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For those that play on Epic lifespan?
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I've always been curious about this, for those that play on epic lifespan why do you? Why do you like to play your sims with such a long lifespan?
I've always played with 90 sim days and found it to me just enough time to get the sims established in their careers and fulfill their LTWs. I've also tried to play with short lifespan and medium lifespan and have found both to be very short and not very much time to do anything. I've also tried to play with Epic lifespan and I couldn't do it for a very long time.
I've always played with 90 sim days and found it to me just enough time to get the sims established in their careers and fulfill their LTWs. I've also tried to play with short lifespan and medium lifespan and have found both to be very short and not very much time to do anything. I've also tried to play with Epic lifespan and I couldn't do it for a very long time.
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With child and teens they are 28 days so they get each holiday. Young adults its as high as it can they usually get two of each depending on birthday. and adults is as high as it will go so they can work on their career.
I also focus on family during young adults then career as adults.
For me its because I like to play community style, and because I get too attached to them to see them age up. (babies, toddlers, and children can age up, but not teens, YAs, and adults). I want so badly to play legacy style because it looks like fun, but after nearly a decade of never having one generation die I realize I have this problem. I've gotten to the point that I turn aging off and only start it again when I'm ready (which doesn't happen too often).
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The problem with Epic is, I don't like having babies take almost 30 days to age up to Toddler, and then however long it is after that to age up to Child. I aged the little crumb-crunchers up to Child ASAP so as to avoid having to hire a babysitter just to go to work.
But I also don't like aging kids up too quickly, because then you can end up with a Young Adult whose parents are also Young Adults. That just doesn't make sense to me.
I tried playing one family on Normal lifespan, and that wasn't too bad. I didn't feel hurried to age up the kids. But I also started with a happily married couple, which made things a little easier, but also made that game a little less fun for me. I sort of enjoy the melodrama of failed relationships.
I'm currently trying out Long lifespan. I'm hoping that provides a good compromise between wanting my sims to fail their way across the dating scene for a while and not wanting their kids to be neonates for a frickin' month for it.
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I get attached to my sims. I don't like to see them die.
It takes them forever to do anything. Sometimes they take an hour just to go from one side of the house to another. I have to give them more days to accomplice what I want them to do.
I don't like to feel rushed. I prefer a leisurely time schedule.
I like my sims to have a variety of activities. It keeps the game interesting for me. I often have them self-employed so they can easily take off for traveling, season fun, hobbies, family outings, parties--in addition to work. There really is a lot of things for them to experience.
Or if they have scheduled jobs, I make them work hard/socialize/do opportunities--and multitask by listening to skill tab casts--in order to maximize advancement. Then they can retire sooner! If their lives were short, they'd die before they ever got a chance to really live.
I've gotten where I do cut the baby/toddler stages in about half. They're just too time consuming to take care of, and they have so little choices of things to do. I usually have a family plumbot to help take care of the little ones. I use to give the most time to the young adult stage, but I don't do that now. I'm ok with the adult and even elder stage. After that, they can be "ancestral" ghosts.
I tend to set everything to max except babies and toddlers, which I set around 30 days but thats more just until, again, I get bored, and I move it down when I want them to age up soon.
I couldn't play it like that. I play 90 days but I tweak YA and make it to 26 days.
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I’ve been playing since I was about 7 and now I’m 18 so living long lives is a little worth it
And it gives my sims a lot of time to do things. The Sim Founders (River (nee McIrish) Chikamori) and Haruo Chikamori) are the two sims that I'm attached to the most and thus I enjoy doing a ton of activities with them including sending them to university as older students (who are already with family and children - thanks to an extended household of grandma and grandpa taking care of the kids while Mommy and Daddy are off at university.
...and to the poster who resurrected this thread. Please don't resurrect old threads...it's almost four years old. Understandably, you're new and unable to make new posts...but there are plenty of relatively new threads to post on. Ask a Question/Answer a Question is a good one to comment on.
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I want to experience every lifestage to the maximum with them. I am more into depth stories than just getting them achieve goals (I like to enjoy the way). I do have some quick saves but they usually don't last long because it does not keep my interest.
Also in my big ongoing saves, I play rotational - every time with different household, so sometimes it is more focused on career, sometimes it more focused on family, sometimes it's more about romatic interests - every household has it's own story and that's what's keeping me interested for along time until I decide to age up a group of sims.