Discover University - Items and Deductions from Initial and Game play Trailers!

A thought I had was how University will blend with Seasons
Say for example you have a holiday setup in your seasons calendar, are classes cancelled or moved?
For kids/teens it is easy as they just miss a day of school but that is not like an individual class
If you set up too many holidays will your sims fail?

"Jerrello;c-17288466" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-17287420" wrote:
I don't think that there are any ACTIVE careers. I think LAW, TEACHING and ENGINEERING will be good old fashioned rabbit holes, which is what I would prefer. All three of those would require so much additional stuff to be active (schools with classrooms, City Hall with courtrooms and offices for engineers) that they would need to be an EP unto themselves.

Then what's all this hype about a University Pack if don't actually want to go to class, or have active careers..party?. That makes absolutely no sense.

The university social life, so yes, the parties. But also the balancing of class work (projects, presentations), attending lectures (which still take time out of a Sim day), clubs and activities (robotics, debate, whatever else), socializing, skill building...

And how will they setup the credits and semester lengths again?

With Sims 3, because when you sims went to college it was its own world away from town, you could customize how many credits done over how many terms each time you went but for ALL the sims there.
You needed like 48 credits but got some from the enrollment test so you could do the whole college degree in two weeks/terms if you wanted or you could have your sim travel back and then do the rest of the credits they needed over two sessions. The more credits your sim took on in the time they went to Uni the more classes they had.

BUT
With TS4 Uni being an open world that you live off campus with
You cant customize how long you want degrees to take for ALL sims as if you changed it later it would mess up the credits and classes for other sims who have already started their degrees.

So I a guessing each sim will be able to choose over how many semesters they want their degree to be and how many credits per term. Which is cool .

"Dannydanbo;c-17288756" wrote:
@Jerrello @doogerie Somewhere, we were told that the DISCOVER in the title meant discover who you (or your sim) is at Uni. Sitting in a classroom watching academic paint dry is not exciting at all. Why would you want to watch that for a few sim hours? As for the rabbit hole(?) careers, they won't matter until after college when your sim is out in the world.

If Uni has no active classes, how could teaching there be active?

The fun of discovery comes with all the things your sim can do outside of class. What decisions will shape their future? Will your sim learn to be a responsible adult or discover that slacking and sleeping in is the way of life for them.

Because everyone is so onboard with reusing programing for new things, because there are no active classes, I wish they had reused the SAGES programing to add roving Professors on and around campus. One could be the intellectual type that can be found in the library. One could be the type that likes to "hang" with the students in the local bar. And one could be found reading poetry under the big oak tree (or statue of a book) in the Quad. Your sim could ask for advise with a subject or beg for more time to complete an assignment or get juiced with your new pal. The sage protocol could have been reused in a fun way.

If I were part of the devs who discuss these things, I could have come up with a lot of ideas to add to this pack. Alas, another idea dies.

Gosh I really LOVE the roaming teachers ideas it's genius. ?

"rudy8292;c-17286205" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-17286199" wrote:
I'm truly surprised so far in the effort they put in the bikes they even animated using the kick stand little details like that are important to me. Now they just need to confirm bikes are useable in all worlds I wont believe it till I see it to many let downs with this game with one world features.

"12JEREMIA;c-17286138" wrote:
What about urinals? After toilet stalls are here, we need urinals for male restrooms

Do our male Sims ever get anything? I would not hold my breath on that object.

SimGuruFrost basically confirmed Bikes being exclusive to this EP, so that also basically confirms that they are NOT usable in other worlds, and are only for Teens - Elders.

when?

"orkhid22;c-17288981" wrote:

"rudy8292;c-17286205" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-17286199" wrote:
I'm truly surprised so far in the effort they put in the bikes they even animated using the kick stand little details like that are important to me. Now they just need to confirm bikes are useable in all worlds I wont believe it till I see it to many let downs with this game with one world features.

"12JEREMIA;c-17286138" wrote:
What about urinals? After toilet stalls are here, we need urinals for male restrooms

Do our male Sims ever get anything? I would not hold my breath on that object.

SimGuruFrost basically confirmed Bikes being exclusive to this EP, so that also basically confirms that they are NOT usable in other worlds, and are only for Teens - Elders.

when?

He confirmed in a tweet that they are Uni exclusive, and based on EA's track record with The Sims 4, I ASSUME they aren't usable in other worlds. They can proof me wrong in the livestream.

@orkhid22 What Frost confirmed is that no bikes will be in the patch before Uni:

https://twitter.com/nando_aze/status/1186670521032892416?s=20
https://twitter.com/SimGuruFrost/status/1186671069677015047?s=20

Nothing about where they'll be usable. While possible that they won't be usable elsewhere, at this point it's still just an assumption.

"rudy8292;c-17289034" wrote:

"orkhid22;c-17288981" wrote:

"rudy8292;c-17286205" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-17286199" wrote:
I'm truly surprised so far in the effort they put in the bikes they even animated using the kick stand little details like that are important to me. Now they just need to confirm bikes are useable in all worlds I wont believe it till I see it to many let downs with this game with one world features.

"12JEREMIA;c-17286138" wrote:
What about urinals? After toilet stalls are here, we need urinals for male restrooms

Do our male Sims ever get anything? I would not hold my breath on that object.

SimGuruFrost basically confirmed Bikes being exclusive to this EP, so that also basically confirms that they are NOT usable in other worlds, and are only for Teens - Elders.

when?

He confirmed in a tweet that they are Uni exclusive.

I take that more to mean they aren't being patched in for free. In other words, you'll have to buy the University expansion to have them in the game.

"RememberJoy;c-17289039" wrote:

"rudy8292;c-17289034" wrote:

"orkhid22;c-17288981" wrote:

"rudy8292;c-17286205" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-17286199" wrote:
I'm truly surprised so far in the effort they put in the bikes they even animated using the kick stand little details like that are important to me. Now they just need to confirm bikes are useable in all worlds I wont believe it till I see it to many let downs with this game with one world features.

"12JEREMIA;c-17286138" wrote:
What about urinals? After toilet stalls are here, we need urinals for male restrooms

Do our male Sims ever get anything? I would not hold my breath on that object.

SimGuruFrost basically confirmed Bikes being exclusive to this EP, so that also basically confirms that they are NOT usable in other worlds, and are only for Teens - Elders.

when?

He confirmed in a tweet that they are Uni exclusive.

I take that more to mean they aren't being patched in for free. In other words, you'll have to buy the University expansion to have them in the game.

Then why are they so evasive about the question if they are usable in other worlds? Won't hurt to confirm to stop the speculating.

Same goes for if they are usable by kids or not.

But we will see. I don't trust EA after 5 years of lackluster content at best.

"Dannydanbo;c-17288820" wrote:
Am I the only person hoping that, upon seeing that the ping pong table "looks" as if it could fold up (note the wheels), that it is a possible new death? DEATH BY FOLDING PING PONG TABLE! aaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!

I know, I know, I have issues.

I noticed the wheels but only thought it was movable like the tables from OR...but it would be hilarious if they can die from it..as long as there’s not a huge chance of that happening