Do you enjoy "LONG" lifespan?

I think it depends on how you play. I usually do legacy style stuff so I have lifespan set on normal, but when Get Famous came out I set that saves lifespan to long so I could take my time exploring all the different aspects of the game without my sims getting old.

I feel normal lifespan is too short to really let sims enjoy themselves along the way, but also find Long to be way too long. I play games through multiple generations and on long a single generation is long enough to do way more than I really want to accomplish with any individual sims.

I use MCCC to customize the lifestage lengths to just shy of 2x the normal lifespans. This is still half of what long is by default and, for me, works perfectly for allowing me to let the sims out to enjoy themselves and not focus entirely on the daily grind and child-rearing without getting to where I'm completely bored with a generation before they pass on.

Even with the 2x, I do find I sometimes am aging up a sim a little earlier than when their birthday would be, but never by more than a few days so I haven't messed with my settings on this in quite a while.

Yes, I like to have them accomplish as much as possible, then have time to enjoy the rewards. But I admit it can get tedious at times.

Yes, I do enjoy that. Especially when I have a mod that allows all the cheats and can use this cheat to make elders die by old age:

sims.age_up

I would like an easy cheat way to age sims up not the blocked way.

I use normal lifespan with MCCC to tweak the days some. I prefer normal lifespan bc it means if you want to be the best in a certain career or the best skills or in fame it means you have to sacrifice time from other hobbies or parts of life for them which is more realistic to me. Time managment is what the original sims was based on so I like it as it makes my sims lives and every minute of their lives feel more precious. It also keeps the game from being boring for me. I imagine if I had a sim accomplish every single thing there is to do in the game, i’d be like “what now?” *waits for another expansion pack* hehe

If i want a longer lifespan i use the games rewards to extend their life kinda like you had to do in the sims 2 with the ole elixer of life:P

Eh. I'm playing with it for the first time now and am not enjoying it so much, even with a baby challenge family. I get quite bored of my sims quickly so I enjoy having the kids age up quicker, as I'm a bit more attached to them :)

yes and I also play with aging fully turn off

I play with the long lifespan and 28-day seasons. Lots of time for just about anything you'd like to do. I do enjoy the more leisurely pace.

Yea I do. However sometimes it can be hard especially if you are not patient enough since it is very slow. I an doing a generation type game, the first generation was on normal lifespan since we haven't got seasons. But when we finally bought it and realized that a sim can only experience snow almost twice-thrice in their lifetime feels akward to me. Especially if a sim was born i spring, then he/she is not going to experience winterfest and new year as a toddler/child.
While it is slow, I am having much more time to fulfill Aspirations and make the most out of my sims life, so it is definetly worth it.

No I don't. It is way too long and I feel you can do everything you need to do before they age to Adult.

I just set it to normal now, and turn off aging for everyone (played and unplayed) till I am ready to turn it back on :D I don't want the main characters to age when mine don't. Gotta keep the clubbers from aging (love Marcus and Candy)!