Forming Family Legacies

"Patch__2008;c-17349637" wrote:

"ChampandGirlie;c-17348300" wrote:
I'm on approximately generation 5 at this point but I'm now playing a rotation with almost 200 sims, so time is going a little bit slower now. It's kind of a rotational legacy because they do age out.

If I just played one family, I'd be a lot farther along. I played nearly all of TS2 with one family. I think I was on the really long life span, it took a long time to age up. In terms of actually playing just one household, that was the longest. The family wasn't based on me, it was random but I guess that I liked them. They were very much a functional and happy family. I remember being sad to leave them behind at the time.

I played TS3 at about 3 different intervals, maybe more than that. I think I tended to start up new saves a lot.

I guess I could try to add that TS2 family back into my rotation sometime, like my own pre-mades.

200 sims?!? How do you manage that?

Thanks for asking, yes, I have nearly 200 sims that I created in the game. Essentially, the various worlds are mostly populated with sims that I created. It started as a single family legacy though and because I play generationally, it really is a form of a legacy. I started playing some of the other households so that I'd be familiar with them as I followed the extended family members around as they branched off. I liked getting to experience different households.

How do I manage it? I play with aging on the household only and then I switch between the houses whenever I want to. I use the long setting for seasons so that seasons transition gradually. All of these different houses interact within the save. This means that a lot of the "townies" are my own. It is getting more fun as it goes along. I don't have a strict formula because I switch households based on life events when there is a good transition point. I usually say, "I will play this house until X happens, then maybe a day or two afterward."

I basically remember the various plots for all of them. Whenever I shift to a new household, I'll quickly look over the panels for any information that I need to be reminded about from leaving off. At a certain point, I might make the less interesting households unplayable and focus on a few or bring in some new sims to interact with my favorite households in the rotation. Everyone is not related to each other but there are multi-generational families which is why I relate to legacy play.

At this point, it is easier than it sounds. I run into the various sims whenever a household visits community lots or they may see others walking past.