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Lynda:
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 28, 21:47:37
So if you started a new neighborhood, moved in your first family, they'd start on Sim Day 1. Let's say you play them for 5 Sim Days. Then you start another family. Do you start them on Sim Day 1, or Sim Day 5?
Sim Day 5. Sim Days are regardless of individual families the way I play.
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 28, 21:47:37
But I'm pondering how one could try to calculate Sim Days for a neighborhood that's been up and running awhile.
While I think it could probably be technically POSSIBLE to do this, I think it would prove to be far too much hassle for those who don't keep track of their sim days like I do.
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 28, 21:47:37
Edited to add: Also what do you do with "aging off" if you play that way? Do the Sim Days advance?
I don't play with aging off, ever.
I think another use of "Sim Days" could be the number of days playing a specific HOUSEHOLD, regardless of the rest of the neighborhood. In this case, "Sim Days" could progress while aging is off. It wouldn't really be tied to any other household in the neighborhood though.
Andygal:
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I have no idea if it will help, but I'll explain how I use Sim Days. Sim Day 1 is the first day I play the neighborhood. Therefore, the adults I started with in CAS were born on negative Sim Day twenty-something (I can't recall off the top of my head how many "days" sims live before reaching adult. Somewhere between 26-28 I believe). [other side note, I call a negative Sim Day "BS" for "Before Sims". Wink]. Everything in the neighborhood is run based on that. So if someone is born on Sim Day 15, it's the 15th Sim Day I've been playing the neighborhood.
the maximum time it can take if you let them autotransition to their next life stage each time instead of growing them up a day early is 30 days. 3 as a baby 4 as a toddler, 8 as a child and 15 as a teen. This is without Uni of course.
katemonster:
I'd really like the "date" fields to just be made flexible--so that you can put in days if you choose or real-date formats like I'm doing. I'd also like to be able to put in just a year instead of a full date (ie for graduations).
I'm finding it really hard to do this real-date thing, although it's not as bad as I expected--I think I only have one sim who's a "child" and sixteen years older than a "teen" ::) I need to do some catching up with some houses tonight.
Pegasys:
Well I've pretty much decided, based on feedback here (plus my own while playing the game) the dates will no longer be restricted to a real date format, but will be more flexible so that you can enter text (such as "Sim Day 211"), plain numbers, or dates if you choose. This does mean that the sorting will not necessarily work with dates in the standard format (mm/dd/yyyy) unless you put the year first 2005-11-12, etc. but I think everyone conceives of dates in different ways and the database is not meant to impose a certain way of thinking.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 29, 03:56:51
Well I've pretty much decided, based on feedback here (plus my own while playing the game) the dates will no longer be restricted to a real date format, but will be more flexible so that you can enter text (such as "Sim Day 211"), plain numbers, or dates if you choose. This does mean that the sorting will not necessarily work with dates in the standard format (mm/dd/yyyy) unless you put the year first 2005-11-12, etc. but I think everyone conceives of dates in different ways and the database is not meant to impose a certain way of thinking.
thanks for the info :)
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