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Infants - unpopular opinion... possible to skip infant life stage?
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So, I'm welcoming the infant just as much as others, but playing a large save on rotation I can't focus on infant details in every single family. Some will focus on this, while others will have their focus elsewhere. I really hope there will be an option to skip the infant life stage. Like going directly from baby to toddler, like today. When clicking crib there could be two options for age up. Then everyone would be happy 
Before you say they can simply have a birthday right away - I'll say that most of my sims already base their life on eating cakes, thanks to the constant birthdays in a household. Unless they introduce the "birthday salad" dish, celebrating the infant's birthday with another cake just to skip this life stage, is not an option.
If some of you heard any info on this, please share.
Before you say they can simply have a birthday right away - I'll say that most of my sims already base their life on eating cakes, thanks to the constant birthdays in a household. Unless they introduce the "birthday salad" dish, celebrating the infant's birthday with another cake just to skip this life stage, is not an option.
If some of you heard any info on this, please share.
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Ah, yes, hopefully they can be aged up in CAS, that would help although having the option on the crib would be time saving. Let's see.
I do have some birthdays, it can be either fun or chaos, LOL. Guess hardly understand they should move over to the birthday sim in time for the aging, so seen from a child's pow it is most often a rather lonely experience even if everyone were offered cake.
What's worst for a kid:
1. Your folks forgot to throw a birthday party for you.
2. Your folks threw a birthday party, but all your guests (incl. mom and dad) chose to do their own stuff in other rooms rather than cheering as you blow those cake candles.
Do you have any desire to at least play through one infant stage just to see what's involved? There may be advantages gained in the infant stage similar to toddlers earning the Top Notch trait.
I'm also a rotational player, so I feel this. And while it's not an immediate concern for me, I will, at some point, have to update my game, and most likely will only play infants once in a while, or on limited time.
It would be nice if we were able to just click on the infant while holding them to age them up. Hopefully it will be as easy as aging babies.
ETA: It only seems to be an issue when aging young sims, once they're teens it seems to be ok to age them to YA+ in CAS.
Oh, I will definitely play *many* infants, I'm not negative to them being added at all. Thing is that I currently play about 110+ households actively, and if I should focus on the new - and may I say very short - life stage in all those families, there would not be time to focus on anything else. If someone could guarantee that I will live on for minimum 150 more years, fine. I play nearly daily, but the game offers so much so there is not enough time to play all sims through their infant stage. If I did, I would get tons of warnings that infant get neglected and will be taken away. I just recently started to focus on toddlers' skills which also requires full focus on them for minimum 3 simdays. On a big rotation like mine this is not possible unless you play "200" hours every week... that's why I want to focus on a few infants, and skip the others.
I need to know more about game mechanism, though (ie how infants help toddler building skills), but those 200 weekly hours will not be possible no matter what
Thanks for the warning. I never age up sims in CAS, because (last time I checked) their day count will not be reset, so they will be aged up to next stage early by the game. Guess all this might depend on aging settings. What works for one game, might not be optimal in another game.
I'm thinking they will be aged up by cakes, based on the birthday party aspect of the Infants trailer.
Note: Gameplay wise the only thing needed to avoid a Sad "Forgotten Birthday" moodlet, is to age a sim up manually via a birthday cake. It doesn't even matter if they are alone.
However, due to their early age I'm hoping having infant birthday cake/parties is more of an optional thing, because in reality they would be too young to understand what it's about. You might still need a cake to age them up early, but I'm hoping you won't need one to avoid them being Sad and can allow them to age autonomously.
Either way, keeping them alive (not taken away) until they age up will likely be the main goals of infanthood, with any extra achievement being more along the lines of bonus gameplay (milestones were implied to be gates to new abilities).
but yeah i think its gonna be about as skippable as the other lifestages in game if you feel like skipping it
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I hear you on that. Even when you have each member of the family click on the cake to celebrate, in my experience they either do so before the Birthday Sim even is in the room, and then then disappear to who-knows-where, like you suggested to do their own thing.
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I tend to group sims and say "Go here together" before disbanding the group and blowing out the candles.
I was watching a sims 4 let's play video. She was trying to get everyone in one room, but had a lot of trouble with it. She then turned free will off and told everyone to go where she wanted and they did and they stayed there. Next Birthday I'm going to try that.
I do this for my sims, especially with twins. Bake cake, put candles on it, first sim blows out candles. Nobody grabs a bite autonomously, light candles again, next sim blows out candles (or same sim, depending). Cake goes into trash bin or recycler.
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Ah thanks! We used to do that with any age years ago, but they removed the cheat. Glad it's back for infants! Also, I found that aging them in CAS is fine to, as I would do it before they lived a day of their life stage so toddler stage would be rather from start.
I like the infats more tan I expected, they are so cute and cool. I just have so many and I want to focus on more aspects of the game.
If nothing else, use the birthday cake and then immediately throw it away. I do this a lot because all my sims want to eat is cake if I keep it.
Oh, thanks a lot! I use UI Cheat for so many things but never learned all the possibilities, and I never tried to click that bar! This will be so useful and time saving not only for infants!
I agree on this. Avoid aging up in CAS if possible. Or MCCC. I mostly used either the no-mod cas.fulleditmode and/or the mod MCCC to age down rather than age up occasionally.
To age up an Infant to toddler works just the same as aging up a toddler to child. Have the infant selected. Click on the cake with candles. Ask someone for help to blow out the candles. (However it's written in-game). Takes a few minutes of them wandering around after aging up from newborn before it will allow you to age them up. Keep that in mind.
And yes I also tend to throw out the cake when done, haha! And have other food ready to eat.
Again @Catzilla good point. YA/A/E don't affect traits on a Sim aging up or down. But the yonder ones messing around with 'cheat' aging does for sure.
I use the cake, BUT I don't let them eat it. If another birthday is coming I will put candles back on and stick it back into the frig. or I just throw it away.
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