As a gamer who loves creating large families and expanding them across cities, I'd like to see 12 life stages in The Sims 5 so that character growth isn't abrupt and truly mimics what happens in real life.
The attached image represents well what these phases would be, each with their respective heights and characteristics:
1 - Newborn
2 - Lap baby
3 - Baby
4 - Preschool
5 - Child
6 - Pre-teen
7 - Teenager
8 - Young adult
9 - Adult
10 - Middle age
11 - Elderly
12 - Elder
At the player's discretion, the lifespan could be short, normal, or long. What do you think?
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I feel like there should be another stage between Middle age and Elderly. I would call it Senior citizen, where they have white hair but can still walk straight. A middle age person doesn't go straight to hunch back and a cane. As for the Elder stage, not all very old people walk with a frame. Maybe for old age, they could have variations on how mobile they are depending on how well they took care of their health during younger years.
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Stages in Wikipedia :
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionI am a senior and up until a year ago my mother was still alive so she would have been the elder. People live longer and healthier nowadays so I think our sims should be able to as well.
However if they wanted to make it 12 that would also be okay with me. Just stop punishing elders who can still jog or woohoo.
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More early life stages are good if they can round out a child's development. Babies change a lot in such a short time, unless they cleverly write the coding for it, a single life stage can be anything between Crib bound infant, using a bottle, to a crawling almost toddler who eats babyfood at a highchair. And then switches back at the sims will. Do you know what I mean? It's a thing I'm worried the Sims 4 infant life stage will be.
Though, if they do the clever coding, and can give us progression with an infant, that maybe learns skills to be able to crawl and be weaned, that will be even cooler.
1) Is a wanted life stage by simmers (even before than infants)
2) (my opinion) be possible romantic interaction between Teen and YA (I understood EA reject for such relationships, as current teen represent from 12 [or even 11] to 17)
"Middle age" is just an adult. A "preteen" is just a child. A "lap baby" is just a baby. "Elderly" is just elder.
And "Preschool" aka early childhood (3-6) is just a child, "Baby" is just a toddler
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The Sims 4 General Discussion12 life stages might also make the game very slow and laggy and prone to freezing and crashing,since EA could put color wheels,open world and Create-A-World/Create-a-Style in the game as well.
If EA just gave us 8 life stages,I'd be fine with that.
I'm not as obsessed with pre-teens as some are. I don't see what makes them different to children. People say "oh they can get crushes..." that's it?? Not enough to warrant a whole new lifestage IMO. Most people talk about them going to "middle school", which is only really unique to American players. This game is very American-focused as it is, most of the new worlds are based on somewhere in America for example. I know there are a lot of American players, but there are millions round the world too. It'd be nice if there was more diversity!
The life stages we have now have noticeable differences between them and each has unique gameplay.
Newborn
Infant
Toddler
Preschool
Child
Preteen
Teen
Young Adult
Adult
Elder
The only 2 new stages I added are Preschool (3-5) and Preteen (11-12). The current jump in the current game is too jarring for me because it seems they go straight from Child to Young Adult because the Teens and Young Adults look the same. I watched a Let's Play of TS4 on YouTube by Make 2 (Let's Play The Eden-Cho Family). When they aged up the twins in the household (Jamie and Bon) from Teen to Young Adult to go to college (they created a college because DU hadn't been released yet), I could not tell the difference between them as Teens and Young Adults.
Newborn
Infant
Toddler
Child
Preteen
Teen
Young Adult
Adult
Elder
I don't get the point of pre-school stage though... What does this mean? I live in a country where children go to school when they're 7, so I really am confused about that...
The Sims has always been a little bit unrealistic, so a little bit of unrealism is OK.
Preschool here in America is for children ages 4-6 and is called Pre-Kindergarten (4-5) and Kindergarten (5-6).
Teens, I'd much more prefer them to be de-aged from an almost adult height to a little less than the adult stage. I'd rather that than another Pre-teen life stage.
And the only reason we have Infant and baby(newborns) is because when they created the TS4, someone, I suspect, cheaped out and decided to downgrade us to TS1 style babies. Yes, I remember those. I am afraid it may be a mistake not easily taken back, now though. Players have gotten the idea into their heads that they are two stages, and if the Sims team doesn't deliver, we may protest it.
I do like how they gave the Infants milestones and see it as being a way to fit many age stages together. Anyone who's seen a real infant develop understands how many stages that can be. If we ask for something similar in TS5, it may help some of you who feel like there's too few life stages as there are.
Newborn
Infant
Toddler
Child
Preteen
Teen
Ya
A
Middle aged
Elder.