Quote: Originally Posted by simmythesim Not to spew hate or anything, but I was poking around the python files and this struck out to me. ('Set Sim Age Failure: Invalid Age. Options are: Child, Young Adult, Adult, Elder') So at first, The Sims Team didn't even consider adding teens, and just added them later in development.

Quote: Originally Posted by simmythesim I wish EA hadn't put them through insane development deadlines.

Sanity is overrated.



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There. Mystery solved.

That actually doesn't surprise me. I suspect it was added after Simcity 2013 bomb and they realized they have to revamp TS4. Remember it was originally planned as merely an online platform of social media, not a 1 person game. What does surprise me is why YA is on there. To be honest, the game really does feel like child, adult, and elder. But even back in TS2, I had hoped they make more of a distinction between YA and adult.I'm not sure if anyone here remembers, but some simmers posted screenshots and even videos of an earlier version of TS4 from one of the programmers? It clearly showed it had teens (real teens) in it. That version was scratched in favor of the current version.I'm not sure how far they got with that version, but it it was true, it means TS4 was scratched at least twice. Once with that version posted by simmers b/c the management want to go to the social media path, then scratched again when they realize that was a mistake and tried to go back.So in honesty, they had plenty of time.(Btw, this wouldn't be anything new. In my conversation with gurugraham, we argued about the work ethics of silicon valley companies. I had mentioned similar issue in my own experience. I worked in biotech before and was a project lead. We brought the project to alpha stage, ready for full testing before the management scratched it in favor of a larger product... despite my objections. Later this project proved to be too big for the time alotted, full of bugs, etc... and they had to cancel it 2 weeks before the deadline and asking me to bring my project back online and finish it in 2 weeks.Needless to say, we lost the contract and 1/2 the company was laid off)