How long do you consider a sim week?

To be honest, I don't try to make any "real-world" sense of the way that time scales in this game.

But playing along for the sake of the question, if you have seasons set to 1 week, I'd probably consider each week 3 months.

3 months

Nah, without mods, you can make a season last 28 days. It doesn't have to be only 7, without even resorting to mods, but I also wouldn't discount modded players (since I am one).

I wouldn't assume a timeframe for all, there are too many ways to play.

Well a season can also last as long as 28 days, so that can space the time out even further and you could say each week is about a real world month. But I personally don't like to think of TS4 time as real world time since there are so many factors that can be changed like the length of a lifespan.

For me, a week is literally just a week.

Well if you look at a Sim's pregnancy, which averages about 3.5 days (real life that's about 9 months) ... so it works out that a Sim week would equate to about a year and a half in real life. Generally though, I just play a week as a week, so much easier that way.

I don't make any links between real life passing and time passing in my game as it's just too complicated. Sometimes my Sims date for a few days etc, other times they may get married a lot sooner. But I usually just play time as it passes in the game

     

I stopped trying to make it fit real life times because it's just too difficult.

Like others said, thinking about it just confuses me and ruins the experience.

"KittensMeow10;d-963665" wrote:
I always feel weird having my sims get married when they've only been dating a couple of sim days, but also sims lifespans only last about 100 days. If you were to translate a sim week into real time, how long would you say it is? Considering one week is a full season, I'd assume a week is about the equivalent of 4 months or so. What do you think?

I base Sim time off of the fact it takes three Sim days for a birth to happen. In RL that would make a Sim day equal to 3 months, since 9 months is the normal gestation period (or ten lunar months). When trying to space my Sims' children, I may only allow 2-3 days to pass, as years for expediency. It should also be noted I play on Long.

Hope this is helpful to you.