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Silver Screen Sims Legacy Challenge - Classic Films
Sims4Sarah
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Howdy everybody!
When Get Famous came out, I wanted to play a legacy challenge that incorporated some of the new things that came with the pack. I didn't see any right away so I decided it was time to create my own.
Spending some time considering a direction, it felt like Get Famous naturally followed to a cinema themed legacy. Hence, the Silver Screen Sims Legacy Challenge.
Actually, I developed two different versions of this challenge. This one that is inspired by Classic/Golden Era of Hollywood films and another which uses 80's movies. I put that in its own thread. You can find that HERE
I worked hard to make sure there is very little overlap of career, aspirations or other tasks between the two. So, you could easily decide to play just one, play both or even have this be one big massive 20 generation legacy if you wanted and not have much repeat itself.
The challenges use something from every pack from the Base Game on up to Get Famous. You could probably play around a couple things if you don't have a pack but it is going to be difficult if you have large gaps in the collection.
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Silver Screen Sims Legacy Challenge - Classic Films
Each generation of this legacy is inspired by a classic Hollywood film.
Basic Rules:
Start with a Young Adult Sim. Either one you created especially for this or one you previously made. They should be, for reasons that will play out in the challenge, human. Gender and any other appearance elements don't matter.
Don't cheat unless you are told to in the rules. What's the point of that? There is no point scoring here, just the reward of the fun telling the story of your Silver Screen Sims Legacy.
Using creative content is up to you as long as it isn't a cheat or it replaces an object required to complete a generation. I don't use any but that's just a personal choice.
Unless otherwise stated in the rules for a generation, you can live anywhere you want.
Similarly, color outside the lines all you want as long as you hit the action rules for each generation.
Let's get started......
Generation One: Grapes of Wrath
After your family lost their farm as a result of a great economic disaster, you decided it was time to move west and start again. You have nothing but your knowledge of how to work the land and a sense of right and wrong. You’ll do your best to make sure neither let you down.
Traits: Hot-Headed, Good, Art Lover
Aspiration: Freelance Botanist
Career: Gardner - Botanist
Rules:
1. Move into the lot of your choice in Oasis Springs. It should either already be vacant or you can bulldoze it before moving in. Buy a tent and then use the Money cheat to bring your funds down to zero. You don’t have to wait to get a job but you will be building from the dirt up.
2. Give lot three traits. One must be great soil (you’ll thank yourself later). The other two are up to you.
3. Take a selfie on your new property. Hang it on the wall of your home when you finally build it. This should hang in every home throughout your legacy.
4. Master gardener career and freelance botanist aspiration
5. Always do your laundry with the washtub and clothesline
6. Don’t get married until you have mastered the gardening skill.
7. Ask for a large loan at least once in your life.
Generation Two: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
You spent your childhood watching your parent struggle against the system. Now you are on a mission to take that system down. Organizing for charity and writing books to expose corruption is how you will keep your parent’s legacy alive.
Traits: Ambitious, Dance Machine,Vegetarian
Aspiration: Best Selling Author
Career: Politician - Charity
Rules:
1. Join the after school Scouting club and collect all the badges.
2. Complete the Politician (Charity) career and Best Selling Author aspiration.
3. Win a Dance Battle
4. Marry somebody you met at a protest rally
5. Obtain the Giving Back and Rally Fame Perks
6. Collect all the festival bubble blower bottles
Generation Three: Wizard Of Oz
Your parents are so proud of everything they and your grandparents have built for the family in the new land. Of course you understand but, if you are really honest, you are bored of living in the same place and doing the same things. You want to explore, meet new people and do new things.
Traits: Dog Lover, Clumsy, Music Lover
Aspiration: Friend of The World
Career: Astronaut - Space Ranger
Rules:
1. Get a dog & become companions.
2. Complete Astronaut (Space Ranger) Career and Friend of the World aspiration
3. Go on Vacation to both Granite Falls and Salvadorada at least once.
4. Master dog training and cooking skills.
5. Cook Pet food recipe at least once a week
6. Become friends with Patchy, The Living Statue and somebody in a animal outfit
Generation Four: Singin’ In the Rain
There was a great deal to learn from a parent that spent so much time time exploring. That was when you actually got to see them. So much time spent alone led to lots of time playing make believe, putting on puppet shows and just acting into the mirror. Anything to feel less lonely. Now all of that is going be pay off as you take your acting to the silver screen. The world WILL know your name.
Traits: Perfectionist, Jealous, Goofball
Aspiration: Renaissance Sim
Career: Acting
Rules:
1. Join after school drama club
2. Master singing skill
3. Declare rain to be your favorite weather.
4. Complete Acting career and Renaissance aspiration.
5. Be on the winning Jokester team at the Hijinks Festival
6. Have several jobs before you decide to get serious about acting. Keep practicing though. Dreams shouldn’t get stale.
7. Fall in love with somebody that is already married, get them to break up with their partner & then marry them.
8. Have at least two children.
Generation Five: Some Like It Hot
Growing up, your home was obsessed with showbiz. So it is no wonder you got bit by the entertainer bug too. Only one problem. Everybody knows your famous acting parent and doesn’t want to take you seriously. Maybe if you go undercover with a bit of a gender bending look it might help you get a fair shake?
Traits: Creative, Romantic, Hates Children
Aspiration: Musical Genius
Career: Entertainer - Musician
Rules:
1. Complete Entertainer (Musician) career and Musical Genius aspiration
2. Declare hot weather your favorite weather
3. Master Media Production & Rock Climbing skills
4. Have a haircut and at least one outfit originally intended for the opposite gender.
5. Always have one of your siblings living in the same home as you
6. Wait until you are halfway through your adult age to have kids.
Generation Six: The Day The Earth Stood Still
Maybe they never said it outright but you always felt like you were an afterthought for your parents. Did they even really want you? You’re not going to let that get you down though. You’ll build your own big happy family and make sure they always know how much they are wanted.
Traits: Family Oriented,Outgoing,Slob
Aspiration: Big Happy Family
Career: Scientist
Rules:
1. Master Gourmet Cooking, Handiness and Skating skills
2. Complete Big Happy Family aspiration and Scientist career
3. Marry teenage sweetheart
4. Become best friends with an alien
5. Take photos with all of your teenage children and hang on the wall.
6. Win the Curry contest at the Spice Festival
Generation Seven: Mildred Pierce
Face it. Your parents did an amazing job. Love was all around you growing up and they raised you to have real belief in yourself. You know you can do anything. Even if that means eating baked goods all the time. Also, now that you think of it, did getting that much love all the time setup impossible standards for your future romantic partners to try to meet?
Traits: Foodie, Bro, Self-Assured
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Career: Business - Management
Rules:
1. Master baking, charisma and flower arranging skills
2. Complete Business (Management) career and Fabulously Wealthy aspiration
3. When at home, eat nothing but baked goods you prepared yourself & honey from your bee box.
4. Get married and divorced twice. Have a child with each spouse.
5. Start a club with just your siblings as members. Meet at least weekly.
Generation Eight: Arsenic and Old Lace
Why is family alway so up in your grill? Surely they can recognize your genius? Then why won’t they just get out of your way and let your plans unfold? Still, keep your enemies close, as they say.
Traits: Genius,Self-Absorbed,Mean
Aspiration: Public Enemy
Career: Criminal - Boss
Rules:
1. Master herbalism, mischief and bowling skills
2. Complete Criminal (Boss) career and Public Enemy aspiration
3. Have two of your Aunts or Uncles move in with you, if they are still alive.
4. Buy Dr. June's Weather Control Device
5. Be enemies with a sibling
6. Get married on Halloween
7. Obtain the Play the Villain fame perk.
Generation Nine: On The Town
Enough with this small town life. Like your your great, great, great, great grandparent, you want to see and do EVERYTHING. So why haven’t you moved to the big city yet? Now is your time! Paint the town red and make the city yours!
Traits: Cheerful, Glutton, Bookworm
Aspiration: City Native
Career: Critic - Food
Rules:
1. Skip school at least once
2. Move to San Myshuno
3. Master Athletic and Comedy skills
4. Complete the Critic (Food) career and City Native aspiration
5. Always take the Work From Home option
6. Have a pet of some variety.
7. Marry somebody who works as a food or souvenir stall vendor.
Generation Ten: High Society
Wow. Your ancestor that first moved to that dusty lot in Oasis Springs couldn’t even have imagined where your family is now. You don’t want for much. The world is at your fingertip. Newspapers report on your love-life. Yet, you have a way of sabotaging your own happiness. When will you ever learn what...or who...is truly good for you?
Traits: Insider, Materialistic, Childish
Aspiration: Soulmate
Career: Social Media - Internet Personality
Rules:
1. Complete Social Media (Internet Personality) career and Soulmate aspiration.
2. Master DJ Mixing trait
3. Marry your soulmate, divorce them, date somebody else and then remarry your soulmate
4. Take a yoga class & get a message at a spa
5. Hire a butler
6. Have a lifestyle brand
Have fun! I can't wait to see what stories plat out. Share as much as possible!
Use #SilverScreenSims in the Gallery and on social media so we can follow each other's progress there too. I plan on streaming a lot of my legacy play on Twitch.
I'm Sims4Sarah everywhere.
When Get Famous came out, I wanted to play a legacy challenge that incorporated some of the new things that came with the pack. I didn't see any right away so I decided it was time to create my own.
Spending some time considering a direction, it felt like Get Famous naturally followed to a cinema themed legacy. Hence, the Silver Screen Sims Legacy Challenge.
Actually, I developed two different versions of this challenge. This one that is inspired by Classic/Golden Era of Hollywood films and another which uses 80's movies. I put that in its own thread. You can find that HERE
I worked hard to make sure there is very little overlap of career, aspirations or other tasks between the two. So, you could easily decide to play just one, play both or even have this be one big massive 20 generation legacy if you wanted and not have much repeat itself.
The challenges use something from every pack from the Base Game on up to Get Famous. You could probably play around a couple things if you don't have a pack but it is going to be difficult if you have large gaps in the collection.
====
Silver Screen Sims Legacy Challenge - Classic Films
Each generation of this legacy is inspired by a classic Hollywood film.
Basic Rules:
Start with a Young Adult Sim. Either one you created especially for this or one you previously made. They should be, for reasons that will play out in the challenge, human. Gender and any other appearance elements don't matter.
Don't cheat unless you are told to in the rules. What's the point of that? There is no point scoring here, just the reward of the fun telling the story of your Silver Screen Sims Legacy.
Using creative content is up to you as long as it isn't a cheat or it replaces an object required to complete a generation. I don't use any but that's just a personal choice.
Unless otherwise stated in the rules for a generation, you can live anywhere you want.
Similarly, color outside the lines all you want as long as you hit the action rules for each generation.
Let's get started......
Generation One: Grapes of Wrath
After your family lost their farm as a result of a great economic disaster, you decided it was time to move west and start again. You have nothing but your knowledge of how to work the land and a sense of right and wrong. You’ll do your best to make sure neither let you down.
Traits: Hot-Headed, Good, Art Lover
Aspiration: Freelance Botanist
Career: Gardner - Botanist
Rules:
1. Move into the lot of your choice in Oasis Springs. It should either already be vacant or you can bulldoze it before moving in. Buy a tent and then use the Money cheat to bring your funds down to zero. You don’t have to wait to get a job but you will be building from the dirt up.
2. Give lot three traits. One must be great soil (you’ll thank yourself later). The other two are up to you.
3. Take a selfie on your new property. Hang it on the wall of your home when you finally build it. This should hang in every home throughout your legacy.
4. Master gardener career and freelance botanist aspiration
5. Always do your laundry with the washtub and clothesline
6. Don’t get married until you have mastered the gardening skill.
7. Ask for a large loan at least once in your life.
Generation Two: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
You spent your childhood watching your parent struggle against the system. Now you are on a mission to take that system down. Organizing for charity and writing books to expose corruption is how you will keep your parent’s legacy alive.
Traits: Ambitious, Dance Machine,Vegetarian
Aspiration: Best Selling Author
Career: Politician - Charity
Rules:
1. Join the after school Scouting club and collect all the badges.
2. Complete the Politician (Charity) career and Best Selling Author aspiration.
3. Win a Dance Battle
4. Marry somebody you met at a protest rally
5. Obtain the Giving Back and Rally Fame Perks
6. Collect all the festival bubble blower bottles
Generation Three: Wizard Of Oz
Your parents are so proud of everything they and your grandparents have built for the family in the new land. Of course you understand but, if you are really honest, you are bored of living in the same place and doing the same things. You want to explore, meet new people and do new things.
Traits: Dog Lover, Clumsy, Music Lover
Aspiration: Friend of The World
Career: Astronaut - Space Ranger
Rules:
1. Get a dog & become companions.
2. Complete Astronaut (Space Ranger) Career and Friend of the World aspiration
3. Go on Vacation to both Granite Falls and Salvadorada at least once.
4. Master dog training and cooking skills.
5. Cook Pet food recipe at least once a week
6. Become friends with Patchy, The Living Statue and somebody in a animal outfit
Generation Four: Singin’ In the Rain
There was a great deal to learn from a parent that spent so much time time exploring. That was when you actually got to see them. So much time spent alone led to lots of time playing make believe, putting on puppet shows and just acting into the mirror. Anything to feel less lonely. Now all of that is going be pay off as you take your acting to the silver screen. The world WILL know your name.
Traits: Perfectionist, Jealous, Goofball
Aspiration: Renaissance Sim
Career: Acting
Rules:
1. Join after school drama club
2. Master singing skill
3. Declare rain to be your favorite weather.
4. Complete Acting career and Renaissance aspiration.
5. Be on the winning Jokester team at the Hijinks Festival
6. Have several jobs before you decide to get serious about acting. Keep practicing though. Dreams shouldn’t get stale.
7. Fall in love with somebody that is already married, get them to break up with their partner & then marry them.
8. Have at least two children.
Generation Five: Some Like It Hot
Growing up, your home was obsessed with showbiz. So it is no wonder you got bit by the entertainer bug too. Only one problem. Everybody knows your famous acting parent and doesn’t want to take you seriously. Maybe if you go undercover with a bit of a gender bending look it might help you get a fair shake?
Traits: Creative, Romantic, Hates Children
Aspiration: Musical Genius
Career: Entertainer - Musician
Rules:
1. Complete Entertainer (Musician) career and Musical Genius aspiration
2. Declare hot weather your favorite weather
3. Master Media Production & Rock Climbing skills
4. Have a haircut and at least one outfit originally intended for the opposite gender.
5. Always have one of your siblings living in the same home as you
6. Wait until you are halfway through your adult age to have kids.
Generation Six: The Day The Earth Stood Still
Maybe they never said it outright but you always felt like you were an afterthought for your parents. Did they even really want you? You’re not going to let that get you down though. You’ll build your own big happy family and make sure they always know how much they are wanted.
Traits: Family Oriented,Outgoing,Slob
Aspiration: Big Happy Family
Career: Scientist
Rules:
1. Master Gourmet Cooking, Handiness and Skating skills
2. Complete Big Happy Family aspiration and Scientist career
3. Marry teenage sweetheart
4. Become best friends with an alien
5. Take photos with all of your teenage children and hang on the wall.
6. Win the Curry contest at the Spice Festival
Generation Seven: Mildred Pierce
Face it. Your parents did an amazing job. Love was all around you growing up and they raised you to have real belief in yourself. You know you can do anything. Even if that means eating baked goods all the time. Also, now that you think of it, did getting that much love all the time setup impossible standards for your future romantic partners to try to meet?
Traits: Foodie, Bro, Self-Assured
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Career: Business - Management
Rules:
1. Master baking, charisma and flower arranging skills
2. Complete Business (Management) career and Fabulously Wealthy aspiration
3. When at home, eat nothing but baked goods you prepared yourself & honey from your bee box.
4. Get married and divorced twice. Have a child with each spouse.
5. Start a club with just your siblings as members. Meet at least weekly.
Generation Eight: Arsenic and Old Lace
Why is family alway so up in your grill? Surely they can recognize your genius? Then why won’t they just get out of your way and let your plans unfold? Still, keep your enemies close, as they say.
Traits: Genius,Self-Absorbed,Mean
Aspiration: Public Enemy
Career: Criminal - Boss
Rules:
1. Master herbalism, mischief and bowling skills
2. Complete Criminal (Boss) career and Public Enemy aspiration
3. Have two of your Aunts or Uncles move in with you, if they are still alive.
4. Buy Dr. June's Weather Control Device
5. Be enemies with a sibling
6. Get married on Halloween
7. Obtain the Play the Villain fame perk.
Generation Nine: On The Town
Enough with this small town life. Like your your great, great, great, great grandparent, you want to see and do EVERYTHING. So why haven’t you moved to the big city yet? Now is your time! Paint the town red and make the city yours!
Traits: Cheerful, Glutton, Bookworm
Aspiration: City Native
Career: Critic - Food
Rules:
1. Skip school at least once
2. Move to San Myshuno
3. Master Athletic and Comedy skills
4. Complete the Critic (Food) career and City Native aspiration
5. Always take the Work From Home option
6. Have a pet of some variety.
7. Marry somebody who works as a food or souvenir stall vendor.
Generation Ten: High Society
Wow. Your ancestor that first moved to that dusty lot in Oasis Springs couldn’t even have imagined where your family is now. You don’t want for much. The world is at your fingertip. Newspapers report on your love-life. Yet, you have a way of sabotaging your own happiness. When will you ever learn what...or who...is truly good for you?
Traits: Insider, Materialistic, Childish
Aspiration: Soulmate
Career: Social Media - Internet Personality
Rules:
1. Complete Social Media (Internet Personality) career and Soulmate aspiration.
2. Master DJ Mixing trait
3. Marry your soulmate, divorce them, date somebody else and then remarry your soulmate
4. Take a yoga class & get a message at a spa
5. Hire a butler
6. Have a lifestyle brand
Have fun! I can't wait to see what stories plat out. Share as much as possible!
Use #SilverScreenSims in the Gallery and on social media so we can follow each other's progress there too. I plan on streaming a lot of my legacy play on Twitch.
I'm Sims4Sarah everywhere.
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Cecilia Ealing is Generation One of my Silver Screen Sims Legacy.
Her tent is pitched in Oasis Springs and she's excited...but more than a bit nervous... to start this new chapter of her life.
I'm a geek so Cecilia for Cecil B Demille and Ealing for Ealing Studios, the oldest still operating movie studio in the world.
Downside, surviving on the fruitcake the Welcome Wagon brought around has lost any charm it originally had.
Things are looking up a bit for Cecilia. Her career as a gardener got off to a good start and the injection of cash has allowed her to make some progress on getting proper shelter. If you can call eating granola in the same room as your toilet progress.
When Cecilia left her old town, she thought she was done with having to air her dirty laundry for the whole town to see ...
There have been a few times when she thought she may have found a guy that would make her happy.
Despite his comedy tache, Nobuya is great to talk to. They get along great but....he hates kids. Would that really be fair to to any future family?
Cecilia met Karim when they played chess against each other in the park. He might not be much for fashion but they got along great! His...um...erratic ways...are the only possible draw back. Maybe she could make that work though?
She just can't decide.
Cecilia even went so far as to invite them BOTH over for Harvestfest hoping it would help her decide between them.
Then one day she went for a nature walk and ran into a pizza guy named Athrav.
They struck up a conversation and the next thing they knew it, they had been talking until the sun started to set.
A few days later, they ran into each other again at the karaoke bar and ....well...let's just say....Cecilia hasn't called Karim or Nobuya in a while.
lol...thank you
Finally, after all her watering and weeding, Cecilia reached the top of the gardening skill. More than a bit relieved to have reached the milestone before she was old and wrinkled, she invited Athrav over to celebrate.
With a drink...or three...under their belts, Cecilia finally had the courage to invite Athrav into her prized greenhouse for the main event of the night.
He said yes and they eloped right there and then!
The happy couple wasted no time at all in expanding their family. It only took a couple of days before Cecilia was doing the Lucky Loo dance and breaking the news to Athrav.
Perhaps Cecilia should have been a bit more concerned that Vlad was the doctor in the delivery room but she was too excited...or too drugged up..to object too loudly.
A lot of breathing, pushing and choice language later, Cecilia welcomed her son, Ford Ealing, into the world. He'll go a great job representing the second generation of the Ealing Legacy.
Ford certainly brought life to Cecilia and Athrav's home and a new found meaning to to their lives.
While the pair still had to work the land and do whatever they could to build a live in their new town, they had to learn to take time stop and take time to stop and play and explore for with Ford. He was never more happy when one or both of them was stimulating his imagination or creativity with storytelling through a book or playing dolls.
Even if Cecilia did try to get a little bit of 'me time', it wouldn't take too long before Ford would find her and ask for some playtime.
Still, how could they say no when the look on his face was such a reward?
Hopefully, as he enters his childhood stage, they will continue to be able to spare as much time to spend with their precious son. They'll keep trying even if it leaves them as exhausted as they look.
Early on in his childhood, but it is already clear that Ford is a special kid. He has an interesting mix of quest for knowledge, whimsy and compassion.
If you leave him along for a moment, you'll find him working on the logic or social skills.
Even if that means keeping his dad up way past HIS bedtime.
He joined the Scouts as soon he had the chance and has been breezing through badges. Working on the fitness badge was when Ford learned that he loves to dance! Now if you check in on him there is a good chance he'll be be leading Cecilia and half their neighbors in a bedroom dance party.
More important than anything, Ford and his parents have a great relationship. They love each other and he always feels supported. No matter how hard his parents work, he knows they always find time for him.
Even that time when he wore a bear suit for a week and instead of getting bad, Cecilia just went along with it and bought her own Mamma Bear suit to join the 'fun'.
His teen years have to be just as great, right?
Ford's teen years continued with the same great family relationship that was nurtured in his childhood.
It's fair to say that the Ealing Family are a solid unit. There is something about a family that have had to work for everything that they that truly appreciates what it means to not just survive together but to live each moment together.
Unfortunately, even the strongest of bonds have a time when they will need to be broken. Ford barely made it into his first week when his father, Athrav passed away. As hard as it was to experience, Ford was glad he was there to comfort Cecilia.
Isn't it? Much more fun than the picky eater stage!
Also, loving your profile photo!
From that moment onward, Ford put his teenage energy into helping his mother move forward with her life. Cecilia, having completed all her lifetime goals, needed somebody to help her remember there was still so much life to live.
He took her on every outing and dance party he heard about. The more she 'got down' the less time she had to hide under the covers. Even if it did mean doing a group dance with her son and Bernie Sanders (still a 'townie' from a pervious CAS challenge).
Of course, Ford had his own grief to work through after the loss of his father. He found solace through writing. Turning out his first book of poetry in his bedroom before he was halfway through his teenage days.
It comes for us all, rarely at a time of convince. For Cecilia Ealing, her date with The Reaper arrived in her prized greenhouse, shortly after she had tended to the garden. Perhaps she couldn't identify the sensation but it was if she felt her destiny approaching as she searched into the haze of the glaring sun for answers.
Still you can't fight fate and Grim carried out his duties, leaving Ford weeping and and orphan. Still a a teenager, he will have to live off his parent's savings and stay off the social services radar until he has aged up. His mother didn't risk everything to move to this new land just to have him taken away from all that she fought to build for him.
As an orphaned teenager, Ford knew that he should be keeping himself off the radar until he was a young adult.The pull of the dance floor was too much though and before long he found himself meeting up with his friends at nightclubs.
After all, with moves this good, it would be almost criminal not to show them off.
Before long, Ford was putting his moves to the test and winning dance-offs.
Thank you! I can’t wait to see others doing it.
I’m about half way through my current legacy with it. I need to get the time to update the story in the thread up to that point.
Thank you so much! I am just happy that somebody is interested in taking part in them.
I've only put together one challenge before these - Rags to World Famous Musician Challenge - https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/951397/rags-to-world-famous-musician-challenge