Forever Young Adult

[LlamaMama]

I'm wondering whether you veteran Sims players have already "been there, done that" with an idea that's new to me. I'm interested in hearing about your experiences with it. I can't decide whether it's likely to be really boring or really interesting.

Now that we have tattoos that can reset our sims' age, I'm tempted to play a generational game of sorts, with a difference. Two sims, forever young adult, churning out lots and lots of normally-aging children, who find mates and are eventually released into the town.

Your thoughts?

[DeNile]

Wait, hasn't the tattoo bug been fixed in the patch released with Fast Lane?

Also, sounds neat. Very neat!

And I think you might eventually run out of tattoos and need to start over  

I might have to try this.

[Beddy_Boop]

As in, just going to get tattoos/ salon makeovers many times? That would be cool, because the sims would probably be adults by the time you can make ambrosia... that would be a scary movie in my mind . Seeing your friends, family, and great-great(etc.)grandchildren die off while you stay young and limber and wrinkle free!

[Calgary_Rose]

Sounds like an interesting idea.  Remember, though, unless you get the kids married in-house and then move them out you won't be able to pick their partners.  And you might want to look into ambrosia before the parents run out of room for tattoos or if EA changes the bug.

[Beddy_Boop]

And I trhink you might eventually run out of tattoos and need to start over  

You can choose the option of: "have all tattoos removed"
I don't remember if it has a fee to do that but it is probably only few hundred simoleans to do it if there is one.

[DeNile]

You can choose the option of: "have all tattoos removed"
I don't remember if it has a fee to do that but it is probably only few hundred simoleans to do it if there is one.

That's what I was talking about. It'd be neat tosee all the different tattoo combinations.

[Anushka]

If you're interesting in something like that, put lifespan on normal or even turn of aging, and use birthday cakes for children to grow, that way you'll have everyone young as long as you want. Only, it gets boring after a while

[LlamaMama]

I don't know if the tattoo effect is a bug or intended, but I have Fast Lane and it's still happening. It's nice because you don't have to do it as often as life fruit. I forget whether ambrosia resets your age bracket the way tattoos do.

I would keep aging on Normal, let all the babies grow up, just keeping Mommy and Daddy young adult. Boring?

[Asleep]

Not really. You should post about it on the Stories Topic.

[Pam]

Ambrosia does reset to the beginning of the life stage.  I've played a couple of game like this when I first started playing the Sims 3.  It was fun and different, but it did get boring after awhile like almost anything else does.  I say go for it.

[JeffGuy]

Interesting, I tried something like that. You should go for it!

[Esther1981]

Lol I've done that! Aging off, getting ingredients for Ambrosia,turn aging on manually aging up my kids. I've had my kids and grandkids die of old age and I'm still a YA! It's hilarious! The only way I can see it gets boring is after getting level 10 on all skills and doing all the challenges, there is really nothing more to do, but it's fun while it lasts!  

[ladydragon76]

I'm doing something like this, though my project is to attempt linebreeding Sims.  LOL.  I have Star, he's a Young Adult and my only immortal with aging on epic.  I created his wife because the traits I'm after are white hair, green eyes. They stand out in a crowd.  So far they have five children, four of whom have received the white hair/green eye combo.  Baby number four has game base black hair, and this sort of plum shade of purple for eyes.  Alas, she will not have a mate with white hair and green eyes created for her, and will be living out her life at home.  The other four kids will marry though.  I'll create, add to game, have them marry one by one and move out to start their own families and hopefully more white haired, green eyed nooboos.  Then Star shall have more kids with his lovely wife until she is too old to do so.  The goal/experiment is to see how many generations I have to go to get Sunset Valley mostly full (or all full, but I doubt it) of white haired/green eyed Sims.  Star will probably remarry as well down the line.

The side goal there is to have Star do everything he can. He's maxed all available skills, completed all but two of the challenges.  He's still tutoring children, though I can't seem to get it past 2.08 hours despite him tutoring his own children in skills.  He's also working on the photo albums because I'm OCD like that.  He's also got a lot of travelling and adventuring left to do as well.  I've been playing him for a couple months now, and when I get tired of the grind, I go play a different family.  I'm on my second attempt to get an Immortal Dynasty going too.  Guess I should post that.   

*Hugz!*
-LD

[Pam]

@ladydragon76:

After you marry off and move out the white haired, green eyed kids, will their families be on their own to produce more of the same?  Or will you continue to make Sims and insert them into the game?

[LlamaMama]

@ladydragon76: That sounds really interesting! Unfortunately, I came upon my young adult idea after my sim married a townie in BB with black hair, swarthy skin, big old honker. Nothing like my fine-boned fair skinned violet eyed founder. Guess who the kids resemble?