High school years
Do you still take your teens to prom and school or do you just forget it lol. I just ignore the whole thing now.
Forum Discussion
Tons of questions re this pack - I added numbers to make it easier to comment on just a few :)
I can't decide whether I should get the HSY pack on the current sale - only 38%, but maybe it takes forever getting to 50% ... but - I want the world, but the pack comes with a few features I don't really fancy that much. So, I wonder how badly those features will affect my existing households and game outside of Copperdale.
1. Not to happy with micro playing like shaving and growing hair or whatever (my sims hardly cook food because their day is to short anyway). We got a teaser with a patch, causing CAS to randomly giving females a hairy chest. I need to fix that in CAS, but if the pack tries to add body hair to most of my in game sims, I'd go crazy. Is there a toggle off, or is it not as bad as I think? From a video I got the impression that sims "get a chance" to grow facial or body hair and that it can be toggled off individually. That sounds like a massive job thinking of my 640 sims, but if only a few get affected, maybe his is a smaller problem that I think?
2. I'm not very interested in playing all the personal/sexual/preferences which the game got lots of content for over the past couple years. My save is more traditional and will stay that way (I just don't want all RL aspects in my game). I think most of this came with HSY, but I might be wrong. Will this pack cause the game to spawn NPCs to be males with female body frame and vice versa, or will it still be up to the simmer to decide these things as desired in CAS?
3. Having crushes might be cute if it happens rarely, but from what I read in the past crushes got out of control, including parents asking to be their child's BFF or even their prom date. Were these things addressed?
4. I will probably not be a busy Social Bunny user. Will it still cause tons of popups re when others posting something for my sim to read? Was it fine tuned to have less impact than it had at release? Some cell phone (too many) idle animations were patched to base game already, so maybe I already got the major share of it... I just worry for getting tons of popups from a service that I don't plan to use.
5. I already made some high schools in my game (requires some pretending, but I'm fine with that), will I be able to replace some of them, or is the feature restricted to this Copperdale or to just one high school per save?
6. Do students have a private room at high school (boarding)? Or do they travel every day?
7. I read that the sports arena behind the school is quite restricted. I've seen cheer leaders practice there, but that is most likely programmed animations linked to their group meeting. Is it possible to walk on the grass, or to run courses when going there alone? Or is the entire ground inaccessible?
8. I will probably not follow my teens to school beyond testing it (and maybe I'll like it enough to follow some of my future teens occasionally). Will a student's grade be negatively affected by not being "followed" to school? Will a D student now risk being expelled? And can A students achieve "early graduation" even if they are not followed to school? Or will that be just like before, sending students off to school and outcome mainly depending on how well prepared they were?
9. Can cheer leading be a freetime interest even if I don't follow teens to school, and can it be performed outside Copperdale (either practicing or performance)? Can my Oasis Springs teen join another local teen to practice cheer leading? I assume you can win something if your cheer leading group does well, but how much time would that take? I mean, playing on rotation my teen could probably gain fun from it, but there might not be enough time to ever reach the top. Is cheer leading restricted to Teen lifestage?
10. I will not play those Influencers designing new trendy outfits etc. It looks like a NPC is involved with it, so I wonder if the trendy outfits can be ignored at all? Will NPCs walk around in silly outfits if the NPC influencer succeeds? How will it affect my game?
11. Pictures from the photo booth - what can you do with them? Is it mainly about new "crazy" teen animations? Are they too small to go on the wall? Can they be added to the postcard corkboard?
Haha, sounds like I'm far far off the target group for this pack, which explains why it is the only EP I did not yet purchase. I think I will like the world, the pillow fight and photo boot seems good, plus I like the chance of getting expelled or graduate early. And, I can always use a proper high school for story telling.
I can't decide whether I should get the HSY pack on the current sale - only 38%, but maybe it takes forever getting to 50% ... but - I want the world, but the pack comes with a few features I don't really fancy that much. So, I wonder how badly those features will affect my existing households and game outside of Copperdale.
1. Not to happy with micro playing like shaving and growing hair or whatever (my sims hardly cook food because their day is to short anyway). We got a teaser with a patch, causing CAS to randomly giving females a hairy chest. I need to fix that in CAS, but if the pack tries to add body hair to most of my in game sims, I'd go crazy. Is there a toggle off, or is it not as bad as I think? From a video I got the impression that sims "get a chance" to grow facial or body hair and that it can be toggled off individually. That sounds like a massive job thinking of my 640 sims, but if only a few get affected, maybe his is a smaller problem that I think?
2. I'm not very interested in playing all the personal/sexual/preferences which the game got lots of content for over the past couple years. My save is more traditional and will stay that way (I just don't want all RL aspects in my game). I think most of this came with HSY, but I might be wrong. Will this pack cause the game to spawn NPCs to be males with female body frame and vice versa, or will it still be up to the simmer to decide these things as desired in CAS?
3. Having crushes might be cute if it happens rarely, but from what I read in the past crushes got out of control, including parents asking to be their child's BFF or even their prom date. Were these things addressed?
4. I will probably not be a busy Social Bunny user. Will it still cause tons of popups re when others posting something for my sim to read? Was it fine tuned to have less impact than it had at release? Some cell phone (too many) idle animations were patched to base game already, so maybe I already got the major share of it... I just worry for getting tons of popups from a service that I don't plan to use.
5. I already made some high schools in my game (requires some pretending, but I'm fine with that), will I be able to replace some of them, or is the feature restricted to this Copperdale or to just one high school per save?
6. Do students have a private room at high school (boarding)? Or do they travel every day?
7. I read that the sports arena behind the school is quite restricted. I've seen cheer leaders practice there, but that is most likely programmed animations linked to their group meeting. Is it possible to walk on the grass, or to run courses when going there alone? Or is the entire ground inaccessible?
8. I will probably not follow my teens to school beyond testing it (and maybe I'll like it enough to follow some of my future teens occasionally). Will a student's grade be negatively affected by not being "followed" to school? Will a D student now risk being expelled? And can A students achieve "early graduation" even if they are not followed to school? Or will that be just like before, sending students off to school and outcome mainly depending on how well prepared they were?
9. Can cheer leading be a freetime interest even if I don't follow teens to school, and can it be performed outside Copperdale (either practicing or performance)? Can my Oasis Springs teen join another local teen to practice cheer leading? I assume you can win something if your cheer leading group does well, but how much time would that take? I mean, playing on rotation my teen could probably gain fun from it, but there might not be enough time to ever reach the top. Is cheer leading restricted to Teen lifestage?
10. I will not play those Influencers designing new trendy outfits etc. It looks like a NPC is involved with it, so I wonder if the trendy outfits can be ignored at all? Will NPCs walk around in silly outfits if the NPC influencer succeeds? How will it affect my game?
11. Pictures from the photo booth - what can you do with them? Is it mainly about new "crazy" teen animations? Are they too small to go on the wall? Can they be added to the postcard corkboard?
Haha, sounds like I'm far far off the target group for this pack, which explains why it is the only EP I did not yet purchase. I think I will like the world, the pillow fight and photo boot seems good, plus I like the chance of getting expelled or graduate early. And, I can always use a proper high school for story telling.
