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How long do you make your sims age?
brendhan21
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So I am curious how long you make your sims age do you leave it at the default way or do you make it so they age really slow or do you make them age really fast I am curious.
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i have 2 sims exactly like that. i did and am playing a sim family on the default age setting but i find it hard to actually get well everything set up for them. i suppose that is part of the challenge though but i am kind of wondering if its more realasistic to play on the default age or the longest life setting.
i am debating on doing that with a family i have right now and just start them with the longest life setting as with the default age setting its kind of impossible to raise todler skills to the max . plus i just discovered scouting and idk how am going to have enough time to do that with the default age setting.
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yes that actually does make sense. plus like i said it feels impossible to get all the beinfits from extra traits like tolder traits kid traits scouting etc etc.
I keep mine sims aging turned off and age them when I feel it is time. I keep my new born babies about a day or 2 then age them up. But all others when I feel it is time for my story.
How do you decide when it’s time for an elder to die?
Okay, it happens all the time with babies. On Long life they have 12 days. I think the longest I've managed to let them go is 5. 2 if they're especially clingy.
I do exactly the same. I love to play various scenarios and I like to see how sims "develop", changing jobs, houses, expanding family or not, getting new hobby. I have usually many ideas for one family/Sim (well like in RL, people don't stuck with one "skill" or aspiration, they learn and change the entire life)
But I don't like to see Sims dying out of old age. I mean sometimes it happens they die due to some accident. But when I stop having ideas for the plot, I don't like kind of "waiting" for their death... I usually leave the house then and set them to npc, so they can do what they want and I don't have to watch them leaving the sim world
Sometimes it is tricky to get a toddler to all max skills or the kids all the scout badges but if you focus on them, it is doable. Not all of my sims get everything though. I like variety in my game and they're already pretty shallow and similar as is. Besides, not getting a speed boost for skills or careers doesn't matter that much to me. I find the boost that they do get isn't that much faster anyways to make me really want/need it for every sim I grow up. Unless there's an accident, a sim from birth to old age death, I can usually get everything done with that sim that I had wanted them to do at the normal setting.
Generally my sims stay the same age unless I find a reason to age them up because I select the option to not age them. I have each one set up for certain things and professions and want them to stay the way they are. Of course that will change for my child/toddler/teenage sims once we get University (IF we ever get university!)
It's a throwback to the Sims 2. In that game there just didn't seem to be enough time once you got into the profession you wanted (which could take forever without using cheat codes), made enough friendships and got your skills up high enough. It was irritating to always have to drink the potion to reset their age so it was very useful to be able to just limit aging.
Me too! I get ridiculously attached to my sims and their stories, and prefer to decide when it's the right time for them to age up. My main is also a vampire so I'll always have him.
On the other hand, if I have a YA doing something that takes a lot of travel or time, like searching for collectibles or completing a career, I might turn aging off until my goals are completed, since I don't want to start a family until she's done.
Since I play generations, I don't want to spend an inordinate time on any one Sim, and I don't like to have more than three Sims in the household.
age very slowly.
Using the base game options to extend lifespan as long as possible, increased days in seasons with the seasons DLC, and then using MCCC to increase the length of days as well. teenagers and children take 50 odd days to age up, adults take nearly 100 days to age up and elders could possibly take between 40-150 days to die. so there is a lot of days and each minute in game is like half a minute in the real world, so fast forwarding events take a while, while everyone is awake.
I don't plan to make any immortal, death is ironically part of life, as it has always been. But having those days to work around in though, you'd have plenty of time to do what you wished with multiple families and have all those moments to treasure instead of rushing around to do it. Also skills build a lot easier and faster when using the slower scale as well, more so with lot traits active as well.
I do now play rotational, so my aging goes off when i switch to other households or households outside of my generation. I find that the most fun!
The sims feel more real to me this way and when something good or bad happens to them, it has meaning.
To compensate for this, I play legacies on short lifespan (but still never manage to finish them) and challenges where I allow sim death.