Lots of changes happen indeed to 11-13 kids, thanks to you for writing it, @iasparran!
I'll forward your feedback, thanks again for taking the time to post it 🙂
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What a stupid idea! We already have 'preteens' - they're called 'children'.
@Belladonna74, no need to be rude. 🤐 Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't' make their idea stupid! ☹️
However, @Nian223, technically children are pre-teens, as are all stages of life that occur before a person reaches their teens! 😉 But we realize you were referring to the particular stage of life commonly called "preteen". Functionally I don't see pre-teens bringing any different gameplay, as all things experienced by them that make them unique would never be put in a Sims game, and the rest of their behavior is a combo of child behaviors and teen behaviors. Since those behaviors already exist in the game, I doubt they would create a new life-stage for behaviors already present.😕 (The actual interesting stuff is the actual start of puberty, but that can be gross and embarrassing even for the people playing the game, not to mention controversial, so it makes it more doubtful that EA would add this).
Gameplay aside, I understand that for reasons of simulating our real lives, preteens can be valuable in our game.🙂 It is similar to the laundry debate. Those who want laundry like their game to reflect real life. Those that don't want laundry would rather have more unique gameplay.
Now, they are adding laundry to the game next year. But I think adding a new life-stage is a lot more difficult to implement in the game than laundry is.😃 Yes, they did add the toddler life-stage, but toddlers have much more unique gameplay options that weren't covered by the life-stages that came with the base game, so it was more worth EA's trouble to make them.
But it is still good that you let EA know of your wishes! 😇 They might just surprise us and add pre-teens, but even if they don't in TS4, they may do so in TS5 (if there is going to be a TS5)! 😉
@adduapinamaybe you will get your wish! 😉 It can't hurt to ask! 🙂
As for The Sims being a somewhat realistic reflection of our real lives, if EA really wanted to do that even more, then they would have to add cars, bikes, and garages back to the game, as well as baby strollers. But the single thing I want to make my game more realistic is to add more color choices to CAS and Buy/Build Mode. It really bothers me when I can have pink earrings in the ice cream cone shape, but not in the small crystal shape! Or I find the perfect pair of pants, only to find that they only come in muted colors and not jewel tones or pastels (or to find the perfect shirt that comes in pastels or jewel tones, but not muted colors!) 😬 I end up with combinations that I would never put together in real life, or there are articles of clothes I never use because they aren't in the right colors! Same goes for furniture! 😢 If they don't give us the color wheel, then at least give us more colors or all the colors in every article! 🤨
The abilities should be
quicker learning skills like (sports, programming, logic, painting, etc.) more skills then child and less skills then teen
childish midlife crisis or otherwise puberty behavior (mood changing often)
love interactions like hug, kiss on cheeks, first kiss, kiss, holding hands, watching stars, innocence flirting (not sexual flirt), and being boyfriend/girlfriend) or nowedays bg bb gg
sexual blocking script for modders no pedophilia actions possible like preteen and (young adult-elder) only to preteen, themselve or max teen. but that's modding not ea or maxis
playing with toys for their age like Lego, Knex,HotWheels, Console/pc, sports (more then the child can do) so they can make it into an stuff pack or update
and i din't say about the awkward stuff like acne or private parts (their just barbie dolls so they don't have any only with mods but that are mods) and they have mosaic around them if you don't have the decencor mod
puberty behavior is different from a 13year old and a 16+year old because childish ----- adult (adult childish is still different then child childish)
child in game is around age 8 ---- preteen could be around age 12 ---- teen is 16+ because they can work and you need to be atleast 16 for work or drive cars (sims 3) that means thats the gap from 8 years is spitted in half 4 years 4years, that's also visual in length so the preteen should be in size head bigger then child and head smaller then teen
a teenager that can Work and the only teenagers that are allowed to work are at age 16-18. Because 18+ is Young adult and in the age between 13-16 the teenagers grow a lot! But the children in game does look like an 7-10 year old and act like that age! But then that means that the gap is atleast 6years real life time. So the best option for the sims is to create a preteen age at 11-13 so before the intense grow and hard puberty but still taller then the child from age 7-10 and can act like an 11-13year old because children can't fall in love (they just think that). But a 11-13year old can fall in love and think a lot differently then an 7-10year old. But still are to childish to be an teenager like in game already because the teenager really acts like an 16-18 year old.
i think that's enough proof that a child is not a preteen and a preteen not a teenager (from in the game already). Or short term child= child, preteen= just starting puberty (before intense grow), teenager= just after intense grow and mentally changing.
