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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@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.
- @CommodoreLezmo Absolutely agree. We already have a low amount of "Social Events" we can throw, having Prom being one of those instead would have been much better for the pack. We don't even have seasonal parties for the Seasons pack, like Sims 3's Pool and Spooky Parties as an example. Sure, you can make a Holiday where you do those things, but you don't earn anything, and it isn't a party. Would be nice to have more "Events" to plan and throw on our own time, instead of being forced to do them every single weekend. At the very least, Prom should have been 1 weekend out of the entire school year, since that's literally how Prom works IRL. It's once a year, and only once a year. Seems weird that this pack was based solely on the American school system, yet literally isn't. I wouldn't mind a British themed pack instead, because at least that means they most likely don't have Prom every weekend in it lol And I agree with the smoking part. I stopped at 22, and it gave me less headaches than the Sims 4 as a whole. And I've been believing it could get better since 2014, at release. It hasn't. It feels like half-butted effort. The idea is amazing, but it isn't followed through, and that's what's disappointing to me
@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.
I'm back and i can't say why i was away (against TOS). Glad to see this is still being discussed. I can only put the game high school schedule down to two things - either they (the developers) plan on expanding on childhood in a future pack (something i've said before) or those extra two weeks are there on purpose for one of two reasons which both tie into each other - 1) it represents the "leave" gap some teens take between High school and college/University to "explore and experience" or 2) it gives us time to develop skills (max out focused skills and further develop those skills we've neglected for whatever reason) and further strengthen relationships. Either way, the tie in is that we can do those things in #2 anyway during those two weeks. The only other possibility for the extra two weeks is maybe the scouts/extra curricular groups schedule? Having never played that particular angle, I can't say.
