Townies given wrong ages?

I think a lot of has it do with clothing/hair style and personality rather than actual looks. At least for me. Like, based on Eliza's personality, I feel she and Bob should definitely be adults and not young adults. Like the whole idea of her character doesn't seem like a young adult to me. She seems way too mature.

Catrina Lynx, on the other hand, I can defintely see being in her 20s or early 30s as well at most. Although, this could be because I'm only 23 myself, have never had a boyfriend yet and I'm a bit of a crazy-cat lady too. Lol. And same with Ulrike, I feel she's a young adult as well. Actually, I find Maaikee to be more "unrealistic" as far as being a young adult goes compared to Ulrike. And as I mentioned, I think it has to do with her hairstyle and the way she dresses. Same with Supriya Delgato. Looks-wise I can defintely envision her as a young adult, but her clothing style makes her look muuuuch older. And I can't remember who numbers 5-8 are, but yeah, they defintely seem like adults to me and not young adults.

And on the flipside, I think there are some premades who look too young to be adults and yet are classified as such, like Lana Mckinnon for instance.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/sims/images/4/44/Lana_McKinnon.png
I am constantly thinking she's a young adult based on how she looks/dresses but she's one of the professors in Discover University. Which is super off-putting for me. And although he looks like an adult, I feel Marcus Flex should be a young adult based on his personality. I mean, of course adults can still be non-committal, but the whole "unemployed, non-committal" thing fits a young adult better in my opinion. Plus, there's the fact that he lives with three young adults who are clearly supposed to be 20 somethings, although I do normally have to make a few changes to Jade to make her better represent her age. (ie I give her a different career and replace the "neat" trait with romantic normally.)

This makes me want to conduct an experiment with some of these characters, and see what a difference clothing + hair can make, lol.

Also, for reference, I feel the "Adult" stage starts somewhere between 35-40 on Sims.

I usually don't go by their looks. Some people look younger than they are, some people older. What does bother me is young adults being parents to teens. If I remember correctly this applies to Bella goth.

Semi related but I've been confused about something for years lol

I could have swore Marcus Flex from Get Together was shipped as a young adult. He is in my main save which is nearly six years old. But in every fresh save this man is an Adult.

I don't understand because the rest of his housemates are YAs so why is he the only adult? And I just FEEL like he was a YA when GT first came out and along the way some patch aged him up. Or maybe I aged him down? Idk. This sim confuses me.

In addition I thought Katrina was a YA at first, living with her sisters Nina and Dina.

More on topic I'm actually surprised the Harris couple are YAs, and I've been playing with them all this time.

"Atreya33;c-17861582" wrote:
I usually don't go by their looks. Some people look younger than they are, some people older. What does bother me is young adults being parents to teens. If I remember correctly this applies to Bella goth.

Easily explained by Bella drinking elixir of youth at some point of her life ;)

In my personal game, I consider young adults to be anywhere from 18 to 39. Adults are 40 to 66.

To me, young adult is from 18-39, so I think they all look like young adults except Cletus and Faye. I actually thought they were adults until I saw this thread. They look older, plus they have a teenage son. I don’t think it’s that weird for young adults to have teenagers if they’re at the end of the young adult stage, but I think most of the premades are at beginning of the young adult stage when you start a new game, which is a bit weird.

"mia_noelle97;c-17861971" wrote:
To me, young adult is from 18-39, so I think they all look like young adults

True, it largely depends how you see "young adults". For me I see young adult as the start of adulthood, when someone's still more teenaged and when people start to mature and settle down (usually in their early/mid 30s) that's when adulthood starts. I feel like for the most part these sims look 35+ to me so if you see late 30s as young adults they do fit in that category.

The life stages are very open to interpretation. By definition, "young adult" implies someone in their late teens to late twenties, but looks-wise, I agree with previous posters that "adult" sims look too old to be in their 30s. (There are, of course, exceptions in real life, too.) To me, young adults are sims between 20 and 40, adults are between 40 and 60, and elders are 60+, so I have no problem with the premades pictured above all being young adults, in fact some of them even look like teenagers to me with their round faces and perfectly smooth skin.

The only one that surprised me was Vlad being classified as a young adult despite looking like an elder. I'm almost certain that this was an oversight, because while the explanation that premades are made as young as possible so they can live longer makes sense for regular sims, vampires don't have that problem. He could at least have been an adult.

"GrumpyGlowfish;c-17862048" wrote:
The life stages are very open to interpretation. By definition, "young adult" implies someone in their late teens to late twenties, but looks-wise, I agree with previous posters that "adult" sims look too old to be in their 30s. (There are, of course, exceptions in real life, too.) To me, young adults are sims between 20 and 40, adults are between 40 and 60, and elders are 60+, so I have no problem with the premades pictured above all being young adults, in fact some of them even look like teenagers to me with their round faces and perfectly smooth skin.

The only one that surprised me was Vlad being classified as a young adult despite looking like an elder. I'm almost certain that this was an oversight, because while the explanation that premades are made as young as possible so they can live longer makes sense for regular sims, vampires don't have that problem. He could at least have been an adult.

or maybe its because people would find it incredibly suspicious that this young dude keep being young dude and he has to masquerade and pretend at least every 100 years that he old so human sims don't get spooked too much and flee before he can have snack

Well now I feel old. ROFL