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ChrinnieSims
4 years ago

The Stoddard Legacy (VITA NOVA) (UPDATED 18 Feb!)

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How this works

I love Pinstar's wonderful Legacy Challenge, but sometimes I don't like being bogged down by the rules. I know there are plenty of simmers out there who tend to follow the rules to letter when it comes to the Legacy Challenge, but there are others who do sometimes want to run it a bit differently. This time, I decided I wanted to just let my sims be themselves. No hard-and-fast rules when it comes to heirs or who can and can't bring in money or what sims can be married into the household. Just a simple legacy where I play the sims as we all played it when we first got it. But, rather than just playing one household until whatever ending we give them, I wanted to bring it through a total of 10 generations. A relaxed Legacy Challenge. A Simple Legacy. And this is that legacy!

For heirs, I am using polls. So you, my friends, will have the final say in which child becomes the next heir. And from time to time I will open up a poll to perhaps help make certain decisions. The only hard-and-fast rule is that the heir remains on the family lot while spares are moved out. This was what you all chose in the poll and I'm certainly sticking with what the wonderful folks who read this want! I'm also playing on long lifespan, so that means a lot of ability to find the story the sims themselves are trying to tell versus forcing them into one I want them to follow. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I am enjoying writing it!


Previous Chapters:

Generation 2
2.05: Grin and Bear It
Chapter 2.06: Changes
1.22: School Shenanigans
1.27: They Grow Up Fast
1.28: Individuality
Chapter 1.29
1.30: Family Fun Day
1.31: It Never Stops
1.32: All Grown Up
challenges
  • LegacySims2018's avatar
    LegacySims2018
    4 years ago
    Hi there! Welcome to the club in regards to a lot of us simmers working on Legacy's just to be Legacy's and not Challenges. It feels nice to just see what the sim wants to do, doesn't it?

    I Followed your site as I use WordPress Reader for a lot of my reading and already enjoyed Chase's first chapter. Looking forward to watching Chase do his stuff.

    My Plain ol' Legacy ( https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/984426 ) is very very similar to how you set up yours. My main difference is I am not even using Pinstar's choosing an heir options. I am going to have forum members choose the heir, but there will be no other restrictions. I invite you to check it out.

    Again, looking forward to Chase's Adventures.
  • ChrinnieSims's avatar
    ChrinnieSims
    4 years ago
    "LegacySims2017;c-17756558" wrote:
    Hi there! Welcome to the club in regards to a lot of us simmers working on Legacy's just to be Legacy's and not Challenges. It feels nice to just see what the sim wants to do, doesn't it?

    I Followed your site as I use WordPress Reader for a lot of my reading and already enjoyed Chase's first chapter. Looking forward to watching Chase do his stuff.

    My Plain ol' Legacy ( https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/984426 ) is very very similar to how you set up yours. My main difference is I am not even using Pinstar's choosing an heir options. I am going to have forum members choose the heir, but there will be no other restrictions. I invite you to check it out.

    Again, looking forward to Chase's Adventures.


    Why thank you for the follow. I am following you as well.

    I just wanted to let my sim be a sim without too much in the way of restrictions. Sometimes having very few, if any, restrictions can be freeing to the mind as well as creativity. I was playing a different save and realized that in that free play I was having a bit more fun. So why not try to write the story the sim is trying to tell rather than write a story and try to force the sim into it.

    You know, I never thought of leaving the heir option open to a vote. That sounds like a lot of fun LOL. I don't want to steal your idea, but it's giving me a lot of thought. So if people want me to do that, I'd be very open to it. I mean, that would give me a bit of impetus to ensure every kid is worthy rather than just bestowing the title upon one because they were the first fastest swimmer.

    I love love love Levi!! I am definitely gonna have to play catch up to the most-recent posts. I can't wait to see where he goes in his adventures in life! I love how you're not writing this from Levi's viewpoint, but from your viewpoint as if you're the third party relating his life to us!

    And I just learned about EQ! :( She was so supportive to my first attempts 2 years ago when I started into the SimLit arena. I am sad.
  • SkeilahTS4's avatar
    SkeilahTS4
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 years ago
    Yippeee! Another Legacy with no rules! I'm playing a MySims Legacy Challenge myself (so with certain goals to achieve), but I just like this way of playing and getting to know the packs better this way^^ I still make it a story!

    I'm also following @LegacySims2017's story. I absolutely love to read other stories, so I'm going to bookmark this one too for sure. <3
  • ChrinnieSims's avatar
    ChrinnieSims
    4 years ago
    I bookmarked yours as well. I love that our founders both have red hair! :smiley: I can't wait to see what Liz gets up to. I have a lot to catch up on :smiley:
  • SkeilahTS4's avatar
    SkeilahTS4
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 years ago
    "Chrinnie;c-17756902" wrote:
    I bookmarked yours as well. I love that our founders both have red hair! :smiley: I can't wait to see what Liz gets up to. I have a lot to catch up on :smiley:


    Yesss, I loved that too!! Only the gender is different ? I saw you allow your heirs to be each gender also. I chose to switch gender with each generation. I can’t help but think “what if I did this... what if that...”. I’m curious if you’ll get in that kind of situations later on!!

    Ohh btw, I really like that little house Chase made for himself!

    Would be fun if Liz could meet Chase! Maybe they would become good friends? I would do everything to see Liz back in a story lol, since I’m already in generation 2 and Liz is not really the subject anymore.
  • LegacySims2018's avatar
    LegacySims2018
    4 years ago
    Another great chapter. He's doing very well at work. He'll be at the top of his career in no time.
  • SkeilahTS4's avatar
    SkeilahTS4
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 years ago
    Chase should invest in some curtains. I wouldn't feel comfortable if everybody could look in my house like that. Oh, he likes gardening? Nice hobby^^ Now I'm thinking 'what are his traits exactly?' but I found it on the website. A gardening bodybuilder, heheheeheheh.
  • LegacySims2018's avatar
    LegacySims2018
    4 years ago
    "Skeilah;c-17757332" wrote:
    Chase should invest in some curtains. I wouldn't feel comfortable if everybody could look in my house like that. Oh, he likes gardening? Nice hobby^^ Now I'm thinking 'what are his traits exactly?' but I found it on the website. A gardening bodybuilder, heheheeheheh.


    At least Chase doesn't have Peeping Tina :grimace:
  • LegacySims2018's avatar
    LegacySims2018
    4 years ago
    "Chrinnie;c-17757514" wrote:
    I noticed that the military career advances rather fast to start, but towards the end is slows down considerably. I just aim for his skill targets and daily homework and hope for the best.


    My sim in my StrangerVille story never got to the top of his career before solving the StrangerVille mystery. So I can attest it does slow down a bit. Still, though. Chase is doing good. Having an Active trait does help as well.

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