How To Have More Fun With a Legacy

"caramelcopp;d-947425" wrote:
Sometimes playing my legacy isn't too fun. Any ideas to help spice it up a bit?

Tell us what you are currently having them do, for starters.

My best suggestion is do something spontaneous. Go outside a given sims comfort zone. Get bitten by a vampire? Family trip to the lake? Have some move out and try rotational play for a while. It’s a good way to focus on certain sims. Then return to the main household later and deal with any fallout.

You could try doing the Random Legacy, which gives you different goals for every generation and might get you out of your rut:

Rules here: http://modthesims.info/t/534066

And roller here: http://simsroller.com/

Like suggested already, trying to do some rotation should help. You could for example play all the siblings in different lots instead of only the heir.

Then, if you own Get Together, you can create clubs with family members that go to a restaurant every Sunday for example, or have a bbq at the heir's house, etc

With Seasons you can also add some new holidays to the calendar to get everyone involved more often.

You could also create some drama if you feel like. Have your heir's sibling flirt with your heir's partner for example, or take it even further and have the partner leave the heir for the sibling!

Try giving your Sims (and yourself) some rewards. If everybody in the house gains a skill point, have a movie night, or when your child finishes homework, send him outside to build a snowpal in winter or off to rollerskate if it's warm enough. A Legacy can become a grind if you let it.

I'm playing my legacy (actually 10 of them in rotation) as an ISBI, except that every time a household accumulates 10 points, I get to control everyone in the household for 24 hours instead of just the torch holder. It sounds crazy, but having those days to look forward to really keeps me interested in the game. And my controlled Sims get a point each time they spend 2 hours on a new community lot, so that helps too.

Here's a tip someone gave me two years ago: don't make your sims perfect. Add more negative traits and create some drama - that's way more fun than maxing out skills all day long!

The only Legacy I play is Pinstar's Legacy Challenge. We can't play any other household in the town. So, that leaves out the rotation style of play, IF that's the legacy you're playing. That being said, focus on the Heir in each generation and realize each generation should have its own feel to it. It shouldn't be a repeat of the first generation, for instance. You're not dealing with the same Sims altogether. I agree with @Koteyka, don't make your Sims perfect, that leads to dullsvillle, which leads directly to boredom. Determine what your Heir needs to become successful, skills et al, and work on that. Also, make sure your Heir has a social life, of sorts. Future heirs are not created in a vacuum. Heir needs a life-partner. Heir must go out on the town to 'meet' the right Sim. Mix things up, have some fun!

"GalacticGal;c-16705970" wrote:
The only Legacy I play is Pinstar's Legacy Challenge. We can't play any other household in the town. So, that leaves out the rotation style of play, IF that's the legacy you're playing. That being said, focus on the Heir in each generation and realize each generation should have its own feel to it. It shouldn't be a repeat of the first generation, for instance. You're not dealing with the same Sims altogether. I agree with @Koteyka, don't make your Sims perfect, that leads to dullsvillle, which leads directly to boredom. Determine what your Heir needs to become successful, skills et al, and work on that. Also, make sure your Heir has a social life, of sorts. Future heirs are not created in a vacuum. Heir needs a life-partner. Heir must go out on the town to 'meet' the right Sim. Mix things up, have some fun!

What about when everyone are kids

"Metaphasic;c-16703853" wrote:

"caramelcopp;d-947425" wrote:
Sometimes playing my legacy isn't too fun. Any ideas to help spice it up a bit?

Tell us what you are currently having them do, for starters.

My best suggestion is do something spontaneous. Go outside a given sims comfort zone. Get bitten by a vampire? Family trip to the lake? Have some move out and try rotational play for a while. It’s a good way to focus on certain sims. Then return to the main household later and deal with any fallout.

Well my sims game is actually more entertaining I find if you start to chat to others when playing, but rotational will be starting for me soon I'm waiting for the first kid to become a ya since she isn't the heir she will start her own Random Legacy

"loubyloulou;c-16704163" wrote:
You could try doing the Random Legacy, which gives you different goals for every generation and might get you out of your rut:

Rules here: http://modthesims.info/t/534066

And roller here: http://simsroller.com/

I will be doing that for the first kid once she goes off to start her own legacy using rotational play!!!

"Koteyka;c-16704845" wrote:
Here's a tip someone gave me two years ago: don't make your sims perfect. Add more negative traits and create some drama - that's way more fun than maxing out skills all day long!

Well I'm using the legacy trait generator so I don't have much choice, but the heir trait is romantic and there are other laws to help figure it out, and the heir actually is going to turn out as a demon. His name is Damien and that is a name in most horror movies and I picked it before his traits and he turned out to become an erratic, squeamish, and romantic sim who seriously hates everyone