Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? v1.23
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? City Living, Discover University, Get Famous, Get to Work, Realm of Magic, Vampires, Backyard stuff, Kids Room Stuff, Tiny Living, Vintage Glamour Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play multiple sims in the same dorm for one semester, then, when the grades and reenrollment screen pops up for one of them, move that one to another lot. When you return to the original dorm with the remaining sims at the end of their semester, you don't get to see what grades they got and extra bugs start popping up. I have aging turned off for both active and inactive sims.
What happens when the bug occurs? First of all, you don't get to see what grades they got. If they get put on probation and you re-enroll and move them to another lot, then play another household for a while, the sim who was on probation is suspended with "this sim can re-enroll in 0 days" status forever, preventing them from ever re-enrolling in uni again. Another thing that happened, was that the last sim in the original dorm went through the whole re-enrollment and move to a new dorm screen, but then was not placed in the new dorm's household. Instead he just had to hang out outside the old dorm, with no ability to move anywhere without using the "Teleport" cheat.
What do you expect to see? I expect to be able to consistently see the grades my sims get at the end of their semesters. I also expect to return to a sim in the same place in their semester where I've left them if I go play another household for a while. This way I get to control whether a sim does well in the next semester and does or doesn't get suspended.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No
I don't just play a single household continuously, so I don't appreciate my inactive sims getting in trouble in their already extremely difficult university load when I switch between households, even if I'm trying to move all students from one dorm to another.
I know there is sims in dorms that are playable that just sit there and do nothing at all. They don't go to class at all maybe just every now and than, I check in on the dorm at the end of the semester and all the sims EA put in was on academic probation. It does make it hard to play rotationally. I am trying to figure out why its doing that they should at least get a C. D is not failing no way, its not the best, but better than a F
Edit: Its a PC problem too.
@twoflyingsaucersthis sounds like the intended game behaviour and not a bug - time passes universally across the game for all sims, including term time and days remaining in terms. It's one of the things I like about The Sims 4 vs previous games where every house had inconsistent time.
I don't play single households continuously either, so I've found a way to make it work. Only have one uni household actively enrolled at a time. I can still send multiple sims to uni and multiple different uni households, I just don't have them all running their terms at the same time.
On the last day of term, they get their grades and get asked to enroll for another term at 6pm. If you save and exit before that re-enroll prompt pops up, then you effectively put their uni degree course on pause and can switch freely. So I usually save at around 5pm and then exit to Manage Worlds and pick another household to play. The next time you return to the original household, it will ask you to re-enroll and you can continue where you left off.
If you really want to know their exact grades, you can do the saving at 5pm, then keep watching until 6pm when the grades pop up. Then once you know, exit back to the menu without saving over your 5pm save.
@simvasion wrote:@twoflyingsaucersthis sounds like the intended game behaviour and not a bug - time passes universally across the game for all sims, including term time and days remaining in terms. It's one of the things I like about The Sims 4 vs previous games where every house had inconsistent time.
I don't play single households continuously either, so I've found a way to make it work. Only have one uni household actively enrolled at a time. I can still send multiple sims to uni and multiple different uni households, I just don't have them all running their terms at the same time.
On the last day of term, they get their grades and get asked to enroll for another term at 6pm. If you save and exit before that re-enroll prompt pops up, then you effectively put their uni degree course on pause and can switch freely. So I usually save at around 5pm and then exit to Manage Worlds and pick another household to play. The next time you return to the original household, it will ask you to re-enroll and you can continue where you left off.
If you really want to know their exact grades, you can do the saving at 5pm, then keep watching until 6pm when the grades pop up. Then once you know, exit back to the menu without saving over your 5pm save.This.
I've been playing DU rotationally as described by @simvasion with no problems.
It's not clear if what folks want is to have their Sims autonomously attend Uni or if they just want their progress to be put on hold similar to how jobs work.
Or if they are having trouble combining several households into a dorm household.
I haven't done this since DU first came out. What I remember is that all the Sims you want to attend together need to have been accepted but not enrolled so that there is no time lag in the terms. Enroll and move the first Sim into a dorm. Immediately pause and exit to Manage Worlds. Quickly repeat with the other Sims you'd like to be in that dorm. OR easier, you can combine households on a regular lot, enroll everyone in Uni, but stay on that lot. Then go to Mange Worlds and move them as a household to a dorm. (There might be some warning dialogues, but just click "OK.") If you want to rotate away use the method described by @simvasion . That is: play through the term and go to Manage World before grades are given for the term.
If you enroll a Sim, move to a dorm, play with that Sim a few days and then switch to another household play a few days and then add that played Sim to the first Sim's dorm household, school time will have passed for the first Sim with consequences being imposed. Or not. Depends on how many days you played with the other Sims. So far as I can tell Sims do not attend Uni autonomously.
If you want to make a combined dorm household of *already* enrolled Sims, merge them all onto a regular lot, then move them to a dorm as a household. However, if each Sim has a different start time for their term and/or is at different stage of their degree, you may be stuck playing this household until the last Sim graduates. Also, be aware Sims will get kicked out of the dorm if they don't re-enroll or as they graduate. Unenrolled Sims can't live in dorms. The best way to play this scenario is to make a regular lot a sudo dorm - "student housing" - for your Sims. I only tried this in a test game (back when we got DU) and it gave me a headache, so... at your own risk.
@DizzyDee-Kcombining dorms??? Where is this coming from? This thread is about Sims autonomously attending Uni and always having terrible grades when not controlled. Sims with good skills and personal traits should be able to study well on their own. So far only one of my sims was able to do this - and she had only mediocre results despite being maxed-out supersim in every field.
The simvasion method is a joke, sorry. It works as a workaround, yes, but it requires too much unneeded efforts that I am not ready to put in every time.
For now, I am not playing Uni at all anymore. It's too broken to have fun with it.
My Sim finished a semester with an A- grade. She did not enroll in the next semester. I rotated to other households. When I came back to her, she had a C grade and was on probation. This makes me very unhappy.
