What's Your Sims' Lifespan?

My Sims age up when I feel like they've hit the right time to do that. Sometimes I'll go around the worlds and age up lots of them. I play pregnancies on their default length. Much easier than fussing with it.

I play on long lifespan, but has modified it so teens have shorter a livespan. I work with two weeks/season which means a year is 56 days, so I try to make sure they have their birthdays on the same day, so baby+infant+toddler = 56 days (which is 2 days more than normal I think); child and teen 56 days each (which is half the normal teen lifespan) and then the standard for the rest. Sometimes I add days to the adult lifespan because I think it's a bit too short in comparison to the rest.

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I usually play a custom age span where one year = one week but have been experimenting with slowing that down to one year = two weeks. One year = one week isn't too dissimilar to normal in some circumstances but YA and Adult in particular are expanded.

I have my lifespans on long, with aging off.
I tend to age my Sims pretty quickly until they are either children or teens. Plus, longer life spans and aging off means my Sims have more kids.
Once my population gets too big, I may turn aging on and give them short/normal lives to reduce the population naturally.

I have a custom system for aging and lifespans in my save. My system is heavily based on the calendar and seasons, so everything is measured in weeks. In my save, one sim year is eight weeks long (two weeks per season).

• Newborn (skip it)
  
• Infant (4 wks; 1-2)
  
• Toddler (4 wks; 3-4)
  
• Child (8 wks; split 9-10, 11-12)
  
• Teen (8 wks; split 15-16, 17-18)
  
• Young Adult (24 wks; split 20-25, 26-30, 31-35)
  
• Adult (32 wks; split 36-40, 41-45, 45-50, 55-60)
  
• Elder (TBD; 60+)
  

I know, I play one generation of my sims for a very long time!

I keep my game on the long lifespan.

I have aging off, and I age sims up manually when it fits the story. The only elders in my saves are the premades who were already elders when the game starts. Any sims who are adults or younger never reach the elder life stage. Deaths only happen to the unplayed households that I leave to the mercy of NS. I'm too attached to my favorite sims to see them die, though I suppose since there's no risk of dying of old age I could start aging some of them up to elders.?

Short because I tend to get super bored fast with longer lifespans (although that's a lot better now since I started to create a story of my Sims' life), but since short lifespan got a lot longer anyway with the recent changes and the addition of infants it's fine for me. I also like to have a challenge regarding my Sims' money, skills and career and don't want all of them to max everything super easily so that's also a reason.

I used a mod to shorten pregnancy time for a while (2 days instead of 3), but I stopped using it because I didn't like that NPCs got even more children this way (I enjoy Neighborhood Stories but it was just a little too much).

I play with aging off because I want to really spend time with my characters. Because I have Seasons, I try to semi-consciously follow a "real" timeline... manually aging characters when a certain number of years have passed (assuming Teen is roughly 14-17, Young Adult is 18-29, Adult is 30 - mid 60s and Elder is 65+ ... Toddlers and Children I tend to age up a little faster). Of course, I change up the length of a season as it suits me so some "years" are four sim-weeks long while others are much, much longer.

Pregnancy I want to set to three seasons... though after leaving poor Morgan pregnant for nine full Sims-weeks, I've decided to shorten seasons during any actively played pregnancy to one Sim-week per season.

I’ve got it set to Long but I see that as the maximum lifespan. I still want to age up my sims when I feel they’re ready and have achieved all I wanted to do with them. I previously had ageing turned off with the same aim in mind, but found that I just didn’t age anybody up at all and I could drift for sim weeks without actually achieving anything with some sims. I’m hoping that having a lifespan ‘deadline’ will help focus me, without the pressure I felt from shorter lifespans. I also hated having to kill off elders myself (even using MCC), so they’ll probably get to live their full Long elder number of days.