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The Ultimate University Challenge (UUC) - Muse Style!
capturedmuse
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Salutations and Greetings students, this is your Dean of Doom speaking and I need some students! Any volunteers?
This challenge is going to take you on a bumpy challenge with multiple endings! I would love to have some people help me test it, but let's first show you all the gears and cogs that makes this program run.
The Bare Basics
Adjustments and Patch Notes!
None yet
Testing Team of Tenacity
@CathyTea (you've been nominated, nominate another person!)
@Spacey72659 (super thank you!)
@SimPoseyYum (lots of hearts for you)
@SummerFalls
Links to UUC based Stories
Skill U by @CathyTea
Greenwood Dormitory by @SummerFalls
This challenge is going to take you on a bumpy challenge with multiple endings! I would love to have some people help me test it, but let's first show you all the gears and cogs that makes this program run.
The Bare Basics
- Start with a teen sim with no skills and whatever traits and aspiration you desire.
- 1 Week = 1 Semester, basically the same as in Sims 2 and 3.
- 2 Weeks = 1 Year, so every two weeks your Sim goes up a level unless they flunk out.
- Their birthday party for their transition into official Adulthood is their graduation party.
- You cannot play any other sims within the Household.
Adjustments and Patch Notes!
None yet
Testing Team of Tenacity
@CathyTea (you've been nominated, nominate another person!)
@Spacey72659 (super thank you!)
@SimPoseyYum (lots of hearts for you)
@SummerFalls
Links to UUC based Stories
Skill U by @CathyTea
Greenwood Dormitory by @SummerFalls
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Any uploads for this challenge should be listed with #UUC for easy Gallery swimming.
1) Download or Create the Dorm, requires at least 5 bedrooms.
2) Download or Create the Dean, must be an Adult with all skills maxed. Completed aspirations are a plus but not mandatory. You cannot play this Sim no matter what.
3) Download or Create 6 students, including one for yourself. For harder difficulty have 7 students with you controlling two. All have to start as teens with no skills in this household.
4) Place your household and dorm and create other dorms as you see fit (or download) all non-dorm residential buildings must be removed from neighborhood of choice. Feel free to fill empty lots with anything but non-dorm residential lots. I.E. no houses in your neighborhood that aren't dorms.
5) It should go without saying no cheats should be used at all, ever, except for awarding the scholarship simoleons and the winning pot.
HOW TO PLAY IT
1) Pick your student or create it now and merge it into the correct/main dorm with adult dean character. You are only allowed to play that one character unless you're doing hard mode then you only play 2.
2) Pick a major. Attend the in-game school as normal for teen years, and make sure to level major skills to appropriate levels for grades.
3) You start the game with 1,200 simoleons. Each semester depending on performance you get additional simoleons:
A average = 5000
B average = 3,000
C Average = 1,500
D Average = 500
F Average = 0
Get an F average two semesters in a row and you lose the challenge.
4) Bills, give Dean a job when starting and bills will be paid through his or her paycheck. Spend wisely. If you come up short throw a fundraiser party or gather some rocks.
5) If your Sim rolls want to get married to a specific sim THREE times and you lose and have to drop out to get married. (Possible spin off can be made here) Raise your family as normal and send your child back. Child can have as many skills as it wants as long as it was raised from baby by an ex-University Student.
6) If your Sim gets pregnant or gets another sim pregnant you don't have to drop out, instead you have to buy your child a toy once a week along with their required things with no additional financial help from the school. (HARD) if your sim rolls wants for having a child THREE times and your household doesn't have room, kick out a roomie and get your sim or SO pregnant.
7) Once your sim is YA he or she may get a job, (others cannot) as a special paid internship. But only if you have a C or higher in grades. If you get a D or F for a semester average you have to quit to focus on your studies.
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MAJORS
Pick One, you are allowed to switch Majors IF you want, ONLY during the transition into their Junior year which is their birthday transition into YA.
Fine Arts: Painting, Photography, Writing
Mathematics: Logic, Programming, Rocket Science
Performance Arts: Piano, Violin, Guitar, Comedy (pick 3)
Culinary Arts: Baking, Cooking, Gourmet, Mixology
Environmental Engineering: Fishing, Gardening, Herbalism, Photography (pick 3)
Computer Science:Logic, Programming, Video Games
Political Science: Charisma, Comedy, Mischief, Friend requirements, Reaping (pick 3)
Health and Physical Fitness: Fitness, Handiness, Herbalism.
Research and Experimental Science: Logic, Handiness, Rocket Science, Herbalism (pick 3)
IMPORTANT: Every skill in the game is contained above including those from expansions and packs. This will continue to be updated as needed.
GENERAL STUDIES You need to try to also level these skills.
Year 1: writing or fitness
Year 2: charisma or logic
Year 3: cooking or
Year 4: photography or instrument
GRADING keep track of your Sim's grades, you do not need to track other students.
A = Skill Level 3 or higher
C = Skill Level 2
F = Skill Level 1 or 0
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Grades:
Every general studies grade under the required level takes off a full letter grade for that year.
Year 1:
A = 9+ total skill points learned in major, each individually being 3 or higher.
B = 7+ total skill points learned in major, should be 2 2 3 minimum for a B.
C = 5+ total skill points learned in major, or 2 2 1 for the minimum for a C.
F = Any 0s or more than two ones is an F.
Year 2:
A = 18+ total skill points learned in major, each individually being 6 or higher.
B = 15+ total skill points learned in major, Need one 6 and no more than one 4.
C = 12+ total skill points learned in major, or 4 4 4 for the minimum for a C.
D = anything that falls between.
F = Any 2s or two 3s is an F.
Year 3:
A = 27+ total skill points learned in major, each individually being 9 or higher.
B = 21+ total skill points learned in major, No 6s
C = 18+ total skill points learned in major, No 5s
F = Any 3s or two or more 4s is an F.
Year 4:
A = 30+ total skill points learned in major, each individually being 10 or higher. And at least rank 3 at work.
B = Minus half a grade for every skill point below 10, no 7s
C = Minus half a grade for every skill point below 9, no 6s
D = Anything in between.
F = Any 0s or more than two ones is an F.
* For every work rank not met take off half a grade. So an A would now be A-, so on and so forth.
* For every work rank exceeded add half a grade to a maximum of one full letter grade.
Best of luck! Feel free to post your numbers if you need help scoring yourself!
Graduation:
Complete 1 aspiration by graduation and you graduate with honors (🐸🐸🐸🐸 laude) if you have a B or higher. (30,000)
Complete 1 aspiration and get an A average you get a slightly higher honor (magna 🐸🐸🐸🐸 laude). (75,000)
Complete 2 or more aspirations with an A or higher and you graduate as valedictorian and highest honors (summa 🐸🐸🐸🐸 laude). (150,000)
Graduating without honors nets you 10,000 simoleons.
Then play the game however you want...
Or do an...
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Feel free to submit suggestions for variations or add-ons to put a unique twist on the UUC.
ULTIMATE UNIVERSITY LIFE CHALLENGE MODE!
Once completed you can, if you choose, move onto the second level. With the money you received you are now hired to become a dean as the previous dean has passed away. You have big shoes to fill! Using the money you must build a new dorm from the ground up and fill it with students. 6 for normal mode. 7 for hard. You can only control your dean. Based on their traits pick a major for them and help them succeed as best as possible. Count up the points based on their skill points once they all reach the end of their time to see if you won!
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I especially like that the honors are "Magnum Plum Laude" and "Summa Plum Laude!"
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Unintentional typos actually, but I liked it so I didn't change it. Haha.
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Oh, great! Thanks! I think I'll use her. Also, do you have a dorm? Or a building you would suggest for one?
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I will need to fill the dorm with the Dean and 6 students, only one of whom I play.
Because I'm lazy and don't feel like bull-dozing all the existing houses, I think I'll plop this in the GTW shopping world, which has only one residential lot--will that fulfill that requirement for no other residential houses?
And... let's see... Normal lifespan?
Oh! Also, what about skilling objects?
If I download a home for the dorm already loaded with skilling objects and career rewards and high emotional objects, is that ok?
With finances, I know that I have to end up with 1200, but what do I start with? Can I start with more in order to get skilling objects, or do I need to start with 20,000, then adjust to 1200?
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So you can spend all of it on skill up objects if you'd like and then just set the household funds to 1,200 Hrm. For the building, dorm wise. I should have written in that they should use the free real estate cheat and then go onto the lite.
How about we set it so that people do free real estate pick whatever they want as a dorm and then can spend all their money as they see fit. Which should make it interesting when the bills come. As the more elaborate the house the more expensive the bills will be. @CathyTea
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I have no capacity either, but I'm doing it anyway because I'm nuts.
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I just started a new one so I have to pace myself, but I am interested to see how it comes out for others in the meantime.
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Here's an idea that occurred to me: What if, for my other students, the ones I don't play, I downloaded Wonder Children? It would change it in some ways, for they're not straight out of CAS and are LOADED with skills and reward traits... but for my story, it would work, since I want to write about a first generation college student who feels intimidated by the smart skilled students around her, and I think it would be fun to watch Wonder Children in an ISBI-type situation.
If you feel this would interfere with testing, let me know, and I'll make or download straight-out-of CAS students for the ones I don't play.
I'm really enjoying letting the ideas rumble around for a little while until I have a chance to start this, and I think it's going to be an awesomely fun challenge with great storytelling possiblities!
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I may kinda use that idea though and maybe do a theme with really wacky characters for this one. Like a weird combination of characters and stuff to make it interesting.
I like that you only control one Sim in this (trying to get the skills/etc for all would be so difficult! Hahaha)
I think I might start planning this so its ready when one of my other LPs wraps up. I have 8 going right now so....hahaha.
- The Dean has to have all skill maxed -- I assume that means via cheat?
- Does the Dean live in the dorm?
- Are the Dorm and the Household the same thing?
- Why is it required to have 5 bedrooms?
- Is there any limit to how much can be spent on the dorm (can we kaching our way to fancy digs)? ((Answered by the Free Real Estate cheat, I assume))
- Don't all household funds get pooled? How can I keep the Dean's earning separate from my Sim's?
- Won't the other students' spending for food or other items reduce the household's funds?
- Should the Culinary Arts major have "pick 3" behind it?
- Should General Studies, Year 3 have another alternative to cooking?
- Should Years 1 and 3 have a letter grade D?
Sounds like fun! Very creative, well doneThe dean does live in the dorms.
The students should share rooms, two to each. And 5 is the MINIMUM for the rooms.
Dorm and Household will be all the same people for that particular dorm yes, you can place other dorms if you want other sims to interact with and pretend they are also in university.
One room for the dean. And the other rooms to split the girls and boys up if you decide to do so. It's just the minimum.
Yes, free dorm set up and then the household money can be used to add things as you wish.
You don't keep the funds separate in that sense, you just use it for dorm things. Instead of say, just spoiling your character. It's mostly for immersion. Since the goal is to also keep affording the bills, which is why not everyone will want to do a super expensive home because the Dean starts at level 1 at work.
And yup, that's why the Dean is the only sim working for the first two years, and then your sim gets the paid internship if the grades are high enough.
Yes, sorry! I must have accidentally left it out when converting everything over to the forums.
No, the or was supposed to be taken out, sorry.
They don't just because if it averages out to be that then you can take that grade, if that makes sense. It's just how the numbers worked out. Couldn't make a fair D.
Thanks for all the questions I'll fix all the issues you pointed out this evening and put them in the patch notes!
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I'm hoping to have the first post from her up tomorrow, and I might pop in before then if I suddenly have a question about how to proceed.
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The TOC page for the challenge story is https://cathytea.wordpress.com/other-stories/skill-u/
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
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I assumed it was their high school grade. I could be wrong.