Lists: life phases; needed points per orb; location-costs - Udated January 2017

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Lists: life phases; needed points per orb; location-costs - Udated January 2017

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Sometimes we need these informations, but they are hidden within several threads.

All numbers have been checked and updated (where necessary) in January 2017.

A whole sim life
has 64 active days (1536 hours) from baby to death.

Split up per age
Baby - 5 days (120 hours)
Toddler - 7 days (168 hours)
Preteen – 8 days (192 hours)
Teenager – 12 days (288 hours)
Adult – 24 days (576 hours)
Senior – 8 days (192 hours)

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February 2017 - A huge change while French Romantic update:
Reversing a sim's age to the beginning of their life phase is free!
I'm not deleting this part of the post, yet, in case there are players who are still playing an older game version.
Costs in LP to revert age from appearing the birthday cake above your sim back to the beginning of their life phase at former updates:
Baby - 1 LP
Toddler - 3 LPs
Preteen – 4 LPs
Teenager – 6 LPs
Adult – 12 LPs
Senior – 4 LPs

Using an Orb to pause a sim at former updates:
The mentioned days are real time!
Bronze: 3 days
Silver: 7 days
Gold: 16 days

Platinum: forever (or until you choose to resume aging)

We don't need to use Orbs to pause our sim's age anymore.
An advantage of using the Platinum Orb for this is that we don't need to care about reversing the age every few days.
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Progress towards an Orb per life phase
Toddler work up to 11%
Preteen work up to 25%
Teen work up to 45%
Adult work up to 86%
Senior work up to 100%

Number of points needed to obtain an Orb
Bronze: 15.000 points
Silver: 20.000 points
Gold: 25.000 points
Platinum: 30.000 points

Costs for locations on the island

Can be found at the topic [Infos] Island Locations Costs (LPs and Life Orbs)
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A very hand resource--thanks Erin! :D
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ErinPW wrote:Unfortunately I cannot add the LP costs (instead of orbs) :?
For buying the locations, each bronze is 70LP and each silver is 80LP. If the same prices hold true for items in the locations, then each gold is 150LP and each platinum is 300LP.
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Debbilu_7 wrote:A very hand resource--thanks Erin! :D
I hope so :D
tigertigercait wrote:
ErinPW wrote:Unfortunately I cannot add the LP costs (instead of orbs) :?
For buying the locations, each bronze is 70LP and each silver is 80LP. If the same prices hold true for items in the locations, then each gold is 150LP and each platinum is 300LP.
Thanks, tigertigercait! I'll quote your post into the opening post below the Firemonkeys numbers :)
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I think the orb points are off by 500. I've also copied over the percentage per life stage:

Total points needed for the different orbs:
Bronze 15,500
Silver 20,500
Gold 25,000
Platinum 30,500

Percent per life stage:
Toddler up to 10%
Preteen up to 24%
Teen up to 44%
Adult up to 86%
Senior up to 100%
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indigoace wrote:I think the orb points are off by 500. I've also copied over the percentage per life stage:

Total points needed for the different orbs:
Bronze 15,500
Silver 20,500
Gold 25,000
Platinum 30,500
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Thanks for the reminder, indigoace :)
Seems, the total number of points have changed. Where did you take the copie from? Hope, we can figure out, which numbers are the newest :)
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I got the list of orb points from the SFP Updates subforum here, from the LD progress threads.
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Can an adult complete all 86% towards an orb

Yes!
Look at the green ring around their faces on the pictures below. All of those sims have started as adults at 0%. They only did life dream tasks, nothing else.

For the sporty senior I had them doing the sleeping life dream.
Towards platinum it took 2 x 19 hours plus 2 x 6 1/2 hours (in a 3*bed).
After using the platinum orb for building or to pause a sim's age, she can complete another bronze orb if you reverse her age with 2 LPs.
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Towards bronze 7 days + 16 hours
Towards bronze 7 days + 16 hours
Towards silver 10 days + 12 hours
Towards silver 10 days + 12 hours
Towards gold 13 days
Towards gold 13 days
Towards platinum 15 days + 12 hours
Towards platinum 15 days + 12 hours
Senior towards platinum
Senior towards platinum
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Good idea, Erin! And great work!
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Upon further exploration, I think the numbers I have for the orb points originally came from Bagatelle:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1995&start=110#p24532

ETA: Also, I hope this thread will be stickied soon! :)
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