Re: [OPEN] [DU] Rotational gameplay is impossible for University

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@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.

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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.

A possible workaround:

1. Complete homeworks for both families, as well as all presentations and papers.

2. You can then play with a main family till the end of a semester.

3. If you want to switch to the other family, you will have to complete any homework that will be active in their tasks.

4. After the exams, do NOT switch to another family till you are prompted to enroll for the next semester.

5. Choose your classes, do homeworks and presentations.

6. You can then switch to other family - the enroll pop-up should be immediately active on load. So you can choose classes, do homeworks and presentations for the second family.

This way the second family will still fail a subject or two, but not all of them and they won't be sent to probation. There is still plenty of micromanagement, yes, so it would be hard to do more than 2 families, but it is still something.

P.S. I just can't believe they are releasing ANOTHER addon when there are still so many to fix in the previous one! All my sims that were sent to probation STILL cannot re-enroll, and I do not want to start again with them when only one semester is left for them to finish!