Usually when I play The Sims 4, I do not make Sims younger than a “young adult”. I tend to create original characters or recreate my friends in-game, but I’ve never had an interest in controlling young Sims and delving into their learned traits or school issues.
That is, when my manager told me to check it out high school years To write expansion packs to write gameplay guides for them, I did what any normal person would do: I made myself, my husband, and a close friend teenage Sims and put them in a house together without adult supervision.
I acknowledge that it’s my own fault that these teens are filled with pent-up sexual desire and anger. I forgot about that The Sims 4 Added sexual orientation and preferences, and I forgot to set the in-game orientations of the two guys to straight (like they are in real life).
Right off the bat my husband’s sim got into the “flirt” mood and started flirting with the sim who looks like me. He had a crush on her, which I found funny and endearing. However, things changed almost immediately after that when his sim turned to our friend’s sim and also started flirting with him. They also developed crushes on each other. Unpleasant.
I tried updating her sexual preferences in Create-a-Sim but the damage was already done. Everyone had a crush on each other. At that point, I didn’t know I could get her to get over her crush, so I panicked. There was now a complete love triangle – circle – rectangle in the house made up of the teenage versions of me, my husband and a close friend. And unfortunately, it made the teenagers moody and awful.
These teenage Sims were constantly sharing emotions. When they weren’t in a “flirty” or “very flirty” mood, they were “tense” at being around a crush, or even angry at seeing their crush talking to someone else. This of course happened all the time as they all had crushes on each other. It was a hellscape.
Usually my adult Sims keep positive moods: happy, inspired, confident – and it’s easy to keep them up. But my youth was a mess. Any positive vibes they would gain would be overwhelmed by their jealous rage when they see their crush talking to someone else.
It also didn’t help that when creating our Sims I thought it would be fun to give us all realistic traits from our teenage years. I gave my sim the gloomy trait because I was a depressed emo kid! And so, on top of all the horrible vibes above, my sim happened to get really sad and cry alone in her bed. To make matters worse, her crush roommates would see her sad and it would make them sad too.
Between school, part-time jobs to keep the household afloat (remember no adults live here because I did Not think this through) and to make sure the Sims’ needs were met, I had to force the teens to take cold showers, badmouth themselves in front of mirrors, and basically just spam any action that would knock them out of their mood at the moment throw.
After randomly scrolling through pages of actions, I noticed that there was an option to force your Sim to “overcome” their crush – which only worked sometimes. While I was able to snap our boyfriend out of his crush, my husband was too in love with the boyfriend and he couldn’t get over the crush. His fate was sealed.
I ended up combining my sim with my husband’s (like they do in The Sims) hoping it would crush any ongoing crush issues in the house. But even during the relationship, my husband’s Sim kept raving about his boyfriend. This put my Sim in an absolutely bad mood. Nothing has been fixed.
So now I’m going ahead and trying to calm my hormonal Sims down before they go to school or work so their crush doesn’t negatively impact their careers. Going back I realized that I should have forced our Sims to be related so that doesn’t happen, but it’s too late. I’m in too deep
Learn from my mistakes: Don’t forget to set your Sims’ sexual orientation and bloodline so that you don’t (resp.) doif you want that) ends with horny teen house torments.