I'll be alright I'm sure this way i can know which unis they are at and join them there if i like that uni.

does anybody mind me putting a spoiler in my avatar?
Seeing as I'm on generation 3, i want my gen 3 avatar up.

I say put it up, Anarthiel.

Update! Pearl won the heir vote... she doubled the number of votes second place got. O_o

3.13 - Together http://sarisimsrandomlegacy.blogspo...3-together.html

Prom comes and goes, River gets nervous, Pearl and Rio are adorable.

Jesus, so glad I remembered this place. I've been so bored over the last few days. Its ridiculous!!

I did attempt to blog my last attempt, it went okay, but the pictures were pretty bad. And I always forgot to take them while I was playing... It was a bit silly to be honest. Maybe I can give it another try. I've been blogging about my own life recently with noone to read it, I think it might be a little more entertaining to take another little stab at this. Wonder if anyone remembers the turtle family and their robot friend...?

Edit: Rolling for my founding generation now ^_^

Founding Generation:

Marital Structure: Single

Number of Children: 2

Primary Income: Photographer

Generational Goal: Fulfilled

Misc Fun: Random Traits

Added: Optional Goal: Hall of Fame


When I read the hall of fame goal on the website I knew I really wanted to do it This will be an interesting one too. I've never played a photographer and whenever I've tried photography I always end up with terrible pictures, even once skilled all the way up to 10.

Blog in signature, no posts just yet.

Sounds fun! Hopefully having a photographer will remind you to take pics. ;D

That sounds like an interesting roll Flameturtle!

So, I finally bought Late Night as a present for myself for having earned my degree. I only had the base game and World Adventures for a long time because I didn't have the funds to buy the EPs or SPs as they came out. I'm looking forward to playing with Late Night. First though, I have to back everything up, lest my game crashes...

Hey flameturtle! Be sure to let us know when you get your first chapter done!

Congrats, hjaxon! That's always exciting to get a new expansion pack. I love late night because it adds the ability to have real working bars and clubs. Very fun, imo. One word of advice though: If you plan on playing in Bridgeport very much, be sure to get the Bridgeport routing fix. It's such a nightmare without it.

Question: When you move a Sim into your household, are you allowed to keep the money they bring with them? I'm not sure if a mod that did this or not, but...


Do we allow that? I re-read the rules, but I didn't see anything about it. Perhaps I just missed it.

Edit: And sorry for the double post!

Personally I don't think the amount brought in was anything huge, but I usually just MC -> Add to family to move someone in now. Too many horror glitches back in my first legacy.

I'd say you're allowed to keep the money though. I believe we decided incoming cash from move-ins would be a judgement call.

Thanks Cece. I got rid of all of it but a thousand cause it felt too much like cheating. And yeah, I tried using the "ask to move in" way, but the person got lost in transit. Just disappeared from the game.

But even when I used MasterController, s/he brought over $17K with her/him. It might be because I have Twallan's mover mod installed, but I'm not sure. Anyway, thank you for the quick answer!

First blog post done, the blog is definitely in my signature, it doesn't seem to be showing though, for whatever reason. heres the link if its not showing up for you:

http://flameslegacy.blogspot.co.uk

Thats not the final design of the blog, but I'm being lazy and playing the game so I'll do it later I'm already, like six chapters worth of stuff ahead x.X

I finally found the silly little file messing up my game. So, I finally got to start taking photos.
And the prologue is now available for reading. :D

http://saffronstory.blogspot.ca/

Glad you found a way to fix it!

Hello there! I apologise if this question has been asked before.

I was wondering, for the "Hall of Fame" achievement, how do we shift items to the museum if it has to be built on another lot? In my experience, only paintings can be added to another lot. I am unsure about written books to community bookshelves, but I am certain that sculptures cannot be added to community lots, and hence, the proposed family museum. So how do we go about completing this if the museum is on another lot? On another note, I like the idea of the museum being on another lot cause it reduces lagginess.

Thank you! (:

When you actually own the venue you can put items that wouldn't normally fit in your inventory into your family inventory and place them from the buy/build on that lot. That way you can add sculptures and the like. My hall of fame is coming along swimmingly, its gonna look boss when its done and its only the first wing.

1.1 - Beginning Anew

Update. Only cause I had the time though... I was planning on watching Buffy all day today, but someone *cough*boyfriend*cough* is playing a clan op on Mw3, so I can't stream any videos.

I'm hoping to finish planning out Amelia's story arch today while I'm bored, since I think I've pressed my luck enough with my computer by playing sims the past couple hours.

This is late - but I didn't notice we got a new thread. I've been checking the old one wondering where everyone went.

/get with the times Giga!

Welcome new people!

Edit: I was an idiot and took out the mods folder while backing stuff up (and apparently corrupted my saves), so I had to start a new one with Harlan and co. I'm playing catch up - but I should have an update up within a couple of days.

Glad you found us Giga! I was worried you'd abandoned the challenge altogether.

I should have an update sometime soon as well. I didn't realize that traveling would add so much time to each update! Adventuring takes longer than normal careers, at least for me. Good news is that it hasn't caused any lag or longer loading times, not yet anyway. *knocks on wood*

Also, I'm thrilled to see some people attempting the optional 10 generation goals! Hall of fame is my personal favorite and the one I'm working toward with Danielle, my heir. Luckily, her significant other rolled for photographer, so that should take care of this generation's portraits. I'm also thinking about doing real estate powerhouse, but I don't know yet. Depends on how ambitious I'm feeling.

So, I have a question about Sim lifespans. The rules say we can tweak the ages in the normal lifespan to our own preferences, so currently my Sims have a lifespan of about 130 days, barring electrocution and house fires. Is that too long? I'd hate to lessen the challenge by having my Sims get an extra thirty days but I'm such a sentimental fool that I like to keep them around for a long time. How long does everybody else set their lifespans?

My lifespan is set to 90

Baby - 2
Toddler - 7
Child - 9
Teen - 15
YA - 26
A - 21
E - 10

More or less. Toddler might be 6, and A might be 22.

Pucci is finally a YA in game.

Gen 3:
Couple
2 kids
Collector
Photographer
Fulfilled
Runs in the family

Just a reminder of Pucci in all his awesomeness

Hey guys, sorry i haven't been on over the last couple of days, I've been busy celebreating my birthday woooo!
Yeah, one of my friend's brought me fast lane and design & high-tech stuff packs which i will be putting to good use XD

does anybody know of any good towns? I'm kinda bored of Elmira City

I have the lifespan set to 95 days. I've considered extending it, for the sentimental reason that I'm 25 years old and two of my great-grandparents are still alive and still very much a part of my life, so it's weird for me to see sims die without even meeting their grandchildren.

Anyway I have baby set to 2 (the lowest it can be set), toddler set to 7 (I need all those days, in case I roll Perfect Children... that was the default "normal" setting by the way, so I didn't make this roll easier or harder), child is set to 10 days (I love my sim kids, so the default 7 was not enough), 14 for teens (14 was default, again one I didn't change)... 12 for elders. I forget what YA and adult are set to, but it adds up to 95 days. My oldest sim lived to 128 days anyway... but don't expect that to happen often.

Anarathiel, I have yet to use any non-EA towns, but I've heard great things about Riverblossom Hills: http://www.modthesims.info/d/429780

I loved Riverblossom Hills when I played it. It's beautiful. I've considered getting it again.

Hey, hope it's okay for me to post. I don't blog about my legacy but I absolutely love this challenge (on gen 3 right now) and I LOVE reading everyone's legacy stories. I am mad jealous that you guys are so creative!

I have my life span set to 136 days ... lol, it feels so long now that others have there's set to 90 and 95. But I if I shorten it I feel like I'm rushing them to the top of their careers and I really like taking them out with their families, taking lots of pictures, gaining good cooking skills so they're more helpful when they become grandparents, as well as skilling for their careers.

baby is at 2 days (I hate babies)
toddler is at 5
children is at 12
teen is at 20
YA is 42
adult is 42
elder is 17

Annie

Hey annoellyn! (Or should I call you Annie?) We are a very welcoming group here, so don't feel shy about posting. Congrats on generation 3! I've been playing this legacy for over a year now, and I've never made it all the way to generation 3 without starting over, so that's quite an accomplishment in my book.

So, uh, I didn't realize how long I had my life span set for. It's at 110 days right now. o_O

Baby- 2
Toddler- 7
Child- 7
Teen- 14
Young Adult- 30
Adult- 30
Elder- 20

I'm considering removing 5 days from elder, as it won't affect much since I don't have an elder yet. I never have enough time to get everything done even on my extended life span, so I doubt I'm going to cut it back. I'm a slow Sim player who likes to keep her families happy at all times. I don't know, the red bars bother me. Anyway, I probably shouldn't have it set so long, but I like long adult stages so I don't feel rushed to get through my story real fast.

I liked Riverblossom Hills a lot, too. Although it probably needs some updating now that we have some more expansion packs out. I also highly recommend Jericho if your system can run it. The detail in the world is incredible, and it is so fun to play in. All the lots are so well thought out. It blows my mind how much time it must have taken to create it. Lucky Palms is beautiful also, if you don't mind the price.

You are welcome to post as much as you want, annoellyn. Blogging isn't required. ^.^

I really enjoy my sims' family outings and such, and I guess they'd have more time for that if their lives weren't a rushed grind.

Edit: Chapter 117 is up: http://archlegacy.blogspot.com/2012...-airplanes.html

I have chapter 1.8 up on my blog: http://diffylegacy.blogspot.com/201...chapter-18.html

As for life spans, mine is about 100 days, I think. Maybe I will set the elder stage to older because my Sims have never met their great-grandchildren, and that would be cool.

Hello!

So after about a month of lurking and privately writing a story, I finally managed to find the courage to post. First and foremost, I just want to tell everyone how much I've been enjoying reading everyone's blogs. Now that I've managed to post on the thread, I guess I'll go and comment on people's blogs too-.

Couple weeks ago I made a blog for my story, but kept it super private and all to myself. I've written up to 8 chapters already, but never felt ready to show it to other people. Now... I guess I am?
I'm currently going over my posts and doing some edits. I have the first two chapters done and publicly posted!
Here is the first chapter of my legacy: Chapter 1.1: A cold wind was blowing from the north

I'll be editing the other chapters too, so hopefully all 8...and perhaps more- will be up later today.

mm, well. Hope you enjoy it!

Don't be shy Chorok, none of us will bite! (Well, not since Buckley put the shock collar on me >_>)

Nice to see so many new faces.

Update:

3.14 - Harder than you Thought http://sarisimsrandomlegacy.blogspo...ad2f799167d99e5

Sorry for the long wait between this chapter and the last one. But that cliffhanger was just too much fun to give you guys answers right away.

I am enjoying your legacy very much, Chorok!

Chapter 118 is finish, so Chapter 118 is up: http://archlegacy.blogspot.com/2012...s-48-hours.html

The last time I read the Arch legacy I was at number 79 LOL its a long catch up game this one.

Chapter 79 was in March... so I don't feel TOO bad about updating that much... ;D

I was going to try and update this morning, but I got distracted by the house I'm building for Danielle.


If anyone wants to give me advice on it, I have a thread open in the CFF. By the way, I didn't realize how lucrative adventuring is. Dani went to China on one 6 day trip and came back with over $25K, minus the cost of supplies and airfare. I was shocked, to say the least. It feels like cheating, but I'm only doing the adventure opportunities and selling the relics she finds (and not even all of them!). I probably shouldn't have gotten her the "opportunist" LTR, but I didn't think it would give her that much of an advantage. Well, I should be able to afford that house soon anyway.

I have two questions about the challenge while I'm posting:

1) Is it cheating to have the additional traits for babies mod installed? I forgot that I downloaded it a while ago, but now that my family is starting to have kids I am not sure if it's allowed.

2) Can we use twallan's traveler mod to lift the traveling restrictions? I ask because normally Danielle wouldn't be able to travel while pregnant or with a toddler, but it would be useful for her to be able to work and pop out the kids. Either way is fine, I just don't want to get in trouble.

Very jealous of your house building skills...

That is a gorgeous house!

I've been using the traveler mod, although the only "extra" I've really used it for (as opposed to making travelling less buggy) was to take a horse with my sim

Wowww. The house looks awesome.

Some careers are just more money-maker than others. It can be frustrating to continually roll comparatively pathetic careers, when you know you COULD have rolled adventurer, artist, collector, etc. Collector is extremely lucrative. Lol. No one ever said the challenge was totally fair.

The traveling-pregnant mod is fine, since many of us use mods to destroy maternity leave. I should add that to the official rules I guess.

Uhm... we never made a ruling on the extra traits mod. I considered using it myself, after so many generations of having the same limited traits to pick from.

What do the rest of you think?

And... gonna double-post this one.

I know some of us have never gotten past generation three ;D... but my generation 19 just turned teenager, and I'm getting BORED of the family structure rolls.

I'm proposing we add some new ones. Maybe "single parent plus double help" (three non-romantic adults) and "couple plus friend" (the heir and spouse, plus a friend on the couch, hurr, or potentially the heir plus two friends who happen to be a couple) for 3 adults in the house instead of just 2. Kind of like the single parent with help roll we added way back when, to spice things up. Thoughts?

I am also thinking about 4 adults ones, with perhaps no restrictions on their relationships, but I know that'd be a pain if you happened to roll 5 kids.... (we could, of course, just allow you to re-roll either family structure or # of children in such a case... like I said I'm still thinking about this).

That's why I got it. I was tired of having good, friendly, and genius children. It's nice to be able to mix it up with more traits from birth, and I personally don't think it makes the challenge that much easier. It's not like someone with the mod has a huge advantage over someone without the mod. It just gives more variety to the game.

...And no, I'm not biased at all by the fact that I really WANT it to be allowed. Not at all.

Oh, Becky! Those sound like SO. MUCH. FUN! Seriously, that's a brilliant idea to spice up the rolls a bit! I don't know about the four adult one though. It seems like it could get hectic managing four adult careers plus the grandparents plus the children, not to mention the eight Sim limit in an un-modded game.

I'm going to try and think of some more family structures, too. (Although I'm not sure I'm going to come up with anything!)

Edit: About the four adult household- You did that with Donoph and Stella, right? It could work if we limit the kid rolls to a maximum of four. So that way it stays under the eight person limit, and if you have an un-modded game you can just kick out the grandparents. Besides, I don't think ANY of us play without mods, so it's probably a moot point anyway. Now that I think about it I like the idea of a four adult household, with a maximum of four kids. We could have one version with two couples and one version with a couple and two singles and one version with four singles. Sounds like fun to me!

However, if we do add a four adult household I think we should make it so the chances of rolling for it are smaller than rolling for a traditional couple or single parent or a three adult household or whatever. Four adult households are pretty rare and might be hard to explain if someone got three in a row or something.

Edit 2: I hope I'm making sense. I'm just excited about changing it up a little!

Yes... I totally cheated with Donny and Stella, because I couldn't pick an heir. v.v I justified it to myself by them not making much money (Stella's career was thwarted by glitches, Mildred was a housewife, and I wasted a joker to make Piroj a gardener, which is not a lucrative career). But... yeah. Totally cheatin'. v.v

They only had two children between them, so even if the previous generation had lived basically forever, it would have been fine. I would have had eight sims. And in this specific case, the previous generation, Cliff and Vinca, died off really quick anyway, so if there had been more than two kids required I would not have had to wait very long to get started on them.

We'll try to balance the rolls accordingly, of course, so it would be statistically unlikely to roll that one very much. :D

I edited the blog to add the restriction on the Inheritance reward we talked about, added the allowance for the extra traits mod, and to restrict what we talked about for genies.

Discussion is still open for them however. Here's what I wrote:



I felt it needed to be said since we said stuff about every other extra life state. I can't even imagine the tweaking we're going to have to deal with when Supernatural comes out.

...Uh, did we at some point throw out the restriction on consuming Ambrosia and life fruit? I know I asked about why death flower wasn't there, and we all had a good laugh about it in general since at the time everyone had vampire sims, but now I can't find it in the rules at all. *looks for someone with a better memory*

I know, I'm not even in this episode since I don't play legacies anymore, but I LOVE the idea of new family structure rolls to include multiple adults.
I also think it's fine to have the more baby traits mod, too.

Melissa! I don't know why, but every time I see that you've posted here I get really excited. Your vote still carries weight in my book. You know this challenge better than anybody really, so it's nice to hear your opinion on these issues.

/my two cents

@Becky- It wasn't really cheating. I mean, just a little. But you know. Story > Rules or whatever, and honestly I would have cried if you'd kicked Donny out. I know I say this all. the. time. but he was one of my very favorites. So sad that he died as soon as he did.

Whenever we talk about cheating I just think of Donoph and Stella and it makes me feel better. : P (Becky, I love you. Please don't hurt me)

At first I sort of disliked the idea of 3 or 4 sim family structures but the more I think about it the more story ideas I get so I say we go for it. However the 4 sim rolls should be veeeerry hard to get.

The only thing that makes me sad about that generation was how the glitches messed up the architect career, meaning I couldn't go through with the development I had planned for Stella. So instead Donoph got all the attention, and she got to have a mental breakdown. xD

I really had fun playing all four of those adults.

...Anyone know where I can find some decent teen jeans for the guys besides the store? Srsly. Pain. Harcourt looks stupid in everything.

It's one of those days.

One of those days where all downloads are for anorexic anime boys.

Edit: also having trouble finding that traits unlocked for babies mod.

/ragequit

Yes, we did throw them out. Because, vampires.

I'm starting to think vampires are the answer for everything.

(Huggles Junielle, Teddy, Marie and all the others) MINE!

It's so hard to find decent pants for boys, Becky. The ones Rio is wearing are my favs but they're from the store. I use them on almost every single male.

That makes sense.

I just, forgot.

I hope Supernatural adds more drawbacks to vampires. xD

Is their super-skilling even fixed yet? I haven't had one in forever.

Yes, I don't know about this baby mod either. I do get tired of having virtuoso and genius babies. Some of those traits make perfect sense for the little ones that they can't roll. For random traits (since I've only done regular legacy rule births so far) I have NEVER had an evil or klepto sim. I tend to always roll very similar traits using random. Which shouldn't be the case. Another reason I am looking forward to RL...I can pick my own traits except if I roll random. Yay!

Also, jeans for guys: my favorite are the ones that came with, I think, Generations. Or maybe Late Night. I typically use them on all my guy sims. They're the ones that you can change the color of the jeans and then also the "wash" that's up in the thigh area. I have no idea what that's called. I think for adults, the first default color is that dark blue with the yellowish wash.

The mod is at this forum. It's by twoftmama, but you have to register to have access to the goodies. Last I checked, I have about 72 mods from her/him. They're just all so useful!

The jeans you are talking about, heaven, are from Late Night. They are my favorite, too.