hey I'm back two years later to say I'm still using your resources!! Cindy you are invaluable to me and the rest of the sims 2 community. Thank you so much for just existing and being you. love and miss your sims streams/videos.
Thanks, it worked nicely for me! I have to be honest, I've been a little bit stressed out about how short the aging was by default lol. When I play Sims 3 I have my age spans on epic. Makes me become more attached to my Sims and I'll feel more emotionally involved with them, haha.
This popped up in my newsfeed today. I first watched this video last year. I wanted to apply a custom aging system to my game and did a search and your video came up. I believe it was the first time I heard of you. It opened a whole new world for me in sims 2. I binge watched everything you had ever made! Thank you for all your hardwork and for sharing your passion for sims with me and everyone else. ❤❤❤
Hi :-) I've played TS2 for 20 years now but never knew how much I could adjust it to my own wishes until I discovered your channel ^.^" Thank you so much for givimg me a brand new game (experience)! I did some research and figured out the aspiration lines for elders. Basically the min and max numbers are for elders without an aspiration bonus (gold, silver, bronze, normal, bad). The aspiration level bonus are stated in days that get substracted from the minimum days or added to the maximum you set in the elder lines above. Edit: the numbers in "aspiration level" (highest, high, ...) seem to be the threshholds on how many points a certain level needs to count towards a reward or penalty (gold, bad, etc) (You probably figured that out by now yourself or someone else commented on that but I thought I'd share just in case)
Thank you so much!!!! You are making my Sims play so much richer and more fun!! I appreciate all you do! Later: I did it!! So excited! Now i'm going into my game to play. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this!! Previously, I just went into the "Other" tab" and changed the "Days in prev. Age" and "Age duration" fields to match what I wanted, but that got annoying whenever new sims were born, so it's great to finally have something in the background to do this.
Its most likely one day less because you can age them up with a cake a day earlier. The game kinda assumes you’d do that. Funny because i’d never, not gonna make their already short lives even a day shorter
late reply, but it's actually because of how computers work. Computers recognize 0 as the first number, so when you ask a computer to count down from 5 before doing something, it'll go 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, and then do it after 0.
Great tutorial! Your LP got me to pick up and learn how to use SimPE to my advantage. I never thought I really needed it before but there's a lot you can see and do that's incredibly useful.
I'm so glad!! It is very useful for a lot of little adjustments, and I use it for things like looking to see how many townies I have in a certain age group, etc. All kinds of things. :)
Thanks again for the tutorial I had forgotten a lot about sims PE and some I didn't even know so it was a great help. I also love your aging system and even though I didn't use it exactly It gave me ideas on how to make my own. If someone needs inspiration here is how I proceeded. First I decided of the real life ages for each stage of sims life. So for me it is Ages baby 0 -> 2 (in real life I would say 3 because that's when you go to kindergarten but babies are boring :p) Toddler 2 ->6 Child 6 -> 12 (at 6 you go to "real" school and learn to read and write) Teen 12 -> 18 (at 12 you're in high school) Adult 18 -> 65 (65 or so is the earlier age of retirement here in France) (in the sims 3 with the young adult I cut this in 18 to 30 YA and 30 to 65 adult) Elder 65 -> 75 to 95 Then I rewrite this in term of years per stage years spent baby 2 Toddler 4 Child 6 Teen 6 Adult 47 Elder 10 to 30 Then depending on my playstyle I choose a number of ingame days per real life years. If I want to play longer with my sims and have time to get to know them and make them all prodigies :P I go with 2 days per year. I also feel it fits having a day and a half pregnancy, one day would be 6 months so one day and a half = 9 months. I convert the years I just calculated in days and substract 1 for Sims PE days spent baby 4 -> 3 Toddler 8 ->7 Child 12 -> 11 Teen 12 -> 11 Adult 94 -> 93 Elder 20 To 60 -> 19 To 59 Then if one of my sims ever goes to uni, when he goes back to the neighborhood after failing or graduating I'll simply go to sims PE to remove the number of days he spent at uni from the number of days he has left. I won't subtract 1 to that as it's already done by Sims PE, I set the number of days in adult life at 46 because it was 47 -1, when I check a new adult Sims PE tells me it has 46 days left, the -1 is already done. As for the playable sims in the neighborhood before I begin playing for the first time, what I do is I first check the standard lifespan from Maxis Baby: (3 days) Toddler: (4 days) Child: (8 days) Teen: (up to 15 days) Note: With University, teens can grow up early in order to go to college. Young adult: (varies; usually 24 days) University only. Lasts until the Sim leaves the college sub-neighborhood. Adult: (29 days) Elder: (varies; range is 9-31 days) Sims who have higher aspiration levels when aging generally get more time, but there is a random element. Followed by death. Then I go to Sims PE, check their remaining days and calculate what should be in my own system. Take Mortimer Goth for example when you first load him in Sims PE it says 5 days left (-1 included so I won't be subtracting anything from now on) If I take into account the longer elder lifespan from maxis and mine it gives : he has 5 days of 31 left, how many of 60 does that give him ? 60x5/31 = 10 (9.6 rounded) Also in case you're interested there is also an aging mod for pets in the same place you got your normal one, just in case you find pets age spans don't match your human's one :)
Wow Jeza! You play about as in-depth as I do when it comes to aging! I calculated the premade ages very similarly. I love your system too, and I'm so glad I was able to help! About the pets, I really haven't paid much attention to their aging, but maybe I will think about it for the future. I haven't had a pet pass away yet, but their lives should definitely be much shorter.
Babies and Toddlers, those buggers do overstay their welcome(Tho, maybe I should space out my birth so I don't have two todds so close by). Child and teens, love em. 14-16 days for em is good.
Not really. She plays a lot like I do, and you’re only a teenager in real life for 7 years anyway 13-19. And I turn aging off completely when I want “extra time”
She’s accounting for an adult being alive long enough to care for their kid till adulthood and to attend college. Plus she’s making it realistic by them becoming elders at 60 days. So, that age is pretty reasonable
@@shaunwaller8751 The age changes will only take effect at the time of transition (aging up). All newly created or born-in-game Sims will use the new age system as soon as they're born. Sims that already exist will not change until their next birthday. I usually just count the number of days that existing Sims have remaining and subtract that from the number of days in the lifespan to get their age. Hope that helps!
One idea I had was what if Sims aged in real time...sort of. Like what if they only aged whenever it was the first day of the first season again? That would sort of simulate an entire year if you think about it.
Oh this is very helpful! I was afraid I'd mess up my ages and I did (lol) I didn't realise the minus 1 day thing, guess I will have to edit my aging mod now.
I'm honestly so glad that I found you through UrbanSims Sims 2 videos! I love how in depth you get and how you play! Just one question I have about installing this mod I use WinRAR to unzip my zip files so when I click on the download button on your link it opens it on WinRAR as a folder and I am unable to install the mod? Any help and advice would be amazing! Again I love your content! xxxxxx
I just came across your video for life spans! I HATE the lifespans in sims 2, they are so long. The only downside is I have a mac and therefore I'm unable to use SimPE. Is it possible for you to share the edited file for your lifespans? Is that a thing? It would be really helpful for us mac users. Love your content and I'm glad I found it! Leaving sims 4 to come to 2 again has been a dream. Forgot how much fun the sims used to be :)
hey cindy! i tried your tutorial but it didn't work for me for some reason, i did step by step and my sims still are with the 29 days (even the pre-made that i have in my town still have it, i even change the days left in sim pe but nothing changed) idk if this tutorial is outdaded or the age hack still works anyway, if you have some suggetions to what i can do i'll be so happy to know, because i really like the lifestages that you have. (sorry if my english is bad,it's not my first language)
I followed your tutorial, and it worked. I have 2 days for baby, 3 for toddler, 7 for kid, 6 for teen, and 36 for adults. However, when a Sims ages to elder, in their age it says they are 49 days old (not 54 as it should be). Does anyone have the same problem? I thought it’s because the teen stage is too short (half the default), so maybe the game interprets it this way?
hey cindy! i edited my aging system last night with the one in this video, but i wanted to edit the ages for the pleasantview sims because i wanted to play rotationally. i figured out to do the adults; but, i'm a little confused with the toddlers/children/teens. so if i have a child sim, say Alexander Goth, how do i determine how many days he has left? I guess more specifically, do i put how many days he has left in his entire life (up until elder age, 60) or how many days are left in his current life stage (child)?
Hi Ellie! You can determine the ages of the child/teen Pleasantview Sims by subtracting the number of days they have left in their current lifestage from the number of days you have set for that stage. For example, according to the Sims wiki, when you first play Alexander Goth he is four days away from becoming a teenager. My child lifespan ends at the age of 12, so I subtract four days from 12 and that makes him 8 years old when the game starts. This is how I determine the age of the premades. You don't have to change anything in Sim PE for these Sims unless you want to. If you do, just put how many days they have left in the current lifestage. They will automatically adopt your new system once they age up to the next lifestage.
so ,one little question:what happens if you put 50 days on your plantsim values?,like,what age do we get with these average quantity of days?. i wanna serious answers about that right now
Thanks I'm using a 16 day = 1 Year mod and needed Bella Goth's age to be older than her daughter without just making her an elder XD and 3 days at a time with simblender was just too slow.
Hey, I am very new to The Sims 2 and I have downloaded this mode and have followed everything that you have said in this video. But when I load up my game and the custom content dialog shows, it has a yellow exclamation mark in a triangle and says 'Overrides Game Constants'. I have tried to look everywhere to make it work but I have no idea how. Is there a way to fix this cause it happens with some other mods I try to download as well.
Hi Egglo! This is completely normal. It's just to let you know that the file modifies the game in some way. It is perfectly safe to play with these mods! Click the checkbox to enable custom content, and you're good to go!
Please help me.. When i go to download simPE, it only gives me a winRAR file and im not sure how to install it from that?? Im not very computer savvy but can you tell me which file i need to open for the installation to start?
@@PleasantSims yay! even though you said that you wouldn't mess with elder age i tried to modify elder and plantsim ages with your method and it worked as well; i hope i haven't screwed my game lol
how many days left did you set for the premades initially? (like at the beginning of the pleasantview gameplay) ...realized that this is kind of a stupid question considering that was a while a while ago but i figured i’d ask :)
I don't remember exactly what ages I chose for everyone, but I used two different techniques for determining their ages. For some of the sims, I went to the Sims Wiki and looked at their days remaining. I think it's listed for almost every Sim somewhere in their bio. For example, on Don Lothario's bio it says "When Don is first played in The Sims 2, he is 28 days away from becoming an elder." Then I subtracted 28 from 60 (when my Sims become an elder) and imagined his age was 32. So I didn't even have to change his age because he was already 28 days from an elder. For others, I added up all the days they would have lived in my aging system and assigned them that age. For example, any Sim at the very beginning of the adult life stage would be 21. The Caliente sisters I made 21 I think - so I set their remaining days to 39. It wasn't an exact science. I basically just set them to what I think they should have been. :)
Hi Lilsis! The aging hack should not cause your game to crash unless you have a conflicting mod already installed. Check your mods folder and make sure you don't have another mod that affects aging. Good luck!
Sadly for me it didn´t work. It kept my changes when I´m in SimPE but when I open the game it still says for my adults that they age up in 29 days (the vanilla life span)
how do i change the number of days till a sim ages up, i have a sim who is a day younger than her twin from when i moved her out of her twins' house. .. i believe i asked this question too early, it says how in the video sorry
Thank you for the tutorial! I always wanted age consistency in my game! I have a hypothesis about why we should input a number 1 less in SimPe. It is due to the way the game handles aging. It starts the counter at 0, not 1. If my hypothesis is true I have a tip to you to make adult ages easier. First of all, sorry about the long comment. We all know that Sims age at 6 pm, no matter what. It means that if a Child blow the candles at 12 pm he or she will age normally to a Teen. But at 6 pm of the same day, the game will age this Sim 1 day filling the counter. It means that the first day of teenager will last only 6 hours. That's why Sims should blow the candles some minutes before 6 pm if we want age consistency. What "age min" and "age max" means, like "baby min" and "baby max"? The game attributes a age for the Sim. Suppose the baby will live for 3 days before aging. Let's use Brandi's third child as an example. He is called Bob. Bob was just born and the game gives him "age 0". Suppose that he was born in Monday at 3 pm. In the same Monday, at 6 pm, the game will age Bob and will give him "age 1". Tuesday at 6 pm, the game will age Bob and will give him "age 2" Wednesday at 6 pm, the game will age Bob and give him "age 3". The game will understand that Bob lived for 3 days and will age him to a toddler. Notice that Bob's first day of life was only 3 hours! In SimPe you should place the number 2 at "baby max" to get these 3 days. Why? Notice the game attributes a number for the Sim age at each stage. The "baby max" means that the maximum age a baby could have is 2. There must be no babies with "age 3" or "age 4" etc. When the game realizes the baby will have "age 3", the game will age the baby to a toddler. And it starts again! The toddler will now have a "age 0" mark. If "toddler max" is 5 , the toddler will live for 6 days before aging. Notice the first day starts counting just after the aging. No matter if the Sim ages at 5 pm, the first day will be counted at 6 pm, no exception. If you place a 0 in SimPe you are telling the game that little Bob should age to a toddler in the same day he was born. Bob will have a "age 0" mark and no "age 1" baby is allowed. Hence, if Bob was born at 3 pm, at 6 pm the game will give him a "age 1" mark which is not allowed, he must age to a toddler. I don't see why inserting 0 is a problem, but the game doesn't allow it. Normally we tend to make our Sims to try for a baby at night, and babies normally born before the morning. If the birth happens at 6 pm, the baby will live at least 12 hours before getting a "age 1" mark. For us, it feels like a whole day. I guess that "age min" means the minimum age a Sim must have before aging. Sims can only blow the candles in the day before they will eventually age. Suppose "child max" is 9 and "child min" is 6. When Bob becomes a child he will receive the "age 0" mark again. When Bob receive the "age 6" mark he will be allowed to age to a teenager using the birthday cake. When he receive the "age 9" mark he will age to a teenager in the next day no matter what. I really don't know if my hypothesis is correct. I must make some tests on it. You like to make Adults that do go to college to have 4 days less than adults that doesn't go to college. I think that, instead of messing with SimPe every time to change a Sim age, you could simply set "adult min" 4 days less than "adult max". So, an adult that went to college will be able to age 4 days before an adult that didn't went to college. It would make life a lot easier. And again, thank you for the tutorial!
I'm so dumb with all of the mod... so I use userstarup.cheat to turn aging of in game. And age up my sims when I want to. Btw Thankyou for your video🥰🥰🥰
I think this is how I played originally because I played the Pleasants for real life years and (mis)remembered playing on Long Lifespan (which apparently never existed in Sims 2). There's no way they aged up after a handful of Sims days.
Hi Cindy! Super usefull video as always, thank you! I have one question,I hope somebody can help me: I've aged up Daniel, my first sim to become an elder and the game says he's 55... I thought he was supposed to be 60, is there a reason why this happened?
You can change that in SimPE too. According to your aging system, he should have lived 60 days, by now, but because you implemented that while he was already alive, he went through life before the game with the Maxis age groups. If it bothers you, you'll have to fix it for every new elder born before you implemented the tweak. Or you fix everyone born prior to the tweak, regardless of age. Then you're done with it.
@@bellamar68 When you're editing a Sim in simPE, you can navigate to Other, and there, under Misc, you'll find "Days in prev. age". Set this to however many days the Sim has lived before they aged up to their current lifestage.
Hi! I know this video is a bit old, but I never used SimPE and I´m having a lot of trouble finding a safe place to download it. Do you have a video explaining how to download it? Or do you know any video that explains this. I need to fix my family tree and knowing how to install SimPE is making this a nightmare XD. Thanks in advance
I’m not Cindy but I just went through the same exact thing. I simply extracted the SimPE files to my desktop and I never even had to go through the installation process. I’m not sure if that’s right but it worked for me and opened up and I edited my Sim’s lifespans. After I extracted the files to my desktop, I opened it up and double clicked the “SimPE” application and it opened right up. I hope it works for you.
Thanks a lot! Also, I have one question - when I install it, all of .package files on my PC change icons to SimPe logo (and i think it adds something to the .package, like 4 letters?). When I uninstall it - it's back to normal. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? It's just quite annyoing and I'd rather leave the files the way they are :p
No problem! Glad I could help! As for the package files changing to the SimPE icon, I don't know how to stop that from happening. I'm sure there's a way, but it doesn't bother me, so I've never looked into it. Sorry!
Hi! I really enjoy your videos and style of gameplay, I’ve been playing in Pleasantview and decided to change the aging system. I followed your video but whenever I try to play with the sims that are on the new aging system my game instantly crashes.I have no other mods that affect aging. Is there a way to fix the crashes or undo the changes? Or do I need to start over with a clean install? Thank you!
When I download it the same way you did, it just downloads a file that won't open without me selecting an application. I chose notepad and it's in some weird computer symbols?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I was wondering when you change the aging, what happens to the premade sims that have already lived some days? Like for example Johnny Smith, when we start playing it it’s his birthday. Changing the aging will reset their ages or will they have the equivalent of their remaining days? God, I hope I worded that right.
The aging hack only affects newly created/born Sims. Otherwise, the premades will remain the same until their next age transition (age up). Then they will be on your new age system. If you want to change their ages before their next birthday, you can do it in Sim PE. I usually just count how many days they have remaining and subtract it from my age for that lifestage and make that their age. I hope that makes sense, but if you have any questions let me know!
I am currently playing a legacy family and the adults I am playing - both started at 42 days - but they have both just aged up into elders but it says they have 55 days left when it should be 60? I have made sure the aging matches up with what you have in the video but for some reason there ages seem a bit weird! I haven't changed them or anything so not really sure what's happened? Any advice or help would be welcolm!
When i go to download simPE, it doesn't pop up with an installation like yours does? Mine doesn't do anything. Any advice on that? Thank you in advance!
@@kalleighward953 My laptop found a way! I extracted the SimPE file with Winrar, opened the new folder, clicked the SimPE logo (there are only 4 logos; SimPE, wizards of SimPE, CacheBrowser and Validator, the rest are random folders and files), my laptop had a pop up and asked if it should download and find a suitable app so SimPE can launch, click yes. Then wait for a few minutes and SimPE should be able to run! I launched my Sim 2 game after following the YT vid and the engagement glitch is fixed, it's green now. Hopefully it works for you too :)
Cindy, I don't know how to do it with the atual version of SimPE, I never used this program before, can you help me with this? I don't see the part "Page View" :C
Hi I'm sorry this was such a long time ago, but will this make the sims age up after those certain amount of days by themselves? So technically you don't need any mods for aging NPCs as you can change their lifespan and they will age up once its done or no? Thanks so much!
Anyone know if it's possible to have different aging systems in different neigbourhoods? So like have sims live x amount of days in neigbourhood a, and y amount in b Thank you for the very helpful tutorials!!
Tried this tutorial but it does not work for me. Actually instead of reducing the age it doubled, then I tried it on vanilla game, but it didn't work at all. I'm wondering why it wont work. Does anyone know? :(
Hey does it work for pets? Cause my pets won't age and idk why? I searched for the solution and none of the mods causes it and I also browsed the web for any tutorials and I didn't found literally anything that would work for PETS
Okay so I've followed this tutorial 1,000 times but it still doesn't seem to work?! SimPE shows the correct 'min' and 'max' days when I open it but my babies are aging up to toddlers with 5 days left (not 3), my toddlers are aging up to children with 7 days left (which is correct) and my children are aging up to teens with 10 days left (not 6) HOWEVER the adult age span seems to be working fine (teens age up to adults with 38 days left - as per this tutorial). I'm so confused as to why toddlers & teens amended lifespan is not working but the baby, child and adult life stages are working?! Does anyone have any ideas please and thank you! :)
Ik this vid a few years old but I've followed all the steps and for some reason when I edit my ages, and go to save, SimPe says "Warning! These changes can't be saved" anyone have any idea why? :(
Im posting this in case someone sees it. I once edited the age of pre existing sims of pleasantview on simPE to make them be in my new age system and it was working when i was going back to the sims 2 in game but now i've tried many time to do it and the age for adult stays at 29 days while on simPE i set for exemple 35 for Don Lothario, nothing works anymore and idk what to do. My sims doesn't age anymore at 6:00pm also btw :(((
I have no idea why, but when Mortimer and Dina’s daughter aged from a baby to a toddler (she was a baby when I changed the ages) it says she has 6 days when she should have 2? Because I used the same life span as you? You said that when they age that it would change to the life span I picked but apparently it didn’t? I don’t know what I did wrong, my SimPe is buggy anyway. It won’t show any sim information when I pull up Sim Browser so I might just have to restart my hood if I can’t figure out what happened. I’ve done the age thing twice.
I'm sorry it's not working for you! Yes, the lifespan will be changed when the Sim ages up, so I'm not sure what's going on. It should work if you followed all the steps exactly. If it doesn't pull anything up when you open the Sim Browser, make sure you are waiting for the entire neighborhood to load in SimPE first. If you try to open the Sim Browser too soon, it will get stuck. If that doesn't work, you might have corruption somewhere.
Pleasant Sims Sadly, I have tried many times and their daughter still ages up with six days left till she ages. I’ve had to go and reinstall SimPe which fixed my neighborhood viewing issue, but not the aging issue in game. So, I’ll just have to keep close tract of everyone’s ages and cheat set their birthdays to age them up I guess.
Does this break the freetime aging friends feature? I used the "let's be kids" lifespan mod and it ended up disabling the feature (either that or I goofed up in some other way)
Hi Shaun! The only mod you need is the aging hack linked in the description box. The video will show you how to use it. Let me know if you need any help and I'll try my best to help you!
Try resetting your layout in Sim PE by clicking the button that looks like a blue circle with a red X on it in the task bar. Sometimes your layout gets screwed up and things don't display properly. Then, also make sure you are in the Plugin View tab (select at the bottom of the screen).
Does anyone know how to customize also the seasons lenght? I found mods which make seasons longer than standard 5 days but I need it to be shorter and last only 4 days. 🙏
no, the way the game operates aging it needs to be a full day, as everyone ages up a day at 6:00 pm. ex. sims are never “1.5 days away from elder”. at 5:59 pm they’re 2 days away, and at 6:01 pm they’re 1 day away.
Here is a nice tutorial that doesn't use SimPE. I've never tried it, so I can't say for sure, but it looks like it should work: pixel-trade.livejournal.com/26093.html If there is a way to do it in Sim PE, I don't know how. Sorry! :) Also, see this thread on Mod the Sims: modthesims.info/t/459467
Pleasant Sims Welp, I am gonna try It later because my mouse is broken and and Im using a laptop mouse which and can't click on icons so the only is with the keyboard shortcuts.
does anyone know why when i tell sim pe to open the package file, nothing happens? i've done this exact same process with a different sims 2 save and it worked fine, but for some reason now it's giving me issues. any advice is much appreciated
Norton is notoriously crappy about that kind of thing. I can assure you it's not a virus, though. You might have to disable antivirus and download it, then re-enable it. :)
hey! i tried this hack and everything worked until I got onto my game and my sims ages didn’t change. nothing happened. the sim pe doesn’t affect my sims ages. I did this tutorial twice now, does anybody think they can help? thanks!
Hi Payton! The age changes will only take effect at the time of transition (aging up). All newly created or born-in-game Sims will use the new age system. Sims that already exist will not change until their next life stage. You can keep up with it yourself and age them up on the correct day, or you can age them up and back down with cheats to trigger the new system. Hope that helps!
Pleasant Sims Yeah, this mod isn’t working for me! I’ve tried it for three different sims and it always says they age in 36 days which is the default age system? anybody help with it?
@@Sherpflwr047 Hi Payton! If these Sims were already in the game at the time you modified it using the hack, they will not be on the new age system until they age up to the next life stage. If they are still not using the new lifespans after aging up, something was done incorrectly. Make sure you have the modified file in your Sims 2 downloads folder or the game won't recognize it.
No. Look up cjh neighborhood age correct. You put that in your game once and it will give you a little message that the ages in the neighborhood have been corrected. Then you pluck it back out of your mods folder, so it doesn't happen every time you start the game.
@@tocansada7271 I'm terribly sorry, I don't know what you mean by hacking mods. Yes, it is meant to go with custom lifespans. Other mods not related to aging shouldn't interfere with it though. Once you've put a custom lifespan and neighborhood age correct in your game, all you have to do is load into one family. A few minutes in-game are usually enough. I use it every new hood I play and I have plenty of other mods installed. No problems, so far.
hey I'm back two years later to say I'm still using your resources!! Cindy you are invaluable to me and the rest of the sims 2 community. Thank you so much for just existing and being you. love and miss your sims streams/videos.
Thanks, it worked nicely for me! I have to be honest, I've been a little bit stressed out about how short the aging was by default lol. When I play Sims 3 I have my age spans on epic. Makes me become more attached to my Sims and I'll feel more emotionally involved with them, haha.
This popped up in my newsfeed today. I first watched this video last year. I wanted to apply a custom aging system to my game and did a search and your video came up. I believe it was the first time I heard of you. It opened a whole new world for me in sims 2. I binge watched everything you had ever made! Thank you for all your hardwork and for sharing your passion for sims with me and everyone else. ❤❤❤
Thank you Jenn!
I'm glad I found such a good tutorial on sims 2 aging instantly. thank you so much for making it!
No problem! I'm glad I could help! 😃
Every single time I start a new neighbourhood, I watch this video 'cos I can never remember how to change the ages. Srsly you are a lifesaver Cindy!!
Hi :-) I've played TS2 for 20 years now but never knew how much I could adjust it to my own wishes until I discovered your channel ^.^" Thank you so much for givimg me a brand new game (experience)!
I did some research and figured out the aspiration lines for elders. Basically the min and max numbers are for elders without an aspiration bonus (gold, silver, bronze, normal, bad). The aspiration level bonus are stated in days that get substracted from the minimum days or added to the maximum you set in the elder lines above.
Edit: the numbers in "aspiration level" (highest, high, ...) seem to be the threshholds on how many points a certain level needs to count towards a reward or penalty (gold, bad, etc)
(You probably figured that out by now yourself or someone else commented on that but I thought I'd share just in case)
Thank you so much!!!! You are making my Sims play so much richer and more fun!! I appreciate all you do!
Later: I did it!! So excited! Now i'm going into my game to play. Thanks again!
You are very welcome!! Glad I could help! :)
I know your happiness because ME TOO🤣🤣🤣🥰
Thank you so much for this!!
Previously, I just went into the "Other" tab" and changed the "Days in prev. Age" and "Age duration" fields to match what I wanted, but that got annoying whenever new sims were born, so it's great to finally have something in the background to do this.
Its most likely one day less because you can age them up with a cake a day earlier. The game kinda assumes you’d do that. Funny because i’d never, not gonna make their already short lives even a day shorter
late reply, but it's actually because of how computers work. Computers recognize 0 as the first number, so when you ask a computer to count down from 5 before doing something, it'll go 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, and then do it after 0.
Great tutorial! Your LP got me to pick up and learn how to use SimPE to my advantage. I never thought I really needed it before but there's a lot you can see and do that's incredibly useful.
I'm so glad!! It is very useful for a lot of little adjustments, and I use it for things like looking to see how many townies I have in a certain age group, etc. All kinds of things. :)
Thanks again for the tutorial I had forgotten a lot about sims PE and some I didn't even know so it was a great help.
I also love your aging system and even though I didn't use it exactly It gave me ideas on how to make my own.
If someone needs inspiration here is how I proceeded.
First I decided of the real life ages for each stage of sims life.
So for me it is
Ages
baby 0 -> 2 (in real life I would say 3 because that's when you go to kindergarten but babies are boring :p)
Toddler 2 ->6
Child 6 -> 12 (at 6 you go to "real" school and learn to read and write)
Teen 12 -> 18 (at 12 you're in high school)
Adult 18 -> 65 (65 or so is the earlier age of retirement here in France) (in the sims 3 with the young adult I cut this in 18 to 30 YA and 30 to 65 adult)
Elder 65 -> 75 to 95
Then I rewrite this in term of years per stage
years spent
baby 2
Toddler 4
Child 6
Teen 6
Adult 47
Elder 10 to 30
Then depending on my playstyle I choose a number of ingame days per real life years. If I want to play longer with my sims and have time to get to know them and make them all prodigies :P I go with 2 days per year.
I also feel it fits having a day and a half pregnancy, one day would be 6 months so one day and a half = 9 months.
I convert the years I just calculated in days and substract 1 for Sims PE
days spent
baby 4 -> 3
Toddler 8 ->7
Child 12 -> 11
Teen 12 -> 11
Adult 94 -> 93
Elder 20 To 60 -> 19 To 59
Then if one of my sims ever goes to uni, when he goes back to the neighborhood after failing or graduating I'll simply go to sims PE to remove the number of days he spent at uni from the number of days he has left.
I won't subtract 1 to that as it's already done by Sims PE, I set the number of days in adult life at 46 because it was 47 -1, when I check a new adult Sims PE tells me it has 46 days left, the -1 is already done.
As for the playable sims in the neighborhood before I begin playing for the first time, what I do is I first check the standard lifespan from Maxis
Baby: (3 days)
Toddler: (4 days)
Child: (8 days)
Teen: (up to 15 days) Note: With University, teens can grow up early in order to go to college.
Young adult: (varies; usually 24 days) University only. Lasts until the Sim leaves the college sub-neighborhood.
Adult: (29 days)
Elder: (varies; range is 9-31 days) Sims who have higher aspiration levels when aging generally get more time, but there is a random element. Followed by death.
Then I go to Sims PE, check their remaining days and calculate what should be in my own system.
Take Mortimer Goth for example when you first load him in Sims PE it says 5 days left (-1 included so I won't be subtracting anything from now on)
If I take into account the longer elder lifespan from maxis and mine it gives : he has 5 days of 31 left, how many of 60 does that give him ? 60x5/31 = 10 (9.6 rounded)
Also in case you're interested there is also an aging mod for pets in the same place you got your normal one, just in case you find pets age spans don't match your human's one :)
Wow Jeza! You play about as in-depth as I do when it comes to aging! I calculated the premade ages very similarly. I love your system too, and I'm so glad I was able to help!
About the pets, I really haven't paid much attention to their aging, but maybe I will think about it for the future. I haven't had a pet pass away yet, but their lives should definitely be much shorter.
I love this channel. Better than the weirder sims channels out there. Finally someone who actually gives good info!
Thanks so much Moka! 😃
Your aging system seems so focused on adulthood... don't you feel rushed when playing babies-teens?
Babies and Toddlers, those buggers do overstay their welcome(Tho, maybe I should space out my birth so I don't have two todds so close by). Child and teens, love em. 14-16 days for em is good.
Not really. She plays a lot like I do, and you’re only a teenager in real life for 7 years anyway 13-19.
And I turn aging off completely when I want “extra time”
I think she thinks more of days = years for more realistic game play. Rather than days played with a sim, does that make sense?
She’s accounting for an adult being alive long enough to care for their kid till adulthood and to attend college. Plus she’s making it realistic by them becoming elders at 60 days. So, that age is pretty reasonable
Thanks for everything I thought I could never do but all I have to do was listen very closely thank you so much girl!
No problem! Glad I could help!
@@PleasantSims for some reason when I play the game the lifespan didn't change
@@shaunwaller8751 The age changes will only take effect at the time of transition (aging up). All newly created or born-in-game Sims will use the new age system as soon as they're born. Sims that already exist will not change until their next birthday. I usually just count the number of days that existing Sims have remaining and subtract that from the number of days in the lifespan to get their age. Hope that helps!
@@PleasantSims I got good news my new aging system is working
@@PleasantSims But my Daniel is 55 years old but he's really 60. I think it's because he was pre-made what do you think?
One idea I had was what if Sims aged in real time...sort of. Like what if they only aged whenever it was the first day of the first season again? That would sort of simulate an entire year if you think about it.
Thanks again for being my sims 2 inspiration xoxox. Gonna set up the aging today. Rotational play for the first time and I'm already addicted!!!
Thank you! I have been afraid to mess with SIM PE but you make it look very easy.
Oh this is very helpful! I was afraid I'd mess up my ages and I did (lol) I didn't realise the minus 1 day thing, guess I will have to edit my aging mod now.
That's the only tricky part! :)
You're such a life saver! Thank you so much for such an amazing tutorial!
I love all your videos they are so useful and informative thank you so much for the tutorial! :)
Thank you for watching! :)
I'm honestly so glad that I found you through UrbanSims Sims 2 videos! I love how in depth you get and how you play! Just one question I have about installing this mod I use WinRAR to unzip my zip files so when I click on the download button on your link it opens it on WinRAR as a folder and I am unable to install the mod? Any help and advice would be amazing! Again I love your content! xxxxxx
Me too it's frustrating
I just came across your video for life spans! I HATE the lifespans in sims 2, they are so long. The only downside is I have a mac and therefore I'm unable to use SimPE. Is it possible for you to share the edited file for your lifespans? Is that a thing? It would be really helpful for us mac users. Love your content and I'm glad I found it! Leaving sims 4 to come to 2 again has been a dream. Forgot how much fun the sims used to be :)
great tutorial on how to use it. ty for making a video on it xd
Happy to help!
Does this apply to the aging in all hoods? This works for a neighborhood that I created but didn't work when I tried to play Veronaville
Thank you so much! This really helped me out.
No problem Kyle! Thanks for watching!
hey cindy! i tried your tutorial but it didn't work for me for some reason, i did step by step and my sims still are with the 29 days (even the pre-made that i have in my town still have it, i even change the days left in sim pe but nothing changed) idk if this tutorial is outdaded or the age hack still works
anyway, if you have some suggetions to what i can do i'll be so happy to know, because i really like the lifestages that you have.
(sorry if my english is bad,it's not my first language)
Tu é brasileira? Aconteceu o mesmo comigo (percebi pelo user rsrs)
Yes it didn't work for me, too 😢
The age for already existing sims will change when they age
I followed your tutorial, and it worked. I have 2 days for baby, 3 for toddler, 7 for kid, 6 for teen, and 36 for adults. However, when a Sims ages to elder, in their age it says they are 49 days old (not 54 as it should be). Does anyone have the same problem? I thought it’s because the teen stage is too short (half the default), so maybe the game interprets it this way?
It is because you took away some days from the Adult lifestage
thank you so much this was really helpful!
Thank you so much for this!!
Thank you, Lady!
You are so welcome!
hey cindy! i edited my aging system last night with the one in this video, but i wanted to edit the ages for the pleasantview sims because i wanted to play rotationally. i figured out to do the adults; but, i'm a little confused with the toddlers/children/teens. so if i have a child sim, say Alexander Goth, how do i determine how many days he has left? I guess more specifically, do i put how many days he has left in his entire life (up until elder age, 60) or how many days are left in his current life stage (child)?
Hi Ellie! You can determine the ages of the child/teen Pleasantview Sims by subtracting the number of days they have left in their current lifestage from the number of days you have set for that stage. For example, according to the Sims wiki, when you first play Alexander Goth he is four days away from becoming a teenager. My child lifespan ends at the age of 12, so I subtract four days from 12 and that makes him 8 years old when the game starts. This is how I determine the age of the premades. You don't have to change anything in Sim PE for these Sims unless you want to. If you do, just put how many days they have left in the current lifestage. They will automatically adopt your new system once they age up to the next lifestage.
so ,one little question:what happens if you put 50 days on your plantsim values?,like,what age do we get with these average quantity of days?. i wanna serious answers about that right now
Thanks I'm using a 16 day = 1 Year mod and needed Bella Goth's age to be older than her daughter without just making her an elder XD and 3 days at a time with simblender was just too slow.
Hi, link for SimPE doesnt work for me, guys do you have another link please?
Oh no! Looks like the site might be down. Try this one: sourceforge.net/projects/simpe/
Hey, I am very new to The Sims 2 and I have downloaded this mode and have followed everything that you have said in this video. But when I load up my game and the custom content dialog shows, it has a yellow exclamation mark in a triangle and says 'Overrides Game Constants'. I have tried to look everywhere to make it work but I have no idea how. Is there a way to fix this cause it happens with some other mods I try to download as well.
Hi Egglo! This is completely normal. It's just to let you know that the file modifies the game in some way. It is perfectly safe to play with these mods! Click the checkbox to enable custom content, and you're good to go!
This has stopped working for me. Ive deleted and reinstalled it. Why would this be happening? I installed the pet one and its working just fine
Doing this today. This was awesome.
So glad I could help! 💙
Please help me.. When i go to download simPE, it only gives me a winRAR file and im not sure how to install it from that?? Im not very computer savvy but can you tell me which file i need to open for the installation to start?
very great tutorial! thank you!
Thanks! Glad I could help! :)
@@PleasantSims yay! even though you said that you wouldn't mess with elder age i tried to modify elder and plantsim ages with your method and it worked as well; i hope i haven't screwed my game lol
@@anais.entwistle I'm sure it's fine! You'll find out when you play an elder! Lol :)
how many days left did you set for the premades initially? (like at the beginning of the pleasantview gameplay) ...realized that this is kind of a stupid question considering that was a while a while ago but i figured i’d ask :)
I don't remember exactly what ages I chose for everyone, but I used two different techniques for determining their ages.
For some of the sims, I went to the Sims Wiki and looked at their days remaining. I think it's listed for almost every Sim somewhere in their bio. For example, on Don Lothario's bio it says "When Don is first played in The Sims 2, he is 28 days away from becoming an elder." Then I subtracted 28 from 60 (when my Sims become an elder) and imagined his age was 32. So I didn't even have to change his age because he was already 28 days from an elder.
For others, I added up all the days they would have lived in my aging system and assigned them that age. For example, any Sim at the very beginning of the adult life stage would be 21. The Caliente sisters I made 21 I think - so I set their remaining days to 39.
It wasn't an exact science. I basically just set them to what I think they should have been. :)
I love the vid but the only problem is the aging hack file causing my game to crash, what should I do
Hi Lilsis! The aging hack should not cause your game to crash unless you have a conflicting mod already installed. Check your mods folder and make sure you don't have another mod that affects aging. Good luck!
Thank you SO MUCH for this, you have no idea. The aging in Sims 2 is so whack.
Sadly for me it didn´t work. It kept my changes when I´m in SimPE but when I open the game it still says for my adults that they age up in 29 days (the vanilla life span)
Does it automatically apply to already existing sims.
how do i change the number of days till a sim ages up, i have a sim who is a day younger than her twin from when i moved her out of her twins' house. .. i believe i asked this question too early, it says how in the video sorry
Thank you for the tutorial! I always wanted age consistency in my game!
I have a hypothesis about why we should input a number 1 less in SimPe. It is due to the way the game handles aging. It starts the counter at 0, not 1.
If my hypothesis is true I have a tip to you to make adult ages easier.
First of all, sorry about the long comment.
We all know that Sims age at 6 pm, no matter what. It means that if a Child blow the candles at 12 pm he or she will age normally to a Teen.
But at 6 pm of the same day, the game will age this Sim 1 day filling the counter. It means that the first day of teenager will last only 6 hours. That's why Sims should blow the candles some minutes before 6 pm if we want age consistency.
What "age min" and "age max" means, like "baby min" and "baby max"?
The game attributes a age for the Sim. Suppose the baby will live for 3 days before aging.
Let's use Brandi's third child as an example. He is called Bob.
Bob was just born and the game gives him "age 0".
Suppose that he was born in Monday at 3 pm.
In the same Monday, at 6 pm, the game will age Bob and will give him "age 1".
Tuesday at 6 pm, the game will age Bob and will give him "age 2"
Wednesday at 6 pm, the game will age Bob and give him "age 3".
The game will understand that Bob lived for 3 days and will age him to a toddler.
Notice that Bob's first day of life was only 3 hours!
In SimPe you should place the number 2 at "baby max" to get these 3 days. Why?
Notice the game attributes a number for the Sim age at each stage. The "baby max" means that the maximum age a baby could have is 2. There must be no babies with "age 3" or "age 4" etc.
When the game realizes the baby will have "age 3", the game will age the baby to a toddler.
And it starts again! The toddler will now have a "age 0" mark. If "toddler max" is 5 , the toddler will live for 6 days before aging.
Notice the first day starts counting just after the aging. No matter if the Sim ages at 5 pm, the first day will be counted at 6 pm, no exception.
If you place a 0 in SimPe you are telling the game that little Bob should age to a toddler in the same day he was born. Bob will have a "age 0" mark and no "age 1" baby is allowed.
Hence, if Bob was born at 3 pm, at 6 pm the game will give him a "age 1" mark which is not allowed, he must age to a toddler.
I don't see why inserting 0 is a problem, but the game doesn't allow it.
Normally we tend to make our Sims to try for a baby at night, and babies normally born before the morning.
If the birth happens at 6 pm, the baby will live at least 12 hours before getting a "age 1" mark.
For us, it feels like a whole day.
I guess that "age min" means the minimum age a Sim must have before aging. Sims can only blow the candles in the day before they will eventually age.
Suppose "child max" is 9 and "child min" is 6.
When Bob becomes a child he will receive the "age 0" mark again. When Bob receive the "age 6" mark he will be allowed to age to a teenager using the birthday cake. When he receive the "age 9" mark he will age to a teenager in the next day no matter what.
I really don't know if my hypothesis is correct. I must make some tests on it.
You like to make Adults that do go to college to have 4 days less than adults that doesn't go to college.
I think that, instead of messing with SimPe every time to change a Sim age, you could simply set "adult min" 4 days less than "adult max".
So, an adult that went to college will be able to age 4 days before an adult that didn't went to college.
It would make life a lot easier.
And again, thank you for the tutorial!
I'm so dumb with all of the mod... so I use userstarup.cheat to turn aging of in game. And age up my sims when I want to. Btw Thankyou for your video🥰🥰🥰
I think this is how I played originally because I played the Pleasants for real life years and (mis)remembered playing on Long Lifespan (which apparently never existed in Sims 2). There's no way they aged up after a handful of Sims days.
Hi Cindy! Super usefull video as always, thank you! I have one question,I hope somebody can help me: I've aged up Daniel, my first sim to become an elder and the game says he's 55... I thought he was supposed to be 60, is there a reason why this happened?
You can change that in SimPE too. According to your aging system, he should have lived 60 days, by now, but because you implemented that while he was already alive, he went through life before the game with the Maxis age groups. If it bothers you, you'll have to fix it for every new elder born before you implemented the tweak. Or you fix everyone born prior to the tweak, regardless of age. Then you're done with it.
@@eliasbergmann20 How do you change this? I can't see a way to fix it in SimPE and I've looked all over the internet on how to fix it. Plz help
@@bellamar68 When you're editing a Sim in simPE, you can navigate to Other, and there, under Misc, you'll find "Days in prev. age". Set this to however many days the Sim has lived before they aged up to their current lifestage.
Hi! I know this video is a bit old, but I never used SimPE and I´m having a lot of trouble finding a safe place to download it. Do you have a video explaining how to download it? Or do you know any video that explains this. I need to fix my family tree and knowing how to install SimPE is making this a nightmare XD. Thanks in advance
I’m not Cindy but I just went through the same exact thing. I simply extracted the SimPE files to my desktop and I never even had to go through the installation process. I’m not sure if that’s right but it worked for me and opened up and I edited my Sim’s lifespans. After I extracted the files to my desktop, I opened it up and double clicked the “SimPE” application and it opened right up. I hope it works for you.
Brianna Goode Thank you very much
my download opened with Winrar :/ will it still work if I open the SimPE.exe file?
Thanks a lot! Also, I have one question - when I install it, all of .package files on my PC change icons to SimPe logo (and i think it adds something to the .package, like 4 letters?). When I uninstall it - it's back to normal. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? It's just quite annyoing and I'd rather leave the files the way they are :p
No problem! Glad I could help! As for the package files changing to the SimPE icon, I don't know how to stop that from happening. I'm sure there's a way, but it doesn't bother me, so I've never looked into it. Sorry!
Hi! I really enjoy your videos and style of gameplay, I’ve been playing in Pleasantview and decided to change the aging system. I followed your video but whenever I try to play with the sims that are on the new aging system my game instantly crashes.I have no other mods that affect aging. Is there a way to fix the crashes or undo the changes? Or do I need to start over with a clean install? Thank you!
Would you be able to make a video showing how to edit alt pregnancy controller lite with simpe?
I know this video is old, but would you be able to make a tutorial on how to use cyjon mods with SimPE?
When I download it the same way you did, it just downloads a file that won't open without me selecting an application. I chose notepad and it's in some weird computer symbols?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I was wondering when you change the aging, what happens to the premade sims that have already lived some days? Like for example Johnny Smith, when we start playing it it’s his birthday. Changing the aging will reset their ages or will they have the equivalent of their remaining days? God, I hope I worded that right.
The aging hack only affects newly created/born Sims. Otherwise, the premades will remain the same until their next age transition (age up). Then they will be on your new age system. If you want to change their ages before their next birthday, you can do it in Sim PE. I usually just count how many days they have remaining and subtract it from my age for that lifestage and make that their age. I hope that makes sense, but if you have any questions let me know!
Pleasant Sims ohh that makes sense, thank you! I love your channel
I am currently playing a legacy family and the adults I am playing - both started at 42 days - but they have both just aged up into elders but it says they have 55 days left when it should be 60? I have made sure the aging matches up with what you have in the video but for some reason there ages seem a bit weird! I haven't changed them or anything so not really sure what's happened? Any advice or help would be welcolm!
I don't understand how to do it, because when i click download on the simPE site I get a zipped file, but you got an executable???
did you figure out how to do it?
Lívia Francellino yeah, I can’t remember how I did it, but I can check it for you when I have time
I’m having the same issue it’s just a zip open with winrar and it’s not asking me to install anything
Do you know why my sim doesn't age at all after custom aging installed? Pets are working just fine, but my both sim are stuck on 29 says.
When i go to download simPE, it doesn't pop up with an installation like yours does? Mine doesn't do anything. Any advice on that? Thank you in advance!
Did you find a way to install it?
@@Amy-G-Dala- no i haven't:/
@@kalleighward953 My laptop found a way! I extracted the SimPE file with Winrar, opened the new folder, clicked the SimPE logo (there are only 4 logos; SimPE, wizards of SimPE, CacheBrowser and Validator, the rest are random folders and files), my laptop had a pop up and asked if it should download and find a suitable app so SimPE can launch, click yes. Then wait for a few minutes and SimPE should be able to run!
I launched my Sim 2 game after following the YT vid and the engagement glitch is fixed, it's green now. Hopefully it works for you too :)
Cindy, I don't know how to do it with the atual version of SimPE, I never used this program before, can you help me with this?
I don't see the part "Page View" :C
Hi I'm sorry this was such a long time ago, but will this make the sims age up after those certain amount of days by themselves? So technically you don't need any mods for aging NPCs as you can change their lifespan and they will age up once its done or no? Thanks so much!
Anyone know if it's possible to have different aging systems in different neigbourhoods? So like have sims live x amount of days in neigbourhood a, and y amount in b
Thank you for the very helpful tutorials!!
Tried this tutorial but it does not work for me. Actually instead of reducing the age it doubled, then I tried it on vanilla game, but it didn't work at all. I'm wondering why it wont work. Does anyone know? :(
Hey does it work for pets? Cause my pets won't age and idk why? I searched for the solution and none of the mods causes it and I also browsed the web for any tutorials and I didn't found literally anything that would work for PETS
it doesn't work for me :( the BCON thing won't open.
To use simPE, do I need to turn off aging in the options section of the game? Great tutorial btw!
No you don't!
I keep getting a denied when I try saving my changes....how can that be fixed?
Okay so I've followed this tutorial 1,000 times but it still doesn't seem to work?!
SimPE shows the correct 'min' and 'max' days when I open it but my babies are aging up to toddlers with 5 days left (not 3), my toddlers are aging up to children with 7 days left (which is correct) and my children are aging up to teens with 10 days left (not 6) HOWEVER the adult age span seems to be working fine (teens age up to adults with 38 days left - as per this tutorial).
I'm so confused as to why toddlers & teens amended lifespan is not working but the baby, child and adult life stages are working?!
Does anyone have any ideas please and thank you! :)
Ik this vid a few years old but I've followed all the steps and for some reason when I edit my ages, and go to save, SimPe says "Warning! These changes can't be saved" anyone have any idea why? :(
Im posting this in case someone sees it. I once edited the age of pre existing sims of pleasantview on simPE to make them be in my new age system and it was working when i was going back to the sims 2 in game but now i've tried many time to do it and the age for adult stays at 29 days while on simPE i set for exemple 35 for Don Lothario, nothing works anymore and idk what to do. My sims doesn't age anymore at 6:00pm also btw :(((
I have no idea why, but when Mortimer and Dina’s daughter aged from a baby to a toddler (she was a baby when I changed the ages) it says she has 6 days when she should have 2? Because I used the same life span as you? You said that when they age that it would change to the life span I picked but apparently it didn’t? I don’t know what I did wrong, my SimPe is buggy anyway. It won’t show any sim information when I pull up Sim Browser so I might just have to restart my hood if I can’t figure out what happened. I’ve done the age thing twice.
I'm sorry it's not working for you! Yes, the lifespan will be changed when the Sim ages up, so I'm not sure what's going on. It should work if you followed all the steps exactly. If it doesn't pull anything up when you open the Sim Browser, make sure you are waiting for the entire neighborhood to load in SimPE first. If you try to open the Sim Browser too soon, it will get stuck. If that doesn't work, you might have corruption somewhere.
Pleasant Sims Sadly, I have tried many times and their daughter still ages up with six days left till she ages. I’ve had to go and reinstall SimPe which fixed my neighborhood viewing issue, but not the aging issue in game. So, I’ll just have to keep close tract of everyone’s ages and cheat set their birthdays to age them up I guess.
Not sure why it's not working for you. Do you have the agecons file in your Sims 2 downloads folder after editing it in SimPE?
Pleasant Sims Well now I feel a little dumb because I didn’t do that XD I’m going to guess that is my problem. Thanks for your help!
Oh good! I'm glad I asked! :)
1:04 Mood Lmaoo
Does this break the freetime aging friends feature? I used the "let's be kids" lifespan mod and it ended up disabling the feature (either that or I goofed up in some other way)
No, it does not. :)
@@PleasantSims wonderful! Thank you! Your guides on modding the Sims 2 have been very helpful to me as somebody doing it for the first time.
Do I have to get mods in my download to do it
Hi Shaun! The only mod you need is the aging hack linked in the description box. The video will show you how to use it. Let me know if you need any help and I'll try my best to help you!
@@PleasantSims thank you
they're one day less because computers count from 0
this doesn't work for me. when i open the age tweak in simpe nothing shows up, its blank.
Try resetting your layout in Sim PE by clicking the button that looks like a blue circle with a red X on it in the task bar. Sometimes your layout gets screwed up and things don't display properly. Then, also make sure you are in the Plugin View tab (select at the bottom of the screen).
@@PleasantSims i figured it out! thank you so much, cindy!
Does anyone know how to customize also the seasons lenght? I found mods which make seasons longer than standard 5 days but I need it to be shorter and last only 4 days. 🙏
Nevermind, I figured that out. I changed mod by Quickshot14 (MTS) via SimPE. :)
Can you use numbers less than 1? (I.e. 0.5)
no, the way the game operates aging it needs to be a full day, as everyone ages up a day at 6:00 pm.
ex. sims are never “1.5 days away from elder”. at 5:59 pm they’re 2 days away, and at 6:01 pm they’re 1 day away.
Do you need word press for simpe cause I keep getting this pop up
same
No, you don't. It is a stand-alone program.
I tried to open the BCON file and nothing happened. Nothing is showing up in the package details. Am I doing something wrong?
Never mind figured it out!!
@@ashleysparks8417 How? Having the exact same problem
@@corelli_cat1453 you have to click on Plugin View in the bottom left corner
@@ashleysparks8417 Sorry, could you explain if it's an icon or a folder, I'm having trouble finding the plugin view.
@@Amy-G-Dala- it's one of the tabs underneath where the info should be coming up
You have a channel!
Is there a way to restore tombstones with SimPE?
I just lost my tombstones yesterday.
Here is a nice tutorial that doesn't use SimPE. I've never tried it, so I can't say for sure, but it looks like it should work:
pixel-trade.livejournal.com/26093.html
If there is a way to do it in Sim PE, I don't know how. Sorry! :)
Also, see this thread on Mod the Sims:
modthesims.info/t/459467
Pleasant Sims Welp, I am gonna try It later because my mouse is broken and and Im using a laptop mouse which and can't click on icons so the only is with the keyboard shortcuts.
Oh no! That sounds terrible! Lol
Will this corrupt the game?
No
but it won’t let me open the file!
Are you opening it with Sim PE?
Pleasant Sims i mean i can’t open the file after i download it
@@sxmcxnnxlly You have to open it with Sim PE. It won't open it if you just click on it. Are you not able to open it with Sim PE?
Pleasant Sims i’m not really good with computers lol, when i go onto mod the sims and download sim pe, i can’t open the file after i download it
does anyone know why when i tell sim pe to open the package file, nothing happens? i've done this exact same process with a different sims 2 save and it worked fine, but for some reason now it's giving me issues. any advice is much appreciated
to elaborate, i hit open and the top bar says that the file is open but nothing else pops up
@Coox Jonural this reply is from forever ago but thank you so much!
Norton’s will not let me download the aging thing.
Norton is notoriously crappy about that kind of thing. I can assure you it's not a virus, though. You might have to disable antivirus and download it, then re-enable it. :)
Pleasant Sims I am going to try and figure out how to do that , you are so awesome for getting back to comments, Than you.
@@Mindy14 No problem Mindy! I'm always willing to help my subs in any way I can! 😃
Pleasant Sims as you. An tell, I’ve been binge watching your videos! I love how you play, it’s different than everyone else!
@@Mindy14 Thank you! 💜
Ayo! Thank you!
I find that too short and I think 1 day a year is too short. I like sims 2 over sims 4 but playing sims 4 I set the life span to long.
hey! i tried this hack and everything worked until I got onto my game and my sims ages didn’t change. nothing happened. the sim pe doesn’t affect my sims ages. I did this tutorial twice now, does anybody think they can help? thanks!
Hi Payton! The age changes will only take effect at the time of transition (aging up). All newly created or born-in-game Sims will use the new age system. Sims that already exist will not change until their next life stage. You can keep up with it yourself and age them up on the correct day, or you can age them up and back down with cheats to trigger the new system. Hope that helps!
Pleasant Sims Ok, I’ll wait and see what happens. thanks!
Pleasant Sims Yeah, this mod isn’t working for me! I’ve tried it for three different sims and it always says they age in 36 days which is the default age system? anybody help with it?
@@Sherpflwr047 Hi Payton! If these Sims were already in the game at the time you modified it using the hack, they will not be on the new age system until they age up to the next life stage. If they are still not using the new lifespans after aging up, something was done incorrectly. Make sure you have the modified file in your Sims 2 downloads folder or the game won't recognize it.
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IT DOESN'T WORK
Could you be more specific? Where did you run into a problem?
@@eliasbergmann20 SimPE just doesn't open
Does it automatically apply to already existing sims.
No. Look up cjh neighborhood age correct. You put that in your game once and it will give you a little message that the ages in the neighborhood have been corrected. Then you pluck it back out of your mods folder, so it doesn't happen every time you start the game.
@@eliasbergmann20 i tested and don't seem to work i think that hack only works with age mods not hacking mods idk
@@tocansada7271 I'm terribly sorry, I don't know what you mean by hacking mods. Yes, it is meant to go with custom lifespans. Other mods not related to aging shouldn't interfere with it though. Once you've put a custom lifespan and neighborhood age correct in your game, all you have to do is load into one family. A few minutes in-game are usually enough. I use it every new hood I play and I have plenty of other mods installed. No problems, so far.
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