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We Really Need Homeschooling.
Kawaiidulce
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I have the Nraas Career mod that adds the ability to add custom careers to my game, plus the add on that works the same for schools. Well, my Sims usually have a kid that just doesn't like being in a school and they have them homeschooled. Granted, he or she spends about three to five Sim hours a day downloading and doing their homework a few times over so they can raise their performance meter, but that's still better than being stuck in a building all day long.
Why can't the game just come with home schooling though? How is it inappropriate for those who play the game? I don't get it. I'd rather be homeschooled so I don't have to deal with wasting my life there. Of course, it does help with my social interactions in real life, but in the game my Sims don't even make friends at school unless I select "Meet New Friends", but then they don't have good school performance. Totally bogus, I say!
And then what if they have younger siblings or nieces and nephews living at home? What if they need to care for them while the parents work, sleep and eat just so they can repeat the process tomorrow. The babysitters suck and frankly neglect children more often than not. I have teen Sims that can reach at least level 5 of a specific skill just because they didn't attend school. This is so much better for them! They get a boost in their future careers and may even find time to make friends outside of their home and in the education system. I've had one Sim, Jake McHenry, accomplish his LTW before he even aged up to an Adult simply because he was home schooled. He even dated, got honors and sold around $10,000 worth of his paintings because of this!
Homeschooling really is a necessity to our games. EA, if you're listening to me, please add this one small thing to our game. PUH-LEASE.
Why can't the game just come with home schooling though? How is it inappropriate for those who play the game? I don't get it. I'd rather be homeschooled so I don't have to deal with wasting my life there. Of course, it does help with my social interactions in real life, but in the game my Sims don't even make friends at school unless I select "Meet New Friends", but then they don't have good school performance. Totally bogus, I say!
And then what if they have younger siblings or nieces and nephews living at home? What if they need to care for them while the parents work, sleep and eat just so they can repeat the process tomorrow. The babysitters suck and frankly neglect children more often than not. I have teen Sims that can reach at least level 5 of a specific skill just because they didn't attend school. This is so much better for them! They get a boost in their future careers and may even find time to make friends outside of their home and in the education system. I've had one Sim, Jake McHenry, accomplish his LTW before he even aged up to an Adult simply because he was home schooled. He even dated, got honors and sold around $10,000 worth of his paintings because of this!
Homeschooling really is a necessity to our games. EA, if you're listening to me, please add this one small thing to our game. PUH-LEASE.
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I tried Twallan's mod for this but because I have generations the parents would scold the children for skipping school. It would make a great edition for stories..such as my medieval family I am playing. There were very few schools then that didn't have to do with the church. Children usually learned everyday things they would need to know as adults..this did not include books..heh.
This is a fantastic idea.
They scold them? I have Generations, and my homeschooled children don't get scolded...
It is a necessity for the game. I know people that are homeschooled, and they sometimes go to normal school. It is a way of life and besides, YOU DON'T GET DETENTION!
I want to be homeschooled -_-. But I want my friends with me xD
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I wouldn't mind having this myself, it would not be a game breaker to me though.
Really? What country do you live in :shock: I never knew it was illegal anywhere! I suppose that it makes more sense now that EA hasn't put this in earlier. Hmm. Well, thank you very much for that! Learn something new every day
This. Why would it be illegal? Homeschooling is a very real thing here in the US. I was home schooled for a while for medical reasons back in high school.
(much like those Talbian countires illegal female schools except they take place in a person's home today)
Well supposedly in Germany and in Spain, homeschooling is illegal.
It has nothing to do with being inappropriate. It has to do with programming complexity and time for animations.
They don't have the time for the necessary programming or animations, and the engine wouldn't accept the programming for Sims 3 anyway.
So, that's why. That's why it will never come with Sims 3, and why it probably won't come with Sims 4, 5, 6, or 7.
You have your answer.
Because they have to code it to interact with all other aspects of the game without inciting coding conflicts while mods mostly don't.
Believe it or not, but coding a smaller program to alter the operation of a large program is actually often easier, and involving of less code, than adding the very same feature the smaller program has to the larger program. That's why programming is moving more and more towards being modular and why a lot of internet browsers are modular.
I live in the Netherlands, children here are obligated to attend school until they are 18, and there is no such thing as homeschooling. Just because it's real in the US doesn't mean it's normal anywhere else =P There's a lot of cultural differences they have to take into account while making their game. If a child has a medical condition here, they can, depending on the school, join classes via webcam etc, but they have to attend class for at least 1040 hours a year. There was a huge thing a couple of years back about a Dutch girl living in America just so she could be homeschooled, was quite the drama here..
edit: however I would like this as an option. if I don't have anything to do and don't feel like seeing my kids dissapear in a school than this is a great alternative
The ratings and electronics communication standards of those other nations. For as restrictive and conservative as the ESRB is, it's actually one of the most permissive rating groups on the planet.