Aging

I constantly change my setting. I usually run on normal aging, but sometimes I turn it off, or sometimes I switch it on long, and sometimes I run on normal but I use potions of youth to revert certain sims back. This is why I often have parents and children who are the same age. :lol:

depends

I find myself switching between the different options, depending what save and household I'm playing

I play with aging on/off - when their lives start to feel a little too fast I put it on hold, just rarely forever because I find it weird when they never die and I can't keep playing with the same sims for years. Even though I love the sims in my current save so we're in the aging off-phase. For now.

I don't play generational or challenges. Doesn't interest me. I age my Sims when and if I want to. The game for me is not about their life, but about what I want to do with them.

I play challenges with the aging rules in the challenges. I am on gen 6 in one challenge. In other saves there is no aging and I have one short life span save just to experience it (the sims flash by so quickly) it isnt ny favourite. In others I age who I want when I feel like it. I like both aging and seeeing the new generation as well as preserving my favourite sims.

I've always played normal lifespan because I feel like it keeps my generational play quite engaging and interesting. But since downloading University, I've used MCCC to extend the adult lifespan by a week. I just think University is now going to take up the whole of YA, which is fine, but it leaves a lot of living to do (career/family etc) in the adult lifespan, so it's suddenly not quite long enough - but I think long lifespan will be too long. I think an extra week should let it feel about the same as the regular lifespan does. Plus, if I wait until Adult to have children then they are always dying of old age when the kids are teenagers, so hopefully extending it a bit might stop this for a while.

I tend to alternate between long and normal lifespan depending on the story I'm playing or how impatient I'm feeling.

It depends on what I'm trying to accomplish with my sims.

Legacy play= Normal lifespan
Challenges = Long lifespan unless otherwise stated in the rules.
Aging Off = If I'm trying to just trying things out for the first time like playing through a new aspiration or career/activity.