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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@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
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.
Well scheduling prom so I can enjoy rotation play and deciding on life events in a life simulation game seems not to be possible.
Really poor design choices throughout this pack. Prom should be an event the player plans. I play on long life span with new years eve to new year's eve being a full year. it'd be nice to schedule prom at the end of summer. It annoys me some players are like "you can just ignore prom one week and not go". For a player who plays with seasons and relies on the calender/ holiday feature in their gameplay heavily. Not being able to plan holiday events on a Saturday is game breaking. Love the items just wish I could disable everything but the items and go back before the update. If it weren't for build/buy and cas I'd disable this pack through Origin. I said after My Wedding stories I'd be strong and stop buying Sims 4 content, I caved obviously but I mean it this time. Quitting smoking was easier than quitting Sims 4 content. And being honest smoking was less damaging to my mental health. My own fault for having hope in this game and belief it could get better.
@taffster74 , High school in the U.S. is actually 4 years, and for most students it is for the years aged 14-18. Of course, there are some exceptions depending on when a particular student's birthday is, or if they are really smart and skipped a grade, or had a really hard time and had to do over a grade, but usually high school is for ages 14 through 18. 🙂
- @PugLove888 I know it's four years. But I have a feeling the age grouping's vary from state to state hence you get preparatory high-schools which cover 17-18 year olds which then means normal high school covers 13-16 year olds. Don't worry, It's just like it down here in Australia. In most states/territories high school is from ages 13-18 but in the ACT, high school is 13-16 years old then you go to either senior college (17-18 years old) or CIT (Kind of like a community college) depending on what you want to do after school.
