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Your Discover University Rating!
SimTrippy
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Aaaaaaand here it is again, my "your _NEW Pack_ rating" thread 
Always love doing these & very curious to know how you guys feel about this one! I'll add my rating later on below.
Please remember, though, as always: this is supposed to be a helpful thread for those who are still on the fence about this pack. Feel free to voice your opinions, but don't go attacking others for theirs. And try to be a little objective.
So, without further ado: on a scale from 1 to 10 - 1 being "I wish I could return this atrocity" and 10 being "Simtastic, best pack ever" - how would YOU rate Discover University?
Always love doing these & very curious to know how you guys feel about this one! I'll add my rating later on below.Please remember, though, as always: this is supposed to be a helpful thread for those who are still on the fence about this pack. Feel free to voice your opinions, but don't go attacking others for theirs. And try to be a little objective.
So, without further ado: on a scale from 1 to 10 - 1 being "I wish I could return this atrocity" and 10 being "Simtastic, best pack ever" - how would YOU rate Discover University?
Your Discover University Rating! 155 votes
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4 votes
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10%
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37 votes
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Then there is the problem of Sims going to classes too early. They arrive few minutes too early and sometimes they get bored of waiting and decide to go back to dorm to get a glass of water. Good luck trying to cancel the action, especially when there are stairs on the way...
Funny you say that, I just finished watching Carl's review and that's exactly what he complains about too
Definitely not an issue in Britecheser!
> I love cas and most of the game play but going to classes is such a pain, at least in Foxbury. Those plumming stairs that make biking slower than walking, it takes 1-1,5 hours to get to the building. Sims usually leave early autonomously, but if you cancel it by accident, you're in trouble (=late).
> Then there is the problem of Sims going to classes too early. They arrive few minutes too early and sometimes they get bored of waiting and decide to go back to dorm to get a glass of water. Good luck trying to cancel the action, especially when there are stairs on the way... :s
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Overall, good solid pack. BB is good, gameplay is good, haven't looked at a lot of the CAS but what I've seen seems good. I'm really happy with it
The gameplay is just enjoyable. I like the different tasks you have to do for the classes. The organizations are fun to mess around with and a challenge to keep up with. I like that it’s actually hard and adds a good challenge to the game depending on how many classes you take. The amount of replayability with this pack is also a huge plus. I’ll use it frequently. The only downside is having to freeze aging during uni but that’s fine and not a huge deal gives me more time with my sims.
The world is also beautiful and you can swim in certain areas which is a cool plus. I also like having two campuses to choose from and how different they are. Ive still got a lot of exploring to do with this pack but it’s a top pack to me for the time being and I’m thinking it’s going to remain that way.
But I love this pack!
It helps the Sim skill up about 6-8 levels. And in a way, gives players the opportunity to tell the story of a mid-career switch through study, or the little rich girl not knowing what to focus on and just wants to try a bit of everything.
I can’t bear doing Mean and Mischief actions but that Villainy degree skills up my Sim who wants to be an Intergalactic Smuggler while maintaining a pristine reputation.
And the roommate system! OMG. Haha. I got to have my Sim choose a partner from meeting so many new Sims at university.
Even in base game, I can have a mansion and middle class family get tenants as they struggle to pay bills.
To me, this opens up so many options to do things that I previously wouldn’t do in the game (I know this is a game). And also opens other ideas that I hadn’t thought about in my storytelling.
like i said, 9 overall but a large penalty for the random generated sim dominion which is already a big problem in this game imo and uni made it even worse… and anyone who cared to read my nonsense knows i despise the random generated sims because of how much the game seems to favor them over premades and sims i housed for the purpose to be the townies i want to be part of the game instead of Genji Ghomari the pearshaped creep acting like he is all that even tho there is zero to him...
so the final verdict is a meager 6.. i will use some of the features but yeah… i will avoid the actual location as much as i can to reduce the explosive townie generation at least somewhat.
I have decided to wait for DU to come on sale before I purchase.
I had only experienced Foxbury when I gave my rating. There is something really wrong about Foxbury. Among all the bike & stairs problems there is a problem that my Sims don't get go to class early option on some days, one of my Sims in Foxbury hasn't gotten it at all for few days and he's been late on his classes all the time.
Britechester works perfectly for me. All my Sims get the option to go to class early every day, there hasn't been any problems.
I would like to raise my rating to 8. Foxbury gets 6 and Britechester gets 9 from me. I love living in dorms and I love the dorm mates having different personalities.
Also, I need a mod that shortens the time required to graduate. I mean really, a minimum of three weeks? I've done just about everything you can do in college.....and I still have another week and a half before my Sim graduates. This is honestly my pet peeve of the College expansions ever since Sims 2. Too much time being put into college, you send one Sim to college and after doing everything in one semester/term you have no desire to ever send another Sim to college. Was hoping they'd fix that on their third try at making a university expansion.
Just my honest Nitpicks. I like the activities and all that but....good golly.....
It takes ages to go to class in Foxbury, and I liked how that made me pay a lot of attention to my sims' schedules so that they dropped everything before the 1-hour warning and going to class early. I found it frustrating that there was no indication as to which building I was supposed to go for each class, and that there was no manual option to go to class whether early or on time. As others have mentioned, bicycles were useless (I sold it) but brooms were fun, especially because they used the balcony as their landing area.
In Britechester, Darkwing House was broom-unfriendly, as the landing area was on the roof, and my sims got stuck many times. Other than that, it was very well designed - it's clear that was the uni they put most of their efforts in.
With the exception of Honeydew Fields, all the lots were very well made. I disagree with the complaints that Foxbury Commons is too empty, as I found it often bustling with students. Not a problem, I copied and slightly modified Mossy Lane for Honeydew.
Robotics/engineering was fun, it feels like a real accomplishment to build an exomech suit or servo. My only complaint here is the colour options, specifically, where is the red helmet? There's red for everything else.
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