How To Make TEENS More Interesting in The Sims 4 *they are so boring by default*
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Hey friends! Welcome back to another episode of taylor talking about The Sims! In today's video we are going to be talking about ways that you can make The Sims 4 teens more interesting :D
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We really need Teen Aspirations (have young love? be a rebel? get into college? (teens should be able to apply for college, btw, I hate that we have to wait)). EA dropped the ball when they gave children their own Aspirations and then gave teens adult dreams. We need Elder Aspirations too, EA!!
Just so you know, teens can apply to college. It should be available on the computer as they get toward the end of their teen life phase
There is a mod tho where teen have these exact aspirations and more !
@@vanessadalpiaz6423 What?? I had no idea!! I thought we could apply for scholarships but not for college.
@@digthewarmth it's abt 1 week before their ya birthdays on normal lifespan (p sure it's same for oth lifespans but can't confirm!)
Modders have definitely fixed this, problem, just like they’re done for SO MUCH ELSE IN TS4. Love Modders, they absolutely MAKE the game for me.
Teens need a ‘Crush System’ *in the base game* .Maybe when a teen looks at anyone, in their sentiments, there could be a sentiment like ‘First Crush’ or ‘Breathtaking Crush’. There could also be a flirty or happy moodlet like ‘They are so cute’.
I also (while I’m here lol) think we should be able to apply preferences. What I mean is who your sim likes. If your sim likes boys or girls or both etc. You could do 50/50, or more one sided etc. So with the crush system mentioned earlier, it’d kinda mesh well together.
So these are kinda needs I, well, need in The Sims *base game*
I like how you bolded the words base game to stop us crazy moddin' folk from being like bUuUt ThHheres a Mod foOr ThAaat, which is there is by the way but still, the bold writing made me lol.
*dont say the mod name dont say the mod name*
@@cosmoisntavailable But I want to know! I don't want to wait years again for EA to listen us!
@@Aqua-vf3jr slice of life and wonderful whims together work amazingly :)
@@cosmoisntavailable Thanks! 💗💜💙
If you have Parenthood, it's a fun challenge in teenhood to try to get one of the 5 character values into the dark red zone so that your teen develops a bonus bad trait when they become young adults. It's fun to add some realism that all of us develop bad habits that we carry into adulthood.
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This sounds fun, but what can I do so it goes down?
Unrelated, but The Sims 4 need “personal funds” so you can easily track/see how much money each Sim has made
Definitely! Roommates shouldn't all be sharing money.
Can’t you use the safes from Get Famous? Maybe get a safe for each sim?
I think there are mods for that!
@Kat Jordan oh :( I'm sorry I didn't think about that
Yes!!! I usually keep track in my notebook 😂
The fact teens look almost exactly like young adults actually really grosses me out ngl. I can never tell the difference which feels so wrong on so many levels. It’s ick.
It's so strange!
this!!! They're basically the same but shorter and have one less trait
@@Kaywireee are they even shorter??
@@jadamaexd5007 They're not, they have kind of a smaller frame but same height :
That's how most teens are irl though? I stopped growing around 16, and by 10th grade all the boys in my class were 180cm+
A lot of teens do look like adults and that's okay, it just doesn't mean that adults can date them, and that's how sims works.
Having a friend group is essential to gameplay with teens! I will usually create 2-3 households with other kids and teens that my kids and teens can be friends with, and have crushes and first dates with.. and sometimes their first heartbreak.
Get Together levels it up too! I recently had a teen that had 4 other friends in a dance group. I made them a studio to practice and had them perform places too. So fun!
Wait I want to make a dance studio! That’s such a fun idea!
Tip with homework: The study spot lot trait (comes with university I think) makes sims complete homework almost twice as fast! (So does an adult sim helping a teen with homework)
I always set up a homework club too, all the kids in the house can do homework together & help each other with projects and homework & it helps social while they're at it.
I accidentally got my teen pregnant because I had mods installed. But now my plot line is juicier. She’s really athletic, and was a straight A student. But now her grades are slipping a little and her mom just had another baby the same time as she had hers.
We should have an abortion option
@@BarbieBizarree there is with certain mods.
I actually knew a girl who had her son like 2 months before her mom had a baby. Super sweet girl, but it definitely made highschool more difficult.
@@BarbieBizarree if you're a PC player, they have mods that allow abortio
@@BarbieBizarree try wicked whims or lumpinous pregnancy overhaul
Sims 4: What teens think they are
Sims 3: *What teens actually are*
Honestly, I feel like what’s really lacking with the sims 4 is that there is no wants or fears. Even if the whims were more impactful, that would be nice. I have almost every pack, and there is so much stuff to do, but zero motivation to do those things unless I specifically remember it exists and choose to do it. Nothing about it really feels like the activities are being organically incorporated into gameplay.
Exactly. I literally have to research what you can do with each pack from time to time, because all the features are poorly implemented and easily forgettable. It doesn’t feel like an ecosystem of options… especially since sims will just want to use the nearest computer or watch tv. They never really have any depth or individual characterization, but rather feel like mannequins, which is not funny because everything is always predictable. Moreover, the world itself doesn’t ever challenge you; for example most romantic interactions are usually successful, which makes relationships stagnant; and aspirations are terribly easy and feel more like tutorials and checklists than actual life motifs that affect your sims. The lack of any kind of memory system is terrible, because, for example, when a partner cheats, sims will forget about what happened as soon as you recover the relationship, and it’s like nothing has ever happened. It’s boring because it’s very limited in possibilities, and what is added through expansion packs is never planned to be coherent to other contents. Packs are thought of as standalone addons and not as fitting jigsaw pieces that will eventually make up a bigger image…
The likes and dislikes update helped me A LOT with my teen gameplay. I create teen-only clubs based on the hobbies my sims like and pretend it's a school club, so I use names like "Highschool's Art Club" or thigs like that, and I create or modify a lot specifically for the club, for example i added a bunch of instruments to a museum for the music club, or a stage on a park for the drama club. I also set an schedule, usually everyday after school I start a club reunion for a few hours and let my teens rest during weekends. If they don't have any hobby I randomize their likes and dislikes so they get assigned one. I also do this with children sometimes :D It's what works the best for me because they make new friends with the same hobbies as them. Also if the sim has strict parents you can put them in a club they hate and pretend they're being forced to do it.
I really love that you focused on possibilities within the vanilla game instead of mods. I am not one for modding, not even cc, so it's really great to have a content creator think of ways to make the game more interesting within its own possibilities. Thanks for the input, I love your ideas!
Yessss!! Same :)
Yeah and there are people like me who play on consoles
What I like to do with my sims that are scouts is create a club with only scouts so I can take them all on a camping trip!
Instead of postponing their aspiration, I switch them up a lot. Teens don't really know what they want, plus you get aspiration points. What helps having more teens is waiting for some of the townie to have babies before my Sim does.
I so everything else you said and wholeheartedly agree about the teens pack. If anything needs a refresh, it's them.
I agree! You could give them an aspiration for teen stage, keep it for young adult, then change it when they become an adult.
@@suzanneczapracki6558 I change their aspiration every couple of days or so because this easily gives them points without cheating since the first tier is usually easy to do, and then, once they become an adult (if I play them that long), they have a headstart on their real aspirations. I switch up the adults, too, because some aspirations (like being popular) don't really feel like a "life goal" to me. They feel like graduated whims. I started doing that because I found that I was completing goals that I could get points (rewards) for.
They should bring prom back for teens, they could put prom into the calender so we can choose when they go to prom but it should be for teens only or for 1 of your individual teen Sims because you might have more than 1 teen but only want 1 teen to go
I thought the idea of having their own aspirations is a good idea and it would be a good idea if teens could have their own money so they can earn it before they age up and move out and be able to have a job that you can work on from home for example selling paintings or selling knitting clothing or objects
They should do after school activities where you choose a skill for them to focus on and they gain 1 skill level every time they do a class but we choose the day or days they do the school activities on
Create an event on the calendar title Prom that involves whatever activities you want. Make a public venue that meets what you envision for a Prom. Have a club for your teens and for Prom night, edit the club activities to what you want happening at Prom.
When the event comes up on your calendar, invite the whole club to hangout at that venue that night, and voila'.
@@co8008 for the base game The Stylist Influencer is allowed to work at home.. only career I’ve seen thst allows it
"Teens are the same as young adults in The Sims 4" OMG so much this! Sure they go to school and have to do homework, but they literally have nothing in the game just for them. Kids get beds and toys that only they can play on. Teens get... umm... everything the adults get. I would LOVE if EA added some teen only hangouts. How about an arcade that was just for teens? Or a teenage "make out" spot. Or a teen night club. I would _love_ to be able to make a lot for just teens - no adults or kids allowed!
I love these ideas! Recently I realized I've never had a teen plan a party. Parties are a huge thing when you're that age, whether you go to them or not, so I'll definotely get on that. Another tip is to use clubs heavily. It adds so much ambience when I'm taking a sim to the bar and all of a sudden the local teens show up, get drinks and start tearing up the dancefloor.
One of my favorite save files that I play is a unique world where every sim family is based on a theme like a fruit, stone, drink, or color. I got the idea from reading a webtoon where the three main leads were (Straw) Berry, (Pear) Pierre, and (Walnut) Wally.
In my save file, one family's last name is "Tea," so everyone in the family is named after a tea drink like the patriarch Earl Grey, his wife Lady Daisy, the daughter Jasmine and the son Black. They start off as teens and go to school (club hangouts) where they learn hobbies and have high school romances.
Another family that I heavily play is the Blossom family where the parents are separated but get back together once their daughter becomes a young adult. Dad Pear, mom Cherry, and daughter Plum. In this family, they start off as young adults and the daughter starts off as a child and I mostly play it as a single-parent home. The children go to school (club) to finish their childhood aspirations where they also make long-lasting friends and even childhood sweethearts.
The goal is to see how many people will get into university while still keeping their friends. Some people marry within their club circles, while others find love in a random cafe. MCCommand Center made Jasmine Tea marry a cool-looking girl she met in university named Sofie.
Plum and Black get married as they both became teen celebrities (Get Famous) and met at a signing event. They later had three kids named Rose Tea, Lavender Tea, and Mint Tea.
For an added bonus, everyone looked and dressed like how their name implied. For example, Plum has reddish-purple hair and her favorite lip colors are all plum. Her wardrobe has touches of purples, whereas Black has black hair and wears everything black.
Another thing is their home reflects the people living there. When Black lived with his parents, his room had a very modern black theme. Now that he is married to Plum, their home incorporates both colors in a nice blend while still not being too dramatic in color. Neutral colors, such as stones and woods, help in making the home not look too cartoonish. Also, their phones match their names.
I mostly focused on the younger generations when I started this save file and did not really play with their parents. By the way, there were more families like the Stone family, the Gem family, the Weather family (not to be confused with EA's Weather family they introduced when seasons came out), etc., I just really love this save file. What made it fun playing with the kids and teens was all the club hangouts with their friends (or enemies).
This is a fabulous video, Tay! I have two things that I almost always do with teens - I use the club system from Get Together to "make friends". So I will name the club "Group Chat" or "College Prep" or something like that - and have them hang out. ALSO - I let my teens and young adults actually date around! I used to make them fall in love and get married to their high school sweetheart and that's just not realistic for everyone. Spice it up and have a little bit of dramaaaa :)
I give my teens an aspiration for them to finish as a teenager that doesn't really have anything to do with their adult life much to help flesh them out as characters. I had two teens, an older brother and a younger sister, the older brother as a child didn't have many friends, so I gave him the friend of the world aspiration as a teenager and his little sister I gave the club leader aspiration from Get Together since she had lots of friends and liked to go out with her friends a lot.
I don't usually pick my sims future, I let them pick it. Two things I do is play Renaissance as an aspiration or have them do at least the first part of the millionaire one (it keeps track of how much money they add to the family, and they can't move out till they have saved up enough to move out.
I also buy EVERY skill book in the game, ALL Of them. When I tell my kids to go read something they pick their own book and build a skill to me this is THEIR interests. And their career and what not will go off of what THEY like. This can take your game in different directions ALL the time.
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this is really smart, thanks for sharing.
I like to do things to prepare for college with my sims like form "afterschool" clubs (i.e. Research&Debate). It's also fun to send the parents on a couples vacation and throw house parties. I tend to dress my teens more....tacky? lmao Cruel sounding I know but it's to help separate them from more trendy young adults that have figured out their style. Also braces, mods with acne really help too.
About the tacky clothes, no joke its actually really hard to find
While it was actually easy in Sims 3 (tysm to Generations) teen clothes in TS4 is almost too none - even with parenthood installed they're still too kinda mature in my opinion
I love to lean into whims with teens instead of stressing too much about their aspirations yet. They start doing whatever they feel like in the moment and not thinking about the big picture, and I just feel like that's such a teenage vibe. Definitely break curfew a couple times, maybe date and break up just for the drama, y'know teen stuff. It's also an excellent time in life for them to go on adventures like finding the Sylvan Glade (or Forgotten Grotto if they're handy), skinny dipping, rock climbing, snowboarding/skiing/sledding, ice-skating/rollerblading, join/start a club, go shopping with friends (and maybe even swipe something if they're a klepto), have makeover sleepovers with friends and make their whole crew look fresh.
Creating actual teen hangout spots in the world also really makes a difference! They gave us the teenage hangout lot trait so you can populate the area around the lot with teens from around the world for your teen to interact with. Some great lots for teen hangouts are cafés, libraries, parks, clubs, malls, movie theaters, bowling alleys, pools, community spaces, ruins, abandoned haunted houses, graveyards, space centers, run-down graffiti-covered lots, etc.
I built a high school that just has a bunch of skill-building equipment in their respective classrooms (you know the expensive, too bulky to fit in your house ones I'm talking about) and gave it a pool and sports fields as well as a stage, music room, art room, and cafeteria, etc. They can't actually use it as a school unless you use a mod, but it's a study spot and hangout. A great place to come and work on homework and skills or be social. If you create clubs for each of the classes, you can kinda actually have school. Especially if the teacher sims have the Mentor trait.
You could also have them write in journals and stuff (ofc if u have parenthood) but it’s a good way to control their feelings just like in real life 💗
I focus on their relationships with their siblings and parents and cousins. SOme teens just fight through their teen years. I also fully invest in their FIRST mood swing- If they get dark and angsty they have a wearing black for a week, embarrased and tehy don't leave their room for a week. I have my teens spend an entire afternoon calling their best friend over and over again. I have them break curfew
I wish teens had more teen-like desires. I need rebellion, school drama, crushes that don't last, workaholics (in college prep), etc. There's basically nothing other than the "talk about woohoo" interaction 🙄
I love choosing one aspiration when they are an teen and then swapping to a different aspiration when they become a young adult. It so realistic because who really knew what they wanted to do when they were a teen
There's a place that's perfect for a teen hangout. It's in windenburg, on an island. It's really cool bc it's a place in ruins and just makes sense for teens to hang out there! My Sims got married there and it was super pretty and made a lot of sense because they hung out there a lot as teens
This is helpful because I'm playing a legacy style, with longer lifespans, and I'd hate to be bored for like a 20 day teenhood.
I always put all my teens in clubs and have them hang out at the bluffs (where there is pretty much nothing else to do but hang out and flirt with each other). I also recently stopped focusing on aspirations as teens and it is so much better!
The best hair ,in my opinion, is the fringe thing that comes with seasons because it has an option to change their hair to have pink highlights at the ends or something and you can change it back when their parents get mad! I use that hair a lot for teens
For the follow-up to this video, could you pre-record gameplay with your Sims teens where you demonstrate some of these strategies (could add some comic relief as well because, you know, Sims don't always do as directed)? You can talk to us while you show us the fun. Thanks for your content!
That would be great!
This was super helpful thank you!! Something I do is vaguely plan out what sort of a person they are, maybe if they don’t work hard in school, why is that or why do they not have many friends and sort of create them a personality you can’t really create in the game.. I feel like it gives a bit more depth to all of my sims not just teens, and it has helped me a lot actually play generations of sims without getting bored of them :DD 🥰
I totally agree with this. Although I have a couple of ideas myself, my main idea is randomizing. This may not be super specific when it comes to teens however, when I started randomizing all traits (all life stages) it seems to be more fun. I’ll end up with a vegetarian erratic sim and it’s awesome lol
I currently have a child sim who is a vegetarian (randomized) and because that's his only trait that's all he wants to talk about! I thought I was going to be annoyed by it but honestly it's funnier seeing his family be so done with him now lol
From time to time I have the townie that win the lottery open a boarding school, there are tons of great builds on the gallery, and then I move every teen of my "main" cast of families, usually 3 or 4. I have the parents transfer money to the boarding school lot to "pay" for their education. It is quite fun. Plus it's one of the few situation where the "free love" n.a.p feels right lol.
i was always confused about why ppl thought playing w teens was boring bc teens r some of my favorite to play with, then i watched this video and realized ive been doing all this so thats why i was never bored when playing w them
I've been wanting a teen pack for years now! The Sims 3 just had so much better gameplay for teens.
A teen-focused pack would be great!
Also I like making my teens completely change personality for a bit like they're figuring out who they are but then go back to how they were before, or not lol
I wish they would add a more detailed aging system for TS4. like on the aging chart instead of saying how many days until they age, actually give them ages
1) Do a fake prom: Download a teen prom venue off the gallery. Have all of your teen friends there with you & dance the night away. All Teen prom venues have a photo area, refreshments & dance floor. If it's a night club your teen will be in party outfits!
2) Do a fake graduation: Have your teen's parents, family & close friends all together by throwing a "Dance party" (maybe outdoors or in a gallery teen school) Have your sim take selfies & give your teens a gift for graduation. put a microphone up as if your sim is giving a graduation speech.
3) Do a fake sleep over: Go over your friend's parent's home order pizza & watch movies. If you have the always welcome trait change into your PJ's and ask to see your friend's Sleep wear & make a teen sleep over.
4) Make a teen hangout or download one off the gallery: Junk yard, cemetery, have them ride bikes together.
We have to be really creative for teens because the game doesn't help us at all.
Clubs are everything for me when playing with kids and teens. You have to make sure your teens spend as little time with their family as possible. lol jk
Thank you so much for the tips! I also found that teens really don't have that much time for hobbies and friendships in the game. The one in my save goes to drama club, and everytime he wants to invite schoolmates over after school, I'm like "forget about it you have activity in 30 min". Then when he comes back, all tired and hungry, he gets some leftover and does his homework, the day's over. Now I'm thinking I'll have him quit the club and spend more time with friends and family. Besides the teens do look too much like YA. My teen looks literally more pumped than his father 😂
Great ideas! For those with seasons you can set up teen type holidays, a pool party, dancing, senior skip day, etc.
I wish we could have holidays only affect certain sims so we can do this! Because wouldn’t the whole family want to as well
There's also Drama club with Get Famous. I think you can still send them when they're teens.
Love and do a lot of these.
Additional things that I did:
*I created a community centre with teen hangout trait where they could play games, do homework, eat etc.
*Also made a uniform that all the teens in the neighbourhood wore as their everyday wear on weekdays.
i know this is totally unrelated to the. idea but i just watched the part where she said that teens from 14-16 don’t really care about their future and everything but when i was 11 i looked over a bunch of university’s to find the one that suited what i wanted to do in the future 😂 love your videos 🫶🏽
Also breaking up or having arguments with teen boyfriends/girlfriends. I know I always pick a boyfriend for my teen and then they basically end up marrying because there’s never any issues between significant others
I have that big giraffe irl. I got it when I was a toddler and I still have it.
I mostly make groups with teens so my sims kinda have a fixed friend group that can easily hang out
Club hangout is from get together, and these were very helpful ideas, thank you 😊
I love giving my teen sims bad traits like jealousy and mean etc because it gives them something to deal with when they get older, also it's fun having them get in stupid arguments because they are basically angry kids atm (and it makes it more dramatic)
Do a how to make elders more interesting in the sims 4. When sims become elders I stop playing with them lol
I love to make a club for elders and make a senior citizen community lot. I put things like rocking chairs, knitting, game tables, etc. I’ll even put the cafeteria object on the lot so they can eat meals there.
Loving your content! It looks like you’ve taken a break from posting, If you ever have the urge to come back you definitely have a fan right here!
I recently downloaded a safe file that had a lot of teens in it, and played with them. They were already in clubs and i got in to all the teen drama with rotational gameplay ;) i think the save was from tiny cowplant and it added a nice twist because there were different sims and townies than usual.
Save files are the best way to mix up gameplay!
You should definitely do a podcast I would adore that xx
I used to play this boy, from an early age I knew he is going to be a president. He came from a very overpowered family so didn't really know hardship but I desided he wanted to try and see the "real world" so he did every job a teenager can, he tried it all and then (in my headcanon) he decided that things need to change, it felt very unique
i’m grown and still love that giraffe… 😂
I just saw the notification that you favorited a teen household in the gallery and was wondering if this'll be about a video ^^
I like to use the height slider mod to create younger (shorter and skinny) teens (like 13) and older ones (like 16, 17), works great to play with sieblings.
hey!! I’m new to your channel and just wanted to say you are already one of my comfort youtubers! 💛
I never thought it that way, I always just treat my sims as young adults...the only time I remember they are teens is when they go to school.
Hello, i am early but i just wanted to say, Taylor, i absolutely love your videos and i am one of your biggest fans, keep going 👍❤💖
MODS that's what I do lol....buh on the lighter side of things I give them bf/gf and they do homework together, go on dates, meet the parents, study with friends and best of all give them part-time .
jobs.
I love these tips I will apply all of these! I am definitely guilty of giving my teen a grown-up bedroom and focussing on good grades and aspirations and skills 😂
I wish they had teen focused aspirations - try out different hobbies, do chores, go on dates (and have “teen friendly” dates that focus more on social interactions), etc…
I so want tween pack because kid to teen is so drastic. Also wish we could have a more school interaction .
my fav thing to do is to make a "holiday" on fridays. the theme is pretty much to clean, watch sport tv and eat a grand meal! this is something i look forward to, makes things more realistic and makes then have some family time!
this is the first time stumbling on your channel and i just want to say... you're soooo gorgeous 😍
One thing I struggle with, for any of my family members, is feeling like I have "time" in game to have the teens go off & do things on their own. I love to have them do it, but the "care for self" never seems to work correctly for the other Sims in the house while you're away. I do often take advantage of other household members being at work, but then feel like i have to rush them home in order to not have everything else slip. Does anyone have tips for managing this?
One thing I like to add is a couple extra holidays - an extra day after winterfest so they can hang out as a family, play in snow together, go skiing, whatever and a day in summer that is a summer break - so they get a break from school. I especially like to use this for teens that are about to age up so they have a fun day with their family at a park or something before I kick them out (I've really only had teens in my 100 baby challenge) to live their own life.
I would love the sims to add team sports. They should have had hockey with snowy escape!
Ever since I got the laundry pack and the vacuum pack, it had been wonderful building their responsibility
I’ve got custom traits specifically for teens. I normally use teen custom aspirations too.
Which ones?
I'm just starting my very first legacy challenge and I was so worried about the teen age group!! Thank you
The most interesting teen in my game has both the erratic trait and the slob trait. I also gave her a part time job. She's tired, moody and always has hygiene issues. I try to make her do her homework, but its really hard for her to stay on top of everything. I also kept her in the randomly generated clothing when she aged up for too long so she looked like an uncoordinated mess.
Watching this now feels great hahahah
i also like to give teens a complete make-over. like, dye there hair a weird colour. give them a emo fase, flirt around and have a enemy and start to have a crush on you enemy.
i think that's fun to do
Your videos are always the most creative! Love it!
What I need to make my sims games more interesting is to actually have my sims interact with people outside the household lol
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I just said this the other day and this video pops up on my feed🤯. Amazing
also give your teens uniforms for the first choice/ Everyday outfit.
one of my favorite things to do with teen sims (if i had them as kids and then aged them up) is have them make their friends when they're a child and then once they age up to a teen, age their friends up with them, it's so cuteeee
Oh well nice to meet you, first time here and I'm gonna use all of your ideas on my gameplays!! Greetings from Argentina!💖🍒
You can have a teen pregnancy without mods by making them an adult having the baby and then turning them back into a teen. I play on console so its like the only way I can make stuff juicer, because like the parent is forced to take care of the kid while the teens at school. Idk but like my brain runs on big drama for the sims otherwise I stop caring about the family
What I usually do is create a save file that is full of different families and even a school ( if you have the get to school mod) and then have the teens I want to be friends meet each other and start a club/ teen social group ( for example and group like the heathers or plastics) then have them interact with their school and other clubs, the parents, at least for me if they aren’t rich or a karen then their boring characters.
I would also recommend the height slider mod so you can give them different heights to make them more realistic.
I know I’m late posting this lmao, but I use clubs for EVERYTHING.
I build my own schools for kids and teens and have them create clubs set there so they can skill build (I have them skip actual school/parent writes a note).
I also do university this way and just cheat them their degrees once they’ve gotten their “major specific” skills high enough (usually 5-7 cause they still need to learn in their field). I like this cause I can create clubs for specific majors and fun campus organizations (environmental club, basketball & dance teams, sororities/frats, etc.). This is one of my favorite ways to play.
Clubs for different community lots are fun too because then you always have sims there actually doing stuff they should be. I download sims from the gallery for this because I don’t necessarily want to play them, I just want pretty sims at my lots so my sims can flirt lol.
You can do this for parks, movie theaters, bowling alleys/arcades, comedy clubs at bars, etc.. It’s so much more fun/realistic imo
I prefer only playing with teens. I give them the ptsd trait alot maybe from their parents getting divorced or the love of their life cheats on them, or even their best friend dying and have them navigate through their emotions, maybe send them to therapy. I love the idea's you gave though, definitely will add more spice to my games.
What mods do you use for that?
@@Zandalorscat Just type in Sims 4 PTSD trait and the person who made it should pop up. I love using it in my game play.
I recently played a teen sim wherein I made it extra challenging by saying the teen sim was the only sim I could play. So if she didn't have time or energy to clean up or cook food it just didn't happen. Cause we all know in sims 4 sims don't know how to autonomously care for themselves.
I like having two teens and have one do well in school and the other just goes off and has fun
Sometimes a teen thing I'll do in sims is go to cas make a family with maybe a dog and a teenager and parents and a younger sibling too and move them in to a nice house and then I play as the teen and select 'split from household and move' and I get a cheap crappy apartment and move them in alone and they throw parties and play video games all day or something like that ❤️❤️❤️
the teen hangout lot trait is base game!!!
Great ideas Taylor. I enjoyed your ideas and the feedback your getting from the community.
I also take some time to skip school with my teen sims and have them hang out with their friends and chill cause just sending them to school 5 days a week where you can't interact with them gets boring.
Also, another fun thing is to do make them a sorcerer or a mermaid is super fun. Gives them a young adult novel concept where an everyday teen moonlights as a magic sorcerer or a mermaid.
i would love to have teen aspirations- little things like young love, good grades, sports teams, making friends, getting a job…
I like this video. Thanks for sharing these tips!!
I made Teens more interesting by making a school for 4 Sims 3 teachers and 1 baby. I made 2 teen romance
I believe the teen hangout thing came with Get Together... I think so. Also I love these gameplay tips for the teens❤ Also if my teens would work for their own income I would add up what they made every day/weekend and when they move out, give them that exact amount that they worked for😋
The teen hangout lot trust came with university, and the make friends button while their at school only fills the social need.
Ohh, I should definitely try to send my young sims to socialize more, even because if you get the skill boosting traits from earlier life stages and the scouts, you don't really need to rush with skill building. Too bad it takes so long for your sims to actually meet new people at school, and things are even harder for me: since the game doesn't offer much to do after some time, I play on short lifespan.
Getting part time jobs also sounds pretty cool, it may not make the most sense gameplay-wise (I'm a satisfaction point freak lol, kinda getting tired of it now tho), but for storytelling purposes, definitely worth trying.
Something I've tried to do before is to make clubs that have themes like fitness, art, or music and have those meetings in place of the extracurriculars we don't have.
I always add braces and acne but also give them a school uniform to give that annoying school aspect. But I would love to hear more for sure. Also having them take photos of their friends from when they were kids to teen age.