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Simmers that don't like University: What should they add for you to get it?
Louise_G0325
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University is one of the most requested packs out there for any sims iteration. There are, however, simmers that aren't interested in this topic (myself included). Of course though, there are things in many packs that attract players that would otherwise not care for the topic.
What would TS4: University/Get to School have to include for you to be interested enough to buy it?
The pack should add more than one new career (ex: educator, engineer [chemical, environmental or technology branches] etc), new branches in existing careers and a generous handful of new skills and activities (example: theater, choir, miming, ballet etc.), for it to be worth buying for me.
It would also be fun if sims can volunteer as test subjects for experiments, research projects etc. for extra money (but things could go wrong!). Sims can also volunteer to be nude models for the art students (either gives sim a rush or makes them quite mortified) etc.
I hope that there are two active Uni/School options for your kids and students to choose from - public school or private school for kids and teens, and grand (Harvard-esque) or budget for uni. Having dynamic choices that differ a lot in aesthetic will make the pack more replayable for me and also help establish social classes, which are always fun. I also looooove building/decorating, so the build/buy that come from these styles will be great for me to play around with.
The pack would also have to come with a new neighbourhood/world, even if it's only like the neighbourhood with the hospital and police station from GTW. I'd like if the pack comes with a small (maybe 10 lots) world that contains all the schools, universities and hostels in the world, as well as hangouts for students. I don't know how Universities in TS4 would work, but I'm guessing that it won't be like TS3 where the world freezes and you only play with your uni student sims until they graduate. If sims can live in this new world (even if only during their uni-going years), I hope that living as a student brings enough uniqueness and fun to give me a reason to send them there.
New worlds always make me happy because I love new environments and aesthetic surroundings for my sims. The world that Uni comes with, could be really stunning.
As for fun things:
Sims giving each other tatoos or going to a salon for professional ones.
Being super artsy (slam poetry nights, art films, THEATER etc).
New games and activities like pool, table tennis, juice pong, spin the bottle etc.
Many convenient, unhealthy recipes and delivery options (instant ramen, more pizza flavours, Chinese take-out etc)
These things will make the pack worth buying to me, even if I barely ever actually send my sims to Uni.
What would TS4: University/Get to School have to include for you to be interested enough to buy it?
The pack should add more than one new career (ex: educator, engineer [chemical, environmental or technology branches] etc), new branches in existing careers and a generous handful of new skills and activities (example: theater, choir, miming, ballet etc.), for it to be worth buying for me.
It would also be fun if sims can volunteer as test subjects for experiments, research projects etc. for extra money (but things could go wrong!). Sims can also volunteer to be nude models for the art students (either gives sim a rush or makes them quite mortified) etc.
I hope that there are two active Uni/School options for your kids and students to choose from - public school or private school for kids and teens, and grand (Harvard-esque) or budget for uni. Having dynamic choices that differ a lot in aesthetic will make the pack more replayable for me and also help establish social classes, which are always fun. I also looooove building/decorating, so the build/buy that come from these styles will be great for me to play around with.
The pack would also have to come with a new neighbourhood/world, even if it's only like the neighbourhood with the hospital and police station from GTW. I'd like if the pack comes with a small (maybe 10 lots) world that contains all the schools, universities and hostels in the world, as well as hangouts for students. I don't know how Universities in TS4 would work, but I'm guessing that it won't be like TS3 where the world freezes and you only play with your uni student sims until they graduate. If sims can live in this new world (even if only during their uni-going years), I hope that living as a student brings enough uniqueness and fun to give me a reason to send them there.
New worlds always make me happy because I love new environments and aesthetic surroundings for my sims. The world that Uni comes with, could be really stunning.
As for fun things:
Sims giving each other tatoos or going to a salon for professional ones.
Being super artsy (slam poetry nights, art films, THEATER etc).
New games and activities like pool, table tennis, juice pong, spin the bottle etc.
Many convenient, unhealthy recipes and delivery options (instant ramen, more pizza flavours, Chinese take-out etc)
These things will make the pack worth buying to me, even if I barely ever actually send my sims to Uni.
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Also, a teaching career is a must. Plus give kids and teens more after school activities and DIFFERENT ones at that. Kids and teens have different interests, give them after school activities that reflect that.
Things that would get me excited about a University pack:
Maybe sports, perhaps? That could include child/teen after school activities also. I am appreciating the scouts and drama club for giving my kids more goals, so they could use that mechanic. But also more sports objects besides basketball.
Bands came with university in sims2, so they'd be nice here too. And my teens could start a garage band.
Speaking of garages, university wouldn't be a bad time to add cars if they're ever going to. Going off to college is when some people get their first car after all. Plus car repair/restoration could be one of the classes offered.
I'd almost prefer a community college kind of vibe, where they can take classes in various skills, and teens and elders and adults could take evening and/or online classes. And a mechanic where your sims could teach these classes even outside university, for example at the gym or the museum or library if you put a specific object in the room any sim could lead a class there.
I never played Sims3, so I don't know how university worked there. But I'd definitely prefer the Sims4 version to be more integrated than it was in Sims2, with the campus existing in a normal livable town rather than whole worlds just for students. So, in order to have realistic populations on campus lots, this would be a good opportunity to add lot traits to specify that a lot attracts and/or is limited to certain types of sims. This could include age ranges (I really want a teen hangout spot option) and also specific groups such as university students, supernaturals, celebrities, etc. And I want all such traits to be available for us to assign, not background code for premade lots.
I like the idea of having schools that you can choose to live at, or commute from home, or go online. I like the ideas of more clubs and hobbies for kids and teens. Basically it has to have so much more added gameplay than just "you can send your Sims to school and then to a few new added careers". I will have to be convinced to buy into a uni/school pack, because I remember playing in TS2 and being bored to tears, especially since the entire YA lifestage was spent at college (please never do this again let college be shorter or customizable with short/normal/long like with aging).
I also think it should be optional to attend. I'd only occasionally follow my sims to school/uni if I actually have a plan for that day, want to make friends etc. Otherwise it'd be really boring just watching my sims watch sims give lectures.
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The developers would have to offer something that I cannot yet simulate with the normal game and EPs. Maybe a superhero or magic school that comes with a system where the students have to keep the secret about the institute? But how to implement that? Just making sure not to use powers/magic in sight of another sim isn't enough. I can check that myself already, don't need the game to monitor it.
If the pack offered a real dueling system unlike that *swearword* sparring where I cannot recognize which sim won, that would seal the deal for me, I think. Or even a boring normal university, but with a focus on sports competitions, preferably team Vs. team.
I agree with everything here except tying hobbies to majors, as I may want to use those with sims I don't want to take time sending through university (unless there is a cheat to unlock them). Everything else would be awesome.
I guess at that point it would have to be a different pack from University but it's what I really want.
As to what can be done for Uni I don't know...it just needs to actually be interested I enjoyed it in Sims 2 and Sims 3 but after one or two times it was just boring and I didn't bother to send them unless i wanted a specific aspiration or career to be available to a sim.
SimBots. I've been wanting new life states for a while, and you could totally work SimBots into the science and technology departments. ^_^
I'd love to see dormitories, of course. And apartments.
Bunk beds would be huge. If bunk beds and loft beds were included, I might buy the pack just for them. I would likely get University eventually no matter what, but these things would make the difference between an immediate purchase and just waiting for a sale or for another game pack to be released so I can build a custom bundle with it.
Wild parties wild makeouts,woohooty text etc
A full Campus World, not a hidden world. I want t to be able to Install my own Buildings and Colleges even High School.
To be able to choose the name the school, the school Colors, and the Mascot.
To be able to Staff the school with my own sims, So to become Professor as an active Career, that can branch into 5 Paths
And for Students focusing on at least 1 Major. but being able to take on 3.
Arts {Painting, Sketching, Photography, Theatre/Acting, Music, Comedy, Cooking, Landscaping}
Literature and History {Writing, Reading, Research, Law, Myth and Lore, Adventure}
Science, Math, Medicine {Logic, Mixology, Chemistry, Biology, Anatomy, Psychology, Herbalism.}
Sports {Soccer, Football, Basketball, Wrestling, Swimming, etc}
And if you want to move up the Administrative (Career only) path you can.
My Mood:
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
This is why I hate the idea of "opening up the schools". Not only would it be boring, but it would be other "well, I have to choose which one I want to play and ignore the others". I only play the active careers in single Sim households because of this very reason.
- Prep school (toddlers) (skill boost and get them out of my face)
- Private school (child-teen) like ts2
- Boarding school (child-teen) like ts3
- University (YA+) where you actively go with the sim to campus. This technically could also apply to boarding schools but I'd like an option to just send them away like ts3. I would like multiple uni options (while pretty much similar gameplay), but I mean an Ivy League(better dorms, higher tuiton), respected middleground college and a community college (underfunded, kinda run down)
- university online, getting a degree from home, attend classes on a laptop conference and take tests etc on a uni portal (freedom to get perks of uni without always having to go to uni)
Also featuring
Keg party
Toga party
Sororitys and Frats (and a Greek system may be like the fame system)
Pool table
"Juice" pong
Sofa beds
Poker table
Speakeasy venues
Poetry night (like star accolades randomly occuring)
Freshers fair (festival deal start of term)
Scholarships
Building a teen/child's college application, ie like a file or computer activity where they update when they win the excellence bunny, or master scouts/skill, volunteer, get an A, get into private school etc. This to me will make a difference in sims applications, it could also be a hidden counter too that determines scholarship or acceptance letters.
And there's too many careers that would fit into this pack as a school pack but definitely an education branch(eg going from substitute teacher to principal), a tutoring job could also work for teens to kids or YA to teens at home.
Edit sidenote
If they did make boarding schools active (seems similar to uni to me?), it would lay a basis for including a magical school of wizardry like Hogwarts (Putterhead Stuff makes some brilliant sims themed houses and all) as a boarding school in a later magical/witches pack
since University is a theme that I absolutely don't care for I feel like it's not in my place to say what I think needs to be in it. I hope they make it good for those who want it and that I can at least enjoy the CAS/Build aspect of it. That's honestly all I ever ask for when it comes to themes I don't like.
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