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Realistic Aging

This is a 1:1 aging mod that tries to keep all time frames as realistic as possible. Children become adults (begin working/schooling) at age 12, can marry at 13, and can have children at 14. Death from old age may occur anywhere between 50 and 90 years of age, and adults are permitted to remarry at any age. Pregnancies last 9 months, and the time between pregnancies is significantly more flexible (ranging from 2 months to approximately 10 years). Since schooling starts at adulthood, it is interpreted as a trade school or apprenticeship and lasts only 3 years.

Other adjustments have been made to attempt to compensate for the long period of childhood. All standard residential structures have been modified to accommodate a maximum family size of 10 (rather than 5 in the vanilla game). All starting conditions have been modified to allow up to 4 children per family (rather than 3 in the vanilla game). The starting food for each standard starting condition has also been increased slightly to account for the potentially larger starting population.

Naturally, this mod will conflict with any mod that alters citizen-related game parameters, such as aging, health, and happiness. This mod will also conflict with any mod that alters the game parameters or dialogs of the standard residential structures or the parameters of any of the standard starting conditions.

Special thanks to GordonDry for providing extremely helpful documentation of the changes made in the 'one year is one year' mod, which provided the starting point for my changes and saved me a great deal of time.