Thankfully, control over the age groups length is supposed to be coming out in December.
The current age groups are :
- Newborn(0-3)
- Toddler(4-9)
- Child(10-19)
- Adolescent(20-24)
- Teenager(25-39)
- Young Adult(40-69)
- Adult(70-79)
- Middle-Aged(80-89)
- Senior (90+)
Now since 0.4.2, Senior have no chance to die from old age from 90-95, so they have 6 days “off the hook” which is much better than it was prior.
But the big issue stems from a generation being 42 days.
Even if a female zoi gets pregnant on her first day of Young adult (so at day 40 in her life) it still takes 3 days for the pregnancy (40-41-42).
Then another 42 days for that kid to be able to give birth/father a child itself… meaning 84 days before you have grandkids… if you don’t waste a single second !
We each have our own view on how the age groups should be distributed, hence devs giving us control in December.
However If you want to fix this, you either need to give adolescent and older the capability to have kids of their own, or make it so you reach young adult much sooner.
That would mean doing something like changing teens from 25-39 to 25-29 (Young Adult starts at 30).
Or alternatively increase the max age of zois which is hardcoded and set to 100 right now to something like 130 and re-equalize the later stage like you’re asking.
As long as we keep the 100 day age limit it really limits what we can do.
Ideally in such a system, young adult should start at 20, which it did before and still does in the “Realistic Aging” mod.
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Keeping the lengthy young adult period, I could see something like this :
- Newborn(until 2days), Toddler(3-4-5), Child(6-7-8-9-10-11-12), Adolescent(13-14-15-16), Teen(17-18-19-20)
So young adult start at age 21 (like in the USA) could last until 50 (so still 30 days).
This gives you an extra 20 days to spend, which means you can have both adult and Middle-age increased by 5, and senior by 10… Giving you :
- Young Adult(21-50)
- Adult (51-65)
- Middle-Aged (66-80)
- Senior (81-100)
Right now senior are coded to live until 95 as aforementioned, tho this could be fixed to give a slight and progressive chance to die the older they get.
Let’s see if the December update lives off to the hype, if not I will gladly make a mod with these values for you !