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University Speculation: Will weather work in University world? (Seasons)
sam123
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Quick question. This is Seasons related (in a way). Firstly I think that University will be one new town with lots of campuses and places to visit like a coffee shops and random hang out spots.
How do you guys think they will combine University into the Sims 3? Will it be one town? Or a few new lots to place in your current world.
Also, will weather work in this new town or will it stop, like in the WA worlds how time has stopped? Is time stopped while in the university world?
I also hope they bring back hobbies or something similar so that they can expand on other EP's from the Sims 2 and make the game worth it.
How do you guys think they will combine University into the Sims 3? Will it be one town? Or a few new lots to place in your current world.
Also, will weather work in this new town or will it stop, like in the WA worlds how time has stopped? Is time stopped while in the university world?
I also hope they bring back hobbies or something similar so that they can expand on other EP's from the Sims 2 and make the game worth it.
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I would hope that any additional worlds that we get with future EPs (University Included) will be enabled for Seasons. I think it would be a great feature for University, because classes could be cancelled (just like school for children, teens) if there is too much snow.
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Also, relating to this, do you think EA will create a new age group or will young adults go to college? I'm personally hoping for a "student" age group...
In TS2 I'm 99% sure it rained at university. It definitely did in the Bon Voyage locations. I remember one of my sims getting struck by lightning near the huge pirate ship in Twikkii Island (BTW, my spellchecker suggested replacing "Twikkii" with "🐸🐸🐸🐸." Just felt like sharing that).
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We have mods for weather in WA worlds. So it was not hard to add weather in WA worlds.
I do not understand why EA did not enabled weather in WA worlds. Moders managed to do it almost instantly after Seasons is realesed.
That said, I don't see why seasons can't be included anyway...
It needs to be a new subneighbourhood not just trying to add more lots into our overcrowded worlds .
If they tried adding it into the towns we already have it will cause chaos , due to the fact most simmers at some time have redesigned or rebuilt on their town lots or placed extra lots in their towns which they would not want to lose .
I just hope they add a new age into the sims as i do not want YA's to spend all their time at Uni .
Hopefully they might also add proper dating and meals in restaurants into Uni seeing how a lot of what was in Ts2 Uni is already in game in TS3 like the musical instruments
Also, they had Seasons in TS2 Universtiy worlds, why not TS3?
Yes but moders enabled weather in WA world without any problems. So it was not difficult for EA to do the same.
However, if the University town (IF there even is a university town [but doubted that it would be incorporated in an open world) would be a sub-neighborhood, and in sub-neighborhoods of world adventures weather/seasons doesn't work.
They were able to add specific seasons to WA worlds. We are able to turn off specific seasons. So they were able to enable only Summer in Egypt for example.
There is no seasons because there is no time. And random weather such as "rain today, sun tomorrow, snow the day after tomorrow" would be ridiculous, especially in world like Egypt.
Mod that allows weather in adventure worlds allows moving in/out, staying there, getting a job in a vacation world etc. It's not exactly the same
I can understand them not wanting it to snow in Egypt for the purpose of remaining as true to the country as possible. Also it wouldn't make sense for the 'Egypt specific' animations such as sims randomly wiping sweat from their foreheads and taking a swig of water from a bottle or locals walking around in traditional Arabian gear.
It would be a huge step back if weather wasn't enabled in Uni and would probably anger a lot of players...
P.s: We have no way of knowing and can only speculate at this point whether or not Uni will work like WA with regards to the passage of time for example.
Given EA's story progression, working like WA worlds is the best case scenario. Not working like them only starts sliding downhill, and quickly heads towards unplayability for most people long before we hit the worst case scenario.
it works with WA worlds.
Without any problems? :shock: . Traveler is a great mod and I refuse to play without it but do you know how many changes Twallan had to make to the current travel system in order for it to work? First of all the travel system is buggy to be begin with, second he had to allow the vacation worlds to be treated as regular worlds (something I'm guessing EA never intended to happen with Vacation worlds), third he had to unlock the ability to travel to ALL other worlds, then make changes to accommodate all EPs. It had a lot of bugs at the beginning stages and some people are still experiencing issues.
Unless if EA starts treating the vacation worlds as "regular" worlds like twallan did, I don't see how they could make Seasons works there.
I do hope that University has weather in it as well as the ability to travel back and forth. It would be nice to have sims leave around Winter time to spend the holidays with their families.
The real reason is what Urosh explained below
And the mod will remove the restriction of "no time" in the WA worlds allowing them to have season.
If University has a sub-hood like WA worlds, then I don't think there will be season in University world
If University is only a new lot to be placed in any world, then yes, there will be season.
You know what *I* say? Tough cookies! You guys wanted University, you whined, you petitioned, you came up with all these grand and very detailed schemes, some of which the game could never handle, and now EA has given in to your demands. But are you happy? N-o-o-o...the University location had better have weather OR else! Or else what? You stomp your feet, throw a temper tantrum and fill the new university forum with flames trashing EA because the development team didn't cave in to your demands?
MY best speculation is that it will more than likely be a vacation world, possibly with a variety of educational insitutions in it...a true University town with more than one college. And it will work like the Vacation worlds where your Sim spends x # of days (maybe 4 days per semester), completes a variety of tasks and then gets credit for that particular semester. Then they get to come home 30 minutes after they left, wait 3 days and go back for the next semester. We might see some community lots that can be put in the regular towns.
At the very least I hope they convert the public school to have night classes (there's already a mod for that) so you don't have to send your YA's to University unless you want to. Also, your teens should be offered the option to go off to Uni immediately after they age up to YA. They can get a taste of the college experience, but if it doesn't suit them, they can come home and continue to take night classes or online classes. That was one of the things that Sims 2 players wanted: the option NOT to have to send their teens to Uni, but to have them play Young Adults in the neighborhood.
If I were EA, that's how *I* would do it, and I wouldn't worry about the weather or lack thereof in a University world.
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Because I believe that University will be the same as the worlds in World Adventures. You won't age, and you would have a count down till you went back to your town. And there is no reason why weather wouldn't work in University. It worked in Sims 2, why not sims 3?