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Your legacy rules (2 questions about it)
texxx78
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Just curious if:
1) you make your sim's kids 'inherit' one or more traits from their parents?
2) you make your sim's kids 'inherit' a hobbie or career from their parents?
1) you make your sim's kids 'inherit' one or more traits from their parents?
2) you make your sim's kids 'inherit' a hobbie or career from their parents?
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I randomize the traits. But! I don't know how this is possible, perhaps it is a thing, a feature, 90% of time they inherit one trait from both of the parents. Usually it is insane and creative. So majority of my sims are artists. Because I pick their jobs based on their traits.
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Latelly i find that my families member's goals are so diverse that they end up not spending enough time together... i'm thinking on trying to tie their goals together somehow... like generational goals or something. It's hard to explain cause i don't know exactly what i want/mean too π
You could also think up storylines that involve multiple family members. They don't have to have the same jobs or the same traits. An example would be where one family member ie a cop and another a criminal and how they would behave towards each other when they found out or make them run into each other regularly while your criminal is out doing illegal activities (like stealing for example).
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Great idea! Maybe think of a 'theme' and have each family member embrace it according to their traits and then see how they interact... in my next play session i'll try this approach. Thank you
I halfway do it. I'm not consistent, but normally I randomize the toddler traits and as they age up afterwards, give my sims a 20% to 25% chance of inheriting a parent's trait. I use random.org, set it to randomize a number 1-4 or 1-5. If it's 1 I give them a parent's trait and if not, I randomize the other traits or pick one that I think fits.
It's similar with careers and hobbies. Sometimes, I'll pick a child to do the other branch of the parent's career if they were particularly close.
I didn't get very far in my legacy yet, but I do try to diversify the hobbies and careers. I don't want to be playing the same stuff over and over again.
I don't do randomized traits, and I started making every sim have one of the more negative traits so I wouldn't make everyone perfect. Wolfgang Munch had three negative traits and three children, so I did have each of them inherit one of his faults. That's the family where I worked the hardest on the character values from Parenthood also, so it made sense to have that parenting connection.
Recently I had a family where the parents divorced due to infidelity while their twins were children, and I'm having one grow up with the jealous trait and the other with noncommittal, in response to their childhood.
This is so interesting... i like the last story. It makes sense. I think this kind of connections is what i'm looking for...
whereas an independent toddler will roll randomly a traits and I use an rng to decide a hobby for them to pick and then based on that hobby I pick a career path.
I have different rules for each toddler trait which I use to keep each gen interesting, I also have a rule that around about as they are about to age up into and adult I'll roll on another rng to decide if they're going to have a mid-life crisis which depending on where they end up rolling they will randomly reβre roll 1 or 2 traits and also change careers based on what they get
itd be awfully boring repeating same things over and over so i guess my only rule is that they are something no one in their family has been yet when it comes to these things
like if family already had athlete level 10 its not gonna have another etc.
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2. No, but... Because Fresh Chef is so darn handy, someone in a household nearly always goes into the Culinary career. Even before they may the aspiration, the demands to cook X number of meals helps keep a growing family fed.
Iβll give a current example. My current heir is a teen and when I randomized her aspirations she got the Jungle adventure one. That gave her a good hobby right off the bat. I also will focus on fitness and logic with her which are also important in this case. So sometimes I just go with what makes the most sense from a storytelling point of view. I also randomized whether she should have a normal job, work from home, active or self employed and Self employed won. Makes it more unique to make it random as then I can try things I may not usually.
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