SIMS 4 UNIVERSITY ?!?!

"whimreaper;c-16821036" wrote:
I actually don't really want a university pack, which I know is an unpopular opinion. Maybe it's because I'm a student, but I found University in Sims 3 to be extremely stressful. Not only does your sim have to take care of their needs constantly, but they have to study every day of the week, go to classes, and pass exams in a very condensed period of time.

I found it to be manageable, so long as my sims didn't attend a party the night before exams...

In addition, you are quite literally stuck in the University world until you finish/fail a degree, which drove me insane.

That was irritating. IRL here, most people go home at the end of the day. Commuting is the norm.

If they do release this pack, I would probably only buy it if they made the university a new world you can travel back and forth from at will (maybe have a couple dorms, but the option to live at home and commute).

This is what I really want too.
Uni needs to be treated more like GTW. Sims shouldn't be forced to live there to attend. IRL there are plenty of parents attending uni, they don't hire a baby sitter for the semester so they can live on campus. They live at home, and commute to uni for their classes.

I would also hope that they de-condense the school term and make it so the maintenance and studying isn't more than that for a job. That way you can explore campus and university life without feeling your sim is always behind in term work. I also think the payoff for going to university should be larger, starting your sim at level 2 of careers they didn't study for and maybe level 4 for their subject of choice.

Enter jobs at level 4 if you do 3 years of uni, or level 6 if you do 4 years.
Yes, the work load needs to be more manageable, either that, or they need to fix the time issues. It takes far too long to prepare food and eat it. Sims are in the shower for far too long, walking from one end of a lot to the other often takes too long. :/

Overall, I'm not completely opposed to this pack, but I'm not anticipating it and I think that several improvements from sims 3 are needed to make it worthwhile for me personally.

I really want an education pack, but it needs to be done differently to previous versions. It needs to be less US centric by having more player controlled options.