Elderly relatives always die fast?

Anecdotally, I think you might be right, but they live on forever as ghosts to robocall their family members. (I've got one who calls every two minutes. I raised her from babyhood, but at this point, I desperately want to wall her into a pool. And I can't, because she's already dead.)

My elders live a very long time (usually their end of life bar maxes out and stays that way for at least the length of a full life cycle for a young adult... I forget how many days that is on "long" play). It's awful, but sometimes when my households are really full I find myself wishing they'd "move along" to the afterlife a little faster. :winces: lol

I do usually have all of the traits (never weary, hygiene bonuses, etc) selected for them by that time, though, so maybe that has something to do with their stellar life spans. I never use youth potions on them (just for clarification). They do work out every day, too.

How did you set the lifespan settings? In short setting, elders live only 5 days. On normal setting, elder lives 10 days and on long setting, elder lives 40 days. You can also set so that only the active household ages from the gameplay options.

You should be able to adjust their longevity in gameplay settings.

It doesn't happen in my game, it must be a bug... Do you use CC?
However, you're right about NPC elders living for ever, it's mostly because they exercise a lot and gain more days that way.
Hope you can fix it soon!

"Amandèle;c-16459304" wrote:
It doesn't happen in my game, it must be a bug... Do you use CC?
However, you're right about NPC elders living for ever, it's mostly because they exercise a lot and gain more days that way.
Hope you can fix it soon!

I use cc but i've had it since the game as started. And changing the settings makes no difference as they die after a couple days of old age.

"Amandèle;c-16459304" wrote:

it's mostly because they exercise a lot and gain more days that way

is that actually a thing? if they exercise more they live longer?

I haven't noticed this with the very few elders I have atm, but my lifespan settings are set on the most longest awailable AND I have aging off except for the household I play. I'm going to have to do some elder culling among the NPCs soon. I either delete them or kill the old dears off. Woohoo does seem to work wonders. I have already accidentally killed one that way.