With which lifespan you play in Sims 3?

I play a slightly modified normal lifespan and find it suits my style of playing well. I like to play generational saves and longer than normal means getting through the generations takes longer than my patience can tolerate. I have been using Nraas Relativity for years so couldn't say if normal would be long enough without to fulfill LTWs or keep motives high.

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I haven't jacked up the baby and toddler age spans 3 and 7 days...since for me (after raising three babies to teen-age(in real life) trust me, getting up at 2AM or earlier in the morning for diaper changes is not fun, espeially when you are operating on minimal sleep and god help you if your baby ends up with colic.)...I pretty much have said "screw it" and automatically age sims babies up after three days.

"Mikezumi;c-17872124" wrote:
I play a slightly modified normal lifespan and find it suits my style of playing well. I like to play generational saves and longer than normal means getting through the generations takes longer than my patience can tolerate. I have been using Nraas Relativity for years so couldn't say if normal would be long enough without to fulfill LTWs or keep motives high.

That's what i'm trying rn. I have made child-elder lifestages a little bit longer from normal while keeping baby-toddler at the minimum. Anyway i still feel like i don't have enough time to spend with each sim.

I play my own wishacy (i've just learned that this is a challenge). It has been my playstyle for sims 3 since always. But i don't follow the whims of only my heir (as per the rules of the wishacy challenge). I follow the whims of all my sims.

I start with a sim, try to complete their promised whims and only move to the next when i have done everything i can in that moment to try to fullfill the 4 promised wishes. When i move to a new sim sometimes almost a day have passed... so if my sims have 21 days of young adult lifestage, i will actually only spend around half that time with each sim.

I really need more time but i may also get bored with a very long lifespan... I'm trying something in between normal and long.

You forgot a selection - aging off! My sims don't age unless I want them to. Call me control freak. :)

"Nikkei_Simmer;c-17872145" wrote:
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I haven't jacked up the baby and toddler age spans 3 and 7 days...since for me (after raising three babies to teen-age(in real life) trust me, getting up at 2AM or earlier in the morning for diaper changes is not fun, espeially when you are operating on minimal sleep and god help you if your baby ends up with colic.)...I pretty much have said "screw it" and automatically age sims babies up after three days.

Wow such a huge lifespan! Your sims must end their lives with a lot of skills completed...? Are you playing a legacy? These are huge generations!

I do the same with babies and toddlers. Child-teens have so much avenues they may pursue in their lives... babies-toddlers end up being very similar if you're playing legacies. So i just set them to the minimum, that is 2 days for each lifestage. In 4 days my kids are children :lol: This way i get to feel that my sims have a new baby but i don't get tired of playing it.
Oh and I love the fact that babies and toddlers sleep in the same place. No need to change the setting in between the two lifestages :)

"ZeeGee;c-17872177" wrote:
You forgot a selection - aging off! My sims don't age unless I want them to. Call me control freak. :)

Yes i did forgot that one. And i just realized i forgot custom lifespans too ?‍♀️ :smile:

I'm the opposite of control freak. I may be called a let goer :lol: i always randomize traits (even when the game allows me to choose), i follow whims (so i never get to decide what my sims are going to do with their lives. At least not the important things) and i need to play with aging on so that it works like a timer (i would never be sure when to age a sim if i played with aging off :lol: )

I don't know how to classify mine. Would this be Modified Epic or something else?

Baby: 9837
Toddler: 1
Child: 1
Teen: 1
YA: 1
Adult: 3 (to account for pregnancies, of course)
Elder: drum roll...wait for it...1

What can I say, I like babies. <3 :)

Igazor, you're running out of material. You've done this nutty thing already, posed as a bogus challenge. :rage:

Yeah I know, but shhh! That was years ago and probably no one remembers it.

"igazor;c-17872232" wrote:
I don't know how to classify mine. Would this be Modified Epic or something else?

Baby: 9837
Toddler: 1
Child: 1
Teen: 1
YA: 1
Adult: 3 (to account for pregnancies, of course)
Elder: drum roll...wait for it...1

What can I say, I like babies. <3 :)

Igazor, you're running out of material. You've done this nutty thing already, posed as a bogus challenge. :rage:

Yeah I know, but shhh! That was years ago and probably no one remembers it.

??? the parents will be dead before the poor baby ages up. Who's gonna take care of him? :lol:

"texxx78;c-17872236" wrote:


??? the parents will be dead before the poor baby ages up. Who's gonna take care of him? :lol:

That's what they said years ago too, but no. Lifespans are a serving suggestion, not etched in stone. Why do you think we have things like Life Fruit, Soymilk, and Ambrosia? It's tricky to make things work that way, but not impossible. :)

"igazor;c-17872237" wrote:

"texxx78;c-17872236" wrote:


??? the parents will be dead before the poor baby ages up. Who's gonna take care of him? :lol:

That's what they said years ago too, but no. Lifespans are a serving suggestion, not etched in stone. Why do you think we have things like Life Fruit, Soymilk, and Ambrosia? It's tricky to make things work that way, but not impossible. :)

Ha! I always forget about ambrosia :) And i didn't know about the others ?
But you really play 9837 days with babies? Or am i'm being naif? :blush: :lol: