Do you enjoy "LONG" lifespan?
Just asking to the players who have set their sims lifespan to "long" since I have always been playing as "Normal" lifespan for a while and somehow I find the game rushed due to my sims not being able...
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I don't remember how long "long" is, exactly, but I 've set custom age-spans for my sims using MCCC and I love it so much.
Babies: 14 days (which is really 8 days, because for some reason, my babies come out the womb already 6 days old).
Toddlers: 16
Children: 24
Teens: 40
Young Adults: 56
Adults: 48
Elders: 32
The EA defaults are either way too short or too long for me. I'm slow and get bored easily. Like, some days I don't spend time on skills at all; I just chill with my sim family/friends. But there are also some days where I just get bored of my current sims. With this custom setting, I have time to do what I want and I also don't have to wait too long for them to move onto the next stage. And if I really like my current sims, I'll just turn aging off.
I also set the ages specifically to those numbers so I could have my sims age in groups at the same time. Every 8 sim days, a group of sims have a birthday. This group always contains 4 girls and 4 boys. Right now, I have 8 babies, 16 toddlers, 32 children, 40 teens, 80 YAs, 72 adults, and 14 elders (usually it's higher, but a few just died, so...). In a bit, I expect all 8 of those babies to age into toddlers, the oldest toddlers to age into children, etc. Every 8 days is a birthday for several sims, and no sooner or later (when the babies age up, I disable aging until another 8 babies are born, then it starts over and I disable pregnancy).
I also took this one step further and documented each sim in a separate file so I know who exactly is going to age up. That way, I can control who my teen/children sims befriend. Instead of having a child that is 0 days old befriend a bunch of children that are 16 days old, for example, I keep their friendships close to their group if I can.
I love that control.
So, uh, yes. I enjoy my sims lifespan, lol.
Babies: 14 days (which is really 8 days, because for some reason, my babies come out the womb already 6 days old).
Toddlers: 16
Children: 24
Teens: 40
Young Adults: 56
Adults: 48
Elders: 32
The EA defaults are either way too short or too long for me. I'm slow and get bored easily. Like, some days I don't spend time on skills at all; I just chill with my sim family/friends. But there are also some days where I just get bored of my current sims. With this custom setting, I have time to do what I want and I also don't have to wait too long for them to move onto the next stage. And if I really like my current sims, I'll just turn aging off.
I also set the ages specifically to those numbers so I could have my sims age in groups at the same time. Every 8 sim days, a group of sims have a birthday. This group always contains 4 girls and 4 boys. Right now, I have 8 babies, 16 toddlers, 32 children, 40 teens, 80 YAs, 72 adults, and 14 elders (usually it's higher, but a few just died, so...). In a bit, I expect all 8 of those babies to age into toddlers, the oldest toddlers to age into children, etc. Every 8 days is a birthday for several sims, and no sooner or later (when the babies age up, I disable aging until another 8 babies are born, then it starts over and I disable pregnancy).
I also took this one step further and documented each sim in a separate file so I know who exactly is going to age up. That way, I can control who my teen/children sims befriend. Instead of having a child that is 0 days old befriend a bunch of children that are 16 days old, for example, I keep their friendships close to their group if I can.
I love that control.
So, uh, yes. I enjoy my sims lifespan, lol.
