For Those Playing Legacies: When Do You Switch Over Focus From Previous Generation to the New?

I shift my focus when the heir becomes a YA. My sims are usually in relationships with their future mates well before they age up so my focus is on them producing the next generation as soon as they are able. Of course the previous generation are still important to me so it just means juggling my attention between both sets until the parents die.

Since I'm playing a certain Legacy Challenge (LEPacy), once the heir completes their LTW is when the next generation officially starts. Usually, the next heir is in their teens not yet YA but that's when I shift the focus over.

I think I waiting until the Heir completes LTW might be a great idea. :) I may do a generation in which the first child to complete the LTW becomes heir.

"Nikkei_Simmer;c-16391090" wrote:
I think I waiting until the Heir completes LTW might be a great idea. :) I may do a generation in which the first child to complete the LTW becomes heir.

But then what do you do if your heir's eldest child completes the LTW while a younger sibling is still a toddler? It doesn't seem fair. There are LTWs that require no effort at all for a child to complete (mostly money ones), and others that are easy for a teen to accomplish in only a few days. Those 30k points are just too tempting for me to pass up an easy wish, especially when the kid is pursuing painting or writing or whatever. In my games at least, the first- or second-born would inevitably *win* the right to be the next heir, probably before the youngest even knows that wishes exist at all.

When my next chosen heir becomes a YA, I leave. That will always mean I’ve done with the parents what I wanted to do (and the reason most of my sims don’t get kids early).

Unless you're worried about a full household, the parents could stay and live out their days. I used to kick them out once I moved focus to the next heir but it's kind of nice to keep them around.

As a general rule when the new focus sim ages up into a YA. However I don't completely forget about the previous gen and will continue to help them reach any goals they haven't reach yet/give them a lot of attention unless I'm playing a save where I'm not allowed to like an ISBI or something along those lines.

I tend to use WA a lot. I have my sim marry someone from france have 3 kids, once all 3 reach teen I see if any have picked up hidden traits, if they do I pick them and work on skilling them, so as soon as they turn young adult they go to china or eqypt marry a local come home and move out. rinse and repeat. lol

I never lose focus on the parents and keep playing them. I think there is a shift after my heir comes back from university with a good idea of what they want to do with their life. After I take them on holiday a couple of times then they get majority of my attention. Sounds similar to your idea :smile:

My first three legacies only have two or three generations, but I've switched focus over to the first heir to reach YA. It's hard though to give up writing about the other family members, probably because I'm used to switching around. With one family, if I try to focus only on the heir and his wife, I'm left with little to write about since they mostly eat, sleep and work, not interacting much with each other. So if the parents and younger siblings are doing something interesting or which I can piece together into a plot, I still write about them.
actually, with that couple, I didn't even switch over completely until they were married. Might do the same with the other two heirs, who are still single. I'd hoped to have both meet their spouses while teens, but that didn't quite work out.