High School Years - yes or no?

I am still very weary about high school years. I would only get the pack for the world, the cas and bb. There are two things in the gameplay that I don't like. I have zero interest in the social bunny and don't want hair growth. I know I can disable them for an individual sim but why didn't the devs give us a global on/off switch? I like how they handled fame with an option for all sims and an individual override for individual sims.

For the social bunny I don't want to be forced to to spend time on this. I also dislike the fact that it can change my sims' relationship. If I turn it off for my current sim but not for other households I rotate to, will the social bunny have interfered in their relationships while I do not play them?

Hair growth is a part of reality I don't need in the game. It is bad enough that beauty standards force women to shave their legs in real life. My sims are fine in a world where there is no need for this. Will sims I don't play end up all hairy? Is there a difference between Sims in my household and other households? I don't want an entire sim population with hairy legs.

I could of course spend an entire real life day editing every single sim to turn these off but then it would still be on for newly generated sims...

@Atreya33 I'm not sure about hair growth for NPCs, but NPCs of both genders definitely generate with various body hair presets, including way more chest hair and back hair on women than would ever be realistic.
My saves are weird places anyway, with plenty of occults and ghosts and strange happenings, so I feel like the extra-hairy sims fit in okay, but I do wonder why there isn't a global "disable for random" available on the body hair presets (or hair growth if that's what it is).

Social Bunny affects relationships of sims who are on each other's contact list in the app. If one sim has the app and not the other, or even if they both have the app but neither sim has added the other to their contact list, it won't affect their relationship.

The hair growth is a little off-putting for sure. I prune the population, so it stays relatively small. So far, I've got one hairy townie girl. She certainly provoked me to think about what beauty standards do, because to be fair, I react in similar ways to my own legs when they're all hairy...

It's turned off for active households by default, I believe. You can turn on facial hair growth only if you want, which is kind of nice... but it doesn't seem to work at all for me, sadly.

It's an interesting choice to have as a feature for an expansion. I don't know what to think of it.

"Ciralinde;c-18221931" wrote:
The hair growth is a little off-putting for sure. I prune the population, so it stays relatively small. So far, I've got one hairy townie girl. She certainly provoked me to think about what beauty standards do, because to be fair, I react in similar ways to my own legs when they're all hairy...

It's turned off for active households by default, I believe. You can turn on facial hair growth only if you want, which is kind of nice... but it doesn't seem to work at all for me, sadly.

It's an interesting choice to have as a feature for an expansion. I don't know what to think of it.

It would have been more amusing if they'd included barbers and beauticians.

"JustinB113;c-18221936" wrote:


My only issue with it now is how it affects the townies and how you can’t seem to globally turn it off for townies, or at least you couldn’t. The amount of female students at the high school that had leg hair etc was just a little silly to me.

You're right, you can't turn it off at all for all newly generated townies... I don't quite know why they didn't add the global option, like they did for other features - such as the carbon-footprint from eco lifestyle or opting out of fame pre-emptively from get famous. Women have hairy legs, but it's usually not that thick or that much though. Perhaps they suffer from a hormonal imbalance. Who knows. Not a fan of it though.

"SteveBridger;c-18221937" wrote:


It would have been more amusing if they'd included barbers and beauticians.

I'd like that idea a lot more, tbh.

Highschool works like a career for teens. Teens from any world will go to school when it is time to go to school. You will have the choice to go along, or send them alone and stay in the family home. The highschool is located in the Copperdale world.

"RainKiko;c-18222542" wrote:


The other question I have is people have mentioned the expansion adds things like body hair. Does this expansion make that happen in all lands or just at the high school or in the high school pack?

The body hair shows up in the other worlds, too.

Hi @RainKiko and welcome to the forum :)

The pack adds functions to the regular game, and adds a new world Copperdale. Once you have the pack downloaded, start up the Sims 4 game like you used to before installing the pack. You can play a household you were already playing, or another household, or play one of the households in Copperdale, or create a new household to live there, etc. as you like. You'll notice new things in the game like the Social Bunny and Trendi apps on the phone, Facial Cleanser available as an option on mirror and sink, Pillow Fight available as an option on a bed, etc.

If you have a teen in the household, when it's time for them to go to school (8am on school days) you'll get a pop-up asking if you want to join them at school or send them alone. Joining them will let you play them through their school day, at the high school. The school gameplay is locked to that one particular lot in Copperdale, but teens who live in any world can go to that school no problem. You can modify the school building if you want, by going to Manage Worlds > Copperdale > high school lot > build.

i wanted the pack originally based on the announcement and trailer but i decided to indefinitely hold off on it due to the abundance of reported bugs and my major issues with the gameplay. same deal with my wedding stories.

i hated high school when i went, now i hate it even more. the only reason i tried it, is because i thought it'd be nice to have a high grad pic. on the wall. but grad day is broken, so no pic.