Custom lifespan - EA is taking us back to the Middle Ages?

[SimHallgerd]

I would like to share one of the things that bothers me the most in the game and suggest a fix. Sims' lifespan, specifically the length of stages. What we have in the game is completely unbalanced.
In the normal example - the stage from birth to young adult in the game lasts 37 days, young adult and adult together 48 days.
In today's reality, old age does not start so quickly. I think these two steps take up to at least 60, if not a little longer.
So in real life from birth to adulthood, for the sake of simplicity, let it be 20 years, the adult stage in total 40 years. Do you see huge disproportions? There are 26 days missing in the game! My Sims are unable to raise a large family and become retirees! When my mother became a grandmother, she was 46, nowadays she is quite a young woman. And in my game after a few years? In the city I have only pensioners with children and teenagers, which is strange and stupid, hardly anyone is able to live to see grandchildren. The realities in the game are probably medieval, where, due to high mortality and hard life, the 40-year-old was considered an old man.  (But then families were formed much earlier)

Yes, I know there are ways to extend Sim's  life, I usually do, but that doesn't solve the problem because my Sims' friends are getting old, and flying around all the families in the city and rejuvenating them, sorry this game is meant to be a pleasure, not a torture.

Yes, I know there is MCCC, but I want to play without mods.

Therefore, I am asking the game developers and other people who think similarly to support the idea - give us the opportunity to set the lifespan of the Sim as in Sims 3. It is probably not that difficult, since modders can handle it, EA specialists probably can also .

[puzzlezaddict]

@SimHallgerd  It's too bad that Sims 4 doesn't have the same flexibility built in that Sims 3 does, where you could set the length of each life stage to what you wanted, within a large range, independently of the other lengths, simply by moving a slider within the game options; or tweak it even further by editing options.ini.  (I've seen people using the 900+ day Epic lifespan overall but with a 2 day baby stage, for what are probably obvious reasons.)  I agree that it would suit a lot of people's gameplay better to have longer young adult and adult stages, but even more so, allowing customization would make everyone happy.  I still play Sims 3, and I use different custom life stage lengths for each type of save.

At one point in Sims 3, I remember seeing a dialog saying to get the most out of family play, it was "recommended" that people extend the child and teen age stages to the maximum, or something like that.  (I don't remember the exact words, or where I saw it; maybe in Lessons.)  Maybe the Sims 4 developers had a similar idea, that the child and teen, and maybe toddler age stages, were so rich that they should be longer relative to the others to allow players to fully enjoy the features.  But that doesn't mean that everyone wants to play like that.

On the other hand, there's nothing to say that sims have to age like humans do.  They might look human (sort of), but they're their own separate imaginary species with their own made-up rules.