Time-sync and aging
Sandilou:
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8. Time-sync must be maintained if anyone goes to Uni. You may play no more than 1 day on the main lot per year of Uni.
I have never been able to work out just how sim time works. Is there any logic to it at all?
I just want my sims to age at the same rate, whether they are in the main neighbourhood or at uni. What's the easiest way to make this happen?
Alvaron:
In a challenge 'hood such as the Prosperity Challenge where time sync is mandatory, I do it in half-simweeks. I play 3 days Monday to Thursday a.m. then save and exit, then on to the next house in the playlist. After that half-cycle is done, rinse and repeat for the second half of the sim week Thursday to Monday a.m.
With respect to university neighborhoods, the time scale for the YA stage is terribly off compared to the other life stages and university takes far too long unless you use J. M.'s college clock or Twojeffs's college adjuster. When I cannot use those, I generally equate one semester at university to one sim day in the regular neighborhood which gives an entire college career in about a sim week. That feels about right to me and seems to work ok. Within a university neighborhood, I sim each lot in turn doing about one semester at a time so my brain doesn't leak out through my eyeballs. ;D Sometimes, to break up the monotony, I'll sim a day or two at each university lot between houses in the regular neighborhood.
In J.M.'s Email Challenge, it's spelled out: one sim day in the regular hood, then one year at university so your YAs will finish up in four sim days of regular 'hood time.
J. M. Pescado:
Actually, it's not quite spelled out that explicitly: Uni is a little wiggy, so that time is alotted as a maximum, not a minimum. For time-sync, you can elapse no MORE than 1 day per Uni year, but you may opt to run none. This fudge factor is inserted because of the fact that you can shave days off the teen stage (which is technically too long) more or less arbitrarily.
Sandilou:
Alvaron, I play each neighbourhood house for a sim day then move on; the 1 sim day = 1 sim year worked fine apart from the fact that pregnancy lasts for 3 days - ie 3 years. I know it's not real, but it really gets on my nerves.
One of my sims is currently at Uni, and I'm trying to age him at the rightish pace, so I was trying 2 uni days = 1 sim day, but then his Mom got pregnant and I realised that if I played at that ratio tnen he would leave Uni when Mom's new baby was about to be a teen!
JM, if I play using your ratio, then Mom will be pregnant for 3 Uni years. It just doesn't work out. Do I really have to play a whole Uni (yawn) year at a time? I do have your clock, and could use it, but there are still lots of Uni activities that I haven't done yet (zombies, secret society) mainly because my eyes start to bleed and my head pulses ready to explode if I stay at Uni for too long!
Thanks for the advice from both of you.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: sandilou on 2005 July 16, 12:59:28
Alvaron, I play each neighbourhood house for a sim day then move on; the 1 sim day = 1 sim year worked fine apart from the fact that pregnancy lasts for 3 days - ie 3 years. I know it's not real, but it really gets on my nerves.
Elephantine Pregnancy is unfortunately one of the major timescale distortions of TS2. Recalculating scales based on this tends to result in a greatly
extended adult ages (at 3 days = 9 RL months, the agespan of 24 to 60 drags out to 148 days).
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One of my sims is currently at Uni, and I'm trying to age him at the rightish pace, so I was trying 2 uni days = 1 sim day, but then his Mom got pregnant and I realised that if I played at that ratio tnen he would leave Uni when Mom's new baby was about to be a teen!
Yes, and at such a ratio, your parents will be dead by the time you graduate in many cases. :P
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JM, if I play using your ratio, then Mom will be pregnant for 3 Uni years. It just doesn't work out. Do I really have to play a whole Uni (yawn) year at a time? I do have your clock, and could use it, but there are still lots of Uni activities that I haven't done yet (zombies, secret society) mainly because my eyes start to bleed and my head pulses ready to explode if I stay at Uni for too long!
The given ratio is a MAX, not a minimum. It is entirely possible to simply warp through Uni elapsing 0 neighborhood days for the entire giant mess. The alternative, using pregnancy as a guideline again, is a rough equivalency of 4 days to a year, which means that you will burn 16 days over the course of the entire Uni mess and probably be dead by the time your kids graduate. This is much too absurdly long.
And no, you don't have to play the entire Uni year one at a time: Some amount of asynchronity for sanity is tolerated, if this is the only child at Uni and no siblings are of close enough age that they'd enter Uni prior to graduation. In which case you can elapse up to 4 days of standard neighborhood time and still maintain sync, but then you get to play the entire 4 years of Uni in a single sitting! OH, THE PAIN!
Besides, the Secret Society doesn't take all that long, and isn't a requirement, and zombies aren't really a part of the Uni experience at all. You can hardly expect every sim to commit a few serial killings (and join the secret society: Wouldn't be very secret if everyone joined, now would it?). Just do the coursework, then slam the clock. It doesn't take that long if you're doing it in a rental house, quiet dorm....or an email, which is probably why you're asking, since if you want to de-sync your entire game on your own for the heck of it, well, that's not my problem.
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