If the Sims team ever decides to add preteens in the mix what do you think they would look like. Of course they will probably add toddlers first, but preteens may be a possibility. Would they go to middle school and maybe have little crushes, but of course not full blown romances. Would they be in between a height of a child and teen. What else does everyone else think they would be like? :)
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A pre-teen is a child and we already have them.
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I agree they should add pre-teens, or in Sims 4's case add children because the kids look older than in previous Sims games. But as someone else also said they should add toddlers first.
Try to keep this on topic with pre-teens being added, which I think is a great I idea as it brings us closer to gradual aging.
Most of the time if I see a topic\idea I am not interested in I do not participate in it.
And this topic is one of those.
I just want to say that I do NOT like the idea of pre-teens and
I respectfully do NOT understand why people want or entertain the idea of pre-teens in TS4.
I mean why???
You already have a child, then a teen, who happens to be the same height as YAs but oh, well.
I say the dev should just patch in toddlers and let things be.
Plenty of 18 and 19 year olds have babies these days -- some even bother to get married first.
I've given up thinking of an age equivalent for the various stages and just go with the flow. Actually, I'd like programming that would make it harder for Adult Sims to get pregnant, because as people age it's often harder for them to conceive. Only reason YAs couldn't get pregnant in Sims 2 is because you were only a YA while you were at University -- if you chose not to go to University or right after you graduated you'd age right up to an Adult. In Sims 3 they made YA a full time age stage which really never made sense, but they also opened University to more than just YAs so at least you had another chance to go if you chose not to go right away.
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I like the idea of a pre-teen because it adds additional depth to the game -- what really doesn't make sense is to split out young adults from adults outside the context of a university or with other dividers, and that's what we've been stuck with since Sims 3 and why so many people feel like the series is now catering more to the young adult "party" lifestyle. If you read my post about what pre-teens could feature, you'd see that there are potentials there for more in-depth gameplay if done right.
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As ChadSims2 says ^^^.
I don't even have the desire to play families with these teens. They look like they are at the very end of the teen stage. They look like I missed out on a major portion of their young lives since the jump from the child stage. I was ready to give them a party and kicked them out, but I simply lost interest in the family after that.
I only play young adults now and will not bother with family sims until toddlers arrive and they either add pre-teens or do the animations for a different teen body type. The teens that we have now were a rush job to get the game out.
I'm still playing families -- but I agree that the teens were a rush job. There's really no purpose to them other than to get them an A grade (so they can start their careers at level 3) and maybe find a potential life partner. I'm planning on throwing my current Sim teen a birthday party after I get the Party Pack (if I think it's worth it after seeing some Let's Plays or live Twitch streams) then moving him out, moving his girlfriend in with him then aging her up (also aging up his two best friends, one male, one female -- the female one was a bit of a surprise; she had a very boyish haircut as a child and a name that could work for either gender). Teens need a lot more to give them purpose in the game other than just a way to get a head start on the adult aspirations and such.
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Yeah, so did I - but I was married - but the fact remains our babies did not turn 10, 3 days after they were born and we were not 18-19 years old with a 10 year old is what I am saying. (I graduated from high school at 16, went to college for two years, married my soldier bf. It's what they did back then.
But think about it in Sims 4 - 3 days after the baby is born it is 10 and your sims is still 18 ? At least with Sims 3 I had epic aging and could give the baby and toddler the longest time, with YA having the shortest epic age so it worked out. I didn't allow the YA's to marry until they were half way through their short YA age (the went to Uni and got a head start on their career first. Then they'd get married, have a baby when they were the equivalent to about 26 (as that was half way through YA in Sims 3). The babies took 30 days - and the toddler had the same aging as child (around 50 days each. By then my YA was 30 - 32 by the time they were child. Adult I had the longest age. But sims 3 you could make it realistic and make sense - not like they were 19 with a 10 year old.
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Please EA & Maxis make them happen.
Pre-teen. Who will go the middle school? Child supposed to go kindergarten.
It would be cool if preteens looked kind of like Molly from Toy Story:
At least, that's my opinion anyway. It personally wouldn't bother me if they did add them - I just don't see the point.
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Omg wht is she wearing? Looks like a badly matched outfit to me.
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