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Sims Life Spans
February11
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What life spans do you all have set?
I'm currently on normal, and I'm finding it just a touch long for the way I like to play with the generations, but short could possibly be too short.
Shame we don't have the option to set it as we like, like with TS3
I'm currently on normal, and I'm finding it just a touch long for the way I like to play with the generations, but short could possibly be too short.
Shame we don't have the option to set it as we like, like with TS3
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Aging off.
Aging off more than on. This way I don't feel like I need to be in a hurry to get my sims married and have families. I get to play through and enjoy the content.
I would like to set age spans but right now that isn't possible so this is the only I can think of to get around it.
I've never even thought of that option. How does it actually work from birth to death - or is it more that you create your sim at say, young adult, and it stays that way until you've had enough?
Baby: 2 days
Toddler: 10 days
Child: 15 days
Teen: 15 days
YA: 33 days
Adult: 33 days
Elder: 15 days
For the most part, the childhood stages aren't too far off, I only added a couple days to the Normal lifespan, but I added about a week to the YA and Adult stages so I get a bit more flexibility - they don't have to get married and pop out babies right away. If they have their kids in the middle of their YA stage then they will be able to see their kids grow up before turning into elders.
I also made a "senior living facility" where I move my elders if I get tired of them being in the family home. Then I play a group of elders until they die. They nap a lot, drink a lot of coffee, and read. They're an interesting bunch of sims.
On TS3 I had elders living just for 2 days, as I get bored of them - sounds harsh, but they're just living too long when I want to concentrate on the younger ones growing up.
Interesting though to see what everyone else is doing.
Wow! Mine is the same except I have 3 days for baby and 17 for elder! I realize if I'm really into my sim/family that this lifespan goes too fast but when I'm bored it goes too slow. lol. No win.
If you use mods, you do it with MC Command Center.
@Maggiedoll Yeah, I am aware of this. I have tried MCCC but wasn't wowed by it at the time. It has a bit of a learning curve. Also, I have several mods that aren't compatible with it so I don't mess with it. Perhaps after it is updated after Seasons. Great suggestion though especially for those that weren't aware of this.
It does have a learning curve, but I think that's impossible to avoid with anything that has a lot of features, and you can generally start using the specific features that attracted you to it without giving much thought to everything else. It does lots of things, but you don't have to use all, or even most, of them.
And in my pseudo-defense, I replied to your post before actually reading the other replies that said the same thing..
I think 'normal' is a pretty good lifespan, I just wish it was a teensy bit longer. The 'long' lifespan is WAY too long for me and 'short' is definitely too short. I don't age up any of my Sims early if I have aging on, I just go along with the set cycle of days. I don't use MCC so no option to customize lifespans. I'd love that! Maybe one day...
I didn't want to watch them get old and die on me before I really got to have fun. Plus, a few of the characters are meant to be rich but I like earning my way up. So I plan to wait on aging until they get to that stage in life...then I'll probably make a new save where they age and keep the one that doesn't xD
Otherwise I change lifespans with MC Command Center. Usually around 33 days for YA/A. But like I said, I'm always changing it depending on my mood uwu
I really don't want to add mods to my game.
Nice!! But yeah I agree, some generations can be more exciting than others to play, and I do find some life stages a bit more tedious, like those last days of teenagehood. I just want them to be YA already so I can get them married and make more babies!
Also when all of the kids are really young (specifically when you've got 2+ toddlers at the same time and no teens or grandparents to help out, which is my current situation now since my new legacy founders are still in the early stage of creating their family.
This is my point exactly. I have though began to make my elders look more appealing, like putting sunglasses on them to hide their baggy eyes - in fact one of my male sim elders now looks like Ozzie Osbourne!
My current settings are -
B - 2
To - 6
C - 14
Te - 14
YA - 33
A - 50
E - 20
B - 2
T0 - 3 (depending how I feel and how demanding they become)
C - 5
TE - 10
YA - 20
A - 20
E - 10, with TS4 as there's no other option - unless to kill them, but with TS3 it was 2.
It all looks quite short compared to other peoples, but they get done what they have to, and move onto the next generation.
I am interested in seeing how Seasons addresses this issue. In 3 I set my sims aging to be compatible with the seasons. So if I had a baby born in the spring they didn't age into a toddler until the next spring and I counted it as 1 Sim year. I hope we can set the amount of days for each season.