Wow @TadOlson your lifespans are very long! I used to play on Long and have time slowed down by half with Relativity! Now I get bored if things don't move a little quicker. :)
I usually play on Normal and my settings are as follows:
Baby- 2
Toddler- 5
Child-8
Teen-15
YA-26
Adult-32
Elder-12
Other saves I have I use different settings depending on how I want to play, but the one thing I always do is make sure that the kids are not YA as the same time as their parents. So with the above settings it takes 30 days to grow to YA, and YA span is only 26 so I'm guaranteed that parents will be Adults when their children are grown.
Hmm I'm not sure what my weather settings are exactly in all my saves but usually I set Summer to be the longest and Winter the shortest, Fall and Spring are the same length. I only recently turned the moon cycle back on, I go back and forth on that.
@cmbaker16 for your fairies you should set your single lunar phase to something other than new moon. They don't get the negative moodlet for any other phase except that one, it doesn't have to be full moon for them to benefit from moonlight. :)
