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When Do You Decide To Age Your Sims to the Elder Lifestage?
Brd709
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The following Spring in my current save see's my sim self's parents enter their final life stage: Elders. Now i am unsure whether or not to age them up just yet. Shortly after their birthday's, their youngest daughter ages up to the Teen life stage and by their time is up, they might just see her go off to University. At present my sim self's parents are what you would call "recurring characters" as i don't play them that often.
My sim self's parents have already been "revived" after their ghosts were culled once at the request of my real life mother as she didn't take this news lightly and never let me hear the end of it!
I was wondering, when do you decide it's time for your Adults to become Elders?
My sim self's parents have already been "revived" after their ghosts were culled once at the request of my real life mother as she didn't take this news lightly and never let me hear the end of it!
I was wondering, when do you decide it's time for your Adults to become Elders?
When Do You Decide To Age Your Sims to the Elder Lifestage? 87 votes
When i am ready to
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I play through until the end of each life stage
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Keep getting the "Potion of Youth" from the satisfaction reward store to keep them from aging up to 'death'.
I wish this could be done in real life, heh heh!
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That being said, in all these years of the game, I have never aged up any sims to Elder... no, wait, that's not quite true. I aged up Geoffrey Landgraab to an Elder while Nancy is still an adult. Even though it's canon, or at least semi-canon, that they are the same age, I wanted her to seem a bit more like a gold-digger. Or, at least like she likes having her doting and naive older husband wrapped around her finger while she does whatever she wants.
But I digress. Most of my adults will eventually be aged up to Elder when their kids start families of their own.
The one exception is that I started a few households for Cottage Living where the eventual goal is to have them be elders in the same timeline as my other sims, but I wanted them to raise their kids rather than just creating the children in CAS. So I'm playing those households* sort of on a separate timeline, mostly just interacting with each other. I've set that aside for a while, but the goal is to have them play through a couple of generations, starting as young adults, and then reintegrate them into my main timeline. It's basically a save within a save.
*Most of them are within my Crumplebottom-Goth family tree. I created a bunch of Crumplebottom siblings, and then added Cornelia (Crumplebottom) Goth to Mortimer and Bella's household, and set her as Mortimer's mom. (She's already an elder, so that she can fit into that household's timeline.) Cornelia also has a brother and sister (Rupert and Amelia). I wanted to make Agnes their sister as well, but I've never been able to figure out a way to add her or cousin Agatha to the family without affecting her NPC status or messing up the stall. Anyway, Rupert and his wife Winifred are currently newly married YAs, and they are going to raise twin daughters (Pandora and Primrose), who will eventually both get married and each have one child of their own. Sadly, a tragic cowshed fire will eventually take the lives of all adults (parents and grandparents) in Rupert's branch of the family, leaving young Tom and Daisy (Rupert and Winifred's grandchildren) to be raised by their dear old great-aunt Amelia. (Amelia is currently living her best life as a single adult and headmistress of Copperdale Prep (a snooty residential facility for wealthy fail sons and fail daughters).
probably because I play so many households and I am just trying to get all my families started 😂
I am however getting close to aging Mortimer elder which I am quite excited about
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I play with aging off.
And now Growing Together is bringing more fun to be had with the grandparents.
Exceptions might happen (though haven't yet) but I suspect even then I'd like to come up with some sort of more immersive and challenging reasons for why a normal sim is aging so slow. E.g. perhaps if they have achieved the "long living" trait which only makes them live longer as an elder but I could then decide to make the another stage longer instead.
Being a "mature" person myself, I do tend to let characters stay Adult for a while.
I actually give some of my adult sims the aging facial feature creases to look elder. And with the upcoming age spots I will be able to make them even more older.
I don't care for the actual elders given their own backs wipelash & chewing on their own gums.
In my side saves where I just play around I don't have aging turned on at all. Everyone stays the same age and I don't really raise children in those saves.