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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I'll answer this based on my experience. I play rotationally with a lot of sim households rather than with one house or one legacy.
1. Body Hair: I have noticed it on newer sims that have been added to my game. Some of them pre-date this pack and so aren't affected so it surprised me a little bit when I would add a newer sim and suddenly, they would grow a beard or a teen girl would need to shave her legs. CAS.fulleditmode is your friend if you don't want it. I have been in there to switch it off and sometimes I just leave those sasquatches to shave in the shower. You can shave any of it with the shower or sink. You may need to edit some new sims though.
2. Crushes: These pop up during interactions with other sims and are a bit like sentiments in how they appear. You as the player do not determine the crushes but you can go into the control panel for the sim where there is a panel about their romantic orientation and preferences. You can use the settings to determine the sim's orientation. As for crushes, a sentiment pops up and the sim might feel romantic around the object of their interest but you can act on that or ignore it. Actually, they tend to get crushes on whoever they are dating which is nice. They can develop multiple crushes so getting one crush does not limit them if you want them to pair up with someone else.
3. Social Bunny: You receive notifications and you can participate or just entirely ignore it. I do have my sims use Social Bunny. They sometimes have moods about things that happened online or want to talk about it with friends. You could entirely ignore it. You can also gain new friends through Social Bunny by adding acquaintances. You can also message other sims with it.
4. Sims can plan holidays. I just added more new holidays recently to my calendar. I think this must have been resolved in terms of how it is described.
5. I have never had a sim that was kicked out of high school so I don't know this one. If a student is expelled in real life, they can't re-enroll either though so that sounds accurate. Sims with good grades can be offered early graduation which is what I've encountered.
6. I don't think I'm aware of too many bugs in HSY. I may have encountered a glitchy experience with trying to get sims to ride the carnival rides. Generally, it has worked. There was one time where it didn't seem to. I can test it again sometime because I've been playing in Copperdale lately.
Not mentioned but I do actually like Copperdale as a world so far. The high school is pretty basic but I think it's meant to be generic so you can customize it or tear it down for something new. They went with a basic style in which you could be playing in a historic time period from about the mid-century through to today. I might even like it about as much as Brindleton Bay. I just end up wishing that I had a few more lots there, but I like it. I have gotten other packs on sale for mainly the world, clothing and objects so I do not judge.
Also if you want to age teens up, go for it. I have done it but right now I'm running a chaotic boarding school to age numerous teens together simultaneously. It is fun with HSY because there is more for them to do and I can follow the group to classes.
1. Body Hair: I have noticed it on newer sims that have been added to my game. Some of them pre-date this pack and so aren't affected so it surprised me a little bit when I would add a newer sim and suddenly, they would grow a beard or a teen girl would need to shave her legs. CAS.fulleditmode is your friend if you don't want it. I have been in there to switch it off and sometimes I just leave those sasquatches to shave in the shower. You can shave any of it with the shower or sink. You may need to edit some new sims though.
2. Crushes: These pop up during interactions with other sims and are a bit like sentiments in how they appear. You as the player do not determine the crushes but you can go into the control panel for the sim where there is a panel about their romantic orientation and preferences. You can use the settings to determine the sim's orientation. As for crushes, a sentiment pops up and the sim might feel romantic around the object of their interest but you can act on that or ignore it. Actually, they tend to get crushes on whoever they are dating which is nice. They can develop multiple crushes so getting one crush does not limit them if you want them to pair up with someone else.
3. Social Bunny: You receive notifications and you can participate or just entirely ignore it. I do have my sims use Social Bunny. They sometimes have moods about things that happened online or want to talk about it with friends. You could entirely ignore it. You can also gain new friends through Social Bunny by adding acquaintances. You can also message other sims with it.
4. Sims can plan holidays. I just added more new holidays recently to my calendar. I think this must have been resolved in terms of how it is described.
5. I have never had a sim that was kicked out of high school so I don't know this one. If a student is expelled in real life, they can't re-enroll either though so that sounds accurate. Sims with good grades can be offered early graduation which is what I've encountered.
6. I don't think I'm aware of too many bugs in HSY. I may have encountered a glitchy experience with trying to get sims to ride the carnival rides. Generally, it has worked. There was one time where it didn't seem to. I can test it again sometime because I've been playing in Copperdale lately.
Not mentioned but I do actually like Copperdale as a world so far. The high school is pretty basic but I think it's meant to be generic so you can customize it or tear it down for something new. They went with a basic style in which you could be playing in a historic time period from about the mid-century through to today. I might even like it about as much as Brindleton Bay. I just end up wishing that I had a few more lots there, but I like it. I have gotten other packs on sale for mainly the world, clothing and objects so I do not judge.
Also if you want to age teens up, go for it. I have done it but right now I'm running a chaotic boarding school to age numerous teens together simultaneously. It is fun with HSY because there is more for them to do and I can follow the group to classes.
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