If this is a new thing and not a bug, I really dislike it.
My twins are now having different birthdays so I had to celebrate both together before planned.
I play rotational and this has messed up with my system. I had children in different households that I planned to age up on a Friday (the Friday I was meant to play in their household) and now birthdays appear on the calendar all over the place, it is a mess and it means I had to speed up things and that my neighbourhood is not growing at the path I want but at the path the randomiser wants.
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I don't play with aging on, but if I did I'd probably not appreciate this. I wonder where they come up with the ideas to implement these strange changes when no one was complaining about the way it worked before
I don't play with aging on, but if I did I'd probably not appreciate this. I wonder where they come up with the ideas to implement these strange changes when no one was complaining about the way it worked before
Maybe so they can all be listed on the Calendar for their birthday? Other than that I have no clue unless they are planning something else to do with it in the future.
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I'm not really happy about this change. If a sims is younger than another sim, it should stay that way. You shouldn't be able to 'catch up' on aging. I'll need to use the cake to age up some sims early from now, I suppose.
What really bothers me about this 'feature' is the lack of communication. I think a change like this should be mentioned in patch notes. What's the point of patch notes if you leave out changes to basic game behaviour. I'm glad I found this post, thanks for letting us know.
Exactly! Why were we not informed of such an important change?
I was so sure it was a bug, but it seems it isn't. I am really furious right now, this has really messed up my game.
Instead of doing what has been a comment for ages, letting us choose the lenght of each life stage individually, they come up with this?
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I don't mind it but I feel like splitting up twins is a bug and if so maybe it'll be patched I created twins in cas for the pancakes and they are a few days apart too. Guess we'll see if it gets fixed or not.
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I would never remember when a sim has to age up. I always use a cake, when I think they are where they should be in their skills or relationships or both,, or I get bored playing them at that age. I age them with a cake. once I played about 6 different families with children, I played most of them to where I wanted to age the children up. had one have a party and invited all the others, aged them all up at his house. no problem. I couldn't do it the way some of you simmers do. maybe I'm just too old.
Okay I don't play in a while, and I mostly play with age off so what does that mean to the game and why did they change?
Also, why are twins having this "glitch"?
Sorry for the amount of questions but since I hardly play with Sims aging up I don't get it, can someone explain?
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[quote="justdancerebecca;c-16583101"]In CAS, if I create siblings, they vary in age, and that's relative to who i created first. I like the idea.[/quote]
Yeah, I do the same thing. The idea is cool, but I wish we had more control over it. The issue with this is that the age difference is randomized by the game. So the sibling that was created last might randomize to be aged up first (if I'm understanding correctly).
Okay I don't play in a while, and I mostly play with age off so what does that mean to the game and why did they change?
Also, why are twins having this "glitch"?
Sorry for the amount of questions but since I hardly play with Sims aging up I don't get it, can someone explain?
Why they changed it? I have no idea.
What does it mean to the game? It means that twins for example are ageing up on different days, or if you have a toddler and a baby and age the baby to toddler, maybe that one will age up to child before their sibling (which doesn't make any sense since that sibling is supposed to be older). It also means that you can't organise your neighbourhoods the way you want as a rotational player since the game now decides randomly when your sims will age up. It means no control over it. We were not informed of the change and we don't get to opt out of it either, no toggle, no nothing. Just the game forcing us to play the way it wants and not the way we want.
Why are twins having this glitch? I imagine is a consequence they overlooked when adding this new system.
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Oh man, does it seriously change our existing Sims?! That is NOT COOL - I have multi-generational legacy files that do not need this messing up all the ages!! I play with aging on Long so this means there is an unacceptably large variation in ages suddenly thrown into my carefully planned and timed families.
@SimGuruNick - Can you confirm if this is by design? It is causing huge problems for rotational players and we were not warned of this disastrous change for our rotational saves in the patch notes.
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I have aging off (except for the played household).
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This is such a disheartening change. I don't want randomized lengths of each age range because it destroys the synchronization I've set up over generations in my long-term legacy file. I was starting to feel really positive about the Sims 4 team again after the great Jungle Adventure and Seasons packs, and then they throw something like this in that makes me want to avoid touching my saves to let this change infect them.
@AlbaWaterhouse Thank you for the explanation, it does sound weird the fact that twins are having this glitch though
I hope they can fix that because it affects story telling a lot.
Also @Terra I agree with you the rotational game play suffers a lot from this "glitch" I hope @SimGuruNick and the other Gurus can confirm this as a glitch.
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I wonder if it just affects saves before Seasons or does it affect new saves as well?
@Writin_Reg Can confirm it doesn't affect new saves. I started a new save when I got seasons and so far, three different families have twins and each twin sets have birthdays on the same day.
I wonder if it just affects saves before Seasons or does it affect new saves as well?
@Writin_Reg Can confirm it doesn't affect new saves. I started a new save when I got seasons and so far, three different families have twins and each twin sets have birthdays on the same day.
I don't care for it.
It messed up my system for tracking my sims ages as I am playing a lot of households in rotation.
Exactly the same for me.
Edited to add: in almost all of my families, the parents are now several days older which means they are going to be elders with children, in some cases. Also, in some of my families, the wives are older than the husbands, where previously the husbands were older than the wives. This must be a bug because when toddlers first came out, the ages of the parents and older siblings were adjusted downward to accommodate the extra age of toddlers added to the game. Maybe that became disturbed in programming somehow - much like the problem of pets staying tense for days without end, no matter what care the Sims give them.
I like this idea, but I'm scratching my head over why the two toddlers in this family have different birthdays. This part works out very well because I had carefully randomized their genes when creating this version of a family, aged them down in CAS to start them anew. None of the children are twins! The three older boys are children, and ALL three share the very same birth date on said calendar! I'm troubled that they weren't randomized like the girls were. I do wish we could take control of that on the calendar. Better still, I wish we could have some sort of slider/filter, whatever it may be called, directly in CAS to allow for birth order. If I didn't need my families to have a certain look, they could all be born in game. But then my ancestors wouldn't look like themselves …
I like this idea, but I'm scratching my head over why the two toddlers in this family have different birthdays. This part works out very well because I had carefully randomized their genes when creating this version of a family, aged them down in CAS to start them anew. None of the children are twins! The three older boys are children, and ALL three share the very same birth date on said calendar! I'm troubled that they weren't randomized like the girls were. I do wish we could take control of that on the calendar. Better still, I wish we could have some sort of slider/filter, whatever it may be called, directly in CAS to allow for birth order. If I didn't need my families to have a certain look, they could all be born in game. But then my ancestors wouldn't look like themselves …
To be able to adjust birth order in CAS is a great idea!
I'm really not a fan that I have had to use a cake w/ birthday candles and interactions so that the twins that have been born on the same day have their birthday on the same day and not 2 or more days apart.
I guess I'm not understanding what's going on here. If you have aging only set for played households, where they won't age unless you play them, how is this a problem? I can understand not wanting sims who are supposed to be younger than another sibling to be older, but that's what aging early is for; I understand that side of being upset, but it's not like sims are aging when unplayed, are they? Cause that's a bigger issue for me.
And we still don't have actual confirmation from a guru about this. I cannot imagine the devs would implement something in game without informing the sims community first. Just looking for clarification is all. Cause this seems like something that should be cleared up.
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I don't care for it.
It messed up my system for tracking my sims ages as I am playing a lot of households in rotation.
This is exactly my problem. I really hate this change. Now it's just making it harder for me to keep track of my sims' age. I only found it out when one of my twins is 1 day older than the other. Also a child from another family has been added 3 extra days! This really messes up my tracking.
I don't care for it.
It messed up my system for tracking my sims ages as I am playing a lot of households in rotation.
This is exactly my problem. I really hate this change. Now it's just making it harder for me to keep track of my sims' age. I only found it out when one of my twins is 1 day older than the other. Also a child from another family has been added 3 extra days! This really messes up my tracking.
Perhaps, with the twins, you can merely realize one was born technically on the day before, while the second one arrived just after midnight, making it the next day. I play on Long and generally age up my Sims when I'm ready to do so. I'm trying to formulate just how soon to age up the first boy, who was originally born in the Fall, late September. Unsure of which months the next two were born, but they were two years and four years younger than the first son. I'm still playing each household in my Rotation Save, for a solid week. I've set Seasons to last for two weeks, at this time, so that each family (I only have two, currently) will experience the seasons as they come along. I'm not very far in this game, as we just got back from vacation. I have yet to check in with the second household to see how that one's been troubled. I'm guessing I'm going to have to watch the calendar more in order to establish the proper range between children. Face/palm.
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My twins are now having different birthdays so I had to celebrate both together before planned.
I play rotational and this has messed up with my system. I had children in different households that I planned to age up on a Friday (the Friday I was meant to play in their household) and now birthdays appear on the calendar all over the place, it is a mess and it means I had to speed up things and that my neighbourhood is not growing at the path I want but at the path the randomiser wants.
I am not ruling right now.
All my creations are CC free.
I don't play with aging on, but if I did I'd probably not appreciate this. I wonder where they come up with the ideas to implement these strange changes when no one was complaining about the way it worked before
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Maybe so they can all be listed on the Calendar for their birthday? Other than that I have no clue unless they are planning something else to do with it in the future.
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Exactly! Why were we not informed of such an important change?
I was so sure it was a bug, but it seems it isn't. I am really furious right now, this has really messed up my game.
Instead of doing what has been a comment for ages, letting us choose the lenght of each life stage individually, they come up with this?
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All the sims err'day
Also, why are twins having this "glitch"?
Sorry for the amount of questions but since I hardly play with Sims aging up I don't get it, can someone explain?
Yeah, I do the same thing. The idea is cool, but I wish we had more control over it. The issue with this is that the age difference is randomized by the game. So the sibling that was created last might randomize to be aged up first (if I'm understanding correctly).
Why they changed it? I have no idea.
What does it mean to the game? It means that twins for example are ageing up on different days, or if you have a toddler and a baby and age the baby to toddler, maybe that one will age up to child before their sibling (which doesn't make any sense since that sibling is supposed to be older). It also means that you can't organise your neighbourhoods the way you want as a rotational player since the game now decides randomly when your sims will age up. It means no control over it. We were not informed of the change and we don't get to opt out of it either, no toggle, no nothing. Just the game forcing us to play the way it wants and not the way we want.
Why are twins having this glitch? I imagine is a consequence they overlooked when adding this new system.
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@SimGuruNick - Can you confirm if this is by design? It is causing huge problems for rotational players and we were not warned of this disastrous change for our rotational saves in the patch notes.
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I have aging off (except for the played household).
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I hope they can fix that because it affects story telling a lot.
Also @Terra I agree with you the rotational game play suffers a lot from this "glitch" I hope @SimGuruNick and the other Gurus can confirm this as a glitch.
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@Writin_Reg Can confirm it doesn't affect new saves. I started a new save when I got seasons and so far, three different families have twins and each twin sets have birthdays on the same day.
That's so weird... why would they do that?
Exactly the same for me.
Edited to add: in almost all of my families, the parents are now several days older which means they are going to be elders with children, in some cases. Also, in some of my families, the wives are older than the husbands, where previously the husbands were older than the wives. This must be a bug because when toddlers first came out, the ages of the parents and older siblings were adjusted downward to accommodate the extra age of toddlers added to the game. Maybe that became disturbed in programming somehow - much like the problem of pets staying tense for days without end, no matter what care the Sims give them.
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To be able to adjust birth order in CAS is a great idea!
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And we still don't have actual confirmation from a guru about this. I cannot imagine the devs would implement something in game without informing the sims community first. Just looking for clarification is all. Cause this seems like something that should be cleared up.
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This is exactly my problem. I really hate this change. Now it's just making it harder for me to keep track of my sims' age. I only found it out when one of my twins is 1 day older than the other. Also a child from another family has been added 3 extra days! This really messes up my tracking.
Perhaps, with the twins, you can merely realize one was born technically on the day before, while the second one arrived just after midnight, making it the next day.
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