Hello everyone! It’s been a while since we’ve given you an update regarding the changes to the Sims 4 and how they will affect the Legacy Challenge.
To be completely honest, we are a bit behind on The Sims 4 at the moment. We haven’t purchased Island Living and don’t really plan to, so it’s taken us a while to figure out what exactly we need to update since we don’t have the game to playtest.
First off, you may absolutely use the new CAS story mode to make your founder, but you do not have to. This is up to your own individual preferences.
Secondly, if you’d like to increase the difficulty of your challenge you can use the new “Off the grid” lot trait. We are not adding any official rules for this, but if you want to make your own challenge more difficult, then go for it.
You may also allow your Sims to get odd jobs, but this will have no affect on the challenge itself.
Finally, we are not updating the challenge for Island Living. We made a decision a while back that we will not be updating the challenge for further expansion packs. To be honest, we don’t really play The Sims 4 anymore and haven’t been buying the packs. You are more than welcome to use the new additions from any future packs in your challenge, there will just not be any new points for them.
Thank you both so much for all of the hard work you’ve put into creating and maintaining The Legacy Challenge. It tremendously enhances the gameplay experience and personally, it’s been the biggest push I’ve needed to want to explore The Sims 4.
It became quite… difficult to enjoy the game a few years ago which – coupled with my studies – meant that I took a long break from the game. I’ll be re-exploring it now with a Legacy Challenge Let’s Play and have made a video-guide version of your rules to help others try their hands at the challenge. Thank you for all you’ve both done for the community!