Lifespan in The Sims 2 makes NO SENSE
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Honestly, I always saw aging up at "1 day away" as shortening Sims' lives. I use it sometimes to make a Sim a little bit older.
Marticore, how do you set your own age span in Sims 3? Ive been trying to come up with my own way instead of making things long but im pretty sure the length of aging and how its counted is different in 3 than 2, like it counts how many days they are than have left(?) if im not mistaken cause I know Adults can live up to 90 days or something like that, so I was curious on how you would plan your own aging system in that game to try to reflect real life?
For TS3 I usually go by 2 days = 1 year, so:
Baby - 2 days
Toddler - 10 days
Child - 14 days
Teenager - 14 days
Young Adult - 50 days
Adult - 40 days
Elder - 20 days
This way Sims live for minimum 150 days, so to me that is 75 years, but since elders usually don't die immediately, it can go up to 80+ years lived. Oh, and you need to have lifespan set to "long" to be able to do it!
I like this double lifespan in TS3 because there I only play with one family. In TS2 I usually do rotational gameplay, so I prefer 1 day = 1 year.
I think for Brandi it was more implied that she was a teen mom even though it isn’t technically possible in the game? That was just the vibes I got I guess
Yeah, same, it's sadly pretty common in families with poor income
@@kitkatboard exactly. sometimes we have to ignore game mechanics to the sake of storytelling
The crazy thing is, is you have a 2nd child when the 1st child becomes a teen, by the time the 2nd child becomes a teen, the 1st will still be a teen.
I kinda like this cus I like to play my child sims together.
@adam cecic PFFHAHA
@adam cecic wha... What???
@adam cecic No but maybe it's closer to be an elder
Yeah that's ridiculous. That's why I sent my teens to uni with 5 days left so that they become young adults
i always though lifespans were shaped as they are based on how they feel looking back. You don't remember much about being a toddler, childhood went by fast, but you have a lot of memories from your teen years etc etc
I don't consider the in game age as actual age. For me it's symbolic, like a story that cuts for example when a person is like 40 and continues when the sim turns 80 or something like that. Since their lifes are so short and we can't spend every single day of their life with them for me how we see their life is more like a diary, consisting of only the more important moments in their lives and their actual age isn't really that relevant to me.
It's like in a tv series. You see events and not everyday life. I like that thinking ;)
@@Sims2Idea EXACTLY
I don't count their ages either. I'm fine with them jumping from their 30s to 50s because that's how they look like.
Besides counting years might lead to very creepy events such as a 16 year old teen dating with a 20 year old "teen".
To deal with the short lifespans I just turn aging off until I feel like they've lived long enough.
Same here. And for the teenage lifespan: I send them to college when they are 7 days from adulthood, and spend to 3-day rounds with them in college. That way they turn into adults at the same moment but they are not teenagers all the time. Maybe they should have introduced a "middle aged" stage or so? In which your Sims are not old yet but their breeding days are more or less over (especially as a female) :-)
True. For example like realistically every couple argues, more than ten times. But if you want to portray the sims relationship as healthy then you don’t let them argue, maximal 1-3 times. If you want to portray it as bad and unhealthy then you let them argue like 7+ times which realistically isn’t a lot but for the sims it is bc they don’t live that Long
I’ve always imagined Sims as humanoids rather than humans, so I’ve never really cared
Humanoids who can't keep their pee in!
@@dundee6402 The fact that they have a bladder motive but not a colon motive implies that their digestive systems convert all of their waste into liquid, which is more evidence that they’re not exactly _Homo sapiens_
Tbh I think that's the point, especially since they're called called Sims tbh
@@EnigmaticLucas that's obviously because the developers didn't want Sims taking a dump on the floor in public every time the motive goes down lol
@@TheTrueDaniel yet it still remains that they only pee :p
I figured that the reason the adult stage is so short is to promote using the elixir of life, which "kinda makes sense", because if your sim is very happy they can live longer bc they can use the elixir, while if they're miserable their age catches up to them faster (kinda like how lots of stress can lead to premature grey hair irl)
But for the extra day I find that setting the process hour to 0 in the aging mod to make them age up at midnight can "fix" the problem, or at least it makes it better for me I guess
That's a pretty good point! I never thought about it that deep, I just thought they wanted Sims to die faster or something
which practically make the "broken code" for Lifetime memories actually useful :)
I like using the elixir of life, it gives me a reason to fulfill wishes and collect aspiration points
I find it funny to hear people say the teen age lasts too long when I find it to go way too fast when I'm actually playing. I feel like I never get to have the full teen experience of going out on the weekends, having get-togethers, having a part time job, and having teenage flings. Maybe it's just me since I lived a very boring teenage life. Also the teen voices just crack me up (no pun intended).
I feel the same, I just turn off aging temporarily to do extra quality of life stuff
@@hannahbandit99 how do you turn off aging
@@user-ti8rz5yw9m ctrl + shift + c then type in "aging off"
Because young adult as a non optional life span didn't exists that time (not optional life span)
Yeah the same for me too unless I put them through university. (Which I think halts their aging so that they turn into adults only when they graduate in sims 2?)
But even then the experience feels so short and incomplete to me
I always thought of Sims as humanlike beings that live in some alternate universe or on another planet! To me the wonky life stages are just part of their reality. Along with aliens that impregnate males, growing up in a shower or self-produced confetti, Matchmakers who can summon Sims out of the sky, *insert long list here*! I've never understood the appeal of mods that make the game more "realistic" because to me that takes away the essence of what the Sims are. I deal with real life every day, I don't want it in my Sims game! Haha!
I know! The Sims 2 was so chaotic I love it
Could not have said it better!!
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4:50 I never understood why some of my birthday parties were a hit and then all of a sudden became a disaster lmfao thank you for this
I prefer just using the aging on/off cheat and let my sims age up when I’m ready for them to, because I want to spend more time with them in each life stage.
you would do well with the real life mod on mod the sims.
What cheat?
@@user-ti8rz5yw9m in the game you open up the cheat window (press ctrl shift c) and type “aging off” without the quotes and it stops your sims and pets from aging until whenever you turn it back on by typing “aging on”
Same tho it's in TS3
Same. I toggle it off once they're close to the next stage then play with them until I feel ready to take the next step. When it comes to video games I like to take my sweet time and get attached quickly, so if I played without the cheat this game would be a little sad and stressful for me. I recommend the ' Individual Aging ON/OFF' mod by Monique.
I am a generational player, currently on my 18th generation in Pleasantview. I absolutely love the lifespan in the sims 2. I like that it gives me complete control over all the aging in my town. I keep a binder with all my sims and write down the order in which my sims are born as a reference. I rotate my families so I can never get bored.
Well, kinda same, but 18 generations? Damn!
@@Marticore I just really love that town! So many storylines to begin with so it’s easy for me to get sucked into the drama.
I’d love to see what your sims family trees look like 🤯🤯🤯
You're right! It doesn't make sense at all!
I started following Pleasantsims' aging system a few years ago, and I much prefer it to how Maxis set everything up. 14 days is way too long for teenagehood in my opinion, and three days of pregnancy is absurd. I like having the chance for siblings to be closer in age, since a lot of families have a bunch of children in short succession, even if it's more difficult in the short term.
While I do love the aging system I follow, I do reminisce sometimes about the days where teens were teens for so long, and the younger life stages were still really fun to play around with. I used to take a lot more time customizing my toddlers, children and teens, since they'd be that age for longer, and it was fun to dress them up and make them exactly how I wanted. Nowadays, the age span is so short it's way too tedious to put time and effort into little Jimmy's winter outfit, since he'll be an adult in a few rounds. I also sometimes miss the three day pregnancies, since it felt so exciting watching that belly pop and seeing them slowly progress and change. There was time to plan out the nursery, have family over to see the pregnant sim, and really enjoy the process.
All in all, this video was a trip down memory lane! Wonderful job, as always!
Me: sad my adulthood ends in 4 years and I will be an old hag.
😂😂😂 But it's a ridiculous age to be considered an elder! Glad to see people of very different age watching my channel though :)
@@Marticore well I find you amusing, entertaining and informing. I played sims 2 in college and have such fond memories of it. And just realised I did my math wrong. I AM 35. So 40 in 5 years! Slightly less sad
@@FeliciaZezili im already 41 and don't feel any difference between 35 and 41, but with 35 you are not too old yet.
@@kali6753 good to hear! I will remember to keep an optimistic outlook. Life will not end at 40
@@FeliciaZezili Thanks. No matter how old i am, Sims 2 has always place in my Life. :o) ..by the way.. good luck.
Oh it does make sense to me. As teenagers we taste and experience life. And we always tell kids to enjoy, cause later time goes by fast. And that's how it is in sims. Older years go quick. I like that.
Wow I never knew you weren’t supposed to not wait until 6 pm of the day. Sometimes I age them up as soon as possible because I‘m tired of their life span and sometimes I wait until 6 pm with the birthday cake. This is all a very strange system I‘m thinking about getting a mod to change the days of a life span.
When you send a sim to college, and they age to an adult, then elder, even if they’ve been through all 24-30 days of college, it still says: Elder (Is 54 days old)
This is the first video of yours that has been recommended to me! Glad it was!
The fact they even coded different candle numbers for different life stage kind of blew me away!
The pet live span is just the worst. Pets living as long as they owners just makes no sense
Pets live about 35 days, how is that as long as their owners? :D It's too long anyway, but it's nice to have pets around longer than in real life.
Ah sorry I phrased it wrong. I meant it more as in if a teenager gets a pet it can live until that very sims become an elder wich I find very unrealistic. I mean in real life that would be amazing but if you play as a dog breeder in the sims you don’t get to see very many generations without the household constantly being full ;D
@@mayg9933 There is a way to make them have a shorter life span. Or I am making confusion with Sims 3. Try searching for it on the settings or for a mod.
@@thtvh1 yes there are mods (Gladly) but the game itself don’t let you change it. That’s only sims 3 as much as I know
@@mayg9933 Oh sorry. I hope you found it!
based on pregnancy lasting 3 days i always count a sim day as 3 months
But then the seasons are 12 months long... 😂
There are mods to make this so lol
I’ve been playing this game since 2004 and I never noticed that damn number of candles thing toward the end!
I just make my life easier by typing aging off and aging on whenever i want to. I get too attached to my sims to let them age and die, to be honest.
aging has always been SUCH a struggle for me in this game, lord. back when i didn't know about mods and custom age spans, i used to feel SO stressed having to hurry with the baby making otherwise every child born into a family after the first one would end up growing up with irrationally old parents. i did enjoy how long the teen stage was, but not at the expense of the adult one. now i have a custom lifespan very similar to yours and i count days as years as well, but even that is kinda complicated with the way the game works. a huge issue for me is this "sims can/should age up a day before they actually would" thing, i never wanted to age sims up before it said 0 days but i did use to want to throw birthday parties. i haven't in a very long time though, i've been brought off it even if i now have mods to fix the double aging afterwards, i just can't be arsed now. it has always made me so nervous! also, i have never used the elixir of life, i know the developers meant it as a way for aspiration to influence lifespan but i am so glad they ended up making it optional in the form of a reward object. i do not like using most of the reward objects, they make the game too easy/unrealistic for someone who plays like me. and don't even get me started on uni - i wish i could have my teens live out every single minute of their teens before i have to send them to uni. ugh, all of this struggle. but it's still worth it for the best sims game!
I never realised how messed up the ageing system is until I started watching Cindy/Pleasantsims’ LP. Now I use mods to make the teen life stage 8 days and the Uni years 2 days each, also totalling 8 days. Then for the adults, I give them 9 days back using the Elixir of life which makes their total life stage 37 days. Seems to be working so far for me 🙂
For me the only part that is actually bothersome is the ridiculously long teenager lifespan. I don't really care about the "extra day" because I always age up my sims right after the 1 day away notification. To count the age of my sims I simply subtract the days lasting from the number of days the next lifestage represent and add 1.
The "they just turn into an old hag and die" part killed me!🤣🤣🤣
i really wish sims 2 had that young adult life stage. I wish there were more life stages in general tbh. Having only like 5 or 6 doesn't cut it. theres technically 8 or 9 in the real world.
I just turn the ageing off as soon as I get the pop up that its time to by a birthday cake. Hold the party next day and turn ageing back on while blowing out candles. No more trying to time blowing out candles to ageing. Plus I use a long ageing mod too, but turning ageing off made throwing parties easy because I often hold them at 7-8pm and everyone is nearly always at home.
I count each day as 6 months and also use a 48 hour pregnancy mod and play 8 day uni.
Basically modded the heck out of ageing.
Hey, same! 2 days = 1 year and I made pregnancy 36 hours with 8 day uni. I think I need to make the overall lifespan shorter though haha Adults that went to college are 22-65 years and Elders 65-85 and I'm realizing now while realistic, it's just gonna make getting through rounds longer. Letting them die of even old age is hard though lol not ready to let them go.
@@Juskaey My Young Adults are aged 18-23 which is why my adults (23-60) have 37 years (74 days) I looked at 36 hour pregnancy but it felt a bit too short for me.
Even though I have 8 day uni I actually give them 10 days (5 years) so they can go on academic probation twice or have a couple of days off to have fun. Basically a gap year if they did well at uni. I play YA as a life stage not just as uni students. So not all of them will even do uni. I play round of 5 days (to the season) But I am a slow player so it doesn't bother me. This was originally for my custom hood but I even play my Ubber hood on this same time scale.
@@joandsarah77 I have so much trouble picking out a lifespan. Sometimes I feel things are moving too slow, other times too fast haha I'm constantly changing my mind. I've also considered having all my sims do YA as well, have had the mod sitting around. Less age editing to worry about. I was also doing 4 day rounds/seasons for a bit but I think I'm going to go back to 5. Getting a feel for everything with Pleasantview while I build my first custom hood.
I actually always age them up by cake (with or without party) after 6 pm the day it say "X will age up tomorrow", so the number of days for Elders make sense.
I personally think of years in terms of seasons rather than days, i.e. when all four seasons complete that is one year.
My sims live for a very long time. 😁
I use my own lifespan mod and I adjusted it so my Sims always age up in that way you said makes no sense XD
But I age them up right after that notification their birthday is one day after, so there is no thing like aging twice during one day
Cool! I could easily just adjust my lifespan to that and try not to forget about their birthday, but it's all about counting age by subtraction that would be more difficult for me then.
@@Marticore Yeah, counting my Sims' age was confusing to me at first, but now I'm used to it. But for my adults I substract that one day actually, because in my system teens are gone from families for 4 days when they go to college and my adult stage lasts 42 (43 technically, but you know), so if Sim went to college it should be 38 for them and with Sim Manipulator I can substract only 3 or only 5 days so I just figured out I can substract that one day extra too and my adults age up the same way as yours
You can subtract whatever number with InSimenator (there's the groceries bar)! For age manipulation, I prefer the InSim hourglass.
I have the days arranged so it adds up to 54 days as an elder by aging my sims up 1 day beforehand. I've also recently implemented something new with college in my rotations to make the later age of sims make more sense. Not sure what I'll do once I get sims that don't want to go college though. So the ages come out like this:
Baby = 0-1 days/years
Toddler = 2-4 days/years
Child = 5-11 days/years
Teenager = 12-17 days/years
Young Adult = 18-25 days/years
Adult = 26-53 days/years
Elder = 54 days/years onward
It was in the end kind of easy for me to get the college implemented in the life span by counting each semester in college as 1 day/year, even though that doesn't technically make sense, so college counts as 8 days total. This way I've managed to work around the illogical nature of the teen life span to make the original life span more realistic.
I imagine the teens who didn't go to college, as shorter young adults. 😅 Teens can move out and drive cars in the Sims 2 so they can be 18+. Here in Finland the youngest age for kids to move out is at 16 and the youngest age to drive is at 18, and they go to college at 19 or 20 (if they did the military year between) at youngest. In sim days, that would still be 6 years time to do uni, which in Finland takes 5-7 years (bachelor 3 + masters 2, total length of your studying spot at the uni is 7 years).
I also hate the sims 2 lifespan! My biggest pet peeve (when I was playing only with the base game) was that if I wanted to create a household that has a sim who has few kids and one or more is a teenager, then the parent would still have those 29 days until elder. So basically the child would have been born when the parent was a child or something?! Usually I send every teen to college nowadays and I fail the sims I feel aren't "suited" to the college life. Hope my explanation made sense!
I love that you do 'story time' in your explanation videos XD
I never play with teens, i send them to college right away, so i haven't really noticed that discrepancy. In my gameplay, where students are also kinda frozen, they come back home to a pretty young parents, so sometimes houses get overcrowded because of neverdying grands %)
Good Point @Marticore. Loved the starting line where you said, "Brandi must've drinking Life Elixir every day with her morning coffee" lmao so hard, but all makes sense what you've said..so, im gonna download your age span mod and test it. I already have a mod in my game what shortens the teens life span to 8 days.
Here’s my age span that I play in my game, I play similar to pleasant sims but with a few alterations, her age span is 1 day= 1 year.
Babies have 2 days (0-1 years as they couldn’t only have 1 day set in sim PE), toddlers have 5 days (age 1-5 years old), children have 7 days (age 6-12 years old), Teens have 8 days (13-20 years old, they can only go to college from age 16 onwards, if they go to college aged 17-19 years old, they must have 1-3 days taken off their adult lifespan to simulate that they graduated from college at age 21-23 years old) this does mean that sims go to school until they are 20 years old (we leave school in the UK at age 16) , adults get 40 days (ages 20-60 years old) and elders I left their lifespan alone because it looked a bit complicated in SimPE but I reckon they have around 10-15 days in their lifespan so I guess they would kick the bucket around 70-75 years old.
Also I have adjusted pets ages in SimPE so the pets won’t live longer than the human sims! But this means pets will die whilst your kids are still growing up, sorry! It’s more realistic this way!
I find default ages in Sims are always off for me especially Sims 2. I always end up changing it, either through mods or the game options. Not enough time with each stage to appreciate them, so I always make them longer, except for teens lol.
How do you do it without mods? I'm thinking of doing that myself
@@cristofferhenrique1242 in the Sims 3 and 4 you can just go into options but there isn't really a way to do that in the Sims 2 unless you keep using the elixir of life (a reward you get with aspiration points) or use cheats to keep setting their age back.
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I usually go with the in game aging system and sometimes use the elixir of life because I'm too lazy to work out a workable system that's also balanced between Sims (as I like to play rotationally in the Sims 2,) but it doesn't make much sense. It's annoying how most of the Strangetown teens are so close to aging up to adulthood (that's not really related but yeah lol,) and the Beakers and Nervous Subject are too close in age. Also there are some lifetime wants like having so many dates etc or owning a bunch of businesses at 5* which are unrealistic for the lifespan unless you extend it. I also don't like to rush Sims through their life I want them to have a bunch of dates before marrying, and failed relationships and things like that before getting married for realism and maybe get divorced sometimes and re-married and things like that. I also don't want them to go on a date every single day just to achieve the 50 date lifetime wants lol.
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I made my own custom lifespan too, with every day as one year and the 18 hour pregnancy mod. I do consider the last day to be a phantom day, because in SimPE it does count it as day "zero" and it makes aging up a bit easier for me. I'm pretty lenient on when they actually grow up, as long as it's before 18:00 aging next day so their age in the new state remains correct. I just think to myself that some people go a little faster, while others go a little slower. The phantom day made aging up very relaxed for me.
I track their ages in an excel sheet. My lifespan gets them to very old, my preference is to age them up at age: baby 1, toddler 4, child 12, teen 18, adult 70, which means with at max. elders can get to be 100. And this is how I use the phantom day: if my child is one day from becoming a teen, he is 12 (on that phantom day). I organize a party when convenient (usually immediately). Then I age him up. He is still 12. Then proceeds to age up to thirteen normally at 18:00 the following day.
Because I added that phantom day to each stage to do this, he counts in the game as 7 days from age up. So it's not that hard to count for me, I only need to retract one day. I just rely on my sims tracker more. Which also has a tab to check the amount of sim days against the age. Handy, because I make mistakes sometimes.
I also use the phantom day for teens to send them to college. In college, every two days make one university year. So for each one day I play in regular hoods, I play two days in college. The students age up accordingly: one year older every two days. As they can get pregnant etc in college, family members also age only once every two days. When they return to the hood, I correct their in-game ages to match the one I have noted.
1:20 PAUSE is that... the absolutely stunning Joy Despret?!
She's not absolutely stunning, she's an absolute disgrace, how very dare she
15 days was way too long for teens! i used your custom lifespan and i love it!
Omg this is the first time I'm seeing one of ur vids and the detail u put into it is like 👏😮👏. But also... that outro 😂😂💀🥰
This video made me realize that this game warped my view on aging as a kid. I viewed days-as-years the same way as you, and thought that 54 years-old was a sensible time to retire and possibly randomly die at anytime.
idk, I've never counted a sim's age numerically. I just see it as ambiguous life stages, rather than any kind of 1:1 days:years system. To me, a sim that's 1 day away from aging up and a sim who's 20 days away from aging up are the same age, until one of them actually ages up
I got back into 2 recently and forgot how the age system was crazy, both my child sim and toddler sim aged up to teens and caught up to their twin brothers who began my playthrough as teens.
I love watching your vids because its so true, its a struggle every sims 2 lover among us have and i think the same way as you 🤩🤩
I use a combo of BoilingOil's Slow Aging Controller and a slightly edited version of AlmightyHat's Proportional Gestation based aging mod. The aging mod uses a 1 day = 3 months model based on the 3 day sim pregnancy (so that it lasts about 9 "months"). You do end up with sims that live a loooong time, which is nice if you want to play at a relaxed pace. The aging controller I use mostly because it gives me the ability to stop aging on individual sims. Usually, I will stop the aging when I get the birthday pop-up so I don't have to worry about the sim aging up before they get to blow out the candles. (I just have to remember to turn it back on after!) Simler90 on Mod The Sims has a birthday party fix mod (in the Aging Mods upload) that's supposed to prevent a sim from aging up if there is a birthday party happening, but I haven't tried it.
I tried customizing my lifespan following tutorials but it didn’t work. Rn I allow all sims to have their full life, and give a married couple a shared elixer to age down together some. I hate how long it for teens, bc the parents are often elders before the youngest children become teens if they had multiple children. Its weird.
I edited another aging mod to make mine, it's probably a lot easier than doing it from scratch.
I was literally just thinking about how the adult stage feels too short!!
I'm a fiend, I have set all life stages to be double in length because I hate using the elixir and I hate having my sims die before I even get to know them lol. Otherwise I really don't mind the proportion of life stage lengths.
2-3 seconds in and I'm already laughing at the "22" joke lmaooo
I do count lifespan in years and I also have custom lifespan. But I just added that extra day to every stage and always age up my Sims a day before their birthday.
I play The Sims 2 Basic lifespan for my merged strangetown and Pleasantview and i have the 18 hour pregnancy mod so the Sims can actually see their kids grow up.But i use Pleasant Sims custom lifespan for a custom town where 1 day is 1 Year. if my Sims age up before 6 PM i turn off their aging with moniques individual aging mod. But hearing how other People deal with it is Always Fun!
I dont understand why people think the teen span is too long tbh. The only problem I have is with the adult life being too short. And I use the elixir of life for that. I never needed mods or cheating for it
This is fascinating! That 'extra day' (which isn't even counted?) is so weird. I'll be honest; I couldn't even keep track! I know once I have the time I'll be looking into an agespan with at least a slightly longer adult age.
Sims 2 is a crackhead but we still love her
I like playing with longer lifespans, so I usually treat 1 sim day as a month, especially in sims 3
Wow that's really long. Do you usually play for multiple generations?
Now I use aging mod (yours), but back when I wasn't using mods I used 'aging off' cheat a lot, adult life stage was always too short for me and it was super stressful when I could find a right partner to make babies as fast as I can 😂. Also when I throw birthday parties I used to try to time it perfectly so the sims will not age up again at 6 pm, but I failed a lot, so now I use birthday cake early, let them age up again and then use insimenator to add one day to their lifespan.
I like to play with double life span mod in my custom neighborhood, so I don't really care if they lose a day on their birthday. I feel like the vanilla life span is too short. I like to do many things with my sims and I want them to take their time choosing their partners and having kids when they really want it. I like having deep and meaningful stories, and with the vanilla life span there's really no time to do that.
That is a very different approach from my. But It might be because I mostly play as one family. (and rotate around that family)
And since game posses Seasons I felt like they lived to short.
Which was always the reason why when playing (or more like testing) Sims 3/4 I was giving them max long lifespan.
Sure I feel like it was affecting how fast you can befriend people. But I liked seeing life of individual sims as a long adventure, and at the adult stage it could allow me to experience middle age crisis - express their change of their opinions, their style and what they consider more or less important, trying to do stuff that they never did.
While in Sims 2 I was trying to stay on the rails.
Still, Sims 2 is the most enjoyable.
my age system:
1 irl year = 1 ig day
I add one extra day (in my age mod) for each life stage since the day they age up at doesn't count towards "days lived" like you said and I don't wanna do math, either
example:
baby 1+1 days (the game, ACR, SimPE etc will show "1 days lived")
toddler 3+1 day ("4 days lived")
child 6+1 days ("10 days lived")
teen 8+1 days ("18 days lived" - aka they're 18 when finishing the teen age, turning 19 as an adult)
and so on
also you can customize "days lived" in the "other" tab in SimPE when you have a sim's file open :)
There should be a middle-aged adult stage between adult and elder. I fake it by using the life elixer/potion of youth at the end of the adult stage to reset to the beginning of it, I also give the sim a new look that makes them look older. So they go through the adult stage twice. And for young adults, if they spend time at university I’ll put them back to the beginning of YA when they’re done.
the lifespan in the sims 2 is soo short so I use the elixir of life A LOT... If I dont have enough then I try to do go on dates to bring my aspiration points up
1:53 these notifications say as shown on screenshots that sim will grow up in a day, not that it'll be their birthday. That and the party part right after give me an idea it's probably supposed to mean "make birthday party for this sim or something"
like.. before 6pm next day
I use the 8 day teens mod, but otherwise I stick to the default system. As for birthdays, I never bother with a cake or a party as I find it annoying to do every time, and I'd rather never do it than only do it occasionally.
I play sims 4, but I can relate: I usually use long lives and I age up my sims when I’m ready
I agree with you, I changed the lifespan in SimPe with a tutorial of Pleasant Sims :)
Whenever my teen is 1 day away from growing up, I usually send em to college and play them for how long my session was going to last before moving to a new family.
I’ve also got the 18 hour pregnancy mod to simulate 9 months in my 1 day = 1 years lifespan
This style of video kind of reminds me of Mumbo Jumbo's two rant videos. (One is about CZcams taking his channel name away and the other is about Minecraft enchantments.)
thank you very much ♥ ️
i will download your lifespan
i had no idea this happened.. and it now makes sense why my game times seemed a bit off when i would try for my generation trees. i play sims 4 actively now, and in order to prevent my generation save file from going completely off the deep end, i usually only have aging enabled for certain areas. it's my first generation family, and they had three children; the oldest right now is finally a young adult, while the twins are both now children. both parents have aged to adults, and i'm so worried they aren't going to meet their grandchildren (and considering one of them wants to meet grandchildren for their aspiration, it's a little important i make that happen) whatsoever. i don't want to rush the gameplay of the oldest son and force him into a relationship so he can have a child of his own to fulfill that wish, so this is.. the only way i can really make it all work without buying age potions.
i essentially went from wanting a completely vanilla save file (no helping hands from motherlode or other money cheats, no mods, no tweaking for time, etc.), to having to play god in order just to let my generation family have their complete lives. 🥴
this has to be why sims 3 and sims 4 added the prolonged life feature in options
I see it this way when you start when it's summer & on the last day in winter then a year has passed in my sims game 😁
What about moving? It's summer again on the new lot, so does time reverse? :D
Me? I just grabbed a mod released not very long after the game released & one of the things it let's me control is aging...by "rejuvenating" my sims back 3 days. Yes. I still have this mod & I have it coped on an external hard drive as well (a copy I've needed more than once over the years.) I like your mods & now I just use the old one to tweak things a bit better when I feel it necessary.
Love your accent!!! 💖💖💖
i still throw birthdays so long as they want to and always age up a couple hours earlier then use the simblender to age the sim down to their max days.
I just want something that makes senses and that will give me time
in Sim blender you can add days or subtract days to your sims lifespan I've been using that.
Cool, I made my own lifespan mod
I sends all of my Sims to college when they turn 18 and count the semesters as years to make use of the young adult stage. I also consider Sims to be "middle-aged" when they reach the second half of the adult stage (around 40 days old).
I always play my sims families like 1-3 times and almost every time I make a new family. I can play for 2 hours a day so that doesn't really leave me with much gameplay
All my elderly sims I put in a group home except don lothario. He got married had two kids and left his wife when they became elderly and went back to old habits. Three days before his expiration, he married Lucy Burb ( Lucy burb is a hot chick who rebel from his strict parents )
When you use the birthday cake, your sim ages two years during one day. The first time when you use the birthday cake (let's say at 4 pm), the second time at the normal aging time at 6pm. There are two ways to avoid that. Either don't use a birthday cake and let your sims age up on their own, or use Monique's individual aging on/off mod (available on mod the sims) to turn aging off for the birthday sim until six pm has past. Edit: Sorry was too quick :). I literally posted my comment two seconds before you explained things. The mod is a good solution though for a birthday party without stress.
does anyone know of a mod that lenghens teenage years? it's my favorite age to play
sometimes when I get twins I age up one in the right day and the other automatically because twins don't having the same sign is too much for me, and it is impossible to have kids with 1 day difference without cheats. I only allow twins if they born with the same sign or if I change it with cheats
I use mods to make the teenage stage and the college stage 8 days. I can't be bothered changing other things. Honestly, I don't mind it when my sims are still raising their kids as elders, because the elder lifestage sucks anyway.
I use a mod that lets me turn sims aging on and off individually. there are better mods that address aging, but this one always worked for me. I usually wont age adult sims up until around the time their first grandchild is born.
I played the sims 2 when I was like 12 so realistic math wasn't really a problem back then😂
I used count the days by pregnancies 4 days would equal a year in the sims 3/4 bc the seasons are a week this messes with my aging Sims so just by relative age I know prepubescent years equal young adult years with an extra week each if I choose. Basically one week with infants, three weeks with tots 4 weeks children 4weeks teens 8 to 9 weeks with young adults. Adults 8 to 9 weeks. Elders with 8 to 12 but this can feel a little long (sims 4) I never used mods for Sims 2
Recently came across a custom life stage that has a sims whole life as 216 days!!!
It accounts for college and whatnot but jebus!
To be honest, i never care about the Sims age, not because it may not matter. I mean this video and other videos on this matter prove that it matters to people, but because i know programming and i can imagine how complicated it would be to just make an aging system. So i just take the bar of life stage as a representation of how much time they have left on that life stage, because it would create this kind of problems and i don't want to make my head hurt thinking about this kind of stuff.
The toddler at 2:15 looks like a middle aged man already
I use "X sim is _ days older than Y sim" in my game as a guide to age them up. My sims lifespan is: baby 0-2, toddler 3-6, child 7-14, teen 15-20, young adult 21-28, adult 29-60 and elder 61+
1:20 WHAT THE HELL IS THAT
Actually... Joy Despret XDDDDDDD
(I love the couch make-out face)
i am HORRIFIED
Jeff the Killer: Sims 2 Edition
@@jkarlie Joy has finally snapped from all of the abuse Juno put her through
Absolutely stunning
I always use a mod to change the ages either from mod the sims or one that I make myself
I know i am late but the reason why some life stage are short and some are longer is probably because of university expansion pack in that pack new age was introduce for the first time in the sims franchise. Sorry for my bad english.
The teenager and toddler stages were introduced the first time too, in the base game. Seems legit though.
@@Marticore Wow you replied? But yeah toddler and teenager was a base game feature but still to me toddler life stage are the one that doesn't make any sense, it's too short.
Well yeah, I made it one day longer in my lifespan mod 😆 I will always see a new comment, doesn't matter how old the video is :)