The longest sim family played

[TrillianRikku]

After reading this Artical http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/man-plays-same-game-civilization-ii-10-years-182343243.html it got me thinking what is the longest sim family you ever played

[eskie227]

I've gotten to about 11 generations over several weeks, but damn, I hope I have more to do in life than play the same game for 10 YEARS.

[jenieusa]

6th generation week 52 so far...

[DigitalSympathies]

Round robin to generation 30-ish, I remember. With TS2. In TS3, I've never gone longer than six months with a family.

[DuskTrooper]

I've only ever gotten as far as 3 generations before.

[harlequinzombie]

The farthest I've ever gotten is into the fifth generation with two or three families. That was when the game would either glitch and I'd give up, or I just got sick of it and wanted to play something new (I don't like playing more than one family at once).

[EmotedLlama]

I think I got to around the 15th generation on one family, though around generation 13 I moved the potential heirs to a new town and lost the previous family tree (for that specific family; I still have the save from before they left).

[PhenethyaSim]

week 20ish generation 2 were still teens then It broke. my current game is like 7 weeks in.

[charmedqueen]

Generation Four before my game decided to not work anymore.

[VampireSim]

I play my jungle camp for more than one and a half years. I don't play with aging on.

[SimmerE14]

I've only gotten past the first generation in all of my games :lol:
I get so tired of the kids growing up and moving out in the second generation, and just want to start over


But could you imagine what Sunset Valley would look like if you played the town for 10 years?!
Imagine the family trees!

[christx101]

I played up to 8 generations then my game broke.Had to reinstall and start over right now I'm on generation 5 hoping I can atleast get to 10.

[ViviSims2]

I got to generation 7 on my Rainbowcy before my game decided to corrupt.

[vhanster]

From a range of generations of 1 to 1, the longest family I play is usually less than a week.

I do a lot of restart and redoes with the families/household I create though

[lisfyre]

For me in Sims 2, Gen 10 I think or my legacy. In Sims 3, highest I've gotten was Gen 5 then my hard drive got chewed up by a virus and I had to get a new drive. Since then I haven't started up a new legacy. I have a bad habit of starting new all the time. In Sims 2, I used to do the uninstall/reinstall a lot and so far with Sims 3, I've done it 4 times - losing the hard drive doesn't count though :)

For my hubby in Sims 2 I think he got to Gen 20 with his families. In Sims 3, he's up to Gen 17... I think. That's the highest generation and I think it's his Bridgeport family. His Sunset Valley family is only Gen 12. Riverview and Twinbrooks are at least Gen 10. He plays legacy in every EA hood/world with his family. He also doesn't play as often as I do. Just an interesting note about his game - he installed the game on launch day and started his SV family, then he got RV and started that one and he's never had to reinstall/uninstall his game so they're all original families.

[haricots]

40-something. I lost track coz that meteor sonofabith killed the only remaining person in my legacy house, and I stupidly saved it. I am smart.

[heaven]

I never played legacy style in TS2 so can't compare there. I'm doing my first legacy now and Generation 5 are teen/child right now. It's only taken me 10 months to get that far! :faceslap:

[Howabominable]

I've only ever gotten it to the 4th generation before the game starts crashing and is too bloated to play. Sigh. It's always the bugs that make me create a new family.

[lisfyre]

I get bored with legacy families. I make them and have them on full free will. Then I go do my cleaning around the house, laundry, shower and whatever else and come back every half hour or so to save it. I do no intervention with my legacy families at all once I've created them and set them up in a house.

[heaven]

I get bored with legacy families. I make them and have them on full free will. Then I go do my cleaning around the house, laundry, shower and whatever else and come back every half hour or so to save it. I do no intervention with my legacy families at all once I've created them and set them up in a house.

Until I started writing/blogging their story, I didn't play them either. Now that I am developing them more, even if it's just in my head, I find them much more interesting.

[lisfyre]

Until I started writing/blogging their story, I didn't play them either. Now that I am developing them more, even if it's just in my head, I find them much more interesting.

I'm a terrible story teller. I actually entertained that idea once but I got too many things going on to be bothered doing it. I have more fun playing my non-legacy game where it's no holds barred, all cheats allowed rules :) And if I'm not playing, I'm building and decorating which takes up a huge chunk of my time.

[heaven]

I'm a terrible story teller. I actually entertained that idea once but I got too many things going on to be bothered doing it. I have more fun playing my non-legacy game where it's no holds barred, all cheats allowed rules :) And if I'm not playing, I'm building and decorating which takes up a huge chunk of my time.

Yes, yes, very true! Granted, I started out playing the original legacy rules. Somehow it has morphed into a "just get through 10 generations and write a story to go with it" legacy. So, really, I'm not following too many rules. :lol:

I love to build, not so much decorate. I wish I had more time in real life. Between a job, dog, and husband I don't have much time for my 2-3 story ideas, contests, building, and world creation. Twallan, can I have a real life Relativity mod please?!

[lovevslust]

The longest sim family I've ever played was about a year in real time. I got to three generations (the founders still having kids at this point too!) and they would still be alive had I not deleted everything when I made room for TS3. I miss TS2 so much...just not the box feel...I like the open world too much to go back...

[Sulyuki]

I still have almost all Sims I've had since I started playing TS2 seven years ago. I keep getting more Sims without getting rid of any, I've lost a few to glitches and not that many has died. I've never made it past four generations, which is as far as I've gotten on both TS2 and TS3.

[kiatyn]

While playing the sims 2, I think I got to 32 generations before stopping, and that was because I upgraded my computer and forgot to get the save game. *headdesk*. With the sims 3, I find legacy games to be so boring that I just have to go from household to household each generation. It takes a good deal longer. So I think I am about at generation 5 or so for Bridgeport, 8 for Twinbrook, and 11 for Riverview.

I am seriously thinking about reinstalling TS2 just so I can have a good old legacy.

[sierrakusterbeck]

In TS2 I had the Cameron family for about 4-5 generations, except I was horrible at playing in rotation, so the heiress never died. Her granddaughter actually aged up to elder before her.
In TS3 I have the Asher family and I've only gotten to the 3rd generation. I stopped playing them when I realized that all the kids couldn't live in the same home as their parents and their siblings + their partners, and I didn't want Story Progression to ruin their lives. Plus they all had positive traits, a million simoleons, and they owned every lot in Sunset Valley, so I got really bored with them.

[soylentfiend]

I'm currently playing the longest family ever now, but they're spread between about 4 houses now. The Easter family, but their daughters have married and become Thorns and Sagars, but Lyanna's daughter Vanessa is going to go back to the Easter last name with her fiancee (who is also her cousin's husbands brother). The family line is starting to get confusing after 3 generations.

[ani_]

My Hurst legacy, it's currently on generation 7.

[ReyaD]

May 4, 2011 I started playing my Starr Legacy and posted chapter one of my legacy blog... A year and a month later I'm working on consecutive generation 31 (currently teens) in my third blog about them.

And I really don't see the family dying out any time soon.

[Vault boy]

Generation 4. After the fourth generation, the game got so laggy and full of carp that I had to mercy kill the savegame.

[clynnc19]

The farthest I ever got was generation 3. Since I would build more than I actually play my families never got very far. I made a family two days ago with the goal of playing that household and just that household for a very long time. Lol we'll see how well this goes.

[LadyAnna]

Ten Generations in Sims 3 and then my game bugged and broke.

[secretsim]

I'm on the 12th generation of one family. I think that's the oldest. By now Bridgeport has been entirely populated by Sims that are the off-spring of legacy-type families. There are three or four primary families and they all intermarry. Everybody at this point is related to everyone else.

[NikkiKitten17]

Personally, I've gotten up to 9 generations. I used the NRASS Master controller mod to see all the branches, which was insane, but I think my game ended up crashing or something. It became extremely hard to handle with, as each sim got married and had kids of their own. :p

[lisfyre]

I've never been able to get past Gen 3 in Sims 3. I play too many families.... or, I end up starting all over again from scratch. Not patient enough to plod thru generations and legacies. I restarted from scratch with the installation of Seasons and I'm in Gen 2 .... so far ;)

My husband has his original family from launch day in Sunset Valley and he's up to generation 10 there. Then he's got his original sim family from when Late Night launched ... that's Gen 15. In Twinbrooks his family is Gen 5, In Lucky Palms his family is Gen 10. He starts every world with his single male sim and marries an EA sim and they become fruitful and multiply. I think his SV family populates the entire world and same in Bridgeport.

[caolve]

I got TS1 right after it was released, created a some sort of self-sim and got stuck with her for 6,5 half years. I had other families too, but I spent most of the time with her. Too bad I can't remember how many sim weeks that was before my computer broke. I've recreated her every time I've installed TS1 for pure nostalgia reasons and she is still around, although I rarely play with her anymore. So if you count the recreations, she had her 13th birthday recently :lol: oh my god this is weird.

In TS3 I have some families that have been around since the beginning, but they've spent most of the time saved in the library. I switch families a lot, I rarely play more than 4-8 sim weeks in one household, and after that I'll just forget them or if they are interesting enough, recycle them in some other save when I start to miss them.

[minimogut]

3 generati- actually, no wait... 2 generations.

[simmodder69]

The longest I had was 4 generations, but everything changed when the "Endless meteor bug" (as I call it) kicked in. A whole family wiped out in 30 minutes, which survived 4 generations without tragic incidents, now completely wiped out... Still hate my game for doing this.

[lenglel]

My sim's lifespan is set to 1632 days. My grandchildren are literally my grandchildren. Or at least, they will be if I live long enough.

[pico22]

Six generations (the 6th consisting of a single larva) in my very first TS3 game. By that time the family was impossibly rich and impossibly tedious so I stopped. Since then, all of my families have been in the 2nd - 3rd generation range. I could say that now I am doing more world testing and building than real playing.

[gnomequeen]

I never made it past the second generation in 1 and 2. I always got too distracted building, rebuilding, and creating a new family for the new house. I'm actually on the 4th generation now, but I've definitely been taking breaks to design homes for each sim who moves out.

[mermaidofthenile]

TS2, 3 generations. I did recreate my Legacy Family, the Farmers, in TS3. They are working on their 2 generations. They had 5 children in TS2, with 4 grandchildren before I stopped playing them.

[AgentTexas]

I usually play with aging off and age up my sim's babies with birthday cakes, though stupidly enough I haven't actually played past a second generation. In my main game right now I'm on like week 13, started with a guy and his wife, they had three kids and I played with aging on until their only son became a young adult, then I moved him out and have been playing him and his lover with aging off for like seven of those weeks XD And they don't even want to get engaged yet! LOL.

[lil bag2]

I started playing the sims 3 again for about a year and this was one of the first families I created. For some reason, they're the only family I can leave and come back to multiple times without ever getting bored with them. I'm not sure exactly how long I've had them around in the sim world but I'm petty sure if I kept the aging on rather than age them up when I see fit to, the babies/toddlers in this family would probably be on their adult stages XD

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Meet the Stevens/Whitfields/Savages. It started with the grandmother, Bahula (blue shirt), her daughter Shanta (long hair), Shanta's Husband Matthew Stevens, their teenage daughter Layla (black shirt) and their toddler son Jacob (blue shirt). Not long after making this family, Matthew and Shanta had their third child, Holly (the only little girl in the picture). Later, Jacob stole the doll that his little sister got for her birthday and said doll would become his imaginary friend, Liam (blue hair). After concocting a potion that made her younger than her daughter, Bahula used her new found youth to seduce a local firefighter named Bryce Savage (ghost). The two married, kidnapped/Adopted Liam, and moved out. Not long after getting married, Bryce died on the job and Bahula resurrected him as a ghost. They just had their first child, Andre.

Meanwhile, Layla started dating a townie by the name of Barry Whitifield (plaid shirt). Unfortunately, they couldn't keep their teenage hormones under control and Layla wound up pregnant on prom night. Their situation was made even worse when their parents decided that the two teens will have to take care of the baby themselves. The grandparents would help out a little when they could, but they wanted their children to learn that with every decision they make, there are consequences. That means jobs, no college, and having until their high school graduation to find an apartment or small house. And how could things possibly get any worse for the expecting teenage parents? How about twins! Yep. Now they have two mouths to feed: Austin and Aidan. After graduating from high school, Barry found a job in the Ghost Hunter profession that pays them barely enough to get buy in their one bedroom apartment. Meanwhile, Layla's attending Community College (Hooray for University rugs) by day and Prostituting (without her boyfriend or parents knowing of course) at night to earn a little extra cash (thanks to Twallan's professional Woo-hooer mod)

[secretsim]

14 generations is my longest so far. All my families are multi generational, however.

[MasterDarkNinja]

In the Sims 2 the farthest I've gotten is Generation #4 up to Teenagers.

In The Sims 3 the farthest I've gotten is Generation 4 as a brand newborn baby.

In the Sims 3 the things that cause me the stop playing are just as often the game's bugs/slowness as it is me getting bored. For example, my last Legacy family I had Generation #2 ready to get married and move in the spouse. I got them married, and the new spouse never joined my household, and soon decided she was too tired so she left. At that point I was so pissed off I just gave up on that family.

[varpunen]

I'm no legacy player but I've played with the same family ever since Sims 3 base game was released. There's been many generations and those generations have lived in several different towns. So I'd say that's the longest ever. :)

[StardustX]

After reading this Artical http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/man-plays-same-game-civilization-ii-10-years-182343243.html it got me thinking what is the longest sim family you ever played

Ohhh I forgot about that, I read about that a while back. Impressive, I wish I had that much patience with the Sims. But since most saves mess up after a few generations...


The longest family I've played? My current one. It started off with a single sim named Annie Browning that I created over a year ago and decided to use for a legacy on a whim. I'm now on the 8th generation, I think, after maybe 2 real-life months (they have long life spans). I don't know the exact week in the game though, because I used Mover to move them to another world and it reset the week counter.
This is my longest game ever. I usually get bored after 1 or 2 generations.
I haven't played in a week or two though since I've been busy in real life (*gasp* a simmer with a real life?!). I might go do that now. My poor negleted simmies. :(

[HarVee]

The longest I've played one single family was was up to generation 23.

[Anonymous Miss]

In Sims 2, I made it to the third generation. In Sims 3, though, I'm five and still going strong! My goal is to be able to play at least ten generations of my two favorite families.

[tigerex_13]

the longest was 8 generations with 3 generations of horses

[durackooluh]

This sim family i have now is actually the longest i have ever played. I think it's because I just love all of them so much. <3

[lolaluvesyou]

My previous game had ..I dunno.. I think I must have uninstalled it due to limited disk space I needed for work in Generation 40 something.
I remember the game was starting to crap out at 8 and then I just got some mods that seemed to fix any lagging and bugs.
I saved everything but when I re-installed the game for some reason the saves wouldn't work.

Luckily a lot of the sims and families where still there :D
So I started over, moving them all into a cute little town [actually to cute and little so I might have to look up a new world =3=''']

I am currently on generation 5, one week of play. I have around 40 families, the first few generation I kind of let them go to get
the genes nicely mixed as their all "custom" sims, it's fun to see what comes out.
During that time I randomly switch around among them a bit, usually because I want one sim to develope in a certain way or hook up with a certain other sim.
Over time I will get stuck on a few families and switch around with them, I already have my eye on 2 teen best buddies who are from different families, both got their lil gf's lol.
o__o'' I sound like a meat shopper.

Anyway, it seems having a good computer does allow you to go further in this game.
Reading a lot about games breaking :|

[Skittish_Cat]

Probably my boyfriend's and I family, currently on our great great great great great x3 grand kids.
And they are still weridos. >.<

[FlidgetJerome]

I've never gotten beyond Gen 4 in a legacy due to things getting glitchy beyond repair. I'm not sure if it's reassuring or depressing to hear about everyone else in the same situation.

[lakme]

I always play legacy but every so often I end up creating a new game with my legacy descendant, since my saves get super bloated. Technically my current family is descended from the first Sim I ever made in the Sims 3 after it first came out.

I think furthest I've gotten in the same game was second or third generation. My game got SUPER laggy.

[juansfalcin]

Been playing the same family since Sims 1. :P

[soylentfiend]

I'm at 3 generations now with a new family. The Easters borked out on me and I had to delete the entire hood.