Actual Ages

Toddler: 1-3
Children: 7-11
Teens: 14-18
YA: 20s
Adult: 30s-40s
Elder: mid 50s+

I don't know how I feel about actual ages. I always set my game for the longest life span possible, and even then, it does not really amount to actual years. How would this work in The Sims' sped up version of time?

What I would like to see is if our children could grow over time as they get closer to the next life stage. I never thought it was overly realistic that your sim children magically have a growth spurt the instant they become Teens. But, here again, how does this work with The Sims' sped up version of time?

Actual ages for me.
Babies 0-1
Toddler 1-4
Child 5-9
Preteen 10-13
Teen 14-17
Young Adult 18-30
Adult 30-50
Middle-aged 50-65
Elder 65-Dead.

i think the best is no aging at all in other word aging fully turn off and sims living for ever

Baby 0-1
Toddler 1-3 (according to all the age spans I have read up on toddlers.)
Young Child 4-6
Child 7-9
Preteen 10-12
Teen 13-17
Young Adult 18-30
Adult 30-40
Mid Life (Crisis?) 41-50
Elder 50+

"WolfEyes;c-13544913" wrote:

"luthienrising;13544205" wrote:

"WolfEyes;13543519" wrote:

"Nighthero;13542562" wrote:
so they would grow up until a certain age like:
children:5-13
teens:14-19
YA:20-36
Adult:37-60(?)
Elders:70-dead
would those be the ages?

Ummm no.

toddlers 1-3
children 4-12
teen 13-19
young adult 20-25
adult 25-50
elder 50 and up

or

toddlers 1-3
children 5-10
preteen 11-12
teen 13-17
young adult 18-21
adult 22-45
elder 45 and up

Real-world definitions of Young Adult are usually 18-39 or 40, adult 40-65, elder 65+.

Yours truly,
a person rather shocked to find that someone would consider her as an "elder"

By age 30 I didn't consider myself to be a young adult. Many children among several southern tribes considered me to be an elder at age 40.

Cultural differences. :)

Well in the USA maybe in the 1800's - but not today. Under USA stats you are still considered a YA up until 40. You are considered a Senor citizen at age 65- 67 right now in the USA - but the government is working on moving the elder status to 70-74 soon. So it is rising again soon.

> @nerdfashion said:
> I like to think of it like this:
>
> Baby: 0
> Toddler: 1-4
> Child: 5-12 (would prefer pre-teen for 10-12, but whatever)
> Teen: 13-17
> YA: 18-30
> Adult: 30-59
> Elder: 60+

@nerdfashion I like this makes sense to me! A lot of these do, the age concern didn't really come to my attention until I read these!

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If you use running total life stage days at normal lifespan (source: sims . fandom . com/wiki/Life_stage#The_Sims_4), divided by 2 (scale: 1 sim day = 6 aging months), you get:

Baby: 0-1.49 (1.5 years)
Toddler: 1.5-4.99 (3.5 years)
Child: 5-11.49 (6.5 years)
Teen: 11.5-17.99 (6.5 years)
Young Adult: 18-29.99 (12 years)
Adult: 30-41.99 (12 years)
Elder: 42-46.99 (5 years)
Post-elder / pending death: 47+

My preference would be:
Baby: 0-0.99 (1 year)
Toddler: 1.0-4.99 (4 years)
Child: 5-12.99 (8 years)
Teen: 13.0-19.99 (8 years)
Young Adult: 20-29.99 (10 years)
Adult: 30-49.99 (20 years)
Elder: 50-69.99 (20 years)
Post-elder / pending death: 70+

And it to be reflected in the age-up schedule too (normal lifespan scaling to 1 sim day = 0.5 aging years)

It is possible the game is accelerating the scale of the adult and elder phases. Since people don't have interest in playing old people anyway except maybe to be parents (but apparently not grandparents)..

Baby: 0-1.49 (1.5 years, 0.5 year per sim day at normal)
Toddler: 1.5-4.99 (3.5 years, 0.5 year per sim day at normal)
Child: 5-11.49 (6.5 years, 0.5 year per sim day at normal)
Teen: 11.5-17.99 (6.5 years, 0.5 year per sim day at normal)
Young Adult: 18-29.99 (12 years, 0.5 year per sim day at normal)
Adult: 30-53.99 (24 years, 1.0 year per sim day at normal)
Elder: 54-73.99 (20 years, 2.0 year per sim day at normal)
Post-elder / pending death: 74+ (up to 8 years, 4.0 years per sim day at normal, up to 48 sim hours, extended by active and long lived traits)

Baby: 0 - 1
Toddler 2 - 5
Children: 6 -13
Teen: 14 - 18
YA : 19 - 39
Adult: 40 - 59
Elder 60+

or

Baby: 0 - 1
Toddler: 2 - 4
Child: 5 - 11
Teen: 12 - 18
YA: 19- 36
Adult: 37 - 64
Elder : 65+