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University and Rotation play help
verlainem
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I have on short seasons, normal life span. (this was originally my vanilla game that I ended up with some in game born kids I wanted to play)
I so far have been trying to play only one family but .... they grow up lol
I have the Curious family
and the Charm family that MCCC put together and I added some kids through CAS
The kids of the two families are friends and I want them to go to University together with a few others friends. I do not want to play the friends, just a select few.
We have the older two in a house currently in their first semester
The next set should go to university after this current semester.
I have not figured out how to do rotation in DU yet without turning aging off.
How do you handle University and how do you get the actually unplayed current YA into university?
I so far have been trying to play only one family but .... they grow up lol
I have the Curious family
and the Charm family that MCCC put together and I added some kids through CAS
The kids of the two families are friends and I want them to go to University together with a few others friends. I do not want to play the friends, just a select few.
We have the older two in a house currently in their first semester
The next set should go to university after this current semester.
I have not figured out how to do rotation in DU yet without turning aging off.
How do you handle University and how do you get the actually unplayed current YA into university?
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It is not easy to rotate while a sim is studying at uni. And having aging on.
I do this too.
My typical rotations are in 5 day intervals, so with a university term taking a week or more, it can throw off balanced aging, so turning off aging at least some of the time seems to be necessary.
Some other frustrations and challenges I've encountered include that once you complete a semester it will ask you to re-enroll... Problem is, if you enroll immediately and then rotate, they will continue with that semester while you're away. They may very well fail courses which causes issues or complete courses, which is also problematic if you want to play out the next semester when you return. Therefore, you end up needing to not re-enroll immediately, but that will sometimes cause the move out of university housing prompt to occur, so you have to move your sim into some other lot in another world until you're ready to play their next semester, at which point you have to move them back in.
Also, the OP had questions about unplayed sims in university. You can't have them enroll without playing them first. So, you do need to play those sims briefly to have them apply and enroll. At that point you can have them move into university housing and change their status back to unplayed. The problem I've noticed though is that unplayed sims don't make progress on their degrees. You therefore may need to go back into those households every rotation to get them enrolled in their next semester. The problem with this, as mentioned above, is that there is no guarantee they will actually successfully complete their credits, so it could take forever for them to actually get enough credits to graduate this way, if they ever do at all. The only sure way to have sims progress and complete their degree seems to be playing them.
I wonder if the modders have been able to solve this situation. I know if I was going to Uni I would want to have my friends go and succeed too.
I have a hard enough time to get played sims through Uni (using cheats to never let them sleep lol) and don't need to play all their friends and cousins too.
I've found that I can play a group of different sims in the same dorm. If I try to switch dorms or have some of them go to one dorm while the other does something else, that's just buggy frankly. I just tried it and it did not work. I decided to just continue playing one household and withdrew the other sims from uni for now. If I play with a group again, I need to just plan on keeping them in the same dorm the whole time.
They were definitely a challenge and had varied grades partly because their schedules were all chaotic and I wouldn't always be notified about the start of class. One or two sims are very manageable, but a larger group is going to end up with some sims with less than stellar grades. Those sims were also in athletics which was a challenge. I would only enroll sims in athletics with a lighter academic schedule in the future.
I was ok with not having everyone end up as valedictorians so I rolled with it. One sim failed several classes despite doing all of his work so I'm not sure he'll go back to uni at all which I'll work into his story. I think part of the issue is that with so many sims, they would sometimes be late to class.
The mechanics of rotational play for DU could definitely be better. I'll work around them to some degree but it means staggering when households go and sometimes using withdrawals if I want to make changes.
I will say, it was pretty fun having a bunch of them in one house, so much drama. A sim couple that were established were making out in the pub and another in the group who had never shown any interest in one of them got so upset. I guess she had flirted with him once while I wasn't looking. She got so moody and they started fighting and being awkward all the time around each other. That's part of why I needed to ultimately break them up as a household of roommates but it was realistic and not too boring.