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University Pack
By my thinking, there are two more EPs from the past that will be made before they branch out to other ideas like a FARM pack or a SHOWBIZ pack or new vacation spots. They are SEASONS and UNIVERSITY. I believe that they are at work on a SEASONS pack (I hope anyway) and there are plenty of threads about what we would like in it. So, let's talk about Uni.
I want more than just a university pack. I want an EDUCATION pack that encompasses all education stages, Grade School, High School and College.
I would like for each to be geared to that life stage. In the Grade School, there could be a HOME ROOM where most of the teaching happens. There would be one subject per day (realistically, there's no way to do all subjects in one day). There would be a SCIENCE LAB for science day, a GYM for a little exercise and a CAFETERIA for a quick snack if you student gets hungry.
The same would work for High School, but with a few more subjects geared to older teens.
For COLLEGE, your sim could live in a dorm, join a frat/sorority or live at home and commute. The same "Class is Starting" message would appear wherever you sim lives. I would like to expand to include adult education and elder education which might include night classes.
I also want to play as the student or become a teacher/professor.
All stages would have events to attend (real or rabbit hole) like graduation, prom, sporting events, etc. As a teacher, you could call in parents of a troublesome student to talk about their kid.
All of these education building would be in a new world. A "College Town" type of world where there is a Grade School, a High School and a College Campus, similar to past versions. There would be residential lots so our sims could live there while teaching at the college, for example.
I would also like to see some outfits for kids, teens and YA's that include a backpack for school books and a laptop (new item in this pack).
These are a few of my ideas, what are some yours?
I want more than just a university pack. I want an EDUCATION pack that encompasses all education stages, Grade School, High School and College.
I would like for each to be geared to that life stage. In the Grade School, there could be a HOME ROOM where most of the teaching happens. There would be one subject per day (realistically, there's no way to do all subjects in one day). There would be a SCIENCE LAB for science day, a GYM for a little exercise and a CAFETERIA for a quick snack if you student gets hungry.
The same would work for High School, but with a few more subjects geared to older teens.
For COLLEGE, your sim could live in a dorm, join a frat/sorority or live at home and commute. The same "Class is Starting" message would appear wherever you sim lives. I would like to expand to include adult education and elder education which might include night classes.
I also want to play as the student or become a teacher/professor.
All stages would have events to attend (real or rabbit hole) like graduation, prom, sporting events, etc. As a teacher, you could call in parents of a troublesome student to talk about their kid.
All of these education building would be in a new world. A "College Town" type of world where there is a Grade School, a High School and a College Campus, similar to past versions. There would be residential lots so our sims could live there while teaching at the college, for example.
I would also like to see some outfits for kids, teens and YA's that include a backpack for school books and a laptop (new item in this pack).
These are a few of my ideas, what are some yours?
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For university bring back sororities and like you say a student world. Allow us to see some of the classes like the sims 3 and not have every class be a rabbit hole. Include student parties and bring back the keg. (Although I'm not sure that's likely) Don't make everything too perfect and sunshiny and allow students to cheat in exams and of course give us some new careers so there's an incentive to go to further education.
I like your ideas. Personally I would rather have uni before Seasons.
If I remember correcctly I thought about it during the time of coming up with Generations and a Preschool idea for the toddlers (before they were here lol). Both the behavioral and educational were "reveiws" (this is only the case since most preschools schools don't have grades
That being said, once they become children, their grades would show up as normal. Buut the behavioral reveiw that had in preschool would be the new addition to the school. Kids on their best behavior could receive special items, skills, while kids with bad behavior were more likely to get suspended, detention, etc.
ooh I found it!!
But yeah In a nutshell I'm hoping for benefits and consequences for sims school wise. Especially if a bad but smart kid tries to apply to a prestige university, but gets rejected over his bad rep. Or possibly they make him an acceptation over his grads and over look his bad boy exterior.
That being said, I'd also like to see:
I would also like to see the reintroduction of private school and/or boarding school. Also, after school activities. And on another thread about this issue, the OP suggested having a uni degree being required for continued climbing up the corporate ladder with each career.
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sounds great
Just college? So, you don't want grade school or high school? Where will all your pre-teens go to school?
I do lol. Preteens would go to middle school.
I'm not a big fan of the idea of being able to play my teens and children at school. I all ready don't follow my sims with professions to their job most days, so I know I won't be spending much time doing that with children or teens either, but having an education pack that brought some new features to update the education system we all ready have in game would be nice. After school activities, for one. Dances. A college prep test. Boarding/private school, and even the ability to home school or drop out of school as a teen would be nice.
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An education EP, or even just a Uni EP is something that I would like to have.
I can see a university/education EP working in a similar way to Get to Work.
The system is already there for making it work.
Each of the education campuses could easily be as individual worlds, or just the one. Either way would work.
A highschool, for you to follow your teens to (if you want to). Keep them from falling asleep in class, direct them to pass notes to their friends, send them to the cafeteria for lunch.
The school day could have 2-3 classes, 1-2 in the morning, before lunch, and one in the afternoon.
The classes could be useful for improving your sims skills:
Simlish (reading and writing, improves skill in writing)
Science (logic and gardening skills)
Home ec (cooking skill)
Art (painting skill)
Music (music skill)
Gym (body skill)
The uni campus could be a little more complicated, a world with four or five lots. A dorm lot, a socialising hub, a library and several uni buildings for classes and skill building.
Being able to attend classes from the home lot also makes a lot of sense.
If include Boarding School like at TS3, each school could add between +30 and +70 to certain value characters (value depending how you ended elementary school if return at home at weekends, and at that case what you do at home)
If you say yes and follow Sally to grade school, I see kids "appear" on the sidewalk outside the building. Then they go inside to attend the class. You follow and do what ever is required according to the tasks bar (like GTW) and the more your kid/teen accomplishes during the day, the higher grade they get, which is averaged at report card time to tell the parents how their kids are doing in school. It is also possible for you to let your kid slack off all day (and get a bad grade) by hanging out in the bathroom and causing mischief, hangout on the play ground or go the comic book shop. Maybe they convince a friend to hangout too. This may cause an angry phone call from the parent of the other kid accusing your kid of being a bad influence. When the time is up and the bell rings, your kid/teen goes back home (like GTW) and you can get them to do their home work, work on their science project or play video games instead.
The teens in High School would work the same way with goals and tasks to be accomplished before end of day. I think this is the best way to handle kids in school because, after considering a more school-like format, it seemed to me to be too complicated and using the existing system from GTW as a school program might work better and more seamlessly. With this system, the teacher would be similar to the Police Captain who shows up and sits at their desk but is available to interact with. The other students are basically following the same goal system your kid is following, but in their own time.
The Grade School and High School are part of a world which also contains a College campus with buildings for class rooms and labs or lectures along with the Greek houses and college dorms and residential lots and community lots. These may be "visited" at any time by any played sim. They are not closed lots off of the map like the Police Station, Lab or Hospital. The college buildings are grouped together in one campus area and the Grade and High schools are located near each other, sharing a common playground and basketball court and possible soccer field. The remainder of the world is for houses and businesses like a comic book store, coffee shop, arcade and other places that we had in S3 for college students to hang out at. The campus should have a quad where student can gather to study under a big oak tree, play hacky sack (new in this pack), play music for tips, protest their issues or just hangout with friends or that special someone.
I think a school system based on the GTW system is the best way to go because it already exists and works (not perfectly, but mostly) and is goal oriented like a school day usually is in real life. Plus you can control your sim at school to accomplish or ignore those tasks.
This would also allow for graduations, proms, science fairs, etc. for parents to attend. Once a kid has aged up to a teen, there could be a first day of school moodlet that may be excited or anxious depending on your sims traits and how they have been parented.
Here is the Go to School mod for some ideas. I know Graham was really impressed by this. It does use the GTW game to run.
https://zerbu.tumblr.com/post/160319209200/the-sims-4-go-to-school-mod-pack-v4-repost