If aging is off what happens when you turn it on?

StormyDayz

The question is in the title. Basically I am playing rotational gameplay and I just want to pause the aging for a little while. Would it be possible for me to turn aging off and then turn it back on and pick up where I left off as far as sims ages? Like say a sim has 20 days until he ages up and I turn aging off, when I turn it back on will he still be at the 20 days? I've never played with aging off if you're wondering why I don't already know this.

fullspiral

Yes. The sim will not age while you have it off.

StormyDayz

fullspiral wrote: »

Yes. The sim will not age while you have it off.

So he'll be at his exact age? The reason I need to know is I keep a list of who's birthday is next in the rotation and if their ages changed even by a day it could screw up my list.

fullspiral

I play mostly aging off. When I need to age a sim up, I will do so either for played households or the world in general.

I'm not that particular so I wouldn't guarantee it would be an exact day. I just watch the bar and how close they are. I don't pay much mind to those type of particulars.

weetzie

I assume then your Sim will just start aging from whatever age they were when you turned it off?

CoriChan

You can always make a New Game to test it out on some random sims ^_^ I don't normally play with aging on, so I don't know either.

Frogprincess_q

Be aware that when playing rotationally, random romances may occur for your inactive sims. So when you return to them they may have a bunch of "lovebird" level relationships. Utterly random relationships. Also when turning off aging, make sure that you disable it for your inactive sims, not just for unplayed sims! I failed on that count with my first family and I had several played but inactive sims get old and a couple even died

StormyDayz

Frogprincess_q wrote: »

Be aware that when playing rotationally, random romances may occur for your inactive sims. So when you return to them they may have a bunch of "lovebird" level relationships. Utterly random relationships. Also when turning off aging, make sure that you disable it for your inactive sims, not just for unplayed sims! I failed on that count with my first family and I had several played but inactive sims get old and a couple even died

Yep the "lovebird" thing has happened to me already with Cassandra Goth's husband. I was so furious I quit playing! I'm told there's basically nothing I can do about it.

UmbralFlower

They won't age until you turn it back on. With it off, their ages are paused. I go between aging on and aging off all the time.

nanashi-sims

Rainydayz179 wrote: »

Frogprincess_q wrote: »

Be aware that when playing rotationally, random romances may occur for your inactive sims. So when you return to them they may have a bunch of "lovebird" level relationships. Utterly random relationships. Also when turning off aging, make sure that you disable it for your inactive sims, not just for unplayed sims! I failed on that count with my first family and I had several played but inactive sims get old and a couple even died

Yep the "lovebird" thing has happened to me already with Cassandra Goth's husband. I was so furious I quit playing! I'm told there's basically nothing I can do about it.

Is there a way to turn off autonomy or this type of pseudo-story progression?

StormyDayz

candace92 wrote: »

They won't age until you turn it back on. With it off, their ages are paused. I go between aging on and aging off all the time.

Thank you! That's what I thought but I have things so structured that I was afraid to turn it off and mess up all my plans.

Andygal

nanashi-sims wrote: »

Rainydayz179 wrote: »

Frogprincess_q wrote: »

Be aware that when playing rotationally, random romances may occur for your inactive sims. So when you return to them they may have a bunch of "lovebird" level relationships. Utterly random relationships. Also when turning off aging, make sure that you disable it for your inactive sims, not just for unplayed sims! I failed on that count with my first family and I had several played but inactive sims get old and a couple even died

Yep the "lovebird" thing has happened to me already with Cassandra Goth's husband. I was so furious I quit playing! I'm told there's basically nothing I can do about it.

Is there a way to turn off autonomy or this type of pseudo-story progression?

No. I hope a mod will come out eventually, because it's one of the things preventing me from playing at all right now, but nothing yet.

Frogprincess_q

Andygal wrote: »

nanashi-sims wrote: »

Rainydayz179 wrote: »

Frogprincess_q wrote: »

Be aware that when playing rotationally, random romances may occur for your inactive sims. So when you return to them they may have a bunch of "lovebird" level relationships. Utterly random relationships. Also when turning off aging, make sure that you disable it for your inactive sims, not just for unplayed sims! I failed on that count with my first family and I had several played but inactive sims get old and a couple even died

Yep the "lovebird" thing has happened to me already with Cassandra Goth's husband. I was so furious I quit playing! I'm told there's basically nothing I can do about it.

Is there a way to turn off autonomy or this type of pseudo-story progression?

No. I hope a mod will come out eventually, because it's one of the things preventing me from playing at all right now, but nothing yet.

I would actually put this at the TOP of my list of things preventing me from playing. All the problems with the game and this one is THE deal-breaker for me.

CoriChan

Yeah they can still flirt but the non-controlled sims won't woohoo on their own or try for babies. They may kiss but that's still a bit much, unless you are making a soap opera game. However, I don't play rotation so all those other sims can do what they want!

StormyDayz

CoriChan wrote: »

Yeah they can still flirt but the non-controlled sims won't woohoo on their own or try for babies. They may kiss but that's still a bit much, unless you are making a soap opera game. However, I don't play rotation so all those other sims can do what they want!

This is my first time playing rotatation so it was a shock to me that relationships would just pop up on their own. Usually I just do challenges. I've been doing challenges since the game came out, lol.

Simslover163

I have aging turned off. If I want to age a Sim, I do so when I feel like it via a birthday cake. If I were to keep aging on, I feel like my Sims are getting old too quickly. First time I played, I had aging on. After I turned aging off, I noticed that the two elders of the Spencer-Kim-Lewis family passed away (I didn't t play that household at that time) and that the daughter, Olivia aged to a teenager. Same with the Goths: I noticed Alexander aged to a teen.

StormyDayz

@Candace92 You say you switch between aging and not aging all the time. What do you do about the kids born while aging is off? When you turn it back on they're all the same age. Or do you not have any babies while aging is off?