How would you improve Teens?

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)

"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.

Shorter teens and exclusive teen content. You know, like in previous Sims games and in Generations?

I think the problem is that the teens...don’t feel like teens. Or feel like older teens/college students instead. They don’t look like teens and do the same things as adults with no milestones beyond maybe one crush thing (the rings) and making out action. Not much to differentiate them from adults, especially since they can wear lots of the same stuff and look fully grown like the young adults.

Homework helps, but we had proms and driving lessons in the past. I would like more teen stuff.

We need something that is in between the child and the college student.

Either that, or give the Young Adult stage something different that separates them from both the Teen stage and Adult stage. Those teen and up stages (until Elder) look almost identical to me.

Just having more whims would make them more interesting - whims to call a crush, whims to have sleepovers, whims to invite friends over...

Teens are just SO BORING.

I do agree that a whole 'generations' pack with lots more content for every stage would be nice, but teens really need the most work.

Height adjustments would be awesome but I can imagine it would be a nightmare from an animator's point of view. :)

I'd like more teens-only content and interactions. Including clothes that can only be worn by teens. Changing the life stage's height would take a lot of work at this point, and I'd rather see that energy focused on new content. But I think shorter teens should make a comeback in Sims 5.

"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.