Now Is The Right Time to Introduce Customizable Life Span

@Eleri , I personally prefer my sims to age alongside with the world. Allowing the span of each life stage to be customizable will ensure that other unplayed sims age appropriately and logically. Otherwise, I’ll have to actively enter Manage World to manually age them up, which would be a waste of players’ time.

It's a huge part of why I finally gave in and downloaded a mod (MCCC). If they would give us that option in an unmodded game I would love that.

And it's mostly to make things longer, not shorter. To get the more realistic age spans I like (based on how old you should be when the child you had in your early 20s ages to teen and YA) I need longer YA and Adult stages. Otherwise on normal they are elders before they should turn 50. And on long I would have some stages that were correct and others that I had to keep a spreadsheet to remember when to manually age up. I play 20+ families in rotation so having the game acknowledge when I want them to age is very useful to me.

We already have the ability to age children up when ever we feel like it without having to use cheats. What would life span customization add to that? I almost never wait until birthdays to age up infants, toddlers or children. When the teen years were the same length as the child years I would sometimes allow teens to age up on their birthday, depending on their story. Since the base game update for HSY, I now always age up teens well in advance.