Tabletop gaming has been around for a long time, and there are a number of different systems; from traditional RPGs to modern ‘tabletop’ style card games. But, when it comes to the ‘classic’ 90s era of gaming – you only have two options where ‘home-brew’ was allowed: MUDs and MMORPGs. One of the earliest of these was, of course, The Sims. So, The Sims Legacy Challenge was born…
As I said in my first post, I am starting the Legacy Challenge for The Sims 4. This means that you will be taking over the town of my “baby”, and also writing articles about it, though not necessarily just for me. The town was made by my late brother, and we played in it together. There are a few rules, and a few things that are forbidden in the town.
I’ve posted a Rules section on how to play the Legacy Challenge on my blog at Hearthstats. If you’re new to the Legacy Challenge, it can seem like all you do is run the same sim over and over again and read the same quotes. But you can do so much more than that with your legacy sims than you might realize: you can move them into a new house, you can name them, and you can even write scripts for them.
“What will be my legacy?” is a question we must all ask ourselves. It’s crucial to consider how you’ll be remembered.
Do you volunteer a lot in your community? Do you want your children to look up to you and respect you? Perhaps you will develop something that will change the lives of millions of people.
Tonight, with your assistance, I’ll start creating a legacy. One that is sure to stand the test of time. A legacy like that evokes admiration and perhaps apprehension.
But not in the simple, trivial ways mentioned above.
The Sims 4 Legacy Challenge is now open for entries.
Overview of The Sims 4 Legacy Challenge
The Sims Legacy Challenge requires you to impose certain restrictions on yourself in order to organize your Sims experience. Some new gaming difficulties arise when The Sims’ usually free-wheeling experience is curtailed.
You begin the Legacy Challenge by selecting a ‘Founder’ and relocating them to a large vacant lot with just $1,800 to their name. You must overcome poverty, establish a home, make friends, find a marriage, and ultimately pass the torch to the next generation.
Your founder will eventually die of old age (or something more heinous), and your successor will have to take over. The primary goal is to play a single family for a total of ten generations.
Other rules govern how your children will develop, among other things. Continue reading to discover more about how to leave a lasting legacy.
“What sort of legacy do you want to leave?”
Laws of Succession
It’s a terrible reality… However, as part of the challenge’s design, your founder will die at some point.
Even if you take excellent care of them, time and old age will ultimately take them away from you. But don’t worry, dying isn’t a condition of failure. When your founder passes away, you’ll have to decide which among their offspring will be the new heir and family leader for the second generation.
The title of successor has a lot of ramifications, which we’ll go through as we go along. The way your family handles succession is entirely up to you.
Your succession law is made up of three components, much as a Sim’s personality is made up of three characteristics. Consider your family’s succession law as its “personality.” Choose carefully, since you will be bound by this succession rule for the duration of the challenge and will not be able to alter it midway.
Gender is the first component. One of the following choices must be chosen:
- Matriarchy dictates that the founder be a woman. Unless there are no female offspring, at which time males become eligible for that generation, only girls are eligible to be designated heir.
- Matriarchy: The Founder must be a woman. Only females are eligible for the title of heir. Under no circumstances can a male kid be the successor to the following generation.
- Patriarchy dictates that the Founder be a man. Unless there are no male offspring, at which time females become eligible for that generation, only boys are eligible to be designated heir.
- Patriarchy in its purest form: the Founder must be a man. Boys are the only ones who may be called heir. Under no circumstances may a female kid be the successor to the following generation.
- Equality: The Founder may be either a man or a woman. The title of heir is available to both males and girls.
- Strict Equality: The founder may be either a man or a woman. Only offspring of the founder’s opposite gender are entitled to be designated heirs. This cycle repeats again for the following generation (the next heir must be of a different gender than the previous heir), resulting in alternating-gender heirs in each generation.
Bloodline law is the second component. You must choose one of the following options:
- Strict Traditional : To be designated heir, a kid must be born naturally to previous-generation parents and be able to trace an unbroken lineage all the way back to the founder. Adopted children are not eligible to be designated heirs.
- Traditional: Children of the preceding generation who are naturally born are entitled to be designated heirs. Adopted children are not eligible to be designated heirs unless there are no normally born children in that generation, at which time they are.
- Both naturally born and adopted children are entitled to be designated heirs in the modern world.
- Foster: Adopted children are entitled to be designated heirs. Natural-born children are not eligible to be designated heirs unless there are no adopted children in that generation, at which time they are.
- Adopted children are the only ones who are qualified for the title of heir. It’s possible that naturally born children will never be heirs.
The Gender Law and the Bloodline Law act as a kind of ‘qualifying’ round. If a kid is declared ineligible under either legislation, they will not be able to claim the title of heir. However, just because a kid is qualified to be designated heir under Gender and Bloodline rules does not guarantee that they will be. The heir is chosen by the third category.
The Heir Selection Law is the third category. You have to choose one of the following options:
- The oldest eligible living child, in order of entering the family, is called heir.
- Last Born: The heir is named after the youngest eligible living child, in sequence of entering the family.
- Living Will: The heir will be designated to the eligible kid with the greatest friendly relationship score with their previous-parent. generation’s
- Merit: The heir will be the kid who has fulfilled the greatest goals. If there is a tie, the kid who has the greatest level in a single skill will inherit from the other children.
- Strength: By default, the first born eligible kid inherits… However, if an eligible sibling defeats them in a battle, the tile may be taken away from them forcibly. If that sibling loses a battle against another eligible sibling, their title may be taken away (or returned).
- The title of heir is chosen at random from a pool of all eligible children. The heir must be re-rolled using the new pool every time the eligible pool changes in size.
- Name a single characteristic at the start of the challenge to serve as an example. This must be one of your founder’s three characteristics. The title of heir will be given to any qualified heir who has this characteristic. If there are no offspring with this characteristic in a single generation, use the First Born Rule. If more than one kid has the Exemplar trait, the heir will be the eldest child who possesses the characteristic.
- If you’re presenting your Legacy Challenge in a public setting, you may apply this rule. Either via a Let’s Play, a Livestream, a blog, or any format that allows users to make comments. The heir is selected from a pool of eligible heirs by your viewers/readers.
- Magical Bloodline: The successor is chosen based on who possesses the most powerful magical bloodline characteristic. If no magical bloodline characteristic exists (i.e. in previous generations), the law defaults to the firstborn until magic is added to the family. Choose the eldest heir if several possible heirs have the same degree of magical characteristic.
- Magical Strength: Like the Strength law, this one demands a magical battle between two or more prospective heirs. The winner of the battle becomes the new heir.
This rule only applies to individuals who own The Sims 4: Get to Work. You may add this to your Legacy if you began it before GTW was released. It is, however, optional.
- Xenoarchy – Heirs must switch between human and extraterrestrial ancestors.
- Xenophobic – Heirs must be of the same species as the creator.
- Brood – Regardless of the heir’s gender, the preceding heir must carry the heir in a pregnancy.
- Tolerant – The child’s species has no bearing on his or her eligibility for heir status.
Several laws may alter who the heir is in the middle of a generation.
The heir title may be passed down until one of two criteria is met:
1. An heir from the preceding generation dies or
2. The present heir brings in a kid who is qualified to be the following generation’s heir.
Once one of these two occurrences occurs, the heir title is ‘locked in’ to the person who presently possesses it and cannot be changed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you allowed to get a job in The Sims 4 Legacy Challenge?
I am not allowed to answer this question.
How do you play legacy challenge?
Legacy challenge is a mode that allows you to play the game without having to use your hands. This means that you are not able to interact with any of the objects in the game, and must rely on using your head and body movements to navigate through the levels.
How much money do you start with in Legacy Challenge?
You start with $1,000,000.
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