EgonVM's Ultimate NPC Making Guide 2.0
So yeah, due to how these forums work with the spoilers, the original guide is somewhat messed up and updating it would result in loss of information. So, after some consideration, I've decided to m...
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Another small but quite effective NPC role-assigning rule I found...
(Note that I don't use Get Famous EP, I'm not sure if it is related.)
Discover University EP has many roles related to the university such as organizations. Most of them need to be in the "Other Household" category (Not "My Household") to be assigned and spawned in the related events.
For example, I always move all sims to "My household" to prevent culling, but then I notice that all of the new student sims (that move to My Household) don't appear as organization members. The game keeps adding new sims to fill the role. But when I move existing sims to the "Other Household", existing sims can appear in the role again.
This rule is used for other roles in DU such as The Secret Society members and Utili-Bot Contest Judge who is Foxbury Professor.
General students and professors can appear in the lot even being in "My Household"
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That made me leave my original university sims in "Other Household" to let them do roles properly. And, weirdly, only this EP has this unique rule. No other packs have this criteria.
P.S. If Get Famous is enabled, new university students and organization members are picked from existing sims (such as premade sims) in the save file.
Moreover, I found that students in Other Households can continue the new terms and gradually graduate autonomously. While students in My Household that I haven't played for a long time will get an F and probation overtime.
So, I believe there are some rules to separate "My Household" and "Other Household" sims. The reason may be about making background university students come and graduate overtime without playing.
That means if I leave them in "Other Household" for too long, every current student will graduate and I have to make a whole new set of university students after a year passed.
(Fortunately, I saved them in time and found that MCCC can freeze university progress, so I can leave them there without worrying.)
Oh hey. SimGurus also shared that on Twitter. Yes, Unplayed Households will re-enroll on their own and eventually graduate while Played Households will wait for the player to return in order to re-enroll.
Played sims failing a term on their own seems like a bug somewhat. Sometimes they do fine on their own, at other times they fail everything. This is the main reason why I'm thinking of replacing University Housing with Residential Rental (as University Housing will kick your sim out when they don't re-enroll or even become too pregnant).
It also seems like unplayed students take 3 courses per term...
Oh, good to hear that there is confirmation from SimGurus. But my point is it isn’t just unplayed but have to be in “other household” too. Stay in “my household” isn’t enough. Or this is for the save file without Get Famous.
Replacing University Housing with Residential Rental is interesting. If it’s safe for bug already, it will be the choice that easier in many ways. You can have manageable roommates that can switch to play too.
Hmm... I have to see there... I don't think Get Famous has to do anything with sims graduating on their own...
The thing is that all the Other Households are automatically unplayed while My Households can be unplayed. By the time Discover University was released, the Other Households and My Households system was there (it's been there since Cats & Dogs)...
I think I have to test it out. I have to make 4 households: Actively Played test group, Played household, Unplayed My Household household, and Unplayed Other Household household and see which ones get re-enrolled on their own and which ones don't. An in-game week is a long time though, so wish me luck!
What I think will happen is that when I go through a term, only the Actively Played and Played households will ask me to re-enroll them again while the other two have already re-enrolled. Let's see if that gets confirmed or busted...
