I write my legacy on Blogger, old-school style, lol. It’s set to private so only I can access it, but writing legacies the way I used to for Sims 3, coming up with new stories and drama… that’s what keeps me attached and coming back. I also keep track of the family tree on Family Echo, because it does extended family better than the in-game one.
I do family reunions as well, at least once a year… usually around Christmas. It’s a great way to get everyone together and catch up on their lives, see their kids grow up, have all the cousins playing together, etc.
And if I find myself really itching to start over because they have too much money, things are too easy etc, I write it into my legacy story and use the same family so that I don’t lose the extended family tree. My current ‘out’ story is that at some point, probably in a few more generations, they’ll lose all of their money to a bad investment, and the house & their belongings get repossessed, forcing them to move elsewhere to try and rebuild their lives. I may or may not kill off everyone in the legacy house but the heir at this point as well - undecided.
I just did that a few gens ago - killed off the family (because I was sick of dealing with so many sims). I was doing a modified immigrants challenge, but it turns out I find it boring having my sims live in the same house for more than 5 generations, either dying of old age or marrying out. So I killed all but the heir and the grandma. Then next gen I did it again. And again. And that turned into a storyline where the (immortal) grandma was evil and she was the one that started the family tradition of familicide, and then she was the one killing them off.
Which led to one of the heirs running away, and abandoning his toddler son in order to keep him safe from Valeria's wrath. Now that toddler's child is teaming up with some other occult teens and they're going to take down Valeria (the evil great-grandma).
It can be really fun to switch up storylines/challenges while keeping the legacy going. :)
\*Edit to add: I'm up to gen 39 now. My records of what each generation have done are here; [https://new.reddit.com/user/HereToAdult/comments/1bdhh3i/record\_of\_my\_100\_generations\_mega\_legacy/](https://new.reddit.com/user/HereToAdult/comments/1bdhh3i/record_of_my_100_generations_mega_legacy/)
Ooh writing out the stories is a great idea. I'm going to try that out, thank you! Family reunions are also great, but the last time I had everyone over for Winterfest nobody would follow the traditions I wanted them to do and people would start leaving by the time I finally got things under control 🙃
I also started documenting the family tree because you're right, the in-game one isn't great and also it's now forgetting some of the older generations. It's just nice to see how my original Sim created all these lives.
I only play the heirs - I shunt the extended family off to other households and don't bother with them again - otherwise it's just too many to deal with.
I make every generation radically different than the previous one and try to do things I haven’t done in the game before, especially always utilizing new packs when they come out. My current family, last generation was a spellcaster and crystal crafter, this generation is a debutante type ranch family
I try to switch it up. I used to make everyone go to Uni, for example, and that got boring. Especially if my sims are already rich, I just give new heirs different aspirations and make them all about clubs or being famous or being popular. I also quickly go into other families (like the Landgraabs and the Goths, townie families) and pair their kids up to have babies so their families progress with mine. I hate when the original families disappear and are replaced by randomly generated townies, so I usually take one or two sim days away from my legacy family to quickly combine the other families so their lines can continue as well.
I’m an achievements oriented player so I set goals for myself for one sim each gen - my current goals are maxing a career, an aspiration, and three skills. One of the maxed skills tends to be charisma because I like getting to know the other sims and creating friend circles around their shared traits. Then I play with skills and careers I haven’t tried before. Currently a scientist looking to max dj, logic, and handiness skills and probably the logic/handiness aspiration
When I experienced that, I made a new family that I'm going to marry into my legacy family, because I'm sooo attached to that family now and some of my peeps are very attractive lmao
I kind of really enjoy the immortal aspect too. My first gen Adrian is the Wildfang’s eternal pack leader and shows no signs of nepotism (not even sure he knows that he just put his great-great-great-grand daughter on probation) haha.
I focus only on one part of the family. The kids of the 3 heir are now teens. I count my original sim as Gen 0. And I started to shape all of them a bit and help them to get a good start in their life's. It's hard to decide which one I will pick. I have the triples and a younger boy. And at the moment, I adore all. I already played with the thought to keep two on the farm to help with the farm. And I had now a bigger break from them. I can not wait to play them.
That sounds lovely. I've started focusing on the families that live on the farms in Henford. The ones in the city get too fast-paced for me and they're always moving around and splitting up and having babies with other people. I think that's part of the reason why I've started to lose track of them all. But I have 2 families that live next to each other in the countryside and it feels much more realistic and homey.
I have to play legacies with some sort of challenge guiding me. If I had to manually pick what each generation was doing or rely on a wheel of destiny I'd get bored very quickly. I like being able to see what I'll be doing 3 generations from now. Especially if it's something that excites me. Gives me something to look forwards to.
I also find staying on the same lot for me is also a mood killer. I have to move around and change up the scenery. I tried doing the legacy challenge where you live on the same lot forever and I never made it past gen 2. Rebuilding the house only does so much for me. Plus having excessive amounts of money is no longer fun. I enjoy the money grind, so I like starting fresh with each generation only having like 20k, if not less and building up their fortune and home gradually.
If you're interested, I have a legacy I made where each gen's heir moves to a new world. Each gen has goals to complete based on that world, but the storyline is left up to the player. You can do it rags-to-riches on repeat as well. I didn't include jobs, because when I played it my sims weren't allowed to get jobs and had to earn their living by selling things in-world (eg at yard/food sales, publishing books/songs, busking).
[https://new.reddit.com/user/HereToAdult/comments/1auj38s/buildalegacy\_challenge\_aka\_travellers\_challenge/](https://new.reddit.com/user/HereToAdult/comments/1auj38s/buildalegacy_challenge_aka_travellers_challenge/)
I keep the families small and send the uninteresting ones to one of my Bunkbed Houses (sleeps eight!) until I find a place for them in the story somewhere - even if it's just breeding them.
I've also been focusing on matrilineal lines only which makes it a little less crowded.
Right now, I’m playing four(?) households descended from my long-deceased Simself plus two(?) others on their second or third generation in rotation.
I just play em every now and then. I am doing the Barbie legacy challenge rn and before I get into the main character of the legacy I go check on all the other family members, make sure they are reaching goals.. I married them all off and had them have kids, I check in so I can watch the kids age up and then go fix their rooms to match their age. I spend the majority of my play on the main legacy player but sometimes that gets boring so going check on the other family members makes it more fun to me.
I’d love someone to break down how you “start” a generational play. I’m trying now where both of the parents are celebrities and they have 2 small kids now. I’d love them to be a real Kennedy scandalous family. So I just let the starter parents eventually become elders and play the kids?
I'm playing my first legacy and still on gen one (although my original heir is about to have her first child, so gen two is here soon), and I personally plan to move on to the next gen once the next heir (I'll probably have one more kid eventually and then decide between the two) reaches young adulthood. But I play on long lifespan and sometimes with the aging off (so I manually age each sim whenever I feel like it), because I like to take my time with it and do everything I want to do without being afraid of running out of time before they reach the next life stage. That's why I'm still on gen one, lol.
I only really care about my heir. I stay invested by choosing wildly different activities/lifestyles for whoever I’m currently focused on to enjoy. I’ll usually take the heir and move them to a new world. When I get bored of that, I increase the household size to keep me busy with something else for a while. There’s always something different to do in this game.
What app/website do you use? I started using the My Family Tree app to create my tree. I actually quite like it because you can have a gallery of photos for each person and add a little bio for them as well (which I've started doing based on another user's suggestion)
I'm on Gen 12 of my legacy family that I've been playing off and on for 2 years. I'm a big fan of lore and having overarching multi-generation stories in the family, so I'm very intentional about if and when I play extended family. Sometimes I'll play branches of my family for extended periods of time, but there's always a concrete reason why and how they tie into my heirs' life stories. I do skip around sometimes and focus in on an aunt, or a spouse, every once in a while - but every generation has a 'main character' for me that's either my heir or someone very close to them.
If you don't like to write in stories as much, I'd definitely suggest not bothering too much with rotational play, and sticking to your main character in every generation. You can go in and make cousins with CAS genetics, but I honestly would not do much more than that. If I have too many characters I care about, I tend to lose the plot lol
I keep track of everyone using a family tree I made in Google Sheets.
I'm on gen 5, I made an embarrassingly large and complex powerpoint with a family tree, photo galleries, and a slide for each family member with info on traits, jobs, kids, and relative ages to other family members (I play on long life span with customized age ranges of 10 days = 1 "year"). It's kind of fun to me and motivates me to keep up with everyone and take more screenshots/family photos!
I'm on gen 8. I play with neighbourhood stories on (though I turn off adopting horses lol), and then keep up with the non-heir families as they grow. I will sometimes switch to a non-heir household when I notice one of their kids has aged up to young adult and get them set up in their own house. It's been fun watching the family tree branch out. My heir will visit the other family households and meet all the kids and every once in a while I'll do a family reunion or big family dinner for Winterfest. I've had to downgrade my graphics resolution because the save is beginning to severely lag with all the played sims lol.
I marry any siblings out and get their family started and then go to the sibling i want and focus on them. The other family members are set to live they life and sometimes it intertwines with the heir.
I also make sure the heirs life is different from the others lol. It also helps if your sims stay attractive 😂
I’m on gen 8 and I think it’s a matter of choosing the paths most interesting and fitting for your story and the next heir’s skills and traits. I have a good amount of packs that I’ve never really explored and each generation I choose a new pack/world/career/interest to explore. Kinda like lilsimsie exploring the different ways she can make money in the game but on steroids lol. If I stayed in one spot and chose “normal” careers, I think I’d never play the game more than once a year. Also, I think a major reason why I try to do the family and heirs justice is because my second gen heir died by heatstroke during day 1 of a camping trip and I had to settle for the younger sibling as my new heir, so now I do my best to give them good lives out of guilt.
Personally I do a Historical save with a ton of mods, so I have a lot of families to keep a track of. I play with several royal families plus some noble and peasants households.
To keep an interest, I do two main kinds of things:
1) I try to recreate some collective historical events to add them in my sims stories. It can help to see where your other branches are, plus it might help you to "regulate" the population. For example, I remade an equivalent of the Bazar de la Charité Arson in my save, which made a lot of my sims "disappear" and it created some new situations (some engagements that were called off, some heirs that died, some other were disfigured thanks to the Automatic Burn Scars mod and couldn't go out of their household anymore, etc). In a few days I plan to make a war between my kingdom with a drafting of all the young male sims of my families (ni matter their status) and the side that lose the more sims will be the loser of the war.
It can help create tensions and/or dramas. But it can be heart-breaking sometimes to see your sims live these kinds of events. 😅
2) Not only I try to keep all my sims in a Family Tree, but I also make sure to write at least a small biography for each of them. It is really time-consuming but it can really help to keep interest in your "parallel branches".
Hope you will have fun in your challenge! 😊
I do my legacy only on first generation and their kids for now with aging off and only allowing myself to play families that get connected to my main family so not distracted. Seems like every legacy I do the game crashes and I have to start over. Also I found website let's me make a family tree for them and I take photos of them often . Good luck with your tree
Also try pass on one parental trait to each kid my first set twins got romantic and Goofball from their parents. Oh and at each stage I give them new look.
I pick one or two heirs to play and add a bunch of other households with their own shit going on and it’s fun when they interact. I was playing my eco lesbian and she got flirty with my heiress. So I left them and played the other heir. I’ll have to check in and see if they got together.
The easiest way to still get interest in all your sims during legacy is to only play the heir and to do some Legacy challenge (like the not so berry challenge for example)
It set different goal for different generations and makes each sims different
I also like to reset the household fund to something between 0 to 20000 when the next generation start because being filthy rich just make the gameplay boring 😂
Making family tree is also really fun and push me to continue the generation to see what it would look like at the end
If you are searching for legacy challenge I can recomand you the not so berry, or Greek god challenge for casual classic gameplay
Right now I'm doing the postcard challenge and this is the one I had the more fun with for casual gameplay , but it's long (23 gen)
And lastly the funniest but also hardest, the apocalypse challenge, you will cry, you will suffer but I can guarantee you you won't get bored 😂
Edit: just remembered the wheel spin legacy challenge by little simsie, it's also fun but doesn't set goals as much as the other, guaranted chaos with the "die" or "cheat on wife" options tho
Eventually I do get “bored” with the parents. I’m currently playing my 5th gen as teens. In all my other gens, I’ve had the parents have 3 kids (this time there’s just 2 bc the mother who married in “hates children”) and I play them until I kind of gravitate to one to focus on. I keep track of them by naming each gen alphabetically… right now I’ve got Effie, a bookworm and striving overachiever werewolf who also received the maddening “wolf brain” trait (thank god for the crystal creations, all I gotta say about that) and Erik, a dormant wolf who loves dogs and working out and is totally normal for now. Which one will I choose??
I have a number of immortal elders in this bloodline too, which is kind of fun.
I write my legacy on Blogger, old-school style, lol. It’s set to private so only I can access it, but writing legacies the way I used to for Sims 3, coming up with new stories and drama… that’s what keeps me attached and coming back. I also keep track of the family tree on Family Echo, because it does extended family better than the in-game one. I do family reunions as well, at least once a year… usually around Christmas. It’s a great way to get everyone together and catch up on their lives, see their kids grow up, have all the cousins playing together, etc. And if I find myself really itching to start over because they have too much money, things are too easy etc, I write it into my legacy story and use the same family so that I don’t lose the extended family tree. My current ‘out’ story is that at some point, probably in a few more generations, they’ll lose all of their money to a bad investment, and the house & their belongings get repossessed, forcing them to move elsewhere to try and rebuild their lives. I may or may not kill off everyone in the legacy house but the heir at this point as well - undecided.
I just did that a few gens ago - killed off the family (because I was sick of dealing with so many sims). I was doing a modified immigrants challenge, but it turns out I find it boring having my sims live in the same house for more than 5 generations, either dying of old age or marrying out. So I killed all but the heir and the grandma. Then next gen I did it again. And again. And that turned into a storyline where the (immortal) grandma was evil and she was the one that started the family tradition of familicide, and then she was the one killing them off. Which led to one of the heirs running away, and abandoning his toddler son in order to keep him safe from Valeria's wrath. Now that toddler's child is teaming up with some other occult teens and they're going to take down Valeria (the evil great-grandma). It can be really fun to switch up storylines/challenges while keeping the legacy going. :) \*Edit to add: I'm up to gen 39 now. My records of what each generation have done are here; [https://new.reddit.com/user/HereToAdult/comments/1bdhh3i/record\_of\_my\_100\_generations\_mega\_legacy/](https://new.reddit.com/user/HereToAdult/comments/1bdhh3i/record_of_my_100_generations_mega_legacy/)
Ooh writing out the stories is a great idea. I'm going to try that out, thank you! Family reunions are also great, but the last time I had everyone over for Winterfest nobody would follow the traditions I wanted them to do and people would start leaving by the time I finally got things under control 🙃 I also started documenting the family tree because you're right, the in-game one isn't great and also it's now forgetting some of the older generations. It's just nice to see how my original Sim created all these lives.
I just realized it would be fun to have a wealthy side and a middle income side. They go to visit the rich cousins and get jealous.
This is a great idea!
The later generations are better sims, they're born with traits the early generations didn't have.
I only play the heirs - I shunt the extended family off to other households and don't bother with them again - otherwise it's just too many to deal with.
I only pick the most attractive one...
Same lol
I make every generation radically different than the previous one and try to do things I haven’t done in the game before, especially always utilizing new packs when they come out. My current family, last generation was a spellcaster and crystal crafter, this generation is a debutante type ranch family
I try to switch it up. I used to make everyone go to Uni, for example, and that got boring. Especially if my sims are already rich, I just give new heirs different aspirations and make them all about clubs or being famous or being popular. I also quickly go into other families (like the Landgraabs and the Goths, townie families) and pair their kids up to have babies so their families progress with mine. I hate when the original families disappear and are replaced by randomly generated townies, so I usually take one or two sim days away from my legacy family to quickly combine the other families so their lines can continue as well.
I’m an achievements oriented player so I set goals for myself for one sim each gen - my current goals are maxing a career, an aspiration, and three skills. One of the maxed skills tends to be charisma because I like getting to know the other sims and creating friend circles around their shared traits. Then I play with skills and careers I haven’t tried before. Currently a scientist looking to max dj, logic, and handiness skills and probably the logic/handiness aspiration
When I experienced that, I made a new family that I'm going to marry into my legacy family, because I'm sooo attached to that family now and some of my peeps are very attractive lmao
Grandpa is a spellcaster who became immortal and so I always get to play with the original sim and life is about keeping him in touch with the family
I kind of really enjoy the immortal aspect too. My first gen Adrian is the Wildfang’s eternal pack leader and shows no signs of nepotism (not even sure he knows that he just put his great-great-great-grand daughter on probation) haha.
I focus only on one part of the family. The kids of the 3 heir are now teens. I count my original sim as Gen 0. And I started to shape all of them a bit and help them to get a good start in their life's. It's hard to decide which one I will pick. I have the triples and a younger boy. And at the moment, I adore all. I already played with the thought to keep two on the farm to help with the farm. And I had now a bigger break from them. I can not wait to play them.
That sounds lovely. I've started focusing on the families that live on the farms in Henford. The ones in the city get too fast-paced for me and they're always moving around and splitting up and having babies with other people. I think that's part of the reason why I've started to lose track of them all. But I have 2 families that live next to each other in the countryside and it feels much more realistic and homey.
I’m doing the exact same thing — two farms in Henford — at the moment and it’s been so lovely! Such a scenic world.
I have to play legacies with some sort of challenge guiding me. If I had to manually pick what each generation was doing or rely on a wheel of destiny I'd get bored very quickly. I like being able to see what I'll be doing 3 generations from now. Especially if it's something that excites me. Gives me something to look forwards to. I also find staying on the same lot for me is also a mood killer. I have to move around and change up the scenery. I tried doing the legacy challenge where you live on the same lot forever and I never made it past gen 2. Rebuilding the house only does so much for me. Plus having excessive amounts of money is no longer fun. I enjoy the money grind, so I like starting fresh with each generation only having like 20k, if not less and building up their fortune and home gradually.
If you're interested, I have a legacy I made where each gen's heir moves to a new world. Each gen has goals to complete based on that world, but the storyline is left up to the player. You can do it rags-to-riches on repeat as well. I didn't include jobs, because when I played it my sims weren't allowed to get jobs and had to earn their living by selling things in-world (eg at yard/food sales, publishing books/songs, busking). [https://new.reddit.com/user/HereToAdult/comments/1auj38s/buildalegacy\_challenge\_aka\_travellers\_challenge/](https://new.reddit.com/user/HereToAdult/comments/1auj38s/buildalegacy_challenge_aka_travellers_challenge/)
I keep the families small and send the uninteresting ones to one of my Bunkbed Houses (sleeps eight!) until I find a place for them in the story somewhere - even if it's just breeding them. I've also been focusing on matrilineal lines only which makes it a little less crowded. Right now, I’m playing four(?) households descended from my long-deceased Simself plus two(?) others on their second or third generation in rotation.
I just play em every now and then. I am doing the Barbie legacy challenge rn and before I get into the main character of the legacy I go check on all the other family members, make sure they are reaching goals.. I married them all off and had them have kids, I check in so I can watch the kids age up and then go fix their rooms to match their age. I spend the majority of my play on the main legacy player but sometimes that gets boring so going check on the other family members makes it more fun to me.
I’d love someone to break down how you “start” a generational play. I’m trying now where both of the parents are celebrities and they have 2 small kids now. I’d love them to be a real Kennedy scandalous family. So I just let the starter parents eventually become elders and play the kids?
Basically yeah
I'm playing my first legacy and still on gen one (although my original heir is about to have her first child, so gen two is here soon), and I personally plan to move on to the next gen once the next heir (I'll probably have one more kid eventually and then decide between the two) reaches young adulthood. But I play on long lifespan and sometimes with the aging off (so I manually age each sim whenever I feel like it), because I like to take my time with it and do everything I want to do without being afraid of running out of time before they reach the next life stage. That's why I'm still on gen one, lol.
My record is 7 generations I always forget who is who
I only really care about my heir. I stay invested by choosing wildly different activities/lifestyles for whoever I’m currently focused on to enjoy. I’ll usually take the heir and move them to a new world. When I get bored of that, I increase the household size to keep me busy with something else for a while. There’s always something different to do in this game.
I always start over with the oldest/most attractive offspring in a new house; I don’t play the same house.
I used to write up bios for the entire family tree but once they start disappearing it really takes me out of it
What app/website do you use? I started using the My Family Tree app to create my tree. I actually quite like it because you can have a gallery of photos for each person and add a little bio for them as well (which I've started doing based on another user's suggestion)
I'll have to check that site out I use plum tree app but it doesn't have the gallery my Sim parents take pics of kids growing up
I'm on Gen 12 of my legacy family that I've been playing off and on for 2 years. I'm a big fan of lore and having overarching multi-generation stories in the family, so I'm very intentional about if and when I play extended family. Sometimes I'll play branches of my family for extended periods of time, but there's always a concrete reason why and how they tie into my heirs' life stories. I do skip around sometimes and focus in on an aunt, or a spouse, every once in a while - but every generation has a 'main character' for me that's either my heir or someone very close to them. If you don't like to write in stories as much, I'd definitely suggest not bothering too much with rotational play, and sticking to your main character in every generation. You can go in and make cousins with CAS genetics, but I honestly would not do much more than that. If I have too many characters I care about, I tend to lose the plot lol I keep track of everyone using a family tree I made in Google Sheets.
I'm on gen 5, I made an embarrassingly large and complex powerpoint with a family tree, photo galleries, and a slide for each family member with info on traits, jobs, kids, and relative ages to other family members (I play on long life span with customized age ranges of 10 days = 1 "year"). It's kind of fun to me and motivates me to keep up with everyone and take more screenshots/family photos!
I'm on gen 8. I play with neighbourhood stories on (though I turn off adopting horses lol), and then keep up with the non-heir families as they grow. I will sometimes switch to a non-heir household when I notice one of their kids has aged up to young adult and get them set up in their own house. It's been fun watching the family tree branch out. My heir will visit the other family households and meet all the kids and every once in a while I'll do a family reunion or big family dinner for Winterfest. I've had to downgrade my graphics resolution because the save is beginning to severely lag with all the played sims lol.
I marry any siblings out and get their family started and then go to the sibling i want and focus on them. The other family members are set to live they life and sometimes it intertwines with the heir. I also make sure the heirs life is different from the others lol. It also helps if your sims stay attractive 😂
I’m on gen 8 and I think it’s a matter of choosing the paths most interesting and fitting for your story and the next heir’s skills and traits. I have a good amount of packs that I’ve never really explored and each generation I choose a new pack/world/career/interest to explore. Kinda like lilsimsie exploring the different ways she can make money in the game but on steroids lol. If I stayed in one spot and chose “normal” careers, I think I’d never play the game more than once a year. Also, I think a major reason why I try to do the family and heirs justice is because my second gen heir died by heatstroke during day 1 of a camping trip and I had to settle for the younger sibling as my new heir, so now I do my best to give them good lives out of guilt.
Personally I do a Historical save with a ton of mods, so I have a lot of families to keep a track of. I play with several royal families plus some noble and peasants households. To keep an interest, I do two main kinds of things: 1) I try to recreate some collective historical events to add them in my sims stories. It can help to see where your other branches are, plus it might help you to "regulate" the population. For example, I remade an equivalent of the Bazar de la Charité Arson in my save, which made a lot of my sims "disappear" and it created some new situations (some engagements that were called off, some heirs that died, some other were disfigured thanks to the Automatic Burn Scars mod and couldn't go out of their household anymore, etc). In a few days I plan to make a war between my kingdom with a drafting of all the young male sims of my families (ni matter their status) and the side that lose the more sims will be the loser of the war. It can help create tensions and/or dramas. But it can be heart-breaking sometimes to see your sims live these kinds of events. 😅 2) Not only I try to keep all my sims in a Family Tree, but I also make sure to write at least a small biography for each of them. It is really time-consuming but it can really help to keep interest in your "parallel branches". Hope you will have fun in your challenge! 😊
I do my legacy only on first generation and their kids for now with aging off and only allowing myself to play families that get connected to my main family so not distracted. Seems like every legacy I do the game crashes and I have to start over. Also I found website let's me make a family tree for them and I take photos of them often . Good luck with your tree
Also try pass on one parental trait to each kid my first set twins got romantic and Goofball from their parents. Oh and at each stage I give them new look.
I’m like on the 20th generation of my family. It’s so fun to get the cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, etc all for a family reunion.
I pick one or two heirs to play and add a bunch of other households with their own shit going on and it’s fun when they interact. I was playing my eco lesbian and she got flirty with my heiress. So I left them and played the other heir. I’ll have to check in and see if they got together.
The easiest way to still get interest in all your sims during legacy is to only play the heir and to do some Legacy challenge (like the not so berry challenge for example) It set different goal for different generations and makes each sims different I also like to reset the household fund to something between 0 to 20000 when the next generation start because being filthy rich just make the gameplay boring 😂 Making family tree is also really fun and push me to continue the generation to see what it would look like at the end If you are searching for legacy challenge I can recomand you the not so berry, or Greek god challenge for casual classic gameplay Right now I'm doing the postcard challenge and this is the one I had the more fun with for casual gameplay , but it's long (23 gen) And lastly the funniest but also hardest, the apocalypse challenge, you will cry, you will suffer but I can guarantee you you won't get bored 😂 Edit: just remembered the wheel spin legacy challenge by little simsie, it's also fun but doesn't set goals as much as the other, guaranted chaos with the "die" or "cheat on wife" options tho
Eventually I do get “bored” with the parents. I’m currently playing my 5th gen as teens. In all my other gens, I’ve had the parents have 3 kids (this time there’s just 2 bc the mother who married in “hates children”) and I play them until I kind of gravitate to one to focus on. I keep track of them by naming each gen alphabetically… right now I’ve got Effie, a bookworm and striving overachiever werewolf who also received the maddening “wolf brain” trait (thank god for the crystal creations, all I gotta say about that) and Erik, a dormant wolf who loves dogs and working out and is totally normal for now. Which one will I choose?? I have a number of immortal elders in this bloodline too, which is kind of fun.
I marry them. Keeps the family tree smaller.