My Aching Back...

I'm 28, but some days, I feel much older due to pain (I have rheumatoid arthritis). Be young doesn't equal with health!

oooof that sounds awfully painful @HillyBeth hope you feel better soon!

@MoonlightGraham great that your daughter is your Sim buddy! I was reading your ”What should we call this” - thread too. Lovely stuff lovely stuff! It must be very special to be able to play the game together as a family. ❤️

As for those elders….I play with aging off so that I can control the life stages manually. I do this similarly to how @VeeDub treats aging.
It starts from the teen stage. My teens look more like children in the first half of their teenage years and I make them gradually look older. To help me achieve this I do use height sliders and various different skin detail cc. I work my way through each life stage until they reach ancient elder - the ones who get the back spasms. I shrink ancient elders to make them look a bit older and more vulnerable and I give them slightly bigger ears and hands too. Yeah I love my ancient elders! ?

As for my own back…oh dear..
Physically I just turned into an adult adult but my entire body resembles an old crumbly rock. When I’m not sitting on my stone butt I’m quite active and go for hikes and runs and such. Not like a human though. More like a rollin’ stone.
Before this entire pandemic I used to get sport massages from this tiny, Thai lady. She literally had to sit on my back to fix and realign the darn thing and she’d be giving out “YOU LIKE ROCK, YOU LIKE ROCK!” And I’d hear her own poor little knuckles crack…I still feel guilty.

The only thing that could possible fix my back would be a Monster Truck.

Ergonomic gaming/ office chairs do help indeed and I’m currently saving for one that can also cook me up some nice din dins. ?

Gosh I feel ancient compared to the rest of you! Early fifties here :(

At my age, all the things I did when I was younger are coming back to haunt me... that back injury from martial arts, that shoulder injury from ice-skating, that ankle injury from mountain climbing and the rsi from all the years working (and playing) at a computer. I sure do feel like a sim elder some days.

I don't have a chair that cooks me dinner but I do have a desk that goes up and down :D

I'm an elder and it's me knees, not me back! :) <3

@HillyBeth Ouch. Both those falls sound really painful, and the shower curtain rod smacking you in the head added a super-annoying feature to the sequence. I can imagine you didn't feel like reinstalling your shower curtain at that very moment, mid-shower. Feel better soon!

@CAPTAIN_NXR7 Thank you for reading "WSWCT." That was intended to be its working title, because we couldn't post it without one. It's almost certainly going to stick, though...like a family who ends up naming their dog "Puppers" because that's what they called him when they brought him through the door. That family is my sister's, by the way. :D

Z makes a wonderful Sims buddy. It's so much fun to share her creativity with her. She has always loved stories as much as I do, and The Sims gives us a new way to create stories together. She still loves spending time with her mom and me. Z and her mom do all kinds of crafts together (I am not allowed near the craft tables except under the most extreme circumstances), and she is my sports and gaming partner. The three of us particularly enjoy running and playing board games together.

@elanorbreton You are far from ancient. You're an Adult in Simsworld, just like I am. No back cracking for you. :smile: Your words about old mishaps haunting you now is giving me pause, however. Right now it's just my aforementioned "weather shoulder," but I couldn't stop rolling my ankle over playing sports in high school, and I'm anticipating some trouble there.

@MoonlightGraham I'll be getting a new one, preferably curved, soon. I hope.

@mightysprite It did hurt, but only for a minute. I have a tendency to bang my elbow into our shower wall, and no one usually comes to see if I'm okay, so that was a first. I'm just glad my dad didn't run into the room since I was indisposed. Would have scarred both of us for life! LOL!!!

"EA_Cade;c-18025150" wrote:
I love that you 2 are playing together, that is super cute <3

Also, I'm 36 and I've been cracking, creaking, and complaining for at least a decade at this point.

I'm soon to turn 67, a female, mother of three, grandmother of 13. Ruptured brain aneurysm survivor. My hair is still mostly red, but I do have white hairs interspersed. While I don't run marathons (and never did) I don't have the maladies that our Elder Sims often have instantaneously upon aging up. I do hope you keep pressing the issue. This is incorrect for many RL people. My mother died in her 80s and until Alzheimer's stole her ability to walk at all, she walked fully upright, not even a hint of a Dowager's hump. Her back was as straight as an arrow. Everybody ages differently. I would dearly love to see that reflected in this 'life-simulation' game. It could even be a random thing and the player never knows which Sim will be afflicted versus the ones who won't until they're several days into their Elderhood. Merry Christmas!

"GalacticGal;c-18025840" wrote:
I would dearly love to see that reflected in this 'life-simulation' game. It could even be a random thing and the player never knows which Sim will be afflicted versus the ones who won't until they're several days into their Elderhood. Merry Christmas!

This. The elder walkstyle should be a random trait that can be triggered during elderhood, maybe the likelihood could depend on the Sims traits and livestyles.
It could also bei great if there where an elder-gloomy trait, an elder-loner, an elder-hates-children, elder-childish and an elder-family-oriented trait, and one that removes the ability for the Sim to be controlled by the player (like Alzheimer, but in a light way). All these could be random reflecting the changes in character elderhood and it's challenges can bring. Maybe they could just roll one or two traits upon aging to an elder or it could be triggered in a similar way childhood phases are. Most of the current traits would work as a new trait during elderhood (e.g. lactose intolerant, freegan and such would totally work). Players could opt out of traits they don't like if there was a new one added during aging up like there ist for teens. They'd just have to add a few elder specific ones in top of the existing traits (like the ones I mentioned earlier). It would be a great addition with not that much work to make it happen.
I generally hope adults will get some more love with an upcoming (Generations) pack.

I would love it if elders were randomly different. Or not so random... like, sims who have kept fit all their lives could be spritely elders who walk normally.

Some could age with a cane requirement. Some could be set for a long elder life, some with much shorter.

I'd also like different greys and partial greys for hair. And a forgetfulness trait (I already have that irl lol).