My sim lives on campus and keeps missing her class. Class times are so short, if your not right there at the door waiting to go in, your sims isn't making it on time. The campus takes too long to navigate thru. Now she is failing because it takes too long to walk there. The bike is a joke, I actually deleted it from her inventory because I though that was the cause of her being late, with all the time it took to take it out, use the kick stand, and the silly routes it took her. There needs to be a go to class early option.
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Anyway, here's what I do and it hasn't failed me yet with two students both who have graduated with an A+ GPA and honors for their degrees:
1. First class of a new term, send your Sim to either of the Commons lots, depending on which University they are attending an 1-1/2 hrs early. Once the clock runs down to an hour before class, they will head to the correct building on their own so you know where to go for the next class.
2. For all classes after the first class, send your Sim to the Commons 40-45 minutes early and then click on the ground in front of the building for their class choosing 'walk here'. They'll walk there and be ready to go when it's time for class. Most of the time they'll be early enough to do some things to fill needs if you wish instead of just standing there waiting; do homework, call a friend, eat a harvestable, play some games on their cell, etc. Just be sure to stop whatever they're doing a few minutes before class to give them time to stop and disappear to go in the building.
I hope this makes sense and helps!
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* Note - This method was used with Sims who had no autonomy. I'm a micromanage freak. lol I don't know if it would work for Sims with full autonomy. They might try to run off and do something else and you'd still be late. Worth a try anyway I guess. *shrugs*
Good luck and Happy Simming!
I prefer my Sim living off campus, though.
If you are getting only 5 minutes to get to the next class and that is located in another building, you can go to my Answer HQ thread here and click "me too" to make EA aware of it.
Oop you know what, I use this mod lol totally forgot
Thank you for the link to the above thread, I'll click "me too." While I don't use mods and use the 'teleport here' cheat in this situation, Simmers shouldn't have to do either one. Hopefully, an adjusted schedule will be implemented in an upcoming patch so this doesn't happen anymore. Thanks again!
The best advice I can give is to simply not live on campus, because when your sim goes to class from home, they just step out of the door and disappear as usual. Yes, the game warns you that you'll "miss the full university experience" by choosing to stay at home, but I think that's an awful experience anyway, not least because of the time management problem.
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I don't use MCCC.
Do to the fact of being late is what made my Sims overall averaged a C+ at the end of semester even though I did all the hard work.
So next term, she's moving closer!
I have only ever played in Britechester University and have not had a problem with sims being late to class. All the buildings are close by with no stairs so they get there fairly quickly whether they bike it or walk. I don't think I will send any sims to Foxbury now though, sounds hellish.
I was wondering if maybe the bike was making them late somehow. I’m going to delete it next time.
I think the taking notes in class and studying for the exams bumps up the grades though
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In seven terms played, my Sims have been late for class (to the extent that it affected their performance) twice. That's on me, for trying to cram too much in, and delaying their departure.
This is not a particularly helpful comment.
Foxbury is particularly egregious, and it’s not just due to individual time management skills or even just the layout of the campus (although that doesn’t help). The worst thing with Foxbury is that 95% of the time, even when my sims have nothing else queued, and even when they get the prompt to leave for class an hour ahead of time, and I let them do it without interfering in any way with other actions, they will immediately leave the dorm and start walking toward class, but then just stop and the prompt disappears after the first set of stairs, just before they reach the central green.
Other times, I will have them leave for class two hours early and just have them stand outside the correct building. Even if I close out all other actions five to ten minutes before class starts, they will rarely go to class autonomously even if standing right next to the building. Instead, I have to click on the “go to Class” option in the jobs tab, which does not appear until class has already started, so they are always st least ten minutes late to class, even if I’m hyper-vigilant.
This does NOT happen with Britechester, only with Foxbury. So granted, yes, you can learn to be aware of these things and work around them, but it’s not simply a question of user error.
I think the Sims should mimic life and not necessarily be just like the real world. Getting to class late has happen to quite a few simmers that play Foxbury. I started this thread to see if anyone was having the same prob and hopefully get a devs attention so we could get a 'go to class early' option.
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Now I am playing with my Sims 2 Broke family in the poor neighbourhood in Willow Creek. Brandi was expecting a baby, but she gave birth to twin girls after eating too many strawberries and watching the kids channel with Beau. Because her family is so poor, I considered sending Skip to University since he was just working part time on the weekends anyway as a lawn mower and I found he got accepted into one distinguished program, the Biology one at Foxbury. Before, I didn't care about these issues for my other Sims, but now, I really want Skip to become a distinguished marine biologist, so there will be more tragic gameplay when he drowns mysteriously on Sulani island and becomes a ghost. Nothing I do can make him get to school on time. I gave Brandi a full time job and put the twins in daycare, and she disappears off the front step to get to work. When Skip goes to school, he just starts running through the whole neighborhood like he's jogging and then disappears to go to class when he reaches the furthest part of the neighborhood and by then he's late. I played another family in Willow Creek and they didn't have this issue, they just disappeared off the front step. When I try to take him to Foxbury Heights, it's just hard, it's just really hard. I don't play with mods, but I'm just praying for someone to make a mod called Foxbury Flat where the terrain is now all one level...
Yes. As I already noted above.
But let's say your class starts at 9 a.m.: the button does not appear until 9:00 sharp. So even if you have cougar-like reflexes, and click on it instantly, your sims are still slow AF, and by the time the homework notebook appears in their hands, and they actually walk into the building, it's 9:10 or 9:15 before they are actually in class.
Dashing off 15 mins before class starts is more like it. Uni Sims should have a special walk style to get to class - mad insane dash.