[NEEDS INPUT] [DU] Studied at Foxbury, received Britechester's degree instead!

@crinrict Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, I have tested again without mods/cc. The issue still occurs. I'll try a couple more times. I might even try to reinstall the game. I think this issue has been occurring after the last update.

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Tula

@crinrict Yes, I made this Sim in this patch and it's his first degree too. Before the last update, I played the other Sims and there's no issue with the degree when I got them to graduate from Foxbury. Today I tried to get one of the Sim to earn a degree from UBrit and everything was fine. Only Foxbury degrees have the issue.

I don't know if my problem is more similar to this one, or to the other one crinrict linked to.

I have two Sims, and my plan is to have them get all degrees.  (Aging is turned off for them.  Other than it being grindy, it's certainly not impossible.)  The first two degrees they got were Computer Science and Physics from Foxbury.  They got the degrees and diplomas, no problem; both are Distinguished and With Honors.  Then they got the Language & Literature degree at Britechester: Once again, no problem - With Honors and With Distinction from Britechester. 

The fourth degree they got was Psychology; I sent them to Foxbury so it would be With Distinction.  It shows up properly as With Honors and With Distinction in their Simology screen, but the diploma says it's from Britechester.  They DID graduate in red robes from Foxbury, however.

I even went back to an earlier save, taking out all mods first, made sure they were at Foxbury, and tried it again.  Once again, their diplomas were from Britechester, although everything else - robe color, Simology degree - showed that the degree was from Foxbury.

This isn't a HUGE problem for me, but I'm a bit OCD, and I really wanted an equal number of black and brown diplomas on their wall, and now there won't be.  :D  

One difference between that degree and the other three: Their terms doing the Psych degree they didn't join any extra-curricular activities (robotics club, spirit corps, etc.), and the other three they terms they did.  While that should NOT make a difference (unless it's related to the bug), it's just a note that there was that difference when they were doing those terms.

I have been, but I removed the mods when I went back to an older save to try again.  I could start a new game without mods, and test it out as well.  When I looked back on their degrees in a later save, I noticed that ALL of the Foxbury degrees that they got after going to Britechester, all show up as Britechester diplomas.  But in their Simology screens, the degrees show With Distinction and With Honors, so the game knows that they went to Foxbury.

I will start a game without any mods installed, and have a Sim get a degree first at Britechester, then at Foxbury, and will let you know what happens.  It will take a while, though; getting multiple degrees does take a little while.  🙂

All right, it took me a while to test this, especially with no mods (boy, are Sims annoying without mods!  Please, Sims, stop running to the sink to drink water!  Had to not have them on Free Will the entire time to get rid of many annoyances) but I'm finally done.  Here was my setup:

1) I made 2 Sims, one a spellcaster, one not.  I decided to test both types, just to make sure that the bug wasn't spellcaster related, as my two previous Sims were both spellcasters.

2) I got them maxed in almost every skill, most particularly every base game skill.  This took a while.  Why did I do that?  Because I wanted to make sure they were eligible for every With Distinction degree, to test it with them getting only those, since that's what my other two Sims had done.  That means that this bug might not occur if you're getting regular degrees, which I never do, because I'm OCD that way.  Someone else might want to test that; that absolutely doesn't matter to me.

3) I earned them (almost) every reward trait that stops motive decay, except for Forever Full, before I had them start University. (I like having my Sims cook and eat; I like the buff they get from eating gourmet food.  But the other needs are just boring to deal with.)

4) They got three degrees each: First one at Foxbury (in my case, Computer Science), second one at Britechester (Culinary Arts), third one at Foxbury (Physics).

5) They got A+ grades in every class in every term in each degree.  While it's a bit of a challenge to do this, it's not impossible; just make sure you don't enroll until at least Monday, then you'll have the weekend to work on at least your MWF classes.  Then prioritize your T/Thurs classes before the weekend, high-prioritizing any presentations you have to make.

Result?  The second Foxbury degree - their third actual degree - shows that it's from Britechester.  It says Magna, so it's the With Distinction diploma, but it reads Britechester, and has a brown frame.  This is without mods, although I did use a few cheat codes on occasion.  (Well, I don't like POOR Sims, and I wanted them in a big house, so....)

Another note is that I learned after the first time I ever had a Sim go to University, to have them do it from home and not the dorms.  There is absolutely no advantage to having them in the dorms, and in fact there are many disadvantages.  Therefore both of these two were living at home, which shouldn't, of course, make any difference whatsoever.  But thought I should mention it.

If you need any further details of what was tested, just ask.  But it IS a bug, because this has now happened without any mods installed in my game.  Which I am now about to reinstall, because SO MANY ANNOYANCES in the game without them!  😛