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8 years ago

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 young adults are 21 days (so 3 rounds of playing) and I consider Sims switch from young adult do adult around 35 years old. I'm happy with that, it suits my game style and storyline. It looks like this:

Babies: 3 days (pregnancy and baby in one week round)
Toddlers: 7 days (one round as toddlers)
Children: 7 days (one round as children)
Teens: 14 days (two rounds as teens)
Young Adults: 21 days (three rounds as young adults)
Adults: 28 (four rounds as adults)
Elders: 17 days

But normal Lifespan for pets is way too long considering normal life in real life, so I checked medium Lifespan for pets and adjust days from there to normal lifespan of my Sims, it suits quite good , but theres but. Originally it looks like this:

Dogs
Puppy: 4 days (so it is one round)
Adult: 14 days (two rounds)
Elders: 8 days (one or two rounds)

Cats
Kitten: 4 days (one round)
Adult: 16 days (three rounds)
Elder: 10 days (one or two rounds, depends where 2 last days from 16 days adult were at start, I adjust age manually)

Horse
Foal: 3 days (one round)
Adult: 20 days (three rounds)
Elder: 10 days (two rounds)

My problem is that horse Lifespan is to short in comparison to dogs and cats. In real life dogs live up to 15-17 years, cats 18-20 years, but horses 25-30 years.

I'm looking for suggestion and inspiration from you. What's your settings for Pets Lifespan in comparision to your Sims Lifespan?

24 Replies

  • Your sim settings and mine are very close. I have babies set to 2 days or 24 months (that's as low as the setting will go), though I do usually grow them up early with a birthday cake. My toddlers get 5 days or 5 years, because that combined with the baby years makes them old enough for school.

    The rest of my settings are the same as yours because I like nice weekly cut-offs and that match real life ages. K-6 grade is 7 years and 13-19 is 7 teen years!

    Elders get two full weeks in my game, putting them at age 77, though because my sims are mostly vegetarians, they tend to live well beyond that! :smiley:
  • @ciane Thank for your input. I didn't know that vegatarians Sims live longer until you mentioned it. Thanks! The only vegetarian in my Sunset Valley I can think of at the moment is Holly Alto. Good considering she has got Home Design Hot Spot Lifetime Wish, which takes awhile to acomplish as I have read.
  • I have my settings for Epic lifespan and I extend each stage as much as I can to make it more realistic, at least to me(50 something days as a baby seems way more realistic than just 3)
  • After having guided several of @Featherbelle's and my kids through RL toddler-hood; I don't want to do 50 days; waking up at 2AM in the morning to change diapers was a pain in the heinie.

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