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AaronRulz78
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3 years ago

Well I already want to start over with my teen

So planning for the HS pack, I imagined having a well off family in a nice house and two kids (teen and child). Usually I always do some sort of rags to riches gameplay but I wanted to focus on my teen and not the parents struggling to make money. So I built a nice big house from scratch and moved in my family, cheated the parents careers to Top 8 level of both Lawyer and Chef and my teen male and child female sim. After one day of playing, I'm already overwhelmed even when I try to ignore the parents because of their needs (as well as the child). I wanted a child so she can grow up to teen and I can play a different type of teen with her thats different from her party animal older brother. Should I just kill off the parents? lol.

Whats the consensus here? Are you playing a big family or you just have a teen and one parent? I'm thinking about what to do.

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  • Thanks for the tips. I decided to go into a whole new direction with my family. My original teen was the typical male teen in football club and wanted to be popular but I found that to be boring. So I created a new family with more of a computer geek / musician / skater boy kinda guy. He lives with his elderly grandmother and younger child sister. This gives me the freedom to concentrate solely on my teen since grandma is unemployed and will spend her time in the knitting chair. haha.
  • I brought my Cantrell family back to a temporary Flashback save. I made Aaron, the eldest a YA, so I have only Erik and Joey as Teens. Brianna is a Child and Adrian is a Toddler. The family is filthy rich (why do they use the term filthy?). I play with on autonomy, which helps me wrangle large families and I follow the Teens to school. This story is primarily about Erik's high school days, so I pretty much let Joey do his own thing. In fact, it was Joey who showed me there was a basement at the school. Art room, plus a gym of sorts.
  • I made a teen Bella from one of my timeline game save that I had saved in my library. She's now in my Testing Game save as a teenage Cheerleader.
  • My teen is the son of a rich, wealthy family and is expected to follow the family business...lawyer firm, largest in San Mushino. Jasper lives in a house alone, but is trying to earn money on his own, which he is good at. He grows oversized crops and sells and earns a nice little chunk of change. Jasper is emancipated, but still wants to stay in good graces with the family. Jasper's education is everything to him right now as soon he will be attending Britechester, a pre-eminent law school.

    I wasn't even going to buy this pack, no interest in a whole pack dedicated to teens? But I bought and I'm glad I did...what a hoot! Personally I think the devs hit it out of the park with this one. Same thing happened when Eco Lifestyle was announced, and now it's my fav. B)
  • Mine are two very different teens living in a foster/home stay situation. None are related.
    I want to begin afresh with them though because of a few bugs. Like the ‘everyone is now famous’ fiasco and an incident involving bursting in and inviting to prom when the NPC already had a date with the other foster sister.

    Besides, I have a better idea how the pack works and these Sims personalities now…

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