I have a sim that was friends with a guy in high school and I've just been waiting on him aging up to see if they'd be compatible as Young Adults. But he's been a teen for forever now. I finally checked using Master Controller last night and he's got -16 (that's negative) days to aging up. What the what?He's going to perpetually be a teen? Is there any way I can age him up? Am I completely blanking on something really obvious? Or is he broken somehow? Is this too many questions?

@kateness Age of instant elixir,they are at the elixir consignment alot,I use them constantly if see a cute teen my sim thinks has potential all of a sudden she is legal. >:)

Is he a babysitter? Sometimes they won't age up when they're supposed to, and I've seen them skip the YA stage entirely. But if you invite them over, or any NPC, they usually show up in the correct age stage and stay there.The -16 days until birthday likely means that the sim was supposed to age up 16 days ago, so yeah, he's stuck. You can use nraas MC to "trigger age transition" under sim>intermediate, but I'd do a MC reset on him first (under advanced).There was a thread recently where someone said that a bunch of teens in the town were unable to age up. If I remember correctly, which I definitely might not, the culprit was some bad cc.

"puzzlezaddict;c-16399659" wrote:Is he a babysitter? Sometimes they won't age up when they're supposed to, and I've seen them skip the YA stage entirely. But if you invite them over, or any NPC, they usually show up in the correct age stage and stay there.The -16 days until birthday likely means that the sim was supposed to age up 16 days ago, so yeah, he's stuck. You can use nraas MC to "trigger age transition" under sim>intermediate, but I'd do a MC reset on him first (under advanced).There was a thread recently where someone said that a bunch of teens in the town were unable to age up. If I remember correctly, which I definitely might not, the culprit was some bad cc.@puzzlezaddict THANK YOU! Duh. I knew I was forgetting something. I just rolled my eyes at myself. :D It's a little bit possible that I've got some bad CC, but I don't have much. Do you remember if it was teen or young adult related? Or clothes? Or hair? That's all I've got right now.

Here is the thread, but the OP didn't mention which cc was causing the problem. I don't have any cc myself, so I can't help you there. But I think people use delphy's dashboard and CUSTARD to look for bad cc. There are plenty of posters who know how to track it down.

Forever youngI want to be forever youngDo you really want to live forever?Forever youngOh, sorry... :blush: The title made me think of that song. Do you have NRaas: Overwatch installed? By default, it runs a check for stuck aging sims and within a sim day, hard-resets them to end any stuck age-up situation.

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CravenLestat
7 years ago
@kateness Age of instant elixir,they are at the elixir consignment alot,I use them constantly if see a cute teen my sim thinks has potential all of a sudden she is legal. >:)
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
7 years ago
Is he a babysitter? Sometimes they won't age up when they're supposed to, and I've seen them skip the YA stage entirely. But if you invite them over, or any NPC, they usually show up in the correct age stage and stay there.

The -16 days until birthday likely means that the sim was supposed to age up 16 days ago, so yeah, he's stuck. You can use nraas MC to "trigger age transition" under sim>intermediate, but I'd do a MC reset on him first (under advanced).

There was a thread recently where someone said that a bunch of teens in the town were unable to age up. If I remember correctly, which I definitely might not, the culprit was some bad cc.
Kateness8
7 years ago
"puzzlezaddict;c-16399659" wrote:
Is he a babysitter? Sometimes they won't age up when they're supposed to, and I've seen them skip the YA stage entirely. But if you invite them over, or any NPC, they usually show up in the correct age stage and stay there.

The -16 days until birthday likely means that the sim was supposed to age up 16 days ago, so yeah, he's stuck. You can use nraas MC to "trigger age transition" under sim>intermediate, but I'd do a MC reset on him first (under advanced).

There was a thread recently where someone said that a bunch of teens in the town were unable to age up. If I remember correctly, which I definitely might not, the culprit was some bad cc.

@puzzlezaddict THANK YOU! Duh. I knew I was forgetting something. I just rolled my eyes at myself. :D It's a little bit possible that I've got some bad CC, but I don't have much. Do you remember if it was teen or young adult related? Or clothes? Or hair? That's all I've got right now.
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
7 years ago
Here is the thread, but the OP didn't mention which cc was causing the problem. I don't have any cc myself, so I can't help you there. But I think people use delphy's dashboard and CUSTARD to look for bad cc. There are plenty of posters who know how to track it down.
SimplyJen
New Spectator
7 years ago
Forever young
I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever young

Oh, sorry... :blush: The title made me think of that song. Do you have NRaas: Overwatch installed? By default, it runs a check for stuck aging sims and within a sim day, hard-resets them to end any stuck age-up situation.
igazor
7 years ago
"SimplyJen;c-16399717" wrote:
Forever young
I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever young

There are many versions of that song I think, but the first one I get in my head is Alphaville's. <3

Overwatch may not be able to help if the problem is a bad outfit assignment and/or bad CC as I think was mentioned on the thread linked to. It will keep trying to push the age-up but the game and/or the sim may be pushing back.
SimplyJen
New Spectator
7 years ago
"igazor;c-16399720" wrote:
"SimplyJen;c-16399717" wrote:
Forever young
I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever young

There are many versions of that song I think, but the first one I get in my head is Alphaville's. <3

Overwatch may not be able to help if the problem is a bad outfit assignment and/or bad CC as I think was mentioned on the thread linked to.
Oh, of course! That's the version I had in mind. :)

Alrighty, that makes sense. So is every stuck aging sim most likely a result of bad content? I don't get these a lot in my game but once in a while, I get the notification about one.
igazor
7 years ago
Depends on the game, I think. Mine tend to be homeless NPCs more than any other, they keep getting pushed to age up and staff their assigned role objects at the same time. But inactive sims can't age-up on screen so they end up stuck and sometimes unable to do either.

For resident sims, either bad timing or yes the outfit assignment (could even be a "bad" career outfit) or bad CC.
Cororon
Seasoned Rookie
7 years ago
How can an outfit stop the sim from aging? I'm not doubting it. I've had stranger things happening in my game. :tongue:
igazor
7 years ago
"Cororon;c-16399734" wrote:
How can an outfit stop the sim from aging? I'm not doubting it. I've had stranger things happening in my game. :tongue:

The outfits they are currently assigned need to be changed or re-rolled for the next age stage. If any of them have "bad" assignments or or are are using "bad" CAS parts, they can get stuck and the age-up process refuses to happen. Usually we hope to get an ErrorTrap log when this happens that explains (in code) what's gone wrong, but not always.