"plumbob3458;d-935481" wrote:
I wanted to make like a custom group of friends for them but I want them to actually attend uni in the background and not just live in the neighbourhood if that makes sense. can somebody help me out, please? thank you!!
I'm not sure which neighborhood you mean, university or the homeworld. So, this may not be what you want exactly:
One method would be to use NRaas Traveler and MasterController and MC Cheats. NRaas Traveler allows you to bring along friends and romantic (inactive) relationships when traveling. City Hall or a computer>NRaas>Traveler>Allowable Travelers>Friends/Romantic>True. Then create the household of 8 random sims. Use MC to make all those sims friends with 1 or both of the twins. Then enroll them all to university together. Your active household would have to pay for their tuition, but you can use Familyfunds or MC to repay them. They'll all travel to university together and stay at the same dorm (or sorority if they are all girls). Then click on each of the 8 random sims>MC>Advanced>Selectability. That toggles whether those sims are selectable or not. If they are not selectable then they'll basically be NPCs and you won't have to control them. Your twins girls would then essentially be sharing housing with 8 roommates that you created.
At the end of the term...I'm not sure whether it's important to make those 8 sims selectable again. I've never used that MC function myself. I have brought friends along to university though. They'll return home with you at the end of the term and then return to their home lots after getting back (they won't be added to the household once back home). If you try this method out you might want to invite over the 8 sims to the home lot before enrolling and traveling to university. Otherwise you'll have to wait for those random sims to arrive to your lot before the group gets in the uni van. Finally you might have ask them all to leave when everyone returns home; I don't remember whether I had to do that.
Lastly, I don't know if you need any other NRaas mods to play an overstuffed household like this. I have all the NRaas mods listed on the Which Mod FAQ answer for overstuffed households and it's never been a problem for me to send 9+ sims to university.
If you want the 8 random sims to live in university instead of the homeworld, then I'd try creating them in CAS so they are in the Household Bin, then in the homeworld Edit Town click on the university icon in the upper left. That will load up university in Edit Town without having an active sim enrolled. You might be able to move the 8 random sims into an empty house. That might require changing the lot assignment to Residential>Regular. I've customized the university world by going into Edit Town from the homeworld, but I've never added sims, only lots. So, I don't know if this will actually work. (edit: see igazor's post below to enroll the sims if they aren't enrolled automatically.) You'd have to try it out and see. Save your game under a new name before trying anything. You cannot save while editing a travel world this way. You have to first transition back to the homeworld's Edit Town before you can save your progress.
