Can't Meet New Friends in School

[EtnaFan666]

I'm having a bit of an issue with the Meet New Friends Tone in school... actually, it doesn't appear. It's like all the paperboys and child townies are not in school so I can't use the "Meet New Friends" tone. This was a bit of a disaster in my test run of the LSD, when my first heiress was unable to meet a teen schoolmate because no teens were in school, in fact there were no teens at ALL, they all grew up to young adults! Did zombies eat all the kid NPCs or something? It's happening in Isla Paradiso too! I moved in the Hans but when Phillip went to school, the only tones were Normal Effort, Work Hard and Slack Off! What the EA? Come on, tell me this is another bug.

[KRae]

I had that happen a few days ago. I watched my sim go to school and there were all kinds of kids her age going in. I reset her and the next day all the normal options were there. I don't know if this is the same problem, but you might want to check it out just in case.

[Foxx]

I have this too! I'm not sure its a bug, but EA needed to pay just a little bit more attention to detail. There are kids in school, but when you see them outside of school, they're all young adults. And when I got generations, my imaginary friend told me I should have a teen party. But there was one problem... there were no teens! Once, my teen boy went to school and met a girl and she was a TEEN! And I contacted her outside of school and she was a TEEN! It was amazing! I invited her to my house and she came and yeah they did their homework together and stuff (actually I cant remember what happened) and when she went home I kinda stalked her. But she didn't have a house anywhere. She got in a taxi and drove to the water fall, got out and walked to the edge and disappeared! I follow stray cats and dogs too and they do the same thing, except in different places. It's so random!
Oh my, I'm off topic again.
But yeah, if anyone knows anything, please post! I'd love to find a solution for this!
Hope this helped!
Happy Simulating.
Foxx

[Wai]

You can force teens into your home town, though, they will be "homeless".  Your sim can still invite them over or chat on the phone.  Use your adult to watch for the paper boy/girl (or do this when the child is home from school).  Invite the child inside.  Buy a birthday cake and give the child a birthday party.  The next day, a brand new child will appear with the paper.  Repeat if needed.  Obviously, you will need to keep the new teen in your home until your child/teen returns or get friendly enough for them to visit if you invite them.  I usually do both, just in case the youngsters do not get the relationship to a suitable level during the after school time.

I hope this helps.  It is not cheating as far as I'm aware, as you are not doing anything with the cheats or using any store items.

[Pam]

I'm going to move this over to the Miscellaneous Help board.  It's more about game play bugs than actual technical issues.

[Dellena]

I have the same issue in my Appaloosa Plains.  It's probably due to EA's story progression not causing pregnancies.  So eventually, the town just gets old with no influx of new kids.  My town is about to have a baby boom (through Master Controller).

[Wai]

Dellena,

I don't use mods, but, I have found another way of getting a baby boom.  Start a town, any town, you won't be saving the game.  Select all the couples in the town you like the look of.  Each household in turn:  Start playing the family until you can afford fertility treatment.  I don't need to explain the next step .  Exit the household, Evict the couple and save to bin.  Repeat until you have enough pregnant couples. Exit game.

Now, every time the game looks as if it needs some new blood, take one family from the bin and place them into an empty house using edit town.  You don't need to do anything with the family after this.  Twins and triplets, not your own, are so cute..  (Not to be used in challenges etc.).  (You could do this more quickly using cheats to get the fertility treatment too.)

[KRae]

Okay, I'm back to having this problem. It was working fine one sim day and the next, not. I've reset sim, reset town, cleared caches, and restarted my computer. I'm going to try removing and replacing the school next. There are a lot of children entering the school, so lack of youngsters is not the problem. I will watch more carefully to make sure they're not all teens!

[KRae]

Nothing I've done works. I also had them move house and back. Nope. I used a save point (the child's first day of school) when I know it was working. Still no good. I'm going to try playing a different family with children in town and if that doesn't work, moving my family to the bin and back. I'm in Sunset Valley with Ambitions, Generations, and Seasons. I have NRaas mods Overwatch, Story Progression, and Master Controller. Everything is updated. I will also try removing mods one at a time.

[Dellena]

On the mods, remove them all and see if it works (would confirm it's a mod), then add them back one at a time to find out which one.

[KRae]

Other families in town had the same problem. However, moving my family to the bin and back worked, so I guess it wasn't the mods. I don't know why I always am hesitant to use the bin option when it works so often. Ah well. Thanks for posting, Dellena. It's always good to know someone is out there.