I'm super interested in how Bess Sterling investment calls work. Like in one save she gave my sims back 20 000 simoleons back after a couple of calls and in the other she didn't. Also the invest in legal money making scheme interactions.
I also wanna know every single way to roll back the sims age to the beginning of their current lifespan across all the different packs. I'm thinking of: potion of youth, cowplant essence, all the different potions across packs.
And lastly, every single way to add bonus days to the sims' total lifespan. The active and long lived traits, the cowplant essence and the wishing well. I know that all of these days stack, so if your sim completed the bodybuilder aspiration and drank the cowplant essence, they would have bonus days from the cowplant + the long lived trait. I know this from testing. The bonus days are also bugged on short lifespan
Aging is a cool topic for a full post. Did you know the anti-aging face masks remove one day from your accrued age? If you use them daily, you're immortal.
For Bess, it's pretty simple-
The first call, you donate or don't. If you do, she'll call back later.
The second call, you're asked for 1k. If you do it, the call gets rescheduled to happen again. It has a few different dialogues so you might not know it but it's the same call over and over.
If you donate to the second call, you get a hidden Relbit with the caller, which triggers ANOTHER possible call- where they say their business is taking off. You'll likely get the second call multiple times before it shows up, though, if it ever does. That final call gives you 25k simoleons but it is very rare.
It's basically just a gamble!
The anti-aging mask would make a great storyline for a middle-aged wicked sim who is trying to stay youthful at all costs...
Better than young virgin blood.
The spa better have it on stock everyday...
Fittin' to buy a case.
Thank you so much for the replies. It's honestly a shame how The Sims 4 doesn't have a comprehensive, Minecraft style wiki that explain how everything in the game works in a full detail. As for aging, this is everything I know from my experience and testing.
Every single way to reset sims' age to the beginning of the current lifespan I know of:
Base game:
Get to Work:
Seasons:
Romantic Garden:
Realm of Magic:
Paranormal:
Nifty Knitting:
Strangerville:
Add more if you know
As for the bonus days in the elder life stage, here's how this works:
This is how many days the active trait adds in each lifespan:
2 on short, 4 on normal, 15 on long
The long lived trait:
8 on short, 16 on normal, 66 on long
As soon as you change the lifespan, so do the extra days from these traits
Extra days obtained from the wishing well and the cowplant essence are counted as bonus days and stack. This means that if your sim drank the cowplant essence twice and got the positive outcome from the wishing well once, they'd have 25 bonus days. You can basically make a sim that lives thousands of days like that.
All the extra days obtained stack. If you have the active and the long lived traits, you get the bonus for both of these + days obtained by the cowplant essence and the wishing well.
Wiki says that "no regrets" milestone also gives additional days but I can't explore that as I don't have the expansion pack.
I read somewhere that orchid scented flower arrangement may also give additional days, but I can't tell how many as I also don't have seasons
From my testing, sims with the cheerful trait seem to live longer but I cannot confirm that as MCCC does not list the days obtained that way
Important note: on short lifespan there's a bug where the bonus days from essence and the wishing well are bugged. Meaning if you have 10 bonus days, you actually get 20. EA, it would be nice if you fixed that.
So here's some starting information to for you to work with if you ever decide to dig deeper into the game's aging mechanics.
