Discover University Challenge Ideas
Hey, fellow Simmers! Since I don't own Discover University yet, I would like to start a thread with ideas regarding "let's play" challenge ideas that I can include to my game when it's finally in m...
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Sims 4 Discover University Challenge.
This challenge is for anyone looking for a non-academically focused experience.
Challenge:
Starting out your founder sim (male or female) must enroll in either university (Major doesn't matter), and live on campus in the dorms (this is only for the first year!).
Your first goal is to pledge a house, here you will choose your “greek family” by applying to join the invite only clubs that you’ll have already created prior to starting this challenge. (I’ve listed the requirements under Pre-challenge world modifications.)
Pledge one, or pledge them all it’s up to you the only restriction is your gender of choice! This will keep you from being able to join a Frat as a girl or a Sorority as a boy.
Pledging can be as difficult or as simple as you’d like but you can not start out already being a part of the club.
Once you join a club, your real story can begin. This experience will take you 12 terms to graduate and you can only take one course each term. (Good news is this will make it plenty easy for you to pass!!)
Freshman Year(terms 1-4) : Living on campus in the dorm, you're exposed to other people outside of the greek life. So make friends, enemies or even love connections outside of the world you're trying to enter. Or you can choose to spend all your free time with your future greek family. The only stipulation is that your sim must attend all greek life events, and start to make connections.
Sophomore Year (terms 5-9): You’ll move into the clubhouse, which means your world outside of greek life gets reduced to in class interactions, and possible invites to maintain connections from last year. (Your sim will likely lose a few friends, because your schedule is gonna be kinda crazy.) You’ll have to help plan all greek life events, and you’ll still be expected to attend everything, but now you’ve got to play by house rules. That means their friends/ enemies are yours too!
Additionally you must choose at least one of the following tasks to complete:
Date one of the “presidents”
Woohoo with a whole house (yes this does mean everyone, including ones who are in a relationship. Even if their SO is one of your brothers/sisters.)
Get elected president of the club. (This would be a very early win for your greek sim.)
“Everybody loves ____” Become the sims that everyone knows and adores.
Junior Year(10th and 11th terms) : Depending on the task you chose to accomplish in Sophmore year you’ll now have to choose one of the following.
If you choose to date one of the presidents, you’ll have to break up.
Break up scenarios:
They cheated (~le gasp~), now you have to get revenge!
Wait, you're the one who cheated? (OooooOo who did you cheat with?) Too bad you got caught! Are you gonna try to win them back or enjoy being single?
Neither of you cheated (Wowwww good for you goodie-two-shoes), but you just don't feel the same anymore.
If you choose to woohoo a whole house, you have to get caught. (Good luck, I hope you didn't sleep with someone else's SO!)
Elected Pres? Cool! Now you’re in charge of inviting new people to fill in the empty spots in the house and maintaining relationships!
Everybody loves, now everybody hates. (What did you do?)
Senior Year (12th term): Your real life is about to start! Time to tidy up any past mistakes, and find yourself a long term SO if that's what you want. But you’ve got five business days to fix whatever it is you broke, or don’t who cares! Good Luck!
What you will need:
The Sims 4 Get Together
The Sims 4 Discover University
The Sims 4 Seasons for Calendar System
Mods you need: GOOGLE SEARCH
LittleMsSams Choose a Roommate mod
MC Command Center
No Dorm Restrictions by Zerbu (Optional)
Pre-challenge World Modifications:
Create some Fraternities and Sororities.
Your game must have at least three of each type per college.*Total of Six* This will offer diversity in experiences, and increase potential “in-game” possabilities To do this you’ll need:
Gender restricted houses.
Male Houses = Fraternities
Female Houses = Sororities
Establish “clubs” * Only one “club” per house.* (These are your Geek houses!):
It’s important to note that only members of the club are allowed to move into their club-house. *This means no significant others moving in!*
These houses can be anywhere in the world since sims 4 doesn’t require your sims to live in Britechester to attend university.(I would suggest using Newcrest since it offers the most options for empty lots.)
Be sure that the name of the house and the club are the same!
Creating a club: Players can create a club in which the selected Sim will become the leader. The player can choose the club's name, club symbol, description and requirements for Sims who join the club. After this, the player can select what activities club members can do, a preferred club activity and an activity which club members are not supposed to do. This can all be customized from a menu that pops up when creating a club.
Requirements: Players can set requirements for a club such as age, career, marital status, financial status, traits and skills +2 level. These requirements block out anyone who doesn't meet the requirements from joining the club.
Club Activities: Here is a list of activities the player can choose as encouraged or shunned activities for a club. You must choose a total of 10 (5 good, and 5 bad). *Each Greek house should have at least two different good and bad values from every other house.
Hangouts: When creating a club or a Sim is leader of a club, the player can choose where the club hangout is. This is the place where Sims within the club will go to during gatherings. Players can select a lot for club hangouts in three ways: selecting none will make all club members come to the lot the leader is on, selecting a specific location allows for the player to select any lot from any world as their hangout, and finally general venues allows for the player to make the club hangout at any community lot. (Default hangout should be the Greek house, but it doesn't have to be.)
Club perks: When Sims are gathering as a club, every Sim that does the activities the club prefers will gain club points as long as the gathering is happening. With these club points players can purchase new club perks which can help do many things, such as give a certain mood to all members while gathering, make the club hated or loved on first meeting, purchase new unique handshakes, boost skills etc. (Take advantage of these! It will be helpful to play a little while with the clubs to build them up.)
Greek Holidays:
Greek Week is a one week period in April where students in Greek organizations participate in programs and events that celebrate the values of the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life. (This means your spring week should be full of fun events/ Parties that will have your sim running around with little to no time for sleep or school.)
Must have events * One per sim week:
FORMAL/SEMI-FORMAL: The ultimate sorority event is a formal. It's like Homecoming, but without the inherent awkwardness of high school.
SOCIAL: Your chapter might join up with a fraternity/sorority to have a social with a certain theme, like "Hawaiian Luau" or "Cowboys and Indians." There are also grab-a-dates, where instead of hanging out with a specific house, you can bring whoever you want as your date.
SISTER/BROTHERHOOD: A retreat/event solely for you and your house members—no other sororities or fraternities are involved. Example: a sleepover or a trip.
CHAPTER: This one's pretty simple. "Chapter" just refers to your sorority/ fraternity meeting, during which you'll plan upcoming events and discuss any issues within the chapter.(This could just be a second in house bonding event where your sim works on homework with others. While you (the player) plan more parties!)
Make it Messy:Okay let’s be honest Greek life on any campus is full of drama! It’s a blast, but it’s also kind of like stumbling across a reality tv show, or even accidentally making your way to Messytok. Super entertaining but probably doesn't feel the best for the people involved. So your goal here is to set up as much preexisting in-game drama as you can. That means making friends, enemies and dating life drama! (The MC Command Center should be pretty helpful with this step; try out this command rel_set John Smith Jane Doe, which will prompt A UI dialog to pop-up allowing which relationship to define between the two Sims.)
Sims 4 Discover University Challenge.
This challenge is for anyone looking for a non-academically focused experience.
Challenge:
Starting out your founder sim (male or female) must enroll in either university (Major doesn't matter), and live on campus in the dorms (this is only for the first year!).
Your first goal is to pledge a house, here you will choose your “greek family” by applying to join the invite only clubs that you’ll have already created prior to starting this challenge. (I’ve listed the requirements under Pre-challenge world modifications.)
Pledge one, or pledge them all it’s up to you the only restriction is your gender of choice! This will keep you from being able to join a Frat as a girl or a Sorority as a boy.
Pledging can be as difficult or as simple as you’d like but you can not start out already being a part of the club.
Once you join a club, your real story can begin. This experience will take you 12 terms to graduate and you can only take one course each term. (Good news is this will make it plenty easy for you to pass!!)
Freshman Year(terms 1-4) : Living on campus in the dorm, you're exposed to other people outside of the greek life. So make friends, enemies or even love connections outside of the world you're trying to enter. Or you can choose to spend all your free time with your future greek family. The only stipulation is that your sim must attend all greek life events, and start to make connections.
Sophomore Year (terms 5-9): You’ll move into the clubhouse, which means your world outside of greek life gets reduced to in class interactions, and possible invites to maintain connections from last year. (Your sim will likely lose a few friends, because your schedule is gonna be kinda crazy.) You’ll have to help plan all greek life events, and you’ll still be expected to attend everything, but now you’ve got to play by house rules. That means their friends/ enemies are yours too!
Additionally you must choose at least one of the following tasks to complete:
Date one of the “presidents”
Woohoo with a whole house (yes this does mean everyone, including ones who are in a relationship. Even if their SO is one of your brothers/sisters.)
Get elected president of the club. (This would be a very early win for your greek sim.)
“Everybody loves ____” Become the sims that everyone knows and adores.
Junior Year(10th and 11th terms) : Depending on the task you chose to accomplish in Sophmore year you’ll now have to choose one of the following.
If you choose to date one of the presidents, you’ll have to break up.
Break up scenarios:
They cheated (~le gasp~), now you have to get revenge!
Wait, you're the one who cheated? (OooooOo who did you cheat with?) Too bad you got caught! Are you gonna try to win them back or enjoy being single?
Neither of you cheated (Wowwww good for you goodie-two-shoes), but you just don't feel the same anymore.
If you choose to woohoo a whole house, you have to get caught. (Good luck, I hope you didn't sleep with someone else's SO!)
Elected Pres? Cool! Now you’re in charge of inviting new people to fill in the empty spots in the house and maintaining relationships!
Everybody loves, now everybody hates. (What did you do?)
Senior Year (12th term): Your real life is about to start! Time to tidy up any past mistakes, and find yourself a long term SO if that's what you want. But you’ve got five business days to fix whatever it is you broke, or don’t who cares! Good Luck!
What you will need:
The Sims 4 Get Together
The Sims 4 Discover University
The Sims 4 Seasons for Calendar System
Mods you need: GOOGLE SEARCH
LittleMsSams Choose a Roommate mod
MC Command Center
No Dorm Restrictions by Zerbu (Optional)
Pre-challenge World Modifications:
Create some Fraternities and Sororities.
Your game must have at least three of each type per college.*Total of Six* This will offer diversity in experiences, and increase potential “in-game” possabilities To do this you’ll need:
Gender restricted houses.
Male Houses = Fraternities
Female Houses = Sororities
Establish “clubs” * Only one “club” per house.* (These are your Geek houses!):
It’s important to note that only members of the club are allowed to move into their club-house. *This means no significant others moving in!*
These houses can be anywhere in the world since sims 4 doesn’t require your sims to live in Britechester to attend university.(I would suggest using Newcrest since it offers the most options for empty lots.)
Be sure that the name of the house and the club are the same!
Creating a club: Players can create a club in which the selected Sim will become the leader. The player can choose the club's name, club symbol, description and requirements for Sims who join the club. After this, the player can select what activities club members can do, a preferred club activity and an activity which club members are not supposed to do. This can all be customized from a menu that pops up when creating a club.
Requirements: Players can set requirements for a club such as age, career, marital status, financial status, traits and skills +2 level. These requirements block out anyone who doesn't meet the requirements from joining the club.
Club Activities: Here is a list of activities the player can choose as encouraged or shunned activities for a club. You must choose a total of 10 (5 good, and 5 bad). *Each Greek house should have at least two different good and bad values from every other house.
Hangouts: When creating a club or a Sim is leader of a club, the player can choose where the club hangout is. This is the place where Sims within the club will go to during gatherings. Players can select a lot for club hangouts in three ways: selecting none will make all club members come to the lot the leader is on, selecting a specific location allows for the player to select any lot from any world as their hangout, and finally general venues allows for the player to make the club hangout at any community lot. (Default hangout should be the Greek house, but it doesn't have to be.)
Club perks: When Sims are gathering as a club, every Sim that does the activities the club prefers will gain club points as long as the gathering is happening. With these club points players can purchase new club perks which can help do many things, such as give a certain mood to all members while gathering, make the club hated or loved on first meeting, purchase new unique handshakes, boost skills etc. (Take advantage of these! It will be helpful to play a little while with the clubs to build them up.)
Greek Holidays:
Greek Week is a one week period in April where students in Greek organizations participate in programs and events that celebrate the values of the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life. (This means your spring week should be full of fun events/ Parties that will have your sim running around with little to no time for sleep or school.)
Must have events * One per sim week:
FORMAL/SEMI-FORMAL: The ultimate sorority event is a formal. It's like Homecoming, but without the inherent awkwardness of high school.
SOCIAL: Your chapter might join up with a fraternity/sorority to have a social with a certain theme, like "Hawaiian Luau" or "Cowboys and Indians." There are also grab-a-dates, where instead of hanging out with a specific house, you can bring whoever you want as your date.
SISTER/BROTHERHOOD: A retreat/event solely for you and your house members—no other sororities or fraternities are involved. Example: a sleepover or a trip.
CHAPTER: This one's pretty simple. "Chapter" just refers to your sorority/ fraternity meeting, during which you'll plan upcoming events and discuss any issues within the chapter.(This could just be a second in house bonding event where your sim works on homework with others. While you (the player) plan more parties!)
Make it Messy:Okay let’s be honest Greek life on any campus is full of drama! It’s a blast, but it’s also kind of like stumbling across a reality tv show, or even accidentally making your way to Messytok. Super entertaining but probably doesn't feel the best for the people involved. So your goal here is to set up as much preexisting in-game drama as you can. That means making friends, enemies and dating life drama! (The MC Command Center should be pretty helpful with this step; try out this command rel_set John Smith Jane Doe, which will prompt A UI dialog to pop-up allowing which relationship to define between the two Sims.)
