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@EsmeraldaLima & @bohne006 I'd like to add a few things I hope will be useful considering your comments about ways to play DU with multiple sims at the same time:
Option 1
I played a large household off campus (10 sims with 2 roomies, one butler - and one needs-decay bugged toddler). My sims commuted to university. All were in distinguished degree programs. Two attended college full-time, and two attended part time while holding down a full time job. All had "A"s. Two were attending each university. I crawled along with my finger on the pause button... and it was some of the hardest playing I've done in the game, but I got through it and so did they.
If you want to send multiple students at the same time successfully you can do it by commuting from off-campus.
Move up to 8 of your students into the same household and home and you'll be able to control them all, which you'll need to do if you want them to get decent grades (attend all classes, complete all homework, study, write term papers; create, edit, practice and present presentation boards).
They'll go on their own – like they're going to work or school - you don't go with them. And they'll transport straight to class when they leave your lot.
Option 2
As @PugLove888 previously mentioned, if you want to have students attend in a rotational manner you could turn aging off while your students are attending college. Turn aging off for the active household and inactive households. This setting is in your 'Game Options'.
Then once all of the students have graduated you could just turn aging back on and play the way you normally play, if you play with aging on normally.
Sorry to repeat this option, but I thought I would elaborate on it a bit with PugLove888's permission 🙂 in case anyone was not familiar with how this option would work.
Hope this helps some.
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@SheriGR, yes, turning off ageing while in university , or at least playing the Long Life option is something I have been doing in order to prevent my students from turning into adults while at school (unless I want that as part of a story line). 😉 You don't need my permission, but thank you for not stepping on my toes, so to speak! 😇
I don't know how you managed to attend university with all that going on, let alone get A's in the process! 🙌 That toddler bug was horrific, to say the least! 😮😞 I tried to play it just to see how bad it was, but went back to my university students quickly. I can't imagine mixing them! 🤨😃
- 6 years ago
@PugLove888Just to clarify here, I didn't mean to attack you ^^;; All the anger in my post was directed towards the game designers who came up with this concept.
- PugLove8886 years agoHero (Retired)
@Sayori23, thank you for clarifying! ❤️ I was frustrated and sad since it seemed like you and the person or 2 above you were taking it out on me. 😢 Sorry for any confusion on my part, and again, thank you for clarifying that you weren't angry at me! 😇