"Hello! It’s wonderful to meet another long-time Legacy player. I actually struggle with the same dilemma as you do. I hate seeing my Zois—whom I’ve watched grow up since they were born—grow old and pass away. In fact, I hate it when any Zoi (except for generic NPCs) dies.
That’s why once they reach Young Adulthood, get married, and have children, I always check the ‘No Aging’ option and move them to the ‘Waiting Family’ list. Even though they don’t have a permanent home, I still see them wandering all over the city as I play. Since the list of ‘Waiting Families’ keeps growing, I always organize them by generation—for example, if I move Olivia Abbott to the waiting list, I’ll name the household ‘Abbott 2nd Gen,’ and their descendants ‘Abbott 3rd Gen,’ and so on.
I actually built my PC specifically to play inZOI and The Sims, so I’m not worried about system specs at all. I really hope the developers will be ambitious in increasing the number of residential lots and the overall map size of each city. One of the things I loved most about The Sims3 was the abundance of lots, and the fact that I could manually edit the town to place custom-sized lots wherever I wanted.
Using that feature, I used to place 2nd and 3rd generation homes right next to the 1st generation to create a ‘Clan Village.’ It allowed the family to live close together as a community and support each other—like a grandmother heading over to her granddaughter’s house to help take care of a newborn when the parents are exhausted and sleep-deprived. I truly hope inZOI develops into a game that captures that ‘alive’ and ‘organic’ feeling."
"The Sims 3 was especially dynamic because multiple families lived within the same apartment building. If my apartment felt too cramped or if I wanted to designate a space for neighbors, I could use the ‘buydebug’ cheat to remove the objects (Hidden Room Markers) that made the game recognize certain areas as NPC-only. This allowed me to either edit the entire floor as my own home or create a new ‘Next-door Neighbor House’ for other families to move into.
Also, even though the default household limit was 8 Sims, I used mods to expand that capacity up to 24. It was truly a beautiful sight to see. Thanks to this freedom, I’ve encountered all sorts of families—once I saw a group that looked just like the cast of Friends, another time a character like Hannibal, and just yesterday, I ran into a family that reminded me of the adorable grandfather and grandson from the movie Up."
"I might have rambled a bit too much about The Sims 3, but I have no doubt that inZOI will become an even more magnificent game if it heads in this direction: more lots, the ability for multiple families to live in a single apartment or building, larger lot sizes, and most importantly, allowing players to autonomously adjust the size and placement of those lots.
To be honest, my method of sending Young Adult Zois to the ‘Waiting Family’ list isn’t because I want to; it’s closer to the ‘lesser of two evils’ I had to choose under limited conditions. It’s certainly not the ideal solution. I’m merely grateful for the level of comfort it provides—that I can run into them in the city if I’m lucky, and that they won’t age, just as I intended.
As a fellow Legacy Player, my advice to others would be this: move some of your family members to the ‘Waiting Family’ list. You’ll still see them occasionally in the city with a low probability, or you can interact with them by using the ‘Invite Here’ feature to bring them to your home. Their time will be frozen in place, meaning they can no longer form meaningful new relationships, fall in love, have children, or learn new things. However, making it feel like they are still by our side is, for now, the best we can do."
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