The Avalon Legacy - Updated 12/03/08 - Chapter 23
Astral Faery:
A lot of people do that - which is why there are so many unfinished legacy stories (and legacies in general) out there.
This is only my second attempt at a legacy, so I don't really know any tips - but posting here and getting feedback has helped be quite a bit. Some people like to have a certain theme for their legacy, and that keeps them interested.
Most Maxis sims are fugly, I'll give you that. But there are a couple of downtownies that are pretty decent looking - pretty, even. I don't know if you like downloading, but you could download a set of default replacement faces and then generate your own townies - that would be sure to give you some attractive hopefuls. Otherwise, you could get a teleporting item and 'scope out' the prospects. I love this item, by Paladin's Place. It can be found under 'Sims 2/Objects/Other Objects/Visual teleporter'. It is a yellow vase that enables you to teleport any sim in the game directly to your lot. This will enable you to look at all their portraits and see what sims are in your neighborhood.
Sam the T-man:
@Ari: What happened? I'm not sure, just one minute I was playing fine (apart from trying to find the download messing with pet pregnancies), then I open up the AnyGame folder - I was playing game 3 (so I don't have to keep taking downloads out just to play), and there were only 2 folders. My legacy game had evaporated somehow :( Just as well I was still on the 1st generation, else I'd be really upset. Doing things a little better this time - sort of - not as many mods, just the bug fixes and main annoyance busters, but it's taking longer to find the founder a mate.. while her cat's recently had kittens. Think I'll have to break out the elixir if this keeps up...
Anyway though, I'm usually the same with keeping things going. I think the storyteller handicap is gonna be my best bet, since I have to write a story. I have an idea in mind too, considering the sim I used for founder ^_^
Astral Faery:
Sadie - Not another buggy download - ugh. You finally found the other one and now another?
Well - that's a bummer to be sure - the whole game just vanished. But, better now than later, I suppose, after you had spent several generations building up the family. Do you know what caused the problem so it doesn't happen again? Are you going to keep score? One of these days I'll try to do one and keep score, lol. It's very cool, though, watching your family grow. Pretty neat concept. Will you post your story here? I look forward to reading it. :)
Astral Faery:
2B - I keep forgetting so many people have Insimenator, lol. I don't have it.
Themes can be whatever you want - I didn't really do much of a theme for Avalon, I just like elves...a lot :) . My first legacy attempt was done in a Medieval theme - clothes, furnishings, and house. I heard of one where you could start your sims out at a primitive level, and each generation can represent a different era or time period in history - like the Victorian era or the '80's with clothes and stuff to fit. That would take a lot of time and effort, but for some people it's fun.
I'm doing a kind of fun relaxed legacy with some friends at Planet the Sims Forum, where I like to hang out, and I'm doing a beach theme, sort of. The whole house is on stilts, each room is a different structure and are all connected by walkways. It has an 'island' feel to it, with tiki style furniture and sand dunes in the back with palm trees. The family's last name is Beach. I have an automatic greeter, so everyone who enters the lot makes themselves at home, and the family grills hotdogs all the time. It's a constant beach party. It's just a fun thing, though, and we're all making our own rules and doing things our own way. I think the only things we have in common is not using money cheats, rolling random aspirations for teens, and marrying townies.
And I don't see why you can't create your own townies, as long as you make them random. I'm all for making a gene pool for your sims to marry. We had all talked about that, too, as long as aspirations, turn-ons and turn-offs and personalities were rolled randomly. I don't know if the legacy rules cover that or not. But if you're just playing for fun, that's cool.
Sam the T-man:
@Ari: Yeah, it sucks ¬_¬ Definitely better for happening now, but no, I've no idea what happened. I can't keep score if I wanted to - too many mods in the game files (motive adjustments) that I'm not taking out just for a challenge, so it's just for fun. Same reason in fact that I'm still keeping some mods in. When I do get a story together I'll post it here :) For now though, I'm trying to figure out why I can't set up the holiday sub-hoods - someone else on MATY was having the same problem - details here.
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