Author: Hnefatafl

I noticed after the fact, that in my first write up of the Clan Ross Legacy (Gen 1 Chapter 1), I switched from third person voice to first person. I fully intended this *not* to be a “story mode” write up, and had begun as such. But suddenly I’m describing the events *as* the character.

It’s not what I had wanted to do, honestly. It always felt weird reading others’ stories in first person. I was adamant I wasn’t going to do that.

And yet… there it is. I guess I am.

Also, there’s wine involved.

— hnef

I forgot to mention something.  Before I created my Legacy Founder sim, I spent some time preparing the world for her arrival.  I added several restaurants, a cafe or two, and a spa, building that last on the swimming pool lot in Windenburg.  Since I knew which lot I was going to build the Legacy on, I filled all the other residential lots with houses; MC Command Center will move families into those later.  I also threw in any of my old sims that I still had saved, which included the household I’d created for the Bachelor Challenge, and the Scientist Caitlyn Paynter I’d been playing up until now.  Overall, I think I added about 20 sims into the world, thinking it would be fun to see them wandering around, and getting on with their lives.  Maybe one of their descendants will marry into my Legacy…

— hnefatafl

Well… here she is, the illustrious Founder of Clan Ross, Lady Jeanette. The Founder had to be a woman, due to the Succession laws, and I chose the Aspiration and Traits based on my desire to play the Scientist career.  (My first and only other Scientist was originally an Artist who switched careers, and it was tough trying to keep her “focused”.  She spent all her time “inspired” by frickin’ everything.)

Before the challenge starts, there are some decisions to be made, which – to me – determines the sim I’ll create.

First off, I’ll state that I *do* have a billion or so mods and scripts installed in the game, including MC Command Centre, but I don’t use the “MC Woohoo” package, or any of the quick-learning cheats or mods like that.  Mine are almost entirely furniture and clothing … okay, they’re almost all feminine hair and high-heel shoes.  And furniture.

My first task was to chose the various Laws of Succession.  For “Gender Law” this time, I decided on Strict Matriarchy; “The Founder must be female. Only girls are eligible to be named heir. Male children cannot, under any circumstance, ever be the heir to the next generation.”  This might mean some adoption, so my “Bloodline Law” will be Traditional: “Children who are naturally born from the previous generation are eligible to be named heir. Adopted children are ineligible to be named heir unless there are no naturally born children, at which point they become eligible for that generation.”  So, if the current generation only has male children, she’ll have to adopt a girl, who will become heir over her older, natural-born brothers.

My Heir Law is going to be complicated I guess.  I’m going with Exemplar: Genius.  So, While our Founder will have the Genius trait, any eligible heir must have this trait to be named the official heir.  If a single generation has no children with the Genius trait, or more than one are, we revert to the first born female child, followed by an adopted girl.

Species Law is new; I didn’t have “Get to Work” the last time I tried this.  I’m going to go with “Xenophobic”; heirs must be the same species as the founder.  So … humans.  I realised though that I wanted to play with the founder as a Scientist, so the aliens might come eventually.  I did have one sim nearly finish the Scientist career, and I wanted to keep playing that.  Never ran into any aliens though.  Anyway…

Now, to create our glorious Founder!

I’ve started the Sims 4 Legacy Challenge previously, and while I have some screenshots of that attempt, a hard-drive failure caused me to lose the game and all those data files.  I’ve since added “Get to Work” and “Get Together”, so finally got around to restarting the challenge.

But *this* time, I’m documenting.  I don’t know if I’ll ever show this to anyone, but …. who knows? This way at least I remember.  This gives me a chance to write the memories soon after the events, and get things in print before continuing.

If you’re not familiar with the Legacy Challenge, the original blog and rules are here:

http://www.simslegacychallenge.com/

— hnefatafl

So.  Okay.  So.

I’ve been playing The Sims for <mumblemumble> years now, and have finally gotten to saving some stuff online.  Mostly this is to document my Legacy Challenge, which I’m totally going to finish this time, and not get three generations in and loose everything in a horrific and heart-crushing hard drive crash.

No doubt, I’ll have other sims in here too.  See if I can recover some of my old Sims 2 or 3 families… who knows?

— hnefatafl