MY HEART IS YOURS | A Sims 4 Legacy Challenge
Written by @natolesims AKA @dustbon
I did a thing! This challenge is based on the mexican telenovela "Mi Corazón es Tuyo" (My Heart is Yours) where the main character, an exotic dancer, ends up working as a nanny for a millionaire by accident. I used to watch it every single afternoon with my abuelita and since I was feeling nostalgic, this challenge came to life. Hehe.
This is a 10 gen, story-driven challenge with detailed objectives and dynamics for each generation. I hope you like it! I'd love to see if you play it, so feel free to tag me or use #myheartisyourslegacy
Rules under the cut! Or if you prefer it, here's the Google Doc~
NOTES AND GENERAL RULES
Adult themes are included in some generations. You’ve been warned.
There might be some aspects of the gameplay that might not be included in the game by default (for example, earning money as a nanny or a dancer). If you play with mods, feel free to use how many you’d like to enhance the experience!
Alternatively, you can always make your own twist and interpretation of the challenge, its features and rules. It’s your gameplay, so have fun and do your thing!
Since the story revolves around wealthy families, I’d suggest to create / download some rich sims or households if you’d like to have more options.
You can skip, add new or change the order of the generations.
No cheats allowed besides freerealestate or funds modification (according to some situations)
I created this challenge considering multiple aspects of the game and its DLCs. If you’d like to change or substitute something, go ahead!
Each generation is a bit specific, so I’d suggest to play on normal / long lifespan or pause aging whenever you consider necessary.
Again, have fun!!
GEN 1 - THE NANNY
You are an orphan who learned to survive on your own at a very young age. After years of working as an exotic dancer you finally managed to buy your own little house, but you lost everything unexpectedly. In an act of desperation, you asked for a large loan from your horrible boss who has you trapped in their grasp and the money they gave you is still not enough to get by... so you signed up into an employment agency to get the expense off the ground. As if it weren’t enough, they mixed up your papers and now you've been hired as a… babysitter? Are you kidding? Welp, thank goodness you love children.
Traits: Good, Family-Oriented, Loyal
Aspiration: Super Parent / Big Happy Family
Skills: Max dancing, charisma and parenting
Job: Make-believe nanny and part-time exotic dancer.
Rules:
Move to an empty house and set your funds to 0.
Alternatively: Move to a furnished home and destroy everything through an "incident" (you can cheat for this) and break all the plumbing. You can’t fix those items, only replace them after you get your loan money.
Have a night job as an exotic dancer in a local club. None of your day job clients should recognize you while you’re working at the club, and vice-versa.
If you have mods that fit this situation, feel free to use them! Save the tips you earn :)
If you play this vanilla, disguise your sim and send them dancing to a club each night. You'll earn $200 per day if performance.
Ask the nightclub owner (your boss) for a loan of $8,000 simoleons. You’ll have to keep dancing there until:
A) You earn the money and pay your debt, or
B) You’ve been working in the club for 1 in-game year, but then you can’t keep the money you’ve earned from dancing.
Optional: Consider paying $1,000 for a renovation permit and another $1,000 for plumbing and electrical installation per story.
Start a day job as a nanny. You’ll earn $300 per family.
To do so: Meet sims with children and visit them often to take care of the kids. You can only help one family per day.
Alternatively: You can choose a particular household to be working for. The wealthier and more kids, the better.
Give your sim the always welcome trait so you won’t have issues with cooking and stuff.
For super wealthy families: You can build a room for yourself in their homes or use the visit room if they have one, but you can’t move your sim into their households at all. You’ll still have to work at the club at night and work on rebuilding your little home.
Befriend all the kids of the families you’ve worked for.
Fall in love with the head of family of the wealthiest household that hired you. To marry your potential spouse, you must:
End paying the nightclub debt
Finish rebuilding your house again :)
Become friends with the live-in services, if they have (butler, chef, maid, gardener, etc.)
Max your friendly relationship with each kid the love interest has. Only then you can start building a romantic relationship with them.
If they already have a spouse, make them your enemy and have the love interest divorce them.
Have as many own kids as you can.
GEN 2 - A GROOVY GRANDPA
You come from a rich family that cares for its wealth with fervor. You did everything your parents and your parents' parents taught you: work hard, make money, have an heir and make even more money. You always felt that working was the only purpose of your life… but now that you are older, you realized how wrong you were. Now that you're old, loades, and your family can fend for themselves, you have the opportunity to do everything you couldn't in your youth.
Traits: Materialistic, ambitious, loner.
Aspiration: 1) Mansion Baron and 2) Inner Peace
Skills: All the skills needed for the career of your choice, mixology, dancing, wellness and a hobby of your choice (as an elder).
Job: Business (Investor Branch) or Salaryperson (Expert Branch)
Rules:
Go to university and get a degree that’ll help you get a jump start on the career of your choice (options above).
University can be tedious and long to play, so I’d suggest using a mod that makes the terms shorter :)
Reach the top of your career as a young adult.
Marry a wealthy sim out of tradition and have only one child. That’s our heir.
Have a so-so relationship with your kid and your spouse.
Your spouse should die as an adult (you can cheat for this).
Focus on making all the money you can while being an adult. If you can get fame points while you’re at it, perfect.
Once you reach elderhood, have a life crisis and embrace a new “you”.
Change your traits to: Romantic, adventurous and goofball.
Change your aspiration to: Inner Peace.
I’d strongly suggest to turn aging off so you won’t die of old age.
Enjoy life! Be self-indulgent, go partying, pick up new hobbies, make new friends, visit new places.
Try getting the emotional mindful moodlet often.
Find true love with a humble sim significantly younger than you.
The next heir must disapprove your new relationship.
Have a child through pregnancy or adoption with your new partner. Move out of the family home and go live with your new little family.
Focus on being an excellent parent and spoil the little one rotten until the last of your days.
GEN 3 - THE WORKAHOLIC
Your father lost it and messed up his life's direction... and stained the family’s values. You carry your last name with pride and you’re determined to put it back to its former glory by doing what you do best: working. You will rescue the company that your father nearly ruined, return wealth and good fortune to your family and lead an exemplary life, whatever it’s the cost. Your children constantly complain about how absent and cold you are, but they are too young to understand the importance of your priorities. They will thank you one day.
Traits: Proper, Ambitious, Perfectionist.
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Skills: All the skills needed for your career only. You’re not interested in anything else.
Job: Business (Management Branch)
Rules:
Always excel as a student.
Don't have a social life.
All sims you meet (except the future spouse) must stay as acquaintances.
Always turn down any kind of social invite.
Never throw a party of any sort.
Never celebrate a birthday, not even your own.
Go to university and study communications at U-Brite. At uni you must:
Enter the secret society.
Enter the debate guild.
Graduate with honors.
Meet the love of your life during your time as a student. Your spouse must:
Have good traits only.
Belong to a wealthy family.
You can only marry if you have a full romance bar.
Also: no woohoo before marriage!
You two must live in the family home / manor. Refurnish it with expensive items, fine art and decorations if it isn’t.
Have a butler. If you play with mods, also have all sorts of live-in services. If not, hire a scheduled gardening, maid and nanny service via the phone.
Don’t have any kind of pets. Not even fish.
Fill up your sim's fun need by doing "boring activities". For example:
Only listen to the talk radio and classical music stations.
Only watch the news and the weather channel.
Don't tell jokes.
The only game your sim can play is chess.
Only read non-fiction or skill books.
You get the idea by now :)
Dedicate your entire existence to your career, completing your aspiration and your loving partner.
Earn fame points through situations or interactions related to your career only.
Get the workaholic lifestyle and live accordingly.
Have as many children as you can with your spouse. After the last family slot is taken, your spouse has to die unexpectedly (you can cheat for this)
After your spouse's demise, change two of your traits to: Hot headed and gloomy.
Have a rocky relationship with all of your children:
Try to limit your interactions with your children. Have the helping sims (butler and nanny) take care of them.
Develop the strict family dynamic with every single child.
All of your kids must be top students and gain the good manners character value trait.
Your kids must have a tight schedule: School, after-school activities, homework time, limited playtime, music lessons (for girls), sport lessons (for boys) and early bedtime. If they develop a dislike for an activity, accept it but they’ll have to do it anyway.
Marry a co-worker as an adult, but do not love them. On the contrary to your loving spouse, they must only have negative traits. Bonus points if they have the hates children trait.
Start a recurrent affair with one of your service sims.
The next generation starts when the heir is a teen.
GEN 4 - THE INDECISIVE ROMANTIC
You grew up in a large family that seemed more like a military company. Being the smartest of all your siblings, your father always sought to train you in such a way that you would take his place when time comes, but you don't want to be remotely like him. You are still young and you have enough time to change the course of things. You want adventure, you want love, you want happiness and wealth… but the pursuit of hedonism may not help you make the smartest decisions.
Traits: Genius, bookworm, snob
Aspiration: 1) Nerd brain 2) Serial Romantic
Skills: Logic, writing, research and debate, fitness
Job: Law career (Private Attorney Branch)
Rules:
Be the typical nerdy teen. Embrace the stereotype at its fullest.
Always excel in school
Complete the nerd brain aspiration as a teenager.
Frequent intellectual lots like libraries and museums.
If you can, become a valedictorian and/or achieve early graduation.
Start a romantic, toxic relationship with the first sim who is constantly rude to you.
Your sim has to still be a teen.
Break-up and get together again frequently.
Enter the U-Brite Communications program as your parent did, but drop out shortly after. You want something else in life.
Improve your physical appearance and start working out. After your makeover, change your bookworm trait for the self-absorbed trait.
Move out on your own, live the party life and date around! But keep coming back to your toxic ex.
Don’t have any source of income after moving out.
Have an accidental pregnancy with your ex, but don’t take responsibility for the baby.
Have another accidental pregnancy with one of your affairs, and also don’t take responsibility.
This other sim must have the good or cheerful trait.
After spending all your simoleons on parties and vice and, go back to the family home and enter the Law career to become a private attorney.
After getting your life in order again, look for your previous partners and decide to take care after the kids they had with you.
Don’t have any more kids after that.
Start building up both romantic relationships again, but keep them in the shadows from one another. Never make a final decision.
Write books as a hobby, but only publish: non-fiction, poetry and biography books.
The least disciplined child will be the heir.
GEN 5 - THE ADVENTURER
You grew up in a millionaire family that has everything you could imagine, but somehow you always felt like you didn't belong to it. There is a certain indomitable spirit of adventure within yourself and when you came of age, you decided to fully embrace it. Your parent disapproves and would rather have you not prefer an unstable life of artistic adventure to the safety of a well-established profession... but he has no place to tell a you a thing, knowing the kind of life he led in his young years. Leaving all the responsibility of the house and the family business to your half-brother, you packed your bags and took the first plane to the jungle.
Traits: Active, creative, loves outdoors.
Aspiration: 1) Jungle Explorer 2) Mt. Komorebi Sightseer, 3) Beach Life and 4) Archaeology Scholar.
Skill: Selvadorian Culture, Archaeology, Fishing, Fitness, Singing and Guitar.
Job: Freelance photographer.
Rules:
Always be a laid back, cool type of person.
Frequent museums and parks as a kid and teenager.
Once you graduate high-school, travel the world to become a nature photographer! Think of a globetrotter-ish kind of generation:
1: Selvadorada.
Build a luxurious villa as your jungle home (you’re still a millionaire, so no problem with this). You’ll frequent it a lot during the generation.
Complete the Jungle Explorer Aspiration.
Once you reach level 2 of the photography skill, you can travel to the next destination:
2: Mt. Komorebi
Complete the Mt. Komorebi Sightseer Aspiration.
Visit each festival.
Once you reach level 3 of the photography skill, you can travel to the next destination:
3: Sulani
Complete the Beach Life Aspiration
Max the fishing skill.
Max the photography skill.
Be a flirt and have multiple lovers across the worlds, but find true love with one in particular.
Optional 1: have this sim travel with you as a companion.
Optional 2: have your half-brother fall in love with them as well.
Complete 3 collections of your choice.
Become famous by publishing your photographs.
After ending your stay in Sulani, your half brother must die (you can cheat for this). You’ll have to go back to the family home and take care of the generational fortune.
Keep traveling often to Selvadorada, the world you like the most. Work on completing the Archaeology Scholar Aspiration during your short visits.
Decide to settle down with the sim you fell in love with and form a family of your own.
Have lots of children.
GEN 6 - THE STAR
You don't understand the tendency of past family heads to get rid of a life full of all sorts of comfort. Dirt? Ew. Luxury and fame are everything to you, but since you were young you had a problem with your appearance and awkward personality. But you know what? That is going to change. You are not interested in a boring company or looking for love: you just want to shine as bright as the sun.
Traits: Self-absorbed, materialistic, high-maintenance.
Aspiration: World-Famous celebrity.
Skills: Charisma, mischief, acting.
Job: Social Media (Internet Personality), Actor (optional)
Rules:
Be the “ugly duckling” of the family while growing up.
Have the socially awkward trait as a teen.
Have your first puppy love as a pre-teen / teenager, but be heartbroken. Never believe in true love after that.
Have a bad relationship with every single family member.
Move out on your own to a luxurious home as soon as you become a young adult and cut ties with the rest of the family, previous friends and acquaintances. You’re on your own now.
Have a radical image change after becoming independent.
Enter and reach the top of the Social Media career as an Internet Personality. Only then you can enter the Actor career if you wish.
You can only actively work as a Young Adult.
Start building your own fortune through fame and gold-digging.
Have an accidental pregnancy and use it to your convenience. Keep the baby.
Never develop the parenting skill
Have a bad relationship with your kid
Mold your child to your image. They must be conventionally beautiful.
Your child must be well educated and skilled, but have terrible character value traits.
If you marry, become a widow everyone shows their sympathy to. Keep being a gold digger after that and never remarry.
Quit your job(s) right after entering the adult lifestage and spend your fortune as if there were no tomorrow.
The next gen starts when the heir becomes a young adult. By then, you must be broke and have lost all your fame.
GEN 7 - THE HOMEWRECKER
You always meant an instrument for your parent, even before you were born. Thanks to them, you are an expert in the art of manipulation, seduction and performance. You are beautiful, intelligent, cold and calculating. Such confidence and mettle has carried you far from childhood, but now that you're an adult, it's time to think big and not make the same mistakes as your stupid parent... even if it means carrying them around for the rest of your life. Now, time to choose a victim to pay the family debts and live a perfect life.
Traits: Evil, hates children, hot-headed.
Aspiration: 1) Drama llama, 2) Mansion Baron
Skills: Charisma, logic, writing, acting, research and debate.
Job: Salaryperson (Supervisor Branch)
Rules:
Be the perfect, spoiled brat your mother made you since childhood.
Always have a pristine image, even if you’re broke as hell. People doesn’t need to know your family is in bankruptcy
Become the unreachable, popular meanie in highschool and embrace those vibes throughout teenagedom, but never start a serious relationship.
Complete the Drama Llama teen aspiration.
Move out on your own as a young adult, but have the previous heir move in with you shortly after to live at your expense. Your parent:
Cannot get a job or have any source of income of any sort.
Has to have the slob trait (you can cheat this),
Has to follow every whim related to their personality, and
Has to spend $5,000 simoleons by the end of each week. If you don’t have the money, add it to a “debt” list you must pay.
Enter the salaryperson career (Supervisor Branch) and reach the top of it quickly as a young adult. As soon as you reach it, get relaxed and don’t pay much attention to your career anymore.
Optional: get an university degree that’ll help you get a jumpstart. If you chose to do this, you’ll have to study at home, ask for all the scholarships you can and graduate with honors (of course).
If you get the workaholic lifestyle, go to coaching to get rid of it.
You must choose only one ultimate spouse candidate.
They must be attractive (to your sim), successful and ridiculously wealthy.
They must be already in a serious romantic relationship of any sort with another sim.
Bonus points if they have at least one child.
Once you decide on a love interest, develop one-sided feelings for them and do everything in your reach to gain their favor, but they should never love you.
Get to marry your love interest one way or another. Move your sim and the previous heir into their home and enjoy your new fortune :))
Once you marry, adopt your spouse’s last name.
Have only one own child: the result of a one-time affair with another sim.
Use mean interactions only with every child you meet (even your own), any “low-class” sim you meet and service sims.
Gain the Twisted Heart reward trait.
GEN 8 - THE BEAUTY
You've lived in a bubble all your life. Despite having a lousy relationship with your parent, they have given you everything you wanted and more: a good education, luxury, travels and gifts. You have always tried to fulfill their expectations and desires... until you met the love of your life in someone you would never have expected. After a terrible argument with your family, you decided to run away with your love and start a new life from scratch. The plan sounded good in your mind, but then you realized that you don't know how to do anything other than being cute.
Traits: Good, Clumsy, Romantic
Aspiration: 1) Admired icon 2) Soulmate
Skills: None in particular
Job: None in particular
Rules:
Be the stereotypical perfect, beautiful and shallow rich kid.
Have a bad relationship with your parent, but respect their authority.
Try not to do activities that make you gain "useful" skills (or any skill). Focus only on having fun and enjoying life.
Complete the Admired Icon aspiration in your teenage years.
Have your parent arrange your future marriage with a wealthy sim and start a forced relationship with them, but reject their romantic advances often.
Enter university in a conventionally well-respected degree program. Become engaged with your current partner at the same time.
Find true love with a service sim.
They can be either one of your household's employees or a NPC like the mailman, a street vendor, a mixologist, a firefighter, etc.
They must be poor.
They must have the creative trait.
They must be a single parent.
Keep your affair with the service sim in secret until a family member, a close friend or your partner discovers you. Only then you can break your current engagement and escape to live with the love of your life.
Move your sim with their new partner and their child, but bring no simoleons or material goods whatsoever in your inventory.
You can only move to a Needs TLC starter apartment or a starter home with the Gremlins and Grody lot traits.
The lot or apartment cannot be pretty when you first move to it.
You cannot move out of it on this gen.
Drop out of university but don't get a job. Your spouse must work as a starving artist (Painter career level 1) and don't let them get promoted.
If you play with mods, keep them in the service career they were when you met them.
Spend all the household's funds on useless things.
Optional: Everytime your sim breaks anything (even the plates while washing them), cheat -$100 simoleons of the household funds.
Get a job only when all your services are cut down after not paying your bills.
You should go through all the basegame careers before deciding on a permanent one. You may start with part-time jobs, then full time careers.
After you decide on a career to stay, focus on developing the necessary skills for it. When you reach level 3, your spouse can finally work on their artistic career.
If the spouse sells their art, they can't gain fame out of it.
Have only one own child after your household has a stable income.
GEN 9 - THE NONCOMMITTAL ENTREPRENEUR
In your family there was never a lack of love, but money definitely was a problem. Your parents made an effort to give you everything that was within their reach, but the truth is that you could never shake off the itch of having something more… something “big”. The thing is that working seriously is not your thing. Never has been, in fact. However, you have brilliant ideas that you just have to materialize with the right investment. But first, let’s go to the party everyone’s talking about.
Traits: Lazy, party animal, noncommittal
Aspiration: 1) Live Fast 2) Party Animal
Skills: Juice fizzing, dancing, entrepreneur skill.
Job: Odd jobs
Rules:
Be a terrible student and surround yourself with lots of friends.
Complete the Live Fast teen aspiration. Then, drop out of high-school but keep living with your parents.
Gain the Irresponsible character value trait.
Earn money only through odd jobs or in-game activities that doesn’t require "intellectual" skills (like writing, programming, painting, etc.), but have Juice fizzing as your main interest.
Frequent party lots every single night like bars, clubs and lounges and spend at least $500 simoleons each night on bar drinks.
Accept every party invite you get, no matter who they are or what your sim is currently doing.
Meet a love interest in one party night and start a relationship right away, but don't commit to it:
Never take the initiative to go on dates with them, only accept their invitations and make them pay for everything.
Be unfaithful.
Ask them for loans and crash their place frequently to take care of your needs (eating from their fridge, using their shower, etc).
Only visit them to woohoo if your fun levels are low.
Have unprotected woohoo often (try for baby instead of regular woohoo or use mods for this)
Have an accidental pregnancy with your partner and get excited by it.
Once the baby's born, you'll have to take care of them and your partner will have to dump you and lose all contact. You can then move out of your parents' house.
Now that you're a parent, take your side hustles more seriously and even get a part time job if you decide to, but keep partying at nights and spending most of your earned money on vice.
Don't have any more kids and try to nurture your child as much as you can.
Have an unexpected death while the heir is a child.
GEN 10 - THE (UN)LUCKY MIXOLOGIST
When you were little, you listened with amazement to all kinds of stories that your father told you about the adventures and misadventures of your ancestors. That’s why you have always been a dreamer who wants to achieve success and, above all, to know true love, but that is something that only happens on TV. It seems life had other plans for youm and the only thing left is to work hard and try to move on with a smile.
Traits: Good, foodie, music lover.
Aspiration: 1) Master Mixologist 2) Soulmate
Skills: Mixology, DJ mixing, cooking and baking.
Job: Culinary career (Mixologist Branch)
Rules:
Since you'reunderage, move into a shelter or an orphanage.
Once you become a teen, dropout of high school and earn money through odd jobs and buy a dj mixing station. Only then you can start working in secret as a freelance dj in local clubs and bars:
To do so, create an alternative persona or character your sim must disguise as whenever they're on a show.
Save all the money you earn through tips.
Don't gain fame.
Once your sim becomes a young adult, join the culinary career and help out at the shelter/orphanage until you have enough money to move out on your own, but keep presenting as a dj each night.
Buy and move to the starter home the founder fixed.
Present yourself regularly at the bar your founder worked at as a dancer, and also work as a hired mixologist some nights. You'll earn $300 per night.
If you have mods that adjust to this, feel free to use them!
Have 10 failed relationships throughout your Young Adult lifestage. Give up on finding love after your last relationship.
The relationships will only count if you get to become boyfriends or more and get to break up, divorce, cancel engagements or separate through other circumstances.
Once you become an Adult, fall madly in love with a sim you meet in one of your work nights. This sim:
Must be an elder.
Must be visiting the lot you're at for the first time.
Must be super rich.
Start a sugar-ish relationship with your love interest. Have them gift your sim money ($1,000 simoleons) everytime they see each other. You decide if they keep, donate or sell the gifts.
Break up with the love interest, but get back shortly after and get into a serious relationship.
Only then, start working on the soulmate aspiration with this sim.
Move in with the elder sim only when you have a full romance bar.
If the elder sim has family, make them disapprove of your relationship together.
Wait a minute… isn't the story kind of repeating itself?
You decide what happens next ;)
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