What Lifespan Do You Like to Play?

[cndneh]

@cndneh:  I wrote an article for Carl's Sims 3 Guide for the Surrounded by Family LTW.   Click here if you want to read it.  You might find some helpful tips.

Thanks for the link Pam, read Anne McCaffery much?  

And I usually don't have problems with the Family LTW, it's just I was playing on short time span, so 25 days to achieve it all... not a lot of time.  

Seriously though, the short life span is really short, who would play anything on short??

[Pam]

Thanks for the link Pam, read Anne McCaffery much?  

That's awesome that you recognized the names!  Pern is my favorite series of books. 

[cndneh]

That's awesome that you recognized the names!  Pern is my favorite series of books. 

How could anyone not recognize the F'lar name, and Lessa, I think she had a book named after her, and F'lar was a dragonrider of.... erm... one of the northern keeps.  I think.... its been a few years.  I have just about all of the older ones, Don't know if shes written any Pern books in the last few years though.

Sorry... done being off topic. 

 

[Blanchflower]

I usually play turning off ageing until one of my sims have the ability to cook ambrosia, then I will play a normal mode!

 

[Pam]

@cndneh:  I continued the off topic bit on the Babble Thread for you.

[Leto85]

I play the epic long lifetime. Mostly because I find that realistic for sims, compared to our own lifespan.
Of course: the downside of this thing is the less realistic way of sims able to learn everything about skills in that amount of time. But oh well. I just like it.

[WickedSimmer87]

I usually play on "long" since normal is too short and epic is too long Then I use the cake to age up the toddlers when I've taught them walk/talk/potty. Seems to work just fine for me.

[Leto85]

@Wicked: otherwise the toddlers like to stay toddlers forever? Haha, in that case I know what you mean.
But sometimes I leave them be, until they grow up. That case they can already cash in some LTW right before they become children. That way they can have like 5000 LTW right away on childhood.

[LlamaMama]

I've been playing at Normal lifespan recently, which is new to me, and I've noticed some differences in how I play (compared to epic or aging off). At Normal, I no longer take the time to put together a great wardrobe, hair, accessories, etc. for each sim; I just choose one outfit per category and generally they never use the formal one. When they turn elder, I just let them wear the schmatta the game gives them.

[Sushi101]

I've been playing at Normal lifespan recently, which is new to me, and I've noticed some differences in how I play (compared to epic or aging off). At Normal, I no longer take the time to put together a great wardrobe, hair, accessories, etc. for each sim; I just choose one outfit per category and generally they never use the formal one. When they turn elder, I just let them wear the schmatta the game gives them.

Sometimes if I'm playing at a nice pace and don't have a big family or am worried about getting any big skill or job accomplishments I will set up my sims outfits each time they age up, but lately I haven't worried about the outfits much since I usually never use anything other than their everyday clothes. Usually I don't do Wedding Parties or anything formal, most of my houses don't have pools but if they do I rarely if ever use them (just don't think about it).

I had no idea there were so many people that played on the Long setting. I couldn't possibly handle playing on that level; my attention span doesn't last on the same sim for very long. Even if they do get married and move into a new house and change their life, soon I will find myself desperately craving a completely different scenario.

[samoht04]

I always play normal, I mainly concentrate on a Sims Everyday wear because they hardly ever change and me and parties don't mix so Private Weddings all the way! 

[Sushi101]

I always play normal, I mainly concentrate on a Sims Everyday wear because they hardly ever change and me and parties don't mix so Private Weddings all the way! 

Absolutely! Parties can be so difficult sometimes. I usually only ever have parties if my sims are dying for it, and I wait until I have Legendary Host.

[samoht04]

I make em suffer, life is too short! 

[Addict]

Hey Simmers,

Since getting the Pets Expansion, I have had to alter the way I play a little.

I used to go with the Normal lifespan on a Sim, which seemed to work out okay, although sometimes I turned ageing off until I was set financially, and then turned it on when kids came along. The last couple of days however, I have been playing with the long lifespan, with a couple of tweaks to the child, toddler, young adult and adult ages, which kind of puts it in the middle of normal and long.

Currently it's set to this;

Baby: 6 days
Toddler: 6 days
Child: 10 days
Teen: 20 days
Young Adult: 30 days
Adult: 45 days
Elder: 36 days

I haven't gotten to the end of sims life yet with this set, as he's still only a toddler. But the young adult and adult stage have been good, giving me time to get a good start in a career and have a child. I wonder if this will change if I want more than one child though...

Also gives time to get a proper garden set up, as I've never done this before either!

So what does everyone else chose in terms of ageing?

Addict x

[CSquared2]

I almost always play on epic unless I'm playing a challenge that requires something else.  I don't know the breakdown, but the lifespan is 900something days.  Infancy and toddlerhood are both 23-25 days, I think.  I really enjoy this setting the most.  There's so much to do in the game, trying to rush through it and get so much accomplished is no fun for me on the shorter settings.  Long isn't so bad, but I do prefer epic.  I want to accomplish those things, but without all the stress.  I think it also lets me really get to know my sims.  It's easy for me to start a family and never play them again.  When I've played a family for hundreds of days, though, you get more attached and are less likely to abandon them.  Part of me also really enjoys the small pleasures in the game, the gardening, reading to children, sitting in the hot tub.  On shorter lifespans, those activities just take too much time.  On epic, I can indulge my desire for the simpler joys.