12 life stages in TS5

Maybe they'll finally just have gradual aging instead of lifestages.

I love this idea! I feel like it could be quite a hassle having to add different interactions, animations and outfits for each life stage, but it would certainly make the game more immersive.

Nice idea but I can't imagine EA getting all the complexity right.

"navani;d-1006099" wrote:


As a gamer who loves creating large families and expanding them across cities, I'd like to see 12 life stages in The Sims 5 so that character growth isn't abrupt and truly mimics what happens in real life.

The attached image represents well what these phases would be, each with their respective heights and characteristics:
1 - Newborn
2 - Lap baby
3 - Baby
4 - Preschool
5 - Child
6 - Pre-teen
7 - Teenager
8 - Young adult
9 - Adult
10 - Middle age
11 - Elderly
12 - Elder

At the player's discretion, the lifespan could be short, normal, or long. What do you think?

I feel like there should be another stage between Middle age and Elderly. I would call it Senior citizen, where they have white hair but can still walk straight. A middle age person doesn't go straight to hunch back and a cane. As for the Elder stage, not all very old people walk with a frame. Maybe for old age, they could have variations on how mobile they are depending on how well they took care of their health during younger years.

Unless they truly spend time to make the 2 elder life stages unique like actually ageing the skin adding in more wrinkles age spots and create more of a challenge within the gameplay the older you get I'm not sure how much value a second elder life stage would add. This would be my worry about most life stages that are the same height and generally do the same thing how would middle age look different from adult and young adult if Sims 4 tells us anything it would not but if they could find unique gameplay for middle age beyond midlife crises I'd like to see it. The visuals and unique gameplay need to be there not just a nameplate that says age.

I think newborn, baby, toddler. child (then only because so many want) preteen, teen, young adult, adult, Senior (retiree), then the elderly as the last.

I am a senior and up until a year ago my mother was still alive so she would have been the elder. People live longer and healthier nowadays so I think our sims should be able to as well. :)


However if they wanted to make it 12 that would also be okay with me. Just stop punishing elders who can still jog or woohoo.

I think the issue is that they have to make each lifestage playable with unique things to make it seem interesting. The problem with TS4 is it is very shallow. Most players play with Young Adult lifestage, then either move on to other sims, or an entirely different save by the time they age up to adult.

More early life stages are good if they can round out a child's development. Babies change a lot in such a short time, unless they cleverly write the coding for it, a single life stage can be anything between Crib bound infant, using a bottle, to a crawling almost toddler who eats babyfood at a highchair. And then switches back at the sims will. Do you know what I mean? It's a thing I'm worried the Sims 4 infant life stage will be.

Though, if they do the clever coding, and can give us progression with an infant, that maybe learns skills to be able to crawl and be weaned, that will be even cooler.

I'd love to see this....particularly the middle-aged and late-elder life stages. The frailty of an elder could depend on their genetics and activity levels throughout their life. <3

I don't like playing kids , it's bad enough they are adding another baby stage. I usually just age them up to kids or teens so they can take care of themselves.

I actually personally like the way it is currently in The Sims 4 (apart from the fact I wish teenagers looked a little younger). That's just me though.