When creating a family for multiple generations, do you play all of the descendants?

I choose one to continue the legacy. I’ve never been one to play with multiple households at a time.

Yup! On my legacy save, Garret (the founder) had a boy and a girl with Summer Holiday. When they died, I started to play with the boy in the same household and the girl married an alien disguised of asian Sim and moved to another lot.

Then I played with both households till they also got kids that had grown up and moved out. Now they are everywhere (one household on Newcrest, three on San Myshuno, one on Forgotten Hollow and one on Windenburg).

I used to pick a heir and follow his/her story while letting the game take care of the others in ts3, but for some reason i am finding myself wanting to play with all descendants in the ts4 family i am focusing on.

I've tried to jump between families, but I get so wrapped up in what I have the current family pursuing that I'm reluctant to swap to another and leave the current one "on hold"

It's even more difficult if I don't really have a plan for them.

So I usually just stick to one heir and follow them. Lather, rinse, repeat.

depends on the family, sometimes I'll leave the kids I don't play with their parents and switch between the two and other times I have branched out, one of my oldest families I no longer play I think I lost them, I let the youngest keep the house and the first and second moved out and had their lives before resurrecting them to play the second's households and the child of the first. As one side was a vampire and the other wasn't. It's fun if you're in the mood for it you decide how different or how similar each one grows up like it's a competition for who has the best life, otherwise well whichever one I like the most.

I was planning on rotating through whatever households I felt like playing with in this save, but I ended up only playing Villareal and yes, I do play all households because I have stories for all of them.

No. There are too many descendants. I used to play them all in Sims 2 and with Sims 3, I had a one child policy but I don't do either of those anymore.

I just pick one kid to carry on the legacy. My sims tend to have a lot of kids so I couldn't really play them all anyway.

In the sims 2 and 3 I play one child. Sims 4 I never have been able to play that way because there's no story progression for the game without mods. Everyone in the sims 4 stays idol without direction. I hate it.

Yes! I start with a single sim, have them get married, start a family, then rotate with their kids when they move out. That way, the world never feels stale as each sim week, I'm playing a different household with different tasks, wants, and "feel." It's fun going between my normals, to my hippies, to my stangevillers, to my vamps, to my beach house, to my casters, etc... It's fun!