The Legacy Challenge Lite

The Legacy Challenge Lite is the same Legacy Challenge that you’ve always known and loved without the sometimes stressful and confusing scorekeeping and intricate rules.

If you are someone that enjoys the idea of the Legacy Challenge, but has always been too intimidated to try and wade through the pages of rules and scores, then this new Lite version will be perfect for you. Some parts of the challenge remain the same while others have either been altered or removed completely to give you a less complicated, but still entertaining, challenge.

There will be no scoring in this challenge. You will simply be trying to make it to 10 generations without cheats and to see how far you can go with one family.

Getting Started

• Create your Sim in Create-A-Sim. You may choose any aspiration/traits that you wish.
• Once the Sim is created move them onto any 50 x 50 or 64 x 64 lot of your choosing.
• Once moved in you must cheat their money down to either §1800 (for a regular start) or §0 for an Extreme start. If you have Seasons and want an added challenge for an Extreme start, then start your Sim in winter.

Succession Laws

Succession Laws remain the same from the original Legacy Challenge. Simply choose your laws from that link.

Gameplay Rules

• No cheats/hacks/mods that give you an advantage in the challenge over someone that does not use them (ie no “motherlode” or “kaching” to get more money)
• No restarting the game after bad events. You must let them play out.
• 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”.
• The Legacy Family must remain on the same lot for the duration of the challenge (this does not include vacations). They are free (and encouraged) to develop their house but they may not move into a new house. Rooms may be imported into the house from the exchange as long as the family pays full price for the construction and items contained within.
• A Sim may utilize an anti-aging item ONCE in their lifetime.
• You may not change a Sim’s current aspiration. The exception is when they fully complete an aspiration. When that happens, you may choose their new aspiration, as long as it is not one they’ve already completed.
• 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.
• 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.
• When playing a Legacy Challenge, your legacy family is the ONLY family you may play in that saved game. You MAY move in new families into the neighborhood during your challenge (keeping in mind that they can be used for friends, but not spouses) but you may not play them.
• You must use the Random Trait Generator to get traits and aspirations for all children born/adopted into the family.

You may use any and all expansions, game packs, and stuff packs. You can freely choose how to use them (or not). Since you are no longer keeping score of you challenge, there is no need to have additional rules for these packs.

Moving in Other Sims

You may move in a primary “spouse” to help bring in the next generation. They can be any gender and your Sims do not need to be married for them to count. They just need to be living together. If the Sim that moves in brings money with them, make sure to cheat the money back down to what it was before they moved in. This “spouse” can have a job and do anything else your other Sims do within the household.

Having Children

Regardless of your succession law, you may always introduce children into your family via pregnancy (either natural or Science Baby) or adoption. (Bloodline law will determine which are eligible to be heirs). With the addition of The Sims 4 Get to Work alien babies can also be brought into the family via abduction. 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.

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. When the child grows into a teenager, you consult the calculator again for their teen aspiration and their second trait. Finally the calculator will be used to generate the third trait upon reaching young adulthood. If your Sim reaches their Teenager aspiration before adulthood you can choose to use the assigned adult aspiration for some added randomness, or choose your own.

There is an option here to generate both aspirations and all three traits for a sim at once, though the proper method is to wait until the Sim ages up. And remember- No re-rolling! One of the hallmarks of this challenge is getting randomly generated children so you should keep the good with the bad. Since the traits of the parents have an influence on the traits of their children, you can try to engineer children by selecting spouses with desirable traits, but this is no guarantee.

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

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

Ending the Challenge

The challenge ends with the birth of the 10th generation heir. For fun, see how much your family’s net worth is by the end of the challenge!

The challenge will fail if the founder or heir dies without another suitable heir to take over.