The Einstein Effect
kazebird:
I don't know where to put this, so I hope no one minds it's here.
The Einstein effect is what I call the effect in the game that can cause a sim's child to get older than themselves. I call it the Einstein effect, because of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. For those who do not know, it states that time is relative to the speed the object is traveling at. After thinking about this I realized in neighborhood view the map rotates around the center of your view. So I thought "that must be why sims on other lots never age, there moving faster than the lot you are on." Obviously the reason they never age is the way the game is programmed, and the hood would have to move a lot faster, but I thought it was an interesting coincidence. Any one else find any odd coincidences?
Zazazu:
That's not really a coincidence, that's inconsistent play.
Now townies....townies suffer from Jeffty is Five syndrome.
Gastfyr:
I've never actually had a sim's child grow older than his or her parents. Now, I suppose this could be quite easily possible if you were to play a female sim and have her get impregnented by a male townie who you never made playable or aged up allong with friends (freetime feature). I personally would never want to do this as it would make for a very odd and confusing nhood.
One of the things I love the best about freetime, actually, is the ability to age up townies, especally child townies who otherwise can never be made playable and thus suffer from the Peter Pan syndrome I guess. I guess uni is actually more important for allowing teen npcs/townies to be sent to uni allong with their sweethearts.
Bugger:
Quote from: parrot on 2008 September 11, 21:14:27
I don't know where to put this, so I hope no one minds it's here.
The Einstein effect is what I call the effect in the game that can cause a sim's child to get older than themselves. I call it the Einstein effect, because of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. For those who do not know, it states that time is relative to the speed the object is traveling at. After thinking about this I realized in neighborhood view the map rotates around the center of your view. So I thought "that must be why sims on other lots never age, there moving faster than the lot you are on." Obviously the reason they never age is the way the game is programmed, and the hood would have to move a lot faster, but I thought it was an interesting coincidence. Any one else find any odd coincidences?
This is supposed to be one of the major changes that takes place with TS3... neighborhood townies and other sims will age appropriately. I don't know the details on it, but sure you could find that info if you googled it. I sometimes wish that townies would age, but I think it isn't worth buying TS3 for.
Gastfyr:
Quote from: SimBliss on 2008 September 11, 23:29:11
I sometimes wish that townies would age, but I think it isn't worth buying TS3 for.
Yeah, I can make playable and age or kill any I really want to as it is. I personally HATE the idea of my other playable sims screwing up thier lives because they're still aging while I play another sim. I just don't see how the whole neighbourhood automatically getting married, taking jobs, decorating thier houses, having kids, growing old, and dieing without any input from me (and without me even seeing it!) could be a good thing? :-\
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