One thing that I saw in a menu about the age group… see picture below.
Why not give us control of number of days? Just putting 0.25x (or 1/4) is imprecise and does not allow the kind of customization that I require for my age groups…
I really need to set numbers per age group.
I am not ungrateful tho, it will be nice to have some control. But to be frank, it’s just not good enough.
See second picture of what I want to do (in that example it goes over 100 days as maximum age, but it’s just an example), clicking the left/right arrow would add or remove a day.
Thank you for pregnancy length though, this will be a nice touch (ps: make us able to set it in days well – same request)
Please reconsider giving us a box to type numbers or adjust sliders. Thank you !
I agree, even though I’m truly happy to see we’ll be getting some of the control we’ve needed finally. Having days instead of speed would make it way more accessible. My brain doesn’t like maths quite often, so calculating some of this might cause a headache But if they choose to stick with this option for a while, I think some forum members will gladly write a short summary to make this easier for everyone.
I think this will be fixed with the April update because I been watching some early gameplays and now the aging speeds also tells you how many days they will live if you select that aging speed
My problem was that ¼ - ½ - 1 - 2 - 4 was not enough.
The way this works is that there is a scaling setting in the “GameUserSettings.ini”
it is a 6 decimal point precision number.
When you put ¼, it writes : 0.250000,
If you put 2, it writes : 2.000000
So all they need to do is invert the process and let ppl write numbers in for each groups.
Then their program divides what the player puts by the normal group duration.
As an example, let’s say a player changes the default ADULT group from 10 to 21 days
The game divides the player number (21) by the normal duration (10),
The game will write 2.100000 in the settings file.
If the players want to change Toddlers from 6 to 4 ?
4/6 = 0.666667 in the settings file.
The only issue with the settings file right now is that the game auto-rounds to the NEXT day.
So if the value gives say, 28.05 days, it does not round to 28 but instead goes to 29.
So developers need to make it proper rounding to CLOSEST INTEGER,
or write a code to verify request vs result, and if it does not match, just remove one day (which fixes this issue).
Their age adjustment works on scaling, not fixed numbers, so working with what they gave us? This is my solution.
Cannot wait to try the next update, but you never know, maybe they did just that.
Still gonna ask for this idea as it really is the best option… And the devs are SO CLOSE to it, it could be coded in 15 minutes, not even joking. They are VERY CLOSE to making it like I mentioned above.
I want more options too but I found the wording (e.g. ‘0.5 x speed’, ‘2 x speed’, etc) super confusing and I’m happy to hear that they are at least telling us what our settings equate to in days.
I think it comes in the April one. If I’m not mistaken and from what I’ve seen, I’m a bit lost to be honest. I think it’s in the cheat console that comes built-in (which is quite good) because from the game itself you can move almost everything like the UI Cheats mod for The Sims 4, well they did something similar but already integrated into the game and I thought I saw something related to the age range.
Not gonna lie, having twice and 4x as long for the shorter span is really nice.
I just wish they’d walk the extra step and rework their formula to let us input number.
I was not joking when I said they were close. It would be so easy for them to do now that they have the current system ironed out.
I wonder if they haven’t implemented something more detailed because of the potential flow-on effects (bugs etc). I know the ageing was really messed up in every one of my save files after they introduced the current ageing controls
But if they choose to stick with this option for a while, I think some forum members will gladly write a short summary to make this easier for everyone.
