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Sims 4  Legacy Challenge (My Version)

This challenge has many of the same rules as the official legacy challenge. Most of the rules are copy and pasted from the sims 4 Legacy Challenge webpage. In this version you do not have to score your gameplay but you can if you want to by going to the webpage that is linked below. 

Rules CAS:

1. Must be a young adult 

2. Only sim in the household.

Rules Gameplay:

1.  Once you have finished your founder, move them into any empty lot. Return to the world screen. Select your founder on their empty lot and pick “Move Family”. 

2.  You may found your family in any neighborhood that has a 50×50 or larger lot.  Locate a 50 x 50 or larger lot and bulldoze it, evicting the family present if there is one. Move your founder into it.

3. You may use mods and hack for money and if you have MCCC you may use it to level up skills faster.

4. Absolutely no restating after an unfortunate even; that is cheating.

5.  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. 

6.   The family must stay on the same lot throughout the whole challenge. This excludes vacations.

7.   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.

8. The only time you may change your sims aspiration is when they have finished it and then you may choose another one as long as you haven’t completed it before.

9.  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. 

10.  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. 

11. If you move in more sims into the town you may use them as friends and spouses.

12. When creating your founder you may use the story mode.

(If you want to see the rules for the stuff/game packs you may go to this webpage http://simslegacychallenge.com/sims-4-legacy-challenge-gameplay-rules/ ) 

Rules Succession Laws. When your founder eventually dies, you will need to determine who among their children will become the next heir, the Leader of the family for the second generation. The title of heir has many important implications that will be explained as we go along. How your family handles succession is actually quite customizable.  Your succession law is made up of three components. Think of the succession law as the “personality” of your family. Choose wisely, as you must abide by this succession law for your entire challenge and cannot change it part-way through:

:Gender Law:

1.  Matriarchy: The Founder must be female. Only girls are eligible to be named heir unless there are no female children, at which point boys become eligible for that generation.

2. Strict Matriarchy: The Founder must be female. Only girls are eligible to be named heir. Male children cannot, under any circumstance, ever be the heir to the next generation.

3. Patriarchy: The Founder must be male. Only boys are eligible to be named heir unless there are no male children, at which point girls become eligible for that generation.

4. Strict Patriarchy: The Founder must be male. Only boys are eligible to be named heir. Female children cannot, under any circumstance, ever be the heir to the next generation.

5. Equality: The Founder may be of either gender. Both boys and girls are eligible for the title of heir.

6. Strict Equality: The founder may be of either gender. However, only children of the opposite gender to the founder are eligible to be named heir. This repeats itself for the next generation (the next heir must be a different gender than the previous heir) so that each generation will have alternating-genders as heirs.

:Bloodline Law:

1. Strict Traditional : To be eligible to be named heir, a child must be naturally born from their previous-generation parents and be able to trace an unbroken bloodline back to the founder. Adopted children may never be named heir.

2. Traditional: Children who are naturally born from the previous generation are eligible to be named heir. Adopted children are ineligible to be named heir unless there are no naturally born children, at which point they become eligible for that generation.

3. Modern: Both Naturally born and adopted children are eligible to be named heir.

4. Foster: Children who are adopted are eligible to be named heir. Naturally born children are not eligible to be named heir unless there are no adopted children, at which point they become eligible for that generation.

5. Strict Foster: Only Children who are adopted are eligible for the title of heir. Naturally born children may never be heir.

(Even though these are important they do not completely choose who the heir is.)

:Heir Law (Important):

1. First Born: The oldest, by order of joining the family, eligible living child is named heir.

2. Last Born: The youngest, by order of joining the family, eligible living child is named heir.

3. Living Will: The eligible child with the highest friendly relationship score with their previous-generation’s parent will be named heir.

4. Merit: The child with the most fully completed aspirations will be named heir. If there is a tie, the child with the highest level in a single skill will become heir from among the children who are tied.

5. Strength: The first born eligible child becomes heir by default… but the tile can be forcefully taken from them if an eligible sibling beats them in a fight. That sibling may have their title taken, (or taken back) if they lose a fight to another eligible sibling.

6. Random: The title of heir is randomly selected from the pool of all eligible children. Every time the eligible pool changes size, The heir must be re-rolled using the new pool.

7. Exemplar: At the beginning of the challenge, name a single trait. This trait must be one of your founder’s three traits.. Any eligible heir that has this trait will gain the title of heir. If a single generation has no children with this trait follow the First Born rule. If more than one child has the Exemplar trait then the oldest child WITH the trait will be the heir.

8. Democracy: This rule may be used if you are displaying your Legacy Challenge in some public way. Either via Let’s Play, Livestream, blog or other format where people can leave comment. The heir is chosen by your viewers/readers from among the pool of eligible heirs.

9. Magical Bloodline: Choose the heir by whoever has the strongest magical bloodline trait. If there is no magical bloodline trait (ie in the earlier generations) then the law defaults to first born until magic is introduced to the family. If multiple potential heirs have the same level of magical trait, choose the oldest one.

10. Magical Strength: Similar to the Strength law above, this one requires two or more potential heirs to have a magical duel. Whoever wins the duel, is the new heir.

:Species law (Optional):

1. Xenoarchy – Heirs must alternate between human and alien.

2. Xenophobic – Heirs cannot be a different species from the founder.

3. Brood – Heirs must be carried in a pregnancy by the previous heir, regardless of the heir’s gender.

4. Tolerant – The species of the child has no impact on their eligibility for heir status

:Spouses:

1.  Spouses may not bring in any money with them when they move in/marry into the family. 

2.  With the update that allowed you to customize your Sims genders, you are able to have same-gender couples. There is no rule preventing this. 

:Children:

1.  Regardless of your succession law, you may always introduce children into your family via pregnancy or adoption. 

2.  With the addition of The Sims 4 Get to Work alien babies can also be brought into the family via abduction. 

3. 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 toddlers before adopting a new one. You may rename the baby, and it is recommended (but not required) that you change their last name to the Legacy Family’s name.

4.  Regardless of their status, when an infant ages up into a toddler, you must roll for their toddler trait (and later their aspiration and their first trait using the calculator found here when they become a child). 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. 

5. 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.

6.  You are allowed to use fruit and/or music to influence the gender of an unborn child, should you choose to do so. 

7.  The addition of Toddlers should not change the flow of your Legacy families, you just have a new age to deal with. 

I hope you guys like my version of the legacy challenge please post in the comments with pictures of your households.

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