Like, how many generations do you go before you get bored? How do you decide which kid to follow into the next generation and when do you guys stop keeping up with other branches of the family tree? I like hearing about other people's playstyles and storylines so I'd love any picture or Plum Tree App family trees you have.
In Sims 4 I usually have no more than 3 generations, but the second generations is always expanding usually because one of the founder is turned into a vampire and when their spouse died, I marry them with another and they have new children, I picked the heir based on my favorite(the one that I mostly control and/or have the look that is closest to the vampire parent)
I usually get to generation 3 ish before I get bored. I've been staying interested in my current one because I'm following the Newcrest challenge so there's goals to work towards with each generation.
I play a modified legacy. The founders are immortal. One is a vampire and they raise several generations of children. I'm on their 4th/5th generation of children now. I've basically combined legacy gameplay with the 100 baby and supersim challenges, but I don't follow any particular challenge rules.
The children typically stick around until they've graduated from college, topped a career or two, or married (so they stay for quite a while). But there isn't really an heir.
I keep up with the grandchildren and then after that with descendants who carry the family last name (which could be girls or boys).
I dont get bored because I have many different goals and storylines I'm trying to work through. For example, right now I'm trying to avoid them having a financial crisis, humanize other vampires, get to the top of a few careers, prepare for a wedding, etc. Later, I'll want them to run an art gallery somewhere and have a 3rd home in Mt. Komorebi.
I'm reposting from other threads, but this is them.
My standard blurb about the Sims family I play, the Fiers, is that the Fiers are a vampire family led by an arrogant and socially awkward megalomaniac named Asher who, among other things, hopes to have 100 children. As of now, he's had 16. The youngest five recently became young adults and are discovering the perks of university.
As a whole, the family has a tendency to be patriarchal (but this has changed and is continuing to change as Asher hopefully grows) and ambitious. They've also amassed extreme wealth.
In the picture, the two standing are Asher Fier and his wife, Adelise. They're immortal. Asher is a vampire. Adelise is not. Seated are Asher's five youngest children, the fourth generation of children that he's had. The others have grown up and moved out.
Dawn, in the green dress, is the most normal of the five. She's the eldest and she's friendly, reasonable, and very easy-going. She's doing a biology degree at Britechester and has a long-term townie boyfriend who's an expert at fire dancing.
Darius is next to Dawn. He's the silliest of the five. These days, he's into art and becoming Simstagram famous. Because he's constantly setting things on fire and losing all sorts of games and competitions to his siblings, one would probably think that he's incompetent, but he's not. He's a talented painter, violinist, and he's doing well in his distinguished degree at Britechester.
Delmarya is sitting in the middle. She's the only vampire of the five, which bothers her immensely, so she tries to ignore the fact that she's a vampire, which … Anyway, Delmarya is also a perfectionist. She mastered all toddler skills, childhood aspirations, and parenthood traits. She's enrolled in the maximum amount of university courses, has a perfect GPA, and is almost at the very top of her career (university is only for fun), but because she's a perfectionist (and a vampire) she's incredibly insecure. Despite trying, she doesn't have many friends besides a toddler she met on the beach once and her siblings.
Dyna is the youngest of the five. She's Darius twin. She's sweet, quiet, and often overlooked because of the chaos caused by her parents and older siblings. She works hard and looks out for everyone, but doesn't get much attention herself. She's studying computer science in a distinguished degree at Foxbury; she's also on the soccer team.
Last is Dysis. Dysis is the most like their father. She's ambitious and competitive, and wants to become independently wealth, but she also loves trying new things and experiencing all that life has to offer. She fell intensely in love with someone who was obsessed with her, which has made it hard for Dysis to keep on top of her academics due to spending so much time with him. She missed giving one of her final presentations and she's also almost hopeless when it comes to artistic things like painting and flower arranging.
Three pictures of the current youngest generation's childhood (when they lived in Sulani). https://i.imgur.com/JwH3wvy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/52ke7N4.png https://i.imgur.com/zqn40Iw.jpg
Their home now. https://i.imgur.com/xuhfEWo.jpg https://i.imgur.com/rpGe1qn.jpg
I usually get bored around gen 5 or 6. By that time the family is so rich and all the worlds are empty. It’s hard to keep going. I like the first part when the founder is getting started. I think a snowy escape legacy could be fun for a few generations.
I’m about to start generation 20, I’ve been playing this save since 2017. I move each heir into a new lot, I think that helps me not get bored. I only keep up with siblings and parents (occasionally grandparents), and I usually pick the youngest child as the heir (with few exceptions). I try to have each generation focus on something different to keep it interesting. I’ve played one as a doctor, one was famous, one lived in Sulani etc. Usually I set goals for them while they’re still toddlers, but sometimes that changes especially if a new pack comes out. If I find myself bored at any point I just play a different save, or game for a bit of a break. Another note: I use MCCC to keep my world “alive”, and let the spares have families.
I play a couple of storytelling saves but one is a Not So Berry. I'm currently on generation 4 and definitely not bored yet. I keep up with all the branches although I don't play them. As for the heir, I choose the first child. Hasn't been hard with the last two generations because there was only one to choose. ?
I think I have found the way to keep the game interesting for me. I started my save as a strict legacy challenge. I quickly realized I needed more than that, I needed an extensive story line and backstory for my sim, otherwise I was going to get bored. I also realized I needed to slow down ageing because I needed time to get attached to my sims and if I know they will die soon I just stop caring. Also, I decided to not have unplayed households age, because the empty worlds are very discouraging to me. (I age up my sims' friends in CAS) Still, sometimes I temporarily turn ageing off if I'm just enjoying a stage in their lives a lot. I also delete randomized townies that are a hot mess and add my own townies.
So at some point the legacy challenge faded and I was just very invested in my legacy family. I planned family activities and documented their story, taking screenshots and writing about it. In the background I kept track of the legacy challenge points, just for me, because I think it helps me discover aspects of the game that I wouldn't think to explore myself. (I still want my sims to complete all aspirations, max out all careers and skills and complete all the collections, but with no time constraints and any sim in the save can contribute)
I started playing in July and my first sim of gen 3 is an young adult and I plan to have her be a mom soon. Even though it's cool to see a big family tree and I wanted to maybe rush things more at the beginning, the key for me was to play with very slow time.
other observations: * I notice that if I play a sim through uni and they graduate, I'm super proud of them and I NEVER get bored with them * I only play one save! I play other households besides the legacy family and they all live in the same world. Its very cool to see my other sims around living their lives. - I have big plans of at some point have every restaurant, vet and retail store owned by some sim of mine (in a way that makes sense in their life story) * rotational play among the legacy siblings and my other played households is ultimately the way to play for me * I try to add nice community lots and get my sims out of the house. * I like to make my sims look unique via cc skin details and cc hair (clothes I don't care about that much)
Honestly, the best thing I ever did for myself was to stop playing Legacy-style. I could only last 3 generations or so before getting bored and never wanting to look at that property again. If you’re moving each generation that sounds like it would help a lot. I really prefer rotational gameplay because it’s way more interesting when my sims interact with my other played sims.
"AmTk86;d-984335" wrote: Like, how many generations do you go before you get bored? How do you decide which kid to follow into the next generation and when do you guys stop keeping up with other branches of the family tree? I like hearing about other people's playstyles and storylines so I'd love any picture or Plum Tree App family trees you have.
I'm getting ready to head into fifth generation. Counting my sims' ancestors, Ryan and Katherine Cole as the first generation. Lol. Nichole Sheridan is the first-born of fourth generation. Her brother Ryan is second-born. Any kids bearing the Cole last name are way too young at the moment.
ETA: Here's the family tree. One sim is on there twice because she's the mother of one of my third generation and her daughter from her husband* ended up marrying her son's cousin from his dad's side of the family. Confusing and crazy, but oh well. *She never did marry her son's father. So I'm saying she abandoned him. But he had a better mother, who gave him a baby brother.
