"Seera1024;c-18077330" wrote:
Sims can't marry while they are YA's.
The game won't allow for more than 8 Sims per household without a mod - they do exist, however. The limit is there so that players with computers that are at or around the minimum requirement don't completely make their game unplayable by having too many Sims to keep that much track of.
Your post comes off with some contradictions to me.
You say you don't want crush their dreams but then in the same sentence say you want them out of your hair - like you don't plan on playing them past getting them married to fulfill their parents' life goals. If the latter is the case, why does it matter if they drop out or make 4.0's? If you do plan on playing them later, why the rush to get them through part of their life?
I see I wasn't clear enough: I did not want the offspring to have to be stuck with the negative memory of not going to college, but I also don't want to play them instead of my original couple. In fact I would never have chosen to have them adopt 6 kids in the first place if I had known how difficult this was going to be. Was hoping I could speedrun it somehow, but nope.
I might be better off just letting my original sim never get his life wish and drowning his sorrows with umbrella drinks on the beaches of Twiki'i XD
"EgonVM;c-18077357" wrote:
Yes, young adults can't get married. They can get engaged though (even to regular adults and elders), but be careful of those evil (cow) mascots and drama professors as they may try to attempt to flirt with sims. Even when that fails, it will be counted as getting caught cheating when the partner is there.
The only thing I can say is that there is no need to rush. If you really want to rush it, have them all drop out. But if you want them to graduate and have access to four degree-exclusive careers, it is time to slow down. When all exams are successfully passed, the college usually lasts total of 24 days. Just don't play with their parents a lot so they don't die before they all get married.
You've both been helpful with info about how the game works so I can better make informed decisions, and I thank you for that.
I wanted to find a win/win, but at this point, I think putting them in and dropping them out thereafter just to shorten their time spent being teens, might make sense.
Maybe if I just don't care about the life wish, and let the game do what it wants, it will be better. Marriage in this game is far from plug-and-play: I've found it hard to get a single Sim I was playing, to find someone suitable who also wanted to marry them, when that was all I was juggling.
And that family I made in hopes of having convenient prospects? LOL that's going all wrong: the redhaired teen girl Poppy, seems to have some serious anger issues: for some reason she keeps having both the desire to be friends with one of my main family's sons, and the tendency to attack him repeatedly and get into fights with him, that she then loses, every time, and then cries about it. :frowning: but it might have to do with her own life wish which I looked at: she wants to be a space pirate >:)
