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ck213
3 years agoSeasoned Scout
"HermioneSims;c-18027581" wrote:
The setting, all the characters, and everything, it's all very impressive!
Some times ago I tried to make something similar too, but in TS4 I found that too hard to have all sims in the classrooms or in the great all sitting for long enough, or to keep students from other houses in their respective common rooms (in particular when loading the lot...)
In the past I tried that with TS2, making an apartments lot in which each common room was an apartment, and it was so much easier...
But maybe I should try again, because this seems very funny to play!
This!
I am currently working through this problem, trying to find the most enjoyable approach.
This is why I haven't posted yet--this issue, plus constant lot fixes as I find more things the lot needs as I play.
And then there are the game play blockers that are keeping me from the fun moments.
There are things the school needs that I can't get because of Seasons and plants, and/or they are not available for purchase.
So you have to cheat and get them from debug. It kind of takes the fun out it because I am wasting time looking for things that I can't get and then I fall back to prep work.
I have three approaches for the main issue--class setting and teaching.
1) The teacher is external to Hogwarts and is visiting to teach the class.
Bad Idea. You have no control of the students, and you have no control over doors and other lot features.
Students are all over the place. You can start off in the class room and one student will go off to do their homework outside the class room and then everyone is everywhere. I can't lock them all in the classroom.
And if you tell them to do their homework, they will squat at his feet.
2) Dumbledore Immersion:
Dumbledore is headmaster and is managing professors by inviting them up in their groups.
The Professor is organized in a Student Classroom group. I could just have the student call up the group, but I like having Dumbledore call in the teacher before the students arrive. When the students arrive, the teacher is already there and I can have them all go into the classroom and lock the door. Which isn't the case here, because Madame Hooch wandered in to clean up a cup. Dumbledore also had the Support Staff in and they were going around doing their Club tasks.
It works fairly well. The downside is you don't have control of Snape, but he automatically begins helping students with their homework.
And you do have to lock the doors even though the students were pretty manageable with the the Do Homework Together social. Sybil decided to park herself at a student desk, which caused a student to go to a desk outside the classroom and another student went with them. When a student finishes their homework, they go off and find anyone else, most likely outside the classroom.
3) Professor Immersion
The Professor is serving as acting-headmaster while Dumbledore is "away". (Doing a home lot swap with the Professor of choice.) You have access to everything--the students, the teacher, and the school. You just lose Dumbledore immersion.
But it does make sense that he may be off doing Hogwart's business.
I have yet to try it fully with Snape because he is currently building his set of spells and potions. The Snape-sim came as a Master level spellcaster, but his spell book was empty of Spells and potions. And I had him trying to gather 1 sample of all the ingredients so he could Copypasto them. So more prep work and less fun play.
I will probably alternate between approaches two and three whenever it feels right.
Another issue is this default school-work/ magic skill progression/ and taking care of needs.
Not that much fun because teens are not fun in the first place. They spend a big chunk of time at school and then come home with depleted needs, foul emotions, homework to do, and usually a skill to build to better their grades.
And then I want them to do magic?
So I will be using vacations days to fully focus on magic. I will consider Summer to be their vacation where I will go off and do other things. Most likely transfer students to their families and transfer the professors to Hogwarts. I can then choose to focus on the professors and build relationships and skill for them, or simply focus on other households.
I have yet to use vacation days because I wanted their school grades at B-A level first.
They will be doing it soon. It is Saturday for them and I would like to send them off to the Magic Realm to see if they can buy better wands and get some brooms. And then I would like to have them go into town and enjoy the pub and buy some drinks that look like Butterbeer.
They will take Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to focus only on Magic.
I hope to make all their goals for the Fall season and spend the rest try to find what other fun things I can do with this instead of prep-work.
Don't get me wrong, the prep-work was fun, but now you just want to get in and have fun from the antics of your sims, not how great it all looks and the possible fun potential.
I am currently going through all the latest shots I took while playing (a lot).
Some funny and interesting things did happen despite this round being more frustrating than fun. The frustration because I feel like I am almost done with the major issues and set up and can finally go for a nice trial run, but can't yet get to it.
I will post when I can, but it should be later this evening. Perhaps 8 hours or more from the time of this post.
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