The lot hasn’t changed too too much since the last post aside from the barn. Mostly just shuffling things around. I just patched the game and so far, it has stopped crashing? But I fully expect the issue to return, and if it does I’m just going to build a new legacy house in Nordhaven
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Generation 7 Notes
I think I’m going to make the heir requirement for this generation, pink hair. Unfortunately, I don’t believe non-standard hair colors show up until sims age up until teen so, it will be a surprise! Hopefully out of the four kids that they have had, at least one gets the pink hair because I don’t really feel like dealing with more sim babies :/. I’m pretty sure Mark is a pink haired kid because he’s a blonde toddler (and neither parent is blonde)
Argh also, the legacy lot has been starting to randomly crash. I’m hoping that it’s just the lot and not my entire save. I think I may build them a new house in Nordhaven and move everyone in there if I can’t narrow down and fix the issue.
Edit: Yeah no, either the lot or the build is causing the instability I think because I am able to play other lots on the save without issues. Luckily managed to move all important things (photos, paintings, etc) into personal inventory. I’m building a house on a smaller lot that I will move everyone into. The 64×64 lot is just too big anyway….
Courting Bentley
This is Bentley, he’s a personal trainer at the gym in San Myshuno and until meeting him, I was pretty convinced that either a rando townie or Bridget would be the new legacy heir. Look at the pink hair and the green eyes, it’s definitely must be him. Problem 1: Bentley is an older young adult and Harry is still a teen (a couple of days from age up). Problem 2: Bentley has 2 children (I peeked in MCCC). I also don’t know what his romantic preferences are.
One thing that you should know about my legacy challenge play style is that it’s less of a “let’s play house” bit and more of a Game of Thrones scenario, particularly later in the challenge or whenever I start getting bored of the game (what’s the point of even playing The Sims if it’s not at least a little bit unhinged half the time). Bentley, as mentioned above, has 2 kids and having older children outside of the “royal lineage” just won’t suffice! So what do we do? Stalk him and find out where he lives of course, and then try to set everything on fire with magic.
Generation 6: Goth and Spare Offshoots
I’m getting tired of managing two separate offshoots of Sims. There are a couple of other offshoots that have spawned recently, but I’m not keeping track of those and TBH I may “end” those genetic lines to prevent the neighborhood from being too inbred. I’ve had issues with the neighborhoods in past legacies being filled with relatives. Awkward.
Lane Goth and Adrianna Davila’s Kid
Rory Goth
Traits: Good, Clumsy, Hot-Headed
Moved him into the Spares House
Sturm Squires and Haven Love’s Kids
Mercedes Love
Traits: Lactose Intolerant, Animal Enthusiast, High Maintenance
Technically not a Goth offshoot, she’s Silvara’s niece but they’re all a bit inbred so whatever. It somehow tracks that she is high maintenace.
The Wonderful World of Pyromania
Today I learned that there is a spell that allows you to set things on fire so, that is what Silvara did all day at school: Set things on fire. I don’t feel like other sims cared as much as they should have cared….
Generation 5: Kit Squires
Parents: Paul & Rose
Traits: Neat, Hates Children
Adult Aspiration: The Curator
Death: Meteorite
- I’m kind of sad that she didn’t inherit curly dark hair like the twins, because that would track with book Kitiara. Also kind of sad that the twins are girls not boys, because that would also track lol. Because of her red curly-ish hair, I feel like she should have been named Tika, but I had already used Tika as a name during the last Legacy and wanted to be different.
- She’s not as cute of a teen as I had hoped.
- Ah okay, the reason why Gwyn vanished is because sims don’t count as people until they age up to child. The house was full because cats count towards the household max, but for some reason it still allows you to try for children if you are at 7 sims + cat (or in this case 6 sims + cat + twins).
- Killed her off via death by meteorite to make room for a horse. Reddit is right, this is a reliable way to kill sims.
The Paul x Rose Wedding
The Wedding Stories pack is such a buggy shit show if you are expecting a picture perfect wedding but TBH it’s pretty great if you embrace the chaos. Highlights from Paul and Rose’s wedding:
- Sims not showing up in their formal wear, despite the event clearly requiring formal wear. A few sims might just be a case of the game assigning them fugly dress clothes, but Rudeus 100% showed up wearing his gym clothes
- Speaking of Rudeus, the sim who I had designated as the Man of Honor prior to creating the event and within the event options itself: He did jack shit. Like, I clicked the correct GUI options and he just say there and continued to badly play the piano throughout the entire wedding ceremony. This 100% tracks, so whatever.
- The officiant never showed, which is ironic because it was supposed to be their creepy stalker nanny. Constantly calls Paul to hang out. Doesn’t show to his wedding. Someone is getting killed off.
- I think someone else other than the bride and groom had cut the cake.
- Rudeus spur of the moment eloped with Diane during his brother’s wedding. This wasn’t a bug, this was self inflicted because I wanted to see if there was a negative moodlet or anything for being a huge dick.
- Mother of the groom showing up in a wedding dress. This one is also because of her existing formal wear being a wedding dress, but it also tracks with her personality
As a plus, the guests actually sat down and filled the seats.
Poor Rudeus…
Poor Rudeus lives an anxiety filled life: Dropped out of high school, permanent -2 mood debuff from fear of disappointing parents. Nearly died from setting self on fire while BBQing, fear of fire. I could buy a potion with aspiration points, but I am low because I just spent them all on my legacy sims or saving them for something.
But at least he has the cat….
Also, collector is a pain in the ass to complete.
Squires Legacy Lot: G4 Neighborhood Move
I had thoroughly regretted starting this legacy on a 50×40 lot. When I had started this towards the end of last year, I hadn’t anticipated being able to create rental lots, which take up a sizable chunk of the lot. The lot has been moved to the 64×64 plot in Chestnut Ridge (the stupid horse expansion was on sale for like half off so I picked it up). There’s now ample space for more rental lots as well as a full on horse ranch.
I wish there was an easier way of picking up and moving lots + families to a different space without having to: Save lot, put on new plot of land, reconfigure rental, shuffle sims around with the free real estate cheat. Also, upon moving the lot: All repair upgrades were lost (that’s fine, opportunity to raise repair to 10 on the G4 kids). The legacy portraits and pictures were retained. The urns and graves were in sim and house inventories.
The Goth Bastards Offshoot: Gen 3 Teenagers
I was going to leave the Goth Offshoot completely autonomous, but I really like this household so I may start a completely new save or challenge with them when Lovestruck comes out.
- Brett is giving off Giancarlo Esposito vibes. Also, the fact that the randomly generated traits that the game assigned him are Mean and Neat tracks. Why does he look like a 40 year old teenager?
- Rosalie is my new favorite; She’s so pretty. Her traits are so random though: Recycle Disciple and Dance Machine
- Ugh they autonomously had a third child: Eden. Her trait is Practice Makes Perfect?
- Also, they adopted a kitten: Cookie
