How intrusive is High School Years?
With the recent sale High School Years is 50% off. I have avoided this pack for a long time and have zero interest in teens. I personally enjoy playing supernaturals but from time to time also familie...
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1. Body hair used to be quite a problem on born-in-game NPCs aging up to teen, in that there was a really disproportionate amount of body hair on teen+ girls and women. It was a bug, reported fixed in the December patch.
2. Crushes happen randomly during friendly interactions. They are only for teens. They happen in accordance with your sim's sexual orientation (including that you can get some surprises if you have the "exploring" setting on). The pink bar doesn't appear on its own, but your sim gets sentiments about the crush. NPCs can have crushes and the accompanying sentiments too. They can also think about their crushes, or try to get over crushes. Cool thing: writing about the crush in diary (doesn't require parenthood) builds teens' writing skill really quickly :)
3. Social bunny builds green bar quite significantly over a period of a week or two, passively, with anyone you're social bunny friends with. The constant flashing light on the UI can be annoying. I've never had any major negative effects on relationships from social bunny, just small minuses from time to time (no sentiments) that are easily overcome by the constant build of the green bar. Yes, it needs to be disabled for each played sim. I usually have it on for teens (to simulate the intense bonding of teens with their friends) and then turn it off when they become young adults.
4. Planned holidays not starting? That's a new one on me. I did find a bug report here but it appears to only affect 2 players? https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/S-Scheduled-premade-Holidays-don-t-start/m-p/12279253
5. Also a new one on me, but there were other bugs related to expulsion that have been fixed.
6. Here's the current list of open HSY bugs. There are quite a few. Several of the ones marked Needs Saves are imho player misunderstandings of game features, but I can't be sure. To me the most disruptive is that NPC teen classmates of my played sims often fail to age up on their own.
Aging/Death/Urn/Gravestone
Homeless, unplayed teen sims never age up
Aspirations
Admired Icon: can't 'Make 10 teen Friends' with Incredibly Friendly
Autonomy
Teens randomly stop taking exams
Body Hair/ Acne
Facial and Body hair don't grow according to settings
Servos have interactions for body/facial hair
Career: Work From Home
Video Game Streamer: Not getting paid when working from home
CAS Asset
All but one swatches of this top is faulty
Certain outfit cause deformed Fingers/Nails
Flared Feminine-Frame Jeans Appear Warped
Excessive Use of something
Constant pop up messages asking to prom or to be bff’s
Graduation
Early graduated teen cannot join a university organisation
Graduation event dissapears after editing lot from World Map
No Diploma at Graduation, Principal Missing
Teen that graduated early can't join E-sports or Sports Teams
Teenage uni students can't tutor
High School
Can’t follow teen sims to highschool
Cannot Claim a Locker
Sim is stuck on C student despite acing all exams
Teen Sim drops out of school upon aging up instead of graduating
Teens don't attend class/White Board shows Career
Interactions: Objects
Clean Whiteboard not available in interactions
Interactions: Sims
Prom Social Interactions disapeared
Lots/Premade Houses
Loud Speaker requirement not recognized if non-default color
Moodlets
Sim without a crush keeps getting crush related moodlets
Underprepared moodlet but daily task is complete (homework)
Notifications
Team result notification appears as Fair notification
NPC Relationship Questions
Already married Sims ask another Sim to marry them
NPCs ask other Sims regardless of age/rel status to become GF/BF/BFF
NPCs/ServiceNPCs
Stand Workers Invading my house
Outfits/Appearance/Voice
NPC Sims never wear their everyday outfits at school
Teens don't loose acne when aging up to YA/No way to cure
Photobooth/ Ice Cream Vendor/ Ferris Wheel/ Vending Machine
Cannot take photo with others at Photo booth on Plumbite Pier
Photography
Selfies and Take picture with not centring properly
Prom/Graduation/NPC Invites
Can't 'Dance With Someone' at Prom / Can't achieve 'Gold' Event Rating
High School Prom not taking place
Never invited to parties
Prom not appearing in calendar/Prom works anyways
Won't Travel to Prom
Relationships
Romantic Relationships with all Sims/ Disregards sexual orientation
Science Fair/Sports Day
Graduation Not Showing on Calendar - Prom Works
No Judge in Chess Science/Sports Fair
Sentiments
Teens Enrolled in College Get Resentful About No Prom Invite Sentiment
Skills
Llama's Lair Success Giving No Reward
Sneak Out
No option to sneak out on ground/ask permission
Social Bunny
Adult posting on social bunny about teen related events
Horse/Cat/Dog Has a Social Bunny Account
Sims can send Flirty Social Bunny Messages To Teens and Relatives
Sims sending DMs to themselves on Social Bunny
Social Bunny app freezes my game
Social Bunny app stays on x minutes
Social Bunny Can’t Post
Social Bunny No Followers/Not increasing
Social Bunny only offering limited stuff to post about
Still Yellow Dot on Social Bunny Notifications are turned off
ThrifTea
NPCs order from Thriftea and don't drink/leave
Trendi
Can't Wear Trendi Outfits From Inventory
No Fashion Choice/ Outfit type filters for Trendi Outfits
Residential Rental: Tenants can't send items on Plopsy/Trendi
Video game streamer/Simfluencer
Sim won’t make lifestyle product review Simfluencer career
Video game streamer career: Unable to livestream unreleased game
from https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/READ-FIRST-Compiled-list-of-reported-Issues/m-p/11673025#M223852
2. Crushes happen randomly during friendly interactions. They are only for teens. They happen in accordance with your sim's sexual orientation (including that you can get some surprises if you have the "exploring" setting on). The pink bar doesn't appear on its own, but your sim gets sentiments about the crush. NPCs can have crushes and the accompanying sentiments too. They can also think about their crushes, or try to get over crushes. Cool thing: writing about the crush in diary (doesn't require parenthood) builds teens' writing skill really quickly :)
3. Social bunny builds green bar quite significantly over a period of a week or two, passively, with anyone you're social bunny friends with. The constant flashing light on the UI can be annoying. I've never had any major negative effects on relationships from social bunny, just small minuses from time to time (no sentiments) that are easily overcome by the constant build of the green bar. Yes, it needs to be disabled for each played sim. I usually have it on for teens (to simulate the intense bonding of teens with their friends) and then turn it off when they become young adults.
4. Planned holidays not starting? That's a new one on me. I did find a bug report here but it appears to only affect 2 players? https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/S-Scheduled-premade-Holidays-don-t-start/m-p/12279253
5. Also a new one on me, but there were other bugs related to expulsion that have been fixed.
6. Here's the current list of open HSY bugs. There are quite a few. Several of the ones marked Needs Saves are imho player misunderstandings of game features, but I can't be sure. To me the most disruptive is that NPC teen classmates of my played sims often fail to age up on their own.
Aging/Death/Urn/Gravestone
Homeless, unplayed teen sims never age up
Aspirations
Admired Icon: can't 'Make 10 teen Friends' with Incredibly Friendly
Autonomy
Teens randomly stop taking exams
Body Hair/ Acne
Facial and Body hair don't grow according to settings
Servos have interactions for body/facial hair
Career: Work From Home
Video Game Streamer: Not getting paid when working from home
CAS Asset
All but one swatches of this top is faulty
Certain outfit cause deformed Fingers/Nails
Flared Feminine-Frame Jeans Appear Warped
Excessive Use of something
Constant pop up messages asking to prom or to be bff’s
Graduation
Early graduated teen cannot join a university organisation
Graduation event dissapears after editing lot from World Map
No Diploma at Graduation, Principal Missing
Teen that graduated early can't join E-sports or Sports Teams
Teenage uni students can't tutor
High School
Can’t follow teen sims to highschool
Cannot Claim a Locker
Sim is stuck on C student despite acing all exams
Teen Sim drops out of school upon aging up instead of graduating
Teens don't attend class/White Board shows Career
Interactions: Objects
Clean Whiteboard not available in interactions
Interactions: Sims
Prom Social Interactions disapeared
Lots/Premade Houses
Loud Speaker requirement not recognized if non-default color
Moodlets
Sim without a crush keeps getting crush related moodlets
Underprepared moodlet but daily task is complete (homework)
Notifications
Team result notification appears as Fair notification
NPC Relationship Questions
Already married Sims ask another Sim to marry them
NPCs ask other Sims regardless of age/rel status to become GF/BF/BFF
NPCs/ServiceNPCs
Stand Workers Invading my house
Outfits/Appearance/Voice
NPC Sims never wear their everyday outfits at school
Teens don't loose acne when aging up to YA/No way to cure
Photobooth/ Ice Cream Vendor/ Ferris Wheel/ Vending Machine
Cannot take photo with others at Photo booth on Plumbite Pier
Photography
Selfies and Take picture with not centring properly
Prom/Graduation/NPC Invites
Can't 'Dance With Someone' at Prom / Can't achieve 'Gold' Event Rating
High School Prom not taking place
Never invited to parties
Prom not appearing in calendar/Prom works anyways
Won't Travel to Prom
Relationships
Romantic Relationships with all Sims/ Disregards sexual orientation
Science Fair/Sports Day
Graduation Not Showing on Calendar - Prom Works
No Judge in Chess Science/Sports Fair
Sentiments
Teens Enrolled in College Get Resentful About No Prom Invite Sentiment
Skills
Llama's Lair Success Giving No Reward
Sneak Out
No option to sneak out on ground/ask permission
Social Bunny
Adult posting on social bunny about teen related events
Horse/Cat/Dog Has a Social Bunny Account
Sims can send Flirty Social Bunny Messages To Teens and Relatives
Sims sending DMs to themselves on Social Bunny
Social Bunny app freezes my game
Social Bunny app stays on x minutes
Social Bunny Can’t Post
Social Bunny No Followers/Not increasing
Social Bunny only offering limited stuff to post about
Still Yellow Dot on Social Bunny Notifications are turned off
ThrifTea
NPCs order from Thriftea and don't drink/leave
Trendi
Can't Wear Trendi Outfits From Inventory
No Fashion Choice/ Outfit type filters for Trendi Outfits
Residential Rental: Tenants can't send items on Plopsy/Trendi
Video game streamer/Simfluencer
Sim won’t make lifestyle product review Simfluencer career
Video game streamer career: Unable to livestream unreleased game
from https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/READ-FIRST-Compiled-list-of-reported-Issues/m-p/11673025#M223852
