Shoud Univesty come with another age

This is a very interesting question, because obviously Uni is going to take up some of your sims lifespans. I'm hoping they will stop aging when you get to the campus, either that or extend the amount of days the sim is a young adult, that way college and non-college sims live for the same length.

I would prefer they extend the adult age, because I feel that there isn't enough time as an young adult/adult. I usually have my sims have children when they have grown to an adult, and they are elders and dying by the time their kids are in their teens.

I'm assuming the adult phase in this game is similar to the age range 32-55 (varying end age due to fertility)...life span of the average American is 78...so even if you had your kid at 55, your kid would be 23, clearly a young adult and not a teen. Why I'm so picky about this, I have no idea, it just bothers me :#

Going by American terms, College or University is typically 18-23 (or 24 now since it takes more than 4 years to get through.) Granted you have a few a little younger @17 and some prodigies and many students who are now older than 23-24 in college/going back to college, but most of it is still in that age range. To me, that IS young adult.

I think what many countries call University is what Americans refer to as high school - ages 14-18, please correct me if I'm wrong. To me that's teenage. I guess it depends on how to define university. From what Sims 2 and 3 showed it's definitely more the American version.

Please know I mean know offense by comparisons, no abject nationalism or anything, just comparing the same word in two different cultures and how it's represented in the game.

I don't think so but I do think babies, children, teens and elders could use an upgrade

"jcp011c2;c-17018993" wrote:
Going by American terms, College or University is typically 18-23 (or 24 now since it takes more than 4 years to get through.) Granted you have a few a little younger @17 and some prodigies and many students who are now older than 23-24 in college/going back to college, but most of it is still in that age range. To me, that IS young adult.

I think what many countries call University is what Americans refer to as high school - ages 14-18, please correct me if I'm wrong. To me that's teenage. I guess it depends on how to define university. From what Sims 2 and 3 showed it's definitely more the American version.

Please know I mean know offense by comparisons, no abject nationalism or anything, just comparing the same word in two different cultures and how it's represented in the game.

It's a bit different in the United Kingdom and even Scotland and Ireland differ. We are a hotchpotch of types! (Info. From various sites)

Schools in the UK can be ... Faith, Free, Academies, City technology colleges,State boarding schools and private schools. (some called Public Schools for the elite or bursary students, like Eton, Harrow, etc.) I, myself, went to a Grammar school (needed exam pass at 11) and these have been mainly weeded out now.

In the UK, children are required to attend school between the ages of 5 and 16. The overall education system is divided into primary, secondary, further and higher education
Ages 4-11
Children attend primary school (Years Reception to 6).

Ages 11-16
Children attend secondary school (Year 7–11).
At age 16, students take GCSE exams covering Maths, English Language, English Literature and Sciences, and other chosen subjects.

Ages 16-18
Students attend college / sixth form.
They can choose to take A levels, a type of further education qualification, if they want to go to university.

Then University for the over 18's or anyone older with the money to pay for Open University which anyone can apply for and you can study at home.

hth.

No. People typically go to university between the ages of 18 and 21/22 so teen and YA both cover that imo. If they do add another lifestage I think it should be tweens as the jump from child to teen is too jarring (maybe they could do a general education pack instead of just university and tweens could be added for middle schools?).

No need, didnt young adult ranged from 18-25 yo?

No. I don't feel they need too. I feel teen and YA cover university ages 18-23.

I would rather see a tween age, and an age between adult and elder..... there is too big a jump between children and teens and too big a jump between adult and elder,

I rather they focus on a new world and education based game play (maybe teaching as a new job?). Seeing how uninspiring aliens in gtw were I would rather have new life stages/states come in their own dedicated lacks or as a major feature elsewhere

Nah, because that would probably mean you can only go to university at that age, which I hated about TS2. I don't know how university works in the US, or even if we all mean the same thing when we use that word, but where I live, you can get a degree at any age once you've finished regular school; if you didn't have the time or means necessary to start university at 19/20, as most people do, you can still do it at 30, or 40, or even as an elder. I'd like to have the same freedom with university in The Sims.

Also, I don't see the point in yet another adult life stage, let alone one between teen and young adult. They're indistinguishable enough as it is. If something's missing, it's a stage between child and teen, but that has nothing to do with university.