Lifespan for Sims and Pets?
Hey there, I set normal Lifespan for Sims, but change adult stage to 28 days, which is reasonable for me, as they can complete their LTWs and have families, and 21 days were to short considering yo...
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@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. :)
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. :)
