How would you improve Teens?

"PeculiarPlumbob;c-16421047" wrote:
I don't understand people who say that teens should be shorter than adults...
Some teenagers can be even taller than some adults... :''D (In real life I mean)

But this is a game - not real life and they do need to be made with enough of a difference that players can tell at a glance they are neither a child nor an YA. You need to see that in CAS - just making a YA and naming one a teen, one a YA, and one an adult as the only visual difference or by making them bone skinny is not making them different at all when one can make an adult or YA as bone skinny.

When I can go into CAS and make a teen, her YA sister, and her mom look exactly the same - so if I place a picture of all three and no one can see instantly which one is the teen - in a game then something about that teen needs to be different enough that one can instantly tell one of those is a teen. Making them a bit smaller framed and shorter has always been the solution in past Sims games - even if in real life not all teens are shorter or smaller framed than their older family members. Believe me when I play the Teen runaway challenge and they were only allowed to talk to other teens and kids - I simply could not find another teen as the NPC YA's dressed and looked just like them - so they ended up with nothing but child age sims as friends. I mean I am all for a challenge but that was an almost impossible challenge because they are not discernible from each other.

Also The Sims is only based somewhat on life - it obviously has little to actually do with real life in many other ways - so having a teen visibly shorter sure makes it easier on most players seeing sims in a crowd and tell at a glance which ones are the teens. In my game seeing teens go every where adult do makes it even harder when one cannot see at a glance they are not adults.