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Birthdays according to calendar - confused
Simmerville
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I just changed my seasons from 7 days to 14 days. Seasons changes have been too hasty, and I play sop many houses that I need a few more days per sim year.
I have aging on for just 1 day during a calendar year, and now I got aware of the birthday cake symbols. I knew about them already, but had forgotten them. And because I had decided to note in which season everyone is born, I figured I could just as well use the seasons the game suggests.
But - do anyone know if the birthdays are totally random? I will turn off aging before sim-midnight, because the population already aged once. When I turn on aging again in a sim year, will the calendar show the same birthdays (I will keep the 14 days seasons). Or will they again be random?
And - the major question - do anyone celebrate birthdays even if sim is not aging up? How do you go about that, will game age up the sim having a birthday, even if aging is set to off? If no aging up, why do you celebrate a birthday? I know we all play differently, and with a strong focus on family life and 28 days per season I might have gone with this, but with 14 days and if household counts 8 sims, I imagine there would be birthdays quite often, and if no aging I think I'd find it a bit boring unless I'd add some other event stuff. How do you do this?
I have aging on for just 1 day during a calendar year, and now I got aware of the birthday cake symbols. I knew about them already, but had forgotten them. And because I had decided to note in which season everyone is born, I figured I could just as well use the seasons the game suggests.
But - do anyone know if the birthdays are totally random? I will turn off aging before sim-midnight, because the population already aged once. When I turn on aging again in a sim year, will the calendar show the same birthdays (I will keep the 14 days seasons). Or will they again be random?
And - the major question - do anyone celebrate birthdays even if sim is not aging up? How do you go about that, will game age up the sim having a birthday, even if aging is set to off? If no aging up, why do you celebrate a birthday? I know we all play differently, and with a strong focus on family life and 28 days per season I might have gone with this, but with 14 days and if household counts 8 sims, I imagine there would be birthdays quite often, and if no aging I think I'd find it a bit boring unless I'd add some other event stuff. How do you do this?
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For example, on normal life span, babies age up after 3 days, toddlers after 7 etc etc.
So, when a baby ages into a toddler, their birthday on the calender is 7 days later. If you turn off aging when your toddler is 3 days old, the birthday will disappear from the calender. If you turn it back on, it will reappear where it was, so in "4 days" because 3 have passed.
So when aging is off, the Sims don't have birthdays at all.
The amount of days each lifestage is changes only when you change the lifespans from short/normal/long.
How long your seasons are don't make a difference with this but if you change it up, their birthdays may appear in a different season than they did before. THey will still be that many days away.
If your Sim passes their birthday and you don't have a party for them they will age up on their own about 24 hours after their birthday.
If you have a party for them, they age up when they interact with the cake (Blow out candles, taste icing, etc. )
There are mods that allow you to have a birthday party without aging up, otherwise I guess just invite a bunch of people over and make them give gifts to your Sim or eat cake without doing the candles, but your Sim will not think of it as a birthday party unless you use the mod, or they age up. Meaning they'll get the sad moodlet that their birthday was forgotten and then age up on their own the next day anyways.
Hope that helps.
*Note: Pregnant Sims do NOT age. So anytime a Sim is pregnant their birthday gets bumped up by 3 calendar days until the baby is born.
Lifespans
Normal:
Baby 0-3 days, usually 3.
Toddler: 7 days
Child: 13 days
Teen: 13 days
Young Adult: 24 Days
Adult: 24 Days
Elder: 10+ Days
For Short it's half of that (rounding up, so Toddler is 4, Child is 7)
For Long it's 4x that. (Toddler 28 days, Adults 96 etc)
Hope that helps.
*Note, you can always age up a Sim early, at any time. Their next birthday will then appear after however many days it should for the next lifespan age. So if you age up a toddler after one day, they will have a birthday 13 days later.
http://modthesims.info/d/628042/ageless-birthdays.html
The only way I know to celebrate without aging.