Teen and young adult enhancements and ideas

Collages would be awesome for YA! YA could get scared around pregnant sims too because they don't want to get fat

"ImGluedToMyComputer;d-897497" wrote:
I think teens in the sims 4 are just adults that go to school and young adults are just adults. Teens and young adults should get acne be shorter and less mature then adults. Young adults should have the option to live in apartments and call their parents for help and money to pay rent. Teens should act out and have curfews, want to move out, have better careers and playable school. And when your in high school there is SO MUCH DRAMA and that should be incorporated! Teens also need school parties like prom, and have teen parties like they did in the sims 3 generations!

Lets See.

Curfew Is Now Possible in Parenthood,Drama Isnt Incoporated,Acne Isnt There,Short Teens Isnt here,Teens are Still MATURE Than adults......

"Movotti;c-17596761" wrote:

"bellagoth_;c-17596137" wrote:

"Movotti;c-17596118" wrote:

"ImGluedToMyComputer;d-897497" wrote:
be shorter

No.
Too many teens here are taller than their parents, making them shorter would be unrealistic.

unrealistic? well i guess i never existed lmao

Being an exception to the rule, doesn't make you in the majority. Thus shorter teens in game would be unrealistic. Generally, teens are shooting up, as parents are starting to shrink. IF anyone should be shorter, it's elders.

it's easier, cheaper and we have the "there's tall teens irl" argument to excuse it.

If they made teens shorter, then all you short teen fans would be whining about the lack of clothing options for your short teens, and the lack of interaction options. It is a lot of work to make all that extra stuff for an unnecessary size group, so you'd have to put up with the limited options, and I don't think you'd like that much.

an exception to the rule? are you serious? i was a teen not long ago and i don't see how most of the teens are taller than their parents. having some shorter sims should be a meaning as to how teenagers are growing up.

it's interesting how fans are starting to get conditioned to the fact that we can't have more good things in the game. i would be whining about the lack of stuff only because ea won't bother to pay the sims studio a bit more to produce more content with some quality. jesus do i really have to excuse a multimillionaire videogame company lack of effort just because "it's a lot of work" lmao

"Movotti;c-17596815" wrote:

"bellagoth_;c-17596769" wrote:
are you serious?

Yes. Short teens would be unrealistic to what I see in my city. Tweens are often as tall as their mother.
There are a few exceptions, though many kids grow like hemsworths out here. It must be all the radiation.

it's interesting how fans are starting to get conditioned to the fact that we can't have more good things in the game. i would be whining about the lack of stuff only because ea won't bother to pay the sims studio a bit more to produce more content with some quality. jesus do i really have to excuse a multimillionaire videogame company lack of effort just because "it's a lot of work" lmao

I would rather energy be put into more activities, than wasted on redoing animations and clothing.
Gimme bands, not shorties.

the sims is based on the world diversity not in your city diversity and a short person is not something unrealistic.
but that's not my point, my point is that in ts4 teens look like y.a because it's easier to reuse all the stuff but devs didn't even bother in trying to make them look like teens, not only for their height but for everything, all life stages except the children and before are the same type of sim just thinner or with some wrinkles, it's the same! and even being the same we still lack content anyways
ts4 probably won't have any more significant changes, but i'd love a height slider/presets in ts5.

"Movotti;c-17596761" wrote:

"bellagoth_;c-17596137" wrote:

"Movotti;c-17596118" wrote:

"ImGluedToMyComputer;d-897497" wrote:
be shorter

No.
Too many teens here are taller than their parents, making them shorter would be unrealistic.

unrealistic? well i guess i never existed lmao

Being an exception to the rule, doesn't make you in the majority. Thus shorter teens in game would be unrealistic. Generally, teens are shooting up, as parents are starting to shrink. IF anyone should be shorter, it's elders.

it's easier, cheaper and we have the "there's tall teens irl" argument to excuse it.

If they made teens shorter, then all you short teen fans would be whining about the lack of clothing options for your short teens, and the lack of interaction options. It is a lot of work to make all that extra stuff for an unnecessary size group, so you'd have to put up with the limited options, and I don't think you'd like that much.

I use a height slider mod and clothes are just scaled down, animations look exactly the same with the exception of animations where they touch each other like hugging, and even that looks okay, there is no clipping.

While it of course depends on how exactly you design your teens... the overall impression that I am getting when I am looking at the premade teens like Luna Villareal for example is that they look scaled up. I think it has to do with the way Maxis makes sims where they often have pretty large heads and the fact that teens often have a skinny body shape (create a young adult sim in CAS and then change their age in CAS and you will often see that the game just shrinks their body shape without changing their height or resizing their head).

https://i.imgur.com/zpPkQNT.png
height slider mod where Luna is just a bit shorter, notice how her arms no longer seem to be so long and she looks way less skinnier (also helped by a skin default overlay)

I know it's subjective but I definitely think with they way they designed teens in this game that they should have been a bit shorter, with the way the game creates teens they just look like tall young adults with a slightly different body shape.

"bellagoth_;c-17596832" wrote:
the sims is based on the world diversity not in your city diversity and a short person is not something unrealistic.

indeed.

Here's the issue I'm having: Girls reach full adult height by around 16. If being shorter than both your parents was the norm, then we'd be knee deep in midget women by now. Guys usually have a major growth spurt in their early teens. A six foot 14 year old is not all that uncommon.

"logion;c-17596833" wrote:
I use a height slider mod and clothes are just scaled down, animations look exactly the same with the exception of animations where they touch each other like hugging, and even that looks okay, there is no clipping.

It's there's no issues, and it's that simple, then why haven't they added one?
It sounds like a more practical compromise.
I could keep my towering teens, and anyone who wants theirs stunted, could have them that way.

"Movotti;c-17596866" wrote:

It's there's no issues, and it's that simple, then why haven't they added one?
It sounds like a more practical compromise.
I could keep my towering teens, and anyone who wants theirs stunted, could have them that way.

I'm not sure, the mod scales them down in game but when Maxis are making their animations maybe would have to add support for that in Maya. They probably think it's not worth it so they are fine with people using mods who wants to change it. It's not the first time Maxis does not want to add things that modders have added or fixed though, like skintones.

As a female tallie myself I actually like getting some height representation in this game! I was tallest in my year at school, the tallest on my course at university, I'm taller than my older sister (who used to call me Snow White because I was taller than all my friends) and I'm also nearly as tall as my Dad (6'2") so it feels very natural to me for teens to be this height. However, I wish they would make some auditory changes to the teens - by giving them a whole new set of voices I might just be able to make them out. This, however, will not help the Simmers who play with sounds off so... IDK...