bellsibub / legacy-tracker

TS4 Legacy Challenge Tracker - Track your scores and plan your legacy challenge!

Table of Contents

• About
  • Built With
    • Backend:
    • Frontend:
• Usage and Features
  • Prerequisites
  • Usage
  • Features
    • Dashboard
    • Laws and Rules
    • Geneology
    • Categories
    • Profile
• Roadmap
  • Summer 2021
  • Autumn 2021
  • TBD
• Acknowledgements

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About

I wanted to create a tracker application for the Sims 4 Legacy Challenge. This is one of most commonly used challenges today in the Sims 4 community, but as of yet there are no trackers fully automated applications for the scoring system. However, there are excel sheets made by the awsome Sims 4 community. When I play this challenge I get easily overwhelmed by all the data and stuff I have to keep track of and the messy design of an Excel sheet doesn't help. So therefore I have for the past couple of years been planning and thinking about making a website that handles everything for you and displays the relevant data in a nice responsive fashion. This application was began its production during the final weeks of the Technigo Bootcamp.

Built With

Backend:

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• Mongooose
• node-fetch
• Auth0

Frontend:

• React
• React Redux
• React Router
• Material UI
• classnames
• mdi-material-ui
• Auth0

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Usage and Features

Prerequisites

Before you begin using this application you might want to read up a bit on what the legacy challenge actually is in the Sims 4.

To do that start off by going to the official website for the challenge

Or just go to Youtube and search for "sims 4 legacy challenge"

Usage

Link to live project: https://www.ts4legacytracker.com/

URL for backend (All endpoints require Auth0 token): https://legacy-tracker-api-production.herokuapp.com/

Features

Dashboard View/Edit the curret ruler of the current generation View Potential Heirs in the next generation Select a potential heir as the Heir If the legacy has the Heir Law of RANDOM Focus Tasks (used to plan your generation playthrough) Any item from a category set as a focus will be shown here as a todo. Each todo can be either removed/completed Category Score Stats For each category you can see your current score for this legacy Laws and Rules Here you can view/edit your selected laws for this legacy These laws effect what sims will be listed as potential heirs View/Edit/Delete/Add Rules These have no effect in the applictaion. They serve as a reminder to you when playing the Sims. Geneology Here you can view the ruler and heirs (just like the Dashboard) You can also view each generation and its sims At the top of the page you can start a new generation / begin the next generation Starting a new generation: This means you want to add your first Legacy Child for the next generation These sims will be calculated against the laws for potential heirs Init next generation: This will be available when you have an heir selected => It will remove the current ruler and set the heir as the ruler. This will also move the legacy towards the next generation For each generation table you can add new partners or a non-legacy sim. These sims have no effect on the application other than provide a nice way to keep track of your family. Categories These pages are the categories for the scoring of the legacy (as defined by the creators of the challenge) Skills Aspirations Food Profile Edit your profile or delete your profile You can also configure what packs the legacy has active You can begin a new legacy. This will remove the current legacy and start a new one.

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Roadmap

Summer 2021

• Bug fixes and improvements of current features
• Age system for sims. (This is needed for more advanced laws calculations)
• More advanced automation of laws and heir selection
• Toast notifications for errors and actions
• Design improvements
• Add an end state; i.e. when legacy gets to generation 10
• Add more categories
  • Family
  • Creative
  • Fortune
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Collections
  • Popularity
  • Deviance

Autumn 2021

• Bug fixes and improvements of current features
• Additional categories:
  • Bonus Points
  • Penalities
• Extensive user testing and improvements
• Tutorial videos and improved onboarding

TBD

• User should be able to have multiple legacies
• Custom layout of Dashboard
• Improved Sim cards with images (i.e. user can upload images)
• Generators:
  • RNG Traits -> Get get traits for children

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone from the Technigo community for supporting me during development and giving me a platform to learn and improve my skills.

Also of course a HUGE and massive thank you to the Sims community who had already created some trackers using Excel and gave me the inspiration to do this!

• Pinstar's tracker
• SimGuySteve’s Legacy Challenge Scoresheet
• Becca’s Legacy Challenge Scoresheet
• Hilliee’s Legacy Scoresheet
• Becky’s Legacy Scoresheet

Last but not least a great big bow to Pinstar and Mystic the creators and maintainers of the Sims Legacy Challenge!

• https://simslegacychallenge.com/