I'm going to try something new

Interesting. I have always had infants 2-3 days. Toddlers 4 days. Children 7 days. Teens 12-14 days .young adults 25-30 days . adults 25-30 days . elders 20 days

"McTosh;c-16962180" wrote:

"MemoriiValentine;c-16962165" wrote:
Interesting. I have always had infants 2-3 days. Toddlers 4 days. Children 7 days. Teens 12-14 days .young adults 25-30 days . adults 25-30 days . elders 20 days

Wow that's super super short :D I've seen a lot of people who play super super short lifespans

It worries me trying it though because their lives will just zoom so fast and I won't get to enjoy anything? It's like I worry by the time you've saved up for something nice and got them a promotion they're ready to pop their clogs already :o

What chu talking about willis?! Thats a normal lifespan for me and it feels it takes a while for them to age up for me lol. I do not get to play all day everyday though. I have to have stuff constantly happening or i get bored :D

I play short life spans as well.
Baby: 2
Toddler: 6
Kid: 7
Teen:14
YA: 25-30
A: 25-30
E: not sure...

I do disable aging numerous times though, so life never goes fast. I prefer it this way myself because I can control when I want things to move on better that way.

I personally use this lifespan setup (I also play on half speed with relativity):
Baby: 1 day.
Toddler: 10 days.
Child: 15 days.
Teen: 30 days.
Young Adult: 60 days.
Adult: 55 days.
Elder: 36 days.

I like it to pan out like this:

-My sim has a child at the beginning of young adulthood. Let's say she has the child 10 days in. That would make her 66 days old.
-By the time her child is a young adult themselves, their mother (who had them quite young) would still be fairly young herself at 49 days left in adulthood.
-By the time her child is an adult themselves, their mother would be understandably older having now reached her elderly years.

And I like to mess with my sims's appearances to add some age nuances. Some of my child sims will reflect being older than they were at the beginning of their lifestage by acting and looking a bit more mature as they reach their teen years. Likewise, I don't think someone just entering the elder lifestage should look like they're 90 years old with one foot in the grave :lol: , so I keep their hair color (though add some grays) and use some sliders to fix their posture a bit until I think they're long enough in to start looking much older.

My length might seem short to some, but it's perfect for my taste. I get too impatient if my sims live too long and I feel unfulfilled if my sims live too short a life. I believe I found a good middle ground for myself, but of course other users might not like it. :tongue:

I actually think my lifespan and your experimental one are pretty similar, though, so I'd say yours is pretty close to being as proportionate as I believe mine is. :smile:

I tend to use the same sort of life spans that I used for TS2. So baby 2 days, toddler 4 days, child 7 days, teen 14 days, YA and A 28 days and elder for as long as possible :) If I am stating a new game I generally start with a YA adult and leave aging off until they are married and the first baby has arrived. If I want to keep a sim for longer (and I don't like losing sims) I either use the potion which came with Supernatural or I switch aging off in order to prolong life.

I play a close to normal life span of 91 days.

baby 2
toddler 5
child 7
teen 14
Y adult 21
adult 35
elder 7

I've never tried the short life span or any of the longer life spans but have started a game with the long life span.

With a normal life span I often have my sims travel to the 3 WA worlds and/or to university to work on skills, to accumulate lifetime happiness points and to get the 25 acquaintances before meeting many people in the home world. When my sims age up to teens they always get a trip on their own. Since time stands still back in the home world it's like getting some free time.

I play with relativity set to 25 so that time is running at about 2/3 speed. Things that would normally take an hour of sim time take 40 minutes of sim time. I do pause the game though and queue up actions for my sims.

It's worth the experiment. If you don't like it you can always change them back.

I play on maximum life because I have so many sims and I like to have ageing on but still age them up when I think they are ready regardless of the lifespan set.

"MemoriiValentine;c-16962165" wrote:
Interesting. I have always had infants 2-3 days. Toddlers 4 days. Children 7 days. Teens 12-14 days .young adults 25-30 days . adults 25-30 days . elders 20 days

Wow that's super super short :D I've seen a lot of people who play super super short lifespans

It worries me trying it though because their lives will just zoom so fast and I won't get to enjoy anything? It's like I worry by the time you've saved up for something nice and got them a promotion they're ready to pop their clogs already :o

"MemoriiValentine;c-16962208" wrote:

"McTosh;c-16962180" wrote:

"MemoriiValentine;c-16962165" wrote:
Interesting. I have always had infants 2-3 days. Toddlers 4 days. Children 7 days. Teens 12-14 days .young adults 25-30 days . adults 25-30 days . elders 20 days

Wow that's super super short :D I've seen a lot of people who play super super short lifespans

It worries me trying it though because their lives will just zoom so fast and I won't get to enjoy anything? It's like I worry by the time you've saved up for something nice and got them a promotion they're ready to pop their clogs already :o

What chu talking about willis?! Thats a normal lifespan for me and it feels it takes a while for them to age up for me lol. I do not get to play all day everyday though. I have to have stuff constantly happening or i get bored :D

I may give it a try :P

I've been playing with EA Long lifespam for a while. I tried the normal one last year again and it was too fast. When my sim was a young adult I felt like I missed too many things. I've never playing in Epic, I think it would be too slow for me