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wylmite1986
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So I love doing the university part, but I sort of wish it didn't take so long. Anybody else like that or is it just me? I just feel like the studying and just university itself takes a long time.
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I know that it's realistic that studying is hard, but I'm not interested of reality in games, I play to escape the reality and University on Sims 4 is just not my favorite thing. I also don't like the fact that you can start careers on higher levels when you graduate. I want my Sims to experience every level on their careers, otherwise I feel like there's something missing.
Choosing wisely which homework to do is a big time-saver.
The only sims of mine who do all their homework are the ones who want straight A+ grades. Most of them get a mix of As and Bs and have an actual life. More fun that way.
It feels academics heavy.
I mostly focus on academics and interacting with the dormies.
I tend to make-over dormies a lot and play with their traits. Taking lighter course loads gives you more time for fun, but it stretches out your time at uni.
I also have a prep-school for teens going to University.
The school is also a rotation point for taking turns at university. I send them in groups of three and come back when two terms are over.
When a group returns to the prep school, I also rotate around to other households to progress them and leave all the students at the prep-school. Or I might take turns having the students visit home to reconnect with family, or I might just send a group of them on vacation to Mt. Komorebi, Batuu, Sulani, or Selvadorada. Whatever I feel like doing.
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I like to make some go to uni as there are certain jobs I feel need a degree to get into (just for my own play).
I think it would have been more suitable for it to be 8 classes for a pass instead of 12. Sims lives aren't tremendously long and a minimum of 3 semesters does seem like too big a chunk. I tend to turn ageing off for 2 semesters, but it still seems like a long time in their lives.
I might be taking you too literally.
I take notes in class, make sure to do well on the term papers/presentations/exams, and try to do the homework (maybe I could relax a bit with that). I enjoy a max of 3 classes per term, but then that does take an extra term, and it’s a slog either way. I just find there’s no time for fun if they take 4 classes and I do want them to have some fun experiences. Maybe I should just make peace with the idea that some might fail or drop out. I’m about to put 15 sims through, heaven help me. I’ll only play 4 sims at a time through uni and it’s gonna take forever!
I sent a total of one Sim to University. It was a struggle because I have no real life time management skills, but end the end, it was worth it. She ended up becoming a very successful judge.
I consider it boring too, might not have been so boring if they were actually in class instead of a rabbit hole. As far as experiencing all levels of a job, why don’t you just have them graduate in a different major than their careers?
What I like the least about this is how long semesters are in comparison with the normal lifespan of sims, without any action they risk using most of their young adult stage just to graduate. Making some maths, I calculated that with my game settings 6 sims-days correspond to 4 years in real life, and so I started to turn off aging after 6 sims-days at the university. For me this seems to be working quite well.
I always set aging off during Uni, for that reason.
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So hell yes I agree with you that it takes too long. I always turn aging off, or at least leave it on for one day a week. Seriously, in those three weeks you're in college, that one little kid that lived next door might end up enrolling in college right after you leave, that's how long it takes.
I think they did a good job balancing that...in Sims 2, the Young Adult stage existed purely for college students. Teens who didn't go to college instantly aged up to Adult and lost the chance to do college life. If you send a sim to college directly out of high school, aging them up to enroll them, and do three full terms plus graduation day, you'll usually be right on the cusp of aging up to a "regular" adult, essentially just like in Sims 2.
Or, if you do the Academic aspiration, you could just spend 1500 of the points you get during university (you get well over double that from going all the way through it) on a Potion of Youth post-graduation.
As for the main discussion, most of my sims get degrees, but sometimes I just don't want to be bothered with committing to the time investment involved. If I have a specific career in mind for the sim in question, I'll get them the relevant degree just because of how incredibly powerful the rewards are even for sims that weren't born and raised to be "super sims"—my celebrity chef character has a +16 bonus beyond level 10 and makes over 800 simoleons an hour, or 19,200 in a 24-hour, four-day workweek. Her husband is just +4 as a pro athlete and makes 373 an hour and 11,190 a 30-hour week. Of course that's dwarfed by their both having the Shrewd reward trait and making over 100,000 between them off the family fortune each week, but...
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