Hi everyone!
I'm playing my game A LOT right now and so on normal lifespan, I'm almost feeling rushed in my storylines, what I want to do with the Sims etc. I'm considering either temporarily turning aging off or moving to the long lifespan for a bit, and I wanted advice/opinions!
I also wondered - if I switch to Long Lifespan, what happens to my Sims who are halfway through young adult or anything like that? Does it just find the closest alternative or..? Also, if I switched aging off for a week, then switched it back on, would that count as days to my Sims lifespans once they become elders or is it basically completely discounted time?
Sorry for dumb questions, just I've only ever played on Normal Lifespan before and changing it up is almost frightening
What are your aging and lifespan preferences?
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Until their story is over, and they're played their role.
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The other save is currently only on long to get toddler skills up, but once that's done I may switch back to normal. Last time I did that the number of days they had until aging up was divided by four because the normal lifespan is one-fourth the length of the long lifespan.
I hate the toddler lifestage too - so much stress!
This is really useful, thanks @SimTrippy !
I have MCCC actually - didn't think about the age thingy but good idea! I should look into that.It's odd you can't customise lifestage like you could in Sims 3 tbh. Hopefully they'll update at some point and add that feature in.
So when you turn aging off and back on again... Does it count towards their days lived total, do you know? I was wondering about this lol
PS)... I think MCCC was recently updated btw! To accomodate for Seasons etc
Can you set different life lengths for different saves!? Or do you just change it manually every time you switch? @TresaofPern
You can set different life lengths for each save.
The only time I've ever played Sims4 on Normal, was when I did Pinstar's Legacy Challenge and it's part of the 'rules'.
Here's what you do. Make a back-up of your game and then switch to Long. If it does something funky, you can use your back-up game to undo it. I don't play with Aging Off and haven't since Sims2. So far, Long has given me more than enough time to accomplish what I need. The only thing I would caution you on, is to NOT age up a Sim in cas.fulleditmode. I lost a Sim just recently doing that. Seems all the days I've played a Sim on Long, get added together when you use CAS to age them up. Had I known that I would have simply used MCCC to do the job. My bad. Aged him up to Elder and poof, he was gone that quickly.
The good news is, I've restarted this entire rotation save, which will allow me to enjoy Seasons with this group of families.
Best of luck, and I hope I've helped.
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ok interesting! thanks @PninaSimmer
And can I ask, once they start to age, does it count the days they've lived not aging as days lived or..?
You've defo helped, thanks!
I never age in CAS so no problems there
One thing that has confused me is I set it to long, checked their ages - my elder who had 43 days to live on normal (lots of bonus days lol) now has 427 days... THAT HAS TO BE WRONG lmaoooo
I wish we had age sliders like on 3 as well
Wow I had no idea about this! This changes a lot haha. Tysm!
How do you that? I have MCCC and never knew this could be done
You're welcome.
Maybe I remember it wrong but I thought you could do that. I'd have to take a look again xD I hope I didn't cause any misinformation
Go to Documentation -> MC Command Center
I think you will find all the info there about how to set life spans!
My current rotation is:
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It pauses the aging until it is turned back on. It won't count the days they've lived not with aging on.
On my legacy, I swap back and forth with long and normal. When I’m ready to age them up, if I want the rest of the world to speed up to, I’ll set it to normal, otherwise I generally have it on long.
I've switched aging off in my game, just yesterday. I want more time with my Sims! Though I'm not so fussed about them dying - I feel it completes the story
Thanks for sharing your Sim's stories! Always interesting to hear what other people play. The problem with my game is many of my families are related I'm trying to add more Sims who aren't somehow on the family tree, else I'll end up with some real weird gene problems for sure LOL.
I'm also waiting for Seasons by now. On normal lifespan, you don't really have the time for them all, if your Sims are already, say, halfway through their lifespans! That's why I've temporarily switched it off, although I've kept it on normal for now because it seemed to do some odd things with age gaps by switching it to long...!
Thanks!