A few months later, do you think High School Years enhanced your gameplay?

I quite enjoy the game play but it's the same thing each week, exams and prom every week. Why is there a prom every week? Doesn't prom happen before graduation? I'm from the UK and from a time when proms weren't massively tradition over here.

We should be able to customise school events to the calendar like formal dances, Spring dances. It annoys me when a pre-prom meeting pops up every Saturday during game play or story telling.

Graduation seems bugged. My last two teens that aged up never got a graduation invitation on the nearest Sunday after aging up and the teens that aged up before that had three graduations for three Sundays!

It is okay, I guess. So many people requests the packs to follow the kiddos to school. I am not sure what people were expecting which is why I was always against following them to school. They have to go to class, which is boring watching them sit there and take notes. The lunch hour is what it is. After school activities are what they are.

I follow them to school just to give me a break from the parents and allow my teen sims to meet other teen sims. I do like the prom, I just wish it was like every other Saturday. Graduation is a little buggy as well. I wish the high school diploma was a bit more personalized.

I am curious about others expectation of the pack. EA met my expectations because Sim time moves fast so there is not much they can do in a school day.

"keekee53;c-18234090" wrote:
It is okay, I guess. So many people requests the packs to follow the kiddos to school. I am not sure what people were expecting which is why I was always against following them to school. They have to go to class, which is boring watching them sit there and take notes. The lunch hour is what it is. After school activities are what they are.

Class could have been way more engaging, though. You could have let your sim pull pranks or disrupt the class, have random events happen, have different types of classes beyond the ones where you just sit and write, let players answer questions to get extra credit in class, and being able to choose what sort of classes you take. We could have gotten field trips. And afterschool activities could have been more interactive and even have competitions, since football, cheerleading and chess all have competitive scenes in high school.

The thing is, it's one of the packs I was the most excited for of all time and it really delivered. It was everything players could ask for basically. The only real problem I have encountered is that the entire routine is starting to wear on me.
I built my dream school, I befriended all my classmates, I even started some clubs (from the get together EP, I think) like The Best Friends Club where we meet every day after school and do homework at my house and gossip and try on clothes. It's cute, it's realistic, but it's almost... too realistic. Every day but saturday, sunday and holidays are a bit of a drag now that I've done all there is to do at school. I'm a straight A student, I have attended every prom, pulled infinite pranks, fooled around, had sleepovers, got detention... every week. I don't want to age up because then I can't be in the best friend club anymore and I don't want to graduate early because I like spending some leisure time at the school using the facilities there.
I've been trying to mix it up a bit, yesterday I brought a kitten to school with me to show my friends. They liked it, but they are already obsessed with me because of how fast social bunny moves the friendship gauge.

I enjoy it.

"keekee53;c-18234090" wrote:
It is okay, I guess. So many people requests the packs to follow the kiddos to school. I am not sure what people were expecting which is why I was always against following them to school. They have to go to class, which is boring watching them sit there and take notes. The lunch hour is what it is. After school activities are what they are.

I follow them to school just to give me a break from the parents and allow my teen sims to meet other teen sims. I do like the prom, I just wish it was like every other Saturday. Graduation is a little buggy as well. I wish the high school diploma was a bit more personalized.

I am curious about others expectation of the pack. EA met my expectations because Sim time moves fast so there is not much they can do in a school day.

I had pretty high expectations and was very disappointed sadly, I expected something that involved the player more, things like active classes and real after school activities, discover University had organizations and I thought that we would see something similar here.

The pack made me lose interest in the game quite a bit actually, it did not really enhance my gameplay because there was so few parts in that pack that required any player engagement and each week felt the same.

As someone who wanted a teen/school EP for years I find HSY such a disappointing pack.

There are less gameplay choices available to you if you follow your Sims to school, than if you let them disappear for the day and control them via the pie menu. The fact you can't even select work hard/slack off/nap/talk to friends while playing the active school is absurd.

I like the idea of the pier but for me it's ruined by the lack of a customisable lot. Rabbithole rides would be fine if you could add other things for Sims to do.

There is a lot I like in the pack, like the build/buy, the streaming and pillow fights, but the rest is just so lacklustre that it puts me off wanting to play it.

Not really, but I haven't been a family player. Going to school with the kid is something I am not that interested in; when I do it is mainly for skill building. I wish we could build a school in any world, and I find the notices for football, prom, etc, to be annoying.

edited to add: the CAS and world are nice and the BB is just great. I waited and bought it on sale.