Absimiliard's Realistic Aging Mod (updated Oct 4)
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: LVRugger on 2009 September 09, 09:24:09
Um, Pes, what happens at 30-36 and 54-60?
Nothing? They are YAs at 18, 24, 30, Adults at 36, 42, 48, 54, Elders at 60+.
Quote from: LVRugger on 2009 September 09, 09:24:09
Maybe make YA = 3 and A = 4?
Yeah, I quoted the numbers wrong, that's what I have in the data file.
Quote from: LVRugger on 2009 September 09, 09:24:09
If I followed your plan, I would probably make elders = 3 (60-78) so they make sure the kids they spawn on day 59 aren't left alone in early teenhood.
Shit happens. Especially when you wait until you're 54 to try to spawn, and you're lucky if you can manage that. The odds of them croaking it immediately on the dot are pretty slim anyway, since that's only when they *START* to risk dying, and if they do? SHIT HAPPENS.
In TS2, there was a "Sterile Adult" phase that happened shortly before the transition to elder to prevent that, but TS3 doesn't appear to have implemented it.
myskaal:
Definitely a much better time line. Throwing it in my game immediately.
byronh:
Good idea, but I think EA distributed the ages the way they did because of the playability. In my opinion, child is the most boring life stage and teenager is the most interesting life stage (especially with the NRaas part time careers and a teen romance mod of some kind). Even though there's no way that they could look like a 17 year old for twice the length that they look like an 11 year old, the amount of interactions and skills available to children is just too small to hold most people's interest longer than the teenage life stage.
Edit: I think I'm gonna use your mod but just move a few days of life time from child into teen.
Absimiliard:
Quote from: byronh on 2009 September 10, 02:48:18
Good idea, but I think EA distributed the ages the way they did because of the playability. In my opinion, child is the most boring life stage and teenager is the most interesting life stage (especially with the NRaas part time careers and a teen romance mod of some kind). Even though there's no way that they could look like a 17 year old for twice the length that they look like an 11 year old, the amount of interactions and skills available to children is just too small to hold most people's interest longer than the teenage life stage.
Edit: I think I'm gonna use your mod but just move a few days of life time from child into teen.
I agree that the teen years should be some of the most fun years to play (I know my teens were). But I wanted to be realistic and teen sims can't get into any of the shenannigans I did when I was young, so I kinda find teen fun potential reduced anyway.
Kyna:
Quote from: byronh on 2009 September 10, 02:48:18
teenager is the most interesting life stage
I disagree, and am so glad this mod cuts the teen stage to about where it should be.
I always felt that they made the teen stage twice as long as it needed to be in TS2, and they've done the same in TS3. Personally I find the stage boring, especially in TS2 - by the time my sims turned teen they were one point away from maxing out all skills, so it was a case of picking knowledge & getting the Max Skills LTW completed, picking up the last couple of scholarships, using TJ's crystal ball to summon a compatible townie teen to macro/romanticate to get the first kiss out of the way, then on to uni ASAP. The only advantage TS3 teen stage has over TS2 teen stage is that I can grow my sims up as soon as they hit teen if I get too bored with the stage.
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