To be honest, I think the Sims 4 should include more life stages. I'm a little bit tired of the same old traditional aging-Baby, Toddler, Child, Teen, Young Adult, Adult, and Elder. Some of you prefer the original style and there's nothing wrong with that. I wanted more additional life stages like preschooler and preteen. Then of course, we have those who don't want any more life stages.
1. This is redundant; it's not needed; it's useless; it's pointless; it's a stupid idea
2. They need to improve the life stages we already have
3. The life stage we have now is already fine or satisfactory
3. They need to put their resources on something more important; they shouldn't waste their time on new life stages
4. We already have those life stages, it's something that already exists in the game
5. Children are preteens, preteens are children; toddlers are preschoolers, preschoolers are toddlers
6. It would be boring; it won't add anything special to gameplay or it won't solve anything
7. The life stages won't even last for long
THESE ARGUMENTS SHOULDN'T PREVENT THE DEVS FROM ADDING NEW LIFE STAGES.
I keep hearing the same poor excuses over and over again from the same people. Come on guys, the whole point of Sims 4 is adding NEW CONTENT, fixing bugs, improving existing features...I hate when simmers on here try to include "we" in "I don't need want _____". You're not speaking for the users, you're speaking for yourself. I and others want more life stages. DEAL WITH IT. Stop discouraging and ruining our ideas because you don't want to see it. What selfish people we have.
I would like babies, which are already in the game, to be unlocked from their cribs. I think more people would like that than any other stage.
If one stage can be added, I think we need a Senior stage, between Adult and Elder. Not all elders walk stooped over and crack their backs. A retired, older adult, a Senior, would fit better. A retired adult who still gets around fine but doesn't go to work anymore.
12-14 is not pre-teen. The word PRE means before, so you can't have BEFORE TEEN include teens. This proves your logic is flawed, but I know you will persist in trying to convince everyone that you speak for a huge throng of people who simply can't live without a height difference in their game. Surely if making a new life stage is so simple, a modder could do it and make that throng happy. I know you'll argue that I'm wrong and don't speak for everyone (I only speak for myself, you are the throng spokesperson) so I will attempt to stay out of yet another PRE-TEEN thread that you will get shut down, which ought to tell you how the devs feel about pre-teens, otherwise, why would they continue to shut down any thread about pre-teens?
Users like you gotta to be debbie downers and discourage ideas then it turns into personal attacks/ridiculous debating. Yeah, you have the right to your opinions but remember there are still people out there who want more life stages as much as I do.
@BuzzBuzz I agree!! The whole point of Sims 4 is to add new content. I loved the Sims 2 and 3, and Sims 4 has the potential to be the best if they added new and different content. If they added more lifespans it would be so amazing. And definitely more realistic.
The Sims games are kind of expensive, and I'm pretty sure it makes Electronic Arts a lot of money especially when Pets came out. So I don't understand why resources is a problem. Maybe Stuff Packs could become less of a priority and they can spend their resources on seasons, university, and new content including lifespans.
@BuzzBuzz I agree!! The whole point of Sims 4 is to add new content. I loved the Sims 2 and 3, and Sims 4 has the potential to be the best if they added new and different content. If they added more lifespans it would be so amazing. And definitely more realistic.
The Sims games are kind of expensive, and I'm pretty sure it makes Electronic Arts a lot of money especially when Pets came out. So I don't understand why resources is a problem. Maybe Stuff Packs could become less of a priority and they can spend their resources on seasons, university, and new content including lifespans.
Yep! Maybe they could add a customizeable life span option like in Sims 3!
I keep hearing the same poor excuses over and over again from the same people. Come on guys, the whole point of Sims 4 is adding NEW CONTENT, fixing bugs, improving existing features...I hate when simmers on here try to include "we" in "I don't need want _____". You're not speaking for the users, you're speaking for yourself. I and others want more life stages. DEAL WITH IT. Stop discouraging and ruining our ideas because you don't want to see it. What selfish people we have.
Well, sorry that we kept making these "poor" excuses, even though you didn't to counter-argue these lousy excuses yet you have the nerve to define them as such. GG m8 If you don't like the idea of criticism and opposing ideas, you may as well not bother visiting these forums because it's cleary not the place for you to feel superior than others. Better yet, why are you even responding and reading these negative comments. Just ignore them, unless you want them to intentionally crawl into your comfort-zone skin Like it not, you don't have the authority here. Also, when people of "we", they usually refer to a certain individuals who feel or have the same mindset that they can relate to themselves.
This idea kinda effects all of us. We just think that implanting these bare-boor life stages kinda might overshadow other requested things (such as ownable vehicles) that we're requested a thousand more times than what this thread is asking for, therefor shifting priority to a wrong thing.
@DragonCat159 Obviously the Sims team knows about popular requests such as cars. Just like they know that people want seasons and want university. The point of the ideas forum is for them to see new things that people want such as lifespans.
I'm sure their priority is getting all the basic popular content out but so is trying to find and figure out new content.
There is far more important NEW CONTENT that needs to be added than a pre-teen life stage whose only purpose is to fill a height gap between kid and teen. More vacation worlds, seasons, education, cars, playable careers and more supernaturals, just to name a few. I guarantee you that there are a lot more people wanting these that a useless life stage.
@Dannydanbo I don't get it...what makes you think that what you want is more important than what I want. New content... Is new freaking content. No ifs ands or buts. The name of the forum is other new life stages btw. No one brought up pre-teens. What I'm also confused about is why you're here if you don't like the idea. Go and start a new forum about the things you want and leave this one alone.
I keep hearing the same poor excuses over and over again from the same people. Come on guys, the whole point of Sims 4 is adding NEW CONTENT, fixing bugs, improving existing features...I hate when simmers on here try to include "we" in "I don't need want _____". You're not speaking for the users, you're speaking for yourself. I and others want more life stages. DEAL WITH IT. Stop discouraging and ruining our ideas because you don't want to see it. What selfish people we have.
Well, sorry that we kept making these "poor" excuses, even though you didn't to counter-argue these lousy excuses yet you have the nerve to define them as such. GG m8 If you don't like the idea of criticism and opposing ideas, you may as well not bother visiting these forums because it's cleary not the place for you to feel superior than others. Better yet, why are you even responding and reading these negative comments. Just ignore them, unless you want them to intentionally crawl into your comfort-zone skin Like it not, you don't have the authority here. Also, when people of "we", they usually refer to a certain individuals who feel or have the same mindset that they can relate to themselves.
This idea kinda effects all of us. We just think that implanting these bare-boor life stages kinda might overshadow other requested things (such as ownable vehicles) that we're requested a thousand more times than what this thread is asking for, therefor shifting priority to a wrong thing.
There is far more important NEW CONTENT that needs to be added than a pre-teen life stage whose only purpose is to fill a height gap between kid and teen. More vacation worlds, seasons, education, cars, playable careers and more supernaturals, just to name a few. I guarantee you that there are a lot more people wanting these that a useless life stage.
How is that stuff more important than preteen or any other life stage? You can't prove that more people want those features other than preteens. You're only saying because you don't want preteens and making it look like the majortiy don't want them. There's plenty of people who want preteens and it's not just on this forum. I can tell you the stuff you want is useless.
I was surprised to find that different parts of the country have a different definition of toddlers\preschool then others. It probably varies even more between countries. Maybe future sims games will incorporate some of these new life life stages. I think they would all be fun play.
Does it ever vary between countries!
In some countries, you don't even start school until you're 7, meaning a 6 year old is a preschooler.
In many countries, kindergarten is preschool, and is for toddlers, in many countries, kindergarten is for 4-6 year olds, and is not a part of formal schooling, it's for socialising your kids, before they enter formal schooling.
Personally, I'd love the game to incorporate forest kindergartens. They are vastly different to the american concept of kindergarten, as the children spend very little time indoors, and are out, running wild in a forest, even in winter. They also get to play with fire and knives, even though they're only around age 5.
And again, the word PRE means before as in 12, not three years before as in 10-12. If you're right, why not 9-12 or 8-12 or 7-12? Who decided 10-12 and who decides pre equals three years. If you PRE heat your oven to bake something, do you turn it on a few minutes before or a few days before? PRE means just before, not years.
Actually... prehistory, it's not just before history, it's the entire human era before written history, and technically even includes prehuman history. Oooh. Another pre.
But I get what you're saying, 10-12 is actually the tween age. In English speaking countries, it fills the gap between the end of single digits, and the start of the ages ending with teen. In most other countries, the concept doesn't exist, because they don't have that weird thing with the numbers, and so their 'teens' start at 10 or 11. Or in the case of French, they have 11-16 using one system of numbers, and then switch to a different system for 17-19. German does the same weird thing that English does, cos we stole it from them.
Languages! They are all wacky, and cause meanings to change.
@Dannydanbo I don't get it...what makes you think that what you want is more important than what I want. New content... Is new freaking content. No ifs ands or buts. The name of the forum is other new life stages btw. No one brought up pre-teens. What I'm also confused about is why you're here if you don't like the idea. Go and start a new forum about the things you want and leave this one alone.
Except when the 'new content' isn't actually new, nor is it really any sort of content. A new height is a rehash of old content, everything having to be re animated to give the new height any content at all. It takes time and effort from the development of actual new content.
It comes down to questions like:
Skateboards and scooters for children and teens? Or the animations we already have, reanimated for a new height?
Snowball or water balloon fights! Or the animations we already have, reanimated for a new height?
Tree-houses and cubbies for kids? Or the animations we already have, reanimated for a new height?
And it doesn't matter whether we're talking about preteens or some new prechild/posttoddler/kindegartener/preschooler/whatever the heck you want to call it, it's going to come at the cost of new content.
If they were squeezing in a new age between adult and elder, then there wouldn't need to be new animations for a new height, all the effort could be directed towards completely new content, no animations would need to be redone, all the animations could be completely new.
And now I'm daydreaming about new dancing animations. A new age between adult and elder could bring slow dancing with it. And the ability for children and toddlers to dance standing on the feet of a teen+ sim.
There is far more important NEW CONTENT that needs to be added than a pre-teen life stage whose only purpose is to fill a height gap between kid and teen. More vacation worlds, seasons, education, cars, playable careers and more supernaturals, just to name a few. I guarantee you that there are a lot more people wanting these that a useless life stage.
How is that stuff more important than preteen or any other life stage? You can't prove that more people want those features other than preteens. You're only saying because you don't want preteens and making it look like the majortiy don't want them. There's plenty of people who want preteens and it's not just on this forum. I can tell you the stuff you want is useless.
More like jealous of blind people
In answer to the topic of your thread: Two New Life Stages (other than Preteen)
Witches and Werewolfs.
Could you please explain how posting an image that is mocking disabled people has anything to do with your topic?
There is far more important NEW CONTENT that needs to be added than a pre-teen life stage whose only purpose is to fill a height gap between kid and teen. More vacation worlds, seasons, education, cars, playable careers and more supernaturals, just to name a few. I guarantee you that there are a lot more people wanting these that a useless life stage.
How is that stuff more important than preteen or any other life stage? You can't prove that more people want those features other than preteens. You're only saying because you don't want preteens and making it look like the majortiy don't want them. There's plenty of people who want preteens and it's not just on this forum. I can tell you the stuff you want is useless.
More like jealous of blind people
In answer to the topic of your thread: Two New Life Stages (other than Preteen)
Witches and Werewolfs.
Could you please explain how posting an image that is mocking disabled people has anything to do with your topic?
I don't mock disabled people. That image is self explanatory lmao
I was thinking of adding Middle Aged Adult, Preteen, and Preschooler. Come on Maxis!
we already HAVE middle age it's "Adult" stage
I AM IRL middle aged, in my late 40's. The "adults" in the game are all younger looking than I am. Things like the "lazy" trait happen when muscles don't work the way they used to, but not nearly as bad as depicted in the "elder" stage. I can work out and it hurts every time, but I don't get "dangerously tired" from a short workout. It works more like the lazy trait does in Sim young adults and adults. Muscles also don't build up as fast as they used to either. There is also less general energy for various things, except if you are used to doing them. A middle aged adult might walk slightly more slowly, especially if overweight. Middle aged men are about 50/50 chance of being bald or partially bald. Middle aged women have darker hair color than they did when younger, or might start getting that pepper gray look. Middle age is the age when we start noticing a gray hair or two. Age spots are also a thing, as is dry skin. People also start wearing bifocals in middle age.
A reward trait for middle-aged might be if they overcome the lazy tendency, to be rewarded with a trait that eliminates the "dangerously tired" buff from elders when they work out. Vegetarian Sims also might get this trait as well, as they would be less likely to develop the kind of heart condition that this buff simulates.
I also miss the "mid-life crisis" from Sims 3 that happened when your sim became middle aged. I was single for most of my adult life - for my RL mid-life crisis, I found the love of my life, and got married Too bad my hubby isn't into the Sims. However, my hubby and I are now too old to have children of our own, though we could adopt if we had the inclination. So middle-aged Sims might have a lower chance of getting pregnant, for instance.
Elders should be able to either be bald (men), partially bald (men), full head of grey hair, or full head of white hair.
I have been playing The Sims since 2001, when Livin Large came out. My avatar deliberately looks like Chris Roomies from TS1.
I was thinking of adding Middle Aged Adult, Preteen, and Preschooler. Come on Maxis!
we already HAVE middle age it's "Adult" stage
I AM IRL middle aged, in my late 40's. The "adults" in the game are all younger looking than I am. Things like the "lazy" trait happen when muscles don't work the way they used to, but not nearly as bad as depicted in the "elder" stage. I can work out and it hurts every time, but I don't get "dangerously tired" from a short workout. It works more like the lazy trait does in Sim young adults and adults. Muscles also don't build up as fast as they used to either. There is also less general energy for various things, except if you are used to doing them. A middle aged adult might walk slightly more slowly, especially if overweight. Middle aged men are about 50/50 chance of being bald or partially bald. Middle aged women have darker hair color than they did when younger, or might start getting that pepper gray look. Middle age is the age when we start noticing a gray hair or two. Age spots are also a thing, as is dry skin. People also start wearing bifocals in middle age.
A reward trait for middle-aged might be if they overcome the lazy tendency, to be rewarded with a trait that eliminates the "dangerously tired" buff from elders when they work out. Vegetarian Sims also might get this trait as well, as they would be less likely to develop the kind of heart condition that this buff simulates.
I also miss the "mid-life crisis" from Sims 3 that happened when your sim became middle aged. I was single for most of my adult life - for my RL mid-life crisis, I found the love of my life, and got married Too bad my hubby isn't into the Sims. However, my hubby and I are now too old to have children of our own, though we could adopt if we had the inclination. So middle-aged Sims might have a lower chance of getting pregnant, for instance.
Elders should be able to either be bald (men), partially bald (men), full head of grey hair, or full head of white hair.
I was thinking of adding Middle Aged Adult, Preteen, and Preschooler. Come on Maxis!
we already HAVE middle age it's "Adult" stage
I AM IRL middle aged, in my late 40's. The "adults" in the game are all younger looking than I am. Things like the "lazy" trait happen when muscles don't work the way they used to, but not nearly as bad as depicted in the "elder" stage. I can work out and it hurts every time, but I don't get "dangerously tired" from a short workout. It works more like the lazy trait does in Sim young adults and adults. Muscles also don't build up as fast as they used to either. There is also less general energy for various things, except if you are used to doing them. A middle aged adult might walk slightly more slowly, especially if overweight. Middle aged men are about 50/50 chance of being bald or partially bald. Middle aged women have darker hair color than they did when younger, or might start getting that pepper gray look. Middle age is the age when we start noticing a gray hair or two. Age spots are also a thing, as is dry skin. People also start wearing bifocals in middle age.
A reward trait for middle-aged might be if they overcome the lazy tendency, to be rewarded with a trait that eliminates the "dangerously tired" buff from elders when they work out. Vegetarian Sims also might get this trait as well, as they would be less likely to develop the kind of heart condition that this buff simulates.
I also miss the "mid-life crisis" from Sims 3 that happened when your sim became middle aged. I was single for most of my adult life - for my RL mid-life crisis, I found the love of my life, and got married Too bad my hubby isn't into the Sims. However, my hubby and I are now too old to have children of our own, though we could adopt if we had the inclination. So middle-aged Sims might have a lower chance of getting pregnant, for instance.
Elders should be able to either be bald (men), partially bald (men), full head of grey hair, or full head of white hair.
Adults seem to be in their late 30s (37-39) to mid 40s (44-46) . Middle age is more 48+. I believe we should get sub life stages in an expansion pack. I'd like older infants (6-11 months, basically babies and toddlers combined), preschoolers (4-6), preteens (11-14), middle aged adults (48-63). Older infants can crawl, eat baby food, eat in a high chair, sleep in cribs, play with toys, have their own special items (activity mat/gym, bouncer, teething rings and more), can be bathed in bath tub (like toddlers).
I was thinking of adding Middle Aged Adult, Preteen, and Preschooler. Come on Maxis!
we already HAVE middle age it's "Adult" stage
I AM IRL middle aged, in my late 40's. The "adults" in the game are all younger looking than I am. Things like the "lazy" trait happen when muscles don't work the way they used to, but not nearly as bad as depicted in the "elder" stage. I can work out and it hurts every time, but I don't get "dangerously tired" from a short workout. It works more like the lazy trait does in Sim young adults and adults. Muscles also don't build up as fast as they used to either. There is also less general energy for various things, except if you are used to doing them. A middle aged adult might walk slightly more slowly, especially if overweight. Middle aged men are about 50/50 chance of being bald or partially bald. Middle aged women have darker hair color than they did when younger, or might start getting that pepper gray look. Middle age is the age when we start noticing a gray hair or two. Age spots are also a thing, as is dry skin. People also start wearing bifocals in middle age.
A reward trait for middle-aged might be if they overcome the lazy tendency, to be rewarded with a trait that eliminates the "dangerously tired" buff from elders when they work out. Vegetarian Sims also might get this trait as well, as they would be less likely to develop the kind of heart condition that this buff simulates.
I also miss the "mid-life crisis" from Sims 3 that happened when your sim became middle aged. I was single for most of my adult life - for my RL mid-life crisis, I found the love of my life, and got married Too bad my hubby isn't into the Sims. However, my hubby and I are now too old to have children of our own, though we could adopt if we had the inclination. So middle-aged Sims might have a lower chance of getting pregnant, for instance.
Elders should be able to either be bald (men), partially bald (men), full head of grey hair, or full head of white hair.
I was thinking of adding Middle Aged Adult, Preteen, and Preschooler. Come on Maxis!
we already HAVE middle age it's "Adult" stage
I AM IRL middle aged, in my late 40's. The "adults" in the game are all younger looking than I am. Things like the "lazy" trait happen when muscles don't work the way they used to, but not nearly as bad as depicted in the "elder" stage. I can work out and it hurts every time, but I don't get "dangerously tired" from a short workout. It works more like the lazy trait does in Sim young adults and adults. Muscles also don't build up as fast as they used to either. There is also less general energy for various things, except if you are used to doing them. A middle aged adult might walk slightly more slowly, especially if overweight. Middle aged men are about 50/50 chance of being bald or partially bald. Middle aged women have darker hair color than they did when younger, or might start getting that pepper gray look. Middle age is the age when we start noticing a gray hair or two. Age spots are also a thing, as is dry skin. People also start wearing bifocals in middle age.
A reward trait for middle-aged might be if they overcome the lazy tendency, to be rewarded with a trait that eliminates the "dangerously tired" buff from elders when they work out. Vegetarian Sims also might get this trait as well, as they would be less likely to develop the kind of heart condition that this buff simulates.
I also miss the "mid-life crisis" from Sims 3 that happened when your sim became middle aged. I was single for most of my adult life - for my RL mid-life crisis, I found the love of my life, and got married Too bad my hubby isn't into the Sims. However, my hubby and I are now too old to have children of our own, though we could adopt if we had the inclination. So middle-aged Sims might have a lower chance of getting pregnant, for instance.
Elders should be able to either be bald (men), partially bald (men), full head of grey hair, or full head of white hair.
Adults seem to be in their late 30s (37-39) to mid 40s (44-46) . Middle age is more 48+. I believe we should get sub life stages in an expansion pack. I'd like older infants (6-11 months, basically babies and toddlers combined), preschoolers (4-6), preteens (11-14), middle aged adults (48-63). Older infants can crawl, eat baby food, eat in a high chair, sleep in cribs, play with toys, have their own special items (activity mat/gym, bouncer, teething rings and more), can be bathed in bath tub (like toddlers).
there's a problem you can't have the word TEEN in "pre" which means BEFORE TEEN.
There is a work-around all of this. If the developers would just shorten the teen's height it would honestly eliminate the need of pre-teens. These are the lifespans according to www.healthychildren.org.
Babies 1 to 12 months of age
Toddlers are 2 to 3 years of age.
Children are 5 to 11 years of age.
Teens are typically 12 to 17 years of age.
Young Adults are 18 to 21 years of age
So, do we really need a preschooler age that's only 1-2 years? Just shorten the height of teen sims, since Young Adults hit that age right around graduation/college. If anything, the personalities of our sims, as well as more traits for specific age groups should be incorporated into the game. Our sims maturity should blossom. Ages/Life Stages are just eye-candy IMO. It's watching our sims develop into the adult/elder sim which makes it more enjoyable.
When we start adding more life stages like preschooler, pre-teen, middle-age, senior, elder, ancient...it's really taking away from potential core gameplay with focus being on life stages that only last 2 or 3 minimum in-game days. What would make these never-been-seen before life stages unique from the rest other than height and appearance?
TS4 Aging Process
Baby- Max 14 days
Toddler- Max 28 days
Child- Max 52 days
Teen- Max 96 days
Adult- Max 96 days
Elder- Max 40 or more days
Total Life Span- Max of 324+ in-game days. Our sim's overall life span from baby to death is almost 1-year in-game.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have more life stages, I just feel it's not necessary; just some tweaks here and there to make what life stages we do have feel more complete. And if they do add new life stages, than cool. If not, that's cool, too.
Comments
1. This is redundant; it's not needed; it's useless; it's pointless; it's a stupid idea
2. They need to improve the life stages we already have
3. The life stage we have now is already fine or satisfactory
3. They need to put their resources on something more important; they shouldn't waste their time on new life stages
4. We already have those life stages, it's something that already exists in the game
5. Children are preteens, preteens are children; toddlers are preschoolers, preschoolers are toddlers
6. It would be boring; it won't add anything special to gameplay or it won't solve anything
7. The life stages won't even last for long
THESE ARGUMENTS SHOULDN'T PREVENT THE DEVS FROM ADDING NEW LIFE STAGES.
I keep hearing the same poor excuses over and over again from the same people. Come on guys, the whole point of Sims 4 is adding NEW CONTENT, fixing bugs, improving existing features...I hate when simmers on here try to include "we" in "I don't need want _____". You're not speaking for the users, you're speaking for yourself. I and others want more life stages. DEAL WITH IT. Stop discouraging and ruining our ideas because you don't want to see it. What selfish people we have.
Users like you gotta to be debbie downers and discourage ideas then it turns into personal attacks/ridiculous debating. Yeah, you have the right to your opinions but remember there are still people out there who want more life stages as much as I do.
The Sims games are kind of expensive, and I'm pretty sure it makes Electronic Arts a lot of money especially when Pets came out. So I don't understand why resources is a problem. Maybe Stuff Packs could become less of a priority and they can spend their resources on seasons, university, and new content including lifespans.
Yep! Maybe they could add a customizeable life span option like in Sims 3!
This idea kinda effects all of us. We just think that implanting these bare-boor life stages kinda might overshadow other requested things (such as ownable vehicles) that we're requested a thousand more times than what this thread is asking for, therefor shifting priority to a wrong thing.
I'm sure their priority is getting all the basic popular content out but so is trying to find and figure out new content.
Whatever.
How is that stuff more important than preteen or any other life stage? You can't prove that more people want those features other than preteens. You're only saying because you don't want preteens and making it look like the majortiy don't want them. There's plenty of people who want preteens and it's not just on this forum. I can tell you the stuff you want is useless.
More like jealous of blind people
Does it ever vary between countries!
In some countries, you don't even start school until you're 7, meaning a 6 year old is a preschooler.
In many countries, kindergarten is preschool, and is for toddlers, in many countries, kindergarten is for 4-6 year olds, and is not a part of formal schooling, it's for socialising your kids, before they enter formal schooling.
Personally, I'd love the game to incorporate forest kindergartens. They are vastly different to the american concept of kindergarten, as the children spend very little time indoors, and are out, running wild in a forest, even in winter. They also get to play with fire and knives, even though they're only around age 5.
I have also pointed out this fact numerous times in numerous threads. I'm not sure why people seem to not understand it.
Actually... prehistory, it's not just before history, it's the entire human era before written history, and technically even includes prehuman history. Oooh. Another pre.
But I get what you're saying, 10-12 is actually the tween age. In English speaking countries, it fills the gap between the end of single digits, and the start of the ages ending with teen. In most other countries, the concept doesn't exist, because they don't have that weird thing with the numbers, and so their 'teens' start at 10 or 11. Or in the case of French, they have 11-16 using one system of numbers, and then switch to a different system for 17-19. German does the same weird thing that English does, cos we stole it from them.
Languages! They are all wacky, and cause meanings to change.
Except when the 'new content' isn't actually new, nor is it really any sort of content. A new height is a rehash of old content, everything having to be re animated to give the new height any content at all. It takes time and effort from the development of actual new content.
It comes down to questions like:
Skateboards and scooters for children and teens? Or the animations we already have, reanimated for a new height?
Snowball or water balloon fights! Or the animations we already have, reanimated for a new height?
Tree-houses and cubbies for kids? Or the animations we already have, reanimated for a new height?
And it doesn't matter whether we're talking about preteens or some new prechild/posttoddler/kindegartener/preschooler/whatever the heck you want to call it, it's going to come at the cost of new content.
If they were squeezing in a new age between adult and elder, then there wouldn't need to be new animations for a new height, all the effort could be directed towards completely new content, no animations would need to be redone, all the animations could be completely new.
And now I'm daydreaming about new dancing animations. A new age between adult and elder could bring slow dancing with it. And the ability for children and toddlers to dance standing on the feet of a teen+ sim.
In answer to the topic of your thread: Two New Life Stages (other than Preteen)
Witches and Werewolfs.
Could you please explain how posting an image that is mocking disabled people has anything to do with your topic?
I don't mock disabled people. That image is self explanatory lmao
we already HAVE middle age it's "Adult" stage
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We also have pre-teens in children as they are not yet teens and preschoolers in toddlers as they do not attend (wait for it.......) school.
its true
I disagree. Children aren't preteens in my opinions. Toddlers and preschoolers are different to me
I AM IRL middle aged, in my late 40's. The "adults" in the game are all younger looking than I am. Things like the "lazy" trait happen when muscles don't work the way they used to, but not nearly as bad as depicted in the "elder" stage. I can work out and it hurts every time, but I don't get "dangerously tired" from a short workout. It works more like the lazy trait does in Sim young adults and adults. Muscles also don't build up as fast as they used to either. There is also less general energy for various things, except if you are used to doing them. A middle aged adult might walk slightly more slowly, especially if overweight. Middle aged men are about 50/50 chance of being bald or partially bald. Middle aged women have darker hair color than they did when younger, or might start getting that pepper gray look. Middle age is the age when we start noticing a gray hair or two. Age spots are also a thing, as is dry skin. People also start wearing bifocals in middle age.
A reward trait for middle-aged might be if they overcome the lazy tendency, to be rewarded with a trait that eliminates the "dangerously tired" buff from elders when they work out. Vegetarian Sims also might get this trait as well, as they would be less likely to develop the kind of heart condition that this buff simulates.
I also miss the "mid-life crisis" from Sims 3 that happened when your sim became middle aged. I was single for most of my adult life - for my RL mid-life crisis, I found the love of my life, and got married
Elders should be able to either be bald (men), partially bald (men), full head of grey hair, or full head of white hair.
Adults seem to be in their late 30s (37-39) to mid 40s (44-46) . Middle age is more 48+. I believe we should get sub life stages in an expansion pack. I'd like older infants (6-11 months, basically babies and toddlers combined), preschoolers (4-6), preteens (11-14), middle aged adults (48-63). Older infants can crawl, eat baby food, eat in a high chair, sleep in cribs, play with toys, have their own special items (activity mat/gym, bouncer, teething rings and more), can be bathed in bath tub (like toddlers).
there's a problem you can't have the word TEEN in "pre" which means BEFORE TEEN.
Babies 1 to 12 months of age
Toddlers are 2 to 3 years of age.
Children are 5 to 11 years of age.
Teens are typically 12 to 17 years of age.
Young Adults are 18 to 21 years of age
So, do we really need a preschooler age that's only 1-2 years? Just shorten the height of teen sims, since Young Adults hit that age right around graduation/college. If anything, the personalities of our sims, as well as more traits for specific age groups should be incorporated into the game. Our sims maturity should blossom. Ages/Life Stages are just eye-candy IMO. It's watching our sims develop into the adult/elder sim which makes it more enjoyable.
When we start adding more life stages like preschooler, pre-teen, middle-age, senior, elder, ancient...it's really taking away from potential core gameplay with focus being on life stages that only last 2 or 3 minimum in-game days. What would make these never-been-seen before life stages unique from the rest other than height and appearance?
TS4 Aging Process
Baby- Max 14 days
Toddler- Max 28 days
Child- Max 52 days
Teen- Max 96 days
Adult- Max 96 days
Elder- Max 40 or more days
Total Life Span- Max of 324+ in-game days. Our sim's overall life span from baby to death is almost 1-year in-game.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have more life stages, I just feel it's not necessary; just some tweaks here and there to make what life stages we do have feel more complete. And if they do add new life stages, than cool. If not, that's cool, too.