Talk:Life stage

Theory
If the Sim age (life expectancy of 90 days) divided by 1.2, we obtain the human age. Results below:


 * Baby - 0-2 years
 * Toddler - 2-7 years
 * Child - 7-13 years
 * Teen - 13-25 years
 * Young Adult - 25-43 years
 * Adult - 43-60 years
 * Elder - 60-75 years
 * Death - after 75 years

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 * I have to agree with Bella Goth's one. Isn't 43 a pretty old young adult? Bleeh  [ iTalk  ] 17:03, February 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm assuming that TS3's adult stage is meant to be more-or-less equivalent to real-life middle age. 30 isn't middle-aged, but you can start to see it from there.  I'd set the break between young adult and adult at somewhere around 40, give-or-take a couple of years. As for elder starting at 50, no, not in any modern society. I'd put young adult at 19 to 40, adult at 40 to 65, and elder at 65 and up. Dharden 18:11, February 20, 2010 (UTC)

Birthday Cake
"It is also possible to use a birthday cake to age up Sims. However, a Sim can only be aged up once. " -the article

Personally I've never encountered this restriction. I've often made babies skip all the way to teens using just cakes. Is there somethin wrong with my game or is the above statement an outright fabrication?
 * I believe it meant "Once per life stage", or "Once per age". I'll correct the mistake. Thanks for the notice!  Nikel  Talk  10:49, June 14, 2012 (UTC)

Age confusion at The Sims 2
If a sim ages into an elder in Sims 2, the age bar says that he/she is 54 days old. How exactly are those days counted? 3 days as a baby, 4 days as a toddler, 8 as child, 15 as teen and 29 as adult make up 59 days for me. Even if you take in the possibility that you can age up a sim if he's just one day away from the next life stage, it's still not correct since that isn't possible if your sim is a baby. So how did it come to 54 days?

AldeaMalvada (talk) 20:18, April 25, 2014 (UTC)
 * Don't babies also skip a day if you grow them up using a birthday cake? Ideally, blowing the birthday cake will skip the age by 1 day, while naturally growing them up at 18:00 won't.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  16:53, April 27, 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm going to go with the standard, all-purpose answer to questions like this -- EA goofed. Dharden (talk) 21:59, April 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * True story. And still, it would be nonsense that the age was counted for the days a birthday cake instead of regular growing-up was used... But well, the age bar generally screwed up in some place. 194.96.58.16 (talk) 20:39, April 28, 2014 (UTC)


 * It appears that the magic number is done by adding the number of days in each of the life states. Since the numbers in the game start at 0, that means that the game things that a baby will spend 2 full days in that life state. This is regardless of waiting until the birthday is automatic or manual by the birthday cake. So if you subtract 1 from each life state and then add them together (or just subtract 5 for Baby, Toddler, Child, Teen, and Adult from your total of 59), you will get 54. If you have no modifications for the number of days in life states, Sims will always be 54 days old upon their Elder birthday regardless of it being true or not. That means the use of Elixir or any other in-game method of living longer will not change this either. I hope that answers your question. - Icemandeaf (talk) 23:21, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

about the sims 4
life stages in the sims 4 appears to be: baby, child, teenager, young adult, adult and elder. toddler will be added at a later date. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.213.34.70 (talk • contribs) 22:48 29 June 2014 (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~
 * We don't know exactly if toddlers will be added... EA never promised. Even if they promised, they could break it any time.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  17:00, July 17, 2014 (UTC)

Rename
I've nominated this article for a rename from Life stages to Life stage, to fall in-line with the MOS naming conventions. --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 06:01, August 30, 2014 (UTC)
 * I support.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  12:32, September 1, 2014 (UTC)

Cowplant
Why is Cowplant listed here? If the said life stage is basically plant growth stage, then it's not supposed to be mentioned here. I know nothing about Cowplant in TS4 atm, though.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  12:36, September 3, 2014 (UTC)