A Guide to Completing a Legacy from Start to Finish
Volume 1: The Base Game
Welcome to the How-To Legacy; a guide from start to finish of how to complete a legacy challenge. Here is how it will go down. Beginning with the base game, each successful completion of a generation will unlock a new expansion pack. This isn’t the first time I tried to play this way on my old laptop, so I already have University installed (didn’t want to lose my data for the base hoods). To compensate, I won’t be using any items or use any of the major additions from that EP. I can’t say the same thing for interactions.
This Legacy will be presented as a step-by-step guide for how to play a Legacy, especially with the inclusion of each additional feature the EPs bring.
STEP ONE: CREATE YOUR FOUNDERVeronica Legacy; popularity aspiration; 5/7/3/5/5
LTW: 20 Best Friends (although I don’t “technically” know that yet)
STEP TWO: BUILD A BASIC LIVING SPACE WITH ALL AMENITIES
STEP THREE: GAIN SKILL POINTS
STEP FOUR: GET A JOBShe got the level one job in Medicine
STEP FIVE: AVOID ROMANCE SIMS AS PARTNERSI see you Goopy…
STEP SIX: FEED YOUR FOUNDER
STEP SEVEN: SCOPE OUT WELCOME WAGON FOR SPOUSESMaybe the first spouse will be Benjamin Long….?
STEP EIGHT: FIND BETTER POTENTIAL SPOUSEBen is a dick; all hail JOE CARR!
STEP NINE: END FIRST DAY
STEP TEN: GO TO WORK
STEP ELEVEN: GET PROMOT- WAIT…Or don’t get promoted because your founder wasn’t happy enough going in on her first day. Whatever… not like I care…
STEP TWELVE: BOOST FRIENDSHIP WITH FUTURE SPOUSE
STEP THIRTEEN: AVOID BILLS BECAUSE BEING AN ADULT IS SCARY
STEP FOURTEEN: PASS OUT
STEP FIFTEEN: ACT LIKE AN ADULT BY PUTTING RESPONSIBILITY OVER COMFORTShow-off
STEP SIXTEEN: SPLURGE ON YOUR SIMShe earned it
STEP SEVENTEEN: GET CLOSE TO FUTURE SPOUSEYou’re not getting any younger
STEP EIGHTEEN: FLIRT
STEP TWENTY: DON’T EMBARRASS YOURSELF
STEP TWENTY-ONE: FINALLY GET PROMOTED AFTER, LIKE, A WEEK
STEP TWENTY-TWO: REMEMBER THAT FUN IS A NEED
STEP TWENTY-THREE: BECOME NEIGHBOURHOOD STALKEREnjoy the fact that you have no neighbours and won’t be interrupted by slap-happy assholes
STEP TWENTY-FOUR: REEL IN THAT SPOUSE
STEP TWENTY-FIVE: FIRST KISS
STEP TWENTY-SIX: SECOND KISS
STEP TWENTY-SEVEN: MOVE IN RICH SPOUSE!He had $19000 to bring! He’s also an astronaut already!
STEP TWENTY-EIGHT: UPGRADE LEGACY HOUSE
STEP TWENTY-NINE: ANGRILY FALL IN LOVE
STEP THIRTY: FALL IN LOVE AFTER FUTURE SPOUSE DOES TO AVOID ANY POSSIBLE REJECTION
STEP THIRTY-ONE: PROPOSE
STEP THIRTY-TWO: WEDDINGJoe Carr is a fortune sim; 6/5/8/3/3; LTW: criminal mastermindHowever I don’t officially know that so he remains an astronaut
STEP THIRTY-THREE: WOOHOO
STEP THIRTY-FOUR: FALL ASLEEP GRACEFULLY
STEP THIRTY-FIVE: CUDDLE** Most important step**
STEP THIRTY-SIX: FIRST TRIMESTER
STEP THIRTY-SEVEN: SECOND TRIMESTER
STEP THIRTY-EIGHT: GIVE BIRTH
STEP THIRTY-NINE: HAVE AN HEIRMeet Veronica’s first born and the second generation heir Taylor Legacy. His personality is 4/9/9/3/10. I would suspect a popularity sim if I didn’t already know his future.
STEP FORTY: SHOVE HEIR IN AN UNINHABITABLE SPACE TO BUILD CHARACTER
STEP FORTY-ONE: DO NOT COPE WELL WITH ADULTHOOD
STEP FORTY-TWO: GET A NANNY
STEP FORTY-THREE: REACH HEIR’S BIRTHDAY
STEP FORTY-FOUR: TODDLER HEIRAs far as I can tell, he isn’t a complete clone of his mother. He does have her custom eyes, but apart from that he does have a few of his father’s features.
STEP FORTY-FIVE: TEACH ESSENTIAL SKILLS
STEP FORTY-SIX: CREATE SPARE
STEP FORTY-SEVEN: LEARN TO COMMUNICATE WITH ADULTSThat means me, not the kid.
STEP FORTY-EIGHT: LEARN TO BE SELF-SUFFICIENT
STEP FORTY-NINE: FIRST TRIMESTER PART TWO
STEP FIFTY: STOP POOPING PANTS
STEP FIFTY-ONE: SECOND TRIMESTER PART TWO
STEP FIFTY-TWO: FINISH OFF ESSENTIAL TODDLER SKILLS
STEP FIFTY-THREE: FORGET THAT YOU NEED TO ORDER GROCERIES
STEP FIFTY-FOUR: HAVE HEIR BECOME CHILD
STEP FIFTY-FIVE: MAKE HEIR PRESENTABLE… SORT OF
STEP FIFTY-SIX: SEND HEIR TO NEW HOVEL
STEP FIFTY-SEVEN: SUBJECT HEIR TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS
STEP FIFTY-EIGHT: GIVE BIRTH TO SPARE
STEP FIFTY-NINE: PRESENT SPAREMeet Theodore Legacy; 3/6/7/5/5. Athletic but overall average. Skintone three, so he is a blend of the two parents for sure.
STEP SIXTY: BE GOOD PARENTFor once.
STEP SIXTY-ONE: SEND HEIR TO SCHOOL
STEP SIXTY-TWO: HAVE HEIR DISCOVER STALKER KNOWN AS MARSHA
STEP SIXTY-THREE: FEAR THAT SPARE LOOKS TOO MUCH LIKE HEIR
STEP SIXTY-FOUR: TEACH HEIR HOW TO DO HOMEWORK
STEP SIXTY-FIVE: MAKE SURE THERE’S A SKILLED BACK-UP IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
STEP SIXTY-SIX: FORGET WHY YOU TOOK PHOTO
STEP SIXTY-SEVEN: MATCH WITH THE ROOM
STEP SIXTY-EIGHT: HAVE SPARE REACH CHILDHOOD
STEP SIXTY-NINE: TEEHEE, SIXTY-NINE
STEP SEVENTY: PANIC!
STEP SEVENTY-ONE: SPEND BONUS MONEY ON HOME
STEP SEVENTY-TWO: DEMONSTRATE HOW MUCH YOU MISS CHEATS ALREADY
STEP SEVENTY-THREE: BE PUNISHED FOR BILLS DISAPPEARING
STEP SEVENTY-FOUR: HAVE HEIR REACH ADOLESCENCETaylor rolled a three, so he’s a family sim who wants to graduate 3 kids from college. Good choice for the next generation.
STEP SEVENTY-FIVE: HAVE ONE SIM REACH TOP OF CAREER BECAUSE CARS AREN’T IN THE GAME YET TO USURP PREGNANCY
STEP SEVENTY-SIX: HAVE SPARE REACH TEENHOODAnd grow up into his same clothes… Theodore rolled a one so he’s a fortune sim who wants to be a criminal mastermind. Too bad he’s a spare or else he would have a life.
STEP SEVENTY-EIGHT: HAVE SIMS MIMIC YOU BY BEING DEPRIVED OF SLEEP
STEP SEVENTY-NINE: DEVELOP ACNE
STEP EIGHTY: WORK OFF THAT GUT
STEP EIGHTY-ONE: CALL POLICE
STEP EIGHTY-TWO: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
STEP EIGHTY-THREE: HAVE FOUNDER REACH ELDERHOOD
STEP EIGHTY-FOUR: BLOCK OUT SPOUSE FROM VIEW
STEP EIGHTY-FIVE: HOPE SALMON IS GOOD FOR YOUR SKIN
STEP EIGHTY-SIX: DISCUSS YOUR FATHER’S CAREER
STEP EIGHTY-SEVEN: HAVE SPOUSE REACH ELDERHOOD
STEP EIGHTY-EIGHT: HAVE HEIR REACH ELDERHOOD
STEP EIGHTY-NINE: HAVE BREAKDOWN OVER NOT GOING TO COLLEGE
STEP NINTY: SEEK THERAPY
STEP NINTY-ONE: GET JOB IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PREPARE FOR GENERATION THREE
UNTIL NEXT TIME!
So that’s it for Volume 1: The Base Game. I hope you learned a lot, because I sure did. I learned that playing without cheats means there is less dead air time while playing and is more fun. I also learned that I really did rely wish I had done this while the Sims 2 was still a big deal because I could really use custom content.