The How-To Legacy

A Guide to Completing a Legacy from Start to Finish

Volume 1: The Base Game

Welcome to the How-To Legacy; a guide from start to finish of how to complete a legacy challenge. Here is how it will go down. Beginning with the base game, each successful completion of a generation will unlock a new expansion pack. This isn’t the first time I tried to play this way on my old laptop, so I already have University installed (didn’t want to lose my data for the base hoods). To compensate, I won’t be using any items or use any of the major additions from that EP. I can’t say the same thing for interactions.

This Legacy will be presented as a step-by-step guide for how to play a Legacy, especially with the inclusion of each additional feature the EPs bring.

STEP ONE: CREATE YOUR FOUNDERVeronica Legacy; popularity aspiration; 5/7/3/5/5

LTW: 20 Best Friends (although I don’t “technically” know that yet)

STEP TWO: BUILD A BASIC LIVING SPACE WITH ALL AMENITIES

STEP THREE: GAIN SKILL POINTS

STEP FOUR: GET A JOBShe got the level one job in Medicine

STEP FIVE: AVOID ROMANCE SIMS AS PARTNERSI see you Goopy…

STEP SIX: FEED YOUR FOUNDER

STEP SEVEN: SCOPE OUT WELCOME WAGON FOR SPOUSESMaybe the first spouse will be Benjamin Long….?

STEP EIGHT: FIND BETTER POTENTIAL SPOUSEBen is a dick; all hail JOE CARR!

STEP NINE: END FIRST DAY

STEP TEN: GO TO WORK

STEP ELEVEN: GET PROMOT- WAIT…Or don’t get promoted because your founder wasn’t happy enough going in on her first day. Whatever… not like I care…

STEP TWELVE: BOOST FRIENDSHIP WITH FUTURE SPOUSE

STEP THIRTEEN: AVOID BILLS BECAUSE BEING AN ADULT IS SCARY

STEP FOURTEEN: PASS OUT

STEP FIFTEEN: ACT LIKE AN ADULT BY PUTTING RESPONSIBILITY OVER COMFORTShow-off

STEP SIXTEEN: SPLURGE ON YOUR SIMShe earned it

STEP SEVENTEEN: GET CLOSE TO FUTURE SPOUSEYou’re not getting any younger

STEP EIGHTEEN: FLIRT

STEP TWENTY: DON’T EMBARRASS YOURSELF

STEP TWENTY-ONE: FINALLY GET PROMOTED AFTER, LIKE, A WEEK

STEP TWENTY-TWO: REMEMBER THAT FUN IS A NEED

STEP TWENTY-THREE: BECOME NEIGHBOURHOOD STALKEREnjoy the fact that you have no neighbours and won’t be interrupted by slap-happy assholes

STEP TWENTY-FOUR: REEL IN THAT SPOUSE

STEP TWENTY-FIVE: FIRST KISS

STEP TWENTY-SIX: SECOND KISS

STEP TWENTY-SEVEN: MOVE IN RICH SPOUSE!He had $19000 to bring! He’s also an astronaut already!

STEP TWENTY-EIGHT: UPGRADE LEGACY HOUSE

STEP TWENTY-NINE: ANGRILY FALL IN LOVE

STEP THIRTY: FALL IN LOVE AFTER FUTURE SPOUSE DOES TO AVOID ANY POSSIBLE REJECTION

STEP THIRTY-ONE: PROPOSE

STEP THIRTY-TWO: WEDDINGJoe Carr is a fortune sim; 6/5/8/3/3; LTW: criminal mastermindHowever I don’t officially know that so he remains an astronaut

STEP THIRTY-THREE: WOOHOO

STEP THIRTY-FOUR: FALL ASLEEP GRACEFULLY

STEP THIRTY-FIVE: CUDDLE** Most important step**

STEP THIRTY-SIX: FIRST TRIMESTER

STEP THIRTY-SEVEN: SECOND TRIMESTER

STEP THIRTY-EIGHT: GIVE BIRTH

STEP THIRTY-NINE: HAVE AN HEIRMeet Veronica’s first born and the second generation heir Taylor Legacy. His personality is 4/9/9/3/10. I would suspect a popularity sim if I didn’t already know his future.

STEP FORTY: SHOVE HEIR IN AN UNINHABITABLE SPACE TO BUILD CHARACTER

STEP FORTY-ONE: DO NOT COPE WELL WITH ADULTHOOD

STEP FORTY-TWO: GET A NANNY

STEP FORTY-THREE: REACH HEIR’S BIRTHDAY

STEP FORTY-FOUR: TODDLER HEIRAs far as I can tell, he isn’t a complete clone of his mother. He does have her custom eyes, but apart from that he does have a few of his father’s features.

STEP FORTY-FIVE: TEACH ESSENTIAL SKILLS

STEP FORTY-SIX: CREATE SPARE

STEP FORTY-SEVEN: LEARN TO COMMUNICATE WITH ADULTSThat means me, not the kid.

STEP FORTY-EIGHT: LEARN TO BE SELF-SUFFICIENT

STEP FORTY-NINE: FIRST TRIMESTER PART TWO

STEP FIFTY: STOP POOPING PANTS

STEP FIFTY-ONE: SECOND TRIMESTER PART TWO

STEP FIFTY-TWO: FINISH OFF ESSENTIAL TODDLER SKILLS

STEP FIFTY-THREE: FORGET THAT YOU NEED TO ORDER GROCERIES

STEP FIFTY-FOUR: HAVE HEIR BECOME CHILD

STEP FIFTY-FIVE: MAKE HEIR PRESENTABLE… SORT OF

STEP FIFTY-SIX: SEND HEIR TO NEW HOVEL

STEP FIFTY-SEVEN: SUBJECT HEIR TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS

STEP FIFTY-EIGHT: GIVE BIRTH TO SPARE

STEP FIFTY-NINE: PRESENT SPAREMeet Theodore Legacy; 3/6/7/5/5. Athletic but overall average. Skintone three, so he is a blend of the two parents for sure.

STEP SIXTY: BE GOOD PARENTFor once.

STEP SIXTY-ONE: SEND HEIR TO SCHOOL

STEP SIXTY-TWO: HAVE HEIR DISCOVER STALKER KNOWN AS MARSHA

STEP SIXTY-THREE: FEAR THAT SPARE LOOKS TOO MUCH LIKE HEIR

STEP SIXTY-FOUR: TEACH HEIR HOW TO DO HOMEWORK

STEP SIXTY-FIVE: MAKE SURE THERE’S A SKILLED BACK-UP IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

STEP SIXTY-SIX: FORGET WHY YOU TOOK PHOTO

STEP SIXTY-SEVEN: MATCH WITH THE ROOM

STEP SIXTY-EIGHT: HAVE SPARE REACH CHILDHOOD

STEP SIXTY-NINE: TEEHEE, SIXTY-NINE

STEP SEVENTY: PANIC!

STEP SEVENTY-ONE: SPEND BONUS MONEY ON HOME

STEP SEVENTY-TWO: DEMONSTRATE HOW MUCH YOU MISS CHEATS ALREADY

STEP SEVENTY-THREE: BE PUNISHED FOR BILLS DISAPPEARING

STEP SEVENTY-FOUR: HAVE HEIR REACH ADOLESCENCETaylor rolled a three, so he’s a family sim who wants to graduate 3 kids from college. Good choice for the next generation.

STEP SEVENTY-FIVE: HAVE ONE SIM REACH TOP OF CAREER BECAUSE CARS AREN’T IN THE GAME YET TO USURP PREGNANCY

STEP SEVENTY-SIX: HAVE SPARE REACH TEENHOODAnd grow up into his same clothes… Theodore rolled a one so he’s a fortune sim who wants to be a criminal mastermind. Too bad he’s a spare or else he would have a life.

STEP SEVENTY-EIGHT: HAVE SIMS MIMIC YOU BY BEING DEPRIVED OF SLEEP

STEP SEVENTY-NINE: DEVELOP ACNE

STEP EIGHTY: WORK OFF THAT GUT

STEP EIGHTY-ONE: CALL POLICE

STEP EIGHTY-TWO: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

STEP EIGHTY-THREE: HAVE FOUNDER REACH ELDERHOOD

STEP EIGHTY-FOUR: BLOCK OUT SPOUSE FROM VIEW

STEP EIGHTY-FIVE: HOPE SALMON IS GOOD FOR YOUR SKIN

STEP EIGHTY-SIX: DISCUSS YOUR FATHER’S CAREER

STEP EIGHTY-SEVEN: HAVE SPOUSE REACH ELDERHOOD

STEP EIGHTY-EIGHT: HAVE HEIR REACH ELDERHOOD

STEP EIGHTY-NINE: HAVE BREAKDOWN OVER NOT GOING TO COLLEGE

STEP NINTY: SEEK THERAPY

STEP NINTY-ONE: GET JOB IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PREPARE FOR GENERATION THREE

UNTIL NEXT TIME!

So that’s it for Volume 1: The Base Game. I hope you learned a lot, because I sure did. I learned that playing without cheats means there is less dead air time while playing and is more fun. I also learned that I really did rely wish I had done this while the Sims 2 was still a big deal because I could really use custom content.