EA Staff (Retired)All of this sounds as designed to me. When visiting an NPC household with a birthday cake, Age Up Sims is not supposed to populate with household Sims in the picker, it is only for NPCs, as household Sims can age up by using Blow Out Candles.
In a household with humans and vampires I was able to age up humans by directing them to blow out the candles, and when inviting a human NPC over to a vampire household I was able to age them up using the Age Up Sim option.
But I can't understand why vampires can't blow candles or age up their own houlsehold even with humans living inside the house...
Is that a problem at all?
I'm a little confused about this! 😢
Probably by design. Vampires are immortal and generally don't age they stay the age they where when they became Vampires with the exception of teenage Vampires that can age to YA. This is likely to avoid a lot of teenagers in the game as it would give problems. Can't move out of the house or get married and would have to stay in school for all eternity.
The same with kids and toddlers. I played with my household for 20 days in normal lifespan and my toddlers didn't age up for children like the humans so was necesary to bake a cake and blow it. With this we now know the unique way to age up vampires should be by blowing candles and that is not the problem at all. But why vampires can't blow candles in their own holsehold...?
If I'd like to play with a elder vampire? I need to create a new one instead of age my own Sim until that age?
It's not right.
I do think there's a bug here but the bug is not that the vampire can't age up in their own household but that you can actually age them up if you play another family, That's the part that I would think should not be possible
Either they are immortal or they are not.
