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absadot
3 years ago
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[FIXED] Long Life Span: Sims have days added on entering live mode

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030 Wha...
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    3 years ago
    Sims with a short or long Lifespan no longer become younger or age dramatically when leaving Create a Sim.

    Fixed in Patch 1.90.375/1.62

    Now, I did a very short test and my long lifespan game was fine. No aging up after cas/travelling/reloading

    I know there have been a lot of statements and maybe some other issues mixed in here during the past week. It was crazy busy and they all did sound the same.

    So  what I mean to say: If you see issues still with aging on a vanilla game, just go ahead and make a new thread.

    Please describe your issue in details and not just something along the lines of: It's not fixed. I still have it

    Thanks all.

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crinrict
Hero+
3 years ago

Could you please edit your post and add the following info to your post.

Product: The Sims 4
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How often does the bug occur? 
What is your current game version number? 
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? 
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 
What happens when the bug occurs? 
What do you expect to see? 
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?
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The bug template is currently working on/off but it helps if you are not prompted for the template while editing, please answer the questions anyways. 

Going to use this post to post a little re-cap of what I found testing

  • This bug effects Long Life Span only. If you play on long, you get days added to your sim every time a transition happens (loading the game, going to CAS, going to World Map). this will make your Sims age eventually.
  • Normal Lifespan always works normal.
  • Short Lifespan works normal, if that's your initial setting. If you set a game that was on Long to short, they will age down instead of up
  • Disabled aging will work as long as the greyed out option doesn't say Long. If it says long, it will add the days even if disabled.

Workarounds

  • Do not play any saves that have long lifespan until EA patches this (it's bad, I'm hoping for an emergency patch for it)
  • Disable aging for the save. To do so, do not use the resume button but use the LOAD and change the settings from the map before loading your family. I'm not 100% sure that they won't take an initial day hit if you load the household but they shouldn't age further after that.
  • Change aging to Normal. instead of disable. This will of course make them age faster but it's not a bad option.
  • I don't recommend changing to short but since you like to play on long, I don't think you would want to do that :D

Thanks all that have provided info. Currently nothing more is needed. Just hit that pesky me too button if you are affected.

SBCASIJudd's avatar
SBCASIJudd
3 years ago
@crinrict The workaround of turning aging off still puts them at the end of their current lifespan even if you get to that before entering cas
  • Devonpixie91's avatar
    Devonpixie91
    3 years ago

    I got around the going to the end of age span by using potion of youth. Gave my elder sims more time with their grandchildren and great grandchildren. 

    • asthehind's avatar
      asthehind
      New Adventurer
      3 years ago

      Any ETA on a fix?

      • Devonpixie91's avatar
        Devonpixie91
        3 years ago

        My guess it won’t be until Friday as the high school pack drops tomorrow.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @SBCASIJudd Days will be added as soon as you enter live mode. Do you still have issues if you use load game and change it from the map ?
    • cookielover1111's avatar
      cookielover1111
      3 years ago

      my problem started when i first started my game from the update.  All the sims in my game aged up without me going into CAS.  It's only happened 1 time so far but days are being added..it seems like every hour but it might be what you said with doing different interactions...I did what you recommended and changed my game to normal lifespan and turned aging off but i'm hoping this gets fixed quickly

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