28-day seasons, with my Sims aging a year every in-game year. I wouldn’t recommend these settings if you’re only playing one household, but it gives me enough time for all 4+ households I’m going to have.
I play a slightly modified normal lifespan and am not really aiming for realism. As long as the grandparents die before the next generation ages up to elder and the next generation grow up while the parents are either adult or have just become elders, that's good enough for me. Since I don't have Seasons installed I don't see a problem with this. I might think about changing my settings if I ever get around to installing Seasons (and a couple other EPs I own but am yet to try).
I used to have more days when we started being able to adjust the lifaspan, but then i got fed up so I have been playing with this settings for the last 2 years I would say.
infant 2
toddler 8
child 16
teen 16
ya 40
adult 40
elder 38
Total is 160, since average lifespan in real life is 80 days I pretended 2 sim days 1 year.
But since I played this game so much, I feel i need to make the lifespan shorter to not get bored. So when I will be able to play again, I am gonna change it for this:
infant 2
toddler 6
child 12
teen 12
ya 30
adult 30
elder 28
1 day =1 month in my game. I got a mod that makes pregnancy last 9 days. However I think 3 days season is a bit too short, so seasons last 6 days, and a full year of all 4 seasons= 2 sims year. Babies are babies for 12 days, then they are 1. Toddler for 48, making them 5. Children are kinda boring in the sims 3 as they can hardly do anything compared to The Sims 2, so they age up to teens when they are 11, a total of 72 days. And then teens for 84 days, at wich point they are 18. Then they are YA until age 40. I was thinking adult until 67(retirement age here), and elder roughly until 84. But people are more agile now then before, so I added a few years ekstra as adults and cut down on the elder stage instead. In Total they live around 1000 days unless something else kills them before old age.
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Babies: 3 days
Toddlers: 7 days
Children: 14 days
Teens: 14 days
Young Adults: 45 days
Adults: 45 days
Elders: 35 days
(it still gives teens too much time compared to their IRL lifespans)
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Toddler: 15 days
Child: 25 days
Teen : 40 days
YA : 90 days
Adult : 90 days
Elder : 35 days
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What do you have your seasons set on if you have seasons that is?
infant 2
toddler 8
child 16
teen 16
ya 40
adult 40
elder 38
Total is 160, since average lifespan in real life is 80 days I pretended 2 sim days 1 year.
But since I played this game so much, I feel i need to make the lifespan shorter to not get bored. So when I will be able to play again, I am gonna change it for this:
infant 2
toddler 6
child 12
teen 12
ya 30
adult 30
elder 28
total 120 days