How many generations has your family gone through?

"karlakou;c-16795036" wrote:
@HillyBeth I had a sim named Genevieve, too! Also, this is really long- I'm thoroughly impressed.

Thanks! My birthday will actually be two months since I started the save. I originally began with two sets of elders and they each had one young adult child. The two families met through the welcome wagon and the 'kids' began talking online. Once they both moved out, they started flirting and quickly moved in together. The rest is history. Lol.

A few months ago I unexpectedly received the achievement for having 100 generations. My game had glitched well before this (after I completed the 10 generations and alphabet legacy challenge), so I thought I had no hope of ever getting to 100 generations. Needless to say, I was quite happy to achieve the 100 Generations achievement :) I promptly saved the household.

"Simmertwinsss;c-16774197" wrote:
i really struggle with making it to the 3rd generation, i get bored so easily, any tips on how to stay occupied with each generation?

1) I keep a list of events I want to do with my current family and things I'm thinking about incorporating into future families, so that helps me stay focused. For example, I might want them to go fishing, or I might want to stage something that looks like trick or treating. A future idea I have is to have a sim that is a little person (I have a height slider mod).

2) I don't try to hit every holiday or life event for every single generation. Like, for one generation I'll really put a lot of effort into staging their high school graduation, but for the next I'll do something different, like maybe concentrate on prom.

3) Sometimes I want to speed things along, so I might skip the pregnancy and toddler stages and just create a child in CAS so I can start playing.

4) I usually have some plan for my heir, so like for my current one, I knew I wanted her to be a veterinarian, and I never played a vet before, so that made it more fun. For my upcoming heir, I want her to be famous, so I'll get the GF pack and play her with that. Each generation has something new for me to explore.

5) I slowly add new commercial buildings with each generation so that my sims have some fun, new location to visit, and it seems realistic as irl towns grow and change over time. I use Newcrest as an offshoot of San Myshuno, and I use Magnolia Promenade as an offshoot of Willow Creek so I can squeeze more buildings in.

6) I sometimes create new families to come in and interact or marry into my existing families, so that satisfies my need to create new families. It all bends together.

7) I take screenshots and put their stories together in a blog, which makes me want to keep going with the story.

I hope you can use some of these ideas. Happy simming!

@FurSimsOfficial Your sims are all so realistic looking! Love them--great pics.

I got to 5 generations in an old save but then my laptop went kaput and I lost them all :(

I'm on generation three of my Legacy challenge (though my heir's sister has had children so she has nieces, so generation four does technically exist already). This is where I went a bit wobbly on my last Legacy challenge so I'm hoping to push through and get to generation four and see them through. I'm determined to complete this challenge with a perfect score! Also all the way back on the Sims 2, I got to generation five once.

https://i.imgur.com/TuLgV9H.png

This is my family tree currently (including the randomly spawned children of my Sims who moved out, because I'm a completionist). My current heir is the Sim furthest to the right.

Another birth update:
Valerie Pettit is married to a sim named Lester Lobo and they just had the first set of twins born into the entire family! Their names are Jose' and Milo. Also, due to that CAS aging glitch, Brook ages up to a teen in two days now and her cousin Fuller becomes a young adult in four days!

Longest ever was 5 gens before my save got broken, I still had the 4th generation on my gallery but I didn't want to go back that far. Currently I am onto generation 2.

My founder (Victoria Greer) was an archaeologist who fell in love with the Selvadoradian Culture and their men. She married one of the natives (Facundo Rojas) and after a while they got a daughter (Avery Rojas) and a son (Trevor Rojas). I moved onto generation two once Avery grew up to be a young adult and Get Famous got released so she could pursue an acting career (and try out the pack), she was always the one for attention. However: the heir of generation 1 (Victoria) decided to have another baby (Markus) without my knowledge and I found out when I went to visit them a noticed a little toddler around the house.