Can teenagers live alone in the sims 3.

This is possible with NRaas' Mover mod. The game by itself doesn't allow for teens to live alone unless the adults in the household die.

Without mods you must make an adult with your teenagers to start with. Just make a random adult that doesn’t need to be related to the teens, then, as soon as you start playing, just make a 2 squares pool, make the adult dive, close the pool with walls and, some sim hours later, job’s done.

I made one burned building once where 4 teens lived alone and I had to get rid of the adult that way. Teens can make good money if they skip school a few days and ok money otherwise.

Ok, so I killed off the adult with the pool + wall thing, but I got 1 more question. Is there any negative effects of having your teen neglect the schoolwork? I plan for her to focusing on surviving with lower wages, harder bills and 100 simelons on a 1*1 square, with a tree and a park bench on. (She is supposed to be a runaway living in the park). Only get her grades up a little bit before she turns young adult so I can choose her last trait. Wich grade do I need to achieve to get to pick myself?

"Dida_Quickswitch;c-17193292" wrote:
Ok, so I killed off the adult with the pool + wall thing, but I got 1 more question. Is there any negative effects of having your teen neglect the schoolwork? I plan for her to focusing on surviving with lower wages, harder bills and 100 simelons on a 1*1 square, with a tree and a park bench on. (She is supposed to be a runaway living in the park). Only get her grades up a little bit before she turns young adult so I can choose her last trait. Wich grade do I need to achieve to get to pick myself?

If I remember correctly, your sim has to have a grade of at least a B to get to pick your trait. It's been awhile since I was able to play Sims 3 though. The only negative I remember of doing poorly besides not getting to pick their trait, is that sometimes they will get detention and have to stay after school longer when they go.

There are also negative moodlets associated with failing grades, but those aren't permanent and wouldn't apply if she is maintaining at least a C average.

Dropped school a few days with her, she got a very bad D, bordering on an E, but she have been at school the last 3-4 days, for the simple reason she gets fed :D. Her harvest isn't ready yet, but there is little time for homework. The carpool from work shows up 1 hour after school ends and after that it's to hit the gym to use the shower and back home to the sleeping bed( I could get a bed for only 5 simelons more, but figured it would be more realistic with the sleeping bag. First thing she is going to buy now is a stow, a fridge and a kitchen bench so she can learn fishing and get a real meal, not needing school to keep her fed. Maybe then she can go to work in a good enough mood to get a promotion. I got mod for harder bills, (3,8 times as much) and lower wages(pop stars and leader of the free world earn more), starting salary for part time job is 7 simelons pr hour. Intro cooking for adults is down from 25 pr hour to 8. Also you don't get job performance unless you meet all the other requirements and it goes up a lot slower for both school and work.

Edit: See you are at NRaas. Can anyone of you make a mod that slows down skilling to fit with longer life span. Like 5 or 10 times as slow? I found one on MTS, but it didn't work, guess it's not updated for the latest expansions. Would be really nice as I think normal skill gaining is a tad OP with 1 day being a month instead of a year in their life.

quick question @igazor can the homeschool mod be used with teens living alone or does there have to be an adult in the house to be the caregiver as such?

Also I am not sure if the social worker is able to take teens away ( I thought it was just babies and children) but is is so long since I played home alone teens I cannot remember. Cannot seem to find any info on any negative penalties for teens skipping schools with bad grades?

@Dida_Quickswitch

You have made me want to play a teen household again as I really enjoyed playing them a few years back so I must add it to my ever growing list of things to do again in the game :)

"Dida_Quickswitch;c-17194263" wrote:
Dropped school a few days with her, she got a very bad D, bordering on an E, but she have been at school the last 3-4 days, for the simple reason she gets fed :D. Her harvest isn't ready yet, but there is little time for homework. The carpool from work shows up 1 hour after school ends and after that it's to hit the gym to use the shower and back home to the sleeping bed( I could get a bed for only 5 simelons more, but figured it would be more realistic with the sleeping bag. First thing she is going to buy now is a stow, a fridge and a kitchen bench so she can learn fishing and get a real meal, not needing school to keep her fed. Maybe then she can go to work in a good enough mood to get a promotion. I got mod for harder bills, (3,8 times as much) and lower wages(pop stars and leader of the free world earn more), starting salary for part time job is 7 simelons pr hour. Intro cooking for adults is down from 25 pr hour to 8. Also you don't get job performance unless you meet all the other requirements and it goes up a lot slower for both school and work.

Edit: See you are at NRaas. Can anyone of you make a mod that slows down skilling to fit with longer life span. Like 5 or 10 times as slow? I found one on MTS, but it didn't work, guess it's not updated for the latest expansions. Would be really nice as I think normal skill gaining is a tad OP with 1 day being a month instead of a year in their life.

@Dida_Quickswitch, you may want to check out this thread that talks about NRaas Relativity mod as it can slow down skill gaining. I haven't yet tried it in my game even though I do have the mod installed in my game. I'm still learning things about the different mods myself but I know @igazor is a big help as he on the NRaas site as well as being over here to help anyone who needs the help... :)

So maybe this thread can help you answer your question about slowing down the skill leveling in your game... :)
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/819496/nraas-relativity

Correct, the skill gain scaling and further tuning from there are handled by NRaas Relativity.

Yes, homeschooling will work fine for a teen head of household. The NRaas Careers mod and its Schools add-on module are required, and then access to a computer, personal or at a library or elsewhere, to turn in homework or else they will have to do that in person at City Hall at least once per day. Or if there is no intention to bother with homework and scholastic progress, then of course the computer access is not necessary.

There are no social worker repercussions of a teen failing high school. I've had teens never actually go to school or bother with anything school related after the first day. They get into trouble with the adults in the household (but that can't happen if there are no adults), they cannot be put in detention if they never show up to school in the first place, they bravely suffer through the negative "I'm Failing!" moodlets, they do not get to enjoy academic benefits bestowed upon them at graduation (it's not much to be missing out on), and they get a typically unfortunate trait assigned to them upon aging up to YA that can be changed through CAS or MasterController anyway.

I certainly don't play all of my sim teens that way, but it's really no big deal to buck the system and find free lunches that might be more satisfying elsewhere; with the homeschooling system, the teen won't keep getting pushed by the game to attend school in person so they can fail that way using up less of their personal time by just ignoring the required homework assignments. I don't know, there's something satisfying about seeing these teens finish up high school with a perfect F (or E, depends on the locality) grade. Ha, and the best part is that they can still go to Uni (don't expect a serious academic scholarship though) or get a job in the medical profession and become a neurosurgeon by learning how to play chess or faking it and staring at the sky through a telescope to build up some minimal amount of Logic skills. :)

On a perhaps more balanced level, I've played families where the head of household was a teen and did a great job of raising their younger siblings both with and without accepting the importance of the traditional scholastic experiences and more commonly seen rites of passage.

Thanks for clarifying @igazor

Obviously my memories of playing teens alone and bringing up their younger siblings were correct-) (what a rarity these days lol) To be honest I think teens sometimes appear to look after their younger siblings better than the parents occasionally lol