DD Joint Legacy (Round Robin) Rules and Guidelines

[jillyson]

Yay!!! I'd say use one of the smaller lots, as the larger lots seem to fill up quickly with built/downloaded homes.
I exhault thee, builder Karima!

[Tina ☺]

A one-room house?

Actually Karima, I think the house should be big enough for the heir, the spouse, and their children. After all, it isn't supposed to be like when the founder first starts out in the legacy, so the heirs will have more money to start than the heir did.

If the house is small with only one room, then there wouldn't be much point to having a house pre-built because each player will have to do a LOT of building to accomodate a growing family.

[valpre1983]

I agree, a one room house won't do. I think it should be big enough for a growing family. Maybe three bedrooms

[Aussie Karima]

;D ;D That's why I said tell me ;D , so a three bedder will do?
~ Lot size?
~ Price?
~ I will use base game for the build & furnishing, anything else,
~ In the yard I can put in a garden/veggie patch & a pond,is their any thing else you would like included?

~ As I said before tell me & I will build it!

[Tina ☺]

Hmm, I don't know about the price. Maybe you should talk to Jo about that one since she is going first because she will know about how much money the first heir will have to be able to buy it.

Three/four bedrooms sounds good to me. You have to keep in mind that each heir has to give birth at least THREE times and who knows how many sets of twins/triplets may involved in one or more births? I think the bedrooms need to be a decent size just in case there will be mulitple kids occupying them.

[joandsarah]

I still don't get all this talk of downloading a base game house because what am I building for them, if not a base game house?! I only have the base game, I have no CC furniture apart from what I got off the site. I do have a few patterns from other sites and one hair, but that is all!

Admittedly it's pretty rough with a horrible floor plan right now as I am building bit by bit with promotion money, but it will get better. Right now they have a kitchen/dinning, master bedroom, nursery, bathroom, playroom and one kids bedroom. No living room, but then they have no time to do anything other than work and see to babies and teach toddlers!

[jillyson]

I was thinking of a basic starter home. 1 bedroom, one bathroom, kitchen, living room?
Once in the new game, the heir should have enough money to move out and into a new place of the player's choosing.
Then at the end of that turn, the new heir could be moved back in to the original starter home & passed on. The money should come with them, and any special items in their family inventory. The starter home should be a flat $30,000 or less, just the basics for skilling. That way, their money wouldn't really be affected.

Once you have the heir for your turn, you can move them anywhere you want. (that they can afford)

That's my opinion.

[joandsarah]

I don't mind. Maybe make a poll Jilly. Lol I think this RR is going to have lots of them!

[jillyson]

I'll wait and see if any more opinions come in before I do that. If we get some options, I want to have them all listed.

[Tina ☺]

I have to tell you that it doesn't take a lot to confuse me these days and now I am starting to get horribly confused by all this mess.

I've never played any sort of legacy, much less a round robin one, so I am almost completely lost and am only trying to figure out a way to give the heirs a good start without making them start all over again each time, while making it so that each player doesn't download a home with all sorts of stuff missing from it each time.

It doesn't matter to me how it's done as long as we are able to make be as smooth a transition as possible. This would be SO MUCH easier with TS2 than it is with TS3 because of the way downloads, lots, etc work.

[Aussie Karima]

And Jilly,that is exactly why I said a one room house,(which is a starter house!)As I thought thats what we needed! I am happy to use Jo's house,if that is what everyone wants,but the likelihood of the person before me,to upload Jo's house,after they have,(most likely!) moved their heir to a bigger better house! Or a modified Jo's house! The house will never be the same house as the heir,you got,to the house of the offspring & new heir,you send on! That is why I suggested a small base game house that anyone could download to transport the heir in,from game to game,something with all the basics,(And no CC!)just in case you have to finish playing your current hood or family(So the heir Sim won't die!lol!) I am setting up a new hood,that has not been played yet,but I will still need to put new Sims in that town!(before I commence play) & I do think it is silly to evict a whole family,just so the heir Sim can be transported to a new game, I thought the heir was evicted from the family home? So he/she could go on to the next game!hence the suggestion of a base game starter house!( that we all can use,for transporting the Heir from game to game!)

[jillyson]

If I'm understanding everyone correctly, the base/starter home is what they want, but with maybe just basic rooms, so the heir can live there for awhile if they choose. Maybe make a rule that THAT house can't be modified by any player, as it must remain base game only for ease of travel. (but the sim can move out of it and into a home of the player's choosing at any time)

That's why I like the base house over an empty lot, (so they can live there awhile) but either way would work, as long as Jo moves the heir along with enough funds to buy a new home.

After the first player, I don't think funds will be a problem.

I think it's the easiest way, or else an empty lot. The cost will remain the same for everyone, and the sale price will be the same for everyone, so the money will be straight.

My only thinking is, the family will have to be evicted first, if you want any items to travel with the sim. The only way anything will stay is if it's in the family inventory, and if you just move the heir out into the starter home for travel, any items he was carrying will revert to the family inventory of the ones still in the main home.

[Tina ☺]

I am NOT understanding where all this confusion is coming from... at all. The basic idea is simple:

1. Move the heir into the base house. It can be one that Karima builds or the one Jo has built for the founder, depending on what we decide by the time Jo is ready to pass the family down to the next player.

2. The current player uploads the chosen heir for the next player to download... anyway that is the easiest way to be done is fine. This new heir will either come with or be given the family funds that have been earned by the family. (In TS3, a sim can be uploaded as a family without a lot. I know this because it happened to me when I tried to make an avatar on the official TS3 site and learned it didn't work because I saved the sim inside the game instead of from CAS.)

3. The new player downloads the base lot which will be uploaded somewhere and the link will be placed in the first post of this thread. Then the sim will be moved into the base house. The player can make any changes, etc that she wants while the family is living there because it has NOTHING to do with the next player in line.

4. The next player in line will download the base house from the aforementioned link and the new heir which will be uploaded with the funds the family earned during their lives and then place the lot and move the new heir into it.

5. Rinse and repeat with each new player.

Did I type this clearly enough for everyone to understand? The bottom line is each player with start out with the new chosen heir and a copy of the base house as it was orginally built. Of course the family funds will grow each time because money builds up as generations pass, so the current player may do whatever he/she wishes while playing the lot because each new player will start out with a fresh copy of the base lot.

It's quite possible that the heir may be moved into the base house by the current player and be uploaded for the next player that way if that will work out right without messing anyone's game up with content they don't have or can't get because of missing expansions, etc.

[jillyson]

I didn't realize you could upload a sim as a "family" or "household" without a lot. We might need a short tutorial on how to do that. I believe that puts them in "the library", and they can be removed from, and added to, the game in that location the same way move our simselves in the "saved sims" file..

I think the starter home would be fun. If the home and the sim are kept separate, then we can expand the starter home any way we want, which would be an extra fun thing to do - to see what everyone does with the same starter. Since, from what Tina said, it's not actually needed, I guess it would only be optional.

[joandsarah]

Sounds good to me. I don't mind if people would rather have Karima's house, her building skills are better thrn mine for sure.