So I've seen this idea other places and wanted to try it with everyone's current favorite topic: University.
You have $40. Which University features do you purchase for your game?
$5
- Big new world
- Active teaching career
- Build and customize your own schools
- Arcade or other new lot type
- Follow sims to class/labs
- Football or other playable sport
- Bands with new instruments
- Added school activities for children and teens
- More than one type of university to choose from
$3
- Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
- Fraternities and sororities
- Dorms/Roommates
- New rabbit hole/work from home careers
- Online classes
- Pottery or new hobby/skill
- Keg party or other event type
- Events like city festivals spawning in the quad
- Rabbit hole activities like cheerleading
$1
- Bunk/Loft Beds
- Ping Pong
- Pool Table
- Photo Booth
- Murphy Bed
- Laptops
- Other new object
- More take out options
- Mind altering harvestables
Sorry if I missed something you want, I tried to add the most common ideas I find on the forum, but I couldn't include everything.
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$5
Big new world
Build and customize your own schools
Follow sims to class/labs
Bands with new instruments
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Dorms/Roommates
Pottery or new hobby/skill
Online classes
Events like city festivals spawning in the quad
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Ping Pong
Pool Table
Laptops
Mind altering harvestables
Big new world
Follow sims to class/labs
Football or other playable sport
Added school activities for children and teens
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Fraternities and sororities
Dorms/Roommates
New rabbit hole/work from home careers
Online classes
Rabbit hole activities like cheerleading
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Pool Table
Big new world
Arcade or other new lot type
Bands with new instruments
Added school activities for children and teens
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Dorms/Roommates
New rabbit hole/work from home careers
Online classes
Events like city festivals spawning in the quad
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Pool Table
Photo Booth
Murphy Bed
Laptops
$5
$3
$1
I cut "big new world," partly because I'd be fine with university being like active career lots, even if it meant you couldn't live at school. But the big reason for cutting it is because I needed to cut something to keep within my budget. Mind altering harvestables were added because I was left with an extra dollar in the end.
I want bands and more instruments. Or honestly, just instruments. We can simulate a band well enough already, but you can't really have a good band when the game is lacking so many classic instruments.
Tbh, I never liked the university portions of University packs. Too long and intrusive, though giving us options to go to class might spice things up. But online classes would free up a lot of time. And if we can get an education from home that way, I'd have nearly all my sims take them.
I want laptops again, even if they're not as good as they were in Sims 3. I don't think I want to get StrangerVille any time soon, and SV's laptops were 🐸🐸🐸🐸.
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
🐲🐲🐲🐲
Big new world
Build and customize your own schools
Arcade lot type
Follow sims to class/labs
Football
Bands with new instruments
Added school activities for children and teens
$3
Dorms/Roommates
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Pool Table
$5
> Big new world
> Active teaching career
> Build and customize your own schools
> Bands with new instruments
> More than one type of university to choose from
$3
> Fraternities and sororities
> Dorms/Roommates
> New rabbit hole/work from home careers
> Pottery or new hobby/skill
$1
> Laptops
> Other new object
> Mind altering harvestables
Follow sims to class/labs
Bands with new instruments
Football or other playable sport
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Fraternities and sororities
Dorms/Roommates
Pottery or new hobby/skill
Keg party or other event type
Events like city festivals spawning in the quad
Ping Pong
Pool Table
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
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Not for me it's not. Vacations would be last on my list.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
Nah. Vacations are boring.
$5
Big new world
Arcade or other new lot type
Bands with new instruments (smaller pianos pretty please?)
Added school activities for children and teens (they really need more to do. Ballet classes?)
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Dorms/Roommates
New rabbit hole/work from home careers (teacher, researcher, librarian, and something more practical like mechanic or plumber)
Online classes (I really want an open university/college option for working adults or parents who want to better their education from home)
New hobby/skill e.g. origami or something like that
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Ping Pong
Pool Table
Photo Booth
Laptops (that sims can actually close and use on their laps or anywhere else)
I also want more interesting traits e.g. socially awkward, cultured, eccentric.
My picks:
$5
Big new world
Active teaching career
Added school activities for children and teens
More than one type of university to choose from
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Dorms/Roommates
Online classes
Pottery or new hobby/skill
Events like city festivals spawning in the quad
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Ping Pong
Pool Table
Photo Booth
More take out options
$5
$3
$1
Big new world
Active teaching career
Build and customize your own schools
Follow sims to class/labs
Football or other playable sport
Bands with new instruments (DRUMS)
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Dorms/roommates
$1
Pool table
Photo booth
(REAL) laptops
More take out options
$5
Big new world
Active teaching career
Arcade or other new lot type
Bands with new instruments
Added school activities for children and teens
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Dorms/Roommates
New rabbit hole/work from home careers
Online classes
Events like city festivals spawning in the quad
Family Tree
Playing Mod & CC Free
$5- $25
Big new world
Arcade or other new lot type
Bands with new instruments
Football or other playable sport
More than one type of university to choose from
$3 - $12
Dorms/Roommates
Online classes
Pottery or new hobby/skill
Keg party or other event type
$1 $3
Bunk/Loft Beds
Pool Table
More take out options
(I will admit it was really hard choosing between having a $3 keg party and laptops/murphy bed/ping pong table, and in fact originally took out the party, but it just wouldn't feel like university without it. )
$5
Big new world
Active teaching career
Build and customize your own schools
Arcade or other new lot type
Follow sims to class/labs
Football or other playable sport
Bands with new instruments
Added school activities for children and teens
More than one type of university to choose from
Sub-Total: $15
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Fraternities and sororities
Dorms/Roommates
New rabbit hole/work from home careers
Online classes
Pottery or new hobby/skill
Keg party or other event type
Events like city festivals spawning in the quad
Rabbit hole activities like cheerleading
Sub-Total: $15
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Ping Pong
Pool Table
Photo Booth
Murphy Bed
Laptops
Other new object
More take out options
Mind altering harvestables
Sub-Total: $7
Total: $37
But there's a few things there that I could switch around. I'm starting to think that I'd rather have a small world, if that means they'll pack the expansion FULL of playable content. Not repetitive content, either. I want content that I can use for generations. I want sororities, frats, pool tables, ping pong, I also want pledges to have to do dares, and tasks, and I want them to hold "charity events", to raise money for new stuff for their houses. To host big parties, I want lectures to make a come-back and alllll kinds of stuff. They could even bring back the "reputation" system from The Sims 3 University. I definitely want some more traits, too. (Those could add 3 more dollars to total 40, for me.)
Active teaching career
Build and customize your own schools
Follow sims to class/labs
Added school activities for children and teens
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Fraternities and sororities
Dorms/Roommates
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Big new world
Active teaching career
Follow sims to class/labs
Bands with new instruments
Added school activities for children and teens
More than one type of university to choose from
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
Events like city festivals spawning in the quad
Dorms/Roommates
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Big new world
Bands with new instruments
Added school activities for children and teens
More than one type of university to choose from
$3
Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
New rabbit hole/work from home careers
Online classes
Pottery or new hobby/skill
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Ping Pong
Pool Table
Murphy Bed
Laptops
Other new object
More take out options
Mind altering harvestables
2. Active Teaching Career
3. Build and customize your own schools
5. Follow sims to class
1. Majors tie into existing careers across all packs
2. Fraternities and sororities
3. Dorms/Roommates
5. Online Classes
1. Bunk/Loft Beds
2. Ping Pong
3. Pool Table
4. Photo Booth
5. Murphy Bed
6. Laptops
7. Other new object
8. More take out options
Follow sims to labs (not classes, I remember how boring lectures were in ts3.)
Bands with new instruments (drums mostly.)
$3
New rabbit hole/work from home careers (but ones that aren't always 5 days a week)
Online classes
Pottery or new hobby/skill
Rabbit hole activities like cheerleading
$1
Bunk/Loft Beds
Photo Booth
Murphy Bed (also bring back getting crushed by vending machines)
More take out options
Arcade or other new lot type
Follow sims to class/labs
Football or other playable sport
Big new world
$3
Dorms/roommates
New rabbit hole/work from home careers
Online Classes
Pottery or new hobby/skill
$1
Bunk/loft beds
Ping pong
Pool table
Photo booth
Murphy bed
Laptops