Aging weirdness (using Nrass)

Is mom gardening and eating life fruits?

"Turjan;c-17305432" wrote:
Is mom gardening and eating life fruits?

She doesn't have a garden. Is it possible she could have gotten hold of a young again potion without me knowing it? If so, wouldn't she have shown her younger age as soon as I took the family off being on hold?

There is *something* that messes with the number of days to age up, and I'm thinking it's switching households but not sure if I remember correctly. I tried to search for the answer and came up empty. I would use the birthday cake like you're planning in this situation. Had the game cheated someone out of days till age up, and I didn't want them to age up sooner, I would use MasterController + the Cheats module and set the number of days till age up (sim>intermediate>age: relative). Don't know if you're using that NRaas mod, but it's really handy when the game pulls this type of thing.

Is it possible that somehow the mom got brought into the EA version of CAS in between these age checks? Even with MC in play, if a sim is brought into that the age randomization thing can still happen. The MC Integration module makes this far less likely, but players are sometimes surprised to find themselves in EA's CAS again if they bring a sim into it just as the game started up but before the mods have had a chance to fully load (with the game clock moving forward smoothly).

MC's CAS and its subsets (Stylist, Plan Outfit, etc.) do not allow the age randomization, but EA's version is still there and it still does this.

I would have seen that though, right @igazor? I mean it would have popped up on the screen. If that's the case, no. When I logged off last weekend, I had just loaded up this family, taken them out of storage, saved and logged out. I noted the ages of everyone before I logged out. Today, I opened up the family, double-checked the ages and they were right. Played them one Sim day and that's when I noticed that mom had gained a bunch of youth.

Note that because I rotationally play, it had been probably 25 Sims days since I had played them. So that's a lot of trouble they can get into even with all the proper settings in NRaas. It's always a surprise and sometimes fun to come back to a family and find out what they have done. This family's dad is a thief and he had some stolen loot in his inventory.

No, our sims cannot sneak into CAS on their own. Wow, it would be scary if they could. :)

I am sure there is a reasonable storyline related explanation for this but am somewhat at a loss as to what it could be if not life fruits as already suggested. Time-delayed elixirs? But usually, certainly for most of us, sims' ages are stable when a stable version of something such as SP is managing aging.

And it happened again with my next family. Same scenario. Age was recorded before going into caste suspension. Rotated back to them just now, took them out of caste suspension. It took a while for their age to change from "never aging" to what their ages should be but when it did, the mom should be 7 to adult but instead she is 20 to adult. This family has a garden but none of her plants are above excellent yet and her gardening skill is only 4.

Very strange. Maybe there's some kind of crazy witch running around town making all the mom's young again. Oh how we would love that in RL!

I haven't seen sims drink any potions or elixirs autonomously in my game yet, which means I find that unlikely. The same is true for throwing elixirs at others.

Age will get out of lockstep if a sim travels to the future through the time portal, but the effect is the opposite: The traveler will age normally in OL, while those at home will stay the same age as before.

What I noticed is that taking sims out of an aging-disabled caste seems to take quite a while to come into effect and sometimes needs a sim or lot reset. I mostly notice that for otherwise caste-restricted romantic actions, or when they are not allowed to use a birthday cake.

For the next time, while the sims are still in the protected rotations caste and not yet active, and then again once they do become active but still before the caste change, can you run an MC > (Sim) > Intermediate > Age: Absolute (or Relative) on them to see what the game at those points thinks is their current age? Maybe it would be helpful to narrow down a bit where/when exactly the value is changing on them and whether it's gradual or all at once. (MC Cheats add-on required)

@Turjan - Sorry, I must be missing something here. Sims who are not aging should still be able to use birthday cakes. Aging on/off means that they are/aren't incrementing their ages on their own each night at midnight, not that the player cannot direct them to have a birthday and move into the next stage. Although it does tend to take a while for a change in aging allowed to show up on the sims' info tabs, the in-game effects of making the caste changes should happen maybe not immediately but a lot more quickly than that.

Do they have access to a sauna? The revitalizing mud bath adds a day back onto a sims life bar, and sims can use that one autonomously.