The How-To Legacy

Volume Five: Pets(Brought to you by The Sims 2 Exchange…

JUST KIDDING… I wish it still existed)

So last time, I failed my Open for Business challenge by being unable to get one up to level ten. I’ve done it in the past and know how, but without cheats and the Pescado Business Runs You hack, it’s tough to get done.

I also produced generation five, in which heir Mackenzie Legacy became a vampire after her boyfriend Count Venkat Garth turned her. It was a mixed blessing because it helped keep her mood up to graduate from college. They got cured, married, and are now about to start generation six.

With Pets installed, my goal is simple: adopt a pet and raise them throughout generation six. That was the major feature added back in (I want to say) 2006. Ready, set, play!

Okay, that was lame… let’s just show you what I did to get past the halfway mark…

STEP ONE: PRETEND YOU’RE STILL A VAMPIRE

STEP TWO: CALL TO ADOPT DOG

STEP THREE: NOT DOUG, DOG!Yeah, I renamed Maxx to Dog. I’m so random and creative you guise!

STEP FOUR: SAY NO TO WALLS

STEP FIVE: PRETTY MUCH DELETE EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN AND START OVER

STEP SIX: BRAND NEW LEGACY HOUSE!

STEP SEVEN: DEMONSTRATE WHERE THE KIDS WILL LIVE

STEP EIGHT: DEMONSTRATE MAIN FLOOR AND WHERE DOG LIVESI couldn’t find a space to put all of the dog stuff, so I decided it was time to rebuild the Legacy house. You’ve read these things before, you know how it goes.

STEP NINE: PROTECT BABY DOG

STEP TEN: FIGHT WITHOUT YOUR GRANDFATHER FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON

STEP ELEVEN: LET YOUR FINGER SLIP AND TAKE A RANDOM PICTUREOr I think the point of this picture was to show that their needs are falling. I haven’t had any desperation shots because I keep having to rush them to the bathroom, but there are only two so it’s hard to keep up with all five sims in the house.

STEP TWELVE: BE HAUNTED BY EVERY GHOSTOkay, seriously, Pets is when the game got super hard. All the ghosts appear at once instead of one or two at most, needs are dropping like flies… goddamn… no wonder I was having difficulty playing this game in the past…

STEP THIRTEEN: GENERATION SIX SLOWLY CREEPS IN

STEP FOURTEEN: GENERATION SIX MAKES YOU FAT

STEP FIFTEEN: HAVE DOG STINK UP HOUSE

STEP SIXTEEN: TRY AND HAVE A FULL FAMILY MEAL

STEP SEVENTEEN: START GETTING THE MAUSOLEUM HEADSHOTS DONE

STEP EIGHTEEN: PRESENT GENERATION SIX

STEP NINETEEN: WELCOME G6!This is Violet Legacy. 9/9/4/4/4

STEP TWENTY: HAVE THE OBLIGATORY OTHER KID

STEP TWENTY-ONE: POP GOES THE WEASELKidding, she isn’t a weasel… her one father though…

STEP TWENTY-TWO: TURN YOUR SPOUSE INTO A GRILLED CHEESE SIMBecause every legacy needs one of those at this point or else what are you even doing? Not following a crowd from 2005-2010, that’s for sure…

STEP TWENTY-THREE: TODDLER VIOLET

STEP TWENTY-FOUR: BYE ZAITRARRIO!Died at 82 days

STEP TWENTY-FIVE: WONDER IF THE CENSOR GOT BIGGER OR IF IT’S JUST YOUR IMAGINATION

STEP TWENTY-SIX: BIG DOGStill a puppy. All dogs are puppies.

STEP TWENTY-SEVEN: ENTER SECOND TRIMESTER FOR LAST TIME

STEP TWENTY-EIGHT: LEAVE THE KRABBY PATTIES WHERE PLANKTON CAN GET THEM

STEP TWENTY-NINE: MEET THE HEIRMeet Rose Legacy. 9/6/4/6/4. I chose her as the heir because I felt like it. This is the last kid of G6, so those custom eyes are finally bred out of the family.

STEP THIRTY: GET FIRED FROM A JOB I FORGOT YOU HAD

STEP THIRTY-ONE: PASS OUT IN FOOD

STEP THIRTY-TWO: STRANGLE DOGOh, and that’s Violet… I shaved her head.

STEP THIRTY-THREE: CHILD VIOLET

STEP THIRTY-FOUR: TODDLER ROSE

STEP THIRTY-FIVE: ATTEMPT TO TEACH TODDLER ANYTHING AND FAIL MISERABLY

STEP THIRTY-SIX: WASH DOG

STEP THIRTY-SEVEN: GET FUN NEED UP BY CLEANING

STEP THIRTY-EIGHT: ALMOST HAVE SOCIAL WORKER COME

STEP THIRTY-NINE: BE HAUNTED BY GHOST OF KAYLYNNYou’re no longer a part of the Legacy; go back to where you came from! Let G6 live!

STEP FORTY: FEEL LIKE IT’S PRISON

STEP FORTY-ONE: CHILD ROSE

STEP FORTY-TWO: LIVE BY FATHER’S RULES

STEP FORTY-THREE: MAKE GRANDPARENTS USEFUL; LEARN HOW TO DO HOMEWORK TOGETHER

STEP FORTY-FOUR: ADD NEW BATHROOM BECAUSE THIS IS GETTING INSANE

STEP FORTY-FIVE: TEEN VIOLETShe rolled family and wants to graduate 3 kids from college. She likes formal wear and costume makeup but hates custom hair.Because of that LTW, I don’t want her as the heir (which is why it defaulted to Rose). I’m worried about my laptop lagging. It has already hit a couple rough spots so far.

STEP FORTY-SIX: TEACH DOG SOME SKILLS

STEP FORTY-SEVEN: BE MADEOVER INTO THE CLEAN FREAK YOU ARE

STEP FORTY-EIGHT: ENJOY THE SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE; GET REALLY FAT

STEP FORTY-NINE: CONTINUE TO IMPOSE WILL ON WHOLE FAMILY

STEP FIFTY: CLEAN A DOG BED IN A POODLE SKIRTI thought it would be funnier… why did I think it would be funny?

STEP FIFTY-ONE: TEEN ROSEShe rolled knowledge and wants to be a criminal mastermind. It won’t happen because the family has too much money as is, but she can dream. She likes cologne and make-up but hates vampires (everyone hates their parents at some point).

STEP FIFTY-TWO: TURN YOUR HEIR INTO THE MOM FROM MEAN GIRLSRemember that movie? It’s older than some of these EPs.

STEP FIFTY-THREE: BOND WITH SISTER

STEP FIFTY-FOUR: HAVE G4 HEIR DIEGoodbye Wright Legacy. He died at the age of 74.

STEP FIFTY-FIVE: HANG OUT IN SPOOKY MAUSOLEUM

STEP FIFTY-SIX: HAVE JERKASS WHO CHEATED DIELee died at the age of 78. Somehow, despite not being perma-plat, he lived longer than Wright.The world isn’t fair.

STEP FIFTY-SEVEN: DEAL WITH SOMETHING WORSE THAN DEATH: ACNE!

STEP FIFTY-EIGHT: FULFILL MOM’S WANTS AND GET A HOT TUB

STEP FIFTY-NINE: GO TO COLLEGEViolet was running out of time before she had to go and I waited a few days after that to send Rose.

STEP SIXTY: ARRIVE IN COLLEGEI kept Violet the same since she kept to the style I like her in

STEP SIXTY-ONE: MAKE YOUR HEIR LOOK REAL PURTYCustom hair and custom clothes from around 2006, so in-game still sort of matches the time it would have all had to have taken place (if this were somehow in the past).

STEP SIXTY-TWO: USE THE ORB TO FIND A MATEYes, I should use a matchmaker, but I still have to work for the relationship. Anyways, this is Gary Patch. Family sim, wants to be captain hero, 4/4/4/7/6, likes blondes and red-heads but not underwear.So yeah, G6 spouse.

STEP SIXTY-THREE: FLIRT MERCILESSLY

STEP SIXTY-FOUR: GET REJECTEDFirst of all, how dare you.

STEP SIXTY-FIVE: CRY

STEP SIXTY-SIX: HAVE A G5 SPARE FALL IN LOVE ON THEIR OWN

STEP SIXTY-SEVEN: MISS THE REAL FIRST KISS BECAUSE YOUR ATTENTION WAS ELSEWHERE

STEP SIXTY-EIGHT: MOVE HEIR TO GREEK HOUSE WITH MOM’S TWIN

STEP SIXTY-NINE: MAKE HIM FALL IN LOVE DURING SOPHMORE YEAR

STEP SEVENTY: WOOHOO

STEP SEVENTY-ONE: GET ENGAGED AND FORGET ABOUT HIM EVERY OTHER SEMESTER

STEP SEVENTY-TWO: HAVE OTHER G5 SPARE GET LUCKYI wanted to get most everyone out of college ASAP. ACR did the rest.

STEP SEVENTY-THREE: HAVE A SPARE START A LIFESo Ariel married Sheldon Kim and they have a daughter named Kimberly Kim and adopted the kitten Bonkers.

STEP SEVENTY-FOUR: GRADUATE PLACEHOLDER MADISON

STEP SEVENTY-FIVE: MOVE VIOLET IN AS PLACEHOLDER

STEP SEVENTY-SIX: MAX OUT SKILLS IN COLLEGE

STEP SEVENTY-SEVEN: GRADUATE

STEP SEVENTY-EIGHT: GO HOME; GET MADE-OVER

STEP SEVENTY-NINE: REUINTE WITH FUTURE SPOUSE

STEP EIGHTY: MAKE FUTURE SPOUSE CURRENT SPOUSE

STEP EIGHTY-ONE: START A FIRE WHILE GETTING MARRIED

So that’s it. This chapter had a lot less pictures than the last because I was so focused on getting my sims’ needs up. Seriously, at some point between OFB and Pets, Maxis/EA made the games harder for no good reason.

I still have to use the wedding arch to get my sims married. I would like to have the Propose… Marriage function back. Not sure if it comes back in Seasons, but that’s installed and I need to get started on generation seven as soon as I can.

My biggest fear going forward is the lagging caused by seasons. I know it caused problems for my XP back in the day, but I’m not sure about a Windows 7 machine. Everything has been going pretty fine so far, which a few hiccups, but that’s to be expected.

The next goal is to grow a garden, so I’m putting Rose to that. Get it? G6 is named after flowers because they were going to be adults in Seasons! Hahahasofunnyokayi’llstop.

Bye,Rex