Lifespan….
So I’m curious has anyone ever played a lifespan in the Sims like “real life”? Like having the seasons on like we do in the real world and having aging on for a long time? I saw someone on Instagram k...
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There is at least one regular poster who syncs the seasons in game with real life (can’t remember who). I wouldn’t enjoy that. Sometimes in the dead of winter, it’s nice to pretend it’s sunny and warm. I wouldn’t want to be stuck in winter in my game, too. But mostly I would just get tired of being in the same season for so long. I also don’t see the point.
I was playing with aging on long lifespan for a while, and it was nice to not feel rushed to get things done. But man, it got boring when my adults ran out of things to do. They got to the top of their careers almost immediately (they had degrees) and they had hobbies but they mastered those, too. And sometimes it would make sense to add another hobby or interest. But it was tiring to keep remembering them all and I just wasn’t inspired anymore to play them. I wish there was an option between normal and long lifespans. Normal can feel like a rush to get things done and I don’t take part in as many social events. And it could feel like by the time my sim reached the top of their career, they were an elder and just about dead. But I don’t use a mod for lifespan yet.
Whichever lifespan is chosen, the young adult + adult lifespan is disproportionately short compared to the younger life stages. I always have my sims drink a potion of youth so their kids have time to grow up (and maybe have grandkids for them they’ll live to meet.) My ideal time to do this is when they’ve reached the end of Adulthood, they reset back to beginning of Adult and I make them look middle-aged. I feel this is the missing age group.
I could never play with aging permanently off or in sync with real life. I want to see them through the generations.
I was playing with aging on long lifespan for a while, and it was nice to not feel rushed to get things done. But man, it got boring when my adults ran out of things to do. They got to the top of their careers almost immediately (they had degrees) and they had hobbies but they mastered those, too. And sometimes it would make sense to add another hobby or interest. But it was tiring to keep remembering them all and I just wasn’t inspired anymore to play them. I wish there was an option between normal and long lifespans. Normal can feel like a rush to get things done and I don’t take part in as many social events. And it could feel like by the time my sim reached the top of their career, they were an elder and just about dead. But I don’t use a mod for lifespan yet.
Whichever lifespan is chosen, the young adult + adult lifespan is disproportionately short compared to the younger life stages. I always have my sims drink a potion of youth so their kids have time to grow up (and maybe have grandkids for them they’ll live to meet.) My ideal time to do this is when they’ve reached the end of Adulthood, they reset back to beginning of Adult and I make them look middle-aged. I feel this is the missing age group.
I could never play with aging permanently off or in sync with real life. I want to see them through the generations.
