Any hope left for Pre-teens?

"mightysprite;c-18289711" wrote:
To me the children in TS4 already look and act approx age 10-12, basically preteens except that they can't cook independently.

I feel like the lifestage that's missing is the "little kid" stage, like age 6-8.

But I think I am in the minority ;)

I completely agree! I think a new life stage is very unlikely, but if we were to get one, I would very much prefer preschoolers over preteens.

"kusurusu;c-18320776" wrote:
I wonder... would preteens reuse child/teen cas assets (adjusted to their size) or get new ones?

I would have to say they would be a little taller than child but adjust to the size, also the clothing to me since Rainbow core lost to goth core I would like that style clothing be introduced along with Preteens jmo.

"LeGardePourpre;c-18297117" wrote:
Maxis could decide to add Preteen as a phase of the childhood, a transition to teenage.

And also Preschooler phase, Toddler ready to go to school.

Pre-School could effectively be done now. All a child has to be is Potty trained in order to get into Pre-School. The range of toddler is 1-4.

I would love middle school age kids (12,13,14) simply to counter the jarring leap from Child to very tall. Even if that age only lasts three days. EA could have saved themselves all of this whining had they made Teens slightly shorter than YA/Adults with the addition of them gaining the rest of their height upon aging to YA.

I think it would be great to add this life stage, it would make for better game play and more realism for sure. This could be the awkward time when kids start going through changes, hormones, acne, developing breasts, start crushes, boys taking extra long in the bathroom ;) lol
Though I do think there are much more important things needed in the game, like better ability to control sims without having to completely turn off their free will and better build options.

"GalacticGal;c-18322017" wrote:

"LeGardePourpre;c-18297117" wrote:
Maxis could decide to add Preteen as a phase of the childhood, a transition to teenage.

And also Preschooler phase, Toddler ready to go to school.

Pre-School could effectively be done now. All a child has to be is Potty trained in order to get into Pre-School. The range of toddler is 1-4.

I would love middle school age kids (12,13,14) simply to counter the jarring leap from Child to very tall. Even if that age only lasts three days. EA could have saved themselves all of this whining had they made Teens slightly shorter than YA/Adults with the addition of them gaining the rest of their height upon aging to YA.

With me personally the teens could have been shorter but I still would want a preteen lifestage because I recognized Preteens as a Lifestage and it's needed in game. I myself wanted Preteens since Sims 2 and the teens were shorter in that game.

I definitely still think so especially that we got infants, we need a life stage between Children and Teens to fill the gap, Pre Teens are really needed in The Sims 4 and should be a base game update.

I would never turn down more gameplay but I feel like there are things the Devs team could be doing that would have more substance to them than programming the two years that make up 'pre-teens'. Occult stages, cars, burgulars...

It's not impossible, but unlikely.Toddleres were added because the up roar .The strangeness of big leap from baby to child.

Infants were added because babise were stuck in a bassinet.
Both life stages were added because of the game lacking in the stages.

Preteens or earlier teens could come because of the tall teen complaint.

"Horrorgirl6;c-18341454" wrote:
It's not impossible, but unlikely.Toddleres were added because the up roar .The strangeness of big leap from baby to child.

Infants were added because babise were stuck in a bassinet.
Both life stages were added because of the game lacking in the stages.

Preteens or earlier teens could come because of the tall teen complaint.

Maybe if gameplay was added to Teens themselves that symbolised the events of pre-teen - you don't need a completely new stage, just more gameplay to take place shortly after a child becomes a teen.

"Loanet;c-18344273" wrote:

"Horrorgirl6;c-18341454" wrote:
It's not impossible, but unlikely.Toddleres were added because the up roar .The strangeness of big leap from baby to child.

Infants were added because babise were stuck in a bassinet.
Both life stages were added because of the game lacking in the stages.

Preteens or earlier teens could come because of the tall teen complaint.

Maybe if gameplay was added to Teens themselves that symbolised the events of pre-teen - you don't need a completely new stage, just more gameplay to take place shortly after a child becomes a teen.

To me the teens act more mature I was banking on Highschool Years to differentiate teens and ya it kind of did it with a little gameplay but like how I would've liked highschool years to work have teens thinking about their future either going to either universities or getting a career or just not. Also the drama because what's highschool without drama, a game like in Sims 3 and in DU. Getting scholarships, learning to drive thinking vechiles were coming lol.

I want Preteens to add to the lifestage I never expected infants to come into game also I explained a lot of gameplay in these threads for what I from Preteens Sims people agree some disagree up to them but we all just don't know if and how or when they put them in game or not at all.