What Lifespan Do You Like to Play?

[Sportsfan]

I pretty much only play on normal. I want stuff to happen fast in my games and I don't really have the patience for some of the other lifespans. Ive never tried the shorter ones because they seem too short to me.

[amyrose]

I play on Long, but with the baby stage at three days. I don't much like looking after the babies, but I love the toddler stage!

[Hosfac]

I only ever play on normal life span.  I haven't even adjusted the sliders on the different age brackets, even though I have just recently got them (I avoided the patch until certain things were fixed).

[Addict]

I would say after what you guys have said that it depends on your play style, I've started to adopt the CSquared style of play where I would like time to do the little things I have never had the time to do, which is why I've got a proper garden being set up. When I was new to the game I wanted to do everything

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[Ricalynn]

I almost always play on normal.  My husband likes epic lifespan but after a while I get sick of the same sims.  I usually only play the one household, too.  Not to mention, I would hate to screw up my dynasty files by not having them on the right age setting.

[SimPoseyYum]

Because I play mostly Challenges, I play on Long.  I like Long for the most part; even if I had the time to play something other than Challenges, I'd still play on Long.  The only thing that bugs me about Long is the length of babies and toddlers.  I love babies and toddlers in real life but Sim-babies and Sim-toddlers grate on my nerves.  Sadly, in Challenges we're not allowed to alter the sliders (if it were up to me, babies, 1 day, toddlers, 3 days).  Given that, I try to avoid any Challenges that involve babies and toddlers.

I wish here was a way to set lifespan per file rather than universally, but that's a different thread .

[Noshmek]

I move it to Long - and then adjust for 150 days.
Babies - 2
Toddler - 7
Child - 10
Teen - 20
YA - 30
Adult - 45
Elder -36

[Addict]

I move it to Long - and then adjust for 150 days.
Babies - 2
Toddler - 7
Child - 10
Teen - 20
YA - 30
Adult - 45
Elder -36

That looks like a pretty good set up there. Not a huge amount to do with babies, but more to do with toddlers. I like.

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[VampirePlasma]

I give my Sims 100 days total. But when am playing a couple or one single Sim I play aging off.

[MoonsAreBlue]

I always use normal. I like the generational aspect of playing, and I usually get bored with my families once they have too much money. So I usually get through 3, sometimes 4 generations before I'm bored with them. However, if I'm playing multiple households, I like to switch between Long and Aging Off. I don't like my sims aging up without me, haha.

[Blucher]

I like the generational aspect as well, though I rarely get past generation three.

My lifespan settings since generations (usually):
Baby - 1
Toddler - 2
Child - 7
Teen - 14
Young Adult - 28
Adult - 35
Elder - 3

(90 days total)

If I'm just playing a single sim and I don't plan on them having a family I might just turn aging off or set it to epic.

[Seabody]

I vary between Normal and Long.

If I'm playing my Dynasty or a Challenge File, I'll go into options and doublecheck that the sliders are correct. If it's a casual file, I'll just go with whatever it was set to last time I played.

Once I tried short for the heck of it. It went by way too fast.

[jeanamariex3]

It actually varies on the situation for Game Play. If I'm playing Metro's Challenges, I will play on Long because the rules state that the lifespan must be set to long. If I'm doing a Dynasty, I stay with the default settings. For Single Sims Aging and Story Progression are both off, because they go together like peanut butter and jelly, and I like to keep everything as is. If I play with a premade family, I simply like to keep aging on and play around with the sliders in the Game Settings.

This Christmas, when I finally get Pets for Sims 3, I will be writing a story about a premade townie specifically, and due to her elderly status, aging will be turned off.

[pallyndrome]

I like it to be both realistic, yet suitable to my tastes. So I do:

Baby - 2 (not much to do with them, anyway)
Toddler - 5
Child - 10
Teenager - 10 (why should teenager be more than child? it's not like that in real life)
Young Adult - 21
Adult - 21
Elder - 21

[cndneh]

I usually play on Normal -

Baby  - 1
Toddler - 1
Child - 7
Teen - 14
Young Adult - 25
Adult - 24
Elder - 17

looking at the numbers not sure why I have elder set so long, baby/toddlers are set short since I really am not a fan of that age (we do todler skill cramming, parents take turns). Sometimes I'll set the age to long, never to Epic, I don't have the patience.  I have set it to short once and played a family just to see what happens... and what happens is you blink and your sim is old and dies.  "what the..."?  So hardly ever short!