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12 life stages in TS5
navani
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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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I 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.
"Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilizations as well."
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
12 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.
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If you want to make your active sims fully autonomous, go to this link. (for sims 3)
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