I've been thinking about the lockers in the high school. We have a bit more information now about how to choose sims to send to active school, so now we know that we can send two siblings together, for example. (I'm still unclear from the livestream whether we can also send friends from other households at the same time, but it kind of seemed like not?)However, something that I know many of us have asked, and I don't think it was answered, is how the other unplayed sims that show up at the school are determined. Are they always the premades? What if you delete the premades? Either way, will our teens from other played households ever show up autonomously? Will other random townie teens be generated?So that got me thinking about lockers. If you send your sim to active school one day, and they select a locker, will that same locker be theirs every day they go to school? Or will they have to re-select a locker every day that they attend?If it's the former, and they retain "ownership" of that locker even when they aren't there, could this be the way that the school generates attendees?For example: let's say on Monday I send Luna Villareal to school by herself. She selects a locker. On Tuesday, no one attends active school. Then I switch households and on Wednesday, I send Siobhan Fyres to school by herself. Will Luna still show up, because the locker I selected for her is still tied to her?I'm purely speculating, I didn't see anything in the livestream that would either confirm or deny this theory, but now that it's occurred to me, I think it might be great if it worked that way.

I like your thinking on this. I do know that other Teens don't go to school, if you're not actively playing that household. Which spoils the whole deal with my Teen Global Superstar, who would desire to take his romantic interest to Prom. But, unless I have her move into his household, she likely will never attend high school. This is a huge letdown for me. Their backstory is they met in high school. (Currently, in my Flashback save, they just met at the Karaoke Bar on Sunday night before he won the contest. This launched his career. Almost immediately he became a Notable Newcomer. But Kayleigh has to be in school with him, or it will make things a bit tricky, on the whole high school experience. Ooh, and this thought just struck me like a lightning bolt. I don't mind if I can't control her. She just needs to be on campus. The only thing I can think of to do is to go to her household, send her to school, then get back to my main household and follow Erik to school?

"GalacticGal;c-18150165" wrote:Ooh, and this thought just struck me like a lightning bolt. I don't mind if I can't control her. She just needs to be on campus. The only thing I can think of to do is to go to her household, send her to school, then get back to my main household and follow Erik to school?That was kind of my thinking with the lockers. If you had group of friends you wanted to play through high school together, maybe each one could go one day, one after the other, and select a locker that day, and maybe thereafter they would each be on campus (even if not playable/controllable) on the days that the others attend. (At least for as long as they still owned the locker and were still in the teen lifestage.)

Iirc in the lifestream they said "If you want sims to attend Copperdale High, you have to move them to Copperdale" in response to why no familiar faces were showing up at school like they usually do. I may have misheard though, will need to go back and look for the timestamp.Malcolm I don't remember if he was ever shown in class? He called one of the active sims via phone and then was at the prom, but I think he never attended class.

@EnkiSchmidt I'm pretty sure what they said was "If you want sims to attend Copperdale High for an active day at school, they'll travel to this high school lot in Copperdale to do it."

"GalacticGal;c-18150165" wrote:I like your thinking on this. I do know that other Teens don't go to school, if you're not actively playing that household. Which spoils the whole deal with my Teen Global Superstar, who would desire to take his romantic interest to Prom. But, unless I have her move into his household, she likely will never attend high school. This is a huge letdown for me. Their backstory is they met in high school. (Currently, in my Flashback save, they just met at the Karaoke Bar on Sunday night before he won the contest. This launched his career. Almost immediately he became a Notable Newcomer. But Kayleigh has to be in school with him, or it will make things a bit tricky, on the whole high school experience. Ooh, and this thought just struck me like a lightning bolt. I don't mind if I can't control her. She just needs to be on campus. The only thing I can think of to do is to go to her household, send her to school, then get back to my main household and follow Erik to school?From videos I've watched, it pulls all the teens to the school. I imagine the only way it won't pull her is if there are too many teens in your game to fit on the lot. So maybe just delete some townie teens?

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GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I like your thinking on this. I do know that other Teens don't go to school, if you're not actively playing that household. Which spoils the whole deal with my Teen Global Superstar, who would desire to take his romantic interest to Prom. But, unless I have her move into his household, she likely will never attend high school. This is a huge letdown for me. Their backstory is they met in high school. (Currently, in my Flashback save, they just met at the Karaoke Bar on Sunday night before he won the contest. This launched his career. Almost immediately he became a Notable Newcomer. But Kayleigh has to be in school with him, or it will make things a bit tricky, on the whole high school experience. Ooh, and this thought just struck me like a lightning bolt. I don't mind if I can't control her. She just needs to be on campus. The only thing I can think of to do is to go to her household, send her to school, then get back to my main household and follow Erik to school?
amapola76
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-18150165" wrote:
Ooh, and this thought just struck me like a lightning bolt. I don't mind if I can't control her. She just needs to be on campus. The only thing I can think of to do is to go to her household, send her to school, then get back to my main household and follow Erik to school?

That was kind of my thinking with the lockers. If you had group of friends you wanted to play through high school together, maybe each one could go one day, one after the other, and select a locker that day, and maybe thereafter they would each be on campus (even if not playable/controllable) on the days that the others attend. (At least for as long as they still owned the locker and were still in the teen lifestage.)
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
3 years ago
Iirc in the lifestream they said "If you want sims to attend Copperdale High, you have to move them to Copperdale" in response to why no familiar faces were showing up at school like they usually do. I may have misheard though, will need to go back and look for the timestamp.

Malcolm I don't remember if he was ever shown in class? He called one of the active sims via phone and then was at the prom, but I think he never attended class.
mightyspritesims
Rising Hotshot
3 years ago
@EnkiSchmidt I'm pretty sure what they said was "If you want sims to attend Copperdale High for an active day at school, they'll travel to this high school lot in Copperdale to do it."
telemwill
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-18150165" wrote:
I like your thinking on this. I do know that other Teens don't go to school, if you're not actively playing that household. Which spoils the whole deal with my Teen Global Superstar, who would desire to take his romantic interest to Prom. But, unless I have her move into his household, she likely will never attend high school. This is a huge letdown for me. Their backstory is they met in high school. (Currently, in my Flashback save, they just met at the Karaoke Bar on Sunday night before he won the contest. This launched his career. Almost immediately he became a Notable Newcomer. But Kayleigh has to be in school with him, or it will make things a bit tricky, on the whole high school experience. Ooh, and this thought just struck me like a lightning bolt. I don't mind if I can't control her. She just needs to be on campus. The only thing I can think of to do is to go to her household, send her to school, then get back to my main household and follow Erik to school?

From videos I've watched, it pulls all the teens to the school. I imagine the only way it won't pull her is if there are too many teens in your game to fit on the lot. So maybe just delete some townie teens?
amapola76
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
"mightysprite;c-18150265" wrote:
@EnkiSchmidt I'm pretty sure what they said was "If you want sims to attend Copperdale High for an active day at school, they'll travel to this high school lot in Copperdale to do it."

That was my understanding of what they said as well.
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
3 years ago
@mightysprite and @Amapola76 you are blocked for posting that info before I could correct myself ;) Just for the record it's at 1:10:20 in the video. (Only joking of course, nobody's getting blocked.)
AquaGamer1212
New Spectator
3 years ago
The lockers are only actually owned by active sims. If you click on an already “owned” locker (for example to ask to prom via note) you have to select which Sim owns that locker.
elliebreton
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@GalacticGal how do you know other teens don't show up at the school? I've seen the game pull Malcolm Landgraab in, so why not others?
mightyspritesims
Rising Hotshot
3 years ago
Hahaha at least you got the answers you wanted @EnkiSchmidt :)