• What is the Uglacy Challenge?

        • The Uglacy Challenge, created by AnaDandy and RoloCorgi, is a take on the popular Sims 2 Legacy Challenge that was created by Pinstar. Instead of merely taking a family through an allotted number of generations, the goal is to start with a random, unaltered Sim as the family founder and make the line the ugliest it can be in those generations by marrying only game-generated characters (Townies, Dormies, and NPCs).

    • Um, why?

        • We are a couple of friends who were trading stories of the Legacy Challenge families we had each started. Though we naturally tried to mix the best-looking Sims into our lines, after a while we were having problems finding NPC/Townie Sims attractive enough to do our founders justice. AnaDandy, especially, was getting frustrated that her Legacy lineage was turning into a bunch of mutants after some unfortunate big jaw/giant nose genes snuck into the family line (as chronicled here). After several generations of despair, we thought, wouldn't it be nice if that were the ultimate goal? Then you could actually feel GOOD about the uglies, and the worst that could happen would be getting a Sim that was a little too easy on the eyes. We could live with that. So, we each started over with a new ugly legacy, christened it the "Uglacy," and for once actually got to look forward to nabbing the likes of exterminator Carmen Patch and bartender Juan McCullough. (As an added bonus, if you have the Uglacy in the same neighborhood as your Legacy family, it has the side benefit of soaking up all the uglies your Legacy heirs might get stuck marrying otherwise!)

        Ever since we designed the challenge in late 2004 to play and share with our friends and subsequently posted it on the Sims 2 BBS when it turned out to be a lot of fun, dozens of people have told us that they've tried the Uglacy Challenge and really gotten a kick out of breeding freaks of Sim-nature.

    • What are the Uglacy rules?

        • The Uglacy is based on the Legacy Challenge, complete rules for which can be found here. Since we weren't playing our Legacies for points, we just kept the basic tenets of the Legacy Challenge for the Uglacy: start with a created Sim on a 5x5 lot, mate your Sims only with non-controllable Sims, roll a die to select aspirations for the offspring, never reload to change outcomes, and use no cheats (especially not the "faceBlendLimits off" cheat--that would be too easy!). In addition, we decided that the founder of the Uglacy would be randomly generated, just to add to the challenge. The founder is declared to be the third randomly-generated Sim of your chosen gender when you start Create-A-Sim, and while you can modify the Sim's personality, aspiration, hairstyle, and clothing to your heart's content, the face shape and the colors of the eyes, hair, and skin are not to be changed. And, of course, ugly is in the eye of the beholder, so only you can decide how well your line has turned out in the end!

    • Uglacy Links

      • Our Uglacy Stories (Currently undergoing some updates)

      • Some people have taken the Uglacy idea and turned it around into a "Dilution Challenge," starting with an ugly Sim and working back to normalcy over the generations. If anyone is interested in some organically-uglified Sims for a Dilution Challenge, feel free to download some of these game-bred wonders. (Currently down for updates)

      • For whatever reason, this site has a wealth of really awful names to bestow on your uglies. It even has a "generate random name" feature that can make names as bizarre as your Sims.