I understand that terms are only 5 days, and with the regular 7 day seasons on there is pretty much a holiday every week. But, still. Why not extend the term to 6 days to account for it? Jobs and grade schools get holidays off. Why not university students? It works that way in real life too.
@Jes2G @Psychotps While I completely agree that it would be nice for university students to have holidays off, I can also see that such an implementation would lead to issues:
For example, some players have a whole bunch of custom holidays clumped together, such as summer vacation or the winterfest to end-of-year period. At what point does a term become too long, especially when there are no holidays? There's also the problem of what happens when one adds a new holiday during a term, or modifies an existing holiday from work-as-normal to off-work. Does the class schedule get re-calculated each time? What if a holiday is manually deleted? Or what happens when a player decides to change the entire length of seasons?
So to be honest, I rather get comfortable with the idea that sim students just have to go to university during holidays than having to deal with the dozen or so new bugs this would certainly introduce.
That is a good point. I don't think it's a show stopper though. If you look at real life, not all holidays warrant closures. Even in the game, students and employees work on Love Day and other holidays. Only Harvestfest and Winterfest cause closures. Universities could acknowledge only the major holidays. EA could make it where universities ignore custom holidays, though people would sqwak at that. Though, creating custom holidays is always a risk to the calendar and players do so at their own discretion.
Also true! Still, most things in this game tend to lean heavily American so...
Perhaps they could just make it so that Sims in Uni do get the holiday off (if it is a non-work holiday) but they would be given special holiday assignments they would need to complete on laptops, textbooks, etc? This way they could still somewhat celebrate the holiday but the day would still count as part of the 5-day term. For holidays that are not "non-work" holidays they would stay with their normal schedule.
Hey guys, a question. Are you saying that sims must go to class on all holidays when seasons are set to last 7 days?
I play a long life game with 28 day seasons and a term is 7 days. In that setup, you don't have to go to class on holidays just like careers when you're playing a regular household. The go to work button is still on the sims' career panel for the class that was scheduled but the game doesn't make you go like other days. I haven't tried to go either so I don't know what happens if you try. I have seen no impact on grades, etc. in my game though. I have no idea about the 14 day seasons since I haven't played anything but the 28 day ones.
@CGrant56, thank you for this information! 😇 I think that is a nice workaround for save games where we have Sims attending university! 🙌 I usually play with a 7 day season, so I will have to use the 28 day one (or maybe the 14 day one) for my students. 😉
