Age lengths have changed

If this is true, I definitely like it. I loved this in TS3, and hate when my sims have multiple kids (created in CAS) and they're all twins.

It's a good idea, except that it is frustrating for my twins to have different birthdays to each other.

I don't really like this. I play rotationally and I want babies born at the same time to age up at the same time in the neighbourhood. Otherwise my carefully timed stories get out of sync.

This may be why the toddler I created in CAS aged up before his then-toddler sister who should have been a few days older! It's weird to have younger siblings suddenly older than the ones born before them.
So, if sibling A is 5 days older than sibling B and A always gets the long span and B always gets the short span, sibling B will age up to young adult before A!

I'm okay with it for YA and up but for kids I don't think it makes any sense.

Ah that explains why one twin (from unplayed family) aged before the other!

"samlyt22;d-943487" wrote:
Not sure if this has already been discussed, I couldn't see anything on it but apologies if I'm just late to the party. But they've changed our sims aging. Cats and dogs had a different aging system to humans, in that they would be given a range rather than a set number and each animal would randomise a number of days from that. They've now updated humans to work the same. I noticed a number of people saying the latest patch had altered their sims ages and sims that should have the same birthday no longer do, this is why.

Babies are still 2 days
Toddlers are 7-9 days
Children are 13-15 days
Teens are 13-15 days
Young adults are 22-25 days
Adults are 22-25 days
Elders are 9-12 days

I like the fact that when moving sims into new saves, not everyone will age up on the same day. I like that if my sim meets someone of the same age in town, they won't share the same birthday and I like that if I create people of the same lifestage in CAS, they won't share the same birthday. However I do worry that this means twins and triplets will have different birthdays. Maybe they need some sort of hidden trait for multiples that makes them randomise the number of days together. What do you guys think? Do you like this change?

I like this too and noticed it as well. I normally hate playing babies, toddlers and kids in the game. In my opinion, there just isn't enough to do for them. It seemed like Sims 3 had more those age groups could do. However, I am playing a test game. In this case, I created a household with kids and toddlers. I used "try for a baby" with the Sims with a high enough romance even if they aren't a couple per say. I was curious to see if there were any bugs with the different age groups which I normally would rarely play. I think if they are multiple births they should have the same birthday, However, if they are the same age group created in CAS then they should be randomised for that age group. I have noticed we still have randomised sibling and randomise twin in CAS. I like that my boy and his best friend aged up on the exact same day while his sister and her bestie did not. I like that he and his sister even have different birthdays too because I did a randomise sister with him rather than randomise twin. If they are chronologically born at different times like a few days apart the one born later should remain younger. Multiple births should age up on the same day and if they are the same age group but not multiples they should have different birthdays.

I noticed this and I don't like it. Don't ask me why I don't like it, I don't have a reason.

"Stina1701A;c-16580801" wrote:
What about the long lifespan?

I'm not sure about the different ranges, but I checked with a mod and one of my teens has a teen lifespan of around 60 days, one of my YA has 92 days from the start of the YA lifespan... I'll have to check with my other sims, but almost none of them are at the beginning of their lifestages anymore. I do have to say that the teen having 56 days left till YA was the weird one for me.

My twins ended up having different birthdays. :disappointed:

Kind of related kind of not :#

It seems like the game doesn’t recognize multiple birthed kids as what they are. So like one time my boy/girl twins ended up being out of sync in “age” bc the girl got pregnant and they don’t age during that time. I ended up using MCCC to tick that off.