I have noticed by conversations in Discord that some players might not be aware that the possibility of shortening or lengthening life stages individually is already available in inZOI. Here’s a short and quick guide on how to do it, and hopefully a way of spreading the word that this is actually a feature already in-game.
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The game allows you to change life stages individually by making each life stage shorter or longer. In the default settings, a zoi lives up to 99 days, which are distributed as follows among life stages:
This can be changed through setting as you will see bellow, to get a very different set of lifespans. On top of that, you can change this setting individually, to shorten the lifespans that less interest you, and lengthen the ones that you want to flesh out more.
Scroll down to “Aging speed”. You will see a list of all life stages and the default life span duration. By clicking on the left arrow, you make life spans longer. By clicking on the right arrow, you make them shorter.
Thank you for the guide as always Moooody… even though I always play with aging off because I might grow too attached to my zois and stories to see them getting older!
This is what I use, trying to mimic a typical human lifespan as closely as possible, with each day representing a year of life:
Newborn: 2x speed (2 days) - age 0-1
Toddler: 2x speed (3 days) - age 2-4
Child: 2x speed (5 days) - age 5-9
Adolescent: 2x speed (3 days) - age 10-12
Teenager: 2x speed (8 days) - age 13-20
Young Adult: 2x speed (15 days) - age 21-35
Adult: 0.5x speed (20 days) - age 36-55
Middle-Aged: 0.5x speed (20 days) - age 56-75
Senior: 1x speed (10 days) - age 76-85+
Some of these are not ideal - teenagers lasting from 13-20y is too long, but 5 ‘years’ would be too short. Being ‘middle-aged’ for 20 years is also pretty OTT, and I did think about swapping the middle-aged and senior stages, but middle-aged Zois already look absurdly old in the game so I didn’t want them becoming seniors too early. Ideally they would eventually let us set exact numbers of days for each stage, rather than relative speed.
I schedule the others for the longest days.
It pains my heart to think they could die