How can you make your Sim live longer?

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I have my lifespan set to 90 days, and have had quite a few sims die of old age over the time I've played Sims. Some have only just become 90, and filled up their age bars! And other considerably longer: my oldest is 110!
Apparently having your Sim be a vegetarian makes them live longer but I've noticed this isn't really true. I've had a few vegetarians and they've died like normal sims at an average age.
I wondered if there was any way yu can make your sim live longer? Does it help if you make them work out loads and eat good quality foods and stuff? Or is it literally just the game randomley selects them at Midnight when the phone rings and stuff and then they die the next day?
My 110 day old was really healthy and worked out loads and didn't get stressed very much. So I assumed this made a difference!
But then my sister had this really fat Sim, who had 11 children, ate tonnes, (she thought it was funny to make her fatter :D) and never did any excercise. Naturally we assumed she wouldn't last long. However she made it to 111!!!! 21 days past her bar was full! OMG!
Was she an anomoly? I had an old sim who only lived to 91 and was nice and a vegi and did excercise??
So is it actually anything you can control, or is it random how long your sim lives? Thanks!

ireneswift · Answer

Sims who make the marathon skill challenge with the athletic skill are supposed to live longer.  Maybe they do on average, but they don't always.  Several years ago, I had a couple, of which the wife worked in professional sports and the husband in business.  The wife worked out every day of her life, both cardio and strength training.  The husband never worked out once in his whole life.  I expected the wife to live past her life expectancy, but on the very day she reached that milestone, the Grim Reaper came for her.  Her husband, who was already older than her, lived for a long time after she was gone.  So it's definitely random.

igazor · Answer

The bonuses that TS3 offers on the daily dice rolls that dictate whether Grimmy will visit later that day, once they have indeed reached the end of their life span, are the Marathon (jogging) challenge and the Vegetarian trait. But no, neither will guarantee anything, they just get better odds on each dice roll.

Not sure if the member who revived this thread is playing TS3, or perhaps they meant their comment to be more global across all of the game versions.

bshag4lv · Answer

There is an age slider under Options, where you can make your sim live an epic lifespan, as long as 960 days or as short as 25 days, I think. Anyway, if you want only to have normal lifespan, there's ambrosia that puts your sim back to the beginning of the life stage they're in at the time, an young again potion with the chemistry bench. There's several ways of extending sim's lifespan. Hope this helped. :-)

Good Luck.

Edit to let you know, the end of a sim's life is totally random, however long that life is.

simslynn · Answer

So if I read you correctly, you want to set the 90 day live span and then want to see how much longer past this yo can make a sim live?

Im sure you are aware you can set sliders to make a longer 'normal' lifespan, but I think what you are saying is that you dont want to do this?

Ok. So, what is known or assumed about life span

If you set 90 days then your sim will live to 90 days. I dont think Ive ever had a sim die of old age at a number of days less than set.

Ive often had sims live longer than the set age. Most recently was Gino Ferrari, my 'normal lifespan is 81 days and he lived to 94. Pretty good considering.

We are told or led to believe that vegetarian sims live longer. Ive never tested this out. But with Gino, he had athletic skill and athletic trait. Left to his own devices he would be working out in front of the tv or in the gym. Like some sims like to read and will read whenever and wherever, Gino liked to work out.

I think this is the secret to a long life, and my sims that have lived longer than normal have been the athletic ones.

karritz · Answer

The only way I know to extend their life is to eat Ambrosia, or drink from the Fountain of Youth (which adds one day) or use an elixer.

I prefer to turn off enable ageing so I have to age my sims up using the birthday/inferno cake. That can have interesting and unexpected consequences.

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