Alternative Legacy Rules

[AriaGirl77]

Just thought I'd throw this out there.   I've been thinking a lot about Legacies and trying out some of the "alternative rules" floating around.  Anyone try out one of these rule sets?  Any particular ones you like?

I recently tried out this one, it's a free will Legacy where all family members carry the insane trait, but after about 3 generations I've become somewhat uninterested with it.  http://bloomisbi.wordpress.com/gen-1-introducing-parkin-bloom-rules

One idea I've come up with, a Progressive Legacy.  This idea came to me because I pretty much have never played with the sims that came with the game, I always make my own in CAS.  So the idea is to start a new town, and instead of creating a new sim select a household to play starting in alphabetical order.  And then play that family until one member fulfills a LTW, and then you HAVE to switch to the next family.  Keep moving from family to family 10 times. 

So anyway, I'm giving it a try.   I've started in Riverview because I pretty much never play that town so I'm not at all familiar with the townies there.  First family (using the alphabetical rule) is the Bagleys.  We'll see how it goes.

[Metropolis Man]

One thing that might be interesting, AriaGirl, to take your Alphabetical theme a step further is to require someone in the Bagleys marry into the next family on the list in the alphabet. That way, the Bagley Legacy is actually continued on in the next family when you play them. Kind of a interesting concept for a future challenge—Alphabet Soup Legacy.

[wildredchild]

Great idea AriaGirl and awesome concept Metro!  I think I may have to try this sometime when I get bored with other things like challenges.

[AriaGirl77]

Very cool idea Metro!  I knew someone here would have a great idea to build onto mine.   I'll test out and see how it goes... hmmm... wonder what family will come next, haven't figured that out yet.

[AriaGirl77]

The reason why I called it a Progressive Legacy is because it's kind of like a progressive dinner party, where you have 1 course at each guest's house before moving onto the next. 

[AriaGirl77]

Ok, so the next family in alphabetical order is Breckinridge.  Only person living there is Hal.  So that would mean getting him hooked up with Rhoda who is only 9 days until she ages up to elder, and I doubt if I can get anyones LTW accomplished before then.  So it looks like I will need to have a baby with Hal, and then move Rhoda and baby in with him at a later date.

I can forsee a hang up with this Legacy idea.  Eventually I'm going to hit a family where the only resident is an elderly female, and then what?  So I'm thinking that in order to keep the "Legacy" alive adoption will have to be allowed.  lol

[Pam]

This board is for specific stories that people write about their Sims, so I'm moving it to the General Discussion board for now.

[HelenP]

I've tried the Apocalypse Challenge and it's a lot of fun.  Unfortunately it's been on the back burner since I found the site challenges but I hope to go back to it one day.

There is a link to it in the Apocalypse Challenge thread in the Graveyard.

[AriaGirl77]

Yes, I've tried the Apocalypse rules, pretty fun.

[AriaGirl77]

So I'm now on gen 3 of this Progressive Legacy, and I'm really liking it so far!  One of the things I hadn't anticipated, because so far I've had to move out heirs to their new family they are only able to take their personal inventory with them, which has kept the finances smallish as opposed to a normal Legacy where you keep all that cash and then build on it.

I've also decided to add a new rule for myself, then I cannot change the traits or LTW's of any of the sims using Lifetime Rewards or any other means.  In the normal Legacy rules there's nothing that says you can't do this, and I've been known to change things about spouses that marry into the family.  Since the whole point of my idea is to just deal with whatever the game throws at you it seems to make sense to prohibit changing the people you end up with.

Currently my heir married into the Broke household.  Apparently at the game start the Broke household is a couple with a kid or two, and then the brother of one of them moves in with his 2 kids and no wife.  The lady my sim married was the daughter of one of those two kids (of the brother).  And the other people in the house are the kids of the first couple.  As a result, it shows that she is not related to them because there is no title for your cousin's kids in this game.  So that was kind of a surprise!  I was expecting that there would be grandparents and such, but there isn't.

Also, doing it this way, I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not going to be able to fulfill everyone's LTW.  When you move into a house where there's an elderly sim who wants to be a rock star, and is currently working part-time at the graveyard, there's just no way you're going to fulfill his LTW before he kicks the bucket.  So I'm thinking that if Metro does decide to turn this into a challenge that there should most certainly be points for fulfilled LTW's because getting some of them done will be either very difficult or impossible.

Anyway, it's been pretty fun so far!  Looking forward to marrying into a richer household though. lol