Make Teenagers Great Again!
Today my teen sims were discussing neighborhood property values because they didn't have much else to do. Yawn, TS4 teens are essentially the same as adults, but with homework. So I started jotting do...
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New Activities:
- Cheerleading
- Rock band
- Skateboarding
- A sport team (Soccer? Or maybe a new sport made by Sims)
- Simblr social network (Post thoughts/photo/recent event/relationship/achieved whims to Simblr)
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Video game console
New Events:
- Prom
- Sleepover party
- Science fair project
- Standardized tests (for chance of scholarship $)
- Wild teen party when parents are gone @simslovinlycan
New Relationships:
- Have crushes. Sims should get nervous, blush, etc around crush
- Have role model (an adult sim whom the teen admires, teens has chance of receiving the role-model's traits)
- Sibling rivalry (especially with jealous trait, sims try to outshine their sibling) @masongamer
Boundaries:
- Curfew based per household, so that some parents may be stricter/freer @masongamer
- Ask parents for permission to stay out late (answer depends on parent's mood and if teen has completed homework)
- Receive random "Where are you?/Who are you with texts?" from parents with option to lie
- Sneak out (with a random chance of getting caught)
- Runaway if poor relationship with family @yubell
- Town curfew (with a random chance of getting caught, chance starts low and increases throughout night, separate from household curfew)
- Punishments like "no tv/computer/going out" @stilljustme2
New Interactions:
- Learn to cook with parents
- Learn to drive with parents (yes in a car, no snark intended)
- "Tell-off parents" to blow off steam when tense
- Sibling mischief ("Tell sibling He/She Was Adopted", etc) @stilljustme2
- Siblings can tattle on eachother @simslovinlycan
- Hook-up (a more intense make-out, TS2 snog style ;) )
- Practice making out (with their hand/pillow/poster) @masongamer @epochism
- Listen to earbuds/mp3 player @dannydanbo
- Selfies and mirror primping @dannydanbo
- Gush over celeb @movotti
New Popularity System:
A subtle 3-tier ranking (nothing over-the-top like TS3's celebrity system or social groups). Some sims want popularity through whims.
- +2 Popular (Popularity gains a positive moodlet and an increase in invitations to hang out.)
- +1 Semi-popular (there has to be a better name for this lol)
- 0 No ranking (base, hidden)
- -1 Invisible (negative popularity from no friends, may have negative moodlet depending on sim's traits/aspirations)
Sims become more popular by
- having popular friends, or A LOT of friends
- being in a popular GT club
- being involved in cheerleading/a sport/ a band
- maxing a skill
- Simblr posts earning a lot of likes
- by some random, obscure event
- attending more parties
Hormones:
- Acne
- Mood swings
- Random whims to do rebellious activities
- Braces
Tweaks:
- Teens (and child sims) go to school wearing a backpack
- "Make friends" at school increases relationships, not just meeting new sims
- "Make friends" will not meet child sims at school
- Remove "discuss property values" and "complain about local youths" chats
- Rename first Mess Around to "Experiment"
- Remove climax-like animation at the end of Mess Around to make it a tad more PG (this probably doesn't bother anyone else, but the thought that my 13-year-old sis's selfsim could be shaking the bed gives me a headache lol)
- Clothing filter teen clothes (similar to the gender patch, so that adults/elders aren't dressing like high-schoolers) @Stilljustme2
- Separate aspirations or teens @kcking2371
- Teen hangout spots @beville
- Boarding schools @jackonyourback
- Babysitting career (interactive, GTW-style) @usagishiroi
*modified to include ideas throughout the thread*
