Seasonal Age Project: RFC (Request For Comments)
Zazazu:
Awrevell, while I may be a bit blunt at times, my comment was meant to be constructive. Basing age length to season length would really only be feasible, or rather playable, by a very small portion of players. An non-plant sim is going to be alive for an average of nearly 2000 days by your model. Pescado's already given general statistics of sim time v. real time. By the time a sim grows completely from womb to tomb, you're talking about 48,000 minutes/800 hours of playtime for just that one sim's life. And how many games of kicky bag are going to occur in that time? How many times are they going to burn their pancakes? My point, my main point, is that it's a helluva lot of repetition with the same pixels.
So what are your options? You can shorten Season length and tweak ages accordingly, still coming up with larger numbers, but not as far beyond what the normal player could take. The problem then is that at a certain point (I'd say a length of three days or less) the season blending effect is going to make it so that you have no discernible winter. Then you've kind of lost the point of the mod, haven't you?
Time in the Sims is screwy. Heh, beyond screwy. Jobs generally last for fewer hours than in the real world. Peeing takes a year and a day. The teen stage (13-18) is almost twice as long as the child stage (5-12). Elders, based on EAxis coding, can live longer as a tottering diaper-changer than as an actual breeder. I agree with you that how it works as coded doesn't feel right. I'm all for changing it. I just don't see more than 10 or so players ever wanting stages as long as you are proposing, for the reasons I've listed before.
Now what you could always do (to save yourself headache, etc) is just take TwoJeff's AgeDuration hack and tweak it as you'd like. Make it how you want it in your game, and enjoy. I just don't see the point of doing work that's already been done. :-\
(And of course you can post it here...put it in Peasantry.)
croiduire:
Paladin also has a Seasons and Weather Controller (under Other Objects) that lets you tweak the duration of any season.
Alexx:
Quote from: awrevell on 2008 April 06, 20:52:07
Quote from: Pyromaniac on 2008 April 06, 19:31:28
I've always thought the Seasons were too long; perhaps, instead of prolonging Sim ages, why couldn't you just shorten the Seasons?
However, I could look into finding the BCON that controls how long the seasons last and making that accessible... Then people would be able to adjust the whole selection to their tastes. Provided they had some familiarity with SimPE. I will look and see what I find about that.
No need to search :) Seasons length 9:9 day for each season(reason-3days for each month of season) was posted long,long time ago here:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=241473
And this exactly BCON that you want to find.Open in SimPE and change 9 to any length you need.Too simply,but effectively. ;)
abelle:
I have a neighbourhood in which every season lasts three days and I feel that the seasons are still very much there to experience. I adjust the season length with the weather controller. When the season changes, I immediately select for it to only last three days.
I play it pretending each day lasts a month instead of a year. Started this, because I had a couple I really didnīt want to reach elderhood. Everyone around them did, though and it started to feel strange.
I tried playing with a day being a week in realtime, but it was way too slow for me. I freeze the pregnancy with insim, so every stage will last three days. Everything is in sync and I love it. The long pregnancy really bothered me, because siblings were always too far apart. The toddler stage still is kind of annoying. Especially as my toddlers always start to run out of wants. After about 20 or 30 days toddlerhood, they start forgetting, who their parents are and only have wants for skills. The fourth slot is usually blank. Also taking care of toddlers gets really repetitive, as there is so little they can do.
I wouldnīt want to adjust the length permanently, as I donīt play my other hoods like that. Sometimes I want things to happen faster. If I play with normal time, I just let sims be pregnant only for a day. As the uberlong gestation period really is very annoying.
Did anyone else who is playing with very long lifestages have problems with the toddler wants?
eccentricgnat:
Hi,
I have to agree that this seems to be a very long time for the sims aging. Why not just turn aging off and then age each sim as you like. Simlogical has a great hack that stops aging, and you use her cake to age the sims up. The sims still can get pg (late can't spell this late in the night)...
I can't imagine having a sim be pg that long, having a baby be in the baby stage that long...I hate the length of pregnancy (in the game already), it takes forever, and the baby just lies there and cries. I speed up pregnancy to 2 hours, and have them take the baby to the hacked cake (at simlogical) and make the baby a toddler. If I think the toddler is really cute, and some are, I don't age them up for an extra day or two. I have yet have a teen make it much past the 8th day as a teen, and I send them off to college. Adults, if I like them I leave them alone and just play them. If I can't stand them, they get aged and the grim reaper is called, again with the hacked birthday cake.
What is going to happen when you get kids that just won't do homework? Sheee...I barely am able to stand them for the 7 or 8 days they are kids?
Hope this isn't to ignorant (sp again), but it seems to me you could just stop aging altogether, and age up as you like.
Still though, its great folks like you that make the stuff that makes the sims worth playing. So thanks for the effort, and there are probably folks that will enjoy what you are doing. Gee this sounds so crabby...I must be in crabby granny mode.
By the way, I do like kids, just not the way EA did them. Real babies are cute and sweet, toddlers drive you nuts with the no no stage...and are cute as well, and kids do their homework because mom and dad say so. Teens are funny and sweet, I homeschooled my last two...and we have wonderful relationships. My first two are great adults, and I love them much. My grandkids are the best, of course, because they are mine.
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