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uni, rotational play & holidays
BabySquare
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I don't know if this has been answered already, but how is attending uni going to work if you play rotationally?
If you rotate once a week or so like I do, I'm assuming that it'll be like working up through a career track, ie, I'm assuming your progress at uni 'freezes' when you're not the active household, and that you'd pick up where you left off when you play them again?
Also, what if you have seasons installed, and have a holiday (with it set to day off work & school, such as xmas) and you have a uni class fall on that day? does that class roll over to the next scheduled day like work days do?
If you rotate once a week or so like I do, I'm assuming that it'll be like working up through a career track, ie, I'm assuming your progress at uni 'freezes' when you're not the active household, and that you'd pick up where you left off when you play them again?
Also, what if you have seasons installed, and have a holiday (with it set to day off work & school, such as xmas) and you have a uni class fall on that day? does that class roll over to the next scheduled day like work days do?
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How it works wasn't answered, but one of the SimGurus (SimGuruAzure, I think) said she played with seasons and didn't notice any disruption to her classes.
Yeah I'm aware of her saying that too, and I think what she meant by that was she hadn't had any classes fall on the same day as a day off holiday (which would count as disruption) but I want to know what happens if they do fall on te same day.
I thought so too - can't in fact think of a reason why it would be different, but I want to sure. Maybe when people have been playing for a while someone can confirm it.
As for rotational, I hope sims won’t progress unless you play them. I’m considering having my sims doorms as residential lots and adding roommates myself instead of risk having them thrown out of their dorm since they’re not students anymore anyway, Just to be safe.
Based on the idea that toddlers age from 1-5 years in7 days. So 1 week = 4 years.
Each term is 5 days, not counting weekends, so one week. With a max of 4 classes per term and 12 classes required, so a minimum of 3 weeks.
If I focus solely on my university sims, and the don't stay at home with their family, I could give them a potion of youth after two terms and they'd only age 4 years. But I'd have to play them for three weeks while playing the family for one week in the same rotation to keep everyone in sync. In my experience, that will make me bored with university because I will have to play through so much of it before I can rotate to someone else.
But I have to think about it a little longer. There's probably a way to make it work for me. I've already decided to wait a generation so I have some time to consider the options.
Good question about holidays and class time.
-You can perhaps choose to pause aging on all sims for a week if you like.
-Or do two weeks of Uni, take a break with the family for one week and then go back for the final stretch and end it with a bang.
I also play rotationaly and experiment with things to see what I like. Will do a test save to try Uni in before starting my precious main-save. Good luck.