LIFESPAN: Rebalancing the scales ?

[Kabuto]

Hi,

Actually I think the season length and the age duration are too short, but when I increase them, I'm not satisfied.

Because I want to put winter holidays (1 week) and summer break (3 weeks), I was thinking to use 3-weeks season, but if I do it the season cycle is done after 84 days, longer than a normal life span (67 days without elder bonus & young adult ages).

So I was thinking to increase the life span to 2 season cycles with 1-week pregnancy but I also want to change the university semester to a 2 seasons length so after 4 years, there are 4 season cycles which are left. That mean the young adult duration is 2 times longer than the new settings.

If I increase the life span to 4 season cycles (about 48 weeks) and decrease the University 4-years to 2 season cycles, that's meant

Toddler: 21 days = 3 weeks (1 season)
child: 49 days = 7 weeks (2 seasons)
Teen: 91 days = 13 weeks (1 season cycle)
Adult: 175 days = 25 weeks (2 season cycles)
Pregnancy: 21 days = 3 weeks (1 season)
University semester: 3 weeks (1 season)
University 4 years: 24 weeks (2 season cycles)

The summer break is too long for the child, so I decrease it to 1 week like the winter holidays but only one of these breaks can be done !

I think 336 days lifespan is really long maybe too much, same thing about the University studies and I don't talk about the pets lifespan !



2) What is the pets lifespan length (bird/womrat) ?



4) What do you think about these settings ?

5) How can I change the University semester length ?

6) How can I change the University studies length (shorter than 4 years) ?

[J. M. Pescado]

Creating to-scale lifespans is entirely doable, but produces age lengths that are simply absurdly long for gameplay, particularly if you play more than one house, where the length of an age is multipled by the number of houses you have. Consider that an adult age of 30 days stretches to 900 days if you have 30 houses that are being played in sync. While 870 of those days won't feature that family as the playable sims, they will still EXIST for 900 sim days. At 5 days per season, they will experience about 60 seasons of random types, depending on what you have.

[Kabuto]

Well, it's like to turn "Aging OFF"

[nicvncnt]

Toddler: 21 days = 3 weeks (1 season)

Good luck with that - I've generally had enough of toddlers by the end of day 1.

[Kabuto]

But it give a larger time to learn him/her walking, using the potty and talking :p !

[Kabuto]

Well, I found the missing infos :

Baby: 1 day
Elder: 10 -> 20 days

Plantsim toddler: 3 days
Plantsim adult: 29 days
Plantsim elder: 15 -> 25 days

Big dog puppy: 3 days
Big dog adult: 21 days
Big dog elder: 5 -> 10 days

Small dog puppy: 3 days
Small dog adult: 25 days
Small dog elder: 5 -> 10 days

Kitten: 3 days
Cat adult: 25 days
Cat elder: 5 -> 10 days

Pets pregnancy: 48 -> 60 hours (2 -> 5 days)


NOTE: I saw the 14-days version of the Quickshot14's "Longer Seasons" mod is the most downloaded version so I decrease the season length but I keep my lifespan length with the default game values as minimal value.

[Kabuto]

Well, rescaling like this, I think it allow me to create some events in the season calendar like :

Christmas/New Year Eve while Winter holidays (Xmas day with midnight auto summon of Santa Claus, New Year Eve party enabled one evening)
St Valentine before Spring Break (I don't know yet what my sims will do)
Halloween while Falls (I don't know yet, maybe with the witches)

[witheringDARKNESS]

I like that idea. I'm constantly cheating my sims into a longer lifespan because they live too short of a time to have all the kids they want. :lol:
I'm not sure if I could deal with an extended amount for toddlers and kids though....

[Tom Duhamel]

If you're looking into realism, then babies are about 1 year (or at best 3 seasons) and toddlers are 4 years. Now I'm not sure I want to play a baby for 20 days...