My sims don't age

[Mi-chii]

I just noticed quite a problem: My sims don't age! Their are stuck in the same "x days until xxx becomes child/teen/adult/elder". The only mods I have are the insimenator and the CEP. I have turned aging on both by using the cheat and by using insimenator, but it doesn't make a difference.

I only have the basegame.

Anyone else experienced this?

[Nymphy]

Hmm thats odd....espically as those are the only hacks you have. Is it just one family, or all your sims?

[Mi-chii]

All my sims. I have to use the insimenator to make them age, and I really don't like doing that. It annoys me!

[Marhis]

That's extremely odd; I've played the base game for months, with way more  hacks than yours, and it never happened to me.
The only thing that I may think about, is to try with no hacks at all, plain vanilla, and see if it happens again.

[Mi-chii]

Yeah, i'll try that (sniff, I need the insimenator to keep my sims with energy, LOL, that's mostly the only thing I use it for!)... I'll be back later with an update.

I don't need to remove the CEP, do I? Since it's a program, and not a hack?

[Marhis]

Technically, the CEP is a hack too, but anyway you don't have to play without hacks, only test if your sims don't age in vanilla game: move Downloads folder on desktop, then fire up the game, enter any lot and wait till the clock is past 6 pm: if those sims still don't age, then we know that it's not a hack issue, exit the game without saving and report here .

[Marhis]

Technically, the CEP is a hack too, but anyway you don't have to play without hacks, only test if your sims don't age in vanilla game: move Downloads folder on desktop, then fire up the game, enter any lot and wait till the clock is past 6 pm: if those sims still don't age, then we know that it's not a hack issue, exit the game without saving and report here .

EDIT TO ADD: I'm wondering if maybe there's some issue with insim version: I mean that I played base game with an older insim version, and there's a possibility of some differences about playing base game with the insim most updated version.
Theorically, it shouldn't, but as because the most part of players have installed at least 1 EP, it's much more difficult to spot an alleged bug.

[Mi-chii]

Hmmm, I think I have the SIM-version of the InSim.
 
Well, I just checked, I took just the insimenator out and then the aging worked fine. What does this mean? Do I have to play without it? *looks frigthened* Or should I just try another version?

[ancienthighway]

There was a bug in InSim's feature to add a sim to the household that would reset the age to something like -99.  The sim continued to age, but since it was something like 74 days until the birthday the age bar never progressed.  I know this was fixed in a beta, and I assume the fix is in the latest release.

[caffeinated.joy]

Your version of Insim could have somehow become corrupted. You could try removing your version completely (delete file alltogether) and redownloading a fresh copy. If that doesn't work, then I would try another version.

The other possibility, if you're at all in the habit of downloading lots, is a hack may have snuck in with the lot download. That can happen without the creators knowledge. I don't have a link handy, but running paladin's hack conflict utility should help. Installing lots with clean installer is good preventative measure too.

[Mi-chii]

Caffeinated.joy, since Im on a Mac, the hack conflict utilty and clean installer doesn't work.

But I removed the SIM-edition I had of InSim, and put the OBJ-edition in instead, now everything works like it should! This thread can be closed.

Thank you for your help, everyone!