Legacy challenge

A legacy challenge is a challenge created by Pinstar that challenges a player to play a family through 10 generations.

The player starts with one adult Sim by themselves in what is known as a "legacy lot" (a lot, usually 5x5 or 6x5, with only the bare necessities for the Sim). The use of cheats and who the family members can marry are strictly regulated. Every generation there is supposed to be a heir who keeps the legacy going.

The townie rule is different in The Sims 3, because everybody is from the same neighbourhood.

Legacy Challenge links

 * Official Legacy Challenge for The Sims 2
 * Legacy Challenge for The Sims 3
 * Creator's blog

Some Types of Legacies
These are just some of the many different legacies that there are.


 * Uglacy: Trying to create the ugliest Sim possible in 10 generations.
 * Prettacy: Starting with a very ugly Sim, then trying to make the prettiest sim possible in 10 generations.
 * Alphabet Legacy: Naming the children in alphabetical order for 26 generations. (I.e. first generation names start with 'A' (eg. Alice), second generation with 'B' (eg. Bob), third generation with 'C' (eg. Charlie), etc. etc.)
 * Matriarch Legacy: Starting with an adult female, make her become pregnant without marrying or having the father move in. This goes applies to all generations.
 * Riskacy: Having the founder and heirs marry the first adult sim of the opposite gender (playable, townie, or NPC) that walks onto the lot.
 * Cleanacy: Making it so the founder and every heir have 10 personality points in the neatness category/have the neat trait.
 * Fatacy: The founder, all heirs, and all spouses, must be fat.
 * Adoptacy: Sims cannot be born to the family, only adopted.
 * Immortal: Keep a single Sim alive while his/her family goes on for 10 generations, using life fruit, Death Flowers and Ambrosia. Aging must be turned on.
 * Apocalypse: The founder must start their family in the wake of a nuclear disaster. There are sixteen "restrictions" in place (plus additional restrictions if you have Seasons and/or Pets installed) which cause trouble and chaos, and basically throwing a spanner in the works of a normal Sim lifestyle. For example, the "Natural Science" restriction means all four seasons must be set to winter, because the disaster causes a nuclear winter to settle over the region. You must relinquish each restriction by rising to the top of their respective careers (i.e. to relinquish the Paranormal restriction, your sim must reach the top of the Paranormal career track). The challenge is completed when all sixteen restrictions are relinquished. To fully enjoy the challenge, it is recommended to have The Sims 2: University, The Sims 2: Seasons and The Sims 2: Pets installed
 * Simbotacy/Servosey: All the children of the founder must be Servos (TS2:OFB), or Simbots (TS3:A). In Ambitions, they must be created with the Master Invention opportunity, not adopted with The My Best Friend Lifetime Reward.

Other Challenge links

 * TheSimsResource.com List of Challenges
 * The Sims 2 Apocalypse Challenge
 * The Sims 3 Apocalypse Challenge