What age do you play a character? Considering child up

I tend to play generationally, on normal life span so I don't stick with the same sim for too long. But I do get attached to my sims. What I find though is that when I create a baby for my favourite sim, I really like the baby and toddler because it's part of my favourite sim. And once it becomes a child and teenager I have already started to become attached to it as its own sim person because I'm investing time into building its memories and life events, and I care about what happens to it. So, by the time it becomes a YA I've become more focussed on that sim than it's parents, and it's parents (who were originally my favourite) start to become periphery characters, and the cycle begins again with the next generation.

I play all of the sims, but my focus and attention gradually just naturally shifts onto the new sim. I'm not sure if that's what will happen for you too. But I find that when the sim is a child, if I think of it as starting the journey to creating my YA, it feels quite easy to play - I'm not sure if that's what you mean? I think you should just give it a go and see what happens - maybe you'll find a new way of playing you like even more? :)

I once played a challenge where I had to have a family with a toddler and was only allowed to play/control the toddler through the rest of their life. It was interesting and fun and I grew so attached to that sim. I usually start my plays with a YA, marry them off have a family and like asimbsim, when the children grow to teens my focus starts shifting and eventually I play them as main sims and the parents that i start out with become more background. But it was fun playing a toddler through their entire life. It's actually fairly easy, their aspirations are not that difficult to complete, a lot easier than if your focus is on older sims.

I play all the life cycles as I like generational play with various families on rotation.

Like Sharonia above me says, I play them all. When I find two sims I really like I play them into adulthood then have them start a family and play the family from birth on up, choose the one I like the best from the children and play that one and repeat the cycle. My play style fits very well with legacies because of that, so I do a lot of those.

I usually start out as young adult ( most end up becoming a vampire or aging off due to not wanting to let go lol), but recently started one as a teen on her own. I also have made a game with a teen and her younger sister that started out as a toddler ( and is now a child) as I made them having ran away after losing their mother in an "accident" and trying to escape the folks that were after them so they hid in Forgotten Hollow.

My playstyle is a generational/rotation play so I have all lifestages present. Even elders. But whenever I start over, including when I started my very first play (the one I play almost exclusivly) I always start with YAs. Usually one Sim or a married couple.

If I do a roomate/apartments household the ages can vary. For instance, I created a 6 Sim household that had one teen and one toddler. It was a Single mom (YA) with a toddler. A married couple (both adult) with the teen and one single woman (adult) to fit into my 3 apartment building I downloaded from the Gallery and customised.

Thought I'd be the only one here :lol: . But like many others here, I enjoy the "cradle to grave" experience. So I basically explore each life stage throughout their lives. Starting ages vary on the beginning story ( grandparents raising a grandson, single mom, etc.) but any sim born afterward gets a full experience of life stages. I rotate between the whole household, giving a fair amount of time on all of them.

I usually would start how the game sets us to play with Young Adults, but sometimes i think of adding an older adult parent with a baby just to focus on the baby and then making it into a sim full of experience and story.

I usually play Young Adults but then play with their kids if they get any. I did play as a teen brother and sister one time and it was pretty nice since I never made the parents enforce rules on them or anything. They were pretty wild.

I tend to start off with Young Adults or Adults with ageing off so they stay that way forever. I just get too attached. If children are born, I usually like them to remain with their parent/s as toddlers or children. However, I do have one vampire household where I plan for their daughter to reach young adulthood and have a child of her own before her father turns her into a vampire. The grandson will want to break away from his evil vampire mob family though and be a 'good vampire', so he may have children that reach the elder stage, as long as they don't decide to join their infamous great grandfather of course. I do feel this will be really fun to play out and it will be nice to see my sims grow and the different journeys they take.

I also have one main household/save that I'm very attached to and have been playing since I started with TS4. The couple now have a toddler (aged up from baby) and I do plan on eventually ageing her up to a child, although I want to enjoy the toddler stage a while longer. She will likely remain an eternal child for her vampire daddy though since I plan for her to die and return as a ghost, which will be a first for me. That's the thing when you play occults - life doesn't end with death!