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    How long is a Sim year?

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    NRoweNRowe Posts: 7,898 Member
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    How long is a Sim year? 83 votes

    One Week. (Closest to EA Normal)
    6%
    kerryemmiebethgoodcakebaker62kemowerybecks1112Colton147147 5 votes
    Four Weeks. (Four seven day Seasons)
    20%
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    Two Weeks. (A compromise, in between)
    2%
    mlmeadowsProvidentia 2 votes
    Other…
    71%
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      SnaveXsSnaveXs Posts: 4,322 Member
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      I play a normal calendar year which is 14 days for each season and totaling 2 months.
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      Atreya33Atreya33 Posts: 4,429 Member
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      To me it feels like one year equals going through each season once in my game. I have seasons set to 2 weeks so one year is 8 weeks. It doesn't add up with years based on lifespans but I ignore that discrepancy.
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      SimDestroyerSimDestroyer Posts: 335 Member
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      112 Sim days, a month on average being about 9 Sim days. But that's only with the gameplay that I do.

      If I think about it from my preferred lifespan point of view, then one year would be only about 11-12 Sim days.
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      Brd709Brd709 Posts: 2,092 Member
      edited April 2023
      Four Weeks. (Four seven day Seasons)
      Each season is four weeks in my current save. It's the closest to the real calendar I'll get. Without breaks or days off from game play, I can complete a sim year within one real life month.
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      simgirl1010simgirl1010 Posts: 35,882 Member
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      I don't keep track of time in my game. My seasons are set for 28 days but most times I'll use UI cheats to rewind to summer or spring, my favorite seasons. If I want to play in the fall or winter I'll change the season length to 7 days.
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      Katofhyrule12Katofhyrule12 Posts: 717 Member
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      Each season is 2 weeks and the full moon is every 4 days.
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      crocobauracrocobaura Posts: 7,385 Member
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      A year is four seasons. My game is set with 28 days seasons. I would like an option for even longer seasons.
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      SERVERFRASERVERFRA Posts: 7,128 Member
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      There should be a setting for a sims year to be longer.
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      NRoweNRowe Posts: 7,898 Member
      These comments make me think maybe I rush my Sims.
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      SimmingalSimmingal Posts: 8,963 Member
      edited April 2023
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      Each season is 4 weeks for me
      that makes 4x7= 28 days/season
      all 4 seasons therefore =112 days

      the year is 112 days long in my game
      that is, if I actually looked at my gaming in sim years and I don't :lol:

      my sims will just age whenever I feel like it and celebrate holidays when I feel like it :joy:
      I play too many households to really have any kind of timeline in place

      I do sometimes try to match seasons but I swear I am always in wrong season :lol:
      I've been thinking of doing summer stories so I maybe could have them ready for you know, summer
      but it only be new years in my game 💀

      well, faces be broken anyway so waiting for that to be fixed before continuing any of my stories too
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,579 Member
      edited April 2023
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      I play on Long and none of it ever adds up. One is called upon to suspend RL logic. It takes three days for a human Sim to fully gestate, which in RL might suggest one day equals a month in the Sim universe. But then we've got seasons. In RL a year is attached to four seasons. However, in the game, a Sim will age to the next level in far less than four season's worth of experience. It is the conundrum of the ages. I just wing it myself. Erik was 17 when he graduated early and went to Uni for three terms. At this rate, I surmise, he was all of 20 upon graduation. He now is married with the one child, an Infant, which suggests he's now 22 or will be soon. I tried to calculate it once, but I got lost along the way.
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      Stina1701AStina1701A Posts: 1,184 Member
      Four Weeks. (Four seven day Seasons)
      I play on long so it's 28 days for me, 4 weeks each season. I would have it longer but I don't want to install the mod that gives me that choice, yet.
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      SweetieWright_84SweetieWright_84 Posts: 4,129 Member
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      I play with LittleMsSam's 21 day seasons so for me, my sim year 84(?) days.
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      Paigeisin5Paigeisin5 Posts: 2,139 Member
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      Each season is set at 28 days, which is equal to a month in my mind, and I play each season 3 times before moving on to the next one. 4 seasons times three playthroughs equals one Sim year. I also play with aging off and age up my Sims when I feel it's the right time. I play rotationally through many families and single Sims, and when there are as many things to do as there are now in the game, I like to take my time with every Sim so they can experience everything without me feeling pressured to move through the game too quickly. That, plus I get very attached to my Sims and their stories and want them around for as long as possible.
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      JustMeAlbJustMeAlb Posts: 371 Member
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      I play on long seasons (28 days) and can't imagine going back to shorter ones. I enjoy being able to see actual transitions from one season to the next and having time to enjoy the weather before it totally flips again.
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      Monet11Monet11 Posts: 1,422 Member
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      I play through all four seasons for a year. My seasons last 4 weeks (28 days). If I made the year any shorter, my sims would never go to work due to all the holidays I have added to the calendar.
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      mitchiebanjomitchiebanjo Posts: 172 Member
      Forever and ever or till last week.
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      AngeliqueAdelaideAngeliqueAdelaide Posts: 1,033 Member
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      4 seasons, each of them 4 weeks. I don't like to rush.
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      KimmerKimmer Posts: 2,383 Member
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      My Sims don't have years, I've never even thought of it.
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      CAPTAIN_NXR7CAPTAIN_NXR7 Posts: 4,465 Member
      edited April 2023
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      It varies, depending on the save. As a general rule however, I play with aging off with a typical sim year counting 14 sim days per season x 4 unique seasons = 56 sim days.
      Considering the fact that I have a bunch of different story saves, plus I don’t play a lot or for a very long time unless I’m ill or it’s weekend and the actual actual weather is too dreadful for me to be causing any trouble outdoors, it would literally take me an entire year or more to get through one sim year per save if that makes any sense?

      It nearly took me a full sim day to write this. I could have been playing instead if I wasn’t “working” right now. 🤓
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,579 Member
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      SweetieWright_84 wrote: »
      I play with LittleMsSam's 21 day seasons so for me, my sim year 84(?) days.

      I love that mod and find that three-week seasons is perfect for me. Sadly, it also interferes with the Starlight Accolades Show. I mean it really messes them up. Since I have a Rock Star who keeps getting nominated for Best Song, this was problematic and disrupting my fun. I had to begrudgingly uninstall it.
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      RedDestiny92RedDestiny92 Posts: 7,850 Member
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      I like to play on short, normal and long at random and I enjoy the holidays so I would say it is however long it is on each setting, I like it simple :)
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      itsTheSimsGuyitsTheSimsGuy Posts: 77 Member
      edited April 2023
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      One sim day.

      So for me, I run sims time along side real life time, so a second in real time is a minute in game, a minute is an hour etc

      So I consider a sim day (24mins) a “year” because they only age in days. So and so is 178 days old, I consider that years, so that sim, to me, is 178 years old (they’re not human so in my head there is to time frame for how long a sim lives, a 270 year old sim is very common in my game lmao. Some of my vamps are like 500-800 days/years old now)

      I turn aging off and on as I play to keep ages in sync etc etc

      But yeah, I’ve never followed any “canon” way. Sim days are “years” to me.
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      WildIrishBansheeWildIrishBanshee Posts: 2,105 Member
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      Playtime, when I've gone through all 4 seasons, regardless of length.

      Aging, a day. Theoretically. I don't really play "years" in aging, but since they age per day, that would be the closest thing to a year for me.
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      IsharellIsharell Posts: 1,158 Member
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      I play with aging off and don't pay much attention to the holidays in game. I've got a couple of saves with the 2 week seasons and I'm still deciding which I prefer. It's the winters that bug me, they last too long. I wish I could extend the spring and summer and shorten the winter. I get depressed staring at all that snow and bare trees.
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