@CGrant56 Yeah, that's right. Whenever I send a Sim to university, when they arrive, they get loads of Simoleons added to their funds. Sure enough, if I go to Manage Worlds and check their home, all of the furniture will be gone. I made absolutely sure that I did not tick the "sell furniture" box. It really is just like if you had chosen to sell your Sim's furniture when moving. I tested this on an unmodded save, and it still happened.
It would be nice if we could get a comment from a Guru on this. Because I could swear this never happened before.
@crinrict The more you elaborate, the more I realize this is leaning on feedback. It sounds to me like not-ideal design, rather than a bug. I think you can delete this thread. I'll put a new one up in the feedback forum.
@The_Ratticator I'll move this one to General Discussion.
EDIT: And done.
@The_Ratticator, @crinrict , and @CGrant56 , from the release of DU, I have had any single Sim that goes to University and live on campus have his or her house and all furniture sold. I was not expecting this, as I was just expecting the house and its contents to remain idle while my Sim was away. I think this is intentional by the developers, but I agree that it is undesirable! ๐ข I think @CGrant56 has a wonderful idea of moving in another Sim to hold you Sim's belongings in that house so you can move back in after graduation (and move out the other Sim if you want).๐ I started doing this with the Sim I have now in DU, but they are still in school at the moment! ๐
Thanks for the move, @crinrict! As I was saying, I definitely think this is a bad design. It's so odd that I legitimately thought that it must be a bug. Apparently not, though. This mechanic is not kind toward Sims who are the only one in their house. I really don't want to have to re-buy all their furniture once they get back from university. And honestly, most of the time? They probably won't even have enough Simoleons to buy back all of their furniture by the time they graduate. It'd be great if there could be some way to have their home furniture remain on the lot while they're at university.
@The_Ratticator, like Crinrict said , if the furniture is in your inventory you can either place it when you graduate or sell it. Mine was sold with the house , but that gave me enough money not only during university, but afterwards , so I had enough to buy a place upon graduation.
Also, with one Sim I had enough scholarships that my tuition was free! ๐
But I agree that it isn't the best situation.๐ Even if I have all my items from the old house and can buy a house afterwards, I now have to decorate a house that I didn't want to decorate. (Sometime I enjoy decorating houses, but other times I just want to play in Live Mode! ). I wish the house would just sit there and wait for you to graduate, but I guess maybe they designed it this way so our Sims would have the opportunity to pay for things they might need while at university, instead of being tied to an abandoned house. ๐ค But I would have much preferred the option to sell or keep the house and all its contents over having that decision being made for us! โน๏ธ
@PugLove888 I don't know if you've done the new survey yet, if you have, wasn't there a question or something about owning 2nd homes or was that just something I read in a thread on the survey over at the official site where people, including me, were sort of talking about their wish list? I think it was one of the questions though. So maybe we might to be able to do it in the future and be retroactive so we can keep a home while a sim goes to university. Back in my Sim 2 days, Bon Voyage I think it was, gave us that option to own a main home and a vacation home. From my perspective, I saw more questions that gave me the idea that the devs are seriously considering resurrecting things from Sims 2 more so than from 1 and 3 including a number of the more colorful characters from that series as well as owning 2 homes. Sorry to get off topic.
@CGrant56, personally, I don't think it is completely off topic since you are addressing a possible future fix for this problem! ๐
And yes, you are correct (unless we are both wrong! ๐) that the recent survey asked us about our interest in letting our Sims own more than one home! ๐ And I agree that this might be a solution to our current problem, albeit one that will be at least several months in the future! ๐
Yes, I remember TS2's Bon Voyage! โค๏ธ I think we could own both a regular home and a vacation home in that pack. Also, I think we could do the same with TS3's Island Paradise, but that pack slowed down the game so incredibly much, I hardly used the world that came with it. ๐ But I agree that it does seem like they are considering revisiting some aspects of past versions of the Sims, such as running hotels and having likes/dislikes in regards to attraction! ๐
