I think University is OVERRATED!

"keekee53;c-17207099" wrote:
I always found it boring even in Sims 2 but I know a lot of people want it so I am not going to step on their dreams haha.

I active class in 3 was boring. Time went too fast and I didn't have time to really have my sims party in Sims 2 and 3. I had more fun in sims 2 University than 3 though. I just hope 4 will allow more than one family at the University so I can work it into my rotation. I don't want to be stuck only sending one family there. If I cannot send more than one family, I may skip it. Seasons already was tough to work around with rotation. I am stuck playing my families 4 weeks before rotating and some families are just too boring for 4 sims weeks.

(Maybe I'm the only one who loves the active lecture, haha. I assume your seasonal rotation issue was just for Sims 2, and in that case I'd feel similarly but take a different approach. But I'll try to keep this *more* / somewhat OT while still replying. )

Re: multiple "families." Even without mods, in Sims 3 you can do this easily. Move the desired Sims in together temporarily. They're still not family and you don't have to really play them as living together back home. Playing that way doesn't bother me, as I like the idea of moving them somewhere out of the way so I can pretend they're not around for a little while after the term (because I don't like how time works with travel). Even though I have the traveler mod, I like the idea of moving them in together just so they're out of the way somewhere or at least not so obviously back home with their families.

Ah, that's another thing I want different, but expect it to happen anyway in TS4: the way time goes on when Sims travel. It will likely work the way I like for the S4 players (time *not* stopping during travel <3 ).

Hopefully, though, Sims 4 will be VERY flexible with Uni and break past old limitations, to match the realism of how time passes in TS4. Even though I won't play it, I want to see the franchise move forward. <3

"simmerLella;c-17211370" wrote:
One thing that IS overrated about the packs is that the careers tied to college in an unmodded game are ALL WRONG.

Ever since Sims 2 the games allowed players to go into medicine and science without a degree and when the University pack was added, formal education was required for careers like artist, paranormal and sports agent. :/

It's funny to me that some of the comments have to do with not wanting University because someone has already gone to college IRL. I am WELL past my university days (like, Sims 1 wasn't even out yet when I was in school). But I can't imagine playing without University... in fact, I play in one main save, and I refuse to age anyone up or move to the next generation until we get University, which is why I'm hardly playing or buying new packs at this point.

It's not so much that I enjoy the gameplay, even, although it has pros and cons... I mean, I do enjoy it, but it's more that I can't conceive of most of my sims not going to college. Not all of them, of course, but the doctors, the scientists, the (please, please, let us eventually have) lawyers, the snooty wealthy corporate types... there's simply no way they wouldn't have a degree in any world I can imagine.

I play sims to escape university in my life, so university really isn't a pack I want to play now. I don't mind if it comes, but I really don't think I'll purchase it, unless there is something very, very cool. No idea what that would be.

I played university a bit in TS2. My sims made some friends there and it was rather nice, the careers were okay too, but most of the time I didn't send my teens there and it was annoying when they were sad about not going to university.

It would be good if it focused more on the social aspects of university.

I never really got University in any of the previous versions, I must have time management issues as my sims always seem to be working towards the grades and I never seem to get to do any thing else, so it just feels like a boring grindfest to me, now if the expansion was for education as a whole, now that might be more interesting, private education schools, home schools, boarding school, change it from what it is now, then I'd be more interested. (this is not to say I won't buy university, I will of course, but I'm not looking forward to it as such)

I totally agree. The last thing I want is another pack that focuses solely on young adults and ignores ever other age group. I'm cool with a school pack, but a university pack would be a "no" from me.

I would love an education expansion. One of my favorite mods is Zerbu's Go to School mod. But I would like to be able to have more than one school and a homeschooling option as well. I think if there is a University mod, it shouldn't limit the careers available for everyone to use, but instead should give you a head start. I tend to think of the first levels of the jobs as either university or grad school internships anyway. So I imagine that Sims have an advanced educational system that allows teens to complete their core requirements in high school, and then, they do on the job training and study at home as well. So it would be cool if University allowed young adults to learn the skills needed for their future careers in a fun way. Not just grinding away reading skill books. I would also love some new careers, especially a teaching career.

If sims could go to university while living at home I might hate it less, but in past iterations of this game, I had to go with them to this place and the whole game was on pause while I was stuck there doing this thing. As a rotational player with a lot of other households, I despised the process. I tried doing things like decorating the dorm and going all out with the sim's clothes, and nothing really helped make it comfortable. I hated college and school IRL and this wasn't any better. I ended up giving doctors degrees with a cheat and that was the end of that. I don't even particularly want a general school pack.

All that said, I think family players and people who want to relive school (ugh!) should get this pack because it's always been popular and EA should probably make it. All I'm saying is that if they do make it, and that stupid llama mascot starts showing up at my sims' houses over and over again, he's going to be vampire food.

Yup every vampire and alien needs a higher education :D