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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Kateness8
8 years ago
You lost me at "got a math question for you guys" :D

Lol no really, thanks for the reply. I don't mind that she's still alive but I was concerned that the really high negative number meant something bad. And I want to change the elder lifespan, but I don't want to just essentially kill her. But since it's so long my town has a bunch of elders walking (slowly) around. I know SP is still working though because I get notices of sims still having lots of babies.
igazor
8 years ago
"KATENESS;c-16406200" wrote:
You lost me at "got a math question for you guys" :D

Fixed that, sorry. ;)
CleoAndyMaster
8 years ago
I almost always exclusively get stuck aging checks on toddlers, which I just attributed to the townies being bad parents!

Some bad CC makes more sense, although I quite honestly can't be bothered to sort through mine and weed out culprits. I only have .packages so I can avoid the launcher and even then I merge everything and while I do keep backups it takes me so long to merge stuff that I just don't really even care :p
Cororon
Rising Traveler
8 years ago
Another fun riddle: If you tell a teen to stop being so lazy, what are the odds that it works?

:lol:
igazor
8 years ago
"Cororon;c-16407332" wrote:
Another fun riddle: If you tell a teen to stop being so lazy, what are the odds that it works?

:lol:

The exact same odds that you got the first 30 times you told them that. You know, it's amazing for how many questions that is the correct answer. :p
CleoAndyMaster
8 years ago
"Cororon;c-16407332" wrote:
Another fun riddle: If you tell a teen to stop being so lazy, what are the odds that it works?

:lol:

I haven't been a teen for 4 years now, but I can still tell you the answer is never :D
Cororon
Rising Traveler
8 years ago
"igazor;c-16407337" wrote:
"Cororon;c-16407332" wrote:
Another fun riddle: If you tell a teen to stop being so lazy, what are the odds that it works?

:lol:

The exact same odds that you got the first 30 times you told them that. You know, it's amazing for how many questions that is the correct answer. :p

"cleo00;c-16407348" wrote:
I haven't been a teen for 4 years now, but I can still tell you the answer is never :D

Exactly! :lol: It's the time of one's life when you do what you feel like. There will be a time for chores and responsibility later when you're an adult. Maybe. :tongue:
NikkeiSimmer
Legend
8 years ago
@igazor, @cororan :D 30x? Try around 400-800... ~smirk~ :D

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZoBsGDjwEfw/Wr6rs3_8-gI/AAAAAAAAN7k/9udBxEn6Cq8sIRPa49HU5_G_vWzDKR2egCLcBGAs/s1600/Haruo...CleanYourRoom.jpg

My kids are going to need therapy. :D

Generally stuck aging check usually means that there's something blocking the sim (whether they got stuck somewhere...or what, I have no idea, but I had to sometimes TA that particular sim so that the game would resolve the stuck aging issue.
Kateness8
8 years ago
My original sim I posted about is now married (to one of Bella Bachelor's grandkids, I can tell because he has her lips!) and has two kids. The friend from high school was still a teen. So I invited him over so I could age him up. When he arrived he had aged up in his own. So problem solved. Too late. But whatever.

My elder sim is still alive and kicking and earned another badge for me. So that's good I guess. :)

Edit: used the wrong word

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