So I am curious how long you make your sims age do you leave it at the default way or do you make it so they age really slow or do you make them age really fast I am curious.

I have mine set on the longest life setting.

I use mccc’s age settings to mostly double the time sims spend as each lifestage (except babies because I’ve never liked them much.) I miss TS3’s aging settings where long was only twice as long instead of five times.

"Pipersfun2;c-17281983" wrote:"brendhan21;d-967732" wrote:So I am curious how long you make your sims age do you leave it at the default way or do you make it so they age really slow or do you make them age really fast I am curious.I keep mine sims aging turned off and age them when I feel it is time. I keep my new born babies about a day or 2 then age them up. But all others when I feel it is time for my story.How do you decide when it’s time for an elder to die?

Normal. Short is too short, long is too long. Normal is also a little too short but it's closest to what I like. Sometimes it is tricky to get a toddler to all max skills or the kids all the scout badges but if you focus on them, it is doable. Not all of my sims get everything though. I like variety in my game and they're already pretty shallow and similar as is. Besides, not getting a speed boost for skills or careers doesn't matter that much to me. I find the boost that they do get isn't that much faster anyways to make me really want/need it for every sim I grow up. Unless there's an accident, a sim from birth to old age death, I can usually get everything done with that sim that I had wanted them to do at the normal setting.

How long do you make your sims age?

30 Replies

cheza5
6 years ago
Mine never ages!
Sharooonia
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I have mine set on the longest life setting.
brendhanbb
6 years ago
"Ashuray;c-17281947" wrote:
Mine never ages!

i have 2 sims exactly like that. i did and am playing a sim family on the default age setting but i find it hard to actually get well everything set up for them. i suppose that is part of the challenge though but i am kind of wondering if its more realasistic to play on the default age or the longest life setting.
brendhanbb
6 years ago
"Sharonia;c-17281958" wrote:
I have mine set on the longest life setting.

i am debating on doing that with a family i have right now and just start them with the longest life setting as with the default age setting its kind of impossible to raise todler skills to the max . plus i just discovered scouting and idk how am going to have enough time to do that with the default age setting.
AriaMad2
6 years ago
I have my lifespan set to long. This way, I have more time to develop my sims' personalities and establish their characters.
brendhanbb
6 years ago
"AriaMad2;c-17281968" wrote:
I have my lifespan set to long. This way, I have more time to develop my sims' personalities and establish their characters.

yes that actually does make sense. plus like i said it feels impossible to get all the beinfits from extra traits like tolder traits kid traits scouting etc etc.
ValiantRedKnight
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I use mccc’s age settings to mostly double the time sims spend as each lifestage (except babies because I’ve never liked them much.) I miss TS3’s aging settings where long was only twice as long instead of five times.
pipersfun2
New Ace
6 years ago
"brendhan21;d-967732" wrote:
So I am curious how long you make your sims age do you leave it at the default way or do you make it so they age really slow or do you make them age really fast I am curious.

I keep mine sims aging turned off and age them when I feel it is time. I keep my new born babies about a day or 2 then age them up. But all others when I feel it is time for my story.
ValiantRedKnight
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"Pipersfun2;c-17281983" wrote:
"brendhan21;d-967732" wrote:
So I am curious how long you make your sims age do you leave it at the default way or do you make it so they age really slow or do you make them age really fast I am curious.

I keep mine sims aging turned off and age them when I feel it is time. I keep my new born babies about a day or 2 then age them up. But all others when I feel it is time for my story.

How do you decide when it’s time for an elder to die?
brendhanbb
6 years ago
"QueenMercy;c-17281987" wrote:
"Pipersfun2;c-17281983" wrote:
"brendhan21;d-967732" wrote:
So I am curious how long you make your sims age do you leave it at the default way or do you make it so they age really slow or do you make them age really fast I am curious.

I keep mine sims aging turned off and age them when I feel it is time. I keep my new born babies about a day or 2 then age them up. But all others when I feel it is time for my story.

How do you decide when it’s time for an elder to die?

this is an interesting question.