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8 years ago

[Guide] Aging and retirement in The Sims Mobile

Learn all about the aging process and how to retire your Sims to get Heirlooms and earn rewards in The Sims Mobile.

Playable Sims will always be adults. That means you can’t play as your Sims’ children, but you can interact with them.

How do I age my Sims up?

Sims will naturally age up as you perform actions, complete events, and gain skills in the game.

What are traits?

Traits give all sorts of bonuses to your Sims that help them in different ways. Some increase chances for XP or daily login bonuses, and others are better for certain kinds of events.

Traits give special bonuses while you’re playing, like the chance to earn more Simoleons or get more Hobby XP.

How do I give my Sims traits?

There are a couple of ways you can give your Sims traits.

  • When you create a Sim, you get to choose one of their traits. And each birthday that they have, you get to choose another new trait for them.
  • If your Sims have children, you can give them the Good Upbringing trait by interacting with them during special Children Events. The more events you have with your children, the more their Good Upbringing trait will improve. This trait will help with events when your Sims are adults.

Your Sims that you create as adults will have four total traits by the time they retire. Sims with the Good Upbringing trait will end up with five traits.

Learn more about Children events and the rewards and bonuses they can give your Sims. 

What’s the deal with retirement?

Sims can retire at level 16, but only if you want them to. Your Sims will let you know when they are ready to retire.

When your Sims retire, they will leave behind an Heirloom for your other Sims. These Heirlooms can be used to earn new traits, career levels, and hobbies. You can now purchase Heirlooms in the store.

Have duplicate Heirlooms? You can sell them to get more Heirloom Tickets.

Learn more about Heirlooms and your Lifestyle Rating.

 

But I’ll miss my Sims when they retire?

They won’t be gone! They’ll still hang around your lot so you can interact with them, but they just become non-playable characters (NPCs).

Your Sims can also be mentored by retired Sims so they can earn career and hobby XP. Learn more about mentoring and Family Events.

And when they retire, you’ll get Heirlooms from them that will help you unlock more things to do in the game. It’s a win-win all around!

Passing on an Heirloom

When you get an Heirloom after retirement, you’ll be taken to the Heirloom screen in the store. Here you can:

  • Open the Retirement Chests that your retired Sim gave you
  • Purchase three chests with different tickets: Heirloom Tickets, Super Heirloom Tickets, and Luxe Heirloom Tickets
  • Earn free Family Chests every 20 hours that include rewards, like Tickets.

Source: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/the-sims/the-sims-mobile/aging-and-retirement-in-the-sims-mobile/

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    So my first lot of sims have retired about 5-6 days ago, how long will it take for my second lot of sims to retire? I do play quite a lot.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Is it true you have 24 hrs for a baby to age and 42 for a toddler to age. I finished a event with the toldler and the baby.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Yeah you have to wait 24 for a baby and 48 for a toddler. All though my 3rd toddler took 72 hours to age up but I’m not sure why
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    If you check the wall sof your house there should be a family portrait somewhere. Mine popped up above my sofa.


    While I'm here, anyone know if it's normal for your child to age and then not be playable and need to go through the relationship nonsense with his parents? Becuase that's what happened to me and I feel like my family tree is dead already. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    My original Sim had the option to retire quite a few times but I kept cancelling it.
    Now I want to retire him as he has finished his Career and Hobby and he's helped with the Events but I am unable to manually select retirement for him.
    What can I do to finally retire him and Promote another Sim to replace him?

    Also, on a side note, my game constantly crashes when trying to play Videos so I am losing I don't know how many rewards. I keep doing the submit feedback option when it happens but I've had no response about it and quite frankly it's annoying me to say the least.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    I had also done this, I kept cancelling the Retirement Dialog of my Sim, I checked the trait Page and the Retire Option wasn't there, played a few days with him more and the Retirement Dialog re-appeared again, so I delayed his retirement and cancelled it, then I checked the Traits dialog for the Retire button, it was finally there.

    I don't know if this is a bug or something, but once a Sim is ready to Retire, and we don't want that option yet, it should be made available right away on the Traits Catalog.

    Also, we should have age bars, or something that says "x days until retirement", that would be neat. Just having "Every action ages up the Sim" is not enough to explain how they age (maybe since the Sim was made, the retirement day was already set?).

    I would like to clarify too that everyday, the Trait XP Bar is capped, so you can't learn traits after maxing out the day's cap. I guess this is to prevent something, I don't know, because I do not really believe in, "Have 4 traits, then your Sim will be ready to retire" thing. They should also think about removing the trait XP cap someday, traits are the gamemakers, not the age deciders. Traits are like the abilities of the Sims.

    Also, I've tracked some of my Sims Retirement Day and one of them was 1 week, the other being 9 days. I don't know how this system of aging works, it's never explained to the point.

    I also had a 3-trait Sim once, it was ready to retire, that Sim was with me for a week only too. That Sim did not max out Job Levels, nor the Hobby.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    When you retire your sim do they take with them the stickers they were awarded throughout the week?
  • cmtaustin's avatar
    cmtaustin
    8 years ago
    I wasn't ready to retire but accidentally hit the way-too-frequent popup.... Is there really no way to bring back a retired sim???

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