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...
Forum Discussion
I just posted some ideas for kids and teen aspirations in another thread, but it seems appropriate to this discussion...I'l just cut and past what wrote here.
"I had a thought--I think it'd be kind of cool to have unlockable child aspirations. So, you start with one of the basic four, you complete that one, and then you have the option of selecting on eof the other 3 OR a new aspiration, unlocked by completing the first! That way your brainy kid could go on to be SUPER BRAINY, instead of switching over to something else. Sure, you could make the kid well rounded if you want, but you could also double down, and it would motivate to really build beyond those 4 base skills. Each of the child aspirations requires maxing out one of those skills, so then the new aspiration would be about building the skills accessed by maxing those ones (for this to really work, there'd really need to be some skills unlocked by maxing motor, but that's another story)
So like, completing the Whiz Kid aspiration, would then unlock an aspiration that was logic focussed, like, idk, chess master or something. And creative would unlock something about playing instruments or whatver. Ect ect.
AND/OR there could be teen specific aspirations (I'm undecided whether I'd prefer the regular aspirtions to still be available,or to have fully exclusive teen aspirations. Teens really need to distinguish themselves more, but on the other hand it's SO NICE to get to a start on a lot of aspiration early...I dunno.). Anyway, the rewards could be a boost in a specific career. Like, a computer whiz aspiration which lets you start one level up in the tech guru proffession, stuff like that. A class troublemakes aspiration that boosts a criminal career. A junior spacewlker aspiration lets you skip the entry level for astronaut. You get the idea.
Anyway, I thikn it would really give kids and teens for playability if thee were more aspirations for them."
"I had a thought--I think it'd be kind of cool to have unlockable child aspirations. So, you start with one of the basic four, you complete that one, and then you have the option of selecting on eof the other 3 OR a new aspiration, unlocked by completing the first! That way your brainy kid could go on to be SUPER BRAINY, instead of switching over to something else. Sure, you could make the kid well rounded if you want, but you could also double down, and it would motivate to really build beyond those 4 base skills. Each of the child aspirations requires maxing out one of those skills, so then the new aspiration would be about building the skills accessed by maxing those ones (for this to really work, there'd really need to be some skills unlocked by maxing motor, but that's another story)
So like, completing the Whiz Kid aspiration, would then unlock an aspiration that was logic focussed, like, idk, chess master or something. And creative would unlock something about playing instruments or whatver. Ect ect.
AND/OR there could be teen specific aspirations (I'm undecided whether I'd prefer the regular aspirtions to still be available,or to have fully exclusive teen aspirations. Teens really need to distinguish themselves more, but on the other hand it's SO NICE to get to a start on a lot of aspiration early...I dunno.). Anyway, the rewards could be a boost in a specific career. Like, a computer whiz aspiration which lets you start one level up in the tech guru proffession, stuff like that. A class troublemakes aspiration that boosts a criminal career. A junior spacewlker aspiration lets you skip the entry level for astronaut. You get the idea.
Anyway, I thikn it would really give kids and teens for playability if thee were more aspirations for them."
