How would you improve Teens?

I hate the teens! Yeah ok, I am not too worried about them being shortened at the moment but it is about time they had their own hairstyles and wardrobe! I am sick and tired of looking for sims that my YA sim could date only for it to be a teen!!!
Maybe a few teen-only aspirations would be nice BUT I just really want them to have their own clothes and hairstyles so I can tell them apart just by looking!

"king_of_simcity7;c-16335130" wrote:
I do not play TS4 but from what I have seen having them as the same height of adults is awful!

Both.

And agree...
They are awful with that jump from kid to fully grown adult.

Teens are ok as they are, but they could do with some teen themed stuff.

Don't irl teens have sleepovers with their friends? Or sneaky teen parties when their parents are out of town?
Remember that Aussie kid who threw a massive party while his parents were away? I'm pretty sure the story made it to other countries.

Need a voice stage between kid and young adult exclusive to male teens where their voice cracks(in ladies it is not so noticable):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gvsfQJ8ZTk

Congrats kid, you've been promoted as example.

they need to be able to get into more trouble like more pranks flaming bags of poo
drinking stuff just for adults throwing a party while mom and dad are gone
being able to be arrested

I would like to have unique voice actors for teens ... I think teens, children, and elders all deserve unique voice acting and those exaggerated styles. Like for children, their voice is fine. For teens, they should whine more, and have a more immature sort of tone. Something that just separates them not only visually but also audibly. And elders of course should sound very "old" with those raspy voices. Like the typical old guy with a cane trope. It should embody those things in my opinion.

Bring back 'sneak out' from the Sims 2!

I wish you could have the option to go to school with the teen like you can with the Get to Work careers. Then they could meet more teens and affect relationships with them. Maybe they could have consequences for bad behavior, and they could do extra-curricular activities, too.

Can we all agree this isn't right? :D Why would a teen sim have this hair... lol there definitely needs improvement to their clothing/hair filtering.
https://pictr.com/images/2018/04/06/b24a8c7d35ffd457e21b5676c9cede3b.jpg

"crazycat_135;c-16418745" wrote:
Can we all agree this isn't right? :D Why would a teen sim have this hair... lol there definitely needs improvement to their clothing/hair filtering.
https://pictr.com/images/2018/04/06/b24a8c7d35ffd457e21b5676c9cede3b.jpg

Yep. I've had stuff like that happen in my game all the time. As if it's not already hard to tell the life stages apart sometimes.

As for the topic at hand,

I'd be more okay with the teens being the same height as the adults if:

1. Their facial features were more distinguishable from adults. That's a big problem I have with the Teen - Adult stages in this game. There's almost no difference. Both in appearance and gameplay.
or
2. They added a preteen stage. And I hope to God we get one in TS5. I don't care how redundant it may be. It's not like they had a problem with redundancy when they split the adult stage into two separate stages and then made the teen stage by making an adult's face slightly rounder.

I also agree that giving more teen exclusive interactions would be a big help. Bring back prom, after school activities, private schools, and running away from home. Expand more on the mischief skill they loved to talk about back when the base game came out. Put more emphasis on school so that it's more than just a place your underage sims go to for a few hours and accomplish nothing. Have them learn skills at school. Let them choose their classes. Make their GPA's matter. Make it so that Sims who got good grades in school are more likely to get higher paying jobs or get into better colleges when the eventual University pack roles around (though, given this game's track record, I'll be genuinely surprised if there's more than one college). Introduce the SATs. Make studying for it as stressful for teen sims as it is for real teenagers. Bring back social groups and cliques from TS3 (albeit in a less obnoxious way). I'm actually kinda surprised we don't have that last one when TS4 puts so much emphasis on social interactions. I suppose Get Together gave us that, to an extent. But it's still a bit too...superficial to accurately simulate high school cliques.