"Sharonia;c-17766924" wrote:
If you have full aging on they eventually all die and your game will be left with nothing but poorly dressed random townies.
Basically this. ^
Yeah I've actually rebooted many townie households after getting mods that slow down aging. They were all dead with like the smurfs running around randomly everywhere instead. I have it very long, set manually now, like a couple hundred or thousand days per age. I let them keep "ageing", but slow enough that they're not all dead before I even know they exist or get a chance to come back and play them again.
EDIT: Probably the best would be to have NPC ageing off.
As for skills, yes they do build skills, but only if they show up in the area where you are playing an active household. That's why you see them run to a computer, or start jogging, or painting, cooking, mixing drinks or whatever. Of course the social skills build too. I haven't seen any NPC's randomly run up and start building a rocket-ship though, heh!
