- Sims will no longer incorrectly age up when adjusting game age options
Fixed in Patch 1.110.265/2.01
Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues without any mods/cc installed.
Yes, thank you, I've seen this one, but regarding the impact of the change I'm rather imagining a blog post to clarify things...
The save has always been on short lifespan.
I assume it is "only" the initial weirdness, I did not notice any loading screens to change the days.
What's interesting though: last week between the patches I opened up an instance of this save and I'm pretty sure the ages were fine then (but I didn't dare to play because of the aging issue), so I think the initial weirdness is probably caused by something that has been changed for the emergency patch...
I checked in a new save.
What I did (since new Sims get random days added) was creating a Sim for each age group and after cheating lots of satisfaction points giving them the youth potions which is supposed to reset them back to beginning of their age group and then checking how many days they have left
Now that said, I have no clue how the ages were cause I never pay attention. I found an older post on Carl's page and not all of them seem to vary.
These are the results I got
So Child/Teen same as before and YA/A actually a day less ? Maybe that's what messes it up on starting the game ?
The bug on short they fixed was that the Sims randomly lost days from their bar when you went into CAS, reloaded the game and traveled. I can't get that to happen on your save but I can duplicate what you described.
Don't know what to suggest tbh. IMHO I don't think EA is going to do anything about it (but that's just me). If it doesn't happen again when you reload the game each time but is a one time thing, no one would have the issue anymore by the time they fix it.
You can try use the potion/cheats to revert the changes. I think with MCCC you can even set the desired age ?
So for the moment, make sure to keep a backup and post if it happens again after you played a while.
EDIT: I moved your post over from the other thread. It might read a bit weird now but I want to keep the other thread clean :D
Huh, yes, I aged one Sim up now for testing and counted her days on the calendar, and yes, it's only 11 (I thought at first that the one missing day was only regarding the days until age up, but it seems to be the whole span).
And I looked into the old pre-patch tuning files and aging was done totally different back then (probably the source of the bugs). For example YA seemed to have got a random(?!, I don't think it ever appeared random though) number of days between 22 and 25 and then there was a multiplier for short and long lifespan. The multiplier does not work anymore since normal is now totally different than short and long regarding the proportions and it seems they just took the lower bound value as the new lifestage duration (22:2=11) instead of the upper bound.
I don't know. This is messing with existing games and there are many people that put months or years of effort into their saves. I'm happy that I'm only on gen 2 now otherwise I would even be more mad. I would be fine with cheating the ages of my main Sims since I know for sure what they were supposed to be, but I hate the idea that everyone else will still be messed up (especially the ones that just die).
And it's a no-go to introduce changes that make existing saves not compatible anymore and just being silent about it.
To be honest I'm not willing to put energy into the game at the moment with the current state.
And it's super sad because I was actually excited about HSY and it would have been the first pack that I had bought shortly after release. But I won't do this now, especially since I'm suspecting now that high school on short lifespan will be even worse than on normal.
Sorry for the rant, my negativity is not directed to you @crinrict but to EA. I really appreciate your help!
