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How would you feel about a school pack?
Zeldaboy180
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Instead of just university, what if we got a generic School Pack? There would be a bit less focus on university and in return we would have High School and Elementary School improved on.
Some things the pack could contain besides University related content:
Homeschooling
Private School
Boarding School
After School Activities
More Playground Equipment such as swings and slides
Doing homework on the computer
Taking College Courses and tests in High School
Grades in Elementary and High School affecting your College Success
Tutor NPC for kids doing bad in school or kids who want to get even better grades
Laptops
Education Career
As for the College Side of things the usual would apply, just not as in depth as sims 3 or 2 university.
For example, in my opinion we really don't need a giant world for university. Maybe 7 or so lots like a gamepack world, a bigger world would be nice if possible.
For the first time though, your College sims can choose to live on or off Campus. In sims 2 and sims 3 you really couldn't travel off campus that much. Sims 2 you kind of could, but you couldn't live at home if memory serves correct. With sims 3 you were stuck in that university world, but on the plus side you could take shorter terms to get breaks to go back home.
In the sims 4 university, you can choose to stay at home or live in a dorm or soriety house. You can freely travel between the worlds as you see fit.
This is very similar to real life with a lot of people choosing to either live on campus or away.
What are your thoughts? Would you rather see a University Expansion and a School gamepack? what would you like to see in these packs?
Some things the pack could contain besides University related content:
Homeschooling
Private School
Boarding School
After School Activities
More Playground Equipment such as swings and slides
Doing homework on the computer
Taking College Courses and tests in High School
Grades in Elementary and High School affecting your College Success
Tutor NPC for kids doing bad in school or kids who want to get even better grades
Laptops
Education Career
As for the College Side of things the usual would apply, just not as in depth as sims 3 or 2 university.
For example, in my opinion we really don't need a giant world for university. Maybe 7 or so lots like a gamepack world, a bigger world would be nice if possible.
For the first time though, your College sims can choose to live on or off Campus. In sims 2 and sims 3 you really couldn't travel off campus that much. Sims 2 you kind of could, but you couldn't live at home if memory serves correct. With sims 3 you were stuck in that university world, but on the plus side you could take shorter terms to get breaks to go back home.
In the sims 4 university, you can choose to stay at home or live in a dorm or soriety house. You can freely travel between the worlds as you see fit.
This is very similar to real life with a lot of people choosing to either live on campus or away.
What are your thoughts? Would you rather see a University Expansion and a School gamepack? what would you like to see in these packs?
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Love your ideas especially the option to commute to school
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I fully support it. School GP was on a survey a while back, so I have some hope that it could be in the running, for a future game pack or EP.
Hit post too early... I'm thinking about seeing if I can keep my kids from school and just cheat their grades to pretend they are homeschooled. They can read or work on skills and I'll give them the grade they deserve.
I'd like private schools back and for grades to count toward something, but that's about it.
I don't care that much about the child age, it seems like the least fun time to explore school life- short lifespans, and they can't do much anyway, like have parties, get girlfriends/boyfriends, and school grades don't matter much anyway. Usually, I just let them skip school and explore.
Teens/YA this time around need more to separate them from adults than past iterations anyway, limiting the University EP would be the opposite of what I'd want. Besides, unlike pets/seasons, I feel uni is one of the few packs that actually needs its own world.
(I'd be fine with a Uni EP and a separate School GP, but not with School replacing features from University)
I see the team focusing on something else personally.
I'd like to see a separate University pack, but with less emphasis on the stereotypical "party hearty" atmosphere and more on actual learning. Perhaps if you do well in university you start the associated career at the point where you get to choose the career branch. There could be rental houses in the university town -- since Sims can go to work/school from anywhere a married Sim could take his/her entire family, so you're not stuck with playing the same Sim endlessly while the family back home stagnates.
College education is still a big thing, both in the US and worldwide. There are simply more options, especially for older students, the ones who might be going back to pick up new skills for a possible career change. You've got community colleges and online colleges, or if you go to a 4-year school you might commute instead of live on campus.
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Because in real life (here in the US) most kids spend a third of their day , each week in class. For years and years. Thats a vital and huge chunk of our sims lives that is just BLANK right now. Theres no meat. Just bare bones. The teen and child life stages feel empty. What do those life stages have to flesh them out? Not much. Parenthood did NOT fix that.
I personally don't mind rabbit hole schools. They tried that a bit with sims 3 university and it didn't feel very interactive to me. Basically you just showed up and watched your sim cycle through animations such as raise hand, take notes and sleep.
School is also nice for the parents to catch a break and clean the house or cook dinner etc.
What I would like to see more focus on is the after school activities. I assume that if we get the homeschool option like in my suggestion then it would be more interactive.
It would be neat if the parenthood traits would be integrated and taken into consideration and also if there would be other consequences.
It is also the perfect pack to finally introduce the teacher career (I would prefer it to be a rabbit hole career). And tutor part time career (in addition to the NPC the OP suggested): finally a part time job for adults, and teens with A grade could also do it.
For university itself as the OP states there's no need for a massive world since this time around our sims can move from world to world freely (with loading screens but...)
It would have to be an EP because of the size, that's for me the only downside. I don't have much faith in EPs for TS4 so maybe I would prefer 2 GPs, one for School in general and another for University since GPs are so much better quality in my opinion.
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College now is considered the standard. A bachelors is the new high school diploma and a masters is the new bachelors.
What I would like is a gp for education or school like have teens do more homework then just the book like research on computer, take notes on class to help with homework, have Freshmen, Sophomore etc. Above so we can know what class year there in and also help with age for simmers won't be confused mistaking a teen for a YA like "oh it's a teen in their senior year in highschool." In senior take a college prep test to get into a university. Study groups etc.
Kids go to more field trips and at home write a report on what happened on the trip but they must have their parents sign the slip or they'll be sorry stuck in school. Those are my ideas.
I still very much would love a University Expansion Pack though since I have always enjoyed University Life in the Sims, and a big world too!
I know how else would a teen study for college.
• School Name
• School Colors
• Mascot
• Praised Sport
• Principal/Headmaster/Staff/Coach
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