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Anyone else feel relieved once they get to the “teen” life stage?
Tony89
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For me playing babies through child stage feels like a draining chore. The clothing and hair are limited and terrible, their is nothing actually fun for toddlers, and kids to do, and I have all of the stuff packs for toddlers and kids, but once they get to the teen life stage, I just feel a big sigh of relief and like my game is balanced and fun again.
Anyone actually enjoy toddler and kid life stages out there??
Anyone actually enjoy toddler and kid life stages out there??
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The teen life stage is fun with slice of life, and basemental D mod. I believe that it would be boring with vanilla gameplay.
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My child sims monkey bars themselves to death, interactions with Pets are cute, but it’s so boring to me. I do all that I can with them tho.
Same. Kids don't have a lot to do, sadly, but they're less needy than toddlers and babies, and therefore more independent.
I don’t really like the child and teen ages because there seems to be no time to do anything except school and homework. It gets to be a grind.
I went through toddler, child, and teen life stages like this, where the parents were basically roomies. It was a BLAST! Toddler stage was so difficult, but it was a fun challenge to get all of the child's skills up, while also keeping them happy the whole time (often got hangry). Once I got into the child stage it wasn't as difficult, since i have a kids can cook mod on, but my child also joined scouts, after school things, etc. They seem really rounded out because of the time I gave to them to focus on their interests and their friends! Once a teen they joined a group for karaoke and stayed out late into the night, going to school tired but with finished homework, etc.
I think generally I don't play with kids unless it's a challenge, or a legacy, but I find focusing on only the kid to be what makes it fun!
Did I read that you said 7 toddlers correctly?
7!? I can barely manage one toddler geesh lol
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Question. What happens when your toddlers grow up? Do choose one to play as an adult and start a new life and family or do you play multiple saves?
I can’t just play one sim in the household, when I do all of the others sims just get fat and eat nothing but chips and cake. But this is my first time focusing on a legacy gameplay, it’s nerve wrecking because I have to make sure that the sibling sims go on to have lives too once my chosen heir goes to university. But I have been playing my heir from
Birth til now and I really play as close to real life as possible, no cheats, they eat 3 meals a day, I make the siblings pick on each other and fight occasionally, the parents cheat on each other and confess and I have the reactions mod so the children are affected by the parents arguments so it has helped
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To be honest, I quite rush through the teen life stage too, in some cases. I some times cheat skills/aspirations to get them done quicker (and the character value out of the trait-zone, because I find the constant character trait whims incredibly annoying)
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I agree it feels like a drag but I’m just going through the motions to get them to teen stage, the teen life stage is fun with a combination of realistic reactions, the parenthood pack, basemental D, and slice of life mods, my teens tend to be rebels they sneak off on curfew to do drugs, get caught and chewed out by their parents and grounded, I learned that with the parent hood pack toy really have to dig into it with social intersections to really get the feel of the pack.
I actually love kids. I have some that I never age. I use the children can mod to give them more to do. And the bike mod and seesaw mod. So I send them off on biking adventures to collect bugs and rocks, play on the playground, rebel, etc. Love playing with them. But kids and toddlers are extremely lacking in content. They desperately need more to do and I'm really hoping that changes soon.
Even with cc trying to find a nice variety of clothes for my sim boy is next to impossible. The girls do have a bit more options though not much.
The only lifestate I don't care much about is babies.
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Right and they could have been more creative and unique with the questions...like generated based on child’s personality, I mean the whole advice thing is so annoying
Wow nice and it baffles me that I have to go find CC for decent hair on toddlers and child males, and the clothes my god! The clothing from toddler to child look like 1970’s dollhouse apparell, children in 2020 are so much more stylish than we’ve ever been EA needs to really fix that and maybe they could add more game systems and sports for kids
I noticed that homework takes less time to do,which is a good thing.
Children I really only require to finish one child aspiration and start working towards two character values, so they have time to have more fun. Sometimes I can make their lived interesting enough to hold my attention, sometimes they just get kept busy while I concentrate on the rest of the family.
So my sigh of relief is usually when they age to child, because I expect so much less of them.
With Parenthood there's also the traits thing which I haven't been able to get for any on my sims (I think empathy and conflict resolution are the hardest ones for me) which frustrates me a bit. I would play around with it more but I honestly don't know how to work with them enough to do so.
I must also say that having the same skills for teens and older sims is also kind of boring for me. I haven't tried it yet because I usually try to stay in one path for each Sim, but I'm sure I could max out most if not all the skills.
In comparison to toddlers and kids which are the shortest life stages with less skills but that are unique to those, we have 4 life stages that are longer and all have the same skills. Which, if you have taken good care of your sims in the earlier stages, are kind of easy to level up. I've teens that already have some skills max out before they age up.
IDK, I haven’t gotten that far yet. 😁 If they don’t get taken away I’ll probably just stop when they’re all maxed in their skills and move on to another save. Right now it’s pretty fun. The house is a wreck. There are dirty dishes on every available surface and the floor. Those kid messes are all over too. My poor sim. I had to remove all the doll houses because the kids destroyed them all but even after I fixed them the sad poor dollies mood let wouldn’t go away and the kids wouldn’t stop crying. I’m starting to get the hang of it though and if you can keep their needs out of the red they’ll grab food off the counter when they’re hungry and put themselves to bed when they’re tired. But until they get potty trained they get dirty really fast and need to be bathed which they can’t do without help.
I have only had one save where my sim married, had a kid and that kid grew up and got married. They all lived in the same house up until the mother died. Then life happened, I had to stop playing for awhile and when I got to play again I just started something different. I usually play in spurts so I find I start over a lot to play a different story.
Kids are pretty fun but kind of lacking too which is unfortunate. What I like about kids is that you can prep for adult skills by getting their childhood skills up. Plus if you age up well as a toddler and a child you'll get a jump start and bonuses as an adult such as faster skill building.
Parenthood definitely helped family play and those two age groups respectively.
I like teens but teens are basically just adults which is unfortunate. They don't seem to be different enough and that bothers me a lot