How Do You Guys Typically Play Your Legacies?
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...
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@haneul very cool :)
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)
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)
