Seasonal Age Project: RFC (Request For Comments)
witch:
eccentricgnat, please don't mistake MATY for a family-friendly forum. Just a word to the wise.
*witch taps the side of her warty nose meaningfully
Charamei:
Quote from: eccentricgnat on 2008 April 08, 08:58:21
Why not just turn aging off and then age each sim as you like.
Because then Sims start aging out of sync.
It all depends on how you play, of course, but if Sim A is five days older than his brother, I expect him to stay five days older than his brother until one of them dies, goddamnit. And part of the reason I'm interested in this, for my one particularly bizarre 'hood, is that it opens up the concept of real birthdays. Sim A was born in Spring, but is still the same age (in years) as Sim B who was born in Winter. And I'm too lazy to keep track of who was born when manually, so slowing down aging suits me better.
witch:
I totally couldn't do a slow ageing. I have managed to stay with a family long enough for a sim to die as an elder maybe once or twice since I started playing the game. I've never even managed a proper second generation. ::)
jolrei:
I get bored with the 'hood by about the 3rd generation - I mean lush hood, desert hood, concrete hood, beach hood, flat vs. mountainous - the opshunz! They are too enticing. I get tired of looking at the same houses, on the same terrain.
If I was then also looking at the same sims for aeons as well, I would never make it past the first pregnancy.
Edit: And Uni! Think how long a semester would be. It's hard enough to last through 4 semesters without my mouse finger itching to hit the College Clock and skip one or two.
It would be virtually impossible to stop most sims from fulfilling 2-3 LTWs, thus making the majority of the population permaplat by the teen stage. Many of us feel that permaplat sims are less than completely interesting (trans: dead bloody boring). This looks like a recipe for universal permaplat-ism.
Some of this could be handled through making it take more time to make friends, fall in love, woohoo, skillinate, etc., but then you're stuck watching sims do really dull things for longer. I am less interested watching my sims read a book than do some other things. In fact, it is usually the transition points between activities where the interesting stuff happens (i.e. between putting away a book and going to the terlet is the lulzy surprise realization that "hey, I gotta go now, OMG, OOOPS!" Consequently, lengthening the amount of time it takes to do things is not something many of us would want, I think (mind you it might improve the "time spent on terlet" to "actual day time available" ratio).
Zazazu:
Longer lives means more time to piss off the Oversoul. I just had my first cleansing. Not allowed to do much more playing, though, until I get caught up on blogging, so I'm building up a region of Prospect Beach.
eccentricgnat, some of the things you are doing manually can be hacked, you know? I used to do my shorter lengths manually and it got annoying. TwoJeff's Age Duration Hack I linked to earlier works. I'm attaching my modded version, as I do the exact same thing with teen ages as you do.
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