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Two groups at same college
Rhiannon58
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in The Sims 2
If I send a second group of kids to college:
1) if I put them in a different house, will they age up separately than the first group?
2) can I kick out local sims who filled the extra form rooms and love my younger kids in or will that mess up relationships?
1) if I put them in a different house, will they age up separately than the first group?
2) can I kick out local sims who filled the extra form rooms and love my younger kids in or will that mess up relationships?
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When you choose a dorm to move more of your playables into, you will get a pop-up that tells you to give the dormies a few minutes to pack their stuff and get out (I can't remember exactly how it's worded). The number dormies moving out will equal the number of playables you are moving in and the ones moving out will be random so you will need to watch for which doors become available. Snag those doors before more dormies show up!
Dormies are not permanent members of the household. You can move up to 8 playable Sims into a household regardless of dormies taking the rooms after your first go around. You can still maintain relationships with them, they just "move" somewhere else.
Your previous Sims will still be at whatever year they were when you moved the new ones in. The oldest Sims will eventually graduate first and when they do, shortly after more dormies will hold their rooms until you move another set of playables in.
Think of the dormies as placeholders that you can interact with.
Apartment townie residents are the same if you want to move other Sims into apartment building after you have already placed a family (up to 4 sublots).
*Okay, I hope I've edited enough that it's understandable.
When you move the second group in, the locals will automatically be moved out. You will get a message when you move the 2nd group in about the locals being relocated. You don't have to do anything special.
I have played through the freshman year with the first group. What I do then is play 1 day with each of my families. That way, by the time the first group graduates, the parents are seniors within a day or so. So it keeps everyone aging up mostly together.
With five older siblings in college and three more coming, I'll be managing eight kids at once. But at least they will be getting their education! I just got the first group through freshman year and they got their extra wants/fears. I had totally forgotten that!
Yeah. My favorite college play always had people assigned to dorms or housing with their older sibs.
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Get other Sims to do their assignments while they go party like many do in real life.
Influence a Sim to write it for you. Keep an eye on the progress and when it gets to about 75%, start your own term paper. It finishes the term paper quickly and gives you double the points.
You should only need to go to the Final and receive an A+.
I have all my Uni hoods set to Fall. All my Sims need to do is a term paper and an assignment (if I didn't do the double points). The Final is the only class they go to. They spend the rest of the time skilling, badge building, making friends and finding a mate.
Oh, and if you take snapdragon bouquets with you, life is a breeze.
Working with 8 sims at the same time, it's hard to KEEP them from going to class. *laughs* I will work at this better next generation. I also have a florist who has almost enough skill to make/sell snapdragon bouquets so that will help the next generation as well.
Did he have immediate access to a computer? I've made the mistake of influencing, then not accounting for the fact that the computers were in my playable Sims' locked rooms and the mascot was playing on the only one left in the study area. DOH!
Yeah, you really gotta watch them carefully to keep them from running off. Keeping Greek House members from visiting campus when you have plans for them is just as bad.
That was it. I "liberated" the common computers as I was setting up my Sims' rooms. They are all behind locked doors. We'll just let that dormie do the homework from now on. I've started having my Sims do their term papers immediately after getting back from doing their finals. That way they can pretty much do whatever the rest of the semester.