Question for those who play with aging off??

I grow attached to my Sims and thus don't feel like seeing them age and/or die. So why replace Sims I'm perfectly happy with? I play their life story and enjoy having them try out new stuff that is added to the game or mods. They are my little creations that I care for :)

I kind of feel like they are on the same time line as me kind of? I don't want to have to worry about working against the clock to get things done on them. I also get attached to them and feel like all that work I put into them to skill them up will go to waste if I let them die off.
If I get tired of them I put them in my library with notes on what they are high skilled in.
I wonder how people play with aging on :D ...

After putting so much work into them, I don't want them to die as quickly as the game does.

I'm like you @hunniboo1 and create tons of new people. In my first save when I got the game my first sim lived for a total of like...500+ days because I had aging off while playing other households. But I didn't have active household aging on either. Everyone got all out of sync with each and it is still driving me insane. Learned the hard way to keep active aging on and sort of play somewhat rotationally to keep things ordered because I want people to age, just not without me ?.

I just have so many Sims...and then if I get bored of a household I just mark them as unplayed and they age with the townies and move on. I have them saved to my library so nbd.

Props to those of you who are able to play the way I can't!! It's difficult and stressful for me but I think it's great that some people can focus on families super long-term. If I didn't have them age I'd just get bored of all of them and create more new people and the cycle would get so much worse. ?

I play with aging off when I'm trying to accomplish something and don't want to stress about a time limit. (Aka "Better get that potty training done if you wanna be a top-notch toddler. Hurry up! You're going to be a child in twelve hours!") Otherwise I tend to leave it on, though the speed varies depending on how much time I want to spend with the family.

Any Sim I can't bear to part with just becomes a vampire. I also have ghosts as active household members when I thought I could part with the Sim in question and then turned out I couldn't.

As someone mentioned above, I also don't like constraints in my game. I get the most enjoyment if I don't have to worry about time and I can play this game however I want. I get attached to my sims so there's no way I'm letting the game decide when it's their time to go.

I still enjoy creating new sims and placing them in my saves, but they're pretty much secondary characters for my main sims to interact with.

I play with the aging at super long, but not entirely off. I do this for the active household until I figure it's time for them to move on - the kids can't stay kids forever, and at some point, they have to have their own lives that I must follow. When I hit that point, I let the normal aging takeover again until I get to a new pausing point.

Like so many others have said, I get attached to my sims. I can't bear for them to die. I make a lot of sims and have many different saves that I rotate between so I don't get bored with them. I would feel like I was wasting my time increasing their skills and job levels if I let them die, and I'd feel like I was losing a friend.

I know time is supposed to move more quickly in The Sims than IRL, but I've always considered 1 sim week to be 1 real week. I use MC Command Center to slow down time so my days take longer to get through, and I just look at it like I'm living their lives along with them. It's relaxing for me and non-stressful.

I found some old CD disks a while back that had The Sims 2 backed up from 10 years ago and I still had all my sims that I played with back then.

I don't really know how I'm doing it, I just do. Playing with aging on feels just too rushed and fast-paced to me, and I want to relax while playing, so I turn aging off until I think all my sims are "ready" for aging up. Playing generational is just turning me off completely because it feels like the only purpose of my sims is starting a family of their own and dying later, which is kinda depressing to think about :D

I’ve always played with aging off. It’s one of the options I like most about TS4. I play a household for one sim week or maybe longer if I’m working on increasing their skills, getting a job promotion, or a certain storyline that needs more time. I usually age up babies to toddlers quickly because babies are my least favorite life stage. Teens and young adults are my favorites and with all the mods I have, like after school activities and college, there’s just so much for them to do. Some households I play more than others because they’ve become my favorites, and I have so many ideas for their lives. If I lose interest in a sim, I just put him/her in my unplayed households so they can still be in my sim world without taking up a played household slot.

I like to take as long as I want in my gameplay and also use MCCC to slow down the time because the regular time setting is too quick for me. If I played with aging on, things would get out of whack because I have so many played households. I’d also feel too rushed to do everything within the confines of the aging system and that’s not fun for me.