Forming Family Legacies

I'm at generation 22 (started as a new save when Seasons came out), but it's currently mothballed because I'm not confident that they've fixed the issues with inventories and I don't want to lose all their collections. I'm also feeling a bit overwhelmed playing two Sims right now, probably because I'm very busy at work. Managing the child and the mother is too taxing on my brain, so I'm playing single Sims who get all their social needs from their plants.

Honestly I have so much respect for y'all who have managed to play the same family for over 15 generations. It takes A LOT of dedication just to get to generation 9 and so I couldn't believe completing a feat like getting to that many gens.
How do y'all keep your sims straight in terms of relations and how do you avoid burn-out with one save?

"Patch__2008;d-970421" wrote:
What is the longest you've played as the same family? I know carrying on a legacy takes time and a lot of patience but how far have you made it?
My longest legacy was a rotation of 12 families from the same matriarch that I played for about 2 years. I made it to generation 9.
It was a lot of work and I had to keep good records to keep everything straight but it was sooo worth it.

Five. At the time, I didn't have every pack that was currently out, so I got bored by fifth generation. I'm now in the process of having my founders go through college so one can be a teacher and the other can be a lawyer. I might give them more than two children.(like I'd always given them. This most recent time, they'd ended up with a daughter and boy/girl twins. After their generation all three kids ended up with sons! I scrapped the save.)

I really liked playing long legacies because it meant eventually there was enough inherited wealth that my Sims could afford the nicest houses.

My 17th generation is aging up to a child today for my drifter challenge, I've been playing this save since October 2018.

The drifter challenge is a legacy challenge, of sorts, as it spans across multiple generations if you do the whole challenge and not just the individual house challenges. By the time I'm through the whole challenge, I'll be on Generation 24. I doubt I'll give up my Schmitt's after that, though. I'll likely continue with them and see how far I can go. They are the sims I am most attached to.

Amazing!!! I'm just entering into Generation #3 of my families and I'm like each new household just feels fresh it's quite remarkable. I am happy to hear that such a long line of Sims has been fun to play as ^^

The longest ever family legacy I had was back in the days of Sims 2 where I managed to go up to eight (8) generations of the Scott family. That being said, they always only ever had one child each so I was able to focus a lot of my time on them to ensure all their needs are met. Currently with my new legacy family (The Lehman's) I've been playing on the long lifespan and have had more than one child for each heir. So far I am up to the third generation, the founder died a while ago now and one of the second generation children has just died of old age leaving me with the heir and her three children (One YA, Teen and Toddler). They also have a cousin who doesn't carry the family name living as well, he's a student at Foxbury at the moment.

The good thing is because I keep my family in a club affectionately dubbed the Lehman Legacy they are able to keep in touch and get together even if they don't all live in the same house anymore. :smile: Big kudos to those of who who have played their families for so long, it's amazing!

I'm currently on my 10th generation. I always use the Sims as the last name of my legacy and each generations first name follows ABC. So first gen's name start with A, second B, etc. So currently I'm on J. This is the longest I've ever playing a legacy.

"ImSands;c-17355089" wrote:
I'm currently on my 10th generation. I always use the Sims as the last name of my legacy and each generations first name follows ABC. So first gen's name start with A, second B, etc. So currently I'm on J. This is the longest I've ever playing a legacy.

Are you going to try to complete the alphabet legacy in-game achievement?

Wow! I admire people who can stick at a lot of generations.

In TS2, I completed 10 generations in the Apocalypse Challenge - that was so darn difficult! But so much fun, especially at the beginning when it was really hard.

In TS3, I completed 8 generations, but I found it hard to keep up with everyone and they had so many relations spread out it was like Sunset Valley was just filled with my one family!

In TS4, I started my first legacy challenge on 25th Dec, so it is not very old yet. My founder is still a YA (normal lifespan) now with 2 kids, but they have already gone from having a tent and a pee bush on an empty Lot to having a 3 bedroom detached house! I imagine they are gonna be hugely rich before long.