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The Greek God Legacy Challenge is one of the most unique challenges forThe Sims 4. Invented by Sims Forum member CheetahAlyssa, the challenge requires you to play through ten Sim generations, with each generation representing a different Greek god or goddess. You can findher original ruleseton the Sims Forums.
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Like most legacy challenges, each generation asks you tochange up your playstyle, choosing different goals and traits for your Sim.Unlikea lot of legacy challenges, not every Sim you play will have a happily-ever-after.If you like messy Sims, unhappy relationships, adoption, or storytelling, the Greek God challenge might be right up your alley.
Greek God Legacy Challenge Overview
The Greek God Legacy Challenge requires you toplay a Sim household for ten generations, and follow a different set of self-imposed rules every generation. Each one of them representsone Greek god; you give your Sims traits and aspirations that represent that god. By the end of the challenge, you will have earnt theLegacy Player achievement, and you’ll experience a lot of what the game has to offer.
This challenge isn’t base-game compatible. To get the full experience, you’ll needCats and Dogs, Get to Work, Island Living, Seasons, Get Together,andCity Living.CheetahAlyssa says that if you don’t have one of the packs, “just do [the generation] to the best of your ability!”, and offers some suggestions for replacement generation rules in her forum thread.
If you can only pick up a couple packs,Seasons,Island Living,andGet To Workare the most important for the Greek God Legacy challenge. The other packs add a little bit of spice or a few new generation rules, but aren’t as crucial.
Generation One: Artemis
In this generation, you play a Sim inspired byArtemis, the virgin goddess of the hunt. You’renot allowedto get a job, get married, or woohoo; you’ll spend most of your timefishing, training your dog to hunt, andcollecting items.
To get the most out of this challenge,you’re going to want to collect as much bait as you can, keeping a couple stacks of it handy in your inventory at all times. Bait can be anything from frogs to plants to other fish; your notebook will automatically update every time you try new bait, so keep an eye on it if you’re looking for fish you’ve already caught before.
If you’re struggling to catch a certain fish,try talking to other Sims. As you raise your fishing skill, you’ll unlock conversation topics like"Talk About Local Fishing Spots"; they’ll give you advice on where to hunt down that last elusive critter.
Generation Two: Apollo
In this generation, you’ll play a Sim inspired byApollo, the god of music, light, knowledge, and medicine.You’re trying to make and keep as many friends as possible, rise through themedical career, and master theguitar or piano.
The medical career is one of the more challenging careersin the game; you don’t get a lot of free time, and some of the goals you have to meet depend on getting the right randomly generated patient. You shouldwaitto max your musical skill until you’ve reached the top of your career (or retired)—you’re not going to have enough time to keep on top of that and your aspiration.
However, you shouldwork on your Handinessskill if you’re able to —you can upgrade medical equipment to keep it from breaking, which will save you a lot of headaches later.
Go to work Focused, and attempt to play through every day, rather than just sending Apollo off to work — you’ll be more likely to get promoted that way.
Generation Three: Poseidon
Thisis a fun one. In this generation, you play a Sim inspired byPoseidon, the hot-headed god of the ocean. You mustbecome a mermaid,keep Sulani clean, anddate at least three Simsbefore settling down.
After playing Apollo’s hectic medical career, theBeach Life aspirationis a nice change of pace. It’s slow and laid-back, and your sim will get bonuses for staying in their neighbourhood. Get a suntan, go beachcombing, and explore beach caves!
To become a mermaid, buyMermaidic Kelpfrom your Lifetime Rewards inventory; it’ll definitely help you discover the buried treasure you need to finish your aspiration.
Since Beach Life is such an easy aspiration to finish, you’ll be able to do more with Poseidon. Since he’s the god of horses, maybe try out the Horse Ranch DLC, or try your hand at the Archaeology Scholar Aspiration.
Generation Four: Demeter
In this generation, you play a Sim inspired byDemeter, the peaceful goddess of the harvest. With yourFreelance Botanistaspiration, you’re going to spend a lot of time gardening. You’ll weed, water, fertilize, and evolve plants until you reach the highest level of theGardening skill.
When you’re learning how to garden,don’t hit the books—reading is the slowest way to raise your skills, and you’re much better off learning through doing. It can be challenging to grow crops in the winter, but if you have Seasons, you can build a greenhouse, and if you’ve got Cottage Living, oversized crops will grow all year round.
If you’ve got Tiny Living,try moving to a micro homethis generation; you’ll get a bonus to how quickly your plants grow, and you’ll have more room on the lot for your garden beds and bee boxes.
Generation Five: Aphrodite
In this generation, you’ll play asAphrodite, the goddess of love, pleasure, and passion. Your main goal is to complete theSerial Romanticaspiration, havingat least eight boyfriends or girlfriendsbefore finally settling down. You must haveat least five childrenandhook up at least three other couples.
You’ll want to go to the San MyshunoRomance Festivalevery chance you get — the tea there gives you a strong Flirty moodlet, so it’ll be easier to find romantic prospects. If you have Get Famous, you’ll also want toplay matchmaker early and often. Hooking up other sims gives you a Good Reputation, and when you have a high enough Reputation, other sims will start asking you to go on blind dates.
Finally,start both your Flower Arranging and serial dating as a Teen. With five children and eight partners, you’re not going to have much time for it later.
If you have Eco Lifestyle, you may want to try getting the Free Love Neighbourhood Action Plan — it’ll make finding dates easier, because you don’t have to worry about whether Sims are married
Generation Six: Zeus
In this generation, you play asZeus, the god of the sky, thunder, law, order, and kingship. Your main goal, in this generation, is tostart the biggest and best clubin SimNation; you’ve also got tobecome an astronaut,use the Weather Machineas often as possible, have “affairswith other women”, and be the world’s mostjealousspouse.
You’re going to want to skillCharismafor this challenge, both for your clubs and for your affairs; you’re also going to want to skillFitness,Logic, and eventuallyRocket Science.Take the Space Ranger branchof this career rather than the Smuggler branch. Zeus is the god of law and order and because the hours and pay are better. To help speed things along, you canchoose activities for your clubthat help you build these skills —Work Out, Rocket Science!, Play Physical Games, or Swim.
This generation will be a challenge because you really have to be the Sim who has it all, but the Astronaut career is some of the most fun you can have in Sims 4.
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Generation Seven: Hades
In this generation, you play asHades, the god of the dead, the underworld, and treasure. You’ve got tomaster the Criminal career, befriend three ghosts, become a Public Enemy, andtrap someone in a loveless marriage! We’ll spare you the rant on how Hades isn’t actually evil in the original myths, because for this generation, you’ve got to channel your inner Disney villain.
After the chaos of the last generation, this one’s refreshingly straightforward. The Public Enemy aspiration is designed around theCriminal career,so you’ve just got to be as mean to as many Sims as possible,befriend as many ghosts as you can, and go to work every day. We’d recommend theBoss branchof the Criminal career, both because you earn more money and because the rewards you get fit Hades' treasure theme a little better.
Finally, you have towitness the death of a Sim— you can either wait for a Sim to die of old age, or arrange an unfortunate “accident”. Pool ladders go missing all the time, don’t they?
If you earn enough Rewards points in your youth, you can buy theConnections reward traitthat lets you start your career at level four, speeding up the grind of the Criminal career a little.
Generation Eight: Hermes
In this generation, you play asHermes, the god of commerce, the written word, and thieves. This is another generation where you’re all over the place —you’ve got tocomplete the Athlete career andthe Chief of Mischief aspiration, which have nothing to do with each other.
To beat this generation, your Sim has to masterCharisma, Fitness, Mischief, andWriting. You’re going to spend a lot of time on the computer; Trolling Teh Forums is one of the best ways to raise your Mischief skill, you may use the computer to write (and you’re going to want to write alot), and if you choose the Pro Athlete branch of the career track, you can Study Opponents to get an Energized moodlet. We’d recommend youpick the Pro Athlete branch; it’s easier to make money, and you don’t need to spend quite as much time at the gym.
You’re also going to need to work out,play pranks on other Sims, clog toilets, get a voodoo doll,go to the Flea Marketfestival every time it pops up—oh, yeah,andraise a child. Good thing Hermes is known as the “fleet-footed”. He’ll need all his speed to get everything done.
This challenge was written before High School Years came out, but it could be fun to incorporate theThrift Storeand Trendi into Hermes' generation. A god’s gotta have his fancy winged sandals, right?
Generation Nine: Hephaestus
In this generation, you’re playing asHephaestus, the god of fire, metalworking, skilled craftsmanship, and sculpture. Fittingly, you’re going to focus on handicrafts.Use the woodworking tableto craft sculptures and furniture, and then sell them in your ownretail store.
You’re also going to pursue theNerd Brain aspiration, which synergizes nicely with the woodworking-retail store side of this generation. We’d recommend getting the marriage-and-child part of this aspiration over with as soon as possible — especially because you have tohave an unhappy marriage— and throwing yourself into your work. (And maybe channel some of that anger or sadness into Emotional sculptures!)
Raise yourLogic, upgrade as many items around your house as you’re able to, and get ready to build a Rocket Ship.Get Focusedto improve the quality of your handicrafts and to make repairs easier.
If you’re repairing things in a bathroom,don’t stand in puddles.Your sim can get electrocuted and die. Great for Hades' generation; not so great for Hephaestus.
Generation Ten: Athena
We’ve reached the final generation. You’re playing asAthena, the goddess of wisdom, courage, justice, strategic warfare, mathematics, arts, crafts, and skill.
To represent a goddess with so much in her purview, you’re pursuingthree different careersand theRenaissance Sim aspiration. The Renaissance Sim aspiration requires you to job-hop, and the challenge helpfully picks three careers for you. You’ve got to reach level three in thePaintercareer, level three in thePoliticscareer, and level ten in theDetectivecareer. You’ve also got to get at leastsix skillsto level eight.
To make this all easier, we’d recommendstarting with the skills— the challenge requires you reach level ten in Painting and Logic, and we’d recommend also focusing on Charisma and Gardening for your careers. As a pampered legacy heir, your family fortune should be enough to support you while you paint and play chess. Then, simply take theConnections perk, start your new career at level four, leave immediately, and hop to the next one.
The challenge requires Athena tonever marryor woohoo, but you canadopt a childto keep the family going.
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After The Challenge
You’ve been playing the same Sim family for ten generations; you’re either very sick of them or so attached that you want to playforever.If you’re in the second camp, commentors on the original thread have suggested somefurther generation challenges— play asDionysusand focus on mixology, or play asHeraand focus on raising successful children.
If you’re interested in making challenges of your own, there areso manyGreek gods, heroes, and monsters to use as inspiration. Maybe you could play asAresand solve the Strangerville mystery while rising through the Military career. Maybe play asHekateand master witchcraft, or play asZagreusand escape a hostile home. The possibilities are endless.
