Since downloading the latest patch, I have been unable to age any of my toddler or child sims. No matter which family I made active, whether I attempted to throw a birthday party for a sim of a different household, nothing would ever change. They would remain in place, celebrating their birthdays for Simhours on end, eventually stopping or leaving having not changed at all.
Then, after many failed attempts at aging them via the birthday cake and manually through testingcheatsenabled, a child in my active family finally grew up only.. He didn't!
After yet another failed birthday party, I quit and saved the game, only to find my sim stuck in between age groups?
This is the Sim during gameplay. No matter what his actions are, he remains in this shrunken state. The only time he appears as a teen-Sim is in CAS.
As well as his apperance, his traits, and school status are that of a child's, yet he is a teen?
I currently have no custom content nor I have ever used a mod to effect game play and the only game I have other than the base game is Amibitions. I tried resetting the sim several times, yet still, no fix. I am not too attached too the household, but I do want to know if there is a solution to this aging problem..
I can't imagine the children of every household to appear this way after finally aging..
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Try using the cheat resetsim <sims full name> and maybe that'll get some kind of reaction out of him
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I do have aging turned on, but after the first few problems I had with aging up my Sims, I started to ignore the time in which they are suppose to age and simply focused on getting the aging process to work. Originally, when I first noticed the issue, it was around each Sims birthday that I tried to have them blow out the candles on a birthday cake (Children need parties!! )
As for CC, I did download this house from the exchange, but at the time I first noticed I was unable to age my Sims, I disabled all CC. I haven't had in enabled since, including when I took the screen shot.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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In REALITY, I simply exist.....
I ended up having to ditch the family and restarting a game with the toddlers now set to children, and in Riverview, and not in a CC house. I haven't tired aging them up yet, I'm kind of afraid to now.
i thought it might be cause id been using testing cheats but i have a CC world so maybe thats gone wrong
its really annyoing because my cd drive is tempermental as well so it will take me for ever to get it uninstall and install all my sims games... plus i was really liking this family XD
Basically I just kept reseting the sim when it got stuck on the birthday icon, and ended up making them grow up properly by giving them another birthday, using the birthday cake, they wont skip a generation when they r stuck between as they r still a child, so just birthday cake them. hope this helps x
So you're saying that a sim can only have one birthday cake if you have aging off? I have aging and story progression off and eventually, I'm going to want to age my sims, but since it's multiple households, I'll want to do it myself. Can you please clarify how or if this is even going to work or if my game is going to be corrupted? I'm sorry I'm a little lost and I've already had 2 cities corrupted. Absolutely NO CC and no mods.
THANKS, if you have the time.
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please help me....did you ever find out hoe to age up the kid?? or am I just stuck with a toddler now
Seems to reset the sims more drastically.
I really hope this works!
see this for suggested fixes http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/03/bug-sim-wont-age-up.html
This only works if you do it before the problem sim has tried to age up, otherwise the sim will be too corrupted and will just freeze on the CAS loading screen. For me, the glitch was an instant interruption of aging so I did this:
Save first before trying.
First use testingcheatsenabled to edit the sim in CAS and age him up that way. Of course when you you confirm and exit, the sim will have the stunted growth glitch.
So then you'll be using mastercontroller through the city hall menu. Select town menu, and then reset everything. This will reset and basically clean literally everything in the town from object to sim... including your bugged out sim. And they will be a normal sim, just older like you wanted. And they should be completely normal, since I was able to open CAS through a dresser/mirror and didnt get stuck.
Hope this helps. This bug plagued me for a while and I could never find a straight solution, so I tried mixing two possible ones and got this.