The Patterson Legacy - 1.1
Nothing says "2022" like a Sims 2 Legacy Challenge, right?! Just 14 years after the height of Sims 2 popularity, I am once again attempting a legacy challenge. Not that I ever really stopped... When you've been playing The Sims 2 as long as I have, you've got to come up with new ways to play and new ways of doing things. So I've downloaded Lazy Duchess's Story Progression Beta, and started a fresh game (with all of my favourite cc and mods). I rolled a d6 to decide which pre-made hood to use and I rolled Veronaville! I added Downtown, and rolled to see which University and Vacation hood(s) I would add - Sim State and all vacation hoods. I also decided to randomise the seasons and ended up with Summer, Autumn, Spring, Spring. And because I do plan to keep score in this Legacy Challenge, I picked some Handicaps - Storyteller, One Way Street, Aspiring to Do It The Hard Way, True Love, Free Roaming Ghosts, Danger Zone, and eXtreme start. (You can read more about the rules and the Handicaps in the link at the top.) I also decided to randomise my founder completely. I rolled to determine gender, skin tone, hair colour, eye colour, body shape, and used Pooklet's Townie Face Randomising method (with generators from chemtale!) to create the face. I rolled for hair style, clothes, whether they would wear jewellery or makeup or glasses etc. I even randomised the name. Our founder is Ona Patterson. (I randomly chose her awful sunglasses, ok?)
Ona is a Pisces (5/3/7/3/7) which, in Sims 2 world, means she is shy, active, serious and nice. She’s a Family Sim with the lifetime want to Have 6 Grandchildren. She’s turned on by Blue Eyes and Creativity and turned off by Green Eyes. Her top interests at the moment are Crime, Environment, Work and Fashion.
And our Pet Founder was also randomised. This is Coco Patterson. She is a tuxedo cat. She’s a Virgo, and is a Genius, Independent and Finicky. Her top interests include Sleeping and Food. (A big mood, Coco.)
The first thing Ona does is find herself a job because she has about $10 to her name and a legacy needs money! All of the jobs in the paper that day paid about the same so I rolled a die for it. She gets a job in Culinary as a Dish Washer.
Like I said, a legacy needs money! So Ona gets to digging up her enormous yard for some stuff to sell so she can afford luxuries like a fridge and a bed.
The parade of possible spouses begins! Poor Coco gets assaulted by this garden club guy Ona had no interest in.
Ona met Victor Lillard whom she had 2 bolts with. Unfortunately (or fortunately looking at that face), the True Love handicap means that Ona needs to have 3 bolts with her future spouse so Victor is out of luck and she needs to keep looking!
She may not be having luck in the romance department, but Ona is lucky enough to get promoted at work - she’s now a Drive Through Clerk, and brings home Antonio Monty. Our first glimpse of the playables in Veronaville.
Ona and Antonio have 2 bolts! But that’s not enough! And he’s a playable, so we wouldn’t be able to move him in anyway. Ona flirts a little and sends him on his way.
Victor is still trying to woo Ona, and invites her downtown. There’s no reason she and Victor can’t be friends, after all. Of course, when she turns up it appears to be an outing with Victor and all the other women he’s pursuing! He spends the whole time flirting with each of them!
Ona does get a chance to meet a few more guys, and lo and behold she has 3 bolts with Consort Capp! Again, he’s a playable so she wouldn’t be able to move him in, but I suppose he could knock her up. I’m just not too keen on having a single parent generation 1. And not too keen on that horse face haha!
Ona has been able to make a little extra money and put a roof over her head at least. The classic Legacy Shack takes form!
Ona’s firth chance card at work. The legacy rules say you can’t just ignore them, and because I like to inject randomness into my game (haven’t you noticed by now?) I rolled for it. Ona chooses to just fill the order for the obnoxious rich Landgraab kid and is rewarded with an extra $150!
After nights and nights of going downtown, searching for her True Love (...another True Love...) Ona meets Dickson Garth! He’s one of the classic Downtownies, they have 3 bolts, and they even have the same taste in awful sunglasses!
After a little getting to know each other, flirting, and some backrubs, Ona and Dickson have a solid crush on each other.
A decent start to this legacy! How quickly can Ona and Garth fall in love? More importantly, how much money will he bring in? I do love these early days of the legacy.