Shoud Univesty come with another age

Time needs to be frozen anyway.
Let's say a term is a week. That means 56 days to graduation. How long is the lifespan on normal? In 56 days, not only can the Sim you send off age transition, but pets and Sims left at home could die of old age. Toddlers and children would age and you wouldn't have been able to control them. They would not have developed skills or character traits.
Unless time is frozen, Uni is a bad idea in this iteration. :(

Sims don’t age while at college in Sims 2 and 3. I would hope the same would apply in 4. I don’t think the game really needs any other ages, at this point it would be super difficult to make a brand new age that is also compatible with the library of DLC that has already been released.

Sims 2 got away with having a college only life stage because it reused the adult Sim body and the teen Sim voice. It didn’t require any new animation work to be done, but teens and adults already share the same body and voice in 4 so that is no longer a feasible option for a ‘new’ age.

ETA: Teen - elder use same body and voice. Honestly, a new adult-ish age would probably share that stuff too. I just don’t see the point in the bigger picture.

I don't think we need a new life stage especially not one between teen and young adult. The transition between those two is actually very good. While I can see a tween life stage, I don't know what new or different stuff it would bring as far as game play. But I agree that it would be nice to see sims as about 12 instead of jumping from 7 to 16. I also agree that it's jarring to go from spritely adult to hunched elder when people don't age like that. It feels like jumping from one's 40s/50s to 80s when there's 30 years of awesome in between. I work at a preschool so the transition from infant to toddler to child is accurate in that there isn't anything in between these.

I also think a University pack should allow all YA, adult and elderly sims to go to school whenever they want and get as many degrees they want as it is irl. I also like at least allowing teens to take some college level classes since this is also realistic. In the US you can knock out two years of college before graduating high school (at least you can in my state). University should have the option of sending a sim off to classes as if they went to a local school or going on campus with them as if they moved away to school. They should also make careers that require degrees irl need one in game even if they're already currently there (like doctor or scientist). Or at least make it so that without a degree the sim can only go to level 5 or add degree and non-degree paths.

"Qnshr5;c-17022907" wrote:
I don't think we need a new life stage especially not one between teen and young adult. The transition between those two is actually very good. While I can see a tween life stage, I don't know what new or different stuff it would bring as far as game play. But I agree that it would be nice to see sims as about 12 instead of jumping from 7 to 16. I also agree that it's jarring to go from spritely adult to hunched elder when people don't age like that. It feels like jumping from one's 40s/50s to 80s when there's 30 years of awesome in between. I work at a preschool so the transition from infant to toddler to child is accurate in that there isn't anything in between these.

I also think a University pack should allow all YA, adult and elderly sims to go to school whenever they want and get as many degrees they want as it is irl. I also like at least allowing teens to take some college level classes since this is also realistic. In the US you can knock out two years of college before graduating high school (at least you can in my state). University should have the option of sending a sim off to classes as if they went to a local school or going on campus with them as if they moved away to school. They should also make careers that require degrees irl need one in game even if they're already currently there (like doctor or scientist). Or at least make it so that without a degree the sim can only go to level 5 or add degree and non-degree paths.

I think I'm more annoyed that there is no real difference between YA and adult than I am about earlier life stage transitions. (But then, since I fall into the 'adult' category in real life, I'm probably more sensitive to the differences between 25 and 40.) I'd also like my elders who have been active as adults to be less 'old'.

I agree with having education options for every age, and I mentioned before that I'd like to send my teens to college in the second half of that life stage. And options, yes. Personally, I hated college and have never wanted to actively play Sims at university.

im not sure if i want a new age but i do know i'd like to have the ability to change the life span.

"doogerie;c-17021986" wrote:
So no to another age I can understand that so here is another Idea ho would you feel about ageing being turned of if you are a student in university until you graduate? See I want an active lecturer job.

Ageing, I believe, should be completely optional.

I don't think we need an age group between teen and Young adult, but I do agree with @NekoboyGames that and age group between child and teen would be nice.

No. Why would it? We have enough age groups.
Are we still seriously asking for preteens? Preteens are basically just children.

"Rouenpucelle;c-17023904" wrote:
I don't feel the need for another young age group, but I wouldn't mind a new age group between adult and elder.

I would love to be able to send everyone to college, from children to elders.

Children really?

Um no, because college students are young adults and up. And once again, shoehorning in random features just for kicks is so dumb.