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)

Because not all of us want to swallow the endless excuses some simmers make for EAs decisions.
I don't understand why people complain about people who say that some teens should be shorter either.
Endless excuses some people come up with.

Teens in the sims 2 and 3'were a full and complete life stage compared to young adult/ adult sims.

In 4 there not a complete life stage.

So because some teens in the real world , not all are tall. That's the perfect excuse to why in this game they were lazy with teens?
We are talking about the game after all not the real world!
We only have two smaller life stages

Toddler
Child

As newborn isn't even a proper lifestage.
Then its cloned sims for

Teen/young adult/adult/elder

Newborns and teens were done terrible.

Both still are terrible .

Personal opinion of course ;)

I think teen townies are the worst. Yeah we have acne, braces, and some teen styled clothes, but teen townies never take advantage of that. A teen filter needs to be put in place, so they'll automatically wear more appropriate clothing/facial details. I'd hope once they aged up, there teen clothing/facial details wouldn't follow. Overall teen clothes, bedroom stuff, and unique gameplay is still really needed.

Since their height doesn't bother me that much, I want them to add more teen exclusive activities. (eg: Proms, teen parties etc.) or teen exclusive aspirations.

"SimsAddict_244;c-16448661" wrote:
Since their height doesn't bother me that much, I want them to add more teen exclusive activities. (eg: Proms, teen parties etc.) or teen exclusive aspirations.

We absolutely need teen aspirations.

Also I'd like if they could do more teen stuff like having slumber parties, sneak out, go shopping with friends, organize parties when the parents aren't home, stuff like that....

There could be at least special party options for teens, like sleepovers, lan partys (with laptops), rabbithole invitations like shoppingspree that give moodlets, traits like mobile phone addiction (Waah, Smombies!), and more teen-ish reactions in certain situations, that not depend on traits, having a lazy day for example, where jogging, homework, or cleaning give a terrible bored moodlet.

I think we need more activities for the teens and also more hairstyles, clothes, shoes and accessories; it would be awesome to have some more unique and stunning visuals for them.

We need more furniture for the rooms too, beds, posters, some more walk in closets, stuffed animals, and shelves.

"Marduc_Plays;c-16451481" wrote:
(with laptops)

Yeah. Where are the laptops?

I think every teen I know has a laptop. They're a standard part of education now.
It's past time they added laptops, and gave teens the option to use a laptop or home computer to do their homework.

"ChadSims2;c-16481488" wrote:

"qadara77;c-16422519" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-16376935" wrote:
The height is a major issue for me so they either need to fix teens or add preteens massive size jumps make it hard to tell stories when you go from a child to an adult-sized teen in an instant. Teens need hobbies activities teen specific traits lot types teens show up to and high school is another thing teens need adults have an endless supply of active careers you can follow them all day the teens not so much.

I don't understand why the teen height is such an issue for so many people. I am a parent and my 12-year-old is 5"10. I'm 5'6". He hasn't even become a teen yet is already towers over me. Many teens are the same height or taller than their parents.

What I think would be a great solution (good luck getting it added) would be the ability to adjust height for adult sims upon creation. Then the parent heights would factor into the height of the children.

Unless your 12 year old is being confused for a 20-50 year old I don't get your point because teens in this game are. Sim teens do not have the look of youth teens are not easy to spot as they should be and should not require the word "teen" over their head when you hover over them to know they're a teen which has been the only fix they have got in what 4 years now. Height is one thing that is easy to spot never once in Sims 2 did I confuse a teen for an adult because they had the height difference and actually had the look of a teen.

So as I said yes height is a big issue but I'd just as easily be happy with preteens and teens to be made to look more youthful fix both of my issues easily without sliders.

There are people who claim they want more realism, and mistaking a teen for an adult, or the reverse, is a realistic thing.

In my game, I rarely mistake teens for adults, because the teens in my game are all twiggy sticks :/

I'd rather have a filter for clothes, to be honest. It's great that we can use anything for different age grouos, but if we had filters, Townie teens would wear only teen-ish clothes. I believe it should be easy to implement, even for already existing clothes, and definitely easier than changing anyone's height.