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What life span do you play with?
shanls96
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What life span do you play with and do you use MCC to change the length of days each generation lives for in your game.
If you don’t use MCC :
-Short
-Normal
-Long
if you use MCC
how many days per generation (eg. Child 7, teen 14 etc)
Are you planning on changing it when discovering university comes out? I’m wondering whether I should make my lifespan longer bc of university.
If you don’t use MCC :
-Short
-Normal
-Long
if you use MCC
how many days per generation (eg. Child 7, teen 14 etc)
Are you planning on changing it when discovering university comes out? I’m wondering whether I should make my lifespan longer bc of university.
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When playing on PC I set it to custom settings thanks to mods; thus they live as long as humans, human average life span is 80 years, each sim day is a year. lol
If your gonna have your sim at a university; I'd recommend turn off aging or set it to long until the sim is done.
BG: Long. Seasons 7 days.
MC: Standard aging. Game speed time: 250.
With that your days are a lot longer, but skills build up much faster even though they look slower at first glance (with exception to one or two like charisma in the mirror, it is sort of broken as it doesn't continuely reward progress, but it does it in bursts based on when the animation is replaying).
You have a lot more days for your sims as well, for example toddlers and children equal or double the days found under normal in base game, while young adults and adults are almost double the age values of a child, so instead of around 50 days, you get almost 100 days. I'd say that is more than enough without needing to immortalize sims because of how quick and cramped typical default is.
Coming back to skills, if you compare default without MC, at 7 days as a child, you'd be lucky to make it across all the skills and have just a minor headstart on skills you'd find in teenagers onwards, with these settings? you'd not only have the time to get through all those skills but you'd probably be able to max out those adult skills a great deal if not all the way before aging up.
while time is slowed, so is the time compression when away from the house because all family members are busy with school/work, or they are home but all sleeping, it will take a lot longer to get from sleeping to waking up (but that also depends on the quality of the bed as to how much it gives your sims,) otherwise you could be waiting a few minutes to go from 10pm to 6am, but that is well worth the trade off.
Nowadays I usually keep the aging off at the beginning if I start a new save. I let my Sim advance in her/his career or whatever he's doing to try to earn money. If I want my Sim to have a family I will find him a spouse and when they will have their first child I turn the aging on, either on long or normal. I prefer to use normal life span until the toddler ages up to a child and then change it to long. I may change the life span later again if I feel like it.
I've never used short life span.
I don't use MCCC or any other mods.
When I will play University I turn the aging off.
Long does sometimes feel too long, but I generally don't feel any shame in aging people up early. Lord knows I don't think I've let anyone in an active household stay on Baby more than I think 4-5 days. They usually don't make it past 2 before I age them up to toddler.
Normal is still too short for my liking though, so I’m using MCCC to make it longer. I still haven’t found a length i like, so I’m mostly just adjusting it atm and looking at google for inspiration. I also turn aging off at times, but mostly when they’re gonna age up before i want them to
However when I got Seasons, Seven days per season felt too short and making the season a bit longer means that my Sims can only experience like Winter atleast once in their life. It's unrealistic that I decided to make it longer.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
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Age wise there is a difference, but except the obvious order of the life stages, I don't think there are many game technical differences.
Young Adults might have a better chance of becoming pregnant than Adults, and Adults might get some skin details like wrinkles added to their face. I can't think of other differences. Adults might have a few more options in everyday communication, but I'm not sure if that is based on higher skills alone, or if lifestage also ticks in.
When we get Discover University pack, I think only Young Adults can go there (I might be wrong though).
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