Show us your... Gameplay: Legacy Edition

[J. M. Pescado]

my present style of play is a sort of "play the world" method, with supporting Undiscovered Shinies to enable this. Which makes it sort of like how TS3 SHOULD be, but won't be, because EAxis sucks.

Please elaborate. You play a family, teleport in the visitor, and make all the residents unselected?[/quote]
Usually, I use an ownable business venue, and set the owner on some manner of autopilot macro and randomly flip between simply fishbowling the various customers, or grabbing them and giving them orders when I think it would be sufficiently lulzy.

[Quinctia]

While I can completely understand where people are coming from when they say that playing Legacies bores them, for me, it's really the only way to play.

Genetics is the best part of the game for me!  I have heaps and heaps of geneticized and townified custom content.  I use several sets of face templates to generate townies, and I often roll for townies' random recessive genetics (whether they have any, and then what recessive genes they have).  Once I'm a couple of generations in, it's not unusual for me to get sets of siblings who have a few facial traits in common, but little else.  That's not to say I wouldn't get bored if I only have one family, but each one has its own theme--one's an alphabet, one's an uglacy set in an inclusive hood I'm building that actually has a plot, and I just started one that is "I'm Surrounded By Idiots" where you may only control the current heir--so I can just play another family if I get sick of one.

I like to allow them a good amount of autonomy.  I use ACR and Trips and Quads so I am surprised by their procreating.  I am horrible person and use the Kitten Killer for miscarriage, YA/teen dating, and graduating teens from high school halfway through the age span.  But then, that leads to things like the eldest Knowledge daughter of my ISBI family being completely screwed over.  Her father didn't have enough time to help her do her homework as a teen because there were toddler triplets in the household, and she ran out of time to get her grades up to get into college.  If she'd had the full span, she would have been able to catch up, even with the four other siblings in the house.  I've dropped kids out of college for getting pregnant.  I had two brothers decide to (happily) share a wife.

The only mildly boring thing is the money aspect.  But let's face it, it's ridiculously easy to make heaps of money even if you aren't doing a legacy, so that doesn't bother me too much.

I have a family on Gen 12 and one on Gen 7, and they have both been living on their current lots for about 7 generations...eventually the lots just start getting laggy, so I'm about to move them both.  They may or may not have their funds completely liquidated and be forced to buy their homes with tons of mortgage bushes...I haven't decided yet.

[Zazazu]

In my current one, the second child inherits. It makes about as much sense as the eldest being heir or having a matriarchy or patriarchy. Plus, if I get bored, I can have a younger child off its siblings. Founder is a former porn star who wanted to be an architect (you know those architectural students, just trying to make a quick buck and ending up in Mexico taking their tops off for money). She started out dating a former costar and ended up with a police cadet (now on the Vice Squad). She and the husband are getting moldy while their daughters grow. At one point they had seven cats.

I had two brothers decide to (happily) share a wife.

Free Love Cult! Most of my instances of that were just random playables/townies who had great chemistry. Once I did have a brother/sister twin pair who married the same woman. That was in the story I linked.

Zaza, your file does not download well.

I tried it at work and was in agreement. Tried it back at home and it works. I think WinZip doesn't like it. WinZip is bitchy, anyways. WinRar is better.