How will semesters work?

"CAITLINX354;d-968484" wrote:
How do y'all think semesters will work? Or what will happen to the sims you leave behind while at uni? I kind of hope its a system like the vacations so you can switch back and forth between your sims that are at college and sims who are not.

It may be like sims 2 where time stops outside while they attend uni, or possibly sims at uni will create their own temporary household and whether other households age with them will depend on what you have your settings on.

I hope it works like fame: It decays gradually for the active household only and is frozen for all inactives (and bugged in San Myshuno, unfortunately).

"dearie_blossom;c-17302557" wrote:
I wonder how long a semester will last and how many semesters it takes to graduate. I like the idea of one semester = one season and four seasons until graduation. This way we can experience university in spring, summer, fall and winter.

What about when one changes the lengths of seasons midway through? Will semesters change length with it then too? This is assuming ofc, there's enough to do in a full 28-day season if 1 semester is to equal 1 season.

I wish it worked the same way as in TS3. I really need that to be rotational players friendly.

What makes you think they'll work?

"DoloresGrey;c-17303434" wrote:
I wish it worked the same way as in TS3. I really need that to be rotational players friendly.

Good point too. How will semesters be handled when we're currently not playing with the current college household? This is an important question for me bc I'm a huge rotational player.

Based on what's in the live stream, it seems that one term is always a sim week, and there are no special college households. You can stay at home, live off-campus, or live on-campus, but otherwise they work like regular households.

I still need to know what happens to your uni people when you switch to another rotation. I only have 2 families per game but if classes run when I'm not there and the sim doesn't go it might mean a fail???

They did say that time passes as usual for uni Sims. I keep forgetting to pay attention to whether Sims go to work when they're in a household I'm not currently playing so I don't know, but I'm guessing it'll work like that. And since there's also homework and papers to write, they'd likely also be not done and if your rotation keeps you away for longer than the "semester", then your uni Sims will probably fail those courses. :(

Each semester is 5 business days and the classes I noticed occur 2 (ETA: or 3) days per week. That doesn’t seem like a lot. If you miss a class, your grade must suffer quite a bit.

I am guessing the active household is the only one progressing through school while others are on hold for that time.