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[Ruttiger]

I've noticed they don't seem to be getting older.  I was gonna age em till 16 for the stat bonuses (by then the country should be elite con) and then go on a super murder spree.

Instead all of my old normal liberals are getting old and frail and they seem to be locked in time.

[Jboy2000000]

Animals do age, but if I remember correctly their age only goes by one ever four years, like dog years.

[Capital Fish]

Animals do age, but if I remember correctly their age only goes by one ever four years, like dog years.

Wait? What? Are you sure you're not thinking of leap years?

[Reelya]

That seems counter-intuitive that a dog should age only 1 year for every 4 normal years, like leap years. Dog years are normally held to be the opposite of that, multiple "years" of the animals life for every normal year.

In "dog years". a 1 year old dog is popularly held to be equivalent of a 7 y/o human, an 8 year old dog would be the equivalent of 56 years old, NOT 2 years old. They should age FASTER, not slower.

Overall, it would be best to just age them normally, but give dogs a 15 year average lifespan. There should not be stat bonuses at 16 years old, by then, most surviving dogs are old and blind. It sounds like dogs are not aging at all.

[Funk]

dogs really don't age like humans, the first year or two years represent some 18–25 years and the rest is old age.

most dog live about 10 years.

[Reelya]

That's why I wrote "popularly held to be equivalent of a 7 y/o human" and not "is equivalent of 7 a 7 y/o human". I was elucidating where Jboy had reversed the normal folk wisdom on dog years.

Any conversion factor is going to be an average, so there will be data points which do not match completely. A dog lives about 10 years, a human lives about 70 years; 7 to 1 is a good estimate still, which is why is has persisted as folk wisdom.

Anyway this is a game, it would be better to give the dogs a lifespan towards the higher end than real-world average, 15 is a good number.

Liberals don't start dropping dead until they're pretty old in this game, giving them a high-end average life expectancy compared to the real world. No reason to demand realism for dogs but not for humans. About 50% of humans should die before they hit the "average" age of death, which doesn't happen in LCS.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I've noticed they don't seem to be getting older.  I was gonna age em till 16 for the stat bonuses (by then the country should be elite con) and then go on a super murder spree.

Instead all of my old normal liberals are getting old and frail and they seem to be locked in time.

It should show their birthdate on their character sheet. Is age being calculated incorrectly?

[Neonivek]

My major issue with the 7 year ratio for dogs is that dogs have a much longer "Middle age" then humans do by equivilance.

The 7 year rule seems only useful (VERY LOOSELY) for lifespan.

[Reelya]

Yeah, i was thinking it would be better to just define age ranges for each species.