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Shadow214
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#1 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 11:45 AM
Default A weird thing about Pet Stories.
How come there is no elder stage in the Pet Stories,they were in Life Stories and Castaway Stories.
Emerald1234
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#2 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 11:53 AM
pet stories was meant to be laptop friendly so i'm guessing by adding pets they had to remove something else
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SneakyWingPhoenix
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#3 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 12:16 PM
Well you could only speculate. According to wiki, there is officially "no known reason for this age not to be present in the game, since they exist in the other two Stories games."
Emerald1234
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#4 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 12:24 PM
maybe EA was to lazy?
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Orphalesion
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#5 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 12:43 PM
So...do Sims just die at the end of the Adult stage? Creepy... Is it at least longer than in other games?
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#6 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 12:46 PM
nope i think its still 29 days

i might test it out later to see if sims die when adult stage is over
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#7 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 2:06 PM
I sort of just assumed that since the Elder stage wasn't relevant to the actual stories they scrapped it, and that death by old age just... wasn't a thing. Free Play just wasn't worth the trouble.
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Emerald1234
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#8 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 2:23 PM
so in pet stories elders are just ultra glitchy
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#10 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 3:37 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Orphalesion
So...do Sims just die at the end of the Adult stage?

I also want to know this...
Like, after 29 days what happens?
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Emerald1234
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#11 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 3:46 PM
I can't get my pet stories to work so we'll have to rely on someone else

do sims still hit menopause at 5 days till elder?
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Emerald1234
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#13 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 3:48 PM
really? that just seems strange

but why is there no elder stage? hmm
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Orphalesion
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#14 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 4:15 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Kaiko Espurr Mikkusu
they would stay adult and it says "0 days to elder"


Wow that's weird/stupid. I never had Pet or Life Stories, because I have always preferred desktop PCs to laptops so it was a non-issue. I did have Castaway Stories and was really disappointed in the inability to place lots in the free play mode after the story.

But really, it kinda sounds like the Stories games were a shape of things to come with Medieval and Sims 4 (how many features can we cut and still sell this?)
Shadow214
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#15 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 7:43 PM Last edited by Shadow214 : 14th Jan 2018 at 9:51 PM.
Quote: Originally posted by Bigsimsfan12
I also want to know this...
Like, after 29 days what happens?

The wiki says they die of old age like an elder does.
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#16 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 9:24 PM
I kinda detest Pet Stories. Because of it, The Sims 2 Pets didn't have a neighborhood. At least, Arbor Falls or any of them should've been included in The Sims 2 Pets.
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#17 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 9:46 PM
Removing the Elder stage was one of their more questionable decisions, but I remember the Stories games being really weird.
Shadow214
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#18 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 9:52 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Emerald1234
maybe EA was to lazy?

That wouldn't surprise me.
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#19 Old 14th Jan 2018 at 10:18 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Emerald1234
maybe EA was to lazy?

Quote: Originally posted by Shadow214
That wouldn't surprise me.


I think it was more likely that the series had goals as regards to game requirements and file sizes, and including textures for animal life states as well as all of the sim lifestates would have broken these goals.
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#20 Old 15th Jan 2018 at 2:14 AM
I only got it for the dog training equipment.
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