Bad to Good Legacy Challenge

"DivieOwl;c-17438012" wrote:
Since I'm not sure how the challenge was meant to handle my concerns above, I went ahead and tweaked the generation 1 goals and rules. Dad got all three of his women pregnant. They all did end up having girls and we held a poll and determined the "heir".

The heir and her mother moved into the house that my founder built (worth over 100,000) and while the heir was a toddler, Dad and Mom lived "together" (while he was still seeing the other two mothers and about 4 other females, too. He likes to get around).

As a child, Dad moved asked Mom to just be friends, and he moved to his studio apartment above his retail store and he went back to romancing his women.

I came up with a different solution to this problem, since I also couldn't figure out how to deal with the conflict. Figure I'll post it here in case anyone else is struggling with it.

I had the dad date around for a little bit, while he ran the shop and burglarized local houses and art galleries/museums. When he'd made enough money, I built the required 2-storey house and then chose one of his flings as the future mother and had them try for baby.

Once it was obvious that the mom was pregnant, I had the dad ask her to be his girlfriend, but they never got engaged or married, When the baby was born, I merged the households so mom and baby could live in the house, but I mostly played the dad at the shop (to keep the families separated) through the heir's baby and toddler years. The dad has several affairs with other Sims during this time.

Once the heir became a child, I started playing her household pretty much full-time by sending the dad to the shop and then switching control back to her or her mom. But dad kept coming home every half-day or so, and I got tired of interrupting what my heir was doing to send him to the shop again, so I ended up sending him on vacation in Granite Falls until the day of the heir's birthday.

Dad, mom, and mom's live-in boyfriend were all guests at the heir's birthday party. As soon as she aged up, mom got down on her knees and proposed to the boyfriend. Dad got furious with her and immediately broke up with her. (I sent him back on another 1-day vacation to get him out of the house.) Mom and boyfriend eloped, and immediately tried for baby. When mom started showing the next day, she kicked the gen 2 heir out of the house and I switched to playing only her.

(After a couple of days, MCCC made the dad marry one of his alien former-flings and I moved them into an empty house together. They currently have a green-skinned child together, so I guess I'm SOL for my realistic gameplay with this challenge!)