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3 years ago

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[By Design] Life span duration changed for teen and adult sim

Product: The Sims 4
Platform: PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Italian
How often does the bug occur? every time
What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? all of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Just create a new adult or teen sim
What happens when the bug occurs? Adult sim on default normal lifespan have now 33 days left before aging to elder, while teens have 21 before young adult. It also affect npc household as tested on Goth family.
What do you expect to see? On normal lifespan adult sim should have 24 days before aging up, while teen should have 14
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now, i'm testing on default vanilla game folder
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Patch 26/07/2022

SimGuruNick
3 years ago
This was an intentional change, all age spans were changed slightly.

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xochiquetzl_xkvn
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
This is more feedback than a game issue, but.
I like the new normal lifespan settings, as I usually play on long and have one save on normal just because I have so many households in it, and my feeling was that toddler/child/teen were about right but YA/A were too short, so I like the added days on teen and adult.
As for long lifespan,though... what? Long lifespan has always been 4 times normal, so why SHORTEN long lifespan on YA and A? Surely that's not right. I couldn't help but notice in LilSimsie's aging bug coverage that her test Sim on long lifespan also had 88 days as a YA/A before your patch (but aged 40 or so every time he went into CAS). This I DON'T like.
Perhaps you're still working on it, and just wanted to quickly push out a fix so our Sims would stop dying, which is not only legit but appreciated. But if 88 days instead of 96 for YA/A for long lifespan is by design... sorry, not a fan.
SqueamishNerd
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@SimGuruNick

Is it by design that the long lifespan was shortened?

For long lifespan children and teens were changed from 56 days to 52 (losing 4 days for each), and young adults and adults were changed from 94 days to 88 (losing 6 days for each). This is a total of 20 days lost for the long lifespan.

For the normal lifespan, teens have exactly 3 weeks now, while for long lifespan teens used to have exactly 8 weeks, but now they have 7 weeks and 3 days. Wouldn't it make more sense if they had whole weeks for long lifespan too?
aikelee
3 years ago
This is still an issue. I'm so sick of sims getting older so quickly, i have mulitple households that i play and by the time i go them all they have all aged so much. MCC Commander is on and all set correctly, there is a seriously big glitch that needs addressing.