Freshman
Level One = Fall Semester
Level Two = Spring Semester
Sophomore
Level Three = Fall Semester
Level Four = Spring Semester
Junior
Level Five = Fall Semester
Level Six = Spring Semester
Senior
Level Seven = Fall Semester
Level Eight = Spring Semester
Graduation
And Maybe Class time is Live active Careers where you just complete or work on an assignment before it's due at the end of a the week or so.
This stuff is really quite weird to me.
Uni here is often only 3 years, and the way the year is divided varies. Some universities have two semesters per year, others have 3 trimester, and some are by 4 terms. Our university year typically starts in February aka, in summer.
we need a athlete over hual and also we should get to desgin our own uni
the more i think about it. i think the athletic career will be the expanded base game profession in this pack having the same trend going with the gardening career in seasons and fishing career in island living.
and this official description from the new official maxis sims:
Morgan is all-in, all the time. Driven by her life-long love of sport, Morgan believes life is meant to be lived, not spent behind a desk. She''s always up for any adventure her friends suggest, and always pushes herself to do more. With her track and cross-country scholarships, she was always a top performing athlete at university. She''s currently training for her first Iron Man competition, which means a lot of time in the pool and on a bike.
I think I'm in the minority when I say that I'm glad it will likely not be covering elementary and high school. It would be mostly pointless and empty. The only activity it would essentially have is watching you sim watch another sim in front of a board, a full day version of the class we got in TS3.
You have to remember, there was very little focus on the academic side of things in TS2 and TS3 University packs (TS2 even had no actual university buildings, let alone any meaningful university interaction), and both had a bare minimum of what you needed to do to pass (just go to class for a couple of hours and write a report) - that was it. The main focus in both games was the campus life itself: dorms, greek houses, toga parties, secret societies, coffee shops, the quad - stuff that you would find in any college movie, the university itself isn't important.
In contrast, schools have significantly higher contact hours, and everything is much more structured and very little would be in your sim's control. Otherwise it would cease to be a school. When you compare a show or film set in a school, very little focus is placed on the classroom side of things, but rather the hallway corridors, prom, or out of school activities, something which is much less easy to form a pack around.
When TS2 University was being released, in one of the Q&As, the developers were even asked if they would do a school pack, and they responded with no as it would be boring.
even if i buy the ep i am not sending any of mysims to uni uni should of been way last they should of relasise a retro style sims4 ep furniture and appliances from 1950 to now
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I think I'm in the minority when I say that I'm glad it will likely not be covering elementary and high school. It would be mostly pointless and empty. The only activity it would essentially have is watching you sim watch another sim in front of a board, a full day version of the class we got in TS3.
You have to remember, there was very little focus on the academic side of things in TS2 and TS3 University packs (TS2 even had no actual university buildings, let alone any meaningful university interaction), and both had a bare minimum of what you needed to do to pass (just go to class for a couple of hours and write a report) - that was it. The main focus in both games was the campus life itself: dorms, greek houses, toga parties, secret societies, coffee shops, the quad - stuff that you would find in any college movie, the university itself isn't important.
In contrast, schools have significantly higher contact hours, and everything is much more structured and very little would be in your sim's control. Otherwise it would cease to be a school. When you compare a show or film set in a school, very little focus is placed on the classroom side of things, but rather the hallway corridors, prom, or out of school activities, something which is much less easy to form a pack around.
When TS2 University was being released, in one of the Q&As, the developers were even asked if they would do a school pack, and they responded with no as it would be boring.
True that, although I must admit that seeing how they handled the acting career in GF, I think they could give us an interesting university class this time - because as much as I enjoyed TS3 Uni, the classes inside were suhuuper boring. Although I did like sketching outside during the art classes. But yeah, if they did all school activities, I agree that they'd all probably be watered down, so with their constraints and everything, focusing on only one particular school type might be better.
What I'm mostly hoping for is that they give us the ability for sims to actually do something while they're sitting down on the ground. It's stupid I guess, but I loved that animation in TS3 (sitting down to sketch stuff, sitting down with a laptop, just sitting down in general). I also think it's a typical college type thing, to have stairs littered with sitting students lol.
we need a athlete over hual and also we should get to desgin our own uni
the more i think about it. i think the athletic career will be the expanded base game profession in this pack having the same trend going with the gardening career in seasons and fishing career in island living.
and this official description from the new official maxis sims:
Morgan is all-in, all the time. Driven by her life-long love of sport, Morgan believes life is meant to be lived, not spent behind a desk. She''s always up for any adventure her friends suggest, and always pushes herself to do more. With her track and cross-country scholarships, she was always a top performing athlete at university. She''s currently training for her first Iron Man competition, which means a lot of time in the pool and on a bike.
i hope they expand upon more than one career and maybe add more to the painter and business career too!
The realism player in me is happy for this though I'll have to see how it is implemented.
I mentioned this in another thread, but I am one of the players who want to see private school and admissions come back. I play a rotation with various types of households so it would add more contrast and detail.
I will say that I hope we'll then see some new and interesting content rather than going back to square one and just repeating it. I will honestly be pretty hesitant to do that, certainly in the next year and I can't say beyond that.
I think I'm in the minority when I say that I'm glad it will likely not be covering elementary and high school. It would be mostly pointless and empty. The only activity it would essentially have is watching you sim watch another sim in front of a board, a full day version of the class we got in TS3.
You have to remember, there was very little focus on the academic side of things in TS2 and TS3 University packs (TS2 even had no actual university buildings, let alone any meaningful university interaction), and both had a bare minimum of what you needed to do to pass (just go to class for a couple of hours and write a report) - that was it. The main focus in both games was the campus life itself: dorms, greek houses, toga parties, secret societies, coffee shops, the quad - stuff that you would find in any college movie, the university itself isn't important.
In contrast, schools have significantly higher contact hours, and everything is much more structured and very little would be in your sim's control. Otherwise it would cease to be a school. When you compare a show or film set in a school, very little focus is placed on the classroom side of things, but rather the hallway corridors, prom, or out of school activities, something which is much less easy to form a pack around.
When TS2 University was being released, in one of the Q&As, the developers were even asked if they would do a school pack, and they responded with no as it would be boring.
I feel there’s quite a lot of ways they could make it exciting/interesting. I’m a primary teacher and I keep thinking of ideas for a school expansion pack. I won’t go into them all here (as I think I once wrote a novel-length post about ideas for a school pack and I don’t want to rehash, as well as this not being the place).
At the moment, schools is where our kids/teens spend most of their time locked away in a rabbit hole. Those schools could be developed into such a rich immersive environment for our sim kids and teens with new kid/teen based relationship gameplay, sporting activities, extracurricular activities etc. Not to mention that a well-developed preschool/nursery could be added for toddlers too. It just seems that a pack aimed at younger age groups is sorely needed and that developing a school one (where they spend almost all their time) is the most direct way to go about it.
My hopes for university are that they add in another dimension to the game (my hopes are on music).
Freshman
Level One = Fall Semester
Level Two = Spring Semester
Sophomore
Level Three = Fall Semester
Level Four = Spring Semester
Junior
Level Five = Fall Semester
Level Six = Spring Semester
Senior
Level Seven = Fall Semester
Level Eight = Spring Semester
Graduation
And Maybe Class time is Live active Careers where you just complete or work on an assignment before it's due at the end of a the week or so.
This stuff is really quite weird to me.
Uni here is often only 3 years, and the way the year is divided varies. Some universities have two semesters per year, others have 3 trimester, and some are by 4 terms. Our university year typically starts in February aka, in summer.
I don't know how it is in the rest of the United States, but The University I go to, the Academic Year is set up with essentially two Terms/Semesters. It begins with the Fall Term, and ends with the Spring Term. But there are options, where the student could choose to take classes in the Winter/Summer, if they wish. first year students as long as they meet admission and enrollment deadlines, could get a jumpstart and enroll for the spring summer. I Had a classmate in High school who applied enroll
But it depends on the Student and what they're going for Generally here it takes:
2-3 years for an Associates
4-5 Years for a Bachelors
6-7 years For a Masters
7-8+ Years for a Doctorates
and then you have to think about your Major and among other stuff. So perhaps you could set it up to whatever makes sense to you.
I wonder what Kind of Universities they looked at, I hope they do something a little Similar to the Sims 3's Sims University, Campus Set up, and Build style make some parts of the campus feel Historic, but also some new advancing Structures.
I hope they don’t bring anything like new elementary/private schools because knowing them, they’ll probably say we couldn’t fully develop universities to also focus on elementary schools/private. University should focus on university. Though knowing the sims team, my hopes aren’t too high. Also those mentioning semesters in TS3(haven’t played TS2) a semester was pretty much 1-2(3?)sim weeks, and no one aged while the sim was in university.
I hope with this pack there are dorms that you can rent and live. I would like to see a musical aspect of this pack, join a marching band or any kind of band.
I'm disappointed. I wanted to attend highschool atleast if not all ages. Adults have everything in this game.
I think if we ever get a general education pack, it'd be a gamepack focused on kids and teens. I think that would be better than trying to cram all of that in with a university pack. Everything would be lacking if they tried to put all of that into one EP.
Get Educated
Get To University
Get a Diploma
Get To School
And an even better title than
Get Debt
Get Loans
Get Broke
Get Juiced
Get Hazed
Get Laid
Get Killed could be interesting?
or simply Deaded?
I would so love a pack focused on death. They were considering making a similar stuff pack (it didn't win the vote,) but I hope we get a death gamepack instead.
FINALLY! I've been waiting forever for this!! So excited to see what they've come up with...I hope i'm not disappointed, I play TS3 on the regular just because I miss university
we need a athlete over hual and also we should get to desgin our own uni
the more i think about it. i think the athletic career will be the expanded base game profession in this pack having the same trend going with the gardening career in seasons and fishing career in island living.
and this official description from the new official maxis sims:
Morgan is all-in, all the time. Driven by her life-long love of sport, Morgan believes life is meant to be lived, not spent behind a desk. She''s always up for any adventure her friends suggest, and always pushes herself to do more. With her track and cross-country scholarships, she was always a top performing athlete at university. She''s currently training for her first Iron Man competition, which means a lot of time in the pool and on a bike.
I imagine we might have a standalone career type called mentor, it's something we've seen, for example an action of telling about a specific vampire type skill when you tell the story and another yes gets XP, it could be a way to increase the extent of expansion in the game.
I hope we at least get daycare for uni students to send their kids to and elders be able to attend school too. I like the name and neat having another pack come out on my parents and brother's wedding anniversary. I really hope Sims get to do the financial part of things too with having to pay for loans and getting grants for funding for school.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
I hope it is similar to The Sims 2. With 2 college districts. The first linked to Willow Creek and the second linked to Oasis Springs. I also want the sororities back, it would be nice for EA to release the pre-teens (who could be similar to The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 teens) who would go to high school. And the teenagers from The Sims 4 would go to college. I'm sorry my english is that it is not my native language.
There's usually no 'and then' here. You need to have done the prerequisite subjects before applying for your chosen course. You tailor your senior school classes (usually years 10-12) to whatever your chosen field of tertiary study will be.
An Australian going to the US for uni will often skip the 'junior' year, because that is covered by our year 12.
So perhaps you could set it up to whatever makes sense to you.
That is what I hope they allow for. More options allows for more variations, meaning the game becomes bigger.
I attended a US university where they had three "quarters" instead of two semesters. So both happen even in the US.
They're called trimesters. A quarter is one of four, if it's not divided into four, then it is not a quarter.
When you've got trimesters, you're usually cramming more into your academic year.
But it depends on the Student and what they're going for Generally here it takes:
2-3 years for an Associates
4-5 Years for a Bachelors
6-7 years For a Masters
7-8+ Years for a Doctorates
I probably should also add that a Bachelors is 3-4 years here, Masters is another 1-2 years, and Doctorate can be 3-4 years on top of the Bachelors.
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Derailing the thread sorry but the thread is speculative anyway.
the more i think about it. i think the athletic career will be the expanded base game profession in this pack having the same trend going with the gardening career in seasons and fishing career in island living.
and this official description from the new official maxis sims:
You have to remember, there was very little focus on the academic side of things in TS2 and TS3 University packs (TS2 even had no actual university buildings, let alone any meaningful university interaction), and both had a bare minimum of what you needed to do to pass (just go to class for a couple of hours and write a report) - that was it. The main focus in both games was the campus life itself: dorms, greek houses, toga parties, secret societies, coffee shops, the quad - stuff that you would find in any college movie, the university itself isn't important.
In contrast, schools have significantly higher contact hours, and everything is much more structured and very little would be in your sim's control. Otherwise it would cease to be a school. When you compare a show or film set in a school, very little focus is placed on the classroom side of things, but rather the hallway corridors, prom, or out of school activities, something which is much less easy to form a pack around.
When TS2 University was being released, in one of the Q&As, the developers were even asked if they would do a school pack, and they responded with no as it would be boring.
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True that, although I must admit that seeing how they handled the acting career in GF, I think they could give us an interesting university class this time - because as much as I enjoyed TS3 Uni, the classes inside were suhuuper boring. Although I did like sketching outside during the art classes. But yeah, if they did all school activities, I agree that they'd all probably be watered down, so with their constraints and everything, focusing on only one particular school type might be better.
What I'm mostly hoping for is that they give us the ability for sims to actually do something while they're sitting down on the ground. It's stupid I guess, but I loved that animation in TS3 (sitting down to sketch stuff, sitting down with a laptop, just sitting down in general). I also think it's a typical college type thing, to have stairs littered with sitting students lol.
i hope they expand upon more than one career and maybe add more to the painter and business career too!
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I mentioned this in another thread, but I am one of the players who want to see private school and admissions come back. I play a rotation with various types of households so it would add more contrast and detail.
I will say that I hope we'll then see some new and interesting content rather than going back to square one and just repeating it. I will honestly be pretty hesitant to do that, certainly in the next year and I can't say beyond that.
I feel there’s quite a lot of ways they could make it exciting/interesting. I’m a primary teacher and I keep thinking of ideas for a school expansion pack. I won’t go into them all here (as I think I once wrote a novel-length post about ideas for a school pack and I don’t want to rehash, as well as this not being the place).
At the moment, schools is where our kids/teens spend most of their time locked away in a rabbit hole. Those schools could be developed into such a rich immersive environment for our sim kids and teens with new kid/teen based relationship gameplay, sporting activities, extracurricular activities etc. Not to mention that a well-developed preschool/nursery could be added for toddlers too. It just seems that a pack aimed at younger age groups is sorely needed and that developing a school one (where they spend almost all their time) is the most direct way to go about it.
My hopes for university are that they add in another dimension to the game (my hopes are on music).
I don't know how it is in the rest of the United States, but The University I go to, the Academic Year is set up with essentially two Terms/Semesters. It begins with the Fall Term, and ends with the Spring Term. But there are options, where the student could choose to take classes in the Winter/Summer, if they wish. first year students as long as they meet admission and enrollment deadlines, could get a jumpstart and enroll for the spring summer. I Had a classmate in High school who applied enroll
But it depends on the Student and what they're going for Generally here it takes:
2-3 years for an Associates
4-5 Years for a Bachelors
6-7 years For a Masters
7-8+ Years for a Doctorates
and then you have to think about your Major and among other stuff. So perhaps you could set it up to whatever makes sense to you.
I wonder what Kind of Universities they looked at, I hope they do something a little Similar to the Sims 3's Sims University, Campus Set up, and Build style make some parts of the campus feel Historic, but also some new advancing Structures.
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3 packs in 6 months. This was stated in April and ends at the end of September. There's another 6 month period after that up until the end of March.
I think if we ever get a general education pack, it'd be a gamepack focused on kids and teens. I think that would be better than trying to cram all of that in with a university pack. Everything would be lacking if they tried to put all of that into one EP.
I would so love a pack focused on death. They were considering making a similar stuff pack (it didn't win the vote,) but I hope we get a death gamepack instead.
ETA: and CAS and careers and traits and lot traits and skills
I imagine we might have a standalone career type called mentor, it's something we've seen, for example an action of telling about a specific vampire type skill when you tell the story and another yes gets XP, it could be a way to increase the extent of expansion in the game.
An Australian going to the US for uni will often skip the 'junior' year, because that is covered by our year 12.
That is what I hope they allow for. More options allows for more variations, meaning the game becomes bigger.
They're called trimesters. A quarter is one of four, if it's not divided into four, then it is not a quarter.
When you've got trimesters, you're usually cramming more into your academic year.
I probably should also add that a Bachelors is 3-4 years here, Masters is another 1-2 years, and Doctorate can be 3-4 years on top of the Bachelors.