Lifespan….

I play rotationally and have aging turned off most of the time.

I play with aging off, longest seasons available, and mod pregnancy to last at least 3 seasons. I like to keep babies in that stage for at least 4 seasons and toddlers for 12 seasons. I have different saves so I never get bored. One issue I have right now though is a Sim had an affair with the Cottage Living pub owners husband and I have to wait like 6 months irl to find out who the father of her baby is lol.

Edited to add: 2nd trimester in 12 days! >.<

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I truly admire people who play that way. I'm afraid I would be too impatient. But maybe I should try it once!

I'd be bored out of my mind if it took 2,000 in-game days (18 years at 28x4=112 days per year) to raise up a kid. I play on normal lifespan, aging off outside of played lots (for rotation reasons), and have a general rule about aging:

- Babies are aged up once they're Good Friends with both parents, using standard interactions with the crib
- Toddlers age up the hot minute they reach Lv5 in all toddler skills and Lv3 in potty
- Children and teens get their full life stage to rack up skill development and to get all the childhood aspirations plus all 9 scouting badges
- Once they're young adults, they go to college or move out on their own.

If that took forever and an age, it'd discourage me from doing it.

I think playing on a real time life span would be boring, it would be pretty much the same as turning ageing off which I also find boring. I like my game to be forever changing and evolving over time.

Oh, dear gods, I find the long lifespan too long when I have aging on lol. I play on a modified Normal lifespan, that is longer than the regular normal but not nearly as long as Long - about double Normal. That's long enough, thank you very much. However, on my Ultimate Sim Legacy/Genetacy saves, I play with aging off and have rules on when they age up.

- Babies age up immediately into toddlers.
- Toddlers age up when they learn all their skills to level 5 - Potty has to be at least level 2, but it doesn't HAVE to be 3, though it usually is.
- Children age up when they have completed the childhood aspirations.
- Teens age up when they have all the character values maxed.
- YA's age up when they finish their 1st degree.
- Adults age up when they've finished the careers.

It's a thing lol.

I feel like longer lifespan would make gaining skills, promotions, aspirations, generational wealth etc. easier than I want it to be. The game is pretty easy already. I don't want all my kids to be gifted or all my professionals to reach the top of their career.

Thanks for the input! For now I think I'll just stick it out to just the normal settings they already have in game. I do sort of want to try the normal life span but I too think I'd get way too bored of doing the same old same old and nothing changes.

I need an option between Normal and Long.

I've been playing on the long lifespan in my current save, because I wanted to play university students in a rotational save without turning aging off, but it's too long for the non student households. I altered the age spans slightly with MCCC in the save I was previously playing before the current one. I'm beginning to wish I turned aging on for all households instead of played household only.

"mightysprite;c-17990825" wrote:
I feel like longer lifespan would make gaining skills, promotions, aspirations, generational wealth etc. easier than I want it to be. The game is pretty easy already. I don't want all my kids to be gifted or all my professionals to reach the top of their career.

Every so often I'll rotate over to an NPC household and level up their careers close to or at the top. I think of my simworld as a fairly affluent place along the lines of the rich suburbs of cities like San Francisco or Washington, DC, the places that in the real world have median household incomes over $100,000.