How should University work world wise?

"Movotti;c-16604682" wrote:
I find the concept of going 'away' to uni, to be unusual. Only a few people go 'away' to uni here, and most of them are still in their home state when they do so.

Dormitories here are usually single rooms, and mostly just for international students, or out of town students, who haven't yet found friends to share-house with.

I recently moved form the major city in this state, it has 3 major universities, two of which have campuses in the city centre. The vast majority of students attending those campuses live within a 45 minute bus ride of their classes.


My preference for how the Uni world should work, is that it would be a separate world, your sims could live in that world, or they could commute from their home world daily for classes. I don't want to be locked into sending my sims 'away', as I'd like to be able to play the rest of their household without having to send everyone to uni.

"aprilrose;c-16595982" wrote:

"gummybear0724;c-16595485" wrote:
I want the option to commute and the option to live on campus. A world with dorms of course but also the ability to live at home and study in the Uni World. I also think it'd be cool for sims to be able to live amongst college campuses, like families living in college towns.

This would be nice but I still think it should be separate in the sense that the sims in school don't run into their family members while they are supposed to be "away" at school.

But that would be unrealistic to me.
Most people here go to Uni in their home city, most live at home during at least their first year of uni, they run into their family at breakfast.

I see where you are coming from. It's tough because it could work multiple ways, it's really up to the developers in the end and they may just keep it like it was in the other versions. We shall see but I totally get what you mean. I went to school in my home state but it wasn't super far, lived in the dorms for two years and decided to commute the rest of the years. So it would be nice to have the option to dorm/rent house or commute.

I'd like to have a world like Windenberg/City Living, where the university and dorms could be set up like the tourist manision in Windenberg. And I would also want to be able to place buildings from the bowling and dine out packs wherever I pleased, in addition to residential lots. I would also like 2 or more lots designated as dorms as well the way City Living was designed. So essentially, I'd want a college town.

So For a Uni Pack the only Carrer i would love to have are Skill Carrers.

I just want at least one world, completely dedicated to university.

I'm not against other educational stuff being in the pack, but for a university pack it needs to be the focus. A university campus needs to have dorms, bar, library, greek houses as a minimum. Maybe lecture halls/labs to do classes like GTW. Plus empty spaces for us to add things like restaurants, night clubs, etc. from other packs. Honestly I don't think other educational areas will fit in that world, with all the university stuff it's getting pretty big.

In my dream pack there would be two university worlds with different grade requirements from high school/different costs, but I know that's probably unlikely as we've never had two worlds in a pack. I'd also like a rabbit hole option as well, just like a standard career, goals, etc.. which wouldn't require you to live on campus, that way you get both options which makes everyone happy.

A part of me would love it if YA Sims could attend Uni while still living in town. However, due to TS4's nature -- the inability to control more than one Sim at a time -- I'm not sure how well that would work out. So, having a separate Uni world might be the better option.

At least, when the Sims are at Uni, the other Sims would be in a sort of suspended animation. That way, we wouldn't lose time with the inactive Sims -- time that we can never get back.

I think it could fall Under Destination world.
I fear dorms would be like apartments in city living

but We could design the rest of the campus.

However, I want to be able to at least name, build and shape the school's reputation

I'd love having another world in general so adding a new world that I can use would be great for me. I didn't use university too much in TS3 since it took so much time to get a degree, and you'd only get to pick one trait out of it. I guess that's great for some people and you get your diploma and all, but I'm hoping TS4 approaches it a bit differently like they did with the other expansions, though I can't say I agree with what they did for the other expansions/stuff packs.

Separate world. People in general go to different cities/towns to go to college, so it'd make sense. Also I believe in every single sims game this has been the case, well at least for TS3, and I'm fairly certain for TS2 too.

The most important thing is we get at least 5 new traits, 5 new aspirations and 5 new careers (non-active). The game is so lacking in that dept all the sims starts feeling the exact same

"Cynna;c-16614484" wrote:
A part of me would love it if YA Sims could attend Uni while still living in town. However, due to TS4's nature -- the inability to control more than one Sim at a time -- I'm not sure how well that would work out. So, having a separate Uni world might be the better option.

At least, when the Sims are at Uni, the other Sims would be in a sort of suspended animation. That way, we wouldn't lose time with the inactive Sims -- time that we can never get back.

This is also why I'm against schools being opened up. If you have to choose which Sim within a household to play and leave the others to being uncontrollable and unproductive, what's the point?
It's bad enough if your Sim works overtime in GTW career and they come home to the kids not having completed their homework and no one has cooked dinner...