Aging

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.

"BradyGalaxy;c-17315599" wrote:
It depends what family. I have like 3 families with aging off, but the rest of my families have aging on.

is there a reason you only do it with 3 families over all?

"Mindsimscreate;c-17315605" wrote:
Hey! I play with aging on for all usually, with a custom lifespan. It’s in between long lifespan and normal lifespan, since I feel like normal is way too short and long is way too long.

How do you do a custom lifespan?

"Mindsimscreate;c-17315608" wrote:

"irishluck1986;c-17315606" wrote:

"Mindsimscreate;c-17315605" wrote:
Hey! I play with aging on for all usually, with a custom lifespan. It’s in between long lifespan and normal lifespan, since I feel like normal is way too short and long is way too long.

How do you do a custom lifespan?

I do it through MCC mod. It allows me to set the lifespan in days for each lifestage of the human lives, as well as pet lifespans.

I have that mod. Where is it located? I would love to set my own! I have never really messed with it.