-old thread ignore please.

"sassygray5;c-16553311" wrote:
My Sims usually get up when the game forces them to for work or school, so usually about one hour before carpool. Which not does not leave a ton of time! I try to get them all showered and have them eat something before they leave, but often there is only time for one or another. I usually don't let them head to the car/bus until it's about 30 mins before work/school. They are often a bit late to either :D In my larger households it's a struggle of balancing the number of bathrooms and Sims. I too let the ones who need it most have dibs.

I'm curious about the relativity mod, but I'm also afraid it would make the game drag and I'd get bored.

NRaas Relativity does not make the game "drag," it allows sims to perform routine tasks in less (often considered more realistic) game clock time. By default, the game clock speed is 37. Lower numbers mean fewer ticks per sim minute, so things take less game clock time to get done not that each minute takes that much more real time to get through. The most popular setting is 19, but that's too much a change for me and I prefer 23. Others settle for settings more like 25 but some prefer actually lower than 19.

The differences are subtle, not quite jarring as let's say making each day twice or three times as long in real time to get through might be -- this is not what happens. But my sims don't have to get up in the middle of the night just so they have time to shower and prepare breakfast to make it to work/school on time and they do have more game clock time for something after dinner other than maybe watching TV for 20 sim minutes and then collapsing from exhaustion. Nor does it take them sim hours to get out of the house and across town unless the town is really that large and their method of transport is really that slow. :)