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Cas is one of DUs strong points. They really blew the hairstyles and clothing out of the water.
I do appreciate a most people like the cas from DU and it seems very on trend. Personally I don’t like it and have little use for it for my sims. I think that sort of style is not for me and my gameplay. I think I am in the minority with this with not liking the cas and bb as it seems to be the strong point of the pack with a lot of simmers
I 'mist' them stairs, Lilith's gift, you see? I'm more concerned by non-vampire sims' exhaustion. Makes the plasma taste bad, somehow Also, makes them late at courses.
What’s really lame:
-There are hardly any sims around campus. When I go to class I’m the only student walking in the door. Where is everyone? It feels fake.
-Bikes don’t take you far on campus and walking up two flights of stairs takes nearly 45 minutes.
-Parties are a joke. Where are the juice keg parties with sims running around naked and dancing? Where are the bonfire parties with togas? My sims has only seen one party. He wasn’t invited but a roommate threw it. There was no music. No sims were drinking from the keg I put out. There were about 5 sims there and they just stood around talking...
-Being on the soccer team is pointless. You don’t see games and you don’t practice with teammates. Every practice my sim plays energetically and very practice he gets an injury. Every time. He also got an injury in the last game and was sent out early. All it’s doing is taking up my sims time and making him uncomfortable because he’s consistently injured.
-All of the classes my sims has taken are rabbit holes. No more outside class painting on easels or working with skeletons or anything.
That’s my assessment so far. It just mostly sucks and makes me long for TS3. I loved university for TS3. The parties were crazy, There were lots of sims to meet. Classes were fun. I miss the protests and the general liveliness around campus. I miss the bowling alley and the places around campus and town to hang. DU is just lacking. I’m trying to find a way to make it fun and it’s not working.
Nope can't say that I have
Take the "college town". The buildings surrounding the library are all the same! I understand not putting playable lots, but it really makes no sense to plop a bar right in the middle of what seems to be a neighborhood full of residential houses...
The main part of the campus (the quad, I guess?) is SO EMPTY! It's literally just a lawn and a statue. Since there seems to be only five random sims on campus at all times, it makes everything look even more desolate. I mean it's a quad! They couldn't at least make it a lot? Imagine how nice it would look if there were more activities or at least food stands?
I was picturing a hustling bustling university campus with all kind of activities going on.
Sometimes I wonder if it would be better if they could assign certain townies specific roles so they atleast "look like" they have a life.
I live in a college town in England and this is exactly how it is. Bars here are pubs and they're treated like restaurants rather than just drinking kind of places. Kids are allowed inside during the day and it's more like your "iHop" or "Denny's" than an actual "bar". I think this is maybe what the sims team is going for here. You can walk about any residential area long enough, and within a few minutes you will come across a pub, just seeming in among the houses. For me, this set up is normal. I did grow up in North America though, so I do see where you are coming from and neighbourhoods there are just not set up like that.
I agree. I'm bored with this EP, too. There are so many things in this game, in every EP and GP, that I've loved, so I thought the university would be a great experience. I really enjoyed it in TS3. But now I don't know.
I sent my spelcaster there, and thought it would be nice for her to have those Potions of Plentiful Needs with her, so she wouldn't necessarily need to sleep, if there were other things to do for her. And I only gave her two classes at first, because I wanted her to have the whole experience with all the parties and everything else.
But here's what happened: She slept soundly through every night, because the only things I could think for her to do most of the time were doing homework or studying or writing a course paper, which meant just fast forwarding for me. Well, at least she did pretty well. I put her in the soccer team, which just meant fast forwarding while she was at the practise. Then I found the UBrite Spirit Corps, which I had her join so she could party a bit. Well, she did get these nice tasks to taunt a student of the other university and stuff, but other than that, there was one party that was kind of lame. So, I don't think she will enrol another semester or ever graduate. If I really wanted her to, I guess I could just give her as many classes as possible and fast forward with her just studying and studying, but I don't want to do that.
I suppose I'm kind of curious about the robotics lab at that other university. Perhaps she could try that one. But if Foxbury's not different in any other way, then I guess I'll just try to enjoy the clothes and hair and stuff that came with the EP, and forget studying.
1) Where I chose to live..when people come to visit they just pop up in my apt, they'll stand there for awhile w/ the option to "Invite In", but if I don't do anything they just invite themselves in and start doing stuff. It's just awkward to have them standing in my hallway because I don't have a front door lol
2) You can't watch a ping pong/juice pong game?? This bothers me almost as much as you not having the option to watch TV w/ someone else, like in TS3. Like how hard is that to include?
3) Also w/ the ping pong/juice pong thing, when you play w/ a teammate both teammates who aren't playing like stand off to the side, and then they switch, instead of standing next to each other.
3) My dog can't go downstairs anymore. I've had pets in apts in San Myshuno and have had no issues. So I now have to travel somewhere w/ my dog to take it for a walk. Glitch maybe?
4) How long it takes to hear back from the university and scholarships. I get they probably wanted to make it realistic, but come on..it's a game lol some things don't have to be super realistic.
Interesting idea with no progress bar showing achievements. Good idea with questions to professors... But it is a pity that my Sim was in all classes, always listened carefully, did all homework, wrote a very good (as the game told me!) term paper and finally got the worst possible grade.
Does the assessment depend on luck? Is this a lottery? Or maybe EA once again released the game with huge errors?
And the second thing is Foxbury campus. I don't mind that it's empty, because my Sims are sitting all the time in the dorm and studying or staying in rabbit holes ... But this place is uncomfortable to play, buildings are too high, the camera going crazy and nothing is visible. In addition, someone had woderful idea! - let's give stairs everywhere, cyclists will be delighted!
I apologize for complaining but I am very disappointed with the addition.
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Didn't know that was a thing. That's disappointing. I like creating multi-venues and just changing back and forth to the preferred one at that moment.
But of course, restrictions as usual.
I'm with you. I like to build combined venues. In TS3 I love my dive bar/casino combination. I also don't like the requirements that certain things have to be added to a venue for it to work.
Can agree it's one heck of a pain in the butt
Enroll one twin, then go back to the original household and enroll the second twin. I'm not entirely sure if this works with dorms, or only on-campus housing.
It works for dorn too. But do it fast, one by one because NPC students marking beds very quickly.
My friend told me today, that she send one Sim student to dorn and the second one (girl student) stay at home with animals. She left the girl student and play only boy in the dorn. And guess what? Playble boy got good notes and npc girl - best possible notes in all subjects! So, if you want to have excellent notes just leave Your student alone as NPC and wait.
Logic!
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I've done this, but it's not guaranteed that your sim will get good grades. My sim did well in the first semester only. After that, she did poorly and got suspended for low grades. So I wouldn't recommend leaving them alone for long. I think they'll do better alone if their skills are already high.