Why is Prom happening every single week??
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.90 What expansions...
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EA_Cade
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Community ManagerHiya @NyxValkoinen
Prom occurs each week in High School Years.
As this is by design, I've moved this from the Bug Reports forum to the General Discussion and Feedback board.
@EA_Cade But this is breaking Long gameplay. My Teen sims can only go to school for 4 weeks. The rest of the calendar is completely empty, and they're no longer going to school. Why are teens called teens when you make them adults by default?
- @NyxValkoinen I think I may have an answer. As this is an american-based game, the prom feature appears to combine both the "prom" concept and the end of year dance concept into the one feature. It's like with the football feature - except there, every week is a different aspect (1 week - throwing practice, next week, speed trials, etc). Hope this answers your questions.
- @taffster74 But that doesn't make sense. Prom is only once a year, and for older students (which of course doesn't work in EA because age doesn't actually exist, so that's understandable). And an end of the year dance would be end of the year, not weekly. If the football is meant to be different, that would make more sense for it being weekly, but it's not. It's just a festival every week, with nothing to do in it. if it was like actual afterschool club, it would have more options that change each week, which I would gladly accept for that.
Considering that Long lifespan teens cannot go to school after 4 weeks, this completely breaks the game for anyone playing the Long lifespan. Even with Prom being weekly, which still makes no sense, at least allowing Prom for EVERY week would fix the issue. Since Teens cannot get full time jobs, go to college, or have/adopt children, there is nothing left for them for half of their lifespan. This pack was promised to function for all lifespans, not just Normal- @NyxValkoinen I think when playing with long lifespan, a week is roughly equivalent to one year - roughly. So it does make sense to have prom every week. However, this does not carry over to the football event - but that maybe because of schedule crowding - possibly. As to the extra two weeks? Well, by the American schooling system, a person is still in middle school when they begin their teens and High school only covers ages 15-18 unlike the rest of the world where high school is ages 13-18. Why that wasn't factored into the pack - who knows. It may be part of a plan for a future pack exploring all school years? Anything is possible with the sims.
- @NyxValkoinen wait what?? what's this about going to school for only 4 weeks? D:
- @siirysiir This is my other issue with High School Years on a long lifespan ☹️
- @CommodoreLezmo this is huge and why haven't we seen any documentation on this? Like what does this even mean for people who play rotationally?
- @siirysiir School is only 4 weeks total. Meaning that on Long span, teens do not continue going to school after those 4 weeks. At least, not for me, and I tried multiple times with multiple different teens. So for the rest of the Long lifespan, they just exist. No school, but can't get a full time job, can't go to college already as a teen, etc. It feels like if you managed to get a mod to stop teens from going to school entirely, like something for a Rags to Riches for them or something. But this isn't a mod, it's apparently an "as intended feature" of the new pack... Even when it makes literally zero sense.
