Can anyone who's done a legacy before please tell me what the best lifespan to put it on is, in your opinion?

Well, you're supposed to play it on a normal one. But I never play my legacies by the rules, so I always go for 'long' at least. :P

My only suggestion would be to extend the young adult stage a bit and shorten the Elder stage. This is mostly due to the fact that Elders can live anywhere between 10-30 days past the "end" of their lifespan

I set it on Long but made the toddler and baby stages shorter lol.

My typical adjusted long of late works out to baby 2 days, toddler 7 days, child 14 days, teen 18 days, YA 80 days, A 90 days, elder 1 day. I go with elder as 1 day for the reason Blake provided above, they live for quite a while after the "clock runs out", and this feels a bit more realistic for my play. Also, my teens are a bit shorter than typical because I allow my children to read skill books, so there's no waiting until the teen years for them to begin learning some skills and taking all that teen time to sit around reading skill books. I prefer them to fully socialize as teens.

I play on normal. About the only time I do.

O.O OMFG YOU POSTED ON MY THREAD!!!

Sorry for the over-reaction lol. Anyways I put baby on 2 days and toddler on 5 and left the rest as the default for long lol.

When you typed that where you more like this


or this?

epically long

BAHAHA both. :D

Normal age span with the ages adjusted as such:

Baby: 2 days
Toddler: 4 days
Child: 6 days
Teen: 14 days
Young Adult/Adult: 25 days
Elder: 14 days

Still all adds up to 90 days, basically chops from baby, toddler, child, and elder and places the spare days on young adult/adult.

I always play EPIC lifespan and for legacies, its perfect for my game style. I have babies at 5 days, toddlers for 15 - just long enough to read all the baby books and skill up, child for 75 and the rest at max.

I play my stories on EPIC!!! So I can have so many babies

I get a little OCD with my settings. I always go by seven-day intervals, which means that each Sim's birthday will always fall on the same day.

Baby: 7 days
Toddler: 7 days
Child: 14 days
Teen: 28 days
YA: 28 days
Adult: 28 days
Elder: 14 days

Baby through child stages equates to 28 days because, say, a YA has a baby early in the stage, they'll be an adult when the child becomes a teen and an elder when the child becomes a YA, giving them plenty of time to be around for any possible grandchildren. Plus, 28 days equate to one month, which means baby through child is one month, teen is one month, YA and adult are one month each, and elder CAN be one month with the added two weeks after its end (it seems to be two weeks most of the time when I play with elders). So, that's five months total in the game (126-140 days). And believe it or not, it's not as long as you'd think. Time flies!

Not surprisingly, I keep my seasons as seven days each to keep them always falling on the same day. It irks me that the moon phases cannot be set to seven days, so I just set it to eight. *sigh*

7 days, one for each life stage. Breed 'em like Fruit Flies.

O.O Not sure if you're freaking out over me or eskie...




HOW DO NEITHER OF YOU GET HORRIBLY BORED

SERIOUSLY

I had to cut epic down to long in all my saves because aauuuuhghhhhhghedefh so bored. Fuck you short attention span.

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I've never played a sim family for more than a few days. :/ And I have mine on long lol.

O.O I didn't think my posts were worth freaking out about!

I tend to jump around from game to game personally. I have a...not necessarily a long lost of games, but enough to have to scroll through them like "do I want to play more of my legacy, more of my brothel or my makeshift camp grounds?"

And then I get a totally arbitrary idea that sounds interesting until the Sims are made and then boredom sets in.

Why would a sim be an elder by the time their child is a young adult, though? It takes a human 18 years to reach adulthood (or at least reach the end of school, not counting university) according to most legal definitions- surely a couple would only be middle-aged (and therefore adults rather than elders) by that point if they had their child or children during the young adult stage?

I personally interpret the young adult stage as representing age 18-40, the adult stage as 40-65 (based on it being when a mid-life crisis can occur- it seems to be intended as a middle-aged stage, even if it doesn't always look that way) and the elder stage as post-retirement age. A possible setup based on that would be to set the time it takes for a sim to grow from birth to maturity to be equal to the time it takes for a sim to get through one of the young adult or adult stages, so a sim that has children as early as possible (presumably around 19-20 in real-world terms) will be nearly ready to age up to a 40-ish adult by the time their first child ages up from a teen.

(Remember, of course, that the teen stage has always been disproportionately long in both TS2 and TS3 by default- if anything, it should be shorter than the child stage, given that 5-12 is a slightly longer section of a human lifespan than 13-18. But it never is)

*faints* ERMAGERD MINGHAM IS HERE TOO. Oh right, I actually posted a question. :D

Mine is set to the game default, on normal. I feel like when I have my life span set to long or epic that my game slows down quite a bit and that I seem to get more save errors. Plus I get tired of my Sims after awhile, I need to have a regular turnover so that I don't get bored with my families