Help, my teen Sims are trapped in a vicious cycle of misery and crushes

Usually once I play The Sims 4, I don’t make any Sims youthful than a “younger grownup.” I are likely to make unique characters or re-create my buddies within the recreation, however I by no means had curiosity in controlling younger sims and coping with their discovered traits or college points.

That mentioned, when my supervisor mentioned I ought to take a look at the Excessive Faculty Years growth pack to write down gameplay guides for it, I did what any regular particular person would do: I made myself, my husband, and an in depth pal as teenaged Sims, and put them right into a home collectively with out grownup supervision.

I acknowledge that these teenagers being filled with pent up sexual want and rage is my very own fault. I had forgotten that The Sims 4 added sexual orientation and choice, and I forgot to set the 2 guys’ orientations to straight (as they’re in actual life) in-game.

Proper off the bat, my husband’s Sim entered a “flirty” temper and commenced to flirt with the Sim that appears like me. He fashioned a crush on her, which I assumed was humorous and endearing. Nevertheless, issues shifted nearly instantly after, as his Sim turned to our pal’s Sim and commenced to flirt with him, too. In addition they developed crushes on one another. Awkward.

I tried to replace their sexual preferences in Create-a-Sim, however the harm had already been executed. Everybody had crushes on one another. At that time, I didn’t know that I might make them recover from their crushes, so I panicked. There was now a whole love triangle-circle-oblong in the home, which consisted of the teenage variations of myself, my husband, and an in depth pal. And sadly it made the teenagers moody and terrible.

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These teen Sims saved flipping feelings on a dime. In the event that they weren’t in a “flirty” or “very flirty” temper, they have been “tense” from being round a crush, and even indignant from seeing their crushes speak to any person else. This, after all, saved taking place the entire time since they have been all crushing on one another. It was a hellscape.

Usually with my grownup Sims, they preserve optimistic moodlets: glad, impressed, assured — and it’s simple to maintain their spirits up. However my teenagers have been a large number. Any optimistic moodlet they might acquire could be overpowered by their jealous rage from seeing their crush speaking to any person else.

It additionally didn’t assist that when making our Sims, I assumed it might be humorous to offer us all life like traits from our teen years. I gave my Sim the “gloomy” trait as a result of, effectively, I used to be a depressed emo child! And so along with all of the horrible moods above, my Sim would randomly get actually unhappy and cry alone in her mattress. To make issues worse, her crush roommates would see her unhappy and it might make them unhappy too.

Between college, part-time jobs to maintain the family afloat (bear in mind, there’s no adults dwelling in right here, as a result of I did not suppose this by means of), and ensuring the Sims’ wants have been met, I needed to drive the teenagers to take chilly showers, speak themselves down in entrance of mirrors, and basically simply spam any motion that will drag them out of no matter match they have been at the moment throwing.

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After scrolling by means of pages of actions by likelihood, I observed there was an choice to drive your Sim to “recover from” their crushes — which solely labored typically. Whereas I used to be in a position to snap our pal out of a cringe crush on me, my husband was too enamored with the pal and he couldn’t recover from the crush. His destiny was sealed.

I ended up pairing up my Sim with my husband’s (as one does, in The Sims), within the hopes it might squash any lingering crush issues in the home. However even whereas within the relationship, my husband’s Sim saved crushing on his pal. This put my Sim in a completely foul temper. Nothing was fastened.

So now I proceed on, trying to appease my hormonal Sims earlier than they go to highschool or work so their crushes don’t negatively affect their careers. Going again, I spotted I ought to have pressured our Sims to be associated so this wouldn’t occur, nevertheless it’s too late. I’m in too deep.

Be taught from my errors: Keep in mind to set your Sims’ sexual orientation and bloodline so that you don’t (or do, if that’s what you need) find yourself with sexy agony teen home.