How would you improve Teens?

"Godleyjeans;c-16338382" wrote:
Shorten and add exclusive teen centered content. Create an ambitions themed update or pack where everything is just for teenagers, or in relation. Add items, interactions, new outfits and hair, room decor and furniture, give them the ability to run away, I’d say also add the ability to come back pregnant but that’s a very risky subject and despite us already having vampires assulting us in our own homes...I highly doubt EA wants the problematic topic of runaway teenagers having the chance of returning with a bump and no idea who the father is, or showing up pregnant and you find out the father is your best friends teenage son.

Just because our pets have a chance doesn’t mean our teens should too, despite the sad realism of a lot of lives out there.

I would like the ability to run away to be an option though, with or without the above mentioned subject, what would also be sort of cute and sad is maybe your pet can go sniff them out and bring your kid home, police use sniffer dogs for locating so why can’t Lassy go find Fred? It would help story creators and give dogs more interactions and things to do.

Of course allow more mischief, property and vehicle damage, loud parties that involve police, give them more career choices, the ability to learn to drive and do exams at school that will impact their future!

Finally...shoplifting, again, risky subject but then we can already steal so what’s the harm in teens sneaking out in the dead of night or in the afternoon with friends to go pull a score? Obviously give them the chance to be caught but then also give them the chance to come back with some good loot, it’ll lower relationships if they know the victim and are seen during, locals will be warned of their past crimes and so on, give teens a lot more life and reason for being.

"police use sniffer dogs for locating" omg that just gave me a cute idea...!
i picture teen sims running away from home (if we choose them to ofc,or if they have a terrible relationship with parents) and then the parents could call the police, an officer with a police dog would come home and talk to one of the parents of the escaped sim, and i could already picture the interaction- the parent cries while talking to the officer and gives them a random shirt and the officer would give the shirt to the dog to sniff. after 24 hours the teen and officer together would be nocking on the door and the teen would be back home.

I think part of the problem with Teens is that they're pretty much identical to full Adults. We don't need new life-stages; we need your young adults to look slightly younger.

One could defend a lifestage should be more than some extra time to skill a sim.

"JoAnne65;c-16343863" wrote:
One could defend a lifestage should be more than some extra time to skill a sim.

I read this as "extra time to kill a sim" the first time around and was a little confused... :D

Unrelated to above
I don't mind the current teens (I don't even have parenthood) but more stuff to do isn't ever a bad thing for me so if they want to add more I'm fine with that. I would ask they don't add things for only teens just for the sake of it, mostly thinking skills and activities that realistically anyone could do it's just a stereotype for teenagers to do it.

"BeJaWa;c-16343872" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16343863" wrote:
One could defend a lifestage should be more than some extra time to skill a sim.

I read this as "extra time to kill a sim" the first time around and was a little confused... :D

Unrelated to above
I don't mind the current teens (I don't even have parenthood) but more stuff to do isn't ever a bad thing for me so if they want to add more I'm fine with that. I would ask they don't add things for only teens just for the sake of it, mostly thinking skills and activities that realistically anyone could do it's just a stereotype for teenagers to do it.

Lol, well, for some simmers that’s a thing too :D

I would suggest allowing them to "run away", but EA nowadays wouldn't want to make a bad influence to its demography, that considers simmers being way below who is under adolescent age and almost turning the game into E rated. Well they could at least return the interaction between other teens/children of "giving a nuggie" from TS2

"DragonCat159;c-16343893" wrote:
I would suggest allowing them to "run away", but EA nowadays wouldn't want to make a bad influence to its demography, that considers simmers being way below who is under adolescent age and almost turning the game into E rated. Well they could at least return the interaction between other teens/children of "giving a nuggie" from TS2

Well Sims 3 (don't know about Sims 2) teens couldn't "mess around"

I find nothing wrong with the teens what I do find wrong is the school like let's have a school Sp or GP and go where they can do activities like prom become class president valedictorian etc. Add preteens in this pack as a patch but yeah I think a School gp or sp is needed.

I want more events like Prom and Graduation. I also want more things for teens and teens only to do.

"MadameLee;c-16344684" wrote:

"DragonCat159;c-16343893" wrote:
I would suggest allowing them to "run away", but EA nowadays wouldn't want to make a bad influence to its demography, that considers simmers being way below who is under adolescent age and almost turning the game into E rated. Well they could at least return the interaction between other teens/children of "giving a nuggie" from TS2

Well Sims 3 (don't know about Sims 2) teens couldn't "mess around"

I know there's a plot in the hole for my conclusion statement, but they're not a few things that make it feel like E rated (like poop jokes, lack of dark humour), compared that outweigh to a few that makes it mature enough. And no, in TS2 they couldn't mess around.