The Adoption Legacy Challenge and Rules

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=458183

Absolutely no cheating or mods that affect gameplay.

To start: Create a single adult founder in CAS. Move them into a lot with a house they can afford (or create one). You will need to expand it over time, so be sure to choose a lot that is big enough. Have them reach the top of their career track and adopt 2 babies before they die. Choose one of the children as an heir when the youngest grows up to be a young adult.

For each subsequent generation, adopt one more child than the previous did. So the child after the founder will adopt 3 children, the next heir will adopt 4, the next will adopt 5 and so on and so forth until you get to generation 10 and a lot of kids...

Tips:

Some of the later generations will not be able to get married and will have to move children out ASAP in order to finish the challenge.

Some generations will be unable to work due to all of the adopted children, so make as much money as possible in the beginning.

All of the adopted children must be babies and raised to adulthood, but they can be adopted at any time so long as the heir is not an elder.

Scoring:

Start out with 15 points

-1 per child taken by social worker
-1 per social worker warning
-1 per housefire
-1 for every early age up via the birthday cake
-1 for every teenager moving out early with an older sibling
-1 for every missed opportunity to teach a toddler to walk or talk
-1 for every child adopted after reaching elder
-1 for every required child you failed to adopt
-1 for every child you were not able to pick both traits for because of their rough childhood
-1 per child/teen gets an F on report card
-1 per child/teen caught by police after curfew

If you go into the negative points zone, you have failed the challenge

I'm on a Sims 2 kick at the moment, and this challenge feels easy enough to adopt to a Sims 2 rule set. I'd be interested in trying it out, but I'd need to modify a few rules:

-1 for every early age up via the birthday cake

Since it's not possible to age a sim up early this way in the Sims 2, maybe this could be replaced with -1 for every teen sent to University without waiting until the teen's teen-to-adult birthday?

-1 for every child you were not able to pick both traits for because of their rough childhood

This could be replaced with "-1 for every child who grows up poorly."

-1 per child/teen caught by police after curfew

This isn't as large an issue in the Sims 2, as teens will only be caught by the police if they use a specific interaction, "sneak out," so I'd replace this with -1 per teen that runs away from home.

Hmm.... Actually there is a set of rules for the sims 2 somewhere. If you want to find it and post it here, I can add a sims 2 edition! ^^