do you make a partner for your sim or find NPC?

Thought for how legacies go it has to be a NPC, but I could be wrong. Usually some stop following whatever set of rules with legacy challenges, but whatever you'd like to do. :smile:

Sometimes on rare occasions my game does spawn some fairly good looking townies. I keep their genetics and just change things like clothing, some skin details and hair. I like to take a look at the sims in the unplayed/not in world bin to see if there's any winners.

Legacies are supposed to technically be NPC, but I know a lot of players bend the rules.

I prefer to pair my sims with premade sims/neighbors or NPCs. I find that more fun and rewarding. The only case I've ever created a partner for a Sim was when there were no eligible bachelors in the world.

I make the partners. Unless I find one I've already made, then add him/her to the existing household.

Both. It really depends on the dating pool when my sim ages up. If I don't see any options that appeal to me, I'll download and place a few from the gallery or make one of my own.

I make some of the partners, but also tend to go with townies or premades. I have a lot of incredibly pretty NPCs in my game, actually! I do go around editing most of my townies, but I never edit their actual facial features or skintone or hair/eye color or whatever. Often, once you put a different hairstyle and a nice outfit on a townie you'll realize that they're not all that ugly at all! I have to admit, though, that I am guilty of sometimes changing the body types of some of my townies... as I think they can get absolutely ridiculous. But honestly, I have some townies in my game that are just as pretty if not prettier than my own Sims!
Sometimes I'll also get unexpected couples between my own Sims - I play on a pretty long lifespan so only just been getting generation 2 going, and I wanted my teen Sim to have this romance with premade Max Villareal. Wouldn't work, unfortunately, so she ultimately went with one of my own played Sims with a story of his own temporarily but they turned out so cute together! :blush:
In my first save ever my Sim got along very, very well with gym trainer and premade Zoe Patel - so he ended up marrying her. Still consider them the sweetest couple I've ever had in my game, and their children turned out really decent. :smiley:

So, moral of the story lol: if you're feeling lazy and don't want to create your own Sims, the premades and even randomly generated townies can turn out really, really pretty with some basic editing (like hairstyles/make-up/clothing)!

I maybe should have mentioned that even though I say I play a legacy, I just make up my own rules. I don't follow any of the ones online o:)
the "dice" has decided my sim is having 7 kids, so far 3 down :D So far she's also having alot of different fathers for the babies :D because why not?

I'm too lazy to make new sims for partners, so I usually use npcs. I try and move away from premades most of the time unless I'm fond of them.

I always cas edit my newly generated townies now since after a while they sort of generate the same few faces--but I never intend certain ones for my heirs. Everyone's free game--well, not everyone, since I try not to pair up distant relatives--and I usually go for whoever they get along with best relationship wise since genetics on my main family tree is already a trainwreck :joy:

"kalaksed;c-16223096" wrote:
never done a legacy thing, only vaguely know they exist and have rules of some sort. but, for partners for my sims, it varies drastically. sometimes a townie will catch my eye while i'm playing certain sims, seeming like a good match. very, very rarely, this will be an unaltered townie. usually i wind up editing my townies a lot. mostly outfits/hair, but sometimes more (almost never traits, though. klepto townies get deleted. most everyone else stays and keeps their traits). other times, i'll design a sim from scratch, but treat them like a townie. and sometimes, i get thrown a loop and things wind up nothing like i would have expected...

examples:

my first sim ever was evil and genius...i forget the third trait. she hated everybody, was cruel to everyone she saw, except for one teenage girl. that teen came over every day, chatted, and they maxed friendship pretty quickly (even without my help). when the teen aged up, they started flirting and eventually married. that save is long, long gone, though, sadly.

second save was after get to work came out, playing an alien. a random townie walking by her house caught her eye. and he wound up being named 'orion', which made me decide they would get together. he also turned out to be a scientist. it seemed pure perfection. this save also got corrupted eventually, and is now gone.

the save i have now... again, started playing with an alien, but i created an astronaut for her to marry. they're still my main household and...well, make the landgraabs look poor

this save also has their eldest daughter married to a 'bad boy' vampire i created, but treated as a townie. and a townie i decided i needed to play and find a boyfriend after i saw him jogging down the street once. this townie is where the 'thrown a loop' comes into play... while playing him, i saw another townie that i thought would be a good match. found out that second townie was an alien, and had both the 'evil' and 'loves family' traits, which got me curious how they'd interact. so, i moved the alien into a house and started playing him a bit. which led me to discover that he already had a romantic interest. another alien who also loved family, but was good. i felt that those two would tell a better story than this alien getting together with the original townie. and boy did they. had twins together, loved the kids, but constantly got into fights, eventually went their separate ways, the evil one has been abducted twice, got pregnant both times, joined the secret agent career as a villain, became best friends with his diamond agent coworker and neighbor, bella goth, even though she's good to his evil.

that sounds awesome!

I make lots of sims for the sim to pick from then put them in the world and see how it goes

Depends. I usually try and find a nice NPC to settle down with. But if I can't find anyone I like I either make a partner or use one from the gallery :D My newest generation is dating the Maxis made guy from one of the Cats & Dogs trailers, Sebastian Santos.