Atm i'm using mccc and customizing lifespans a bit. My default is normal, but i have:
- decreased pregnancies to 2 days
- decreased baby stage to 2 days
- decreased toddler stage to 5 days,
- children and teens i kept with 14 days each
- YA and adults i kept with 21 days each
- i've increased elder stage to 15 days
What about you? Have you tweaked lifespans?
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Repose en paix mamie tu va me manquer :
1923-2016 mamie
Updated with Werewolf Diaries (1)
Toddler: 504 days/4.5 years (see above)
Child: 784-896 days/7-8 years
Teen: 448-672 days/4-6 years (depending on their birthday, when they aged up to a teen and whether or not I remember that they exist, XD)
Young adult: 2352 - 2464 days/21-22 years
Adult: 3360 days/30 years on average
Elder: 1000+ days/8+ years
As you can see, it’ll be a long time before I get to generation 2. XD
Wow!! That's a lot!!
Babies: 7 days (1 week)
Toddler: 28 days (1 year)
Child: 28 days (1 year)
Teen: 28 days (1 year)
Young Adult: 56 days (2 years)
Adult: 84 days (3 years)
Elder: 28 days (1 year)
Total: 259 days (9.25 years)
With this age span I find my game moves at a pace that allows me to do what I want without feeling rushed. I have enough time to raise a family, build skills, build a career, build relationships, celebrate holidays and events, go to university, etc. and repeat through the generations. I never really played a legacy until I set my age span to what it is now. I used to play on long life span but progress was just too slow for me to enjoy legacy style gameplay.
If and when a sim gets pregnant I make it last for at least 14 sim days so I don’t have to deal with it too soon. Doing this also gives me enough time to get over the shock. 😂
I like this idea out of curiosity, have you changed the pregnancy duration to match or kept it at the 3 days?
Pregnancy: 3 days
Infants: 1 day
Toddlers: 3 days
Children: 45 days
Teens: 50 days
Young Adults: 360 days (I consider this my young, middle and transitional older Adult stages, depending on where they are in numbers of days)
Adult: 70 days (I consider this my older Adult stage up to 50 days and Elder stage after)
Elder: 20 days (this is my final Elder stage because of the way regular sim elders seem so infirm in many ways)
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
My Plumbob is GREEN today
Collectively i end up with roughly 500 game days from new born baby to dead elder, however the days can be increased if i played around with the age settings in MCCC in each life state (which is currently set on default at this time), plus aspirations, potion of youth and then ways to reach immortality through vampires and spellcaster potions.
When i first started out and played up to 300 hours before i got GT, i was frustrated by how quickly time passed and how little time i had to do anything, and how my toddlers and children had to learn everything without being toddlers or children in the process and how my teenagers barely had time to be teenagers when the majority of their time at home was spent on homework, motives and improving their skills as much as possible.
None of these sims had a soul or a personality, they were just another borg drone, part of a collective consciousness. I needed to do something about that and found MCCC around the same time i got GT and it transformed my gameplay for the better when i found that game time option and set it appropriately and age span from the game options. I haven't looked back since.
But I do have custom lifepans with MCC.
I have the lifespan in game set to normal, and the days custom are.
Pregnancy: 5 days
Nooboo: 5 days
Toddler: 28days
Child: 35days.
Teens: 42days.
Young Adult: 63.
Adult: 70.
Elders: 21.
Though I am still having a test run of these and lol well been playing with aging off, so I am not satisfied by it xD I think I will extend it.
My season are set to 14 days, I think I might do toddlers 56 and increase by one or two more 7's each age after toddlers, so each age group can experience all seasons. So in theory.
Toddlers: 56
Children: 63
Teens: 70
Young Adults 77
Adults: 84
Elders: 28.
Pregnancies and nooboos unsure of for now maybe 14 and 14.
Well thank you for this thread and letting me being able to puzzle this all out and share
Ya that's exactly my thought process! It started with wanting each life stage to experience all of the seasons, which is why toddlers kids and teens all live one full calendar year (and yes I do play on seven day seasons), but it conveniently turned out to perfectly balance my play style.
me - I normally use only whites mod but if I did have that mod I would make it about 15-10 days or maybe even more depending on how I feel that day " do I want my sim to die today?"
> No customizing anything here, my only mod is for woohoo
> @AyKooChao said:
> Nooboo: 168 days/1.5 years (may adjust if we get improved nooboos)
> Toddler: 504 days/4.5 years (see above)
> Child: 784-896 days/7-8 years
> Teen: 448-672 days/4-6 years (depending on their birthday, when they aged up to a teen and whether or not I remember that they exist, XD)
> Young adult: 2352 - 2464 days/21-22 years
> Adult: 3360 days/30 years on average
> Elder: 1000+ days/8+ years
>
> As you can see, it’ll be a long time before I get to generation 2. XD
my mind - welp there gos you entire irl life
@Nate_Whiplash1 :D ur weird I like it
@LivingWithLife
There was an old challenge in sims 3 that was called the speed challenge. You had to get to the 10th generation and fulfill some goals with something like 10 days lifespan: 1 day baby, 1 day toddler, 1 day child, 1 day teen, 2 days ya, 3 days adult and 2 days elder i think.
> @LivingWithLife :lol:
> There was an old challenge in sims 3 that was called the speed challenge. You had to get to the 10th generation and fulfill some goals with something like 10 days lifespan: 1 day baby, 1 day toddler, 1 day child, 1 day teen, 2 days ya, 3 days adult and 2 days elder i think.
Dats FAST
my mind - what if that was real life? WHAT WOULD I DO????!!!!??!!!
For my long-term legacy families (I currently have two) I play modified lifespan. I also change the skill rate so it's twice as hard to level up (and therefore makes careers and aspirations take longer).
Pregnancy length: 6 days
6 days for baby (yeah I'm weird)
14 days for toddlers
18 days for children
20 days for teens
40 days for young adults
44 days for adults
22 days for elders
I also have a medieval/spellcaster/vampire save file that's more story-driven. I switch households often and want time to really explore all of the different characters. Sometimes I'll even pause aging altogether if I'm diving into a particular story that needs time to unfold.
Pregnancy length: 18 days
18 days for baby (yeah I'm weird)
68 days for toddlers
80 days for children
86 days for teens
166 days for young adults
186 days for adults
94 days for elders
9 day pregnancies for this reason:
Young Adults age up after 40 days
Adults age up after 40 days
Teens and Children age up after 21 days
Babies I kept default and Toddlers age up after two weeks
Elders I think I gave them 30 days. Just so they'll be able to meet grandchildren. Though I don't think it'll happen to my legacy sims as the parents became elders not long after their son- pictured in my avi helping his sister, who lives with him, with a project- became a young adult and is currently going to college while living in Del Sol Valley and writing books.
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