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University Too Long?
wylmite1986
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Anybody else think it takes too long to finish university? I know I might have shot myself in the foot but I had my Sim do 4 terms for this next semester. Weird question but is there a cheat to finish university? probably not but thought I'd ask or see if I'm not alone. lol
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TS2 University: 8 semesters @ 74 hours/semester = 24 days and 16 hours (3.5 weeks)
TS3 University Life: 48 credits @ 18 credits/week = 3 weeks (minimum) (can be shortened to two weeks through aptitude testing)
TS4 Discover University: 12 classes @ 4 classes/week = 3 weeks
Looks about right to me, based on previous university packs.
But overall yes I agree it's long. Perhaps also because of the way sims 4 worlds work - you can't really not play your uni sims or they will fail and be put on probation. Guess that's the one major benefit of having uni in a totally separate world (even though I didn't much like it and barely any of my sims 3 have degrees for that very reason.)
However, there is one small detail: in previous chapters, a sim's lifetime was frozen while being in university. So these three weeks just passed out really quickly while the sim was studying or having fun. In TS4 you have to spend all of your "young adults" age for graduating university. Since "young adultness" is something like 18-35 years old in The Sims 4, I think it's a bit unrealistically.
On the other side, in TS4 a sim can work or start a family while studying at university.
If you switch to long life while at uni, and then back to normal when they graduate, the amount of aging from while at Uni is proportional. (It's early, don't ask me to do the math on specifics.) Of course, this won't work as well if you have multiple sims/sim families going to Uni in overlapping but staggered times.
Also, subsequent degrees after your first take 8 credits, rather than 12.
I do that too, together with a mod to reduce credits. I play in short lifespan and change it to long during uni. 2 weeks in long (14 days) are aprox 2 days in short. Long lifespan is 8 times bigger than short so 8 days in long equals 1 day in short.
On the other hand, it's good to have a sim or two taking it one day at time in universities, have some fun around the campuses and activities, struggling with bicycles etc. College is still a year or two from me IRL so I had some fun doing all that
I play with 4 semesters for most sims. In a lot of cases now, they will go in groups and not all of them will get straight As. That's more realistic anyway. I'll only send individual sims if I'm really interested in them. Right now, I'm playing these Goth third cousins who are going through university. They interest me and I'm just playing the two of them. I try to avoid it being repetitive by doing something a little bit different each time.
I'd like settings for easier rotational play between terms but generally, I'm fine. Yes, I know the work around, I just wish it were more straightforward to rotate.
I'll add that I play university with aging off or nearly entirely off. I want my university sims to be more developed intellectually and to still have time while young. I really like how the sims differentiate if they've gone to university or not. The ones who have are more skilled and focused. I also play with some households that willfully rejected university and it's interesting to have that dynamic.
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True, but you can easily turn aging off, which has exactly the same effect.