[HSY] Homeless, unplayed teen sims never age up

How is this a problem?  Homeless sims are background clutter.  If they age up and die, the game will just generate another one to fill the gap, or in my experience, another six or seven.  Let them remain static, I'd rather the game not have a reason to roll up any replacements.

My games are so bloated with homeless randos that I go through Manage Worlds and delete 80 or so per sim-week and my game's population is still going up, which bloats my savefile with people who are pear-shaped Child of the Island/Lactose Intolerant/Rancher with nose rings, blonde hair, those stupid shiny eyes from the event and Japanese surnames.

If you're paying attention to them, you should give them a home.  And probably a makeover.

It's a problem because it's a bug in the game.

Have a good day 

It’s also a problem because it would be nice if my current generation sims weren’t hanging out with the same teens their great grandmother knew. The teens at the high school are the peers for my sims, so those are potential friends, lovers, spouses, workmates. They should all "grow up" together and not just be forever teens. They used to age up just fine when HSY first came out, but at some point that changed. I've had this problem for quite a while now. Can’t remember exactly when it started. It’s definitely a bug and it needs to be fixed.

I have discovered that if I place the teens into the (played) My Household tab (without actually playing them) they do seem to age up normally all by themselves on their birthdays. Maybe that workaround might work for others having this problem.

When a teen is part of a not in world household they never become adults. This issue is very annoying because every time my teens age up I need to go around the families and manually age them up. This is made even worse with neighborhood stories because that will move families from houses and put them in not I'm world. The rest of the family will age and die but the teens become effectively immortal.  I dont want the high school populated with the same teens that were there when their grandparents went to school.

If this is expected behavior then it should be a setting.

Is there any update on this?

As someone who plays rationally and through several generations, I find myself having to micromanage and watch which townies have children that age up to teens to make sure they age up myself. Part of the reason I use neighborhood stories and use the age unplayed households settings is to not micromanage and not have to do so myself. Would love if this would be addressed as I read it doesn't not happen if you have HSY installed. 

My own work around is to micromanage who is in a home and make sure teens are always in a home with a family, which limits who can live where, especially with the pesky glitches and issued around the apartments and rentals which means I have less space for sims to live in any given world than I could sans glitches. Much better though than having to manually keep up with who is having a birthday when and marking them all as played. You can also just wait until your done playing with your teen sims and then age any other teens up by marking then all as played. For players who only play short term in a save or with a few families I'm sure this doesn't matter, but I like to see the world around my sim progress without me so this can be frustrating. 

Hey! This has been going on for years and truly ruins the immersion of going through various generations when my grandma's classmate is still in the school cheer team. This needs to be fixed, as there should not be any issues with proper aging. I normally have to go through and either age up every teen on their own, or place the family in a lot, which ultimately ruins the neighborhoods I am building. This means I have no space for the families that I actually want living there because I am accommodating for an EA bug. And this is very frustrating. Thank you. 

Teen Sims do not age up automatically to Young Adults when aging is enabled, but only under very specific conditions:

The Sim is in the Other Households section

The Sim is homeless (not living on any lot)

When both conditions are met, even if the aging bar is completely full and the birthday has passed, the Sim will not age up. However, if that same Sim is either: Moved into a residential lot
or Moved to My Households, they will immediately age up if their age bar was already full.

Expected Result: Teen Sims should age up to Young Adults automatically when the age bar is full, regardless of household section or housing status, as long as auto-aging is enabled.

Actual Result: Teen Sims in Other Households and without a home do not age up, even when the age bar is full. They only age up the moment they are placed into a house or moved into My Households.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create or obtain a Teen Sim (via CAS, adoption, in-game birth, or pre-made Maxis household).
2. Move them to Other Households and leave them homeless (not placed in any lot).
3. Enable aging and wait for their aging bar to fill.
4. Observe that they do not age up automatically.
5. Move them to a lot or to My Households.
6. Observe that they immediately age up.

Additional Notes: The issue does not occur with: Infants, Toddlers, Children, Young Adults, Adults. The bug occurs regardless of how the Sim was created (CAS, in-game birth, adoption, pre-made Maxis family).  It's unknown whether this is base game-related or tied to a specific pack. All tests were done with no mods or CC installed. tested on new save. Game was repaired via the EA App. The following files were deleted before testing: ReticulatedSplinesView, localthumbcache.package, localSimTextureCache ,lastException.txt, onlineThumbnailCache

screenshots: When MCCC was used, the affected teen Sim displayed unusual age values such as: Teen (286–84). This shows the aging system has broken for that Sim. in the other screenshot teen Sim in Other Households and homeless, with aging bar full and birthday passed, still not aged up. (Mods deleted)

i think my comment was taken here when i had a similar report. here it was written that this problem is related to hsy, and I tested it (with james turner's disable packs tool). i did the same test on base game and just by closing the hsy pack, leaving the other packs open. yes, this problem only occurs with hsy