What exactly is 'Generations'?

Is there a mod for a boarding school? I would use that.

"crocobaura;c-17713933" wrote:

"Sigzy05;c-17713928" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17713927" wrote:

"Sigzy05;c-17713924" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17713881" wrote:

"Sigzy05;c-17713864" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17713859" wrote:

"catmando830;c-17713855" wrote:
I miss the boarding school.

Was that not a rabbit hole?

Yes, but it was still fun to role play as a strict parent and send your teen kid to a military school. Plus, it was a way to avoid their teen dramas, although they'd get a bit ???? about it.

Lol, that's not very funny. You could still make a military school if you want and move your sim child out of the household for a while. I think Strangerville has a lot big enough for a school. :)

Why isn't it funny? And that is not the same at all.

Boarding schools had their benefits, sims would learn skills on their own and some other stuff.

Put them in clubs where they can learn skills.

Again very different. And we have to control the clubs. Not really understanding your issue with this feature.

You don't need to control a club. If you visit places where they meet, they show up and do their thing. I don't have an issue with this feature, I just don't like rabbit holes. They were overused in TS3.

Well too bad because TS4 is capitalizing them again, just look at the Batuu pack. But anyways, I think rabbit holes can make sense when used properly. This is a case where I think it makes sense, because you're sending your kid to a far away boarding school.

Okay, I found this mod for private school, like in TS2: https://www.itsmetroi.net/post/sims-4-private-school-mod

And here is how to build one w/o mods from the Sims Community: https://simscommunity.info/2017/10/27/how-to-add-boarding-schools-to-the-sims-4/

Admins if this is not allowed, please forgive me, and remove.

"elelunicy;c-17713504" wrote:

"@So_Money;c-17713482" wrote:

"TamakiSakura84;c-17713477" wrote:
Generations is a family player's dream pack.

Some of things included:

• imaginary friends
  
• prom
  
• daycare active career
  
• slumber parties
  
• bachelor/bachelorette parties
  
• teaching teens to drive
  
• canes for elders
  
• midlife crisis
  
• boarding school
  
• strollers
  
• treehouses
  
• weddings
  

? Wow. I didn’t play much TS3 but this list really puts in perspective how lacking TS4 and its expansions have been.

Lol TS3 was a game in which you needed to buy Generations just to have wedding cakes and wedding arches, something TS4 had in the base game since day 1.

That may very well be, but it doesn’t change the fact that we still don’t have most of those features in TS4.

I really hope they do Generations in TS4.

Generations had a lot of rabbitholes, yeah, but it added a lot of spontaneity to the game that's felt a bit lacking with S4. (It also added memories, spiral staircases, bunk beds and treehouses, so it was affectionately loved for those if nothing else.)

I really liked the ability to choose what school my kids could go to (if they passed the tests and interview! Impressing the headteacher of the elite school was always a nightmare), because I could influence what skills, traits and habits my children and teens would inherit as they aged, and you could focus on the lives of your older sims whilst the game took care of the underage ones. Introducing (non-optional) 'active' boarding schools would be a nightmare in S4 if you've got more than one child/teen in a household AND you want their guardians to advance in a career at the same time - S4 is really, really bad about giving you good control of sims off the active lot. S3 boarding schools made rabbithole schooltime productive, unlike... 90% of the S4 school experience atm. Parenthood does some things similar to these, but it requires active gametime rather than something that happens automatically whilst the child/teen are in their rabbithole.
Schools did random regular FIELD TRIPS.

I really loved the random events that happened at rabbithole prom. You could ask a date, go with a friend, or go alone. You could get picked up in a limo, or run/drive/ride your horse there instead. You could embark upon a romance (if you went with a date), get into a fight, and/or get voted Prom King or Queen. There was always at least a two week cooldown between proms, though, other than that, they happened randomly on the days at the end of a week. An active prom event in S4 would be pretty nice. ;w;

Additionally, it was nice to have milestones in a sim's life marked with more than a birthday or wedding party. Sims had a graduation ceremony from high school! There were bachelor/bachelorette/engagement parties! Sims could have a midlife crisis - potentially spurred on by the past-curfew teen house party going on over the other side of the open world, or the slumber party upstairs that just got the police called on you because the pillow fight/music got too loud.

(The undeletable imaginary friends and walking cane speeds were annoying though.)

"elelunicy;c-17713504" wrote:

"@So_Money;c-17713482" wrote:

"TamakiSakura84;c-17713477" wrote:
Generations is a family player's dream pack.

Some of things included:

• imaginary friends
  
• prom
  
• daycare active career
  
• slumber parties
  
• bachelor/bachelorette parties
  
• teaching teens to drive
  
• canes for elders
  
• midlife crisis
  
• boarding school
  
• strollers
  
• treehouses
  
• weddings
  

? Wow. I didn’t play much TS3 but this list really puts in perspective how lacking TS4 and its expansions have been.

Lol TS3 was a game in which you needed to buy Generations just to have wedding cakes and wedding arches, something TS4 had in the base game since day 1.

But then Sims 3 came with babies toddlers teen sized teens cars and personalities so there's that

"Sigzy05;c-17713832" wrote:

Yeah well, TS3 had personality from day 1....and open world and a color wheel for skin tones, and toddlers, and garages, and pools, and ghosts and family trees, etc...so....don't really try and mock TS3 when 4 is an even bigger disgrace.

People can mock TS3 as much as they want want @Sigzy05 because nothing can be bigger disgrace than the game that can't even save. TS3 is the rock bottom. Sorry, TS3 fans, but it is. Any developer who prioritise "more content" over optimisation is a lunatic.

"Shachaai;c-17714159" wrote:
Generations had a lot of rabbitholes, yeah, but it added a lot of spontaneity to the game that's felt a bit lacking with S4.

This is what I love when I play the Sims 3 is the randomness of it all. I don't even have generations installed in my game and I still get random things happening. Sims 4 doesn't seem to have hardly any of that and it's a shame.

> @TomasGrizzly said:

> Canes for elders sound good on paper but they walked so slow that they needed over an hour of game-time to cross a 64x64 lot. If you wanted to only send them between the fridge, bathroom, and bed - okay. If you wanted them to actually do something that involved moving more than 10 squares... take a week off.
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> (Edit: typos)

Yup, canes were insanely bad. I was dead set on roleplaying, but I had to give the canes up after a few days, because it just made them SO SLOW. In general I think Generations are a rather overhyped expansion pack. It's not bad, all the ideas are cute, but so many of them just didn't really influence the gameplay. And boarding schools sound cool in theory, but in practice it just meant having your kids leave and age without getting to play them.

The prom was rabbit hole-y but cute. The graduation was just annoying.