preferred lifespan?

Considering the calendar for Seasons, and now the coming of Discover University and the time required to earn a degree, I think that it is clear that the devs have developed the game with the Long setting in mind.

I turned off ageing, set my seasons to 3 weeks and age up my sims every year or two. They live in total for 10 sim years. :)

I used to play with the long lifespan, but I’m so busy nowadays and i don’t have time to play as much, so i changed it to normal, but with a few tweaks from MCCC. I still haven’t found the right amount of days for my play style, so i turn aging off if i feel like it’s going too fast

The long setting always. I like to keep my sims around for a long but still have them age.

Ageing is off. And I never get around to ageing them up. :lol:

Ageing's off here, too. I don't just play dolls - each and every Sim I play is special to me, and I dedicate time and effort to have them accomplished their things. Plus, it's so nice to come back and see them again after having taken a break from the game.

I use a combination of aging off and normal. I mostly have it off but every so often (no particular rhyme or reason) i age my sims a few days on normal. Sometimes I get fed up with the current generation and aging stays on (normsl speed) until the teens are young adults and then sging stops again for the new generation.

I like to have as much time with my Simmies as possible. I play on Long. That way I can age up my Sims, when I'm ready to do so. ;) I used to play on Epic in Sims3 and change the sliders around to suit me. In this iteration, I was annoyed we didn't get that, but I have found my own workaround. And yes, I do use MCCC and just learned recently why setting the number of days per age wasn't working for me, so now I have an option I didn't have before. But, I don't always keep to the 'script'. Sometimes I will age Sims up sooner than originally intended. For instance, once DU came out I wanted all four of my teens to go together and share a dorm room. Wanted to get them through university in one fell swoop. So, in order to keep their birth order, I started with the eldest and had him apply for a scholarship. The next day I aged him up. Leaving a day in between Sims, I did the same for his next younger brother. And so on and so forth until all four were aged up. Then I used the cheat for uni and sent Aaron to the uni of choice. I had him claim a bed, saved the game and went back to their home lot. I did the same until all four were at Britechester-U, in the same dorm and decided I would play each term back-to-back until they graduated. The only problem with this is that the only sister and youngest of the four, was about a day behind in her classes. But, it worked out in the end, except for a mod I was experimenting with. I have recently restarted them from a copy of the family held safely in My Library. I do like this method brought to us by Sims 4. I've even found a way to skill them up and save them with said skills. Makes for a shorter path to a restart. Sadly, I've suffered too many restarts. LOL But, I'll get over it.

Have always played on long and keep my seasons at 2 weeks. I find it suits DU as well. Just can't keep track of using age up on my own except for the odd one day earlier than the actual birthday. Still get that legacy feel to the game which I like and have time to see my sims accomplish some goals.

A while ago I'd say normal, but I've come to appreciate long lifespans a bit more, especially now when DU is here, and that really takes time. It would be a pity if my sims died of old age before they could graduate, wouldn't it? xD