How should University work world wise?

I like it the way it was, because completely sinking into the student’s life is part of the fun for me. In real life and also in a sim’s life. Wouldn’t be fun for me if mom and dad can live around the corner.

Kinda like sims 3 university with its own world, dorms, houses, and places to go to.

I don’t mind the top two choices, but I’m not fond of an entire University world.

But in the end, I’m not a Uni fan in the first place, so I don’t really care either way.

ETA: As long as the sims are not forced or required to go to Uni, I don’t really mind whichever method the devs decide to take with Uni.

I like the third option th most. However there are always pros and cons about how it will be done in game.
TS2 was great as you could play uni or every other household in the neighbourhood. You could choose. However, your Sims were stuck there until they finished or dropped out.
TS3 was more realistic as Sims returned home between semesters. The downside was you could only play that Sim(s) while at university and couldn't switch households (if I remember correctly???).

I would actually like a mix of 1 and 2:
A new University neighborhood with dormitories, fraternity houses and other things for students.
and
A "Get to work"-Building/Territory where your students tgo during lab/lecture hours

This would reflect real life universities (at least in europe), where you have the possibility to live in dormitories, but where also a lot of students either live at their parents homes (and commute to college) or have a regular appartment somewhere outside of the campus.

> @Proteus42 said:
> I would actually like a mix of 1 and 2:
> A new University neighborhood with dormitories, fraternity houses and other things for students.
> and
> A "Get to work"-Building/Territory where your students tgo during lab/lecture hours
>
> This would reflect real life universities (at least in europe), where you have the possibility to live in dormitories, but where also a lot of students either live at their parents homes (and commute to college) or have a regular appartment somewhere outside of the campus.

Completely agree with you - it would be cool to be able to do a mixture of both. I lived at home during my undergrad so it would be fun to be able to replicate that if you wanted to, and then maybe your Sim could decide they want to move out and see what all the fuss is about living in halls midway through.

"a_niles06;c-16582465" wrote:
A separate world where they stay their entire run at Uni would be my preference - just gives it more of a feel of being away at Uni. Most people (unless they already live in town and/or are going to a tech school/community college) don't continue to live at home, they live in the dorms at the school, often not even in the same city/town they grew up in. Of course that's not necessarily the norm everywhere so really I'd be open to whatever they decide. I could work with anything. What I actually care about more than where they live is what the university itself would be like. I LOVED in TS2 how there were the 3 different types of schools. You had your more prestigious high end university, your basic state university and your community college/tech school. I want the various types of schools back so much. If they had those and treated them like GTW lots where you just go for class day and then come back, I'd be totally cool with that too.

i would like more colleges but i don't them to treat them like gtw lots i hope for 3 new small worlds this may be a lot but would ive more of that college feel or if it would be to much maybe two worlds granite falls sized?

i do hope we will be able to build our own dorms unlike the "apartments"

"rambahadoer;c-16589854" wrote:
i do hope we will be able to build our own dorms unlike the "apartments"

I’m not holding too much hope for that. Like apartments, I think dorms will be locked away from the players and filled with “dorm exclusive” gameplay.

"jackjack_k;c-16580909" wrote:

"@elelunicy;c-16580890" wrote:
The off-lot/public space needs to reflect that it’s a college campus, so option #2 makes very little sense. In fact, if rabbit hole academic buildings make a return (since both TS2 and TS3 use rabbit holes for classes) I’d expect them to be part of the world instead of being on a lot.

Option #1 is also a terrible idea. Commuter schools make sense in real life as some people only go to college for degrees. For a game it’s all about the fun part of being in college. Living in dorms and fraternity/sorority houses is a huge part of the traditional college experience and they are absolutely a must have.

I hear you, which is why I said they could still provide a hood or two for a new place to build Dorms, but they could also build Dorms in any world. So it would still work like Uni.

In the real world, most people live in housing accommodation providing by Universities outside of the actual University. I know of of several where I live and the Uni is on the other side of town.

That isn’t true, at least with regard to US universities. The majority of enrolled students are residential, which means they live on campus in university owned structures (dorms, apartments, in some cases houses, but that’s only for chartered fraternities/sororities).

Focusing on the commuter college experience really doesn’t do the whole college experience any justice at all, and it doesn’t translate into a fun experience for the player. I’d rather they keep it like they’ve done it in the past and have a dedicated university world (preferably several) where college students move to attend college. A rabbit hole school for commuter students could still be added, but I think in general it wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining.