My computer has been in the repair shop for a week and I finally got it back yesterday. Because of its sudden onset of problems, I was unable to pause my games before I took the computer to the shop. I fully expected that when I checked in on them yesterday that all 5 families would have progressed to the point where the older peeps had grown old and died, the children reached age 19 and went off to college, or they died of starvation. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they all were pretty much where I had left them and only a few "years" of time had passed. The children who were nursing when I left them last week were now about 5-6 years old. I guess time must have stopped for my families while the computer was being worked on.


I did think it was cute though that once I went to visit each family, they immediately sent me an e-mail asking me where I had been, that they had been feeling neglected. LOL