"MadameLee;c-16803102" wrote:
"Simalleyaile;c-16803094" wrote:
I want to be able to customise as much as possible:
Give us a new world - (NEW ENGLAND!!) with lots of lots we can use to place our own builds - bars, cafes, restaurants, nightclubs, museums, gyms, libraries etc (my RL uni had all these)
Let us BUILD and decorate our own Dorms. At the very least have something like the apartments in City Life where we can at least knock down walls, and furnish and add our own gampeplay objects, deco etc.
Let EACH DORM choose their own MASCOT - so we can set up a rivalry between Dorms. (In Australia, we call dormitories 'colleges'. I attended a Uni that had 7 colleges, and each had a fierce rivalry when it came to sports, academcis, clubs etc)
Dorms could be a bit like the Club system in Get Together: Choose Mascot, let us set up who are our Dorms friends and who are the foes.
Give us banners, and other deco items to establish a type of Dorm Patriotism. Have each dorm member react when they come across another student from a different dorm, eg, the Racoons HATE the Panda Bears and fight every time they see each other.
Of course, lots more jeering and sledging should be added to the mean socials. Some 'Jeer Together as team' would be good, sort of like the group dancing, but it's 'group harrassment.'
Physical pranks are ESSENTIAL, including stealing another dorm's mascot statue.
Also, include a RENTAL system we can build just a regular house and have room-mates we have no control over (NPC's). (I lived in College for the first three years of my degree, then rented an apartment for the final year - would be good to have different kind of residential options available to us, yes including study-from-home in any world. Where you live definitely gives you a different kind of Uni experience).
MUST HAVE SPORTS! What's a University without experiencing Sports.
I'd love to have some Sporting Events take place at Uni where the dorms/colleges compete against each other and at the end of the event, a dorm is announced as the winner:
Swimming Carnival - go to a Pool Venue and have races
Cross Country - all go jogging in the park
New Venue: Sports Field. Place Soccer Nets, Baseball Nets, Basketball Court, Track and Field (for sims to jog around, even a hurdle for them to, you know, hurdle over).
Cheerleading Skill: cross between the dancing and singing skill - instead of being tied to only an object (dancing), have it be a self-interaction like the singing skill: click on your sim to choose Cheer. As you progress through the skill you unlock different more complicated cheers as well as things like cheering with pom poms. Say at level 4, you unlock the ability to perfrorm cheers as a group and can use the new Cheering Platform to perfrom intricate routines. (This Cheering Platform should be included in the new Sports Field Venue).
Cheerleading should be added to the Club system, so we can choose members, uniforms, practise and perform routines to gain points, and if
we have Get Famous - get famous when performing in public. We could also set up rival teams and choose how we feel about them etc.
not everyone in Australia has your type of college @Movotti is from the same country and he doesn't like the sports idea or cheerleading his post-secondary school didn't have them
I completely agree. I live in Belgium, we do have student associations which are like clubs but they are not rivals. They are like your drinking buddies and they do some fun activities like sports, but not always competitive. Some schools have their own dorm, but not mascots. Most people commute or rent a place in the city. Cheerleading is such an American thing, we only know of it because of American movies. And sport events only happen in middle/high school and not in uni.
