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Highschool graduation causing other teens to age up.
GymeaLillie
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The high-school graduation ceremony ages up other teen Sims. I am a rotational player - surely I am not the only one. It is quite distressing seeing my other teen Sims being forced to grow up without properly completing highschool, having their own birthday, or experiencing their own graduation traditions. Is there any way to stop other teens aging up?
(I am sorry if I have posted this incorrectly or done something wrong. I am an older player who hasn't used any kind of forum in a long time).
(I am sorry if I have posted this incorrectly or done something wrong. I am an older player who hasn't used any kind of forum in a long time).
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I have enabled "aging up" only for the played household also. However, at the graduation ceremony, several Teens become Young Adults. The aging preferences make no difference. Various teens are aged up.
This isn't a problem unique to me, various websites discussing the graduation ceremony mention it. My question is: Is there any way to stop it?
https://www.seebee.de/sims4me/index.php?list=20
So mods are the only answer for something that shouldn't be beyond our control. Nothing changes after 24 years then. Thanks for answering, appreciated.
(Edit) P.S. Sorry, maybe not the whole 24 years. Just very disappointed. It's a big thing for rotational players. I will try the mod.
This is so annoying and I think they don't even warn you about this (?)
I'm so glad the Boys dropped out of school before graduation. I would have been devastated.
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I can totally understand how this issue is pure frustration for rotational players.
I had to go back to an older save when it first happened in my game. There also is no warning at all.
Now that I think of it, skipping the graduation ceremony might be a workaround for Vanilla players - if you are willing to sacrifice the graduation event, that is.
I am tired of skipping pack features because of problems. That really is something that has had to be done for years. We pay for these features. Sorry to sound so negative - I actually put up with a lot in silence, without mods. However I recently added up how much I have paid over the last 24 years. Involuntary life "jumps" tipped me over the metaphoric edge.
As far as I’m concerned, Bienchen does all the things the game makers should have done. 😁 I for one would have rage-quit playing when whims became wants if it hadn’t been for her Whim Overhaul.
(well, except not going to the ceremony)
So, thank you for sharing the mod, @83bienchen . It's a lifesaver for rotational players!
@SheriSim57
I never used mods either, until now. This one is a huge issue for me, so this is my first exception.
I have just had my first teen graduate since getting the pack. She was sent her graduation certificate early for some reason, but from what I have read that doesn't always happen. However, she was Valedictorian and had rehearsed her speech, so I really wanted her to go. Plus, this is a game feature I've paid for and I am tired of skipping features due to glitches or oversights.
Regarding "but keep aging off" - that is the problem. Even if we have aging off, some teens will age up at graduation.
The mod was really easy, just put that one file in the mods folder. I think you can just put it in when you have a graduation and leave it out at other times, if that helps.
@EgonVM Thanks for this information too. A lot of my households that have been played are marked "unplayed" by me on purpose for a gameplay reason. I don't play every single household each round, so I need to age up "unplayed" households for one week at the end of every round to make everyone age evenly. Households with key gameplay moments get played, but others wait until another round. From what you have explained, I have caused teens without an upcoming birthday to be at risk. So at graduation, I could go through every single household with a teen and mark them "played", then change it all back afterwards. I guess only homeless townies would appear at the ceremony? This mod file takes a lot less time just to pop in when I need it. I appreciate the explanation though. I haven't seen that mentioned before.
It's like with the mod that gets rid of pimples that have been stuck on a young adult Sim.
If you don't attend graduation, I had it happen that my Sims didn't get the graduation traits and/or diploma. That might be an unrelated issue though. The Sims 4 isn't great for rotational gameplay.
I do have quite some Sims struck with midlife crisis goals and no midlife crisis to complete (also no milestone for getting through Midlife Crisis) because I rotated away from the family with the midlife crisis moodlet still active. I will certainly not do that again because it bothers me a lot.
Back to graduation: I did have issues with the graduation ceremony not loading at all when I set all teens in my save to 'played' before the ceremony. That was before I decided to do a mod for it, though, so it's been a while.
Yes, only teens generated randomly would age up.
The played and unplayed households is a different story. You can always use a birthday cake to age sims up earlier (bake a cake and add birthday candles), but I wouldn't make my played households into unplayed for several reasons:
The game has changed so much so I don't know a lot of unplayed effects, but essentially, unplayed sims tend to get reduced in their data so that the save file wouldn't get big. Thus unplayed sims seems to be meant for sims players doesn't care about...
I also noticed a couple of times when I marked played households as unplayed and then later put them back to played, that one sim in a family list her job, and with another household one of the sims career changed. The career change one was before neighborhood stories came out. My two rotational saves have neighborhood stories turned off too.