Legacy Challenge (The Sims 2)

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The Legacy Challenge is a challenge created by Pinstar1161 for The Sims 2. The goal of the challenge is to "make a family the strongest it can be over 10 generations."

History of the Challenge

The original Legacy Challenge thread was posted in the Sims 2 BBS some time ago. However, so many people posted replies to that thread, that its creator, Pinstar1161, created a new thread on November 9, 2004 at 3:21 PM PST.

Although Pinstar1161 is a normal player on The Sims 2 and not a Maxis programmer, the people at Maxis seem to be encouraging this challenge because of all the excitement it has generated. Some programmers have even admitted to trying this challenge themselves!

The current "official" Legacy Challenge thread can be found here

The Rules

In order to keep the challenge fair and to measure how "strong" a Sim family is after ten generations, rules for gameplay and scoring have been established.

Starting a Legacy Family

The first generation of any "Legacy" family must adhere to the list of rules as follows: (NOTE: For the purposes of this article, the first generation Sim of a family participating in the the Legacy Challenge will be referred to as the "Legacy Sim.")

  • There can be only one Legacy Sim per family. (This means that, when the Legacy family is first created, there is only one adult in the family and no other people.)
  • The Legacy Sim must be adult, May Be either Male or Female, and may be made with Create-A-Sim, Bodyshop, or any other Sim creation tool.
  • The Legacy Sim may be assigned the Aspiration of the player's choice, and his or her personality points may likewise be assigned as the player chooses.
  • The Legacy Sim must move into an empty 5X5 lot.

Any newly-created Sim family has 20,000 Simoleons, and an empty 5X5 lot costs 15,000 Simoleons. This will leave your Legacy Sim with 5,000 Simoleons for building a house and/or buying furniture.

Playing a Legacy Family

The first generation and all suceeding generations of any Legacy family must also abide by a specific set of rules.

  • Although any Sims in your Legacy family may have relationships with any other Sim in the Neighborhood, the Sims in your Legacy family may only marry or move in townies or NPCs. See the Other section for defitions of what these terms mean.
  • Although your Sims may use the Elixir of Life Aspiration reward object, the player may NOT at any time use the "aging off" cheat.
  • All Aspiration reward objects are allowed, as long as they are obtained without cheating.
  • All Maxis-made objects and 3rd-party objects that you download into your game may be used.
  • Cheats and mood trainers (hacked objects designed to grossly manipulate Sims' moods) are NOT allowed (see the Other section for exceptions to this rule).
  • The twins and abduction mods for this game are NOT allowed. See the Other section for what mods are allowed.

Scoring a Legacy Family

Bonuses

Other

Exceptions to the rules are as follows:

  • If an object in a Legacy household develops a bug, it is legal to use the "moveobjects_on" cheat to remove that object.
  • Mods that do not singificantly affect gameplay (such as the "no cheer" mod, to PReVENT children and teens from cheering when they recieve an A+ report card) are allowed.

An NPC (non-playable character) is any Sim in the neighborhood that performs a specific role in the neighborhood. These Sims are not part of any family. For example, the Maid and the Gardener are NPCs because their role is to clear and to garden, respectively. If an NPC moves into the family, they lose their job (the job menu shows they are Unemployed), and a new Sim will be generated to fulfill the NPC's function.

A townie is any Sim in the neighborhood that does not perform a specific role in the neighborhood, but does not occupy any of the houses in the neighborhood. In all other respects they are exactly like normal Sims; any Sim can become friends with or invite over a townie, and you can propose that they Move In to your family. If a townie does Move In with another family, or if a townie is killed on a lot, then another townie is randomly generated; that way, the neighborhood never runs out of townies.

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