Sims 4 Legacy Challenge – Gameplay Rules made by Pinstar
The following is a set of rules and restrictions you must follow when playing your Legacy Challenge. They are mainly here to keep the challenge balanced and maintain a degree of difficulty as you play through your 10 generations.
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No cheats/hacks/mods that give you an advantage over someone who did not use them. I leave this rule deliberately open-ended because of the sheer variety of cheats/mods and hacks out there that have been, and will be made. The rule of thumb is that using a specific cheat/hack/mod will not put your family in any better of a position compared to someone who did not use one. For example, money cheats like motherlode and kaching would be against this rule because someone who did not use them would have less money than someone who did. Where as a mod that, for example, created a brand new yellow shirt in CAS that your Sims could use, would be fine because having a pretty yellow shirt would not cause your family to gain any more points than someone who stuck with the stock clothing options.
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No restarting after bad events. Did your Sim get fired from a bad chance card? Did you burn down your kitchen because you forgot a smoke alarm? Did that baby get born a boy when you really wanted a girl? Keep the results and move ahead. Taking the bad events with the good makes the challenge more interesting and struggling back from failure states is half the fun. Restarting to recover from a crash, glitch, bug, or other technical problem is allowed.
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You may not move or merge in other Sims into the Legacy Family with the exception Sims that will aid in bringing in the next generation aka the “spouse”. (See the Spouse section for details. As of the latest rule change, you can bring in more than one spouse). You may have non-heir family members leave the Legacy Family, but once they are gone, they may not be moved back in.
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The Legacy Family must remain on the same lot for the duration of the challenge. They are free (and encouraged) to develop their house but they may not move into a new house. Rooms may be imported into the house from the exchange as long as the family pays full price for the construction and items contained within.
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A Sim may utilize an anti-aging item ONCE in their lifetime. This includes drinking a youth potion or milking the cow plant. Any cheats that freeze aging or lengthen (or shorten) lifespan times may not be used.Sims lifespans must be set to “Normal” in the gameplay menu.
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You may not change a Sim’s current aspiration. The exception is when they fully complete an aspiration. When that happens, you may choose their new aspiration, as long as it is not one they’ve already completed.
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You may not bring a Sim back from the dead once the reaper has taken them. You MAY plead with the reaper in order to save a recently dead Sim.
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You may not move/marry out the sim who currently holds the title of ‘heir’. All of the other children in that generation (known as ‘spares’) may move or marry out. Once a sim moves out, they are ineligible to be heir, even if conditions change that might make them the rightful heir.
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When playing a Legacy Challenge, your legacy family is the ONLY family you may play in that saved game. You MAY move in new families into the neighborhood during your challenge (keeping in mind that they can be used for friends, but not spouses) but you may not play them
Spouses
Spouses may not bring in any money with them when they move in/marry into the family. To prevent this, you may merge townies into families with one another prior to moving them in. A Sim who is not the last member of their household will not bring any money into the household. Alternatively, if a Sim does bring in money, use the money cheat to reduce the family’s new balance to whatever it was prior to the new sim moving in.The restriction on the number of Sims moving into the Legacy family house has been lifted. You may now move in as many sims as you wish, as long as none of them brings in any money. You may have spares get married if you so desire and create ‘cadet branches’ within the household.
The first spouse brought into the house each generation (once that generation’s heir reaches young adulthood) is known as the “Primary Spouse” The distinction of “Primary Spouse” does NOT mean the spouse HAS to be the sim who helps bring about the next generation. The “Primary Spouse” distinction is important for two scoring categories.
There have been many reports that the automatic generation of random townies peters out over time, leaving the dating pool barren. To combat this I am easing up on the restriction of using gallery sims for Legacy Challenge spouse material. On the gallery, look up #LegacyLoves (name suggested by BossJinja) any and all families you find there can be brought into your world and become eligible spouses. You can even add your own entries! Simply make one or more sims in CAS, then upload them to the gallery wiht the #LegacyLoves tag. Please do not upload pre-played sims to that hashtag as it remembers their skills. Please don’t write what the Sims’s traits are in the description. I don’t want people to be able to pick and choose what traits their spouses have.
Children
Regardless of your succession law, you may always
introduce children into your family via pregnancy or adoption.
(Bloodline law will determine which are eligible to be heirs). The game
enforces the conditions needed to have children via pregnancy. In order
to adopt a child, both your Sim and their spouse must be alive and
living in the same house. Children may only be adopted as infants. You
may not adopt if there are any infants (natural born or adopted) living
in the house at the time and must wait for them to grow to children
before adopting a new one. You may rename the child, and it is
recommended (but not required) that you change their last name to the
Legacy Family’s name. While same-gendered heirs and spouses will can’t
have children by pregnancy, it does not matter for adoption.
Regardless of their status, when an infant ages up into a
child, you must roll for their aspiration and their first trait using
the calculator found here.
Be sure to put the traits of the two parents (even for adopted
children) in the calculator because the algorithm it uses factors those
in when generating random traits for the children. When the child grows
into a teenager, you consult the calculator again for their adult
aspiration and their second trait. Finally the calculator will be used
to generate the third trait upon reaching young adulthood.
There is an option here to generate both aspirations and
all three traits for a sim at once, though the proper method is to wait
until the Sim ages up. And remember- No re-rolling! One of the
hallmarks of this challenge is getting randomly generated children so
you should keep the good with the bad. Since the traits of the parents
have an influence on the traits of their children, you can try to
engineer children by selecting spouses with desirable traits, but this
is no guarantee.
On to the Scoring section of the challenge Rules!
Click HERE for the trait generator. You may want to bookmark this page as you’ll be using it a lot!
Ghosts
- You may use the death flower to guarantee success when pleading with the reaper to save a dying sim.
- You may NOT use ambrosia to resurrect a dead sim. (You may cook it and have living sims eat it if you wish)
- You may invite ghost sims back into your family. However, they no longer earn your Legacy family any Legacy Challenge points. They may not purchase potions of youth, any completed skills, aspirations or other Legacy Challenge scoring methods do not count. They may not take a job. They cannot memorialize other sims. If they were a member of the Legacy Challenge family
- Ghost Sims can still be memorialized but only by Sims that knew them in life.
- An invited ghost who is no longer welcome may be moved out just like unwanted family members.
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