Every once in a while I'm having a sim not get their "head to class one hour early" interaction, and then I'm stuck with my sim needing to be there within an hour. But if you click on the buildings, they give no indication even moments before which one is the one they have a class in, so I keep just sending them in a general area nearby and hope for the best. And why wasn't it just set up so they simply go to class one hour before (along with a send to class button at that time instead of when they are already late) and into the building early like regular school or work, instead of this silly two step process where they go stand outside like idiots? Same thing with scouting and such; they should go early or they miss half of it. Just one more thing to fail. If they're late they lose grades big time, and if you have multiple sims it can be pretty bewildering, especially at Foxbury where everything looks the same (as a modern school does).
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@Simsalot99 - Thank you so much for your detailed comments! I've never really played The Sims 3 - only the base game for the couple of hours before I got tired of the open world and the unappealing (to me) visuals. Your enthusiastic comments made me want to buy TS3 and all its expansions right away! While I keep hearing that TS3 had a lot of issues as well, it seems that it was so much more complex and fun than TS4 currently is. (not that I don't have fun while playing TS4, it's just that it's a bit frustrating - it could be so much more than it actually is!)
Me thinks you may have posted in the wrong discussion.
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I do get what you mean - though as my sim has now three distinguished degrees in one college and is working on one in the other finally - and sometimes I have to to push her a bit to get her going to the other University - so it does not always go smoothly the first time. LOL. Could use some tweaking on Maxis part - I think. LOL.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
Thanks for the info. I have another sim who will be going soon, and I'll get a chance to try all this. As for the go to class queue items, the go to class early (the one where they ran to a spot outside the classroom building to wait) simply wasn't even appearing at times; no idea why. The second one always seemed to work, but by then, they would of course end up being late, unless I'd guessed right where they were supposed to go and moved them over on my own. So first warning bell a bit buggy, second final bell, rock solid.
During Office Hours your Sim can check their status on classes with their professor by clicking on the classroom buildings. Supposedly, it will also say which classes your Sim has in that building too down at the bottom of the pop up. I hope this helps!
Opps! Nevermind...
You know, I had a feeling...the things you were saying did make me think of Sims 3 (especially when you said carpool). But I was too polite to say anything, and appreciated the effort to help, anyway.