Installed seasons into my existing game. Family I've been playing for year+ has twins who are toddlers. They were previously both the same age. After installing seasons and viewing the calendar I see the birthdays have been added to calendar with the twins on separate weeks entirely. I'm upset they are no longer seen as 'twins', even though I can just manually age up the other twin at same time I'm not sure why the age would randomly change upon install. Is this a bug or just a result of randomly inserting birthdays changing the ages?

Let's tag @SimGuruNick and @SimGuruGeorge so they can see this on Monday morning

"GalacticGal;c-16565528" wrote:I've created my own thread on this, but I'll share that I created my entire family of five in CAS. I made the three boys child age, and their two little sisters (NOT twins) as toddlers. The girls have different birth dates, which suits my purpose just fine. However, all three boys are set to age up, by the calendar, on the very same day. I want to space them into their birth order — something I wish we could do in CAS, which would be very helpful, but I imagine too complicated. If, as time goes on and the seasons go by, they still share the same birth date, will I be able to manually age them up?You can definitely do that, I grew a few sims up early because it fit the spacing I wanted for them and their siblings better.

It's definitely a bug, as I posted it on the bugs site and others confirmed they were able to duplicate the same issue as well with twins suddenly having different birthdays. I know it's possible for twins to share the same birthday, but somehow installing seasons changed their age up days to being a week apart. Hoping by manually aging them up it will put them on the same day and not keep reverting it.

I am also playing on long...starting to wonder if that is the issue. When I installed Seasons, I noticed the ages of many of my sims changed not just the twins. I thought I was the only one.

I don't have Seasons installed, but I can confirm that the ages are now randomized since the last patch. I was following this tutorial on modding XML files where you change the duration of a life stage, and when I looked at the life stage data, it was slightly different from what the tutorial showed. All life stages except baby are now randomized within specified ranges.

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30 Replies

LaurenLoser
7 years ago
"vintagesaturday;d-942803" wrote:
Installed seasons into my existing game. Family I've been playing for year+ has twins who are toddlers. They were previously both the same age. After installing seasons and viewing the calendar I see the birthdays have been added to calendar with the twins on separate weeks entirely. I'm upset they are no longer seen as 'twins', even though I can just manually age up the other twin at same time I'm not sure why the age would randomly change upon install. Is this a bug or just a result of randomly inserting birthdays changing the ages?

I think there must be some sort of bug. I noticed I’m playing on long age setting and my child who should have 52 days until age up showed having 51 more days even after I played for 2 sim weeks.
cozycorg
Rising Vanguard
7 years ago
I'm also playing on long.
Stina1701A
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I am also playing on long in my testing game and both of my Sims' birthdays are fortunatly in winter (I started on spring and am still on first year btw) but I do NOT want them to age up yet. Their YA span should be well over 80 days but counting the days leading up the birthdays... It will start their aging WAY too early! Hopefully it will be fixed.
aabroady
7 years ago
"vintagesaturday;d-942803" wrote:
Installed seasons into my existing game. Family I've been playing for year+ has twins who are toddlers. They were previously both the same age. After installing seasons and viewing the calendar I see the birthdays have been added to calendar with the twins on separate weeks entirely. I'm upset they are no longer seen as 'twins', even though I can just manually age up the other twin at same time I'm not sure why the age would randomly change upon install. Is this a bug or just a result of randomly inserting birthdays changing the ages?

I have a set of twin children that after Seasons now have their birthdays showing as 2 days apart on the calendar which kind of irks me too.
cozycorg
Rising Vanguard
7 years ago
So glad I'm not only one seeing this issue, but so frustrating that it's happening.
LolaLuvsSims
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Let's tag @SimGuruNick and @SimGuruGeorge so they can see this on Monday morning
kitty29041985
7 years ago
I also realized that it is going faster...
elliebreton
Legend
7 years ago
Yes all of my sets of twins now have different birthdays to each other :'(
jacallon
7 years ago
My twins still have their birthday togetherbut i can't set an event for the day i want. It keeps changing it :(
psychicbuckeye1
7 years ago
my twins have different birthdays as a day apart. which is not uncommon if they are night babies and born between 11 pm and after midnight. heh. but i went to blow out the candles for the older one and now the game is on a age up freeze. cant save. gonna have to start off from my last save ugh.