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Interesting to know. Thanks for that.

On a related note; in Sims 3, I created a father and teen son. Then to just see what happened, I had the father go into a bedroom and then removed the door. Eventually the dad died and the teen was the only one left.

Since teens can't do full-time work, he tried to make money as a musician. That wasn't going to pay the bills though so he invited an adult over and tried to get him to move in. That was a fail too.

Out of frustration, I had him call the adult into the same bedroom that his father had died in. Once more, "he" removed the door. Morgan died in there the next day. This started a very disturbing storyline for this teen. After a sizeable cemetery was made, I quit the game.

"Stormkeep;c-18053736" wrote:

"Darstep0301;c-18053726" wrote:


Technically, a teen can not own a house. A adult must be present for a teen to be in the house. As in CAS the Y.Adult is the one we are initially able to create bc it has the ability to be a home owner. Moreover, if a elder dies, and a teen is the sole resident after that death, the game will after a few turns remove it from the home.

That's actually not true in TS4 anymore. Teens can own houses on their own with no adult present in this version of the game. Children (or younger) cannot, but teens can.

How does the teen pay the bills and go to school?

"PenguinFoop;c-18053752" wrote:

How does the teen pay the bills and go to school?

There are jobs for teens in the game which they work outside of school hours. They can also do all kinds of the other methods of earning money the game has available (gardening, music, etc.).

If the bills are high and there was no good trust fund left behind by the parents though, it can be a struggle. Makes it fun though.

"Stormkeep;c-18053754" wrote:

"PenguinFoop;c-18053752" wrote:

How does the teen pay the bills and go to school?

There are jobs for teens in the game which they work outside of school hours. They can also do all kinds of the other methods of earning money the game has available (gardening, music, etc.).

If the bills are high and there was no good trust fund left behind by the parents though, it can be a struggle. Makes it fun though.

Yeah, that last part is what concerns me. I guess like in real life it would probably force the teen to age up prematurely... (obviously under the influence of the player, not the sim.)

"PenguinFoop;c-18053764" wrote:

Yeah, that last part is what concerns me. I guess like in real life it would probably force the teen to age up prematurely... (obviously under the influence of the player, not the sim.)

In the save I played before my current one, I started the game as a teen. He lived on an empty lot (no house), and had to do things like visit a gym or spa to take a shower, use food stands or kitchens on community lots to eat, nap on park benches, etc.

Eventually he earned enough to get a tent, then to start building a small house, etc. Bills are super, super low if you are on a small lot and don't own anything. :lol:

That's an interesting challenge... Rags to Riches: Teen Tears to Triumph

I've played teens without adults before. On normal lifespan, the teens only have to pay bills twice before becoming young adults. They did it either by having part-time jobs, by using the savings left by their deceased parents, or by gardening. In all circumstances they made good use of the school vacation days.

"mightysprite;c-18054157" wrote:
I've played teens without adults before. On normal lifespan, the teens only have to pay bills twice before becoming young adults. They did it either by having part-time jobs, by using the savings left by their deceased parents, or by gardening. In all circumstances they made good use of the school vacation days.

That's only twice if on regular lifespan, right? I only play on super-extra-extremely-unrealisticly-massivly long lifespan.

"PenguinFoop;c-18054459" wrote:

That's only twice if on regular lifespan, right? I only play on super-extra-extremely-unrealisticly-massivly long lifespan.

Yah, on regular normal lifespan it would be twice. I use normal in my game, and the teen lifestage is 14 days on normal.