I know you are probably confused about the title, but my question is what time of passage do days means to you. For example do a day mean like a 3 days or a week or something. If you doing story ideals or keeping up with ages how long are days. For me I used to say days can be symbolized as years. Since a baby lifespans on normal is 2 days I say when it ages it’s 2 years old. And same go for my other sims. Now with seasons I’m unable to find a balance on what do the days actually mean as time. So I’m wondering for you guys what do the days mean to you as time passes. Is it just a day, a couple of days, couple of months etc. Need input on how to arrange it in my head.

To me a day equals a day. I play with 28 days seasons so a year equals 112 days. I just pretend that sim time is different and the years are shorter. Although I wish we could have an option of more than 28 days for seasons, then I could make a year last closer 365 days. I play with aging off and age babies up after a full year in game has passed since they were born.

A day is a day. I don't try to make sense of Sims time in terms of real-life time.

If you want to get totally technical minded about it, I suppose you could look at the fact it takes a Sim three Sim days to have a baby. In RL a woman is preggars for about nine months. That would make 1Day= 3 months.Normally, I just make sure there are two Sim days between my Sim's children, to indicate a 2-3 year gap. Not accurate by any stretch to be sure, but then again making 4 Days = 1year, following the span a Sim is pregnant, can really slow down the passage of Time in a game. I play on Long as it is. I'm far too impatient to get that technical.Hope this has helped.

@kalaksed @Evie0602 I would definitely do what you guys do if I played with again off. I go back and forth setting the ages from normal to long. I used to play with aging off but since I have MCCC i want my sims all around me to age. I also have a legacy challenge going on which I am on my 7th generation with. So now I’m trying to figure out the ages of the grandparents and etc.

The days are just days to me. Now with Seasons at least I can count by years; I used to estimate that an Sim adult's lifespan = about 20 years of normal human life. That meant that a young adult halfway through their young adulthood was now in their 30's. I still do estimate it like that now, I just force the calendar years on it. Basically I really don't give too much thought on it anymore.

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11 Replies

Evie0602
8 years ago
To me a day equals a day. I play with 28 days seasons so a year equals 112 days. I just pretend that sim time is different and the years are shorter. Although I wish we could have an option of more than 28 days for seasons, then I could make a year last closer 365 days. I play with aging off and age babies up after a full year in game has passed since they were born.
generuler4
Seasoned Hotshot
8 years ago
@kalaksed @Evie0602 I would definitely do what you guys do if I played with again off. I go back and forth setting the ages from normal to long. I used to play with aging off but since I have MCCC i want my sims all around me to age. I also have a legacy challenge going on which I am on my 7th generation with. So now I’m trying to figure out the ages of the grandparents and etc.
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
The days are just days to me. Now with Seasons at least I can count by years; I used to estimate that an Sim adult's lifespan = about 20 years of normal human life. That meant that a young adult halfway through their young adulthood was now in their 30's. I still do estimate it like that now, I just force the calendar years on it. Basically I really don't give too much thought on it anymore.
DeKaythePUNK
Legend
8 years ago
I have aging off, so a day is a day. The baby becoming a toddler is a bit weird but yeah. XD
thatsnotsweg
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
A day is a day. I don't try to make sense of Sims time in terms of real-life time.
invisiblgirl
8 years ago
I don't connect ages to days, because the math will never work. To me, a 'year' is a full round of seasons, but that has nothing to do with my Sims' ages (especially since I play 7-day seasons - I like the variety). On a macro level, I count a day as a year in terms of age, but in terms of game play, a day is a day.
markdamh
8 years ago
Yeah, I'm like other people, using the 4 seasons cycle as years, even though since I'm playing at short lifespan and 28 days season, some of my sims only live for like 3 years.
GalacticGal
Legend
8 years ago
If you want to get totally technical minded about it, I suppose you could look at the fact it takes a Sim three Sim days to have a baby. In RL a woman is preggars for about nine months. That would make 1Day= 3 months.

Normally, I just make sure there are two Sim days between my Sim's children, to indicate a 2-3 year gap. Not accurate by any stretch to be sure, but then again making 4 Days = 1year, following the span a Sim is pregnant, can really slow down the passage of Time in a game. I play on Long as it is. I'm far too impatient to get that technical.

Hope this has helped.
Tiarella4
8 years ago
Since I play with aging off, and it often takes me a day to play a sim-day (big households = much pausing), it's not difficult for me to pretend 24 sim hours = 24 real hours. I also play a 28-day season; they feel rather endless atm! Most of my 2014-era sims are still alive, though the then-teens are elders now. So while there's a fairly 1:1 relationship in terms of hours, the years have a different ratio. And not all sims live with the same simyear/realyear ratio, either. Some sims are mysteriously long-lived! :lol:
simemie
8 years ago
I loosely consider one day as a year, but it doesn't make sense for a lot of things. Pregnancies would last three years, and the aging would be all messed up too. For some saves I use MCCC to make the age spans more consistent with the one day = one year thing though.