
If an elder lives a good life and has a platinum aspiration bar at the time of death by old age, they will get a special gravestone marked with their aspiration symbol. Elder Sims with part-time jobs cannot retire from those jobs.

A retired Sim who takes a part-time job will keep his or her pension the part-time job will be shown in a second tab on the job panel. (Since retirement can be a major want, it's recommended that they retire.) A retired Sim's weekly pension will be half the weekly salary of the job he or she retired from, and the Sim will receive one-seventh of that each day. Sims who have jobs when they become elders can keep those jobs, or they can retire and receive a pension.

Elder female Sims cannot get pregnant, but Elder male Sims can still impregnate adult female Sims.

However, this will not show days added by drinking the Elixir of Life, drinking from the Cowplant, or the Give Me A Long Life wish. Instead of showing the number of days until the Sim ages, the age bar shows how many days he or she is considered to have lived. When Sims become elders, they are always considered to be 54 days old, regardless of the number of days they have actually lived. The number of days an elder gets theoretically depends on where the Sim's aspiration bar is when that Sim ages and a random factor. It's the only age from the base game that doesn't have a fixed duration. Players with Nightlife or later should note that elder Sims will likely be considered to have gray hair for purposes of chemistry, even if they have custom hair that is not gray.Īt the end of elderhood, the Sim dies of old age. Sims will have grey hair (though custom hair for elders may not be gray) and a hunched back during this stage. This means that female Sims who appear elderly in the game, such as Cornelia Goth and Ginia Kat, can still have children.Įlder is the final life stage in The Sims 2. There are head and body skins which can give a Sim the appearance of being elderly, as with Gunther Goth and Ginia Kat, but it will be no more than an appearance. In The Sims, elder does not exist as a separate life stage, as Sims in this game never age.
