Discover university. Pros & cons for each university

> @asimbsim said:
> I love the old world feel of Britechester, it's sooo pretty. And it's smooth to follow sims, and they don;t take too long to get anywhere.
> Foxbury drives me nuts, to the point I feel it's completely unplayable, which makes me so sad because it's also a beautiful design aesthetically. But if you are following a sim anywhere, the camera shoots around all over the place, shoots up into the sky, I feel like I'm constantly readjusting the camera and I can't just look at my sim from the angle I want to without 3 hours of moving the camera around first! Plus like the above post said, there are so many stairs that if you try and ride a bike anywhere your sims will miss their classes because they'll still be taking their bike out/putting it away at one of the stairs. It does have a cycle path type design that you can use, but they never use it automatically, and you have to click on different sections of it to get them to use it at all.
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> What I've done is designed a completely new campus in Oasis Springs for all my Foxbury students, because it's the only way I can play it, and I like my sims to do distinguished degrees (I thought science sims and being in the middle of the desert is a bit Area 51 ;) ) But yeah, Foxbury is pretty but completely unplayable in my personal opinion, unless they live off campus.
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> On a different note, a good tip is that once a sim is in class, you can click on their icon at the bottom of the screen and choose options, like "Take Notes" or "chat with friends". (like when sims go to work), so clicking "take notes" definitely seems to help the grade!

thanks so much this is really helpful

I prefer Foxbury but most of my sims have lived off-campus. As @elanorbreton said, you should NOT use a bicycle if you are staying on-campus at Foxbury. The one Sim that I had living there was a spellcaster and he used his broom or the transportalate spell to get around. Those both worked quite well. I had a little trouble getting good camera angles at first, but then I used one of the preset angles to line up the camera for his classroom building and after that it was no problem at all.

Foxbury's biggest advantage is one of its organizations, the Brainiacs. Once you reach level 2 in that organization, you will get extra credit for all classes whenever you participate in any of the organization's activities. This is especially helpful if you plan to take multiple degrees from Foxbury.

Camera presets can be set by pressing Ctrl-5 through Ctrl-9, on the top row of numbers. Once they have been set, you can return to the angles at any time by pressing the numbers on the top row of keys. You can also snap to those angles by pressing Alt-5 through Alt-9 on the top row.

"Sketch793;c-17417293" wrote:


Camera presets can be set by pressing Ctrl-5 through Ctrl-9, on the top row of numbers. Once they have been set, you can return to the angles at any time by pressing the numbers on the top row of keys. You can also snap to those angles by pressing Alt-5 through Alt-9 on the top row.

I never knew you could do this! You've made me reconsider the possibility of playing in Foxbury again - thanks :)