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texxx78
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

What combinations of lifespan/season lengh do you use?

I usually play with normal/14 days. But now i want to start a new save with small lifespan. The problem is i don't like 7 days seasons because i miss all the changing between seasons that i love, like snow slowly going away or tree leafs falling. With 7 days it seems everything is so quick...

What combinations of lifespan/season lengh do you use? Can you talk a bit about your experience?

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  • I play on Long and 14-day season. Unfortunately, I get too much rain, as a result. But playing 28 days was far too much like playing without seasons. 7 days is way too short. 21 days may be just right, but we haven't got that option.

    "Koteyka;c-17448962" wrote:
    I play with a custom 3 week season length so I can have all of the 12 months (1 week equals 1 month). My sims lifespan is tied to the seasons to make sure that they always age up on the day they were born (for example, if a sim was born on 2nd of March they will age up on the 2nd of March next year). An entire seasonal year is 84 days so it's 84 days for toddlers-teens (babies are included with toddlers), 168 for young adults, 252 for adults and 168 for elders. That's 840 sim-days and 10 seasonal years. Sometimes when I'm bored I change the season length to 1 week. Then I choose the most important week out of the three (usually the one with a birthday or a fun holiday) and pretend the next two happened offscreen (hope that makes sense :tongue:).

    I've been playing like that for over 9 months and so far it's the only way that works for me because it bugs my perfectionist mind when sims age up on different dates XD It's not ideal and I'm still annoyed with the fact that they have a lifespan of a dog or a cat (as in their "growing" years don't sync with "seasonal" years and a baby born in summer will celebrate their next birthday at the age of 7) but it still works better then the options provided in game.


    Would you mind telling me which mod you use to customize to that 21 duration?
  • "Koteyka;c-17449177" wrote:
    @GalacticGal it's a mod by LittleMsSam :) Here's the link!


    Thank you. I shall have to try that link again at a later time. Right now my browser won't let me on. Response time too slow. Face/palm.
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    Dannakyri
    Rising Veteran
    6 years ago
    I use the default season and regular lifespan - but I use MCC Command Center to increase adults life span from 24 to 32 and young adult from 24 to 27. Gives them a little more time with their grandparents.
  • I currently play with long lifespan and 7-day seasons. I like to have the time for my sims to get the most out of each life stage, and have them do a bunch of stuff before aging up. The normal lifespan seems a bit too rushed for me. Think I'm going to try 14-day seasons after reading this thread :)

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