Generation five has six

1. The How-To Legacy
Volume Five: Pets
(Brought to you by The Sims 2
Exchange… JUST KIDDING… I wish it still
existed)

2. So last time, I failed my Open for Business challenge by being unable to get one up to
level ten. I’ve done it in the past and know how, but without cheats and the Pescado
Business Runs You hack, it’s tough to get done.
I also produced generation five, in which heir Mackenzie Legacy became a vampire after
her boyfriend Count Venkat Garth turned her. It was a mixed blessing because it helped
keep her mood up to graduate from college. They got cured, married, and are now
about to start generation six.
With Pets installed, my goal is simple: adopt a pet and raise them throughout
generation six. That was the major feature added back in (I want to say) 2006. Ready,
set, play!
Okay, that was lame… let’s just show you what I did to get past the halfway mark…

3. STEP ONE: PRETEND YOU’RE STILL A VAMPIRE

4. STEP TWO: CALL TO ADOPT DOG

5. STEP THREE: NOT DOUG, DOG!
Yeah, I renamed Maxx to Dog. I’m so random and creative you guise!

6. STEP FOUR: SAY NO TO WALLS

7. STEP FIVE: PRETTY MUCH DELETE EVERYTHING THAT
YOU CAN AND START OVER

8. STEP SIX: BRAND NEW LEGACY HOUSE!

9. STEP SEVEN: DEMONSTRATE WHERE THE KIDS WILL
LIVE

10. STEP EIGHT: DEMONSTRATE MAIN FLOOR AND WHERE
DOG LIVES
I couldn’t find a space to put all of the dog stuff, so I decided it was time
to rebuild the Legacy house. You’ve read these things before, you know
how it goes.

11. STEP NINE: PROTECT BABY DOG

12. STEP TEN: FIGHT WITHOUT YOUR GRANDFATHER FOR
SOME UNKNOWN REASON

13. STEP ELEVEN: LET YOUR FINGER SLIP AND TAKE A
RANDOM PICTURE
Or I think the point of this picture was to show that their needs are falling. I
haven’t had any desperation shots because I keep having to rush them to the
bathroom, but there are only two so it’s hard to keep up with all five sims in
the house.

14. STEP TWELVE: BE HAUNTED BY EVERY GHOST
Okay, seriously, Pets is when the game got super hard. All the ghosts appear
at once instead of one or two at most, needs are dropping like flies…
goddamn… no wonder I was having difficulty playing this game in the past…

15. STEP THIRTEEN: GENERATION SIX SLOWLY CREEPS IN

16. STEP FOURTEEN: GENERATION SIX MAKES YOU FAT

17. STEP FIFTEEN: HAVE DOG STINK UP HOUSE

18. STEP SIXTEEN: TRY AND HAVE A FULL FAMILY MEAL

19. STEP SEVENTEEN: START GETTING THE MAUSOLEUM
HEADSHOTS DONE

20. STEP EIGHTEEN: PRESENT GENERATION SIX

21. STEP NINETEEN: WELCOME G6!
This is Violet Legacy. 9/9/4/4/4

22. STEP TWENTY: HAVE THE OBLIGATORY OTHER KID

23. STEP TWENTY-ONE: POP GOES THE WEASEL
Kidding, she isn’t a weasel… her one father though…

24. STEP TWENTY-TWO: TURN YOUR SPOUSE INTO A
GRILLED CHEESE SIM
Because every legacy needs one of those at this point or else what are
you even doing? Not following a crowd from 2005-2010, that’s for sure…

25. STEP TWENTY-THREE: TODDLER VIOLET

26. STEP TWENTY-FOUR: BYE ZAITRARRIO!
Died at 82 days

27. STEP TWENTY-FIVE: WONDER IF THE CENSOR GOT
BIGGER OR IF IT’S JUST YOUR IMAGINATION

28. STEP TWENTY-SIX: BIG DOG
Still a puppy. All dogs are puppies.

29. STEP TWENTY-SEVEN: ENTER SECOND TRIMESTER FOR
LAST TIME

30. STEP TWENTY-EIGHT: LEAVE THE KRABBY PATTIES
WHERE PLANKTON CAN GET THEM

31. STEP TWENTY-NINE: MEET THE HEIR
Meet Rose Legacy. 9/6/4/6/4. I chose her as the heir because I felt like
it. This is the last kid of G6, so those custom eyes are finally bred out of
the family.

32. STEP THIRTY: GET FIRED FROM A JOB I FORGOT YOU
HAD

33. STEP THIRTY-ONE: PASS OUT IN FOOD

34. STEP THIRTY-TWO: STRANGLE DOG
Oh, and that’s Violet… I shaved her head.

35. STEP THIRTY-THREE: CHILD VIOLET

36. STEP THIRTY-FOUR: TODDLER ROSE

37. STEP THIRTY-FIVE: ATTEMPT TO TEACH TODDLER
ANYTHING AND FAIL MISERABLY

38. STEP THIRTY-SIX: WASH DOG

39. STEP THIRTY-SEVEN: GET FUN NEED UP BY CLEANING

40. STEP THIRTY-EIGHT: ALMOST HAVE SOCIAL WORKER
COME

41. STEP THIRTY-NINE: BE HAUNTED BY GHOST OF
KAYLYNN
You’re no longer a part of the Legacy; go back to where you came from!
Let G6 live!

42. STEP FORTY: FEEL LIKE IT’S PRISON

43. STEP FORTY-ONE: CHILD ROSE

44. STEP FORTY-TWO: LIVE BY FATHER’S RULES

45. STEP FORTY-THREE: MAKE GRANDPARENTS USEFUL;
LEARN HOW TO DO HOMEWORK TOGETHER

46. STEP FORTY-FOUR: ADD NEW BATHROOM BECAUSE
THIS IS GETTING INSANE

47. STEP FORTY-FIVE: TEEN VIOLET
She rolled family and wants to graduate 3 kids from college. She likes formal wear
and costume makeup but hates custom hair.
Because of that LTW, I don’t want her as the heir (which is why it defaulted to Rose).
I’m worried about my laptop lagging. It has already hit a couple rough spots so far.

48. STEP FORTY-SIX: TEACH DOG SOME SKILLS

49. STEP FORTY-SEVEN: BE MADEOVER INTO THE CLEAN
FREAK YOU ARE

50. STEP FORTY-EIGHT: ENJOY THE SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE;
GET REALLY FAT

51. STEP FORTY-NINE: CONTINUE TO IMPOSE WILL ON
WHOLE FAMILY

52. STEP FIFTY: CLEAN A DOG BED IN A POODLE SKIRT
I thought it would be funnier… why did I think it would be funny?

53. STEP FIFTY-ONE: TEEN ROSE
She rolled knowledge and wants to be a criminal mastermind. It won’t happen
because the family has too much money as is, but she can dream. She likes
cologne and make-up but hates vampires (everyone hates their parents at
some point).

54. STEP FIFTY-TWO: TURN YOUR HEIR INTO THE MOM
FROM MEAN GIRLS
Remember that movie? It’s older than some of these EPs.

55. STEP FIFTY-THREE: BOND WITH SISTER

56. STEP FIFTY-FOUR: HAVE G4 HEIR DIE
Goodbye Wright Legacy. He died at the age of 74.

57. STEP FIFTY-FIVE: HANG OUT IN SPOOKY MAUSOLEUM

58. STEP FIFTY-SIX: HAVE JERKASS WHO CHEATED DIE
Lee died at the age of 78. Somehow, despite not being perma-plat, he
lived longer than Wright.
The world isn’t fair.

59. STEP FIFTY-SEVEN: DEAL WITH SOMETHING WORSE
THAN DEATH: ACNE!

60. STEP FIFTY-EIGHT: FULFILL MOM’S WANTS AND GET A
HOT TUB

61. STEP FIFTY-NINE: GO TO COLLEGE
Violet was running out of time before she had to go and I waited a few
days after that to send Rose.

62. STEP SIXTY: ARRIVE IN COLLEGE
I kept Violet the same since she kept to the style I like her in

63. STEP SIXTY-ONE: MAKE YOUR HEIR LOOK REAL PURTY
Custom hair and custom clothes from around 2006, so in-game still sort
of matches the time it would have all had to have taken place (if this
were somehow in the past).

64. STEP SIXTY-TWO: USE THE ORB TO FIND A MATE
Yes, I should use a matchmaker, but I still have to work for the relationship.
Anyways, this is Gary Patch. Family sim, wants to be captain hero, 4/4/4/7/6,
likes blondes and red-heads but not underwear.
So yeah, G6 spouse.

65. STEP SIXTY-THREE: FLIRT MERCILESSLY

66. STEP SIXTY-FOUR: GET REJECTED
First of all, how dare you.

67. STEP SIXTY-FIVE: CRY

68. STEP SIXTY-SIX: HAVE A G5 SPARE FALL IN LOVE ON
THEIR OWN

69. STEP SIXTY-SEVEN: MISS THE REAL FIRST KISS BECAUSE
YOUR ATTENTION WAS ELSEWHERE

70. STEP SIXTY-EIGHT: MOVE HEIR TO GREEK HOUSE WITH
MOM’S TWIN

71. STEP SIXTY-NINE: MAKE HIM FALL IN LOVE DURING
SOPHMORE YEAR

72. STEP SEVENTY: WOOHOO

73. STEP SEVENTY-ONE: GET ENGAGED AND FORGET
ABOUT HIM EVERY OTHER SEMESTER

74. STEP SEVENTY-TWO: HAVE OTHER G5 SPARE GET LUCKY
I wanted to get most everyone out of college ASAP. ACR did the rest.

75. STEP SEVENTY-THREE: HAVE A SPARE START A LIFE
So Ariel married Sheldon Kim and they have a daughter named Kimberly
Kim and adopted the kitten Bonkers.

76. STEP SEVENTY-FOUR: GRADUATE PLACEHOLDER
MADISON

77. STEP SEVENTY-FIVE: MOVE VIOLET IN AS PLACEHOLDER

78. STEP SEVENTY-SIX: MAX OUT SKILLS IN COLLEGE

79. STEP SEVENTY-SEVEN: GRADUATE

80. STEP SEVENTY-EIGHT: GO HOME; GET MADE-OVER

81. STEP SEVENTY-NINE: REUINTE WITH FUTURE SPOUSE

82. STEP EIGHTY: MAKE FUTURE SPOUSE CURRENT SPOUSE

83. STEP EIGHTY-ONE: START A FIRE WHILE GETTING
MARRIED

84. So that’s it. This chapter had a lot less pictures than the last because I was so focused on
getting my sims’ needs up. Seriously, at some point between OFB and Pets, Maxis/EA
made the games harder for no good reason.
I still have to use the wedding arch to get my sims married. I would like to have the
Propose… Marriage function back. Not sure if it comes back in Seasons, but that’s
installed and I need to get started on generation seven as soon as I can.
My biggest fear going forward is the lagging caused by seasons. I know it caused
problems for my XP back in the day, but I’m not sure about a Windows 7 machine.
Everything has been going pretty fine so far, which a few hiccups, but that’s to be
expected.
The next goal is to grow a garden, so I’m putting Rose to that. Get it? G6 is named after
flowers because they were going to be adults in Seasons! Hahahasofunnyokayi’llstop.
Bye,
Rex