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?

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"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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GalacticGal
Legend
7 years ago
"icmnfrsh;c-16590738" wrote:
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.

Indeed, that's curious. I tend to age my Sims up when I want to. I also play on Long.
Poohmom4
7 years ago
My twins and one set of triplets are no longer sharing birthdays either.
justme22
7 years ago
I wonder if you go ahead and age up the Sims on the same day if that’ll reset the birthdays to be on the same date the following year?
keekee53
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"icmnfrsh;c-16590738" wrote:
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.

are you playing on long?
icemanfresh
Legend
7 years ago
"keekee53;c-16591354" wrote:
"icmnfrsh;c-16590738" wrote:
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.

are you playing on long?

Just normal. I'm assuming the age ranges shown in the game files are for the normal lifespan.
rosemow
Hero
7 years ago
A simmer has posted about the new age ranges in this link thread
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/943487/age-lengths-have-changed
GalacticGal
Legend
7 years ago
"rosemow;c-16591489" wrote:
A simmer has posted about the new age ranges in this link thread
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/943487/age-lengths-have-changed

Thank you for posting this.
cozycorg
Rising Vanguard
7 years ago
"stilljustme2;c-16591246" wrote:
I wonder if you go ahead and age up the Sims on the same day if that’ll reset the birthdays to be on the same date the following year?

Nope. When the first twin auto aged, I aged the second one in hopes it would reset and put on same day - yet they're still now a day apart. I can't get them back on the same day as it was prior to this update. Hopefully in future they can address this as it's disappointing, I really loved that I had twins at random and liked them aging up together automatically.
Illandrya
Rising Veteran
7 years ago
"vintagesaturday;c-16625086" wrote:
"stilljustme2;c-16591246" wrote:
I wonder if you go ahead and age up the Sims on the same day if that’ll reset the birthdays to be on the same date the following year?

Nope. When the first twin auto aged, I aged the second one in hopes it would reset and put on same day - yet they're still now a day apart. I can't get them back on the same day as it was prior to this update. Hopefully in future they can address this as it's disappointing, I really loved that I had twins at random and liked them aging up together automatically.

I also did the manual age up and it just made the birthdays further apart.
Lucy_Henley
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I have a set of triplets in San Myshuno, who I was playing with before I installed Seasons. Normal lifespan. The boy was scheduled to age to Teen the day before his sisters. I aged them all up on the same day. I have a few other sets of twins in different save games, I haven't played with those save games since downloading Seasons so I'll have to see how their ages are affected.

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