The Sims 2 | "Nehru" Legacy Challenge (Reader Participation Welcome)

[Smellincoffee]

Ah, Landgraab Enterprises. A classic from SC3K. I like how the Sim games reference each other.

I took a look at the other legacy that inspired you, and what a world of difference! Your game is going like most of my Sim families did, user-controlled and thus pretty successful. That one, with free will... whew. Nearly all D- students, tons of fights, lots of fail. And yet, I still think the AI improved from the original Sims. There the Sims would be fired within five days no matter what if you gave them free will, and they'd never get any skills other than logic (chess), creativity (painting/piano), and body (swimming and maybe the riding bull?).

Horrible what you did to Napoleon's old fiancée. An efficient way to dispatch the problem, though.

They showed up in the original game, too, though not so much in Sims 3. I like it when I can find items in the buy catalogues that is produced by a company that appears in SimCity 3000. Malcolm Landgraab IV appears in the Sims 2, by the way. He's a strangely poor businessman (only 100K or so).

That "I'm surrounded by idiots" challenge is hilarious to read through -- so much chaos! At one point one of her legacy spouses starves to death four times in a single update. I did feel a bit guilty about throwing a satellite at the Sim's head, but their chemistry had gone down inexplicably. Of course, Camryn's did the same thing.

Big update today!
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Nehru Legacy 6.0: The Torch is Passed

Camryn, smiling, gives birth to...drumroll, please..

Black-haired brown-eyed Wilhelm, responding to a few requests for Will and an older request for Wilhelm, not to mention another request for Wilhemina. Though if he has a sister, the -ina may yet be used..

I DID intend to institute a new naming convention with Wilhelm, naming him "Lord Wilhelm". A girl would've been called Lady Wilhemina. I forgot, though.

Napoleon is off to his first day on the job as lord of Riverblossom Hills.

Oh, pay up, lady. It's only a week's worth of fines. Depending on how many books you had out, that's a few dollars at best.

WE DO NOT SURRENDER TO EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL! I don't buy it, anyway. At first she was demanding, and now she's Mrs. Weepypants? Please. She's acting.

I have ALWAYS failed with this chance card, so I decide to roll the dice -- or a die, since I keep one next to my gaming PC. Odds are 1, evens are 2. I roll a "3"..

Hm. I'll use the die more often.

And speaking of death...

"So now that there's a little more room in the house, you wanna.... "

Napoleon's first portrait, though there's too much empty space in the top half for my liking.

Keavy is pursuing police work, as per her lifetime want..

..and now it's time for Will's first birthday!

Horatio is about to move off to college, so here is a little trick for you Sims2 players about getting rid of unwanted homework.

Even with moveobjects_on, homework can't be deleted.

HOWEVER....it CAN be deleted if it's sitting on a table.

Kaching. The homework I just deleted was Horatio's, since he's going off to college and it will vanish on its own anyway, but in my non-challenge homes I sometimes delete homework if I can't be bothered to make them do it.

Camryn is steadily making progress in this, one of my favorite custom tracks.

...these were the clothes Horatio was wearing when he grew into a young adult.

Since he's named after Horatio Hornblower, I also gave him a yachting cap.

She goes to work late a night and comes home early in the mornings, which was a good touch on Maxis' part. Sometimes the hours they choose for these careers are ODD.

....and Marie's hot springs miracle has proven to be quite popular with Keavy's friends.

More to come!

 

[Smellincoffee]

Nehru Legacy 6.0, part 2 -- The Torch Passes
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Spring is here! Ah, spring is here...life is skittles, life is beer!
...and it's time for the yearly planting.

Augustus and Edele make a pretty good team..

Looks like worked out well enough -- a second kid is inbound. And of course in this household, "taking it easy" means "scrubbing toilets".

The reason I like playing blended families is seeing little scenes like this: Keavy does as much to parent her cousins as her aunt and uncle do.

Will's growing up again!

... Awkward? Inappropriate...disturbing.

He'll dance with his father in the bathroom while his mom is bathing, but hugs? Hugs are creepy!

And since Keavy will be sticking around, she gets a potential portrait for her place in ye old vault of honor.

Kaiser and Tatiana watch their successors...

Classy, Camyrn.

Looks like Will's about to have company!

Black hair and green eyes! The name thing doesn't come up, but his name is Leon, after Leon Trotsky.

The Mayor is your SON, Augustus, so you'll bloody well toe the line and assume that if he's pandering to the masses, they need pandering to.

Insolent wretches! They do not deserve l'empereur!

Wha-

(They have the same job, but it's quite the coincidence for them to get the chance card on the SAME DAY.)

You support your nephew, Edele! Show them a united front!

The back yard, as it keeps developing...

Keavy's uniform, by the way. It even has stuff on the belt.

And here Edele teaches Will the skills he and Leon will need whenever one of them succeeds their father on the throne.

...which may be SOONER rather than later if he doesn't get his royal tuchus out of bed and off to work.

This is the fourth time he's tried that.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Nehru Legacy 6.0, part 3 -- The Torches Passes For Real This Time
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Back at work after the birth of Leon, and home with another promotion.

The Nehru kitchen. That science lab is Hieryonomous', from the old days, but I put in more counters around it after I determined I needed more space. There are three washers and two trash compacters because I like redundancies.

Lil' Leon is growing up...

I think we have a winner for Napoleon's future heir-portrait, though he'll get another one in old age just to see.

She hasn't even had to SKILL yet, since she started out with some developed stats already.

Adorable.

Keavy's off to college....and graduated. She'll move back in after a spell. (My rule of thumb is that two semesters of Uni are equivalent to a day back in the neighborhood, so I play every household through one season (5 days) while their kids are at university. It gets complicated if they have teenagers who go off to college at separate times, but I manage. That's why when I send a Nehru to college, I don't move them back in until the house has moved forward four or five days.

Grim! He was about to sit down and enjoy a hamburger. You're like a telemarketer, always coming around at the wrong time.

Augustus may have wanted to give Edele the nod.

Farewell, noble Augustus. You were a fine father for the second half of this legacy.

Leon grows up, and learns -- like Keavy -- that Will is not into hugs.

Since Napoleon is the official house leader, and lord of Riverblossom Hills, I have him change clothes. I got these at All about Style, which carries clothes from older periods -- Regency, 19th century, 1920s, 1930s, and so on. I wanted to give him an early 19th century look, but couldn't find a bicorne hat.

His queen also gets a wardrobe change, though that pattern looks more southwestern than regal.

Much better than almost throwing kids into the street. Now he can land in the River Styx if she loses her grip.

And finally...

Wilhelm of the House Nehru hits adolescence!

He grew up into those clothes. Not sure what he's rebelling against.

 

[Civ'ed]

Wilhelm looks goth!

 

[W|M]

He's got similar hair to me!

 

[Lord of Elves]

I demand a withered arm and a malignant Anglophobia for the young Wilhelm.

 

[ZeletDude]

I demand a withered arm and a malignant Anglophobia for the young Wilhelm.

I c wat u did there. He wasn't Anglo-phobic though.. just Britain happened to be in the way of the Greater German Reich, if anything Britain was afraid of Germany.

 

[W|M]

I demand a withered arm and a malignant Anglophobia for the young Wilhelm.

Make sure it's the left arm that's withered!

 

[Arakhor]

Are we talking about Kaiser Wilhelm II, cousin of King George V? I think we might be in danger of over-simplifying, here.

 

[ZeletDude]

Yep, we're talking about him . And what do you mean over-simplifying?

 

[Arakhor]

The complex European situation before the First World War can hardly be reduced to "Anglophobia", you know.

 

[Lord of Elves]

The complex European situation before the First World War can hardly be reduced to "Anglophobia", you know.

We were just talking about Wilhelm II, not the actual balance of power (or lack thereof) and the relationships between the Great Powers.

Spoiler :

Deutschland uber alles!

 

[ZeletDude]

The complex European situation before the First World War can hardly be reduced to "Anglophobia", you know.

Yes I do know

 

[thelastmccabe]

Thanks for putting all this together; it's been really entertaining. I think I'm going to reinstall the sims 2 after I finish Planescape Torment. Where did you find the "rules" for the legacy challenge?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Thanks for putting all this together; it's been really entertaining. I think I'm going to reinstall the sims 2 after I finish Planescape Torment. Where did you find the "rules" for the legacy challenge?

I picked up some of them by reading other people's legacies, then googled for a full set -- hoping to find what everyone else was using. I think the game or challenge started on the Sims2.com message boards, which I've never frequented. The site I found with in-depth rules and scoring arrangements is now defunct, but here are some of the ones I remember...

1. Every challenge starts with one CAS-made Sim, who buys a 5x5 (or 5x6) lot. This starts the Sim out in poverty, as you saw with Hieronymous.
2. This Founder sim must get a job and look for a mate. The mate has to be Maxis-made -- a townie, NPC, or similar sim.
3. The founding couple should have at least two children, a future Heir and a spare-to-the-heir unless the heir is killed. The heir is supposed to be the same gender as your original founder, at least according to that site, but it's not observed in many legacy attempts.
4. When the Heir and the spare grow into adults, the spare must leave the house never to return.
4. When the Founder dies, the torch passes to the Heir, and when he or she dies the torch passes to his own heir. The livejournal legacy I linked to before calls the founder and his heirs "torchholders".

Common practices..
- It seems a common practice to keep all the graves on the lot, in a special room. There are also portraits of every torchholder.

Discarded rules:
The site I looked at had an elaborate scoring system that rewarded lifetime wish fulfillment, careers succeeded in, variety of deaths (fire, electrocution, disease -- ghosts have different colors based on their death. Mine are transparent because they died of old age), etc.. It also penalized players for social worker visits, fires, that kind of thing. I'm not bothering with that because keeping track of such things bores me -- and the legacy Hall of Fame that people who complied with all these rules could submit games to no longer exists.

I would not be surprised if people make up some rules as they go.

Since we're in the second half of this challenge, I'm considering mixing it up a little bit. Up until now the game has been fairly vanilla: I've shown a couple of Freetime hobbies, and the kids go to university, but I haven't been showing off various aspects of the game -- vacations, businesses, witches, that kind of thing. Anyone interested?

I'll post an update tomorrow night...what little gaming time I've had this week has belonged to Civ3, as I loaded up a save from a month ago and realized, "Oh, the Aztecs were invading me." Naturally, I had to conquer them, as well as my well-meaning but hopelessly idiotic allies the Indians, who got themselves conquered by the Aztecs after declaring war on Monty when it became clear I was winning. Now I need to topple a world power (the English have finally won their centuries-long war with the Americans and restored the rule of the Crown ), but that can wait until Will and Leon are grown up.

 

[Omega124]

Hm, maybe you could get a pet? I love how you can teach a falcon to talk.

 

[Arakhor]

Thanks for putting all this together; it's been really entertaining. I think I'm going to reinstall the sims 2 after I finish Planescape Torment. Where did you find the "rules" for the legacy challenge?

Pinstar's original website seems to have gone down, but here's the link to the Apocalypse Challenge, which is the Legacy Challenge on steroids (and heavy emphasis on challenge).

You play Planescape: Torment? You are automatically awesome, in my books. (What can change the nature of a man?)

 

[Omega124]

but here's the link to the Apocalypse Challenge, which is the Legacy Challenge on steroids (and heavy emphasis on challenge).

Wow. That looks like one epic game.

I demand the next legecy game (if any) is done with this rule set!

 

[Arakhor]

Believe me, that's difficult. Check out this page if you're interested in my effort.

 

[Choeimok]

Yaaay, Witches! I love them, thrones are so awesomely overpowered.
Can't do anything wrong with liberal use of fire spells in a crowded college dormitory either
I'd love to see some witch shenanigans in here