How will semesters work?

"dearie_blossom;c-17305355" wrote:
@AquaGamer1212

Sorry, but that‘s a stupid solution. Some players want an actual university experience and this includes taking multiple classes and all the stress and time management issues that comes with it. These players who have seasons set to three weeks will start university at the beginning of winter and graduate at the end of winter. What kind of nonsense is this? Being a lazy slack off student is not an alternative for longer terms. It really wouldn‘t have been difficult to let players choose the length of a term. Just throw in some „prepare presentation“, „research xyz“ and „take exam“ tasks more.

Some people really only care about the party aspect of DU and it shows. I don‘t even know why EA bothered to add rabbit hole classes. Many people would have bought a University pack with no classes or homework whatsoever.

This is kind of how I felt about it. I want a challenge for longer than 5 sim days a semester. I'd like 28 day semesters personally. I think I would do end of summer to beginning of winter, then take a break and do end of winter to beginning of summer. I think sometimes they forget about players like me that actually want things to be challenging and take time. I can do 5 days and 4 classes but it still just feels easy. I like extended periods of challenge and managing things. They could have thrown in mid terms and other small exams. I think someone will create a mod for this though so I'll just wait to see what the community comes up with. Sad that it has to be that way.

Another thing I am wondering about semesters is when do you register for the next semester? I hope you can do this before you are like sent home or kicked out of your dorm.

"Vagenius;c-17305448" wrote:
Another thing I am wondering about semesters is when do you register for the next semester? I hope you can do this before you are like sent home or kicked out of your dorm.

I'm assuming once your sim has completed their first round of classes, there might be a pop up prompting your sims take another set of classes until they've done all 12. I could be wrong, because that's something they didn't show in the livestream, but that's my best guess.

"dearie_blossom;c-17305449" wrote:

"AquaGamer1212;c-17305366" wrote:


Terms can last from 3 weeks to 12 weeks, it's up to the player how long they want Uni to be. Seasons is irrelevant because not everyone has Seasons. There also extracurriculars you can take instead of classes as well.

A term is always five days. You can take 12 terms until graduation if you play a lazy slack off sim who only takes one class per term and parties 24/7. Not everyone wants this university experience for their sims.

Not everyone that has Cats & Dogs also has Seasons yet those players who have both have their cats become tense when thunderstorms occur. DU is an expansion pack so they should take other packs into account. Having your sim enroll and graduate in the same season and giving players no option to change it is pure laziness.

I meant the whole duration of University. I've been typing terms so much I slipped up. But what I said is correct, if you choose to do 4 classes per term, and each term is 5 days, then the minimum is 3 weeks to 12 weeks because you can do 1 class per term if you choose. Term=Week (because we don't count the weekends).