Edit: I originally wrote this a few months ago while I was minutes from falling asleep. I no longer skip any life stages, as my overall playing style has changed to something more grounded in reality and less on skipping a life stage if it is frustrating and/or boring.I still have the mindset that the adult and elder life stages should've been fleshed out more, giving them differences from young adults.... but evidently I didn't convey my thoughts properly. Things get lost in translation, as my first language is not English. Apologizes if I offended or confused anyone with any bizzare phrases or choice of words at the time. :disappointed: I've removed my former post but left the poll up because of all the humorous and quite interesting responses. :smile:

Baby and elder. But if I skip one more it would definitely be elder. I feel like I have pretty much every piece of CC for babies but they're still boring, in looks and what they do. I might use the baby stage for a sim day or two if I'm in a just for fun save. If it's for a story though, I just use resized toddlers for screenshots and pretend the rest of the time they're not actually toddlers. Still more useful than the baby stage IMO, lol.Elder though... I don't even know the last time I played one. Not a clue, it's probably been years. They're more useful at least but eh... I prefer to imagine my sims aging more gracefully. I feel like sims really don't age gracefully at all once they hit elder stage. Bam you're 60 and hunched over. Nah. I know/have known people who are 90+ and have more spring in their step than a TS3 elder. I just don't really like it. Plus I just am vain in sims (real life no, but sims yes), I like my sims looking youthful and nice. I don't even really like the adult stage, but I do use it for *some* realism in the aging of my families. Besides usually by the time I would need to age a sim up to elder I've long since moved on to new generations, probably a new town and left the rest of the family behind. So I don't really need to use this stage (which is fine by me!)

Baby and Elder for sure. With baby, it's just like, why are you crying! stop! and with elder, it's like, are you dead yet?

The only life stage I skip is baby. I don't much care for children but I let them have their share of the lifespan. Teen, YA, Adult and Elder are all good for me. As a RL elder, I don't see why you think they should be denied woohoo or have to be depicted as crotchety folk who tell kids to get off their lawn. Inside my old skin is the same young person I used to be. I might not be like the young people of today but that's only because I grew up in a different time with different values.

I miss an eighth option: none of the above ;) I don’t skip life stages, they all get at least a couple of days. Life span of babies is the shortest (2 days, the minimum) but I don’t skip it. I do sometimes buy a birthday cake in the morning of their birthday (in any life stage but YA, A and E) instead of waiting for them to age autonomously that day.

None of the above.The baby stage is not the most entertaining to play, I'll be the first to admit that. But what we must do to keep babies happy, comfortable, and begin bonding with the rest of the household is representative of or maybe I should say inspired by the responsibilities of baby care in real life even if it's not anything at all like taking care of such a young person. Sim babies don't have much personality, but in the five sim days (out of a lifespan of 242) that I play them, I am already letting my imagination run wild as to what they will be like once they start growing up.Some of you are not taking the actual demographics of sim players on this forum into account. As an adult and actually a soon to be elder myself, I don't like being referred to as an uncool wrinkly YA with less time to live. And I do not expect to be any grumpier than I am today or have a closer relationship with knitting needles in a few short years just because a certain birthday has passed. As for the walk, I've always walked funny anyway due to some minor physical imperfections but I guess that's just me. Older adults and elders are, like so many other things in this game, what we make of them. With the help of some mods and CC, my older adults and elders progress into these age stages gracefully, for the most part do not look or behave like EA might have intended out of the box, they are not all in big hurry to retire, and are every bit as much loved and needed in my game as the rest of them.This mod helped me the most in getting things started when going down that road, others don't use it but get the point and have crafted their elders in such a way that they don't really look like they are 110 years old at first glance either (apologies and no disrespect intended to any actual 110 year old simmers out there).http://modthesims.info/d/517293/age.htmlYou should all be ashamed of yourselves and never mind my lawn (I live in a big city apartment and don't have a lawn), I want all of you off my Internet (shakes fist). >:) :p

What life stage do you "skip", if you skip it one at all?

Pamtastic72
6 years ago
The constant wailing :s it's just more than I can take.
emorrill
Hero
6 years ago
"IreneSwift;c-16916407" wrote:

You already know, I'm totally with you on that! And if mod a like that ever comes out, I hope somebody announces it on the forum, because I'd be on it in heartbeat too!

@IreneSwift Yeah, I do know. :blush:

:lol: :lol:

Your comment made my day!
MissBeehavingSim
New Spectator
6 years ago
I use Nrass to have babies age after 1 day, Their screaming drives me nuts
Linamints
6 years ago
I always skip baby. Like literally the second they are born I trigger the age up.

I think babies are fairly boring, and everything I can do with a baby I can do with toddlers so far as I know. I also can't make them look nice and the baby burrito is just blah.

On top of that, I'm guessing I have a piece of CC that was enabled for babies when it shouldn't be, but I get pretty bad graphic glitches with babies. I'm not sure what it is exactly, and I honestly don't care enough to fix it considering I skip the life stage anyway.
astridentanja
6 years ago
@Deshong04 Yep, I agree with that. I’ve skipped the baby stage in the past (not so much because they were boring to me - newsflash, real babies that age are a bit boring :p - but because I was too curious what genetics had done to them to wait), so I can conclude that at least to me it makes a difference.

And yes, Sims 2 babies are the best!
beeblegox
6 years ago
I don't skip any, but the baby stage is pretty boring. I really miss the features mentioned above (changing tables, washing in the sink, strollers...)
FancyPantsyCat
6 years ago
I tend to skip the Baby/Toddler ages pretty quickly.
Evalen306
6 years ago
I play through all life stages, except toddlers, I age them up as soon as they talk, walk and are potty trained, they take up to much time, when my sims could be doing other things, I delete all schools so my kids can have time to do things, I have never sent any of my kids to school. One of the reasons I don't like sims 4, it is hard to keep them home, I have to watch the clock so they don't go to school, I love all the life stages, but toddlers the least.

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