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Re: High School Years Issue

Are you going all the way to graduation where you get the graduation ceremony or are you graduating your sims early? In my game, I found that if you graduate early, you keep the same NPCs in high school the next time. But if you keep your sim in high school until they reach the end of the teen life stage or age them up early with a cake, then you get the graduation ceremony with its graduation pic and that one or two of the NPC sims will graduate with you at the ceremony and become young adults. The NPC aging setting doesn't matter in this case. That doesn't hold true though for the teens used as NPCs like Molly, Ash, Kevin, etc. if they are marked as played or any other teen you have in a played household.

Hope this helps.

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LascusClyne
Seasoned Traveler
12 months ago
@CGrant56 When I first bought HSY I had 2 twin brothers one of them graduated early while the other had a partner from school and got married later. From then on all my sims didn't graduate early so I can have them become valedictorian even though they can graduate early but I choose not to. The 2nd generatioin also had twins male and female. The female sim had a partner and after graduation I wanted them to get married so I waited for the other sim to reach YA but didn't happen. Now every generation I always see the same students and once in awhile you do see like 1 or 2 new sims and the students who attend high school are very few while there are so many other teen sims I come across don't even attend high school
CGrant56
Hero+
12 months ago
@LascusClyne

I am not sure what the difference is between those first sims and the later ones. One thing I can think of is the aging switch. I assumed that you are talking about the game generated NPCs.

Are you playing with aging on for NPCs?

Have you changed that setting between the time the first sims aged up and the later ones? That could account for them not aging.

However, I have noticed that a change seems to have happened after HSY was released. The first batch of NPC students I had were in the "Other" tab of Manage Household while the ones that came after were hidden. Hidden sims don't age for the most part. All my NPC high school students are in hidden now. Many are children of the JA skeletons for some reason. The ones I have show that aging is disabled for them so the only way to get them to age up is to move them into an active household via the Ask/Invite to Join Household option. That changes their aging, so they age like played sims.

Hope this helps.