Comments on: Sims 3 – Turning Neighborhood Aging Off

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:02:26 +0000

What would happen if you didn’t blow out your candles on your real sims birthday?

By: Polly

Polly — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:29:18 +0000

If I create a new game and play the new game, will my sims in the 1st game/neighborhood keep aging while I’m playing game 2?

By: Almonihah

Almonihah — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:22:54 +0000

Just thought I’d say that I think it’s funny how much commentary your Sims articles have drawn.

By: Aywren

Aywren — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:13:31 +0000

Yes, this is one thing I don’t like — if your SIM becomes pregnant, whether or not you play that family, she will have the baby in three days (if you don’t have a mod that extends this time). The game will also name the baby for you! So make sure you’re playing that family if you don’t want to have to take the poor child to the Town Hall to give them the name you want.

By: Katani

Katani — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:45:29 +0000

I do like that you can age a Sim with a birthday cake even with aging off. I hated useing all of my aspiration points in the Sims2 just to keep my Sims alive. I just don’t like the thought off all my hard work dieing off in a few hours of gameplay. And I definately wouldn’t like to have a family I made, but never got around to playing age without my knowing it. I would still play with Story progression on, only because I get tired of playing one family at a time and replaying the same actions over again with a different family. Like what I’d have to do with University on the Sims2. I’d make a family, have them make a baby, grow it up and so on. It’s a little repetative.

I do have a question, if you start a project, like getting a sim pregnant, would she still have the baby in three days if you were playing a different family for the time being?

By: Aywren

Aywren — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:48:09 +0000

I’m right with you on that one! It’s a surprise that the devs didn’t foresee the desire to have the options to pick and choose the modes that each household ran under. As much fun as I’m having playing the game with all the wonderful interactions between my Sims, it’s sad that I have to disable half the game play as well as apply mods and cheats just to progress the game the way I want. But then, that’s been said and done on the Sims 3 forums time and again. So I won’t beat a dead horse.

If a patch doesn’t come out for the game soon, I’ll be looking into the Awesome mod myself. I’m a tad concerned seeing that I run Vista and sometimes it likes to choke on things as Vista does. The Sims 3 installed without an issue so far, so maybe I’d be safe.

By: Link

Link — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:41:30 +0000

Not a problem. It’s definitely a Work in Progress, but it seems to be stable at this point and they’re just continually adding new features. There’s also a VERY quick and easy installer monkey thing that pretty much sets everything right up for you.

I think the options for aging with the vanilla version are great though. It’s still unfortunate there wasn’t a built in “Sims 2 Aging” option.

What I’m REALLY looking forward to from a Mod is the ability to pick and choose which households are effected by aging or story progression (mostly Story Progression), instead of making it 100% global.

By: Aywren

Aywren — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:24:44 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Link. I do know about the Awesome Mod and all the great things it can do. Glad it’s working good for you! However, I think it’s still being tweaked and finalized, so there might be some risk to installing it for other folks. I was going to eventually post about it when I heard that it was a bit more stable.

Also, there are some gamers out there that may not be willing to mod their base game or may not have the technical know-how to tweak files and mess with their game cache. So, these are options for those who may not use mods to their game.

By: Link

Link — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:54:00 +0000

That “Awesome Than You” mod allows you to enable Sims 2 aging. So… once again, it continues to fix problems and issues that people have had with this game. I’ve also been using it without any crashing after playing for 2 – 3 hours straight.