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Letting your toddlers grow into teens/school age kids
MusicMeg222
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I currently have a sims toddler that has completed all of the toddler related tasks and want her to grow into a teen. Is the only way to bake a cake and celebrate her birthday? It also looks like I can make a call on the house phone and there is an option to adopt a teen for a fee (real money). How do I allow my toddler to grow into a teen/school aged child?
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I don't use real money on my game. So adoption is not something that I would ever do.
I wouldn't do the mentioned Life Dreams & Legacies quest at all unless I had at least 50 to 100 LPs because you need them to stop all your sims from unwanted aging up. Resetting a life stage for an adult cost 9 LPs when the circle around he's/her picture becomes red and 12 LPs if you just wait a little longer so the adult sim instead has a birthday cake appearing over its head. Younger sims are cheaper (and especially babies) to prevent from aging.
You can stop aging only by resetting the circle or by having the sims idle because the sims only become older if they do something. Still your sims will always be able to earn more than enough LPs by doing hobbies most of the time. But sometimes you will have to use about 50 LPs within very short time to stop several sims from aging up. Therefore you should attempt to save at least 50 to 100 LPs before doing the Life Dreams & Legacies quest.
I only allow aging up for the 3 extra adult sims which I moved in with the purpose to have them working on their life dreams. When they have fulfilled their life dreams I let them move on to their afterlife to collect the life orb which they earned by fulfilling their life dream. (Life orbs are needed for building many places on the Mystery Island.)
Ohh... I haven't gotten that quest yet I guess? I haven't finished my seniors one because I haven't built the ski lodge - can't afford it. I'm level 34 I think.
I don't know why you haven't seen the Life Dreams & Legacies quest if you are lvl 34. Do you have some other quest which you haven't worked on for ages and which could be the explanation?
The reason is that you will need a lot of LPs especially after you have done the Life Dreams & Legacies quests because then you will have automatic aging in your game. You can't go back after you have done this because it completely changes the game in the following ways:
1. All your sims will age automatically. They done age unless they do something though. So you don't need to fear that they become older if you don't play for some time because you are busy with something else.
2. You won't need birthday cakes anymore unless you are too impatient to just wait until they grow up to the next age group.
3. But you will need LPs if you don't want them to become older and eventually die from old age. You can reset them to the beginning of their current age group by using LPs. This usually cost from 1 LP (for babies) to 9 LPs (for adults). Adults will become seniors if you let them grow up and seniors will move on to their afterlife if you let the grim reaper take them.
4. You can give your sims life dreams. If you let them work on their life dream to fulfill it then you will get a life orb when they die if the life dream is fulfilled. There are 4 types of life dreams which can give you 4 different types of life orbs which you will need to build different buildings on the mysterious iland.
I only have 3 to 4 sims working on their life dreams. Those sims have never been babies in my game because I just let them move into an empty house as adults. While they are adults they can only fulfill their life dream 86% (and there are no problems fulfilling the life dreams if you let them work on it). Then you can advance them to seniors for free and they increase the 86% further to 100% as seniors. Then I can let them move on to their afterlife for free and harvest the life orb they leave behind for having completed their life dream and move another new adult into their empty house.
The problem is that I don't want any of my other sims to grow older and die. Therefore I always prevent this by using LPs. So I need to save as many LPs as I can to always do this. So even though I get a lot of LPs from letting them work on their hobbies the number of stored LPs grow very slowly. But the number of LPs still grows. So I can still afford to also use a few LPs on other things.
It takes forever to get enough life orbs to build something on the iland. I have already built 3 buildings for life orbs though and I am now working to get enough life orbs for the last one which is the Barkshire Pet Park. When I have built this I will work on improvements inside those buildings and this will require even more life orbs. So there will still be something to work on in the game for many many months
This was a long answer to your question. But the short answer is that there is another way if you fulfill the Life Dreams & Legacies quests first. You probably can't do that though. So you will probably need the 5 LPs for the birthday cake.