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malanasims · 1 year ago

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Taylor Swift Eras themed Legacy Challenge

i wanted to put together two of my favorite things: the sims and Taylor Swift. so i came up with this 10 generation legacy challenge in which each generation is inspired by a different album. I created this challenge for the sims 2 ultimate collection since that is the game i normally play, but i am sure it can be adapted for sims 3 or sims 4. i also implemented the traits project for ts2 but you can easily do the challenge without it using different personality points. i set up this challenge so that each generation alternates genders but you can switch that up. i also chose first names for each generation based on references of the album. also some of the writing is very cheesy and has a lot of references because why not go crazy. this is my first legacy challenge so if you have any critiques let me know. the rules are not strict and cheats can be used as its a story-based challenge.

Debut- Gen 1: Mary

“Take me home where we met so many years before.

We'll rock our babies on that very front porch: After all this time, you and I”

You grew up in a small town where everyone knew each other. Your parents never had the greatest relationship and your mom was always with her best friend. Since birth you and her kid have been inseparable. Will you fall into the same patterns as your parents…or will you find a place in this world?

family/romance

LTW: reach golden anniversary

nurturing, jealous, loves the outdoors, great kisser, family oriented

marry your first love

have 2 children (at least one son)

formal wear is a little black dress

Fearless- Gen 2: Stephen

“You played in bars, you play guitar

I'm invisible and everyone knows who you are”

Your parents raised you well but something about the fact that they only ever knew each other scares you. You want to get out there and make a name for yourself. You know no ones coming for you on their white horse. You’ll have to be fearless to become a superstar: but for now all you have is your mothers eyes and her old guitar.

fortune/pleasure

virtuoso, charismatic, irresistible, ambitious, non-committal

LTW: become rock god

go on at least 5 first dates

have at least one daughter

date a fan

Speak now- Gen 3: Emma

“When Emma falls apart, it's when she's alone

She takes on the pain and bears it on her own”

You often felt overlooked by your rockstar father. He was always busy and you spent most of your time with your mother until her mysterious disappearance. You feel like you grew up too fast, and now you love to travel back to your youth and fantasize about castles and dragons. So you become an actress; a character. Will you break out of your fathers famously destructive patterns, or will you regain your balance on the tightrope and break out before fire can catch you?

popularity/romance

LTW: Become Icon

natural born performer, childish, bookworm, shy, hopeless romantic

your first love doesn't work out/ you break their heart

have at least one son

have a strained relationship with your father but a good relationship with your mother

meet your true love at a party and then never see eachother again

Red- Gen 4: Bobby

“How you took the money and your dignity, and got the hell out

They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere

Chose the rose garden over Madison Square”

You grew up in the starlight of your mothers fame. You two were always close but after suffering from the tabloids and the camera flashes you decide this life is not for you. You move out of the Angel City and start anew. Your mother has given you some funds and you build up a family home. You tell everyone you left because the city wasn’t right for you… but maybe it was partly to run from your playboy/girl ex who you know was trouble. Now you spend your life painting and searching for your muse. Will you stay paralyzed by time or finally begin again?

Knowledge/family

LTW: become visionary

artistic, eco friendly, night owl, loves the cold, loner

Have an on and off toxic relationship

Move out of your parents house

Settle down with someone nice

Have 3 children (at least one girl)

1989- Gen 5: Love

“You searched the world for somethin' else

To make you feel like what we had

And in the end, in Wonderland, we both went mad”

You grew up secluded from the world, surrounded by your mothers paintings. Your mom loved the environment but you couldn’t wait to get out of the woods and explore new places. Somewhere along the road, you fell into a rabbit hole of insanity: mascara running in the bathroom and rose gardens filled with thorns. You blow money and string lovers along. You have fantastic delusions until your wildest dreams turn into nightmares. Will you accept the help from your family and abandon your affinity for screaming, crying and perfect storms? Or will every day continue to be a battle?

knowledge/pleasure

LTW: Become space pirate

Insane, unstable, diva, adventurous, jealous

Join the adventurer career

Have 3 loves at once

Have children with multiple people (one must be boy/girl twins)

Lose money in poker

Reputation- Gen 6: Burton (the name is so bad help)

“I don't like your kingdom keys

They once belonged to me

You asked me for a place to sleep

Locked me out and threw a feast”

Yeah, your mother may have done a number on you, but who's counting? Maybe your twin sister… Everything you did, she just had to do better. In the wake of your mother’s madness, you turned to dancing. You found peace in swaying as the room burnt down. Your twin sister on the other hand hated how you were lit up every room you walked into, but you couldn’t help it. There's nothing she hates more than what she can't have… so she turned to sabotage. Just when you think that your life is perfect- you're at the top of your career and you finally found love- your sister starts a rumor that you cheated on your love. Your reputation as a famous dancer goes down in seconds. But to your surprise, your lover isn't reading what they call you lately and your relationship is stronger than ever. Will you get revenge on your sister and become exactly what you despise, or sit back and let karma take over?

Popularity/romance

LTW: Become world class ballerina

Party animal, irresistible, social butterfly, hot headed, unlucky

Be enemies with your twin sister

Never be unfaithful

Have a bad reputation

Have at least one daughter

Lover- Gen 7: Cornelia

“I’d be a fearless leader, I'd be an alpha type

When everyone believes ya, what's that like?”

You've always known you wanted to change the world. Who cares if you were overlooked and discouraged. Snakes and stones won’t break your bones. You never had a big family as your father walked away from his. Sometimes it gets lonely trusting the wicked, and your loyalty was often a fault. You turn to politics to combat your feelings of helplessness, but no one takes you seriously and you feel lost in the light. You have to start from the ground up with the help of your best friend. You start to build your picture-perfect life: the kids, the lyrical smiles and the power. Will you drive away your lover by searching for their dark side, or will you put aside your ways and find the daylight?

Popularity/family

LTW: Become mayor

Good, easily impressed, brave, unlucky, perfectionist

Fall in love with your best friend

Have 10 best friends

Have children (at least one son)

Folklore- Gen 8: James

“I had the shiniest wheels, now they're rusting

I didn't know if you'd care if I came back

I have a lot of regrets about that”

You grew up trying to meet the expectations of your politician mother. Everything had to be picture perfect, even your private life. So she set you up with the daughter of one of the most powerful families in town, Betty. At first you are skeptical, but over time you fall for her integrity and affinity for old cardigans. Along the way you begin to feel stuck, tired of the sensual politics and your mother’s watchful eye. That's when you meet August -the polar opposite of Betty- and some part of you has to know what she is like. You meet in parking lots and dive bars, but after Betty finds out, you realize that summer is dwindling. In wake of losing two girls, you turn to writing: poetry and sad prose. You get lost in your stories, but once you start to gain traction, you can’t help but wonder how different your life could have been. Will you rekindle your wild flame with August or go back to the peace you felt with Betty?

knowledge/ romance

LTW: Publish 5,000$ best seller*

Great kisser, coward, bookworm, brooding, commitment issues

Fall in love with Betty

Fall in love with August

Confess to cheating on Betty

Write novels

Move into a cottage by a lake

Finally choose the one girl

Have at least one daughter with her

Evermore- Gen 9: Ivy

“And the skeletons in both our closets

Plotted hard to fuck this up

And the old men that I’ve swindled

Really did believe I was the one”

You always resented your father because he abandoned the good life for a cottage in the woods and his stories. You don’t want that; you want power and wealth. You don't need love, just a fancy car. So you turn to crime, because it’s easy for you; you love the gold rush. You con men and no one will ever prove it. You marry rich men and inherit their money when their time runs out. But then one day you meet your match, a fellow criminal, and wonder if this life will really bring you happiness. But you realized this a little too late, and now you're forced to drink your husband's wine… but he was the wrong guy. Will you leave the life of crime behind or will you stay frozen in time?

Fortune/pleasure

LTW: Gold digger

Kleptomaniac, genius, charismatic, mean-spirited, rebellious

Go into the criminal career

Marry a rich sim

Fall in love with a criminal and have an affair

Have a son

Midnights- Gen 10: Snow

“And I don't dress for villains

Or for innocents

I'm on my vigilante shit again”

You knew your mom wasn’t the most ethically-correct person. You like to think you inherited her better half; but that isn’t entirely true. You are determined to be different, so you become a spy; you get the satisfaction of working for the good guys and the pleasure that comes with great wars. Being a spy is difficult though, and you never know when things could go wrong. You are constantly burning files and deserting old lives. But you’re a mastermind, nobody can deny that. You finally meet your perfect person, but it's hard concealing your true occupation from them. You have money and respect… But can all of that pay for someone to just know you?

Fortune/knowledge

LTW: Become head of the SCIA

Perceptive, disciplined, loner, proper, daredevil

Join the intelligence career

Move homes at least twice

The rest is up to you since it is the last generation

*50 new LTW mod can be found here

if anyone decides to do this challenge tag me! i'd love to see it

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bigcuppagirl · 1 year ago

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I was massively excited about the release of Cottage Living and like many, quickly became obsessed with playing Sims 4. My Twitch followers had only really seen me play Sims 2, but I soon couldn’t stop playing in Henford-on-Bagley. It was only when I found Oriana’s Rags to Riches Lives the Farm Life challenge that I had to switch to Sims 2 due to my Sims 4 game needing an update. I have pretty much all the packs for Sims 4, so updates and patches take a looooonnnnggg time. I then decided “Let’s play this challenge in Sims 2 as well!” and so my love for farming simulation went a whole lot deeper.

Presenting this challenge in Sims 2 led me to also write the rules for this challenge in Sims 3 (which I haven’t actually played since 4 was released – shocker, I know!) and here they are, just for your pleasure:

SIMS 2: LIVE THE FARM LIFE (A RAGS TO RICHES CHALLENGE)

Guidelines

You can’t use cheats, only ‘moveobjects on’ when sims get stuck and any other cheats to fix the game if it goes wrong through no fault of your own.

You can only earn money from fishing, gardening and farming.

You can only eat what others have cooked at parks or community lots.

At the beginning, you will need to create your sim in a family, as teens aren’t allowed to live on their own without mods, unless the parents have died while living with a teen (this is how the XXXXXXX family of foster kids are headed by two teen sims).

You cannot sell anything you make within the game, such as sewing objects, until you have completed university degree (more about this later).

The challenge can take as many generations as you like, but apart from completing lifetime aspirations, the other goals in the challenge have no time limit.

As a teen, living with parents, you runaway to university as soon as you have all moved in.

Starting the Challenge

Create your sim with 2 parents who have the fortune aspiration. You may choose any other aspiration for your teen. Give your teen at least 5 neat points, and 5 active points. Choose any Turn Ons that you like but they must have ‘Hard Worker’ as their Turn Off.

Lifespan: Normal

Autonomy: Full

Aspiration: Pleasure (your parents were both obsessed with making a fortune by any means

necessary and that has sent your teen in the opposite direction)

‘Hard Worker’ Turn Off

5 neat points to your teen

5 active points to your teenBoth parents have Fortune aspiration

If choosing a secondary aspiration via ‘Lifetime Aspiration Benefits’ (via Aspiration Rewards Tab) you can choose any aspiration except ‘Fortune’

Starting Out

You may move your family into any lot you choose. Buy a computer if one is not available on the lot and get your teen to move to college. They must not apply for any scholarships before doing so. Once they have gone to college, they will only have $500 starting funds.

You need to have a Biology Uni degree to start earning money on your farm. You need to first learn the basics. Due to your troubled teenage years, you don’t qualify for any scholarships, so you can’t apply for those. If you do not own ‘University’ then you must save $3000 to pay for your degree, then buy a sculpture or painting worth this amount and gift it to another sim. This is roughly the cost of a degree - think of it as online tuition fees in real life.

If anyone gives your Sim a gift, you may sell it. You may not sell the computer Mr. Humble delivers; you must delete the present unopened or leave the computer in your Sim's inventory.

If you have University:

Build the smallest empty 3x1 lot for your teen to move into and name it whatever you like (your teen cannot live in a dorm).

Since you will be left with only $303, you need to head to the local park to begin fishing. TIP: Keep an eye out for someone using the grill as this and the cafeterias are the only places that you can eat at.

You may sell whatever you catch, including boots (worth $15) You need to earn enough to buy a tent (if you have Bon Voyage – cost $650) or a single bed (cheapest $300). Keep in mind that tents also keep your sim dry.

You must use the campus for everything else you need.

You must choose the Biology major.

You must use the campus for everything else you need.

Buy a cell phone as soon as you can afford it.

Only complete the skill points you need to complete your degree. It doesn’t matter what grade you get as you are only earning the degree to give you the best farming knowledge to be able to start your farm. Any money you earn from completing your semesters will be gifted away when you move back to a neighbourhood.

Once you have earned your degree, you can move back to any empty lot you choose, in any neighbourhood you choose.

You can only earn money by fishing and gardening.

You may have a home business (if you have ‘Open for Business’) to sell your produce or choose to sell direct from the inventory.

Building the Farm

You must pay $450 to the local council to before you start building, you don’t want the neighbours to complain about the noise!

Once you have paid your $450 and $300 for the blueprints to your land, you may start building

To move on to the next set of goals, you must have one of each of the following:

Toilet

Bed

Sink

Shower or Tub

Stove

Chair or Sofa

Counter

Fridge (once you have used all the food in the fridge, you must stock it with what you produce. Never buy groceries)

Working the Land

You must complete every task for Building the Farm because you are living here forever and you need a proper home

You need to have a Biology Uni degree to start earning money on your farm. You need to first learn the basics. Due to your rocky start in life, you don’t qualify for any scholarships, so you can’t apply for those. No distinguished degree here… If you don’t own the University EP, give gifts worth $3k to another sim. This is roughly the cost of a degree - think of it as online tuition fees in real life

Include a pond on your lot

From now on, you should live wholly off your land and produce from the fish (and livestock if you download the mods and CC)

A Functional Farm

To enjoy life on your farm, and after completing all the above assignments, you need to have a fully functional home so you can progress in life. For that you need to have at least:

A living area/room

A kitchen area

2 or 3 bedrooms

A dining space

2 bathrooms

An office area, so you can manage all daily runnings of the farm

Prepare to have a Family

Everything above should be completed.

Find the love of your life! Your Sim can only marry a Townie of the opposite gender. If you have Nightlife, they may only marry if they have at least one attraction bolt. As desperate as your Sim is for company, they won't put up with someone horrifically ugly.

Marry your chosen one and pay for that wedding (costs § 1000), or if you don’t want to marry, gift items worth $1000 to another sim.

Everything they bring to the marriage/partnership, must be taken out. You can’t keep the money or the furniture

Expand your Family

To have kids, you have to be married/living together first

You must have §5000 saved up in order to have a child. Kids are expensive 😉

You can have/adopt as many kids as you want

Roll dice to determine the Aspirations of your Sims' heirs and their siblings: 1 = Knowledge, 2 = Family, 3 = Romance, 4 = Pleasure (or you choose, if you don't have Nightlife), 5 = Fortune, 6 = Popularity

Your kids can only age up once you receive the notification that their birthday is nearly upon them. Then you can buy them a birthday cake

If you are playing the challenge through several generations, the heir must always have good grades and at least 2 skills maxed out

Teenagers can’t have part-time jobs; they need to help with the farm and/or run errands to earn money for the family piggy bank

Have grandchildren, be a loving grandparent

Aspiration Goals

You must complete the lifetime aspiration for both you and your spouse/partner

The heir must complete their adult lifetime aspirations too

Money Goals

You must have a house worth §100,000

You must have §200,000 in the household funds

For a more extended game, you can set the goal to reach §1,000,000

The Farm Life Goals

Have one male and 2 females of either:

Pigs

Sheep

Goats

And a barn for chickens:

With only 1 male rooster

● Dogs and cats are great additions to farm life

Have at least one full chicken coop but only have one rooster. You can sell your extra male chicks once they have reached adulthood

Money Trees cannot be purchased using the Aspiration Rewards

The heir MUST be the same gender as your original Sim. If the firstborn is the opposite gender, in other words, keep trying until you get the right gender. You may not adopt.

Your "breeding pair" of Sims must remain in the house until they die--they have nowhere else to go. This means that your original Sim, their husband or wife, and the various heirs and their husbands or wives must live in the house for their entire lives. Their siblings or extraneous children, however, may move out once they reach adulthood.

No NPCs. No one lives close enough to offer to babysit your children or clean your house.

Roll dice to determine the Aspirations of your Sims' heirs and their siblings. 1 = Knowledge, 2 = Family, 3 = Romance, 4 = Pleasure (or you choose, if you don't have Nightlife), 5 = Fortune, 6 = Popularity.

If your sim wants a car, you may only own a Smord P328.

If you own FreeTime, your sim cannot buy any clothes, all clothes must be made on the sewing machine.

If you have Open for Business, you must earn silver badge in Toy Making as you cannot buy any toys for your children. Instead:

Kids can have 5 toys made by your sim:

a Sir Bricks-a-Lot

a fire truck

a clown-in-a-box

a kite

a teddy (can be made using the sewing machine from FreeTime with a bronze badge)

You can also buy the lemonade stand for your children to start learning the business.

You can buy the Rip Co. Little Baker Oven for your child to begin learning to cook at an early age

If you don’t have OFB or FreeTime, you can only buy: