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

Here is one item that isnt in the pack the murphy bed.

https://twitter.com/SimGuruNinja/status/1189314198263783429?s=19

"Dannydanbo;c-17293488" wrote:
My guess would be that ALL the buildings in the campus neighborhoods of UofB and FI are shells. This means, like with apartments in CL, the building itself is uneditable. It also means that they may teleport in and out of those buildings (no walking through doors). The rooms inside, be they classrooms, labs, restrooms, common rooms, dorm rooms or any other that I can't think of now, will be editable with the exception of the exterior walls. They don't want us messing with the "look" of the over-all campus. This also saves them the effort of creating all the BUILD items to match those two different styles of buildings.

There may be a few lots to build on in the third neighborhood/town where places like the bar will be located. I hope there will be Greek houses but I haven't heard nor seen anything at all about them. So, I hope there is at least one or two lots that I can build on as building is my biggest reason for having bought the very first base game almost twenty years ago. I hope they haven't ripped that last Sims joy from my gaming experience.

I would hope if they go with the CL style of uneditable apartments they'll at least make dorms like the penthouses which we can edit. I wouldn't mind not being able to edit classrooms etc., but I really want to build my own dorm and also not need a loading screen to visit my dormmates or whatever common areas are in the dorm.

I wonder how dorms will work if you play multiple sims?
With City Living, all your sims stay in one apartment and you cannot see what is going on inside the other apartments, just the walls?
But if you have multiple sims staying in dorms, will you only see what is going on in those 2-3 dorms?
Would all the dorms be next to each other? or would they be around the dorm shell in-between the walls of the other dorms?
What if you have 3 sims in dorms, each in their own rooms, and you are playing one of the sims which in the dorm but the other are at class, can you still see inside all 3 dorms?
When you enter build mode you must be able to edit all 3 dorms?

"Dannydanbo;c-17293648" wrote:

"secretlondon123;c-17293639" wrote:

"belpita;c-17287426" wrote:

ETA: Thinking about Villainy specifically, will a good grade in that give you an advantage in the Criminal career? And how will they implement that possibility?

It's a bit of a giveaway really. The police get a list of everyone who gets a degree in villainy? You get arrested for having a 1st class degree in evil?

....or you can become a cop with extensive knowledge of how criminals think. Probably won't happen tho'.

"Dannydanbo;c-17293648" wrote:

"secretlondon123;c-17293639" wrote:

"belpita;c-17287426" wrote:

ETA: Thinking about Villainy specifically, will a good grade in that give you an advantage in the Criminal career? And how will they implement that possibility?

It's a bit of a giveaway really. The police get a list of everyone who gets a degree in villainy? You get arrested for having a 1st class degree in evil?

....or you can become a cop with extensive knowledge of how criminals think. Probably won't happen tho'.

I also thought Villainy would be something that the detective and secret agent would study as well, like a major for both the criminals and all the careers based around criminal investigation agencies?

"Dannydanbo;c-17294338" wrote:
I can see how a dorm shell building could work. As in City Living, the exterior of the building would be a shell that you can not edit. The exterior walls also, can not be edited. But any walls within the exterior walls could be edited. There could be two or even three floors as there are in CL. I don't see the doors like we would choose when our sims claim a room, but, we already have the "Claim A Bed" option so it is possible to have a room of your own or a room with a roommate.

I don't see simple, buildable dorm lots like we had before. I see dorms in a shell, part of a collection of shell buildings around the Quad, that house the Student Union, labs, lecture halls and any other rooms that our sims need.

I do hope that there are buildable lots in the third neighborhood where I can build a few lots for my stories. We'll see on the 8th.

Yeah I dont think we will be able to build our own dorms unfortunately, but you're right we will see on the 8th, luckily its only a week away! Although it feels like forever!

"Dannydanbo;c-17296182" wrote:

"SimsStarfish;c-17295912" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-17294338" wrote:
I can see how a dorm shell building could work. As in City Living, the exterior of the building would be a shell that you can not edit. The exterior walls also, can not be edited. But any walls within the exterior walls could be edited. There could be two or even three floors as there are in CL. I don't see the doors like we would choose when our sims claim a room, but, we already have the "Claim A Bed" option so it is possible to have a room of your own or a room with a roommate.

I don't see simple, buildable dorm lots like we had before. I see dorms in a shell, part of a collection of shell buildings around the Quad, that house the Student Union, labs, lecture halls and any other rooms that our sims need.

I do hope that there are buildable lots in the third neighborhood where I can build a few lots for my stories. We'll see on the 8th.

Yeah I dont think we will be able to build our own dorms unfortunately, but you're right we will see on the 8th, luckily its only a week away! Although it feels like forever!

I'm not sure we'll know then. We may need to wait for the actual pack to drop. They tend to gloss over the features that we want to see and ignore the features that they didn't add in for whatever reason. In other words, they will probably show us the great points of dorms in shells but won't bother to acknowledge the lack of Greek Houses.

Yeah especially seen as the "deep dive" is only 2 hours.... usually we get about 3 hours of live streaming with information, like 1 hour CAS and game play , build/buy and the world and then the new game play system like Fame/Reputation in Get Famous.

If its only 2 hours then I am thinking that maybe the world is really small although Get Famous had a small world and they had a whole hour to showcase the world and build/buy because there were a lot of new objects. So maybe its a small world and then also less game play like Island Living? Maybe the University school system is really simple.

Or maybe, if I am optimistic, they are just more organised and can get it done in 2 hours and don't want to show too much of pack? Maybe they know the game changers will cover it on their Youtube channels? It is kind of strange, to me, that they announced the pack only to wait 3 weeks to show off all the content in one session, one week before the pack releases... maybe the pack needed polishing?

New Game play trailer is up!
https://simscommunity.info/2019/11/05/the-sims-4-discover-university-gameplay-trailer/

Somethings I noticed already
Scholarships
Roommates
Living off Campus
Transferring Schools
Secret Societies
Losing Scholarships
Taking out Loans!
Study Groups
Term Papers
Exams
Cafeteria

Looks like there is also a cafeteria food serving station which has built in food containers and a pay point for students

There also appears to be a soccer field where sims can mess around solo with the soccer balls and a new dresser/drawer I think, with a gap in it for objects