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There is supposed to be a popup box to choose other people your sim knows to age with them right?  I never get this pop up box.

I have a child sim, he knows three townie kids, cloe goganzaga, marsha bruenig and some other random kid. I've tried it with the kids on the lot at a party, I've tried it with the kids off the lot with no party, with cake, without cake.  No pop up box. 

I've tried removing my hacks, then removing the whole darn downloads folder in case something is interfering, still nothing.

I don't know what to do now. Would appreciate any suggestions.

I thought it was only for teens and up?

Thus, with Uni installed, remarkably unhelpful.

Other people have said that its children and up.  It makes no sense otherwise since we can already age up teens. :(  Can anyone here confirm? Can you only age transition townie teens?

Are poor marsha and chloe cursed to be nothing but telephone stalkers forever?

I had the option to grow up a townie child when Pauline Aspir grew up from child to teen.  This was in the new 'hood, obviously, and she was BFF with the townie kid.  I also get lists of adult names to grow up when my adults age to elder.

I've had sim kids age :)
I was actually quite surprised since my child sim wasn't friends with 3 out of the 4 kids she knew, but the pop up still came up to say if I would like them to age....

Aging townies up is foolish. Do you want only Elder townies in your neighborhood?!

I'm actually horribly fascinated by the idea of an aged up Marsha Bruneig. Not that I'll do it, 'cause with the empty templates and all, but I really wanna know if she's still the same, creepy stalker freak when she's older. You know she totally spends all day at the telescope "looking through" at the rest of the neighbourhood.

I believe (Epheremeral??)Toast once aged up Marsha in some story. She looked like an Angela Pleasant clone.

Nope, she is quite sweet as a teen. I've aged all mine up, pre-FT, using Ste's Grow Up Townies hack. I only ever used it on townie kids.

No one likes Marsha anyway, she should stay the creepy child stalker that she is.

I had a pop-up box, it offered me three townie kids to grow up, I picked all three. I've seen one of the teens since and she seems fine.

Ok, I do get the pop up when doing teens aging to adults.  WTF is wrong with my game?  Why can't I age children?  If anyone can think of anything I should check or do or whatever, please let me know.

** I made some more families and tried this out tonight.  All the other kids that I've transitioned from Kid to teen have gotten the pop-up.  The only thing I can think of that's different between the first kid and the kids who do get popups is that the one who can't age his friends is adopted.  Any possible way that they shafted adopted kids?

I've had no problems with this so far, so sorry can't help there, but I did notice when I wanted to send one guy off to college and take his townie girlfriend with him - she didn't show up on the list of townie teens to make households out of? Kind of weird and irritating.

I'm not sure how the game picks the list of townies available for aging, since the last sim I had age was given the option to age three sim children he barely knew. *shrug* I didn't age any of them because, well, if I wanted my sims to age up I'd just move them into a house somewhere.

Maybe the game views the adopted brat as a townie, and townies can't age up townies. =p

Maybe so, but I always thought that adopting a kid was about the same thing as marrying a townie.  Maybe there's some other crazy thing all together different that's borked with this kid.  I guess I could see if other adopted kids will get the pop up or not.  I have aged this kid through to adult and he didn't get the option with either birthdays.  He finally married Marsha and I had to get the Broke kids to age her for me.

I would image that new kids would be created once you remove one from the pool.  Notownieregen might stop that though.

I haven't used the option yet, but what I plan to do is only age children that my sim has a relationship to.  This way they can grow up together.  I think it's a cute option and better than having your kids be friends with their great great grandparents friends.  How creepy is that.

I've always imagined with each generation that the townie was the child or niece/nephew or granchild of the original townie, named after their relative.  And that the older generation are friends with them as they are friends of the family.  Helps lessen the creep factor - that way a sim doesn't get their first kiss with great-great-grandma's first love.

I didn't get the pop up box either for the children.

Having the same dang townies in a perpetual temporal rift is dull. I age mine, but not through the game, and in a more organized manner (http://pbtales.blogspot.com/2008/02/combatting-jeffty-is-five-effect.html) so that they are even. They die eventually like playables.

The only unfortunate thing is that I currently have a townie I really want to marry in the family, Bonnie Hendrickson. She frequents Dance! and has this long sort of bowl cut hair, bright red to contrast with the fact that she's black. As a teen, she wore this skin-tight leopard print number. Now, as an adult, she has that white jean, jacket, and leopard print tank top outfit. Both were just what she randomly spun into when she grew up. Unfortunately, though, she started making out with another townie at Dylan and Violet's wedding, and I've caught them at it a few times afterwards. She ages up to an elder in two rounds, too.

If you age up all the townie kids and have notownieregen, all your sim kids are going to bring playable friends home from school.  If you don't have many or don't want them all knowing each other, think twice about it. 

Puzzling why you didn't get the option for the adopted kid.  Maybe we need another trial of that to see if it is the adoption or not.

Okay, so I aged two sims last night:

Adult to elder - had the option to age any three adult townies, even ones he hadn't met. (Part of me wonders if he'll get the option at his next 'transition')

Child to teen - no option. Could be because he didn't know any townie children, though the adult could age ones he hadn't met.

The child in question was the result of the adult's alien abduction, so, not adopted.

Fake edit: And another this morning, another child to teen - this child a product of the above adult and his wife. Still no option.

I have two FT-born alien children that are about to age up. Will see what happens there. Will also adopt next lot.

Edit: Both alien children had the option to age up townies.

My second and third adopted children on different lots got the pop up on their birthday.  Now I don't know WHAT is wrong, maybe its the lot?

Nec, did your alien kids actually know the townie kids they could age up?

I actually used a cake last night to age up Derek from child to teen. He was born pre-FT. No options to age anyone up. He didn't know any townie children, either (just knew a YA and teen...the girl who brought back their runaway cat and some random guy who came over uninvited while she was there to shoot pool). Now, he didn't have a party, so I'm not sure if that's a factor.

Speaking of which, I'm having a lot more uninvited visitors than before. Mostly family members, which is standard, though that even has been odd. I'm having couples come over uninvited. For Dylan, it was perhaps his first night in his house and he'd invited his girlfriend over, only to have his mom show up a few minutes before Violet arrived to look through his trash, then right after Violet showed up (at which point he only got the "Greet Violet" option, not "Greet Everyone"), his dad showed up to do some rather tasteless PDA with his mom. Both then went into the house to watch tv.   Later on, mom invited Dylan over and Violet showed up a couple of minutes later. And no, I didn't do "Invite Household".

Then with the lost-kitty-returner (a favorite dormie who didn't know anyone currently in the house...somehow Evaluous got all the way to PU). She came over and of course was greeted and tipped for her trouble. Stupid cat had left when his father died, despite having high relationships with everyone but the dog. Kitty-returner came in, no problem. Then some random townie came in, uninvited, and joined everyone for pool.

I'm used to townies joining in if there's a wedding at the house, but now it seems that any time I invite someone over, an unannounced visitor comes along at nearly the same time. Could just be sadorandom.

Two factors worth checking out there: Party and Cake.  Seems quite possible to me that the cake has it's own "grow up" code that wasn't updated.

My adult-to-elder transition was a simple click on 'Grow up', no party, no cake, and he got a list of adult townies to age. (About 90% of which he had not yet met, nor were they on the lot)

My child-to-teen transitions were the same, but I don't think they knew any townie children. This may have been a factor.

Yes, they had brought them home from school. No party, no cake. I just told them to grow up. Haven't had time to get to the adopted kid yet. It is adopted, but has not shown up. I will check tonight during a study break.

EDIT: Also can check alien kid with a party. That sim got pregnant again by aliens  :D

come to think of it..
the only time I got the option was when they grew up on their own...
Family - male start, got option at the adult->elder stage when I forgot he was due.
Son of same male , 3 kid friends child-teen, was busy and he aged, all three were on the list.
same sim teen->adult, pushed him a day early. No options. He still had his now "teen" friends, and a few others.
both his younger family members were forced aged a day early .. neither got options.
I rarely use the cake.

Food for thought.

Ahem. The reason my alien child-to-teen wasn't able to grow up any children was because there weren't any townie children. Might affect things.  ::) For some reason, the game didn't generate more kids after the last round of aging-up I did on my townies, so I'll now have to remember to create five more every round.

notownieregen might have to come out for a while maybe?  Or maybe we need some player-made kids to DL and and turn into townies....

I don't have notownieregen. nodormieregen, sure, but I like my townie fodder. Not sure why more didn't generate, but I'm not really worried about it. I can hit the generator. In some ways, it works better, since I can both disapprove freaky-looking ones and note their name for my aging spreadsheet.