From my experience on the Discord server, everybody has different opinions about how long each life stage should last. I believe the way to satisfy everybody is to allow us to adjust the length of age stages in the in-game Settings under either Gameplay or Simulation.
I picture it working as sliders for each individual age stage that range from 1-100.
yes please!! id love this
I fully support this. Everyone has their own preferences.
Also make sure that you code those life stages at prorata.
That means whatever changes we make to the life stages, is auto-adjusted to pre-made families so they maintain the starting ages they are meant to have, and also older games we play that would auto adjust.
Example of prorata in action:
When I reload my save, Bob becomes 6 days into Young adult (same progress % in the progression bar !)
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I for one was much more comfortable with the old life stages (pre-0.20). They felt more natural and instilled a sense of urgency in getting your life together early on… That is to say if you wanted to get married as soon as you entered the young adult phase, you needed to get moving ! Days go fast !!
I tried giving the new life stages a chance. But it takes 40 days now to reach young adult… Mostly because of Teenager lasting 15 days (!!!), but also the Newborn + Toddler stages lasting 9 days combined (which is too long as well). Now it might not be so bad, especially with the 30 days of young adult, but this means the other stages (Adult, Middle-Aged, and Senior) lasting each 10 days respectively, with most Seniors dying upon reaching the stages or lasting 2-3 days at most.
Fact is, everyone has their own preferences. And having control over those age stage would be perfect.
Thank you for considering this Idea. It is very popular, and there’s also a mod made by a fellow player that switches back the life stages to pre-0.20 numbers and it has over 2.500 downloads. Speaks volume !
Good afternoon, and thanks for the awesome game.
Also a setting to change the progression of age and relationships when you are in a different town or city! I feel like its a bit unrealistic for it to be static, but I think some people like it this way so an option is nice
It would definitely be good to be able to adjust the length of a Zoi’s age-up times. So instead of a 7 day period for a young adult, you could adjust a slider that allowed the Zoi to exist for “X” amount of days before aging up.
Agreed. Often i prefer infants, kids etc.. To grow up quicker while adults or young adults live longer as they can actually get jobs etc.. So being able to adjust each one to my liking would help. There current add longer days doesn’t really help as it just means long days but you still need the same days to progress so overall useless in my mind. Disable is fine for now, but hopefully they add this.
I agree 100%! It’s one of the wishes I expressed on Discord.