I just started using a more realistic epic lifespan setting! Since there are 7 days in a season we can say that there are 28 sim days in a year. I looked at the lifespan that nraas recommended reflecting real life ages. DaysBabys: 28Toddler: 84Child: 224Teen: 168YA: 336Adult: 980Elder: 560Total: 2380This will allow me to really take my time and not rush into things. I really hate rushing into relationships and not building them up naturally. I'm also using mods that make the $/hour for jobs way more realistic, so this also makes the game harder. Then we have more realistic university prices, Boarding school prices, and university grant sizes. They also can't buy ingredients from the fridge so they have to go the store. I love love LOVE all of this because I want my sims to have a struggle! I hate that it was so easy to get to lvl 10 of a skill. so yeah! What are y'alls lifespan settings?

I use five sim days to correspond to one real life year, with a 390 day lifespan (78 years). I also don't like toddlers being so helpless right up until they're school aged, so I cut the toddler stage short, added the difference to the child stage, and treat the child like a preschooler, using NRaas Story Progression's careers module to homeschool them until they reach the equivalent of 6 years old.Baby: 2 daysToddler: 18 daysChild: 40 daysTeen: 30 daysYoung Adult: 110 daysAdult: 140 daysElder: 50Since elders almost always live beyond their life expectancy, I set the elder stage to the minimum age I want them to be when they die.

I use mccommand and added a week to each normal lifespan amount with more for teens and ya. I use 28 day seasons though to space out holidays more

Seasons don't have to be seven (7) days. You can lower that to three (3). Or, of course, extend it.I just play one day equals one year of life. So, babies get two days as I can't adjust it any lower than that and 24 months seems the right transition to toddler to me. Then, toddlers are really only "toddlers" for a couple years, but they can't start regular school here until six or seven. So, I give them five (5)days, which is plenty of time to get trained in everything and have all the books read to them. Grade school lasts Kindergarten through sixth grade, so that's seven days as a child. And, I only give my teens seven days as well (13-19 is seven years). I like the way all the life states work out to an even week (if you combine infant and toddler years together). I round the other life states in even weeks too. Current life is at 77 in my game, with the option for healthy living and luck adding more time in the twilight years. We all play so very differently and have our own ideas of what is realistic, don't we?!

"ciane;c-17030129" wrote:Seasons don't have to be seven (7) days. You can lower that to three (3). Or, of course, extend it.I just play one day equals one year of life. So, babies get two days as I can't adjust it any lower than that and 24 months seems the right transition to toddler to me. Then, toddlers are really only "toddlers" for a couple years, but they can't start regular school here until six or seven. So, I give them five (5)days, which is plenty of time to get trained in everything and have all the books read to them. Grade school lasts Kindergarten through sixth grade, so that's seven days as a child. And, I only give my teens seven days as well (13-19 is seven years). I like the way all the life states work out to an even week (if you combine infant and toddler years together). I round the other life states in even weeks too. Current life is at 77 in my game, with the option for healthy living and luck adding more time in the twilight years. We all play so very differently and have our own ideas of what is realistic, don't we?! So true!! I love having my kids experience each season, multiple times, and 7 days seems like enough time to go to the festivals and rack up some tickets!

So far I am enjoying my version of an epic lifespan. Overkill much? Still.Not.Bored. SeasonsSpring - 93 daysSummer - 94 daysAutumn - 89 daysWinter - 89 daysYear - 365 daysInfant: 93 daysToddlers: 1460 daysChild: 2920 daysTeen: 2555 daysYoung Adult: 7300 daysAdult: 9125 daysElder: 13140 days36, 593 days more or less for each Sim's lifespan from birth to death. I also changed the pregnancy length as well to match. I am more likely to celebrate and decorate for the holidays as it's not something that is too often like with the other previous life spans I had used. I wish the developers didn't put a limit on certain features but then again I doubt any of them actually thought there may be a player who would actually want to play a realistic life span Sims style. :p

What is your "realistic" lifespan settings?

puderosasims
6 years ago
Realism? I don't know her. lol
graceymanors
Rising Hotshot
6 years ago
"ilikethesims30;c-17095286" wrote:
@GraceyManor , Deshong04 and whoever else: How do you change the weather lengths?

I use a mod.

http://modthesims.info/d/491613/longer-seasons.html
marinacrespo
4 years ago
I used to have more days when we started being able to adjust the lifaspan, but then i got fed up so I have been playing with this settings for the last 2 years I would say.
infant 2
toddler 8
child 16
teen 16
ya 40
adult 40
elder 38

Total is 160, since average lifespan in real life is 80 days I pretended 2 sim days 1 year.

But since I played this game so much, I feel i need to make the lifespan shorter to not get bored. So when I will be able to play again, I am gonna change it for this:

infant 2
toddler 6
child 12
teen 12
ya 30
adult 30
elder 28

total 120 days
silverwood02
6 years ago
How do you work out the days for a sim year?
ItsKatato
6 years ago
"silverwood02;c-17029939" wrote:
How do you work out the days for a sim year?

Well on the Nraas website they worked out all the calculations: https://www.nraas.net/community/Lifespan

Since the default for seasons is 7 days that would mean there will be 28 days in a year (4x7=28)

:) <3
301624037
6 years ago
As for "take my time and not rush into things" - I am also like this, I used to play with aging off, and currently I play with aging on with epic lifespan. My sims usually don't reach to the age limit where they age spontanously, because I don't have much time to play these days (I don't progress much in each game session) and I usually age them by birthday before that point.
MamaHall02
6 years ago
Wow. I never have the attention span to do the epic lifespan. But I get frustrated when I want my child and teen sims to experience all the season once through their age. I’ve never been able to figure out how to make it work.
Also, how do you manage overpopulation if and when it becomes an issue?
partypartym
6 years ago
Hey, for anyone who really wants realistic aging, i highly recommend checking out this mod i made called The Realistic Sims 4 mod. It adjusts many features such as the lifespan, careers, pay, pregnancy, and more to be more realistic and balanced since the longer lifespans means the skills and all need to be adjusted. its constantly being updated as well. the current age settings are set to match a real humans lifespan proportionaly (1year=1sim year or 28 days) Link: therealisticsimsmod.tumblr.com/
cocokayla
New Scout
6 years ago
@partypartym12 Sounds good but this is a TS3 thread so it might be better to post it in TS4 section.
graceymanors
Rising Hotshot
6 years ago
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Mine's not super realistic.I keep baby short play because I find them so annoying.