Thank you! I love your gameplay ideas - this is how I love to play. Looking forward to your other occult videos, I probably won't use the mods but it will be interesting to see what they add and maybe they will give me a few ideas to implement. ❤
@@SamJones-qx9hz thank you so much for watching and commenting!! I'm playing the mermaid school right now in my own legacy and it's quite fun, so hopefully the video will still be useful! I might show a split of ideas in that video for both mods and non-mods if I can 🤔
I love watching your gameplay idea videos i find them so interesting and fun and it makes me rlly annoyed to see that you dont have that many likes bc you deserve thousands of likes (: edit: if you didnt want your sim to drop out of high school you could do a summer school and make a few holidays called summer break
Thank you so much, that's so nice of you😭🩵 I'll keep posting more consistently, so hopefully more people will find my videos! Thank you for watching and commenting!!
Ooh and that's a great idea about summer break! Like just take the vacation days from school? That's a great point. I think the vacation day system could be used for lots of interesting gameplay ideas and is probably underutilized by most players!
@@ChrisDragon531 it's so nice to customize!! The default build has a lot of things for an EA community lot, I just feel like it's too big, y'know? 😅 And it's just really fun to customize a magic realm!
Wow! This is so good - I usually randomly choose one of the parents 6 traits then just randomise the others but the way you do it really fleshes out the sim almost from birth. I have another question (sorry 😅)... do you play rotationally through households or play one family? This is something I'm still trying to work out. Really enjoyed this ❤
@@SamJones-qx9hz thank you so much for watching!! ✨️✨️ I love choosing the traits based on their entire life and environment, really gives them personality imo ☺️ I do play rotationally! It takes a long time to work through all the families but I can't just choose an heir and kick out everybody else, lol. Right now in my main legacy save file, I'm just starting gen 7 almost 5 real-life years into playing them 😅 It's about 125 sims (including pets so maybe like 100-105 human sims), in about 20-ish households so it takes a loong time but I can't play any other way. There's so much history in these families now haha. I only age them up when I feel like it's good timing, and sometimes I turn on auto-aging for other households but not my own, so that their townie friends will age up!
This is such a good idea - thank you so much for sharing. I've been wanting to do something to make spellcaster gameplay different and I love this. You mentioned you added teen spellcasters for your sims to socialise with, can I ask how you did that? And yes please... I'd love to see your ideas for other occults ❤
@@SamJones-qx9hz I'm so glad you liked the video, thank you for watching!! I downloaded teen sims from the gallery just by searching "teen spellcaster" and placed 8 of them in a house. They show up automatically! I placed them in a house in Glimmerbrook but I don't think they have to be there. As long as they're spellcasters, they should show up in the Magic Realm!
Thank you! Definitely going to implement this into my gameplay - you've inspired me ❤ Looking forward to more occult ideas and while I wait I'll checkout the videos on making kids more fun to play.
I love this series! I've been implementing your play style into mine and it has really improved my enjoyment of the game. I used to pick traits based on what I wanted my Sim to grow up into, but then I found I was always giving them good traits and always going to the same combo of traits. I've also tried random traits. I now have a mod that adds in I think 100 new traits, and a mod to add more traits in CAS. That has really helped make my Sims feel more unique, especially when combined with this play style.
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours because video just popped up on my home page!! Loved the video and you did a great job at the build. My favourite rooms were the kitchen and living room! Soooo cute. Love using Pinterest for inspo 🤩 subscribed!
That’s exactly how I was able to do the 100 baby challenge. I found that I had to start caring about these children and their wants wishes and desires. That’s what made it stay enjoyable. And I truly believe that’s the way it’s meant to be played, unlike previous versions of the game where you could plunk down characters and they would entertain you.
I agree, actually paying attention to each sim makes it so much more fun and interesting to me. And wow, with the 100 baby challenge, that sounds intense! I've never done it 'cause when I watch them, it always just seems like churning out babies nonstop and kicking them out of the house so fast and they don't really have any personalities 💀 But maybe doing it more slowly, even if it takes forever, will be a lot more fun and actually focusing on the kids
@@starstruck_sims actually I’ve now got 100 sims that I care about and if I ever get the courage to start posting my own let’s play I want to call it 100 baby Legacy and play their lives. I have 100 different challenges that I’ve designed and am almost ready to go. I’m just kinda nervous to start filming.
@@cubsmcgee9076 nice that sounds fun, good luck with it!! And yeah I also have more than 100 sims I rotationally play through, it takes a while but I can't imagine just choosing one kid to play and ignoring all the others, so "heir" gameplay isn't for me at all! I've had to start limiting my sims to one kid each or it's just too much lmao
I know I'm a year late, but I REALLY REALLY like this video! You're video came right on time... I'm going to spend more time with the littles now because it makes sense. Hope you're still enjoying the game
Thank you so much, I'm definitely still enjoying it! This summer will be 5 years with my legacy and I'm only on gen 5, and still play almost every day 😅 I'm glad to hear you liked the video and I hope some of the ideas help!
I super relate to your play style. I have a hard time switching from my main save, and I've been exploring different "timelines" for the same family with the recover save feature. My favorite family is super dark, kinda Addams and Edgar Allan Poe inspired. It has alcoholism, drug abuse, and two young sisters trying to move on after their mother committed suicide (thanks to extreme violence and basemental mods). It's super dark but I love the drama on that family
Oooh that sounds so interesting! And yeah for sure seems like our style is similar haha. All the drama all the time for my sims 🫡 now i simply have too many of them and it's hard to play through them all, so i'm having an apocalypse and seeing who survives 🤷🏻♀️ That's a really interesting idea about different timelines, might try it some day!
Thanks for sharing those tips with us! I'm not fan about the big family tree, maybe because I have a distant relationship with mine but but what works a bit for me in Sims 4 is living with all my Sims in the same world, with my construction and more. But in a way what I prefer is when the story begin, building the house, it took my few hours an then I'm tired to play...
Ahh building the house and making the sims take forever, so I understand feeling tired after that! 😫 I like to start with unfurnished builds so then the sims have to fill it up as they earn money. I'm also not close to my family at all, so I think I enjoy the drama and complicated relationships I can make happen in these families 😅 That's a cool idea about having them all live in the same world! Then at least you see them all the time wandering around
@@starstruck_sims I understand your gameplay too, but I always use Motherlode once and then I let the money go because when my Sims feels angry or upset for exemple this makes me feel the same 😅 I'm impress by the way you introduce your storie's Sims Thanks for your answer
Haha thank you for asking!! I have an instagram where I'm posting the story, all of season 1 is on there and it's about halfway through season 2 and I plan to get back to it soon. The account is starstruck.stories !
I used to play The Sims 2/3 on console until I got a gaming PC in 2019. The Sims 4 was my first Sims PC game and fell in love with it since. I should really try out your method. I didn't know how to properly play The Sims 4 and got bored with it very quick. I actually have an idea on starting my first family legacy and I'm gonna try to follow your tips. I was hoping to buy the Growing Together expansion pack before starting. Have you tried that pack for your families in the game?
Ahh I really hope the tips help with your legacy family!! The Sims 4 was also my first PC game (also in 2019?? Haha), and I've loved it since! I do have Growing Together, but to be honest, when I get a new pack, I don't try out everything at once because I still want things to feel new months from now. So I haven't tried the family reunion and some other things in the pack. I love the build and cas items. And before I got the pack, I was playing with the base game infants, and the pack definitely gives a lot more options with the infants. I felt like base game infants were lacking a lot, so I definitely prefer the pack for that. But, like I said, there are some features I haven't tried yet so I can't speak to the whole pack's usefulness. I think it's kind of like Seasons in that it's more in the background of your game than something really obvious to see all the time. Getting work burnout has been fun (for my sims...hahaha not me). I'm looking forward to getting a midlife crisis sim, that will be fun too. The milestones are a great addition to the game too
Thank you so much for commenting and subscribing!! Do you use mods? If so, I definitely recommend downloading CC skins that enhance sims' features so they look a lot better. I can recommend some if you want? If you can't use mods, I'd recommend trying to copy a celebrity's face on a sim, and play around with the opacity settings on makeup to improve the face texture. To start a family....hmmm, in new save files, I would think of the career or lifestyle you want them to have (careers you can do at home give you more chance for creatively making a story for them), and only play with 1 or 2 sims to start so you can figure out their personality. Based on their lifestyle, experiences, finances, the location they live, and their traits, that can decide what their kids' lives will turn out like, and then you have a whole family!
@@soheliacelestialsiblings not having money can be a fun challenge on the sims, but if you're playing a rich family/celebrity drama, then I'd cheat for them to have money! Otherwise I try not to cheat for it, unless there's some kind of glitch (for example, sometimes my sims order drinks at the bar and it takes the money but the drink never appears. So I order again and cheat the money back that they lost)
Ahh good question! I usually tie it to their career, which is usually decided by their traits. I have a Child of the Ocean sim right now who's also a Genius, so she's studying at Foxbury to be a Marine Biologist and she lives in Sulani with a part-time job as a diver and has the Sulani aspiration. If there's not an aspiration for their career, then I usually tie it to the thing they're trying to personally grow from; so if they had an absent family growing up, they might have the big family tree or super parent aspiration!
I love the video but I was just wondering if you played with every single child born to the family. I struggle so much with sticking to one family and I wanted to know if when you have your sims have kids and then each of those sims have kids do you play with everyone or do you select your favourites? Thanks for the video it was really helpful
I play with all of them! It takes a looooong time to cycle through the households though, that's the only con now that I'm 5 gens in. I'm trying to avoid playing with the step-kids that are brought in whenever my sims marry a townie with kids, just to reduce the amount of sims I'm playing. But sometimes they get their own stories and I want to play with them too 😭 And I have a lot of family tree math to figure out if some of them are related so I can see if they can date haha. I wish the sim relationship panels showed more distant family relations!
this video was super interesting, i loved it! i just started a new save the other day, my sims just got engaged so i'll definitely try to use these tips once they start their family!
I find the Parenthood game pack helps my legacy challenges a lot. My sim was a violinist and had good emotional control, meanwhile my other sim who wasn't a violinist, had no emotional control (plus he was erratic so it made sense).
I have never tried to choose my sims traits I always pick them at random, but your idea sounds so good. Thank you for the recommendations, I think I will try it 🥰
