Should sims go through puberty?
I think it would make the game more interesting than just having stages of life.
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I'm in the no camp as well. For one, timing it is very hard, as it starts at like 8 or 9 for some, and not til 14 or later for others, and doesn't happen as a singular event but a slow and ongoing series of visible and not-visible changes and isn't as readily leant to standardizing.
They'd also need to have a different timeline and way of playing out puberty for each sex, and possibly, to be fair, add in an intersex category because let's face it, not everyone is actually even physically neatly binary even though we are a mammalian species and do generally and usually come in male or female, anatomically. So a certain small percentage of Sims would need to be intersex.
Then, to be fair also, there needs to be acknowledgement of the end-game, the midlife hormonal changes and/or declines that affect men and women and intersex people, again, on differing but overlapping timelines, to differing but overlapping degrees...
They could handle it with the same slapdash stereotyping as is done with teen puberty, standardizing it to a shallow formula of: erectile dysfunction, muscle loss, fat gain, depression, and the buying of a little red sportscar for males, and for females, alternating between rage and tears, depression, muscle loss and fat gain also, and unpredictable changes in libido also, and...whatever the female analogue is to the buying of a little red sportscar, in the stereotypes.
I can see lots of reasons to leave it alone.
They'd also need to have a different timeline and way of playing out puberty for each sex, and possibly, to be fair, add in an intersex category because let's face it, not everyone is actually even physically neatly binary even though we are a mammalian species and do generally and usually come in male or female, anatomically. So a certain small percentage of Sims would need to be intersex.
Then, to be fair also, there needs to be acknowledgement of the end-game, the midlife hormonal changes and/or declines that affect men and women and intersex people, again, on differing but overlapping timelines, to differing but overlapping degrees...
They could handle it with the same slapdash stereotyping as is done with teen puberty, standardizing it to a shallow formula of: erectile dysfunction, muscle loss, fat gain, depression, and the buying of a little red sportscar for males, and for females, alternating between rage and tears, depression, muscle loss and fat gain also, and unpredictable changes in libido also, and...whatever the female analogue is to the buying of a little red sportscar, in the stereotypes.
I can see lots of reasons to leave it alone.
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