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Gardia
Seasoned Ace
13 years ago
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My sims won't go to university!

I need some help please. My sims won't go to university. I was able to send them the first time, they finished with the highest notes, went back home and now I can't send them again! I chose the sims...
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  • Gardia's avatar
    Gardia
    13 years ago

    I sent one of the sims that I'm trying to send to university to France, arrived well, did some shopping, went back home, so no problems traveling. I'm wondering if this is happening because I changed the dorm that my sims stayed in the first time, I basically torn it down and built it back as I wished.

    Which graduation? High School or University? High School no problems. University the only thing that annoyed me about graduation is that there were to many sims there so mine couldn't get in, I started resetting them, mine got in, came out, no problems. I invited friend and family but the family didn't show up, only the friends. 

    About this solution:

    ''VenomixSim wrote:

    1. Go to your Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves folder. 
    2. Go into the save folder you are having the problems on. 
    3. There should be two files, one package file and a NHD file with Sims University in the name. Delete both of these files, and you should be able to send your sim to university with no problems. 

    The only thing about using this workaround is that if you have friends at the university already, it creates a new university, so the sims you meet at the new university will be duplicates, and will NOT have the relationships you had before.''


    Will this eliminate the grades that my sims got on university the firs time? 

crinrict's avatar
crinrict
Hero+
13 years ago

Yes, try traveling.

Did you have any troubles with the Graduation ? Did you invite someone to that ?

Gardia's avatar
Gardia
Seasoned Ace
13 years ago

I sent one of the sims that I'm trying to send to university to France, arrived well, did some shopping, went back home, so no problems traveling. I'm wondering if this is happening because I changed the dorm that my sims stayed in the first time, I basically torn it down and built it back as I wished.

Which graduation? High School or University? High School no problems. University the only thing that annoyed me about graduation is that there were to many sims there so mine couldn't get in, I started resetting them, mine got in, came out, no problems. I invited friend and family but the family didn't show up, only the friends. 

About this solution:

''VenomixSim wrote:

1. Go to your Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves folder. 
2. Go into the save folder you are having the problems on. 
3. There should be two files, one package file and a NHD file with Sims University in the name. Delete both of these files, and you should be able to send your sim to university with no problems. 

The only thing about using this workaround is that if you have friends at the university already, it creates a new university, so the sims you meet at the new university will be duplicates, and will NOT have the relationships you had before.''


Will this eliminate the grades that my sims got on university the firs time? 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    13 years ago

    Don't think so. That info should be saved with your Sim.

    Make a backup before attempting.

    Did you invite friends from the University of from back home ? And you did get your extra trait and the diploma from Uni, right ?

    • Gardia's avatar
      Gardia
      Seasoned Ace
      13 years ago

      From home I only invited my family, the friends were from university. I got the extra trait because I got to level 9 on my social group. The diploma from university is supposed to be in their inventory? Cause if it is then I don't think that I got it, they only have the high school diploma in their inventory.

      • crinrict's avatar
        crinrict
        Hero+
        13 years ago

        Not sure but can't you have both traits (meaning a total of 7) ?

        The diploma is slightly bigger and should be in your inventory.

        Do the sims you invited from Uni show up twice in the relationship panel ? Do you have a backup before graduation you could load ?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    (Sorry if my post's a little late 😕mileytongue: ) I recently got the game and the i'm having the same problem. I went into the files but there's no file name including sims universitym which is strange since origin says it's downloaded and all the other UL content is there. Any suggestions? 

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