Talking Teenagers

"Babykittyjade;c-17385196" wrote:
To be more clear I only use height slider on 3 specific teens to make them shorter because I don't believe all teens should be short either. In real life teens come all sizes. And to be fair I use it on ALL ages of my sims to get varying degrees of height from average to extra tall including kids and toddlers. Just like in real life. So I would honestly not like teens to come short by standard.

My point was that in sims3 teens did not look like teens face wise as many people claim,in my opinion. And I have an easier time making them in sims 4. I just use the height slider for the three I want to look the youngest and shortest.


However,I would be open to a teen overhaul with many of the suggestions people have here to make them more distinguishable. ?

Oh okay that makes more sense! I think the most "teenagery" teens were actually the Sims 2 teens to be honest, but I liked a lot of the interactions that the Sims 3 brought in for them, especially in generations. I'd still prefer them to be shorter by standard, and then you could height slider them taller if you wanted to. But each to their own... I guess if there REALLY isn't resources for the dev team to make it happen, we will have to look to other ways to make the life-stage unique, deep and interesting.

"CaptainElsa;c-17385177" wrote:
I wrote a long thing about all the things Teens did in previous games but A) moot point, you all know these things and B) regarding the height and being unable to differentiate:

I allow teen pregnancy in my game and there is really no difference between the YA Sims and teens except that the teens can't "Share Big News." Except.... for one mod that has a "I'm too young for this" moodlet that I've seen once after my teen sim was on her third child (turns out she accidentally had the immortal trait so she didn't age and it took FOREVER to understand what was up). I know this lends very little to the discussion except that we shouldn't need mods to make teens be teens.

But pivoting to what COULD be done within the realm of Sims 4...
1) special club activities. We have "play on playground equipment" for kids... there should be activities only teens can do.
2) special lot moodlets. There is a "teen hangout" lot trait-- shouldn't that make a teen feel "hip"?
3) predisposed to social media accounts. It should be way more autonomous for that age group.
4) Prom social events. I mean, come ON.
5) Unique interactions with younger children
6) Unique aspirations.

YES please, especially those unique aspirations. I feel like that would be a relatively simple and easy way for the dev team to differentiate the age group and make it more special. I'd also like some different options for kids too!

"Dianesims;c-17385191" wrote:
Teens deserve better ! Like for instance :

- I want them to sneak out and have parents who actually care when they come home in the middle of the night!
- Slumber parties, sleepovers, prom, unauthorized parties when the parents are away.....
- More traits (rebellious etc)
- Teen aspirations (graduate high school, be popular, you name it....)
- It would be nice if they could just lay on their beds to read, do their homeworks, use their laptop, listen to music.....
- I want after school activities (soccer practice, clubs....)

YES please. Again, those teen aspirations. I'm starting to see a common theme here aha <3