how do i keep them from growing i had a toddler turn into a kid w/her life bar reading one more day until she's an teen. later that night she became a teen. as soon as she turned into a teen, i had her drink exlir of life but it didn't help b/c her life bar still read one more day until she turns into an adult. i chose not to turn the aging off b/c i wanted the younger kids to grow. how do i stop this? i also tried deleting the kid and bringing her back but the life bar stays the same.
This same thing happened to me, but only once, thank goodness. I believe it was right after I installed Nightlife. There is a cheat you can use, agesimscheat on, that will allow you to set her age back to child. However, it doesn't work properly. The sim will look like a child again, yes, but she will retain her aspiration and lifetime want, which children should not have. All of her wants and fears were appropriate for a knowledge sim and not a child: see a ghost, be saved from death, gain skill point upon skill point. Also, when she aged back to child, her life meter still read 15 days to teen, and not 8 days to teen like it should. I eventually used the cheat again to age her back to teen to keep the ages between her and her siblings consistent, and when I did that, her age bar did not reset again. So she still appears older than her older sister. So, in a nutshell, the cheat doesn't work properly. It only gives your sim the appearance of another age group and not the characteristics. I told myself that if it happened again, I would test the sim "child" to see if she was able to flirt with teenage boys. That would be creepy. But it hasn't happened again!
This is sad. Unfortunately the way the game is set up there is not an easy way (that I know of) to reverse time. Once a sim has aged transitioned they stay that way. I once ended up with a child in a crib <shudder> it looked horribly deformed :shocked: The only thing you can do is either exit without saving and try again and hope the problem doesn't repeat or just live with it and write it off as experience (also there is a real life disease that causes rapid and premature aging ... perhaps you could pretend that your sim has that ...?) I routinely save my game prior to important sim's age transitions. This is because it is a time when things are most likely to go badly pear-shaped. I once had a birthday stall for ever because (I think) everyone was waiting for a sim who was no longer on the lot to come to the cake! That was when I realised that having a save to go back to might be a great idea.
Since I've gotten NL I've had two kids age to child and get stuck in their father's torsos. Fortunately, directing either kid or dad to do something else gets rid of it. Since I've only had a handful of kids (7) born in the game so far, that's a pretty high ratio. It's not that amusing, silly as it looks, because I worry it will be permanent. But so far it hasn't been.
ahhh it happend to me and i have no eps Yes it does look silly mine was permanent hopfully yours wont
In other glitchy news, I had a vampire whose coffin suddenly started to drain all his comfort/energy instead of leaving it as is or improving it. So I moved him off his lot, then back in. He was in his coffin again, not standing by the mailbox, and the same thing happened! So I moved him to another lot, kept my fingers crossed, and phew. Standing by mailbox. No drain when he got in coffin. I bulldozed his old lot, just for good measure. He lost a really nice car. Oh, well.
