[Abysmal Raven]

yeah, i kinda like the "den" thing, it ensures i know where each sims i play is at. as for this whole living neighbourhood, it should be optional. like if theres an npc you like, or a sim you like and you wanna keep them, i see the whole evolving world would mean you dont play the sims as long and they die too quickly, one thing they could do is have sim live alonger life, not just more life stages but more time within them so they last longer.

i see it as they could have most if not all stages we have in life. but yes gradual aging, but not just that, they still have a bar to see how long they got. as in you see an adult, hes young, about 20s looking say, and as you play him, he nears the 30s, 40s stages middle aged and all, and you see him, like real people gradualy decay basicaly. so the bar is still there to let you know when to plan a birthday, or to change his life style due to his new age, should you want to...like each bar, represents a 5 or 10 sim years. so a new born will have its first bar as 5 however long, and in that time it gradualy turns into a bigger child (a sim equvillant of 5), then they get a 10 however long bar and you see them age into an older child, to young teenager and then when it gets to a sim equvillant of 15 (hence the 5 and 10 bars and all) it has another 5 bar to its 20s. then the rest are like say 10 however long bars or something....it may seem a bit buggy idea but i only just came up with it, that way if the world is constantly moving and you switch to another sim you can easily see how its aged and where its at, possibly without having to select them all the time. plus, it gives them longer lives (like say maybe a week or two is a sim year, so a new born will live 5 weeks, or ten weeks till its 5, so each week or couple, if you wanna you can celebrate a birthday, like when its 1, 2, 3 and such. kinda gives actuall ages i think to sims, rather than a new looking size) of course they probably have already some up with their own way of doing it, im just saying thats how i imagine it to work kinda...