Welcome to the OFFICIAL PAGE for the Legacy Stories Challenge made by: MissLollypop — The Storyteller and erinthesimmer — The Elaborator :)
Do you ever find yourself repeating the same steps as me?
Create A Sim > Build a house > Have kids > Get bored.
Yes?
That's why I created this challenge!
I have written realistic stories us to play out in the Sims. I also incorporated rules and aspirations that I feel the characters would want to achieve in relation to their story.
This challenge focuses on gameplay goals as well as skill based and career based goals, so a little bit for everyone!
NOTE: I WILL BE MAKING A SECOND VERSION THAT IS UNMODDED ONCE I HAVE 5 GENERATIONS WRITTEN
PSA
Want to change something?
Go ahead! I didn't create this challenge in mind to restrict you, if you feel something else would suit a specific generation better, change it! I just hope you enjoy playing and get some ideas from the stories!
Bare in mind some of these stories could be triggering for some people with sensitivity around Death, Trauma and Drugs. Everything that could potentially happen IRL, could also occur within these stories as personally I love to play as realistically as possible.
Checklist
Click here to get a link to a checklist, which you can make a copy of for yourself, to keep track of all the goals for each generation.
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Rules
No money cheats (unless stated otherwise in the rules for story telling purposes)
No mods that make the game easier, we love a struggle here.
You may do anything outside the rules unless stated otherwise eg. If the generation requires to max a specific skill, you may still max other nonrelated skills.
You must complete the goals in each generation to fully complete it, however, if you would like the move onto the next generation as a toddler and come back to the previous generation after, that is also fine as long as you still complete everything.
Complete the goals in order for the story to make the most sense.
Any other children's traits can be selected, it's only the heir's traits that must be according to the rules.
There is a colour palette for each generation, this will be your sims favourite colours. Try to pick clothes/hair and decorate their home with this colour to correlate with each generation.
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The Game Requirements
Many of the generations include multiple packs, therefore, it is recommended that you have all of them installed. If you don't have them you can always tweak the generations rules to change depending on which packs you own.
You must play with lifespan on Normal.
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Mod Requirements
These are the mods that will be required for some of the generations, again, If you don't have them/or want to download them you can always tweak the generations rules but it would benefit your gameplay and storytelling to use them!
Career Overhaul Suite by Kuttoe. You will need this for the career requirements as well as the degree nerf addon.
SNBank Bills by SimRealist. You will need this for child support payments, alimony payments and benefit scheme as well as to make the bills more expensive for harder gameplay.
Woohoo Wellness Mod by Lumpinou
Basemental Drugs by Basemental
Mc Command Centre (optional but highly recommended) This is so that whilst you play, other townies stories progress alongside yours!
Socially Anxious Trait by Kuttoe. You can use the in game loner trait instead.
Shorter University Degrees by Peri. I use the 8 credits, university goes on forever in the Sims and it bothered me, I like a challenge but I still like to enjoy the game! To balance it out, I have my University difficulty in MCC set to 200% difficulty.
Spa Day Traits by Kuttoe. You can use the in game high maintenance trait instead.
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The Generations
Generation 1 - Criminal has mid-life crisis and becomes super parent
Story:
Growing up you were unloved and not cared for. Your parents didn't even bother with you. This led to your emotions becoming unpredictable and pushing your non exist parents even further away. So you ran away as a teenager, you were an only-child anyway so you have no siblings that will miss you.
As a runaway you spend your time not bothering to go to school, since no one bothered to instil that education was important anyway. You make your money stealing at people's houses that're kind enough to let you in and dumpster diving, selling the items you collect and any way possible to be able to get to that next meal.
When you're old enough you start your career as a criminal, delving into drug dealing to earn a living and other unsavoury things. You work your way up the career and are fairly respected within your trade.
However, everything changes when you become an adult. You meet that one person in your life that really makes you consider the less desirable choices you have made throughout your life. They make you re-evaluate your life and change as a person for the better. They influence you positively to believe in morals and family as they do, something you never even would have dreamed of before. You finally feel that maybe this would be the type of person you would like to start a family with..
So you do, and your partner will support you, let you quit your job and become a stay-at-home parent to care for your children. During this time you will dedicate everything you have to cherishing your child, something you never got as a child, a parent. You will give your kids everything and provide them with all the tools they could ever need in life, in spite of your terrible upbringing. Helping them with homework, reading them stories, toddler playdates. You name it, if they want it, you give it.
You become an incredible parent and after thinking you wasn't worth anything, you feel you have found your true calling.
To get started:
Move into a small empty plot in any town as a teenager with $0.
Add the simple living lot trait.
Have the kleptomaniac and hot-headed traits.
Have the Public Enemy Aspiration.
Mod Requirements for this gen:
Kuttoe Career Overhaul & Basemental Drugs
Traits:
Pre-Existing - Kleptomaniac & Hot-Headed
Young Adult - Evil
Traits: After retraiting potion:
Hot Headed, Family Oriented & Romantic.
Aspirations:
Teenager - Public Enemy (Complete)
Adult - Super Parent (Complete to Level 3)
Earn money dumpster diving and stealing from people.
Create a shack using the items and furniture you collect from dumpster diving.
Don't go to school.
As a young adult -
Sell drugs using Basemental Drugs mod.
As an adult/elder -
Meet family-oriented partner.
Use re-traiting potion and swap to Hot-Headed, Family Oriented and Romantic traits.
Change your aspiration to Super Parent.
Quit your job and become stay at home parent.
Have children.
Move into/or build a family home.
Take your toddlers and children to the park at least once per week.
Help complete every school project your children get.
Have all teenagers finish school with A grades and at least 1 positive character value each.
Knit clothes for your children/grandchildren as a hobby
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Generation 2 - E-Sports Geek makes a life changing decision
Story:
You grew up a very happy child, your parents loved you and supported you with everything wanted to do. However, you were always a little different to your sibling/siblings, you were the shy and reserved one, you would much rather have spent time reading or doing your homework, than outside and never really had many friends growing up.
But when you were a toddler, your parents introduced you to one of your next door neighbours' toddler and you fell in love, well as much as you can do at 3 years old... You continued to spend your childhood growing up with your best friend, keeping your crush on them a secret.
You spent a lot of time gaming at home with your crush, who was very much like you, a little nerdy. Your mum/dad had lived a rough life and always warned you of the dangers going on outside when they were a criminal, so you chose to spend your free time, safe at home. However, they would still drag you to the park sometimes to try to encourage you to be 'normal'. Some might call you a little paranoid, but you would rather be paranoid and safe at home, than up to mischief like the rest of your siblings. You found this put a slight bump in your relationship with your parents though, as they were much more outgoing and thought you were a little strange to want to spend all your time inside.
When you become a teenager, you finally open up to your crush about your feelings, well great thing is, they feel the same way back! You get your first girlfriend/boyfriend and end up making some friends at your local arcade, that you start up a club with. You finally come out of your shell a little and begin going to the geek convention, which you go to with your friends every time it's on in the City.
When you were a little older, you set your goals on University to study Computer Science whilst also becoming an e-sports competitor, luckily your girlfriend/boyfriend is also coming to the same University as you. You go on to work as an e-sports gamer and excel at it. However, you're not very money driven and you do it for the passion.
Everything was looking up in your life you get engaged to your girlfriend/boyfriend, when straight after they confess that they cheated on your with your friend. It is your choice from there, where your story goes. Will you stay with your partner and make it work? Or will you call it quits and continue your life without them?
Traits:
Toddler - Inquisitive
Child - Socially Anxious (Use the loner trait if you don't want to download the mod)
Teenager - Geek
Young Adult - Goofball
Skills: Toddler: Thinking & Movement, Child: Motor & Mental, Teenager/Young Adult: Video Game, Logic & Media Production
Toddler - Thinking (5) & Movement (3)
Child - Mental (10) & Motor (5)
Teenager/Elder - Video Game (10), Logic (8), Programming (6) & Media Production (5).
Career:
Tech Guru - E-Sports Gamer Branch / Champion Gamer (10)
(Note: After getting your degree you will start off at level 7 of this career).
Colour Palette:
Goals:
As a toddler -
Meet best friend.
As a child -
Do your homework every night.
Do any school project given to you, with your parents help.
Don't have any friends other than your crush.
Finish elementary school with an A.
Argue with your parents about your differences.
As a teenager -
Become girlfriend/boyfriend with your crush.
Make friends at an arcade.
Start a video gaming club and meet at the arcade, at least once per week.
Attend Geekcon every time it is on.
Finish high school with an A.
As a young adult/elder -
Go to University and study Computer Science taking 3 classes per term.
Move out of your parents house to a dorm/student housing.
Become a captain in the E-Sports Competitor afterschool activity before leaving University.
Reach 1 Star Fame Level.
Get engaged to your childhood sweetheart.
Decide weather to stay with your partner or leave them.
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Generation 3 - Woohooing your way to the top
Story:
Growing up, you’re the complete opposite of your parents, sociable, outgoing and arrogant but your parents try to provide everything they can for you, that isn’t enough.
When you’re younger a friend invites you round to their home, you turn up to their mansion, shocked. This is it, this is what you want. You’re ambitious and super popular in school and you spend a large majority of your teenage life partying, you learnt your way around love very early and realized it’s incredibly easy to get what you want, when you are in someone’s bed…
After you finish school you get hired by this BIG SHOT Business, it’s your first day. This is it; you will be fabulously wealthy and everyone will know your name! Reality: You’re the runt. How can you run this joint? Get in the boss's bed, that’s how. There are 9 bosses above you and you woohoo with everyone of them to get promoted. Until that is, just before you reach the top of your career you get pregnant with the CEO’s baby! You’re certainly not going to tell them and risk losing the CEO position, a baby with the boss could ruin that. So you lie and tell them it’s not theirs, but you keep it, who else will continue your famous dynasty when you die?
You’re a terrible mother with no motherly instinct but you do love your child. You do not have time to take care of them, so you get the butler to take care of that.
Traits:
Toddler - Fussy
Child - Outgoing
Teenager - Lavish (Use the high maintenance trait if you don't want to download the mod)
Young Adult - Materialistic
Skills:
Toddler - Communication (5) & Mental (3)
Child - Social (10)
Teenager/Elder - Charisma (10), Logic (8) & Research and Debate (8).
Career:
Business - Management Branch / Business Tycoon (10)
Colour Palette:
Goals:
As a toddler -
Meet at least 4 toddlers.
As a child -
Meet another 4 kids & begin to make friends with them.
Meet rich friend and go to their mansion.
As a teenager -
Get a part-time job as a retail employee
Date "the popular teen".
Cheat on "the popular teen" with another teen.
Attend/throw a party at least every weekend.
As a young adult/elder -
Woohoo with your boss at every level of your career (you may need to make a boss in CAS and put them into the job above you using cheats).
Get pregnant with your boss when you're the CEO (level 9).
Only have 1 child.
Lie to the father and tell him the child isn't his using the Woohoo Wellness mod.
Reach level at least level 2 fame level.
Have had at least 4 failed relationships.
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Generation 4 - "Gay is the way"
Story:
You grew up feeling very lonely with the family butler as your primary carer, with a workaholic parent who prioritized their career over everything and not knowing your other parent. However, after your acceptance into a prestigious private school you find yourself meeting like-minded individuals that you bond with and form a close-knit friend group. One night you find yourself sharing an unexpected kiss with a friend of the same-sex. That one kiss ruins a friendship that you truly valued, leading you to believe that it had all been a mistake.
You graduate high school and move onto university to study Biology in the hopes of getting away from your parent and becoming a marine biologist. As a young child the family butler would always read you bedtime stories about the sea and the animals that lived within. This ignited your love and passion for marine life.
After graduating you move to Sulani to pursue your life-long dream. One day at work, you unexpectedly meet a perfect stranger, also a conservationist, and bond over your love for the ocean. You fall in love with this perfect stranger, get married and have children. A family. This should be the dream… right? Except it isn’t. Something seems to be missing, a part of yourself long buried. Eventually you are hit with the realization that whilst you love your partner… you aren’t in love with them. Fear and guilt over what could be ruined but no longer willing to deny yourself the chance of true happiness, you come out to your spouse as gay. As terrifying as it is you cannot force yourself to stay in a marriage, happy or not. You and your spouse deserve more. You file for divorce.
Is the divorce mutual with understanding and love? Will you remain friends committed to your family unit?
No matter the outcome you go on and fall in love once more, for the first time in your life being completely honest with yourself in what you seek with a partner. You and your same-sex partner go on to adopt a child into your family and finally… your family is complete.
Traits: Child of the ocean, good, faithful
Aspiration: Soulmate
Career: Conservation
Finish Sulani Clean-up (You will recieve a Mua Pel'Am Is Thriving Notification, when you complete this.)
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WIP Generation 5 - ""
Story:
From the very beginning of your life, you valued the importance of having a family. Biological and found family are one and the same, and you know that there is love to be found in a family of your choosing. Growing up in the sunny climate of Sulani where communities thrive by helping one another, you’ve recognised the value of a strong-knit support system. A true romantic at heart and an all-round cheerful person, it’s no surprise that you are often found curled up enjoying the latest romance novel that you could get your hands on. As a self-proclaimed bookworm you are more often than not found to have a book in your hands. The romantic interests in the novels set the tone for what you expect from your own romantic prospects. No gesture is too great, and you often spend your time daydreaming about what high school life can bring. The time comes for you to finally attend Copperdale High. Who do you want to be? How do you wish to set yourself apart from your fellow classmates? How do you wish to be remembered in the years to come? It is within those very school walls you happen upon your person that you wish to spend the rest of your life with. The books had it right. The sappy, passionate and emotional turmoil that is teenage relationships. You fully invest yourself into that person and the relationship, and they in turn return the sentiment. Even from such a young age you are truly devoted to one another and love each other deeply. Despite the warnings from your parents to not set your hopes up too high, you know that this is your soul-bonded person. You commit yourself into the high school experience with this person by your side, making the most of this time of discovering yourself and each other.
With the end of high school comes adult life, and not wanting to waste any time your partner gets down on one knee and asks you to marry them. With a delighted “yes!” you know the rest of your life is about to begin. After the wedding you move into your own TLC apartment, dedicated to decorating it together to build your dream home. Not long after moving into your new home you and your partner discover that you are expecting a baby. What should’ve been the happiest and most joyful experience of your life turns into your worst nightmare. Before the arrival of the baby, your partner unexpectedly dies. The fairy tales in your favourite romance novels never covered this soul-destroying experience. Feeling utterly alone and heartbroken with an infant to care for. Your dream family has been shattered; you must fight to piece yourself back together for that final shred of joy that wails in your arms. With a child utterly dependent on you for survival in a run-down apartment, you decide to pursue writing to support your family. Becoming a freelance author is all you could have ever dreamed of, and yet you find yourself struggling to put words onto paper without your partner by your side. How will you adapt to being a single parent and overcome the struggles that come with it? Will you learn to lean on your family for support, or will you opt to go it alone? Will your novels become best sellers or utter failures? Challenge everything you ever thought you were capable of and fight for the life you truly deserve.
Hi my name is Mint & I’m ts4mm simblr looking for those who are active in the community again. My dashboard has been dead since a lot of my old mutuals have abandoned/deleted their blogs. I primarily post ts4 content & ts2 stuff since it’s a fav of mine. Hoping to make some new friends or see some old ones✨
top: oh my goth
skirt: olive skirt
hat: witchy hat
nose ring: nose hoop
eyebrow piercing: maxis
hair: nadja
waist chain: jessie
necklace: material pearl necklace
tights: maxis (not sure if base game, i think so)
shoes: leather platform ankle boots
thank you for the super fun & inspiring challenge, simussy!
hi i'm a novice builder but i built this tiny home made out of a shipping container! i really like how it came out, so i did upload it to the gallery. playtested it all day, seems to work fine :)
no mods but i do have many packs to work with. more photos below the cut!
dl on the gallery here
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