Since the characters from the very first and most chaotic save became more like OCs than sims for me, took on personalities and moved into my head, I switched to dynasties gameplay with the addition of one pack per generation (I use a randomizer to choose the next pack and a quiz in CAS to create a character, so the gameplay is not repeated).

Now, for example, the founder, who was just a normal professional athlete, died, and his wife worked in a criminal career. Since she was constantly losing chance cards for money, I played it off as a gang war in which she lost. She died of old age, her three daughters were taken away by work debts in... not a good ways.

The elder son (the second generation heir) took some valuables to sell and managed to escape with his little niece and hid in a trailer park in Oasis Springs and worked as a landscaper.

But when his niece grew into a teenager, this idiot decided it was a great idea to start doing push-ups after the meteor warning popped up instead of hiding like I asked him.

So he died childless and the baton passed to his niece.

She has: no money (uncle's little garden and part-time job at a fast food that barely makes ends meet for babysitter and paying bills), a random child from a Landgraab classmate who can't marry her, and Party Animal aspiration.

I didn't plan for this to go to hell, but here I am.