Starting Out:

Create a character and move them to whatever housing you want. (One that is more isolated and a smaller lot is preferred)

Rules:

Have Fun
No cheats
Third party content is allowed
Choose the heir by using the original Legacy challenge rules.
Full rules below

  
Points:

One point for each generation reached.
One point for every objective completed
One half point for ever optional objective complete
One half point for changing house to fit the style of each gen
One half point for using traits to your advantage  for each gen
One half point for using traits to you disadvantage for each gen

(Edit: Keeping track of each generations money 
- (By: Beth Jalilie )

-> Simply move each heir out of the family home and into it's own lot... and do this for each generation. This way you'll easily know how much money each generation makes.

Generation One

"I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family. "

Your family was always into the farming deal. They spent their days working hard and asked for their children to do the same. So when you turned 18, your parents surprised you with your own plot of land to continue on tradition. And having always been one to want to impress the folks. You begin creating your own small garden, dedicating your time to that rather then dealing with a dreadful 9-to-5 suit and tie job.

Objectives of generation one:

-grow a garden with every type of plant from store! (excludes egg and steak and omni-plant)
-get married, but no woohoo before married
-have a boy and a girl. Keep trying til you do! ( no watermelons or apples)
-If unable, you can always adopt the one you are missing (only use if  completely necessity.)
-Master Gardner skill.

Optional objectives:

-Obtain and plant every type of plant
-Catch every type of fish
-Marry a gal/guy with "Loves Outdoors" and/or "green thumb"
-Master Fisherman Skill
-Buy a horse for riding, or a 'hunting' dog.

 Generation Two

"I was expected to be a farmer like my father and siblings. I broke tradition. It was great."

Life with your hands in the dirt wasn't the life for you. You always craved to spend your time in the city and always loved when in the inner-city limits. You crave for more important things then seeing seeds sprout into plants or the days your father spent fishing, as they didn't interest you as much as your siblings. You decide not to follow the road of a farmer, but turn to business instead.


Generation Two Objectives:

- Get to level 10 on the Business Career.
- Get to level 10 in Charisma skill
- Get married, woohoo, and have kid(s).
- Have at least one kid.

Optional Objectives:

-Become enemies with your father and mother (why can't you be like your brother or/and sister?) before entering your career.
-Partner into a business (doesn't matter which)
-Make over 50,000 in family funds.
-Marry a co-worker, or even your boss

Generation 3

(WA need. If you don't have or it doesn't work on your computer see Gen 3.5 right below. Or even try doing both if you have WA)

“My parents were always working, I was left alone. So I went on trips (relationship rampages) as I grew old enough."

Your parents have always seemed to spend more time in the office then home. So you decided to go to different place and see the world outside your own town. Better then remaining at home that was for sure.

 Generation Three Objectives:

-Visit all locations
-Gain all vista levels
-Master photography
-Marry a local, have kid
Optional:
-Unlock all tombs.

Generation 3.5

Obectives:

-Kiss 6 sims
-Be boyfriend/girlfriend to 2 sims then break their hearts.
-Get married and have kid(s).
-Kill spouse, then repeat above step (as many as three times)
optional to have kids with all three.

Optional:

-Keep ghosts on lot.
-Go on at least 10 dates.
Earn bad reputation and try to get rid of it


Generation Four

“The more I find, the more I type, and the more I learn of my parent's lives."

Your parents has been everywhere with rich and wonderful stories that were always told to you ever since you were little. This sparked a creative interest in you, filling you with the need to write and paint the beautiful images they spoke about.

Objectives:

-Master Writing skill
-Write at least 10 books.
-Master Painting skill
-Paint at over 20 paintings
-Marry, woohoo, have kid(s)

Optional:

-Be best friends with parents (parent)
-Get 10,000 in royalties
-paint your parents pictures,( and grandparents if still alive.)
-Paint your children and husband

Generation Five

"Though it be not quite from my parents, I learned to play the guitar, and sing simple songs."

It must be that creative gene, because you were born with a guitar in your hand. You've played it ever since you were able to pick it up, not caring if you didn't strum correctly or even well. But that you knew would get better in time. As it always does.

Objectives:

-Master Guitar skill.
-Get to the top of the Music Branch.
-Have at least three kids
-Get married
-Learn all songs (see optional)

Optional:

-Master Painting skill
(-Go visit each vacation location to learn all foreign songs if you can)
For Rock star branch:
Get a tattoo.
Have at least 3 signings
Play concert at least 10 times
Symphonic Brach:
Be friend one co-worker
Know all co-workers
Level 5 in logic

Generation Six

"I always dreamed of staying home watching the kids."

You've always wanted one of your own. So when you grew old enough you were overjoyed with knowing that you could have children one day. You'd play with your barbies, G.I. Joe, and doll house waiting for the one day to have your own babies.

Objectives:

-Adopt at least one boy and a girl (one being a child)
-Try for twins until you win!
- Teach all toddlers their skills.
-Don't have social worker come steal the kids
-Attend at least two kids weddings (all if you are adventurous. Or can)

Optional:

-Have at least five kids of your own
-Help kids with homework every night

Optional Route 6.5 (Must have LATE NIGHT!)

"You're parents were famous so you craved to be like them. You wanted to be known for talents."

Objectives:

Max Writing
Max Charisma
Get Level 5 Celebrity status
Reach top of Film career
Have a kid and get married.

Generation Seven

"There is always a bad apple in the bunch."

There was something about you. You were different then the others. Could it have been you were smothered in too much love from your parents or you were just born that way. Either way, things are going to change around here. For an evil better...

Objectives:

-Join Criminal Career
-Reach level 10 in criminal career
-Master Athletic skill
-Master Logic skill
-Marry Sim.
-Make baby (you want the perfect evil child)
-Befriend child

Optional:

Befriend 5 Sims to best friend
Pull pranks on family and neighbors
Max prank rep

Generation Eight

"I won't end up like you! I won't I won't."You were their perfect child. And you dislike it, even more so when you realized that your parents were criminals.

Objectives:

-Join and reach level 10 of Political career
-Reach max Charisma
-Throw a Political Party (can't think of name) every other day.
- Get at least 10,000 for political funds
-Steal from fund once (you can't help it, it's in your blood)
-Donate to charity every Saturday.
-Get married as adult
-Has three babies.

Optional:

Get into fight with parent.

Generation Nine

Ever since you were little you had a fascination with the people whom worked hard for the good of the people. You couldn't help but want to marry someone that had those traits and pass them onto your own kids.

Objectives:

-Woohoo a Service sim
-Have a Child with service sim
-Get a child with a hidden trait
-Kick out a kid after his birthday in becoming a young adult
-Have part-time job throughout life

Optional route:

Become a firefighter
Get the key to the city
Max Handieness skill
Max athletic skill
Have a baby (as many as you'd like)


Optional:

Rescue 5 sims from the blaze
Put out 10 fires
Get hidden trait

Generation Ten

"Playing cops and robbers as a kid, I always wanted to kick bad-guy butt."

You always wanted to take out the bad in this world. And no matter what you'd try your hardest to prevail over the evil in your town. That was your motto anyway and thus is why you trained yourself so as to be great at what you do. You got married early and had kids shortly after that so when you became an adult you were already settled down.

Objectives:

-Join Law Enforcement as adult.
-Max Logic skill
-Try Maxing out Painting skill (only when child/teen)
-Try Max Athletic skill (only when teen/young adult)
-Become best friends with your work partner
-Have a kid or two while a young adult
-Marry someone when young adult

Optional:

-Have a best friend forever as a teen
-Have at least two friends.
-Have a fight with a burglar and win.

Optional route:

Become a Private Investigator
Snoop out 10 locations
Write 5 papers of your findings
Reach level 10 of PI
Get key to the city
Have baby

Optional:

Snoop around and follow the sim of your dreams for a day or two.
Go through at least 5 garbages
Don't marry until Adult stage
Adopt a kid.

Generation Eleven

"I always wanted to be a doctor. Helping people is something I was raised on."

Your dad always taught you that people were always to be helped out. You'd help the old lady across the street if she wanted you to. Death was always something you wanted to help prevent if possible. Either way. You'd make this world better.

Objectives:

Join the Medical career
Max logic skill
Be friends with siblings and parents
Befriend Boss

Optional:

-Give a sim medical advice
-Decide gender of baby for a sim
-Befriend all co-workers

Ambitions additions:

Give vaccinations to at least 10 sims.
Marry someone you vaccinate.
Have a baby.


Generation Twelve

"I must of gotten it from my family long down the line. I was facinated with science and the earth"

Many years have passed since someone actually wanted to grow a garden. And being the only one whom has started it on it you being bad but begin getting better.


Objectives:

Join Science career
Max Gardening skill
Max Hardiness skill
Reach level 10 of Science Career

Optional:

-Resurrect two ghosts

Ambitions required
Objectives:
Become a registered inventor
Max Inventing skill
Invent 10 toys
Collect scrap at least 10 times from junk yard.
Max Handiness
Blow up things at least twice in public.
Have a kid through time machine.

Optional:

Have a death flower in your inventory at all times
Make one of your kids have the genius trait.
Marry and woohoo
Make a Simbot
Get married

Generation Thirteen

"Food, food, food, I always liked making food. I blame my parents. They had a garden."

It was from your father and mother that you found your way into the kitchen. You've always like to cook since you were able to touch the stove. Fancy dishes would be your specialty. It was just something that always kept you going.


Objectives:

Join Cutlery career.
Get to level 10 in Cutlery career.
Max cooking skill
Level five nectar skill (if you have WA)
Marry a sims with Natural Cook trait
Max Gardening Skill
Manage a bake stand while a kid.

Optional:

Collect all cookbooks.
Cook all meals for family


Optional route:

Objectives:

Join and master Ghost hunting profession
Master Logic
Have a wife and kid
Catch at least 50 ghosts.
Convince at least 10 ghosts to move on

Optional:

Marry a ghost
Learn Ambrosia
Get all ghost colors on lot

Generation Fourteen

“Laziness, I wouldn‘t call it that. I‘d call it heavy thinking about tomorrow.”

You never felt like doing a lot of work. Not even for a moment did it appeal to you to play ball or go around playing tag with the other children. It wasn’t anything that interested you. In fact you’d rather spend the day watching TV or reading books. Besides it wasn't like your parents yelled at you or anything.

Objectives:

-Marry and woohoo a sim of your choice.
-Have only two kids. (with two different mothers/fathers)
-Do not get a job. (spouse can but the ‘heir’ cannot)
-Do not help kids with homework or toddler skills.
-Get another sim pregnant and have them join family household.
-Read 15 books.
-COLLECT ALL GEMS
-COLLECT BUGS
-COLLECT ROCKS

Optional:

-Don’t change dirty diapers.
-No skill that lowers fun is to be learned
-Flirt with 3 sims in town.
-No dish cleaning
-Own a pet

Generation Fifteen

Objectives:

-Adopt one child sim.
-Have a kid. (being married is optional)
-Join Military Career
-Max out Athletic skills.
-Max Hardiness skill.
-Find as many of your relatives as possible. (family tree is good for this part)
-Host a birthday party (for turning elder and child b-day) and invite all your relatives to it.

Optional:

-Have 20 friends. (ten each)
-Buy out 2 business (one each)
-Complete LTW



Generation 16 (Requires LATE NIGHT)
(optional generation)


Get Turned Into A Vampire
Get Feed On by A Vampire
Feed On A donor
Master all skills (You got the time/WA is opitional -or use BuyDebug-)
Have A love Or Two (depending if you make them a vampire)

Optional:

Make A vampire
Have Kid
Public Woohoo in at least five different spots.


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Points:

One point for each generation reached.
One point for every objective completed
One half point for ever optional objective complete
One half point for changing house to fit the style of each gen
One half point for using traits to your advantage  for each gen
One half point for using traits to you disadvantage for each gen

Source (Credit): http://angelofafallen.livejournal.com/818.html#cutid1
(Rule Edit Credit):  Beth Jalilie
DIFFERENCES IN THE FAMILY TREE (A NEW SIMS 3 CHALLENGE) RULES

Here's The Current List Of All Sims 3 Challenges (as of August/2015)

Links To The Following Challenges Can Be Found: Here


Creator of This List: ybboccobby04 on the Sims 3 Forums


Legacy and other Generational Challenges
Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3 The Original 10 Gen Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3


Variations:

Alphabetcy Challenge Rules-Sims 3: Start generation 1 with "A" names, gen 2 with "B" etc.
Auracy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Battle for Your True Colors Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Challengacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Disney Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Emotionacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Famacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Fruitacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Hairacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Hidden Trait Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Homeless Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Housacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
House Hopping Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Humble Beginings Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Hunger Games Challenge Rules-Sims 3
It's so Cliche Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Life as We See It Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Mansionacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Musicacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Ninja Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Novelcy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Oppositcy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Prettacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Rainbowcy Challenge Rules-Sims 3: Start with a neutral colored founder, White/grey/tan ect and each gen you marry in new color, (Color order is left up the creator) by the end you have a rainbow of generations, and the most interesting genetics you have ever laid eyes on.
Randomacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Romeo and Juliet Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Selfacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3: Use simself as your founder
Simon Says Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Starving Artist Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Themeacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Through History Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Traitacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Uglacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3: Deliberately breed uglier and uglier Sims
Zodiac Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Vampire Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3


Additional Challenge Rules-Sims 3

10 Generations Challenge Rules-Sims 3: 10 Kids Each Gene Challenge Rules-Sims 3
100 Baby Challenge Rules-Sims 3
1,000 Baby Generation Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Adoptacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
All My Wishes Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Apocalypse Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Updated Wiki Page Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Argus Supernatural Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Astronacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Asylum Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Battle Against Life Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Battle for Perfect Generations Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Build A City Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Careeracy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Chemical Garden Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Cinderella Story Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Clone Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Differences in Family Tree Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Epic Moodlet Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Fairytale Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Fairytale Legacy II Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Featuracy "Creature" Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Follow in my Footsteps Challenge Rules-Sims 3
For Every Generation there's a Genre Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Four Immortal Sisters Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Going for Broke Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Greek Mythology Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Hard Life Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Hotel Challenge Rules-Sims 3
I'm A Lover Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Immortal Dynasty Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Jack of All Trades Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Klepto King Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Locked Away Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Love Them and Leave Them Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Mafia Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Man Plantin Project Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Moodlet Mayhem Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Mummy Town Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Mythical Creatures Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Nymph Project Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Occult Dominancy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Opportunity School Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Perfectionacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Project of Love Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Rags to Riches Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Rebuild the World Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Rock N' Roll Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Royal Kingdom Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Shiftacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Six Degrees of Separation Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Sleeping Beauty Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Speed Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Survival Camp Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Three Little Sims Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Town DecaDynasty Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Vampirecy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Who's Your Daddy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Wishful Living Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Zodiac Curse Game Challenge Rules-Sims 3


Pet Challenges:

50 Foals Challenge Rules-Sims 3
100 Pet Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Arc Builder Life Time Wish Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Petacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3
Pet Master Legacy Challenge Rules-Sims 3

LEGACY CHALLENGE RULES - lifetime wishes


NOTE: This challenge is made for the "base" game. However, this challenge is to complete all Lifetime Wishes available to you.

 There's no set amount of generations for this legacy. The goal is to see your family fulfill all 32 (or more) unique Lifetime Wishes, and no wish can be fulfilled more than once.

TO START:

For all intents and purposes, I recommend creating an entirely new, blank game for this challenge. You may use whatever neighborhood you wish.

1. Make a single young adult in CAS. They can be any gender, look however they want, wear however they want, etc. You may choose their favorite food, music, and clothing. The one thing you have to do: you MUST randomize their traits. I'm not talking about hitting the button until you have a set you're fine with, either. I mean you hit that button once and whatever set you get is what you're stuck with.

Since Lifetime Wishes are the focus of this challenge, you may pick whatever one you want to start with (with one exception, explained under this paragraph). If you don't like the options, you may re-roll them. (For those who don't know, to re-roll your Lifetime Wish choices, just go to Choose Traits and close out the window by hitting X or accept.)

The exception is this (and it applies to all generations from the founder until the final one): if your Sim has a trait associated with a field of study (such as Genius, Green Thumb, Angler, etc), you MUST pick a Lifetime Wish associated with that field. (Examples: a Sim with the Natural Cook trait must pick the Celebrated Five Star Chef or Culinary Librarian Lifetime Wish; a Sim with the Athletic trait must pick Superstar Athlete or Perfect Mind, Perfect Body, etc.) The "Lifetime Wishes" traits relations are pretty obvious, so I won't list them exactly here. Just use your best judgment.

The exception to the exception: if previous family members have already fulfilled all the associated wants, you may choose something different.

2. You may move your Sim onto any size lot, but you must reduce your funds to $1300, the amount leftover after buying the expensive 60x60 lots, in order to make things equal across the board. (If you take the 64x64 lot in Riverview, you may increase your funds to $1300 by using kaching once and then getting rid of the excess funds from that.) This lot is your legacy house, and while non-heirs and spouses may move out at any time, all heirs must live here. You may only move the entire family out of this house if the lot becomes irrevocably bugged.

THE RULES

This is where it gets interesting!

1. No cheats. Seriously. Unless it's to reset a bugged Sim or object, or for advanced building (no, motherlode does not count as advanced building), you are to assume you are not to use it.

2. Spouses: Spouses are eligible to add to your unique Lifetime Wishes tally. You may only have one spouse at a time. You may not marry spouses just to bring them in for their money, then divorce them, move them out, and remarry. You may remarry only when your spouse dies. (The only spouse you are allowed to accidentally-on-purpose kill is the one to fulfill the Gold Digger Lifetime Wish. All other deaths must be natural.) Spouses do not necessarily have to produce heirs, so same-sex couples are totally fine. Spouses are also not necessary, so if you want to play the eternal bachelor/bachelorette Sim, that's fine. If you do marry a Sim into the family, that Sim must take the legacy family's name, whether they are male or female.

3. You must have one blood heir per generation, even for same-sex couples. (However, since you have to jump through hoops to do this, whatever techniques you use to get a blood heir with a same sex couple will be overlooked. This means you can maxmotives to get a cranky man/woman into bed, you can move a woman in to monitor her pregnancy (as long as you move her out immediately afterwards), etc. Also I heard something about men getting pregnant but haven't seen it yet in my game so yeah NO CLUE.)

4. The maximum amount of children you can have for any given generation is 6. Adopted children count toward this limit. Children taken by the social worker also count toward this limit. You are also free to use watermelon/apples to influence the gender of your children as you see fit.

5. You may adopt up to 5 children per generation. Adopted children are not eligible to be heirs, but they ARE eligible to add to the family's unique Lifetime Wishes tally.

6. You may only have one heir per generation, so no double-heir families. Spares are not allowed to be married as long as they remain in the house, nor are they allowed to have children in the house. (They may sow their wild oats out in town however you want, but those children don't count towards the family.) If a spare has a child that is added to the household, the spare and the child must be moved out immediately and that spare is no longer eligible to add to your Lifetime Wishes tally.

The heir must be chosen before the first child reaches Young Adult status. Spares are eligible to add to the unique Lifetime Wishes tally until they reach their Adult birthday, at which point they must be moved out of the house and fulfilling their Lifetime Wishes will not count towards the tally. (This means they have their entire Young Adulthood to work towards the Lifetime Wishes; you don't have to move them out the second they transition from teenager.)

7. The heir MUST have a unique Lifetime Wish. Any child who has a Lifetime Wish previously fulfilled by another family member is ineligible as heir.

8. Each generation MUST fulfill at least one unique Lifetime Wish. This criteria can be met by any eligible member of the family: the heir, heir's spouse, and spares; just so long as it's unique and someone within that specific generation.

9. You cannot fulfill any single Lifetime Wish more than once.

10. Heir-swapping: under most circumstances, once you pick your heir, that Sim is your heir for good. However, you may pick another heir from among the spares if you meet one of the following criteria:

--You thought your heir would end up with a unique Lifetime Wish at some point, but did not. At this point, you may pick another heir.
--If your heir dies and DID NOT HAVE A SPOUSE, you may pick another heir. If the original heir has any surviving children, the heir to the following generation must be picked from them. If there are no surviving children, the children of the new heir are eligible to be next generation heirs. Otherwise, the spouse basically acts as the new heir.

11. You must randomize the traits for every single Sim when you're allowed to pick a new trait. You are only allowed to hit the button ONCE; whatever you get is whatever you're stuck with.

12. You're only allowed to buy the Change Lifetime Wish reward with the heir, and you may only use it in a last-ditch effort to pick up a unique Lifetime Wish. You can re-roll your choices just like in the CAS screen by buying the trait, then clicking the X; you may do that as many times as you wish, as long as you are not spending the points. If you cannot get a unique Lifetime Wish this way, you are SOL.

13. Anything that extends your Sim's lifespan may not be used, such as the death flower to stave off grim, ambrosia, etc.

THE FINAL GENERATION

Your legacy ends when one of the following happens:

1. You win! When you have all 32 unique Lifetime Wish fulfilled, you've won the challenge and your legacy ends.

2. You don't have a blood heir. Whether it's because you never produced one in the first place, or your heir candidates have died and you're unable to produce more, your legacy will end with no one to inherit it.

3. One generation does not fulfill a unique Lifetime Wish. Maybe your family dies tragically in a house fire save for an elder spouse, and that spouse totally can't fulfill that Lifetime Wish in time. Maybe you've reached a point where, like in card games or Mah-jong, you simply have No More Available Moves; if you can't get a unique Lifetime Wish to roll up for the life of you, your legacy is done.

SCORING

All points are calculated for NORMAL LIFESPAN. However, if you play on a different lifespan setting, tally up your points and:

Short (25 Sim days) : multiply point total by 5.
Medium (50 Sim days) : multiply point total by 2.
Long (190 Sim days) : multiply point total by .40.
Epic (960 Sim days) : multiply point total by .09.

+100 per unique Lifetime Wish fulfilled.
+10 per $50,000 of family net worth.
+20 for each time someone reaches the top of a career NOT associated with a unique Lifetime Wish.
+1 for every skill mastered NOT associated with a unique Lifetime Wish.
+5 for every child born. (+15 for twins, +20 for triplets)

-100 per Lifetime Wish fulfilled more than once.
-50 for every child taken by the social worker.
-50 for every unique Lifetime Wish that isn't fulfilled in time. (The Sim dies, the spare hits adulthood and moves out, etc.)
-100 for every accidental Sim death. (Old age does not count. The point penalty does not apply to your Gold Digger Sim's spouse(s).)
-30 for every demotion.
-50 for getting fired.
-10 for every fire or burglar.
These are rules or modifications to this challenge by ChristinaMay.  Thanks, ChristinaMay.


 1.Spouses and adopted children are NOT eligible to contribute to the Lifetime Wishes tally. However, they are still suscptible to the point deduction of an uncompleted Lifetime Wish (children only if they remain in the house after YA).

2. (I took out Rule #5-it seemed redundant and Rule #9)

3.If your heir dies but had a child, his/her spouse (if there was one) becomes a "place-holder" for the heir position of this generation otherwise a valid (has a unique Lifetime Wish) spare becomes heir until the original heir's child is older. If your heir died with a spouse but childless you must move out the spouse and pick a new heir from a valid spare. In the case of the spare, the spare would have to complete the Lifetime Wish before moving out when he/she becomes an adult.

4. (11). Added: This includes the Mid-Life Crisis reward.

5.(12). Only the heir is allowed to use the Change Lifetime Wishes reward and ONLY IF he/she and all of the spares have a Lifetime Wish that has already been completed. However you must choose a Lifetime Wish that fits at least one of the heir's traits.

    Scoring:
    Changed the "-100" for every repeat Lifetime Lifetime Wish to "-20".
    Changed -10 for every fire/"burgler" to "burgler who escaped with loot".
    Changed -50 per Lifetime Wish unfulfilled to exclude spares and adopted children moved out directly after they aged up to Young Adult.


Source (Credit): http://nene.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=348587

LEGACY CHALLENGE RULES - lifetime wishes

It's basically like "The Legacy Challenge" except the character's start with the color white.  I'm assuming you make the character's name based on that color (ie. Chiffon, Lacey, Whipcream).  After that you can choose which color you want for the next generation and so on.  You do this until you get to generation 10.

Example:

1 White
2 Red
3 Orange
4 Yellow
5 Green  
6 Blue
7 Black
8 Violet
9 Brown
10 Pink

You can use any world you like, as long as you play on a large lot.

Most stories I read, including "berrypie27's" uses Berry Sims.  You can find Fawkes's Skins here, these make Berry Sims look more realistic in my view.

1. Sugar Valley
2. Zephyr Hill

Most of these are not in Sim3.pack form or .packages form.  Instead you must put them in this folder: "C:\Users\2\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves" .

Then when in game there will be a file waiting for you!

For example:


Click it, create your Sim and play!  Have fun.
Sims3challengesrules isn't responsible for any content downloaded.  

(Credit): berrypie27,
(Added Suggestion Credit): Roselynn Daniels - http://www.blogger.com/profile/00315886849595817905
RAINBOWCY CHALLENGE RULES

This is an updated version of the Poverty Challenge based on the Poverty Challenge of Sims 2.

Instructions:

STEP ONE:
 
Create a CAS Sim to be the founder of your impoverished family. Must have unlucky trait. Other traits and Favorites you can choose.

STEP TWO:

If you move into Riverview, you must move into “345 Riverblossom Hills Drive”. If you move into Sunset Valley, you will must move into “15 Summer Hill Court”. Spend all of your money until funds are deleted to 100. ( You may buy something but it must be put into the inventory, it is wasted money.

UPDATE: Since this challenge, worlds have been available to be made. So... I'm going to say it's best to move into the biggest lot available. As for funds, there is a cheat.
No parties.


STEP THREE: Check- are you down to 100 smackers? Okay. The true poverty challenge begins here: survive and thrive as best you can. The challenge ends when the youngest grandchild of your first (CAS) Sim dies of old age.

RULES:

1. You cannot use lifetime points.
2. You may take any opportunities not dealing with money.
3. Fishing,Gardening, Collecting, Painting etc. is allowed , although these items aren't allowed to be used for profit)
4. Your original (CAS) founder Sim may work PART-TIME JOBS ONLY.
5. Other Sims MUST START AT THE BOTTOM of the career ladder (May take Full-Time Jobs). You will lose points with each promotion, so think carefully about your strategy, and whether you want them to be promoted or not.
6. All children must have the unlucky trait. Grand kids can be anything.
7. No Adoption.
8. Only NPCs or service Sims may join the family. ( They must move in with you). The poverty challenge stays on the poverty lot- if a Sim moves out, they are no longer considered part of the challenge.
9.You may visit community lots.
They are: Bookstore, Supermarket, City hall, Theater, Science Facility, Athletic Stadium, School, Spa, Hospital, Graveyard
10. Hacks and custom content are allowed, but not if they are against the spirit of the challenge.
11. Teens may move out with an adult, but not alone. Kids and younger may not be moved out, period. Otherwise you will lose the 3,000 child points from raising them.

POINTS

    Each simolean (of the family net worth) is worth one point in this challenge.
    Each child is worth 3,000 points (provided you raise them to teenagers).

    -5,000 for each child taken by the social worker
    -3,000 for accidental deaths
    -1,000 for each promotion


BONUS:

ADULT AND CHILD: (+45000 points). Add (+1000 points) if younger then a teen.

OLD MAID: (+35000 points) Your Sims do not marry/move in anyone, ever. All new family members must be born. You may have children out of wedlock.


Source (Credit): conversion (Simalot)
POVERTY CHALLENGE RULES

Note: I've been following this blog for months, I really started reading the blog thinking "that's how the game is played!" Doing my reading of the author of the legacy story, and own game-play I found that following these rules can be a little challenging, so I decided to post this here.

The idea is that the legacy is led by your founder, or heir/heiress, and that there is very little you can choose for your Simmy in charge.


The Official Rules:

  1.You must of course, complete this challenge without changing active households. Any action that erases the wishes promised to your legacy family is a big no-no!

  2. Your founder can be anyone as long as they are a young adult.   You may play on whichever life-span you like!

  3.You can live in a pre-made house, or start on an empty lot, that is up to you. If you are playing a pre-made household that has a lot of money to start with, that’s ok too. It's fun to see the effects of playing rich/poor in this type of challenge anyways!

  4. Having a family trait to pass on to future generations is optional, but I highly suggest making“family-oriented” the family trait for this challenge. Why? Because then you will have a better chance of your Sim rolling wishes for children, and you have to have at least one child to carry on the challenge… I’ll explain more about that later.

 5. As soon as you start game play, start locking in those wishes. Wishes are the foundation of this legacy challenge. You can only ‘help’ your Simmies with fulfilling wishes. You can’t decide for them who they will marry, when they will have kids, even what kind of career they will have. They must roll a want/wish for that action before you may direct your Sim to do so.

6. Must play with ‘High’ free-will setting.

7. You may only direct your Sim to fill a need if that need has a negative moodlet relating to it. (hungry, smelly, stressed, has to pee, lonely, tired)

8. The only daily action you may direct them to do without needing a wish is going to work/school. While on the job, you may choose any 'tone' you like for them to work under while they are there. If you have Ambitions, while on the job, you may direct your Sims to do whatever they need to to work for the day. But socially interacting with clients on the job can only be done if they wish for it.

9. You may only help your Sim skill in areas that they roll wishes to, or are directly related to their job/career. No other skilling is allowed.

10. You may not marry/move in/ any Sim unless your Sim wishes to do so.  If you want your Sim to have other ‘romantic’ interactions with a Sim, you must let them do it of their free will. The only exception being if they roll a wish to “massage Sim x” then naturally you would have to make them ‘flirt’ ‘kiss’ etc to get them to the point where they are offered to massage Sim x. That kind of direction is allowed.

11.  You may not have any children, or adopt any children unless it’s a promised wish of your Sim.  This game really is lead by your Sim, and if they don’t wish for one, you can’t have one! Adoption is completely acceptable in this challenge, and an adopted child can be an heir/heiress. (See how the ‘family-oriented’ trait will come in handy here?) There is one rule that will help here if you are in danger of failing your Wishacy and need to have offspring. That would be the next rule:
   
NOTE: Sometimes your Sim may need a little help in bringing in the next generation. Thus, the 'try for baby' substitute rule was born. Basically, it works like this: You may substitute the 'try for baby' woohoo for regular 'woohoo' if your Sim has already woo-hooed with that Sim once before, and they've rolled another wish to woohoo with that Sim. So, to use "Try for Baby" with a Sim without a wish for it, your Sim must have already had woohoo with that Sim before, and roll a wish for 'woohoo' with that Sim.

12.Traits: As far as traits go, you may choose traits for your Sim, or if you really want to make it challenging, you can randomize them. This goes for the Heir/Heiress, their children, or anyone else in the active household. You may also use your Life Time Reward that allows you to change traits if you need to.

 13. Broken Objects- If something breaks in the house, you can not fix it unless your Sim rolls a wish to, or autonomously starts repairing it. If they don't roll a wish to fix it, the only other option you have is to replace the object with a new one. This will cost more money, of course, but you can decide if it's worth it to have a working object or not.

14. BILLS/MAIL- Paying the bills and getting mail from the mailbox are FREE interactions that you can make your Sims do at any time. This includes getting the mail, sending off gems, any type of interaction with the mailbox (but not cheats, of course)

15. Canceling wishes- you may only cancel a wish if you have already promised 4 wishes, and the wish that they roll is worth more lifetime happiness points than one of the 4 previously promised wishes.  EXCEPTION: You may cancel any wish promised that is impossible to fill. Say, to move in with someone they already live with, or to rub a Sim belly that is no longer pregnant.

16.Being asked to move in can be considered an opportunity like any other opportunity, and is optional for you to accept or deny it. That is up to you. (GENERATIONS ONLY: The 'free vacation' opportunity that pops up to get the adults out of the house is also optional, you may choose to accept or not. If the heir/heiress goes on the vacation, control the other members of the house as you normally would, only fulfilling wishes, and taking care of needs as per the rules)

17.Lifetime Rewards- The lifetime points you collect are your reward for a great job at fulfilling your Sim's wishes, therefore, you can spend them whenever you want, however you want. After all, you earned them fair and square! (I hope)

18. NO cheats. Especially money, motives, etc. That’s part of what makes this a “challenge”, duh…. If it’s a cheat that doesn’t affect game play and wouldn’t ruin the spirit of the challenge, then it’s ok. You may choose an heir/heiress in any way you like. You may not let an heir/heiress take over until the current founder or generation's heir has fulfilled their Lifetime Wish. Once the LTW has been fulfilled, the previous heir or founder is no longer the focus, and the game play shifts to the new heir. You now work to fulfill the heir/heiress' wishes. If you want to wait until some of the children have aged to an older age before you pick your heir, that's fine, but you can't switch to a new heir BEFORE the current heir's Lifetime Wish is fulfilled.

19. Other members of the household (this includes previous heirs/founders who are no longer the current heir): The same ‘wishes’ rule applies to them, meaning you may not direct them to do something unless they wish for it. Their needs can only be tended to if they have a negative moodlet relating to it, and you must take care of it by clicking on the negative moodlet and letting them "choose" how to take care of that need. If they are not on the home lot, and clicking on the negative moodlet does nothing, you may direct them to go home and then click the negative moodlet there. If for some reason, clicking on the negative moodlet doesn't work for you, to take care of the needs of non-heir members of the household you must wait until the particular need is colored ORANGE.    

20.  Opportunities are completely optional for the other members of the household, and you are not required to fulfill any of their wishes. You just may not direct them to do anything besides what their wishes dictate. If you choose to fulfill a wish of a member of the household other than your founder/heir, it shouldn't interfere with a wish for the founder/heir. The focus of the challenge is on them, and their wishes have priority over others in the household.

 21.   Baby/Toddler care: For little ones, obviously they can't fulfill their own needs. When the baby/toddler's need is giving them a negative moodlet you may direct an older Sim to take care of their needs. The thing you can't direct a Sim to do unless they have a wish for it is teaching toddler skills. Usually family oriented Sims will do this autonomously as well, and of course that's allowed.
22.  For spares- you may move them out when they reach young adult if you would like to. This is the only thing you may decide for them without them rolling wishes. You can kick them out or move them into a house of your choice, but remember, no money cheats!    Anything that your Simmies do autonomously doesn’t count against you, and doesn’t count as you directing them. If they choose it for themselves, they are allowed to keep doing it! The only way you may interfere with their free will is if you are directing them to do something that fulfills a wish or opportunity, or takes care of a need that is in the yellow/orange.

23. House Decorating- I've decided that this is the one thing that I will leave off limits for the rules. You can change, decorate, spend as much money on your house as you want as the generations go by. I think it will be challenging enough as it is without including house upgrades, etc....which means that:


25. Collecting Money from Businesses owned: This is also sims do not usually/rarely wish for. In order to collect, you will need to come up with some creative wish-fulfilling to fix it. Example: if Sim wishes to go shopping, you could take them to collect at the bookstore, if they wish to have a night on the town, if they wish to go outside, wishes of this nature. Or, if they wish to have X amount of simoleons in the family fund, collecting that money would be part of fulfilling that wish.

Other Notes:

 OPTIONAL RULE- You may direct 1, and only one non-wish related social interaction per conversation, per Sim, per day. A conversation counts as uninterrupted back and forth interactions with one Sim. If something happens and they stop talking to each other, either to go do something else (bathroom) or talk to someone else, that conversation is over.  If you want to direct your Sim in a social interaction with that particular Sim, you will have to wait until  the next day. (I would use this rule sparingly, only if you get stuck or really need the help to keep the challenge going.)

PETS RULES:
If you have this particular EP, here are a few rules to make playing with Pets in this challenge:

 If you are just starting your Wishacy, you may add a pet to the household while you are in CAS creating your founder's household. If you are in the middle of your Wishacy, you may only add a pet if your founder/heir wishes for one. A great way to get your Sim to wish for a pet if they haven't yet, is to use your LTR points to change one of their traits to 'Animal Lover'.

 You can treat your animals' wishes just as you would treat any other non-heir household member. Meaning that their wishes are optional to fulfill, but not required in any way.

You may take care of their needs the same non-heir way as well, (waiting for negative moodlet, or needs in orange).

 If a pets' wish involves a Sim to complete, you may optionally choose to fulfill that wish or not, using any household member you like (kind of how it works for caring for babies)

 Due to the crazy havoc undisciplined pets seem to have on a household, the scold/praise interactions with your pet are FREE interactions.

You may drag and drop animals into cages as you see fit. I view cages as working like a back pack, where dragging and dropping is a sort-0f loophole.

REWARD!!! Been busting your butt fulfilling wishes for your Simmy, and wanna little help? Well, this reward is for you!

 Once you have reached 50,000 total reward points (found by hovering mouse over the treasure chest on the LTR menu) you are rewarded with 1FREE DAY with your heir/heiress/founder! Meaning, for 1-24hour period (Sim hours, not real life hours), you are free to pursue whatever you want with your Sim for the day! You may only use your free day one time, and only after you've acquired 50,000 overall points.
This wouldn't mean that you couldn't use your LTR points as you earn them, as the little treasure chest keeps track of your over all points in their lifespan. So, you could still use rewards, without it affecting reaching your 50,000 points. IF YOU ARE PLAYING ON LONG LIFE SPAN, YOU WILL NEED TO REACH 100,000 POINTS INSTEAD OF 50,000.

Opportunities- these are similar to wishes, but you will have a little more freedom in choosing to accept them. You may deny opportunities, but only 2 times in a row. After that you must accept the next one. So, say you get one opportunity, and you deny it. Then another one pops up and you don’t want that one either so you deny it. You MUST accept the next one that comes along. Accepted Opportunities can be treated like wishes. You may direct them to the necessary steps to complete the opportunity.

This is a one time offer! Use your day wisely!

GENERATIONS ONLY:

If you have the Generations EP, You have to choose between the above Free Day OR these three Lifetime Rewards: Age Freeze Potion Reward, Forever Young Potion Reward, or Clone Voucher. You may only use ONE of these per generation. If you choose to use the Free Day, you may not purchase the above lifetime rewards.

CLONE VOUCHER: If you choose this reward, the child that you receive through the reward can be the heir, but their generation will be considered a "half" generation. Example: Sim x is the 3rd generation heir. You decide to get a clone for him. His clone can be the heir, only the clone's generation will be considered Generation 3.5. Then any child produced from the clone will be the 4th generation.

AGE FREEZE POTION: If you choose this, you may drink the potion any time, but you must use the birthday cake to age them up and resume normal aging when you've produced an heir for the next generation and they have completed their LTW.


There are ways to be creative in wish-fulfilling that can mix things up a bit for you. For instance, say your Sim rolls a wish to write a book. Instead of writing it at home, you can have them write the book at the library, because directing them to the library IS a way of fulfilling that wish. So, they may not have wished to go to the library, but because it indirectly fulfills a wish, sending them there to write the book is perfectly legit!

If you’d like to provide your Sim with better choices for who to marry, you can always populate your town with Sims that you’ve made. But do this without changing active households.

There are some traits that may make this challenge a little easier... especially when it comes to making friends and socializing! Some you might want to consider other than the Family Oriented trait are: Charismatic, Friendly, Flirty, Hopeless Romantic, or Party Animal. You may want to include one or more of these traits as well!

One more thing, if you choose to share your adventures in a blog/story telling place, mention at the beginning what settings you are playing with, life-span, starting money, etc... so everyone knows where you are at and how challenging the game will be for you!

This legacy lasts 7 generations. I don’t feel like points make this game any fun, so I’m not including any, but if you enjoy points, and want to make a point system for my challenge I say go for it!

Source (Credit): http://buckeygirl80.blogspot.com/p/intro-and-rules.html
WISHACY LEGACY RULES

This challenge was created based upon the rainbow challenge. It has been modified to fit the Sims 3. It is a challenge for those who don't want or even like the restriction of the legacy challenges. This may not even seem like a real challenge to some as their is no point system. The challenge is to make Sim players familiar with the customization feature new to the Sims 3, while being creative and having fun. That said, there are a few rules for those wanting to give this a try…

The Rules:

1. The family surname should be the word “Wobnair” (rainbow spelled backward.)

2. Go into the CAS and make one founder. Name your Sim something to do with Red. The challenge starts with the founder's color "Red".

3. You can decorate in any way as long it's apparent that Red is the color for that generation. After all, your Sim is a Red freak.

Note: You may use any other colors to accentuate the red. Example, you may have red and white curtains. Then there are some patterns with other colors, these are fine too.

4. Offspring for the generation you are playing should be named something that corresponds to the current generation you are playing. For example, if you are playing red, you may name your children Scarlet, Crimson, Heat, Strawberry, etc.

5. On those occasions that the heir favorite color is the same as the current one you have played before you may chose from the colors listed below (only do this on those occasions). If that is the color you are playing , go down the list until you come to a color that you haven't played. The colors are :

Yellow
Green
Purple
Orange
White
Red
Black
Blue
Brown
Pink

6. The next color will be decided by your heir's favorite color. Although this color change will not take effect until the heir is the head of a household.

7. The challenge ends with generation 10.

8. No cheating in any foam or you have lost the the challenge.

NOTE: There are some that will think this challenge is too easy.... so try this-- marry those that only have the favorite color of the generation. ( ie. if generation 3 is purple, find and marry those with the favorite color  being purple).

Source (Credit):Me
SIMS 3 RAINBOW CHALLENGE (WITH A TWIST)

The Legacy Challenge is a long, 10-generation challenge where you start out with a single founder and very humble beginnings and try to lead the family to fame, fortune and success over the course of 10 generations.

Starting out
Create a brand new game file. You will be using this file exclusively to play your Legacy Challenge. You may use an existing game file, but your Legacy family must immediately become the “Active Household” and not cease to be active for the duration of the challenge. You may select any neighborhood.

The challenge begins with a single founder. Make this founder in Create A Sim. They may be male or female. They may be any age that can have children (YA, Adult and Elder for males, YA and Adult for females). You have full choice over their look, color and clothing. Custom content may be used if you like, including create-a-style custom patterns and colors. You may choose all 5 traits as well as their three favorite likes (food, music and color) and a lifetime want. No other Sims may be created in the founder’s family. Be creative with the family name, you’ll be seeing it for quite some time.

Now to place the founder. While you are free to choose either standard town, there is a very specific lot that must be used. If you move into Riverview, you must move into “345 River blossom Hills Drive”. If you move into Sunset Valley, you will be moving into “15 Summer Hill Court”. The common thread between these lots is that they are large, empty and cost $14,700. Yes I know that leaves you with only $1,300 in cash to build a house, that’s the point. All legacies start out with very humble beginnings and expect your founder to live like a hobo for awhile. If additional neighborhoods are made available with mods or EPs, or we gain the ability to plop our own lots down, they may be used, as long as the lot in question is completely empty and costs at least $14,700.


Rules:
 
No cheating. Plain and simple, no money or mood cheats. You may use custom objects, as long as their price and mood effects are in line with similar ‘official’ objects. Objects purchased from the Sim Store are considered 'official' as well as the ones included with the game.
 
Aging and story progression must be on and lifespans set to the normal level.
 
You are allowed to play with any Mod that does not give you a significant advantage over a player without the mod. The only specific mod I know of at the moment, Awesome Mod, is allowed.
 
The Legacy family must be the “Active Household” during the entire challenge. You may never switch the active household to another family. If you want to take a break from Legacy play, it is recommended you play in another saved game slot.
 
No Ambrosia! Your Sims may learn the recipe for Ambrosia, but may not cook or consume the dish. Nor may ambrosia be used to resurrect ghosts.
 
You may not resurrect dead Sims via the Science lab.
 
Sims may not consume life fruit to gain extra days to their lifespan.
 
You may age Sims up via the birthday cake only once the game prompts you with a reminder of their impending birthday, not earlier. You do not have to use the birthday cake to age Sims up, you can wait for the game to force the age transition if you wish.
 
Death Flowers may not be kept in inventory. You may gather and sell them, but cannot be used to ward off death

Black Market Restriction:
The Black Market is no longer being monitored by police. Kleptos, rummagers and thieves are now allowed to liquidate their ill gotten goods for cash.



Moving Sims in:
 
Any Sim may be moved into the Legacy Family via marriage or move-in except for the following:
Sims created by the player
Sims/households downloaded and imported from the exchange
Sims that had previously lived in the Legacy household but had since moved out
Sims that are identified by your Sim as "Rich" are now fair game for all Sims except your founder.

All other Sims are fair game. You are allowed to create/download/import Sims and families into your Legacy neighborhood, they just cannot join the family.
No Sims/families may ever be merged into the Legacy family. If you wish to add members, they must be done in game.
 
Challenge concepts
Generation: Order of birth in relation to the family at large. Your founder is generation 1, your founder’s son/daughter would be generation 2, the grandchildren of the founder would be generation 3 and so on. The challenge ends the moment generation 10 is born.
Founder: The Sim you create in CAS who starts the family.
 
Heir: The Sim belonging to the family bloodline who is slated to bring in the next generation once he/she is old enough and finds a mate.
 
Spare: A sibling of an heir, who can become an heir should anything happen to the current heir. Spares may be fed to the time stream or kept on the lot if you wish. They are eligible to earn legacy points for the family.
Fed to the time stream: Moving a controllable Sim out of the legacy house. A Sim fed to the time stream no longer can generate legacy points for the family, but still may be interacted with. Legacy points that have already been earned by this Sim still count towards your total, even after you move the Sim out.
 
Legacy Points: Your score for the challenge, earned in a variety of ways described below. The goal of the challenge is to get as many legacy points before the 10th generation.
Legacy House: The lot initially moved into by your founder. You may not move the family to another lot during the entire challenge. All heirs must be born in this house (or rather, born from Sims living at this house, even if they use the hospital to give birth)
 
Bloodline: Any Sim who can trace his or her family tree directly to the founder. Adopted Sims are NOT part of the bloodline. Sims that are moved in are only considered part of the bloodline when they contribute to the birth of the next generation.
 
Mate: A Sim brought in from outside the family to reproduce with the current generation’s heir to produce the next generation. When the next generation is born, the mate becomes part of the family bloodline and eligible to earn points.

Points:
You earn points for your family in the following ways.
Generation: You get 1 legacy point for your founder, and 1 point for every generation born until the 10th. You earn each point at the birth of the first child in each generation. Further births in that generation do not generate more points. Thus you can only earn a maximum of 10 total Generation points by completing the challenge and birthing the 10th generation.

Lifetime wants: You gain 1 point for every unique lifetime want fulfilled by a family member. The Sim in question must be living in the legacy house and be part of the family tree to earn this point. Once a specific lifetime wish has been fulfilled by a Sim, further Sims fulfilling that wish will not earn you a legacy point for doing so. There are 32 unique lifetime wishes in the game, meaning you could earn a maximum of 32 points in this category.

Portraits: 1 point for creating a portrait of a family member and keeping it on display after their death. Like above, the Sim must be part of the family tree and living in the legacy house to qualify for this point. You earn this point after the portrait is created, you do not have to wait for the Sim in the portrait to actually die. Portraits are still worth their points even if the family member pictured is moved out of the house later on. The skill of the artist doing the portrait does not matter, as long as it features the Sim in question it counts. Portraits may be of any size or style. Keep in mind that a Sim must have a painting skill of at least 5 to get the option of painting a still life (needed to capture a Sim’s picture).
Sims must be of Young Adult or older and living on the Legacy Lot at the time of painting to count for a portrait point.

Legacy House: Earn 1 legacy point for every $100,000 in net worth the house is worth. To get the net worth combine the "Furnished Value" of the house with the family's cash on hand. Round up. This category can have a maximum of 20 points earned, meaning a net-worth of 2,000,000

Aspiration Rewards: If a Sim is able to earn 100,000 points worth of aspiration rewards, they earn your family 1 legacy point. You are free to spend aspiration points as you gain them, it is your lifetime total, not your current total, that matters for this point. Like the other Sim-based points, this may only be earned by family members. You may earn an additional point in this category from a Sim if they somehow earn 200,000 points in their lifetime. .

Birth and growing up

Whenever a Sim is born or ages up, they will often obtain new traits. Sometimes these traits are randomly assigned by the game. Other times the game lets you pick them. In the Legacy Challenge, all traits are random. If you are given the option to pick traits for any Sim, you must hit the random button and accept the trait that is randomly assigned. The only exception is if you are playing with the "Family Trait" optional rule. If you are, and the family trait is one of the options, you may select that trait rather than hitting the random button.
 
Death
 
Sims that die on the family lot may be kept around as ghosts, or may be moved to a cemetery. It is up to you. If a Sim dies and you forgot to get their portrait, making a portrait of their ghost does not count. If the bloodline is cut short by death, the challenge ends immediately. It is always a good idea to have at least one spare in case the heir perishes. Even if ghosts become playable, they may not earn any further points for the family. Ghost babies are not considered part of any bloodline.

Bringing in the next generation.
 
In order to bring in the next generation, a new Sim must be born. Adoptions do not carry the family bloodline and thus don’t count. (You are still allowed to adopt Sims if you really want to, but they won’t help point wise) If the heir is male, you must move their mate into the legacy family house before having a baby. If the heir is female, she may move her mate in, or Simply get pregnant while off the lot. In either case, the heir and their mate don’t have to be married. Sims may be born at home or in a hospital, whichever you prefer. The moment the next generation is born, the heir’s mate officially becomes part of the family bloodline (and thus can earn lifetime want, aspiration perk and portrait points for you, provided they are living in the Legacy House).

Optional Rules
 
These are optional rules you may play with if you wish. They don’t affect your score in any way, and are merely tools to help establish a theme for your family.

Family Trait
 
When creating your founder in CAS, choose one of the founder’s 5 traits to become the ‘family trait’ for your legacy family. There after, every Sim born to the legacy family must possess this trait by the time they reach young adulthood. If they do not inherit it at birth, you must choose that trait the moment you are given the option to. The remaining traits still must be rolled for.

Matriarchy/Patriarchy

Whatever gender your founder was, this must be the gender of every heir. Meaning if you started with a female founder, only female children may become the heir to bring in the next generation. Children of the other gender are still counted as part of the family bloodline and may still earn the family points, they simply may not bring in the next generation.
A male dominant family is called a Patriarchy, a female dominant family is a Matriarchy.

Story Teller

A popular practice is to write a story for your Legacy family and upload it in chapters. If you feel the creative energy, why not try uploading your own story? There is no in-game bonus for doing this, but the addition to the community is always welcome!

FAQ

Why do I have to buy such a big lot. I barely have money in the beginning.
Early poverty is a hallmark of the challenge. A large plot of land not only drains the available cash from your starting funds, it gives you the ability to build some epic sized legacy homes as you play through the generations and get more wealth.

If I’m playing with the family trait option, does my Sim’s mate have to have that trait too?
No.

Can I move in/marry Sims into the legacy home that aren’t going to help bring in the next generation?
Yes, keep in mind that they don’t earn any points for the family. Even Sims that are destined to help bring in the next generation won’t count as part of the family until the next generation is actually born.

Does the first born have to be the heir?

No, as long as they are part of the bloodline and born on the legacy house they are eligible to be an heir, regardless of order of birth. They must be the proper gender if playing with the matriarchy/patriarchy option.

Are collection items, such as rocks, insects and seeds subject to the black market restriction?

No, you are allowed to sell any collection items you find...as long as they weren't stolen out of someone's house or garbage.

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Source (Credit): http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/39862.page Written by Pinstar
LEGACY CHALLENGE RULES