What is your favorite life stage? «12...Next Go

Simtown15

puzzlezaddict

Teen

For me, teens have the perfect balance of everything I want in the game. They can learn any skill I choose, at whatever pace I see fit. School is present but undemanding, and there's no threat of a skill requirement popping up out of nowhere to deny them an otherwise-deserved promotion. They don't face any pressure to bring in money, maintain the house, or build relationships yet, let alone get married and/or have children. So really, they can do whatever I want them to, without my worrying that I'm missing a critical opportunity to advance them on their respective paths.

Plus, if and when they do start to date, it's always so cute. The interactions are adorable, and somehow things feel sweet instead of corny or sappy the way they sometimes do with adults.

JoAnne65

Young Adult

Young adult. Because they look the most attractive as YAs in my game plus it’s the life stage where it’s all happening. Adventures, building a house, finding a job and make it a succes (or make money in other ways), falling in love, complications, getting children, all that jazz

TS1299

Child

Child. I like to play as them especially since they are just starting out their journey on their life. From their first friends, to first games, and family bondings, I just find that kids connects the stages of Life with the children's exploration and Discovery.

Charlottesmom

Young Adult

YA because they can do the most and have the best choice of clothes and their lips aren't all wonky as they can tend to be at Adult..Though I adore toddler in small doses. I do agree with @TS1299 , Child is fun because they can do more and are just starting out, you can mold them however you want.

Emily4331

Young Adult

I suppose I enjoy all life stages for their own reasons, but Young Adult seems like the most involved part of life in-game and out. Makes it the most entertaining for me.

Simtown15

Geez, people LOVE the young adults! No wonder they added so much stuff for them in TS4. I haven't made up my mind yet. I'll have to quickly play a sim from birth to death and see which life stage I enjoyed the most.

Huiiie_07

Teen

Teens, because I can relate to them the most. I also LOVE to prepare them for University, building skills and stuff. Aaand maybe it's because I'm a teen myself and can't really relate to young adults, or anything adult-like.

TadOlson

Teen

I really love all of the stages though teens get that special option to move out on their own in my games and start their own households if they want to or if their childhood home is too small and their parents are having another baby on the way.I've got my story progression set up for allowing no adult households so teens can head their own households.

Mikezumi

Young Adult

I chose YA but I actually like all the life stages from teen up. The reason I chose YA is because that is when my sims are having most of their babies and achieving most of what I want them to. In my saves with longer lifespans it might be a toss up between teens and YA. The only life stages I don't find that interesting are toddler and child. I don't do babies at all and all my sim kids get aged up to toddler immediately after birth.

dreamerz13

Young Adult

Definitely YA.

They can do anything. And they're one of the more aesthetically pleasing stages (I mean toddlers are adorable... but they can't do much) and I care about that in sims lol. Children tend to be awkward look, teens like always are, and I often find the ageing too dramatic in adults and elders. And of course babies all look the same and are boring little burritos. So yeah. YA it is.

Nikkei_Simmer

Young Adult

Young Adult for me...because it's the stage in life where you're discovering your independence from your parent sims...and starting to make your own way in life. You generally get married around this stage and childless for a while, unless you want to hurry the reproductive process...well...you generally start a family at this point and your kids get to maybe child...life-stage before you end up aging up to Adult. Young adult is where you can explore the world without any tie-downs...and experience University...as well.

When you get to adult-stage that's when sim-life's full responsibilities kick in...and you wonder, "Holy Flippin' Tragic Clownfish, What the FLARKIN HEL HAPPENED?"

MrGorgon1997

Teen

I enjoy the Teen-Adult stages the best, but I do favour the teen stage if only because you can muck about a bit more without having to worry about the responsibilities present in the YA & A stages. As a few people above me said though, YA is definitely the most aesthetically pleasing stage.

jillbg

Young Adult

Young adults are my favorite, can't wait to get there with my story... Am still playing Taïga as a teen, and have just rewritten and retaken pics from her childhood and it's pretty fun too!

Simtown15

@jillbg Is that Miriam Hoppcraft?! She's caused so much trouble one of my games!

jillbg

Young Adult

@Simtown15 Yep, it's her! I decided she would be perfect as the primary school teacher in my story! What did she do in your game?

Simtown15

@jillbg My sim divorced his wife to be with her (similar to what could've happened if my poll had more yes votes) and she walked out on her ex-husband and 2 sons, which I calculated to be 13 and 4 in sim years, to get a house with him. Before she divorced her husband, she kissed my sim in front of the kids, giving them the "witnessed betrayal" moodlet. She's evil too. Flash forward a few years to my sim's son's wedding (and I just noticed he literally had an evil stepmother). My sim autonomously fought with her several times, so I had them divorce and he had a happy ending, remarrying his ex-wife shortly after becoming an elder. Miriam, on the other hand, never went back to her family.

Cororon

Young Adult

Young adult. Like JoAnne65 says "Because they look the most attractive as YAs in my game plus it’s the life stage where it’s all happening."

Teens are fun to play, and recently I discovered how fun the children can be, especially with mods so they can do more stuff like laundry and play instruments. And elders can be charming and fun to play! Babies and toddlers are my least favourite life stages. I find the toddlers noisy and annoying, but they belong in the game too!

bekkasan

I love all the life stages including babies and I'm just happy Sims 3 babies are not objects tied to a bassinet. I keep babies for 7-14 days depending on the lifespan I am playing. I can't vote since there is not an other category, but, my vote would be all life stages.

Simtown15

Cororon wrote: »

Young adult. Like JoAnne65 says "Because they look the most attractive as YAs in my game plus it’s the life stage where it’s all happening."

Teens are fun to play, and recently I discovered how fun the children can be, especially with mods so they can do more stuff like laundry and play instruments. And elders can be charming and fun to play! Babies and toddlers are my least favourite life stages. I find the toddlers noisy and annoying, but they belong in the game too!

Yeah, Sims 4! They belong in the game too! And not 2 years late!

bekkasan wrote: »

I love all the life stages including babies and I'm just happy Sims 3 babies are not objects tied to a bassinet. I keep babies for 7-14 days depending on the lifespan I am playing. I can't vote since there is not an other category, but, my vote would be all life stages.

Yeah, Sims 4! Babies are supposed to be sims, not objects! Heck, you can even put a baby in the family inventory while renovating!

SimplyJen

Young Adult

Heh, can't say I'm surprised to see YA as the top poll result.

JoAnne65 wrote: »

Young adult. Because they look the most attractive as YAs in my game plus it’s the life stage where it’s all happening. Adventures, building a house, finding a job and make it a succes (or make money in other ways), falling in love, complications, getting children, all that jazz

Ditto ^

Breazona

Teen

Obviously young adults are a super fun stage to play, but for me the teen stage is when the sim develops the most character. Added bonus is that I can still play with the whole family.

jillbg

Young Adult

@Simtown15 It's sounds like a real life story! That's what's so fun about the sims, especially when you follow their wishes! i guess EA wanted some drama...

jillbg

Young Adult

@Cororon Totally agree! Love the elders and the kids too!

I think a game with only young adults would be annoying, as well as a perfect simworld would be if there were only beautiful sims in it. Babies aren't much fun, but when you think about that a newborn (up to two weeks old baby) needs 16 hours of sleep per 24 hours, we can see why there aren't many interactions available! I let them remain babies the time it takes, as I only play for my story nowadays and I try to keep it as realistic as possible...

aprilrose

Young Adult

Young Adult and toddler

Deshong04

All of them.

If I want to play with young adults only, then I would play Singles: Flirt Up Your Life.

When TS2 introduced aging/generations I loved the gameplay even more compared to TS. The reason why I play The Sims is to play with life, not one aspect of it but "all of it". So the constant additions of gameplay to the genre it represents is always welcomed.
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