Gameplay question about journey to Batuu

Thank you for asking because I’m also wondering about activities that children can do. I have an idea for a story about a half alien child who is having a hard time fitting in at school. Her mom brings her to Batuu to show her that it is a place of acceptance for everyone, and one of the little droids becomes her best friend. But if I can’t tell that story because children can’t go to Batuu, then I probably won’t buy the pack for a long time.

Also, this is off topic but does anyone know whether the robot bartender in Batuu can be used at other bars? Is it available in build/buy? That would be cool!

"Atreya33;d-981103" wrote:
I don't have the pack yet but am planning on getting it. But I have a question for those who already own it.

- Can any one confirm that you can take children or toddlers along.
- can you take pets with you?
- do sims have a relationship with the droids? Is there any difference between the droids on batuu or at home?

- Can more than one sim go to Batuu?
- If not, does MCCC teleport work to bring in more sims?
- I read sims can only wear Batuu clothes on Batuu, what about accessoires? I don't want my elves, and androids turn into humans for the duration of their stay

I can confirm that pets stay at home. My Alien, Spellcaster and Servo went and tried to bring their robot cat but he was left at home. His needs seem to be frozen so he hasn't gone into distress or anything, which I was worried about, so he's fine.

I haven't tried to bring any children or Toddlers.

"LiELF;c-17652595" wrote:
I can confirm that pets stay at home. My Alien, Spellcaster and Servo went and tried to bring their robot cat but he was left at home. His needs seem to be frozen so he hasn't gone into distress or anything, which I was worried about, so he's fine.

I haven't tried to bring any children or Toddlers.

Thank you for checking. Did the servo look alright on batuu? With all the outfit restrictions on batuu, I wondered how that would go.

"EnkiSchmidt;c-17652368" wrote:

"Atreya33;d-981103" wrote:
I don't have the pack yet but am planning on getting it. But I have a question for those who already own it.

- Can any one confirm that you can take children or toddlers along.
- can you take pets with you?
- do sims have a relationship with the droids? Is there any difference between the droids on batuu or at home?

- Can more than one sim go to Batuu?
- If not, does MCCC teleport work to bring in more sims?
- I read sims can only wear Batuu clothes on Batuu, what about accessoires? I don't want my elves, and androids turn into humans for the duration of their stay

I brought two Sims and a Servo to Black Spire. They can hang out together, play Sabacc in the cantina and get food, etc. When it comes to missions, each Sim has to complete them on their own, from what I can tell, but I still had them all go together to the First Order area for my main Sim's mission. So I'm playing it in a way where one of my Sims is the "hero" character and my other two are the support cast. I believe I can just switch over when I want a different Sim to be the "hero" but I'm not sure if they are all going to be allowed in the Resistance area. I haven't played that far yet.

Only one Sim at a time can use the food rabbit holes because the menu pops up to select what to eat (though you have the option to get a serving size of 4) but the Sims can sit down to eat together either in the cantina or in a little area with picnic benches. Every new food a Sim eats is learned so they can cook it later.

I'll have to check about accessories on Batuu. They might be limited but I can't confirm yet. I think they are, because my Spellcaster was designed to be an Android but I had to pick a new outfit for her and I noticed that her face markings were gone. (I use the RoM starry face sparkles from the "face" makeup section). However, the golden teeth I gave her stayed.

It's also important to note that the CAS.fulleditmode cheat does not work when you're in Batuu. I tried.

You can take children and toddlers with you to Batuu. Unfortunately, there's not much reason to. I didn't have a lot of families in my tray that had toddlers, but I did have one that had a teen, a child, and a toddler, so I put them into the game and had the teen take the child and toddler to Batuu.

I didn't think to check if children can use the Star Wars aspirations, but I suspect they can't. Toddlers don't have aspirations, so that's right out. And the missions are Batuu-specific jobs, so only teens and up can get missions.

There's no playgrounds or anything like that, so toddlers and children can pretty much just do social interactions or dance, at least without modifying the lots.

But you can modify the lots. The bar in Oga's Cantina has a bit of space behind it that's just storing "junk" decorations. I moved that junk around and put in a basement with stairs behind the bar leading down to it. I didn't fully build out the basement, but to make sure my sims could get there I put an item for them to interact with ... the children's violin.

The entire build/buy catalog is available in Batuu. So you can't really have a Star Wars experience for children and toddlers, but if you modify the lots you can add some activities for them. Or you can make a series of rooms and beds under the cantina for sims to stay in rather than using the rabbit holes.

The lot in the Resistance hideout is a camp in the forest, so it might also be a good place to put some monkey bars and swings and other outdoor things for the kids to do.

Honestly, I think the biggest flaw of the pack is that they didn't stop to think what it might be cool for kids to do in Star Wars. But that's been a running issue with TS4 in general, that all of the gameplay is centered around young adults and not much thought is given to what might be interesting for other age groups.

You can take your spouse with you but I would suggest that you do one at a time because of the missions especially if you are doing one with one and one with the other. I based my two star wars characters on the two my boyfriend and I play on SWTOR. She is a smuggler and he is a jedi so he goes with the resistance and of course mine goes for credits p.

Star wars resistance is really not situated for kids if you stop and think about it. They may have to move on a moment's notice.

"tmcevoy1121;c-17652692" wrote:

Star wars resistance is really not situated for kids if you stop and think about it. They may have to move on a moment's notice.

Realistically, sure. But in both Star Wars and the Galaxy's Edge theme park, kids get mixed up in adventures all the time. In the movies and TV shows there Anakin, Cindel Towani, young Boba Fett, all the younglings that Anakin killed, Baby Yoda, etc. In the park, well, if you watch the special on Galaxy's Edge on Disney+ there's a scene with Rey having a group of kids join the Resistance. What you don't see is a doofy-looking white guy in his mid-40s joining the Resistance in hopes that he can impress Rey and maybe get some alone time with her later. Because I wasn't there when they were filming, sure, but also because it's an experience meant for kids.

I doubt there's anything in any of the game missions that involves actual peril to life and limb, so at least in-game they should be perfectly kid-friendly.

I added a standard game table to the Cantina so that when the parents are playing Sabaac, or whatever it's called, the kids can go and play standard cards or don't wake the llama :)

It would have been awesome if there had been a special area for kids and tots. They could have had rides in a spaceship or at least little spring riders like in TS3.

Edit: forgot to say I did take a whole family there. The toddlers danced to the robot DJ and made a mess on the Cantina floor lol.

"Atreya33;c-17652738" wrote:

"LiELF;c-17652640" wrote:

It's also important to note that the CAS.fulleditmode cheat does not work when you're in Batuu. I tried.

I was just about to suggest trying this cheat. Too bad it doesn't help on batuu.

@EnkiSchmidt @Atreya33 I have a correction!

So I went in again and tried it. The first time I had put the CAS cheat in before going to the base camp to choose my outfit and found it limited. But you actually can access full edit mode in CAS, entering CAS by clicking on the Sim, for the purpose of adding or removing traits, for example, but you can't change the clothing restrictions because once back in the game, your Sim is restricted once again to the Batuu outfits.

However, I noticed that when you go to base camp to choose your Star Wars outfit by choosing "plan Batuu outfit", you can access accessories, skin details, face makeup, etc. Clothing remains limited, but you can also choose multiple Batuu outfits by opening the tabs. I did not see Alien heads available for my own Sim, but I believe they can be unlocked through certain missions, so once unlocked, I assume they become wearable. I don't know if the Batuu unlock cheat for CAS (cas.unlockbytag GP09) changes this, I haven't tried.

So even though your Sim is stripped of their accessories upon arrival of Batuu, when you plan your outfit, you should be able to add them back. I just did this with my Spellcaster and put her "full face" makeup back on.