Re: game settings age up sims

Thanks PugLove888! Your reply cleared things up for me. I realized that this setting existed only after my adult Sims in one household became senior citizens before their children became adults! Now I just have to hope that they don't die before the youngest becomes an adult. Should be interesting to see what happens there. Maybe the child Sim will have to be adopted?

Jeff

@gandalfwhite69, if the child is a teen, they can still live by themselves, or even raise younger children.  I have a teen boy raising is little sister in one of my Save Games! ❤️  I had to have him have a part time job and they live very frugally.  But a child Sim can't live by themselves. I've never had it happen, but I've heard from other people say that you can't play that household anymore.  I don't think the Social Worker actually comes to the home, but If it ever happens in one of my games I will pretend that the child (or pet!) would be put up for adoption.  😢

If you want to prevent this from happening, there are a couple of things you can do:

1.) You can turn auto aging off (you can always turn it back on at any time).  

2.) You can also create a separate Save Game for that family by clicking "Save As..." (instead of "Save" ) and naming it something new so that you can still play your other family.  (This is what I do about 98% of the time!) However, if you do this, this separates your 2 families in different games.  Using the example of a family you made and the Goth family in the game, If you make the Goths have a separate save, you would use the Goth save to play the Goths and the other save to play the family you made.  If you play with the Goths in your family's save, or your family in the Goth's save, it would be like having a parallel universe! 😃 I hope this makes sense! 😳

3.) You could also look to see if there is a Mod out there that would affect aging, but you have to be careful with Mods and update them when the game is patched (otherwise the Mods will mess up your game).  I'm too lazy to do all the maintenance required for Mods, so I don't use them! 😳😃

Basically, I recommend suggestion #1 or # 2, (or of course you can just throw caution to the wind and just let those Sims age up automatically.)  😉  Either way, the choice is yours! 🥳

@gandalfwhite69, since I had never had it happen before in my game, I tested what happens to a child when there is no one older to take care of him.  I mad a single dad and his son *they later adopted a cat) and I ran a test where I had the dad die from the excessive heat from the hot Summer day (he wasn't wearing his hot-weather clothes!)  Once the Grim Reaper came and took him, the tombstone appeared and I got a pop-up message that stated GAME OVER 🤨 and then proceeded to explain that the little boy would be taken by Social Services, and that they would find a home for the cat as well!  No Social Worker actually showed up -- just the message.  However, it did give a choice to either:

1) Save the Game and go to Manage Worlds

2) Go to Main Menu

I chose Main Menu so I could continue playing the family from my last save. 🙂 This is pretty much what I had heard happens with a child that is orphaned in the game.  I'm just glad to have that option to go to the Main Menu without saving! 😇 

I have yet to experiment with playing with Auto Aging on.  But that was just to satisfy my own curiosity, since you have already done so.🤔

Thanks for all of the info PugLuv88! I'm glad I provided an answer for you too. Thanks for doing all of the custom game play things to provide the answers. I'm sure it took a lot of time!

Jeff