Forever a Teen?

Well great that song is stuck in my head now too. :p

And he is a homeless NPC sim. Would changing his career outfit help?

It's pretty much a moot point* now because my sim has gone on with her life and gotten a job and met a couple guys that will hopefully work. She's mastered cooking, shouldn't that be the way to their hearts?



*Moot point always makes me think of Joey from Friends saying "Moo Point. It's a like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter. It's moo."

And I do have Overwatch installed. I had assumed it would help but since it hadn't, I thought I should ask.

If I get an Error thing about him, should I try and figure out how to send it to you, igazor?

"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 .

I just found that song on YouTube and did y’all know there are plumbobs all through the video?! Yes! Purple and glowy white ones. Cool song too. :)

The song's in my head now, too (different version though), but unfortunately it comes with flashbacks to spinning sessions. We had the same soundtrack each time and only got a new one like once a quarter, so I had much much more than my fill of the song, under extreme duress.

@igazor I'm curious too about whether manually changing an outfit would fix things. I've never had any cc in my games but still get the occasional broken outfit, which an MC reset usually seems to fix. I almost never see any sim I care about linger in the wrong age bracket (putting aside the NPCs that won't die despite repeated alerts from the game that they're on their way out), and Overwatch only very rarely throws a stuck aging notification my way. So would changing the sim's outfit(s) fix the problem? Or is there a better approach?

It's definitely not always bad CC. I have no CC clothing at all, but whenever I play in Sunset Valley, I get the stuck aging notifications for at least three of the resident teens who all age up on the first night, every single time. But then if I see them the next day, they are all young adults. That's probably thanks to Overwatch. And I do get the stuck aging up for role sims all the time too, though those don't get resolved so quickly.

I once had a teen going steady with the babysitter who had taken care of her youngest two sisters while their mother was at work. She aged up to young adult and he was still a teen, so I decided to have her invite him over and age him up with a birthday cake. This was before I had NRaas mods. When he arrived, he was aged up, but not to young adult. He was now an adult!

@IreneSwift I've had babysitters skip the YA stage too, which is why I suggested that the OP invite the stuck sim over to see if he'd appear in the appropriate age stage. Once I had MC, I learned to check the ages of NPCs to see whether they were aging appropriately. Newspaper deliverers tend to get stuck as well, but when invited over they usually show up as teens.

Every time I start a new game in Sunset Valley, I get a stuck aging notification for Sandi French the very first night. But that's because I always cut the toddler age length from seven days to four, and I guess that means she's then supposed to age up that first day, or perhaps is already overdue. I don't know whether Overwatch is merely aging her up without complications, or it's doing some more advanced repairs, but I don't think I've ever had any indication of corruption from her afterwards.

Thanks guys. The title had Rod Stewart's Forever Young in my head and @igazor and @SimplyJen. Thanks. Now you threw Alphaville's song too which I remember as well. Anthems of our teens, eh? :D

Okay, first of all and most importantly ( :D )maybe I shouldn't have said "different versions" of the song. Yes, I was thinking of Rod Stewart among others, but his was a totally different song with the same name. Lauran Branigan did her version of the Alphaville one. As for "anthems of our teens," sure if I had gone through a time machine first. Wrong decade. (sighs and shakes head) You young people today... :p

@ZeeGee - LOL! at "plumbobs in the song ," yes I guess there are. :D

With that out of the way...it's often difficult to know exactly which way to go when sims are age stuck and Overwatch does not resolve the issue on its own because we need to know the cause before we can say for sure what the solution will be. Certainly if we fiddle with the age stage lengths in game options, sims already in the game will suddenly become overdue for aging up and they should catch up eventually (courtesy of OW). If you make really drastic changes to the extent that everyone in the world should suddenly be an elder or have died from old age, the game could theoretically lock up on you as there would be far too many age-ups to process all at once, but from all reports these seem to be fairly rare occurrences.

When I encounter an age stuck sim that OW is not taking care of within let's say 2 sim days of their birthday, I take a very firm approach and set about fixing them because I don't want age-up related errors plaguing my game. If they are homeless NPC Role or Service Sim, I might do the reverse and lower their age at least temporarily using MC so that they are back in their assigned age stage again until I figure out what to do with them. Or I might TA them if I have no idea who they were to begin with and I find them standing on the sidewalk in some sort of catatonic state, causing my game to lag, as they keep getting pushed to staff their cash register or whatever but can't.

For residents, then comes the let's try to change all of their outfits strategy. Possibly with a DebugEnabler Fix Invisible Sims command first, even if they aren't "invisible" that one will attempt to fix bad outfit assignments, the actual assignments being bad, not the clothes themselves.

When absolutely all else fails, I have brought sims into CAS and changed their age stage from in there. We aren't supposed to do that. It can damage the sim, and if going from toddler to child or child to teen I think we've all seen occasional malformed sims where their heads do not fit their bodies or something like that. But sometimes that works out well for me and seems better than replacing the sim with a whole new one entirely from within CAS.

Sorry, I wish we had a "Fix Me" button for when this happens but there are too many possible causes for that to be practical.

Well, the right outfit can take years off your age!

"igazor;c-16399739" wrote:

"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.

That makes sense. I have a pair of CC riding boots that the creator by mistake have assigned for both adult and child. Maybe I should fix that...

Oh my, Forever Young by Alphaville. I don't like that song that much, but it's catchy as plum! :lol: