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Sims 4 University: FEATURES that SHOULD be in the Pack
FreezerBunnyCowplant
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These are some features that NEED to be in a good university EP. Add your ideas below that I've missed or comment on specific ideas!
- Dormitories
- Laptops
- Spiral staircases
- Photo booths
- Fraternities und sororities
- Single arcade machines
- Arcade lot
New WooHoo: Photo booth WooHoo
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-Sims from YA up to Elder being able to attend university
-The chance to choose how many credits your sim takes at a time
-Choice of shared or single rooms
-Bunk beds
From Sims 2:
-Individual subject choices
-Degree dependent careers (bring back the classics like Psychology, Military, Law)
Other:
-Off-campus living
-Computer courses
-Magic university?
-Roomate system
-Different majors that unlock new careers and/or give a major boost to the entry level for already existing careers
-Multiple semesters with different levels of difficulty of studying and skill building
-Grade passing meter similar to TS2
-Term papers, assignments and studying
-Sports parties
-Juice kegger
-Teacher NPC's
-Llama mascot
-Bunk beds
Honestly don't see the need for photobooths. Who even uses them anymore?
Also would prefer them to patch the spiral stairs and laptops.
Little fridge
Urinal
Love all of these ideas. I'll add actual prebuilt bathroom stalls!
That's something I also really want, IRL there are elders that study as well.
From TS2 University:
The different majors that were offered
Course work (term papers, assignments)
Semesters lasting 3 days each
4 Year University
Dorms with NPC Roommates (Dormies)
Community lots for skills
Final Exams
Personal Electronic Kiosks
Scholarships for Teens
Careers that require Degrees
Entry Level Job Boosts
From TS3 University Life:
Choose how many credits the Sim takes
Major-related study objects
Laptops
Different activities for each day (Lectures, labs and exams being offered on different days)
YA and Adult Sims being able to attend
The Aptitude Test
Meet and Greet
Apply for Financial Assistance each semester
Ability to return for additional degrees
Other Additions:
2 Year Community Colleges
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Laptops,
Sorority and Fraternity, and Make your own Sorority and Fraternity also coed.
Dorms
Regular Houses
The School Mascot Llama
Student Hangout
Football Stadium and a Gymnastism.
Professor career.
A campus cafe.
Field trips to the college for high school students.
-Hidden prodigy traits: by chance you could have a sim born thats an artistic, musical, or academic prodigy, this sim will gain skill in that area extra fast and if they're an academic prodigy they could graduate school early and attend highschool/university as a child or teen. There should also be a cheat to give sims this hidden trait.
-the ability to gain an extra trait slot for your sim for doing well in highschool and graduating uni.
-University exclusive jobs that you won't be able to get without doing university courses.
-Ability to play sims at Elementary and Highschool
-Not a feature that I want but a pet peeve I don't want; don't have cheerleaders wandering the dorms cheering constantly, found it really annoying
-Also on the topic of cheerleaders; give us cheerleading tryouts at uni and allow our sim to become a cheerleader (or a mascot if they do poorly at tryouts), it can be like an afterschool activity for our university sims with promotions and the opportunity to become the captain. Also make going off to do cheer contests a thing, I want the entire Bring It On experience! (Or make a cheerleading game pack I'd be 100% down for that)
Things I hope are released in free patches before this pack:
-A new lifestage or two, we need preteens and maybe something between adult and elder as there's a huge jump there. But also teens need to be tweaked because look too much like young adults. They need to be a little shorter.
-Private school: I want it to be just like in ts2 where I could invite the principal of the school to my home and impress them so they'd admit my child into their school.
- Cafeteria
- Sorority/fraternity houses and dormitories with NPC roommates
- extracurricular activities for child/teen/YA (music bands, choir, ballet/dance,arts etc)
- Elders being able to go to universities
- Private/boarding schools and homeschooling
- School buses, bicycles, cars
- Punishments/discipline
- outdoor classrooms and online classes
- Active education career and babysitter profession
- Auditorium
- A pitch
- Part-time jobs
- Professors, lecturers, researchers
- Science/computer labs
- Courses (economics, arts (music/dancing/painting, math, history, philosophy, science, astronomy, PE, physics, biology, geology, literature, technology, languages, geography etc. ) assignments and multidisciplinary for studious sims.
- Studious, rebel traits
- Uniforms
- Create your own school feature = we get to choose which courses the school will offer
- Student exchange program
- Field schools
- Scholarships
not everyone in Australia has your type of college @Movotti is from the same country and he doesn't like the sports idea or cheerleading his post-secondary school didn't have them
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
In Australia we also call private schools "collages", and also specialised fields of study at uni are also "colleges". And senior schools are often called "colleges"
How odd. I've not heard of aussie colleges like that.
Most of the ones I know of are just overpriced housing for international and rural students.
I'd rather university clubs use the club system, since they're clubs.
Also, again, toggles for mascots. I don't want them forced into my game. They should be optional, not forced.
I'm sorry, but the Kangaroos are going to beat you ALL at cricket. Get over it. You're not going to win.
Oh come now, surely you can come up with some better pranks.
Engineering students are usually geniuses, and Prosh day is important.
They also managed to put a car in an elevator, cos they're classy like that.
90% of my uni attending friends lived at home for their first year or two of uni, and then moved into share housing of some form.
South Australian?
Sports aren't a big deal here. Academics are.
That said, cricket needs to be added to the game. Any sport that is not cricket is just not cricket.
Cricket pitch, cricket field, and cricket nets. Nothing else is needed, as nothing else is cricket. :P
And the ability to toggle the pests off. I hated them in previous versions. I get that some people want them, which is why rather than just whining that I don't want them, and therefore you shouldn't get them, I'd rather just ask for the option for toggles to remove unwanted themes from my game.
I can speak for myself.
As stated, there are multiple meaning of 'college' in Australia.
Don't put words in my mouth. I like the idea of cricket being added, and cricket is a sport.
But what I would prefer, is the option to toggle sports off.
I know of no schools, nor any universities, nor colleges who offer cheerleading. It might exist in Queensland, but that's about as far from me as Italy is from Poland. Queenslanders are a weird bunch, they don't even play AFL, the national winter sport... then again, they don't exactly have winter either.
Edit: Gosh, that was harsh.
@Movotti - never heard of residential colleges? They're all over the place, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, Perth, even smaller country towns with Unis- even the town I live in now where my husband works at a University has residential colleges. Most people I knew lived in residential colleges at least the first year, even ones that lived in the Uni town. It's pretty common for Aussies to leave their home town, even go interstate to get their tertiary education. I lived in QLD for high school, but went to NSW for Uni. All of my high school friends went off to Uni and stayed in residential colleges. I met a lot of my friends from all around Australia that way. A percentage of accommodation is put aside for overseas students, but the majority is taken up by us. It's not "odd" at all. You must live in a town/city that has a Uni. Most Australians don't.
Here you go, read about Sydney's colleges, just one example of hundreds. Colleges of Sydney
I think we had something similar at my university, and I'm in the US. I didn't live in one because they didn't have one for what I eventually got my degree in, but if I remember correctly they had separate dorms for people that were majoring in music, science, education, broadcasting, etc... I think most people only stayed in them for their first year before choosing to move off campus and into their own houses/apartments.
Yeah, they're full of international students, plus a handful of rural students, almost all are first and second year students, cos they're bloody expensive, and no one wants to remain in them if they don't have to live in them.
I live in a small city that has one, for the rural students, and the international students, cos no one else wants to waste their money on paying for shoddy accommodation when they could go home to their own bedroom.
And that is the opposite to my experience.
I know of 5 people who lived in dorms. Three were from the country, and only lived in the college for as short a time as possible, and the other two were international students, one was on an exchange and so it was part of the exchange, the other moved out as soon as he found a friend to move in with, because sharehousing tends to be more cost effective.
It's common for aussies to leave their home town for uni, if they live in a rural town, but if they live in a major city, most do not move interstate. A, its too expensive, and B, the majority of courses are already available in their home state. If they're moving out of state for uni, they're vastly more likely to be moving out of the country too.
How lovely for you!
Wrong!
75% of Australians live in a city that has at least one university campus.
31% of Australians live in remote or rural areas, but of them 45% live in larger towns, regional centres, and smaller cities.
Sydney alone has 30+ campuses!
My point is, I'm not saying that residential colleges don't exist in Australia, just that it's not used by the majority of students. Living at home is far more common for at least the first year, and share housing is more common for the rest of their tertiary education.
Of course, everyones experience is different, which is why I don't want us to be forced to have our sims live on campus, I never said I didn't want the option of it. I'd really like the option of having sims be able to raise a family, while attending uni. I'd like the option of sims being able to attend uni, to up-skill, while still living at home, and working. I'd like the option of a young adult to attend uni, while living at home, and raising a younger sibling. You can't do these things when you're forced to live on campus to attend uni.
Why are people getting so upset over someone asking for more options? Do you really want the game to be so restrictive in what you can do in it?
What do you think we're arguing about here? We're not. One sentence in my many other words revealed I lived in a college in Australia - (which you thought 'odd' for some reason).
I start off saying I'd like to customise as much as possible, use the word options etc because I'd like to have different experiences with my sims. Some will live in dorms (or as I'm used to calling them: colleges), some hopefully will get to live in campus in houses with room-mates, others will study from their home residence. So I'm not sure why you think I'm trying to restrict our gameplay. It'll be up to each player what the 'majority' if their students do. I just hope - personally - that the Uni pack comes with residential options (and not just a 'dedicated lot' experience like the Science Career etc.), but something a little more like Sims 2 uni experience.
We could be arguing...
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Vegemite?
Who invented the pav?
Lamb on Australia day?
Lee Lin Chin?
It is quite odd. Of the couple of hundred people I know who attended uni, only 5 used university dorm housing.
Personally, I moved from about as sticks as sticks get, to the state capital, I looked into student housing, but it was outrageously expensive. For $10 a week more, I could get a whole 2 br flat to myself, so why would I want one tiny bedroom, with no space to swing a cat (not to mention no room to have friends crash!)? I very quickly learned that hardly any other students used student housing. I had a flatmate for a while, which halved my living costs.
And then there's one group of my crazy friends. 5 people in a 4 br house, at least that's how it started, until everyone had their other half move in.... and then someones brother moved in, didn't even have his own bedroom, just slept in the closed in pack porch. NINE people in a 4 bedroom house! I think they had about a 10 minute bus ride to uni.
As for colleges, I attended a senior college, aka a 'high school' that only offered years 11 and 12 (and 13).
I have several friends that attended private collages, aka private schools.
I've got some friends who are a part of the college of medicine.
And I'm scared of my engineers college friends, cos they do scary thing with relocating cars, and we must trust them in their building of buildings and bridges. Engineers: they keep the concrete off of our ears.
I love options. I'd marry them if I could... OR at lest I'd make one of my sims marry a bunch of options.
A wide variety of options is what the game currently lacks.
Why can't we have the option to throw away that annoying phone?
Why can't we have the option to read a newspaper?
Where's the option to part time uni, while working, to gain a bigger promotion?
I attended a university that had dorms, but also had a large "commuter" population -- people who lived in the surrounding towns, some with full-time jobs who took classes in the evenings. The dorms weren't really themed as such; a couple of them were open over the winter break (the school had a long "intersession" during January, regular instruction resumed end of the month with the new semester) for international students who couldn't afford to travel home (though most ended up visiting with their roommates' or other friends' families) and for those involved in sports (like basketball players) that were played during that period.
In the US, we have a wide range of education options, and I'd love to see those reflected in the game. We also have 2-year "community colleges" where students live at home and take classes; they're also good for people who are making a career change (either voluntarily or after being laid off) to pick up new skills or hone existing ones. Some careers might not require a full 4-year degree (though that would still be an option). Online degrees could be another option. I'd like a University pack to be more about the education process and less about the constant stereotypical "party hearty" scene that's been portrayed in movies. Classes themselves could be rabbit holes, but more active work outside of class, more than just reading a book. Science students could be required to do lab work, or go out and look for collectibles like crystals or frogs. Writing students might be required to write research papers (talking to other students, library work, etc.) -- and just being lazy and relying on Simipedia would get you a bad grade.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
I love your ideas. I hated Sims 3 university because it revolved around YA social life. Fraternities and sororities didn't appeal to me when I was a student, and are even less appealing now that I'm 'middle-aged'.
Residential college is pretty cool! I lived in one... there lots of perks and rewards to stay in one, but you need to stay active in sports and doing well in the academics.. In some countries, college could means faculty or consist of departments/schools. I attended 2 different types of Unis in 2 different countries and the meaning and the concept of colleges, departments, faculties & schools are all different. Even in the same country, they have a different concept in naming.. so, it's totally depends on the Uni management. So, I'm practically open with any concept that they would like to implement.
Different type of learning facilities/option, such as the Open Uni, tuition centre, homeschool, e-learning...
Research centre , that will be pretty cool for any science major, natural, hard, or social for doing crazy experiments where they can recruit participants.. Would love if they add some animals too... my first degree was majoring in animal science.. it's fun to take care of sheep
Medical centre , it will be a great addition for the medical/dentistry students to practise. It will also be the place where the students can get a shot or medicines..
Art center , for the art major where they could practice dancing, music, acting, crafting, drawing, etc.. and the students can charge non-students for attending the performance..
Sport center , for the physical education students where they could practice different kinds of sports while getting fit..The mascots are most welcome! The other reason why we need few options for Unis in the Sims is, so that we can compete with each other in sports too...
Engineering center for the engineering students - robotic, mechanical, automotive, electrical, etc. where they could build stuffs from robots to rocket.. and start pranking other students with their creation...
Business & Political centre , for the business major where the students can open a small bazaar (for the Uni open day) or practising their charisma skills for the students election.
Student discounts where they could get discounts when they purchase anything from foods, drinks, things that sell in retails...
Student residential option dorm, off-campus, own house..
Scholarship because it's expensive to get education nowadays..
Student unions where it deals with all students related matters. Students can also form clubs or societies, be the leader and start socialising... I hope that there will be hiking/climbing skill...Fraternities and sororities are actually fun, and it's not compulsory..
Part-time jobs for students, perhaps being the RA, working in the ICT or just been elected as the student representative
Internship before they completed the course... so, it will help in getting a better job level (besides than having the 'connection' trait or having a good grade only)
Private/boarding school for children and teens where they will have a specific uniform, depending on the schools that they attended..
Grading system where the students (from children to elders) have an option to drop out if they want to..
Parties only for students ... the option is only available if they attended the Uni/Schools such as graduation, prom
It will be great if a day care is not only in a separate lot, but the toddler could actually join the parent to work because nowadays, in a big corporation, they have a day care for the kids..