Your High School Years Rating!

I'm gonna go with a 7. For all the reasons listed below here, I woulda gone with an 8

"SimTrippy;c-18158975" wrote:
I'd like to say that I was supposed to work late but I'm weak and downloaded the pack anyway when it came out, then played it for about 3-3.5 hours and I haven't really discovered that much yet. I've just been having so much fun having teens that don't bore me to tears. It's actually fun to play a teen now, with their activities and dances, crushes, FINALLY being asked to have relationships (aka random events that I don't have to painfully orchestrate myself), social bunny (yes the texts are repetitive but I love teenagers just out of the blue sending mean / romantic / weird stuff to each other - more random stuff), classes (I don't even really mind that they're not truly active, they are short anyway, and I rarely used these social options in TS3 uni - but I still think they should have added them for those that did), a school day I can join them for, .. . They finally have hobbies and events that are kind of unique to them and boy did we family players need this in our games. It's kinda why I love things like laundry, knitting and vacuuming in my game for elders as well xD

Anyway, TL;DR: does the pack have some issues? Yeah definitely. Is it good? I think most family players will absolutely love this.

But, I do think there are as always a couple of weird missed opps that I do want to detract some points for, most notably:

• No proper integration with Parenthood (why sims team, why?)
  
• I understand us only having one high school, and I'm glad we can edit it, but I think they should have let us decide in which world we want the one high school to be. Copperdale ofc has the football field but we coulda just made it a sports venue or whatever. I don't think I would even use this feature a lot BUT sometimes I play saves mostly in Sulani, and it would be cool to make a more tropical school to fit the vibe, even if it puts teens from Windenburg in the school. This is unfortunately the kind of customization (or at the very least an acceptable workaround) they like to skimp on, and it should be here.
  
• Social Bunny: I like it actually, BUT, the messages are so repetitive. My sim's daughter died accidentally (my bad, didn't know she had rabid fever lol), and my sim was able to post about the death on social bunny but she didn't really get many reactions to it. It would be nice if friends of the family would also post about it, or at least send a DM with condolences. Also, why are there SO MANY messages about pillow fights? Even from adults? I hope they will add in more random sentences bc it seems to be drawing from a pretty small pool of possible messages.