Safeguards?

"JoAnne65;c-16233049" wrote:

"Rainydayz179;c-16232785" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16232646" wrote:
For generations I moved on with my heir, taking the entire family fund with me because hey, technically I earned that money right ;)? I agree with you though, so what I do now is move the heir to a new place, not following them and then change households through edit town. That way all the money stays with the parents and my heir has to start from scratch.

See now, I always stayed on the legacy lot with the heir. Until I played a challenge called the Drifter Challenge in which each generations heir left their parents home with literally nothing but the clothes on their back. It's how I learned to build since they start on an empty lot with no money. So fun! But the reason I stopped playing that one was that you could only play the heir. You couldn't play spares or return to see how the parents were doing. It was depressing to suddenly get a notification that the other sims had passed away! Same thing with legacies. The spares move out of the house and your heir might visit them and invite them to parties but you're cut off from them. Which is why I've been moving away from challenges even though it's been the main way I've played for almost 4 years!

In that case (bold) you could move out with the parents and then return to the heir immediately after. It's the household you follow that gets the money. I've played the life of a homeless sim as well by the way (a little outing from my legacy ;)), 0 simoleons and just owning a very small and empty lot. Trying to make money without getting a job (in the end he built himself a mansion). Indeed, so much fun! That sim didn't have any family (apart from all the kids he fathered along the way :p ), but when they do you indeed can always visit that family. And you get a notification before they actually pass away, I always pay them a last visit. And collect their grave once they died and place it in the cemetery. I must add that I'm having no trouble myself leaving heirs behind by following the next heir. The previous heirs achieved what I wanted them to achieve and their life has become somewhat boring. I love moving on, with brand new plans and ideas with a new sim. Only once did I really regret having to move on, that one sim for some reason was very special to me. No idea why, it's not like I enjoyed his generation the most as a player or felt more connected to him than to the others.

Anyway, we all have our own ways of playing and enjoying the game I think. The art is to discover what works for you.

One way to manage this and allow someone moving out of home to not start with nothing might be to use Ani's Buyable Moneybag available at NRaas. This way you can choose how much money they start with by buying moneybags with family funds, placing them in their personal inventories which they then cash in after you have moved them out (assuming they are going to be the active sims). You might also want to look at Ani's original page on MTS where she gives more info about the mod.