Lifespan for Sims and Pets?

I manually aged my sim’s cat for this reason. It didn’t make sense her newborn baby had aged into a toddler and the cat (she’d got before getting pregnant) still was a kitten ;)

I’m having this strange issue by the way. My toddler settings are set at 7 days, but when I looked my toddler still has 11 days before aging :/ This never happened in my game before (I’ve raised about 60 toddlers over the years), I hope - on a side note in this topic - somebody can shine a light on this odd issue...

@JoAnne65 thanks for replay.
Yes, with normal Lifespan settings for both Sims and Pets, cats would live like 50 years or so :wink: There's no way, I googled that sameone knew a cat that lived 25 years (!), but that was like one in a million, stray cats live 4-5 years, and home cats around 18 years.
That's strange about toddler aging, never happen to me yet :neutral:

Well, the default scaling in TS3 appears to be 1 day in-game is equal to 1 year of life. Take that as you will. Of course, adding in Seasons throws things way out of wack with that time scale. With the default length of each season being 7 days, this would imply that each sim-day is roughly equal to about about half of a month. Well, actually it comes to (if my math is right) 0.4285714285714286 months elapse per sim-day. But I'll round that up to half for simplicity.

So, if you accept that a year in Sims 3 is taking place over 28 days, you would need to adjust life spans to account for that. If you accept the default of 1 simday=1 year of life, then the earth of Sims 3 takes a REALLY long time to circle the sun. Seriously, 28 years per orbit.

I like turning aging off in options.As far as your sims they can age with cake.I think it stops pets from aging too has been a while since had a pet.Go in your options and disable aging.Am going to check to be sure.

Ohhhhh :o

Yes, it's very strange. Everyday I assume it's going to be her last, but the old girl keeps truckin on lol

@fmingomouse :D The immortal pet you should name it "Church" I think that was the cats name from Pet Cemetery.

@fmingomouse - The way this works is that when a sim reaches the end of their defined lifespan (with aging on), the dice are rolled at midnight every day to determine if they will get a visit from the Grim Reaper or not later in the day. Human sims get bonuses on these dice rolls if they have completed the jogging athletic challenge and/or they have the Vegetarian trait. I don't think there are any bonuses for dogs -- having them eat gourmet pet food looks like one, but what that really does is offer a chance to age the pet sim down one sim day per serving sort of like Life Fruit and soymilk do more reliably for human sims.

There is also at least one trait or LTR for human sims that allow their pets to live longer lives.

Some sims will "win" many of these dice rolls in a row and far outlive their expected lifespan, others will "lose" a dice roll and die of old age pretty soon after the end of their expected Elder stage, most will be in between. It sounds like your dog has just been really fortunate (and energetic!) thus far.

My total lifespan for human sims in my long-running ongoing game is 242 sim days. Some make it to 245, some to over 290, before their time is really up. I think the record I've noticed not counting occults, and on a sim in a household I really wasn't paying much attention to, is about 302.

If you use mods, there are ways to preserve the expected lifespan wanted and influence or even force end of life by old age without as many of the random factors. I don't mind knowing if one of my own sims is on their last day (NRaas Overwatch tells me this if I read the daily report log) as to me that just puts them on an expected "deathbed" or means they had better have a Death Flower in their inventory if I don't want this to happen. I wouldn't want to know that my sim or their pet has precisely let's say 6 sim days to live. That would be too morbid for me, other players like the various options. :)

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@igazor Does the gourmet pet food really make pets live longer? If so, I guess I'll have to quit having my sim make horse granola and feeding it to her horses every day. I don't want them to live forever, and they already have a boost from her animal expert LTR. (Yeah, that's the one that lets pets live longer.)

It doesn't extend their age spans in a formal way or make elders live longer or forever necessarily. But each serving has a percent chance (the chance adjustable by Retuner, I am sure) to subtract one sim day from the animal's total age so essentially they are actually living longer if on a steady diet of the stuff. This is also how littermates or any other two pet sims who are exactly the same age can diverge after a while even if they are both/all eating exactly the same things.

I feed it to most of my pets anyway, actually I guess all of them now that I think about it unless they (the humans) are extremely poverty stricken or so much strapped for time that no one can make any. I especially like being able to use icarus' Cook With Any Ingredient mod to substitute tofu (or the equivalent) for the meat, chicken, and fish so my pets can have veggie pet food. But guess that's just me. :)

@igazor That's so helpful to know for my own game right now. Thank you :) I recently picked up the Cook With Any Ingredients mod and I've really been enjoying it. I didn't know it can be used with pet food.