They Showed Up at High School?

Stina1701A​  Thank you for liking my post on another thread.  It led me here to forward the "like"; I also learned more about HSY that I started contemplating on adding to my library yesterday.  

My game is at the 13th generation and there are a lot of cousins in my game. I've never seen a relative in school with my teens. Also, I had one HS graduation ceremony when the HS pack came out, I never saw another. It's been so long, that when I saw it mentioned here I remembered it existed.

You're not alone on the graduation thing. I've only experienced it once and I also have had it since its release.

Thank you, that is good to know!

In all fairness, I should say I do play with mods. One or more could be interfering. The save I was playing only uses the MCCC mod.

I play with no mods and no CC.

A lot of the game's "filters" that determine which sims are "eligible" to fill positions exclude households marked as "played". Sims in "My Households" are excepted from showing up as vendors and such.

The HSY Student filter specifies that it wants "Unimportant Sims" only, which often excludes played households. The point of that is to prevent your storylines you're telling from potentially being damaged by having Sims show up places they shouldn't be. Whether or not that makes sense for high school I'm not sure.

It's possible played household Sims only get called for High School if there aren't enough "unimportant sims" to fill the rest of the classes. The game may be saying "use unimportant sims first, and then played teens, and then generate new teens if not enough sims are available".