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What are your university pet peevs
Minai
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I feel like university has made the unwanted npc population even worse.
I appreciate meeting unique sims, but jeesh. Who let them out the house with the way they look??? Awful
They need fashion advice. Nothing matches.
I use mcccd to take care of all my needs but still. Come on!
I appreciate meeting unique sims, but jeesh. Who let them out the house with the way they look??? Awful
They need fashion advice. Nothing matches.
I use mcccd to take care of all my needs but still. Come on!
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Lmao! Omg
University couldn't come in a more inconvenient time in my life.
So I was so excited to purchase this game. Waited for days to buy it.
Then my new medication started giving me horrible anxiety.
Omg I spent 44.16 cents on this game and couldnt even enjoy it because the constant homework and studying gave me anxiety on top of general anxiety!
My biggest concern about the game generating random sims to be at the uni events, and bar cane true. I’m playing Cassandra Goth currently and her dad Mort (whose is an angel investor at the top of the business career) is now a member of the debate club and keeps showing up at her school.
Ugh
Lame! -___-
Hope these things get fixed soon!
I found a mod that prevents Sims from becoming Spellcasters. Hopefully there will be one to prevent Sims from becoming university students.
Also NPC Servos are nearly useless. They are not self sufficient at all and when they break down you need to repair them or leave the lot otherwise they die. I hired the Servos generated by the game in my Robotics themed retail store and they kept on breaking down...
Roommates in the dorm at least seem nearly useless at taking care of themselves. They walk around smelly and needing to use the toilet and eat spoiled food from their inventory. On a similar note I feel like sim autonomy has been messed with. My sims don’t take care of themselves as effectively as before.
Thankfully I have taken care of the townie generation problem by using NPCC mod. I fill up my game with homeless Sims from the gallery and the mod uses them for NPC roles and as uni roommates. Unfortunately there isn’t an option (yet) that allows you to specifically choose uni roommates. The mod only generates townies when there are no other eligible sims to use, for example with Servos appearing at Foxbury or the Von haunt estate ghosts.
- This means among other things, most students do not have their own computer in their room.
2) If you do mod the dorm, the dorm type building template does not allow stoves, not even outdoor grills.
3) 'Research and Debate' skill.
a) Why are these not separate skills? They are very different skills in reality.
b) Why is Debate skill not simply a function of Charisma skill? Someone with a 10 Charisma has no skill at debate?
4) You 'rabbithole' to class, which is fine.. except you do not entirely. Your sim gets in the elevator, then outside, and actually walks to class, which depending on pathing can result in being late to class.
5) Separate homework per class can really add up.
6) You cannot start as a university student. If you intend on living on campus, you have to have a home, apply to university (and apply for any scholarship(s)), wait for acceptance and then sell your home...
7) Dorm rooms are not treated like apartments but rather just as additional communal rooms. You can lock the door, but I have loaded from saves to occasionally find strange students in my Sim's room. And by randomly, I mean loading a save can mean a sim there who was not there when you saved and if you go back to the main menu without saving and load again, that stranger sim may or may not be there next load.
8) No way to actually schedule classes to mesh with a job. IRL in any major university, there are multiple classes of any given common course and you can choose a schedule that works best for you. Uncommon or less taken courses can be another matter, but still...
9) Secret societies. My sim keeps getting sad that people are whispering and she cannot hear them. Seriously? How does such a sim function in public? Cannot go to any restaurant or other public place unless they can hear clearly everything said at every table and feels part of every conversation? Plus the nigh constant sadness is just another artificial barrier to overcome.
10) Moving in on the first day of school. No real settle in time. (This seems to have been a side effect of having enrolled late in the day)
11) The game can schedule back to back courses and in such a case allows no time to get between classes.
12) Terms are too short. Normal RL terms are seasonal, which feels natural. I suspect they set the term length at 7 days since that is the minimum season length but with them that short, it feels like there is no time to really feel like you are at university. Most of the 'extras' such as teams, groups, etc seem to fall by the wayside in favour of simply concentrating on studies.
My biggest pet peeve is the biking in foxbury. I love that we have biking but it’s a hassle on that campus.
1) Them being big is pretty realistic, even if so few sims is not.
5) Exams are always on the last class of that course (and it actually tells you that on a mouseover)
7) Even in Canada, dorms normally have a communal kitchen.
My sims roommates are complete slobs.
Ugh!
She cleans up after all of them.
You can't do anything about it and it's made my sim late for class on a few occasions. Really annoying and 100% rude! Also odd because, as someone else has said NPC Servos never seem to be repaired unless you do it so not sure why my played servo has a random poking them with a screwdriver every day.
I love that you can ask any homeless sim to be your roommate, however I don’t like that you can’t go to manage worlds and switch out between playing the various roomies. That way you can make sure your sims roommates are progressing through college as you’d like.
I already mentioned hating the parents showing up all the time. I also wish there was an actual acknowledgement that their kid is in college. How about when they do show up they bring a care package with food and maybe money inside? Or when your sim goes home to visit they bring a laundry bag with them? Or have the social option to ask for money? Little
Details like this would really flush it out. As it stands now the world university is in is just like any other world that spawns any sim at random. It’s almost as bad as how the housed sims from other worlds show up in San myshino in those dumb tourist clothes all the time.
This is what happened with Julia Wright the premade in my game. I'm so gutted about it as I was planning to play that household for my first university experience. It's ruined the expansion for me a little and I still haven't been able to experience any of what the expansion has to offer cause of it despite having it since release day.
Yeah, if you want to play the pre-made households or other NPC sims the best thing to do is probably to favorite them and then not enroll them for a second term so you can play them later. That's what I am doing right now.
Basically recycling Island Living game play of serving island ghosts to gain their favor.
Only now it is bizarrely sprites. Not the stuff of college secret societies I think.
I do like the mechanic of ranking up in the organization though.
I tried it out, but I won't be using it.
It's just making your sim a slave to sprites.
I will use Get Together Clubs to create my own secret societies.
The Builderchild Society and their headquarters will be relocating from the Sims 3 to The Sims 4.
Only better this time using Get Together. I think I will have three chapters. One for Young Adults, one for Adults, and one for Elders. Sims will move to the other chapters as they age. They will all meet at their headquarters.