Am I the only one who wants to add these life stages? I hate that it's only infant, toddler, kid, teen. 5 year old kids are vastly different from 9 year olds. Same with 12 year olds and 16 year olds. I also wants the family portraits to come back. That was my favorite part of the sims 3. Does anyone else agree? Let's let EA hear us!!!
I agree 💯 %
For me the kids(toddles-teens) are extremely fun to play in this game. I would like the team to add more gameplay opportunities for the youth especially the child age. I want to teach my kids magic. I like the fact that kids can do yoga, ice skating ,snowboarding sleding and skiing. I would like to add ballet and gymnastics as more gamplay options for kids.
In my mind, Toddlers are already Pre-Schoolers, for one. But I do agree that we need the middle school age Sim. There is a HUGE difference between a 11–12-year-old child and the much older teen we have now. LOL Since we don't have them, I just write them up as the age I have them in my imagination for my Sims Story.
The toddlers are the preschoolers. As they learn their skills you can see them act older. You can also pay attention to the age in days for your kids. On normal lifespan, they are a kid for 14 days. What I do is use the clothing in CAS to make them look like a young kid. After 7 sim days, zi take them back into CAS abs use the clothing to make them look like a preteen. It is very simple to do. I do the same for the teen lifestage. They are teens for 21 days. The first 10 days the look like younger teens based on the clothing choices and possible braces on the teeth. On day 11, I take them back into CAS to make them look older with clothing choices and such. It is a simple way to get the effect of more lifestages that you want. So not, I do not think we need more lifestages in the game. I personally think that players just need to use their imagination and the tools in CAS to make the current lifestages in-game appear younger/older. Btw, I do the same tactic in CAS with the young adult stage since it is now 42 days long. I sometimes will do the tactic for the adult stage if I need to for storytelling purposes.
To be honest toddlers do full that roll for me when it comes to preschool like if they ever decide to add a daycare or preschool for Toddlers then it will be fine. Now Preteens I'm with you all the way I wanted Preteens introduced to the Sims Franchise back in Sims 2. The Preteen Sim won't be a child but still not a Teenager like a tween can cook or bake but a child can't a tween can play with void critters, collect void critters, play on the playground or just hang out on the playground. I see preteens as like the Jan and Peter of the Brady Bunch Family. Also they experienced puberty like the voice cracking and changing.
I am currently writing the story of my Sims. I use my writing to also note their ages, per se. I have a particular update that mentions adolescence. Erik was twelve at the time.
This might be an unpopular opinion but I personally don't think preteens are needed in the game. Perhaps update the teens and children that we already have and give them a bit more depth. I'm not sure what new they could add with preteens, that we dont have in the game already. I understood why infants were added as babies were stuck in the cradle and barely any gameplay. However children in the sims 4 play with toys, go to pre-school, play with park equipment and if you have Parenthood you can set curfews, character values. With teens you also have this with Parenthood for them, there's puberty in the game now for teens and mood swings etc and they go to high school, if they do well they can leave early and start university if you have that pack.
Personally how I feel.
Seems like a waste of a life stage. Not to mention more work to put into them and having to add clothing for them as well. Feel like it could easily be a easily forgotten life stage with half hearted work into it. LOT of work to be putting into a lifestage that players probably won't even play for that long because young sims are always limited to things they can do. (Already not enough hobbies for sims, especially younger sims).
Took forever for teens to be feeling more like teens until Parent Hood and High School Years came out. At base game they're pretty uninteresting. Same with children.
Definitely need more resources funneled into things still needed for the base game than another life stage.
I hear you on that one. As for pre-teens, I agree. That's a life stage of about in RL 2-3 years, tops. Sixth, seventh and eighth grade. I think the real problem is that these teens are way too tall, whereas in Sims 3 they were way too short. Can we please have a happy-medium? It was so odd to watch the shorties driving a car in Sims 3, and likewise I've only witnessed one boy in my life who was probably about five-foot-six inches at the tail end of eighth grade and when I ran into him on the high school campus, about three months later, he had shot up to about six foot!
I don't really understand what that life stage is supposed to do, what unique features that they would do that would be unique from children or teens.
I could see how it would make aging up less awkward because kids ages up to teens and loses all their friends who are still children but that's about it.
I definitely think the teens should be made little shorter than adults, I really hope that they don't add any more life stages and just make what we already have better. Add more to child, teens and elders. Would be perfect in my personal opinion
