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puzzlezaddict
6 years agoHero+
I don't skip any life stages, although I tweak their lengths somewhat. The one that most reliably gets shortened is toddler, not because I don't like playing them but because the stage seems proportionally too long to me. So I lop a few days off and add the time to child. The toddlers always learn all their skills with plenty of time to spare anyway.
I might be unusual here, but I think I probably play elders longer than the other stages, at least for my favorite sims. They get ambrosia and/or at least one death flower, but I've always felt a little weird resetting a sim's age as a young adult, or even an adult. Especially in a legacy, it seems just wrong for sims to be listed as younger than their children, so the ambrosia has to wait until the sims are at the end of their guaranteed lifespans. Besides, once I get over the admittedly startling transition in appearance, my elders pretty much live the same lives they did while they were adults, with the exception that the family-oriented ones are now playing with their grandkids.
I don't enjoy playing with babies all that much, but it feels like skipping that stage would be cheating. (That's just my perspective; of course people can play however they want.) This is, after all, a life simulator, as others have pointed out. Besides, just because infants aren't doing anything on their own doesn't mean they're inert. I like to think they're a bit like human babies, unable to actively interact but nonetheless observing their surroundings and laying the neural groundwork to learn at an astonishing speed later. How else can we explain a toddler's ability to learn to talk over the span of a couple of hours, perhaps even immediately after a birthday? Of course, the game doesn't care how much sim babies were cooed over by their parents and siblings, but I like to pretend it matters. Maybe I'm just weird.
I might be unusual here, but I think I probably play elders longer than the other stages, at least for my favorite sims. They get ambrosia and/or at least one death flower, but I've always felt a little weird resetting a sim's age as a young adult, or even an adult. Especially in a legacy, it seems just wrong for sims to be listed as younger than their children, so the ambrosia has to wait until the sims are at the end of their guaranteed lifespans. Besides, once I get over the admittedly startling transition in appearance, my elders pretty much live the same lives they did while they were adults, with the exception that the family-oriented ones are now playing with their grandkids.
I don't enjoy playing with babies all that much, but it feels like skipping that stage would be cheating. (That's just my perspective; of course people can play however they want.) This is, after all, a life simulator, as others have pointed out. Besides, just because infants aren't doing anything on their own doesn't mean they're inert. I like to think they're a bit like human babies, unable to actively interact but nonetheless observing their surroundings and laying the neural groundwork to learn at an astonishing speed later. How else can we explain a toddler's ability to learn to talk over the span of a couple of hours, perhaps even immediately after a birthday? Of course, the game doesn't care how much sim babies were cooed over by their parents and siblings, but I like to pretend it matters. Maybe I'm just weird.
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