Teen living

I like them better than dead ones! :) But seriously, you mean living alone? Absolutely, that's fine. It's a lot of fun in fact. I hate the universal curfew imposed in Sims3. What if your teen works a night job? The police still round them up at midnight if they didn't make it home by then and the game grounds them even if you don't want that, so they aren't even allowed to go to school the next day, but then they get grounded again for skipping school. And again for going to their night job. It's nuts.

That's one thing better about Sims 4, teens can do what teens are actually capable of and should be free to do in real life (and used to be, in the US, and still are in a lot of places) which is go get their own job and their own place or some roomates by a certain age, like 16 is old enough. I've known several people who were out on their own at 16.

If we treat teens like they are babies, and force them to live as if they were, it's our own fault if they act like they still are.

My current game started as a teen living on her own with a cat and a dog. She is now a newly aged up young adult, married, and attending university with her husband.

@ignominiusrex I use NRaas Story Progression to disable curfews when I play with teens living on their own.

"ignominiusrex;c-18102275" wrote:
I like them better than dead ones! :) But seriously, you mean living alone? Absolutely, that's fine. It's a lot of fun in fact. I hate the universal curfew imposed in Sims3. What if your teen works a night job? The police still round them up at midnight if they didn't make it home by then and the game grounds them even if you don't want that, so they aren't even allowed to go to school the next day, but then they get grounded again for skipping school. And again for going to their night job. It's nuts.

That's one thing better about Sims 4, teens can do what teens are actually capable of and should be free to do in real life (and used to be, in the US, and still are in a lot of places) which is go get their own job and their own place or some roomates by a certain age, like 16 is old enough. I've known several people who were out on their own at 16.

If we treat teens like they are babies, and force them to live as if they were, it's our own fault if they act like they still are.

Yeah. Curfew is really, really annoying. But if you are not against mods there is a addon that allows you to disable curfew! And I love teen living also, one teenager sittin' down, watching TV, spending the night partying up if curfew is absent, with no one watching or finding out!

I have once started a save with only four teens living together.

Later, when one of those initial teens was already an adult, his own triplet teens and their 3 teen imaginary friends moved to another house on their own.

So yeah, houses with teens only are cool.

By the way, I liked playing houses with only children in Sims 1. Pretty fun!

"Nitroglycol;c-18102543" wrote:
I thought that was only possible if the adults died?

That’s what pools are for. ?

Thanks to NRaas' mover mod, you no longer have to kill the teen sims parents to liberate them. Just move them out. The mod allows for teens to purchase their own homes. To me this is much better than needlessly killing Sims (unless killing them is just your thing).

With NRaas Mover plus NRaas Master Controller, you can create a teen household in CAS - no adults needed at all.

I have only played one save with teens but it was a lot of fun. I did it because I feel it's unrealistic starting with a YA who has no skills since sims born in my saves are highly skilled by the time they grow up. The teens worked part time jobs to pay the bills so didn't get as many skills as I had hoped but it was fun nonetheless :)

@ignominiusrex - yeah, I prefer my teens living too. Dead ones are rather annoying. All they do is just float around. ?

@Nikkei_Simmer

@ignominiusrex - yeah, I prefer my teens living too. Dead ones are rather annoying. All they do is just float around. ?

Just like RL teens, hehehe B)