is teenage fashion model, and in the Sims 4 Trendsetter is the best match. She is the first Barbie ever produced, and an iconic one at that!
Tom Petty in the audience at an event for his friends, The Knack, around 1979. This was Sweetwater in Redondo Beach, California. 💗 #tompetty #tompettyforever #pettyforever #iwillalwaysloveyou (at Park Heights, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5e6dyhVNA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3413tcfykrts
Linda Swallow posted this picture in Tom Petty Tribute, from his video for A Woman In Love, a song that is very dear to my heart. #tompetty #tompettyforever #pettyforever #iwillalwaysloveyou (at Park Heights, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq29UCEBO6E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1d58osegmvnvo
Annakim Petty by the sign at her late father's dedication of Tom Petty Park in Gainesville, FL, on October 20th, 2018 #tompetty #riptompetty #tompettyrip #tompettyforever #pettyforever (at Park Heights, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpbIQQkllT7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mi5ilskqk8ak
I love this Tom Petty Meme that was on Tom Petty Nation. 💖 I actually did do this late Saturday night, after a day of Tom's Birthday celebrations online. It was very therapeutic! 😎 #tompetty #riptompetty #tompettyrip #tompettyforever #pettyforever #tompettymemes #iwillalwaysloveyou (at Park Heights, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpP74YYlChO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xhgww8gtrvs1
Photo by Bonnie Mountain. Her brother, Billy Mountain, with Tom's younger brother, Bruce Petty, at the Tom Petty Park Dedication in Gainesville, FL, yesterday, October 20th, 2018. (And again, if you Billy or Bonnie have a problem with me posting this, let me know and I'll take it right down). #tompetty #riptompetty #tompettyrip #tompettyforever #pettyforever #iwillalwaysloveyou (at Park Heights, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpNOjyIFdkR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qvr2u0c74d4z
(Bonnie or Billy, if you have a problem with me posting this, please let me know and I'll take it down) Photo by Bonnie Mountain of her brother, @billy.mountain with Tom's younger daughter, @annakimwildflower at the Tom Petty Park Dedication yesterday, in Gainesville, FL, on October 20th, 2018 #tompetty #riptompetty #tompettyrip #tompettyforever #pettyforever #iwillalwaysloveyou (at Park Heights, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpNKAqPlCFJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hxsdsgkjwcd6
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes was released on this day 39 years ago (October 19th, 1979). One day before Tom turned 29. Happy Birthday, Love. 💗 #tompetty #riptompetty #tompettyrip #tompettyforever #pettyforever #iwillalwaysloveyou (From TomPetty.rocks) (at Park Heights, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpHw2ENld2G/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=113yww70crwyb
Beautiful collage I swiped from Facebook group Tom Petty Tributes. 😀💗💋👽😇😭💔 #tompetty #riptompetty #tompettyrip #tompettyforever #pettyforever #iwillalwaysloveyou (at Park Heights, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo_9GAhlJaQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ae7q5r79yxm4
Tom Petty, I'm guessing from the 80's. Beautiful! 😋💗👽💋 #tompetty #riptompetty #tompettyrip #tompettyforever #pettyforever #iwillalwaysloveyou (at Park Heights, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo_6g_5Fb2K/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wlgw5ot4c07r
