Second gen kids are almost ready for college, so...

Adding all the kids to a new household shouldn't take more than a minute with MC's "Add Sim" feature.

Then again, all that moving is unnecessary, as long as you have NRaas Traveler in place, which is recommended to prevent any oddities from happening during all kinds of different travel, including university. Just set Traveler to allow "friends" to be included during travel, and you can just choose all those sims to go together to university (as long as they are at least friends of the sim who starts the enrollment process), even if they live in different households. They will go back to their original household after you return from university.
Just make sure everyone who goes took the test within 48 hours if you want them to have starting credits and/or stipends.

For valid housing, SP will check for beds and fridges, but only after midnight. Time at your homeworld doesn't proceed while you are at university, unless you activate SP there. But even in the latter case, you can then disable aging for your homeworld in the Traveler settings while at university.

In my experience, when the game is in vacation mode and a term at Uni counts the same, then no one ages in any connected world. The Traveler setting for foreign aging shouldn't really be changing that.

I've used lots as minimalist as empty 10x10s with nothing on them but a mailbox to act as staging areas to form temporary households for other purposes and I always keep a couple of those on hand in each world I play. But not for vacations or Uni terms, the Traveler mod option to allow friends in the travel party has always worked fine for me. The place I could see where it wouldn't is if you intend these sims to be strangers or actually dislike each other in which case pre-staging a household would really be the only way unless you want to MC Cheat their relationships up for the trip and then back down again after arrival. But my storyline has never taken me in a direction where I wish to have a bunch of sims who hate or don't know each other suffer through Uni together. :)

I also wouldn't put sims into a temporary holding unit like that if I require sim days to play the other households. It would really be better to keep them all in their original households on hold, as you say, and Add Sim them into the collection lot all around the same time.

Oh right, SP won't check anything for active households. I added that more for the case Rhiannon described, which implied switching to other households while sims are already on that holding lot.

Regarding the aging thing, I had some weird side effects when I activated SP in the University World, so I'm better safe than sorry nowadays on that front.

"igazor;c-17705328" wrote:
In my experience, when the game is in vacation mode and a term at Uni counts the same, then no one ages in any connected world. The Traveler setting for foreign aging shouldn't really be changing that.

I've used lots as minimalist as empty 10x10s with nothing on them but a mailbox to act as staging areas to form temporary households for other purposes and I always keep a couple of those on hand in each world I play. But not for vacations or Uni terms, the Traveler mod option to allow friends in the travel party has always worked fine for me. The place I could see where it wouldn't is if you intend these sims to be strangers or actually dislike each other in which case pre-staging a household would really be the only way unless you want to MC Cheat their relationships up for the trip and then back down again after arrival. But my storyline has never taken me in a direction where I wish to have a bunch of sims who hate or don't know each other suffer through Uni together. :)

I also wouldn't put sims into a temporary holding unit like that if I require sim days to play the other households. It would really be better to keep them all in their original households on hold, as you say, and Add Sim them into the collection lot all around the same time.

ah I see. I don't have the travelers mod but in this case, most of my students don't know one another, some not at all. I see what you are saying about not moving them to the pre-staging house until I'm ready to move them to University. So that will be my plan. Once I rotate through all my families this time, I will have probably 6 YA ready for college. So I'll move them to an empty house and immediately to University.

More dumb questions time. I have finally rotated through all of my families and each one has a brand new YA ready for college. So I went to the first one, checked the family in with NRaas to stop all progression, and then tried to have the YA moved to an empty lot that has just a mailbox and trash can on it. The problem I'm having is the only way it will let them move is if I choose to have it be the active family and it's trying to take all of the family funds with them. How do I move them out and not take all of the money? @igazor

From the Sims Wiki: "In The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, single Sims are moved out by using "Find Own Place" from the newspaper or computer or by being asked to move in with a Sim in another household."

I do not see an option in TS3 to find own place with a computer or phone. I can't figure out how to move a single sim out of a household.

I think the term is "kick out," which forces the sim to find somewhere in town to live. The sim will take family funds up to §20,000, or more if you have NRaas Mover and have played with the settings. But you won't get to choose where that sim lives; they'll just wind up in a random house.

Try leaving the "Make Active Household" box checked in the right panel (for the sim you want to move, not the rest of the household), choose the empty lot you want, and only then switch back to keeping the main household active.

If this doesn't work or is being finicky, you can just click on the ground on the empty lot and select NRaas > MasterController > Add Sim, then add that particular sim. If you're running StoryProgression though, it may try to move the sim elsewhere, since an empty lot isn't considered a suitable house. So you may need to adjust your SP options; what you'd need to change will depend on how you've set up the options in the first place.

I thought the goal here was to create a temporary household to ship them all off to Uni, not to actually and intentionally play sims living on an empty lot who have permanently split off from their households as if a storyline dictated this happening. There are two ways I would consider doing this:

1 - Use MasterController's Add Sim. When the Uni term is over and everyone is back "home" on that empty lot, use Add Sim again to put them into the households you want them in.
2 - Don't do this at all. Use Traveler as has already been discussed a bit.

I actually was trying to create a temporary household to ship them off to Uni together. NRaas is pretty complex and my aging brain doesn't do well with complex. I finally figured out how to do MC Add Sim and moved all my kids to an empty lot. I then chose to send them all to university and was going through choosing their degrees and number of credits they are taking. I hit some weirdness. One of my sims supposedly already has a degree. I can't figure out WHY she already has a degree. The last time I played her, she had just reached YA. She somehow skipped YA and is now showing as an adult. Some of my other students already have credits towards their degree. So I'm wondering if they are aging and somehow getting college credits when I'm not playing them actively, even though they are supposedly in suspended animation with NRaas.

So, I exited out of sending to uni and went to the main menu not saving my game. I started over and only chose the 5 YA that didn't have degrees already. Got them all on the lot and then started the process again. THIS time, TWO MORE SIMs are showing as having a degree already. Makes absolutely no sense. I exited out again without saving and this time, I popped in to check some of the Sims that supposedly were now adults with degrees and none of them do. They are still YAs as I left them.

I did install the Traveler mod before this process but decided to try the Add Sim first. While I was doing this, I got a traveler scripting error for a cat one of my Sims had immediately after a message that the cat had died for some unknown reason.

I'm not dissing NRaas as it is finally allowing me to play rotationally. I guess I don't understand how it can effect my game or if it's causing this weirdness at all.

The granting of random Uni credits (not coming from the Uni entrance exam) and degrees sounds more like something EA's story progression does. I have to say that I have never seen this first-hand using NRaas SP. But DebugEnabler can be used to take the unearned academic credentials away, so can MasterController I think. And, in case it matters, sims can work towards and have more than one degree in different majors.

Traveler doesn't go around killing cats on a routine basis, we would have to see the script error log to be able to help figure out what might possibly have been going on there. The main purpose of Traveler is to quietly redo the world travel sequences with one that is more flexible, far less prone to errors, and allow worlds that are not WA, Uni, or Oasis to be travel destinations and to be linked within the same ongoing saved game.

Ok, more weirdness. When I saved and logged out of my game last weekend, I was playing a family with a mom, dad an adult son and a teen. When I just logged in, the dad is MIA. He was showing on the little picture of the family when I login but he isn't showing as being a member of the house now. He is still showing as being married to the mom but he's gone. Mom has the option to text him but not call him. I tried to use "Add Sim" on the lot and he's not on the list.

I did get a popup that says "Traveler Recorded: 1" and when I close that, another popup comes up that says:

NRaas.Traveler
Script Error
Snuggles Tucker
(that was the cat that I got a message on last week that they had died)

So I am not sure what is going on.

How do I turn off mods?