Mind you, I wasn't yet playing this iteration of the Sims everyday, as I did both Sims2 and even Sims3 (despite my love/hate relationship with 3). I chose to bring my singer Sim into Sims4 and created, I thought, a fantastic backstory as to why he found himself in the circumstances a Founder must begin. I was having a great time, with the curves the game threw at me. Mind you, this was shortly after the game was released. Pinstar had just released his rules for Sims 4. We didn't have much of a way to distinguish the ages of our Sims, either. Turns out, the Sim my Founder fell for was much older than she professed, or looked like. Immediately after they said their "I do's" she aged up to Elder. Not a great start to a legacy.
I found myself in a true quandary. Do I quit and start again? (Rules stipulate you go with what happens.) Or do I put aside my core Values this time to preserve what I started? I chose door number 2. He had a girlfriend prior to his interest in the one he married. She was still his friend and confidant. In the course of discussing his situation, she made a bold offer.
Ultimately, he brought her in to live with his old hag of a wife and himself. Things were going great, my blog was on fire. I was having a blast. Then I made a mistake that scuttled the whole thing. The choice I made for choosing an heir came back to bite me in the behind. Neither of the three sons had the Trait, to be heir. I had the eldest move out, to make room for the couple to an additional child. MISTAKE. They had twin daughters. The rules state you can't move the heir out of the lot. I had it in my head I would simply go back and find my Founder's wife again and have the two restart their family. That's when I learned that the walk-by Sims were totally random and they didn't repeat.
That was the end of it.
I took almost a full year before deciding to give it another go. I still wanted to use my Founder, as I really liked his backstory. So, I did. Sadly, the events weren't as interesting, but all-in-all, I did stick with it and I blogged about it. I was able to finish it, too.
If you're curious, you can read it here: https://galacticgals.blogspot.com/2014/09/chapter-one-eriks-choice.html
You'll note that the date I began was in 2014. That's because I failed to delete it, in it's entirety. I should have copied and pasted the beginning I wished to keep with what actually happened in the second version. But, you live and learn, right?
