Advice on High School Pack Please

Pack wise I have not had any major issues but I stopped playing in the school and the school events. There was an issue with the update where CC beds were not placeable from build mode. The only way to fix is to redownload, this will only work if the CC creator fixed the bed on their part.

I only bought the pack around Black Friday, and there are a lot of features that are either broken or buggy.

-Grades will not go up or down while they are in school. You have to send them to school alone for their grades to go up to a full A, B, C, D or F level.

-Grades are just glitchy in general. My "bad" sim kept skipping class and pulling pranks, and yet he was still getting good marks.

-The social media app is fun, but your sims will just message themselves for some odd reason.
The amount of notifications for it is a bit annoying too, so feel free to deactivate it.

-Certain Wants for skipping class don't go through for some reason.

-Prom is way too short, and it's hard to complete all of the goals in time.

-Sims will just randomly leave class to go talk to themselves in the mirror or eat.

-Fears are repetitive and too frequent. There are too many Wants for listening to music stations on the radio.

-The Loyal trait is buggy.

-The infamous mean bug. Sims without the mean or evil trait will be randomly unkind to other sims.

-Too many sims asking to be your best friend. If you reject them, you get a bad sentiment with them.

I'm sure other people have more to add. The pack is OK, but the pack and the update have made the game a bit too buggy for me.

I haven't looked for any mods yet, since I'm hoping the December update fixes some of these issues.

I have pretty much a mod for every bug what is not fixed regarding HSY.
Im not talking of general bugs now, only related to pack.

I never had the "Sims will just randomly leave class to go talk to themselves in the mirror or eat." bug above, no mod for it either. My sims stay seated till class ends and eat at lunch-hour or after school from vending machines. Exams are different, then my sims have got up sometimes too early.

my mods are
-for more students in school (18)
- for game to pick more likely player made teens to spawn in school than premades. ( I know there is a mod to select your school buddies, but I dont want to micromanage that much)
- longer proms
Bug fix mods:
- few tiny fixes for bugs I have not seen, but took the mods anyway, lol , not remembering now what.
- fix for the grades not rising if in active school all the time.
- no situation clothing (not actual bug, but....)


School will become boring if using default one, and just doing the school stuff.
I have add lots of objects in my own school, teens have so much to do there , often I dont have time to do all.

It was not so my thing before it was released, still is not. but I do like the world, and TOTALLY love cas/build/buy.

I used some mods for some bugs and bad/weird game design.

• When teens are doing the exam there is a bug where they just get up and leave, LittleMsSam have added a mod to fix that.
  
  
• Sims that visit the Thrift Store are wearing situational clothing that looks absolutely awful. NateTheL0ser have a mod which removes that.
  
• The Thrift Store will send a notification every day that they have updated their available clothes. Why you get it everyday I have absolutely no idea. Enkidu has a mod which removes that.
  
• Teens for some reason are most of the week wearing situational clothes in high school, not their everyday clothes. NateTheL0ser have a mod which removes that.
  

Other things that can be good to know:

• If you get expelled and then enroll again, users have said that you often get expelled right again.
  
• Teens can get an option to graduate early, but users have said that often messes things up when they want to find a job or go to university, it's often better to just graduate normally.
  
• Prom happens every week.
  
• Without mods, you can't choose which teens that will follow you to high school.
  
• Since you mentioned that you haven't updated before HSY, Maxis have added Wants and Fears and they are very repetitive and can't be disabled because of a bug, you have to disable them with mods.
  
• Maxis also caused another bug which are causing sims to be mean constantly to each other, this doesn't happen to all people (it seems to be related to Snowy Escape, if you have that pack then you probably will be fine), they have said that this will be fixed in December.
  

Here is the current list of open bugs in High School Years, from
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/READ-FIRST-Compiled-list-of-reported-Issues/m-p/11673025#M223852


Teens randomly stop taking exams (Varasek)
Uninvited Sims entering homes to ask to be best friends (Sixpence2)
Facial and Body hair don't grow according to settings (pjmonster16)
Sims come home from after school activity when on another lot (leeb626)
Sims can't ride together (wades_wiilson)
Can’t follow teen sims to highschool (BreeJean97)
Cannot Claim a Locker (GothamSimmer)
Randomly Expelled/Teen gets expelled from daily (momomelissa)
Sim is stuck on C student despite acing all exams (DopeySims)
Teens don't attend class/White Board shows Career (Sninja96)
Clean Whiteboard not available in interactions (Wndblwz)
No option to sneak out on ground/ask permission (JaffaYogini)
NPC relationship questions targets active Sim instead of intended (forensicgeek)
NPCs ask other Sims regardless of age/rel status to become GF/BF/BFF (PositivelySIMful)
Relatives ask to marry (digitalblush)
Cannot take photo with others at Photo booth on Plumbite Pier (ranmafan)
Teens don't loose acne when aging up to YA/No way to cure (brigidnouveau)
Selfies and Take picture with not centring properly (Roseadoodle)
Cannot plan goaled events on Fridays and Saturdays with teen in household (cosumeu)
Can't 'Dance With Someone' at Prom / Can't achieve 'Gold' Event Rating (BlackHotChocol8)
High School Prom not taking place (myeolchi)
Never invited to parties (RealEstate0fMind)
Prom not appearing in calendar/Prom works anyways (redglasses004)
Romantic Relationships with all Sims/ Disregards sexual orientation (Nightside-Rush)
Graduation Not Showing on Calendar - Prom Works (jadbart)
No Judge in Chess Science/Sports Fair (Lumiasta)
Adult posting on social bunny about teen related events (s65j2f5xgtu9)
Sims sending DMs to themselves on Social Bunny (Henalexandre)
Social Bunny app stays on x minutes (kneeshlowe99)
Social Bunny No Followers/Not increasing (juicylucy73)
Social bunny won't let me add contacts (r4lnjdzsfjpd)
Still Yellow Dot on Social Bunny Notifications are turned off (crinrict)
NPCs order from Thriftea and then immediately leave (N0T_RiS)
Can't Sell on Trendi (armp10)
Can't Wear Trendi Outfits From Inventory (blushymae)
No Fashion Choice/ Outfit type filters for Trendi Outfits (crinrict)
Video game streamer career: Unable to livestream unreleased game (JaffaYogini)

I haven’t really had a lot of problems with the pack.

I’m using mods to give me control over things that the game didn’t give me (adding more students, cafeteria worker, choosing the students that will show up at school). I stopped doing things that are glitchy or boring ( prom, graduation, career day). I ignore or remove things I find very annoying (social bunny, thrift store). There isn’t much in the pack to recommend.

I don't have a problem with High School Pack because I only play Vanilla. ;)

I haven't had any issues, but I usually don't.

@logion thank you for saying who has made the mods you use, this is very helpful for me to know where to look.

Does anyone know if there is a mod to stop the best friend requests?

If you deactivate the social media app, does that stop it across the game for all households?

Is there a mod to choose prom day instead of it being every week? If not, does it stop you having events on the same day as prom?