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TUTORIAL: Legacy, Story, and Picture Tips

Overview

Whether it is you are looking to start a legacy/sim story or you just want some tips to improve, I am here to share some of my tips that I recommend doing.

What is a Legacy?

A legacy is where one sim family is played over generations, passing on genes, money, and whatever else. The key number of generations is 5-10, although it has been known to get beyond that number. The “official” rules for legacies at located at LegacyChallenge.com, although you obviously don’t have to follow those cheat-free, hack-free rules :)

What is a Sim Story?

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TUTORIAL: How To Take Pictures with The Sims 2

Playing the Sims 2 and sharing your stories with someone else is wonderful and quite fun. However, you need to know how to take the pictures and how to store them! There are three ways to do so – Through the game to upload directly to The Sims 2, through the game to upload to an outside source and be able to upload it to the forums or website, and through print screen. In this article, I will go through all three ways. I am writing this article with a Windows Vista computer and I haven’t had any experience with all of these steps in a Mac. Therefore, there may be some differences that I cannot cover. If you have Windows XP, the only difference would be the Documents folder is named My Documents.

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