"Atreya33;c-18109291" wrote:
This sounds like a nice plan but requires a lot of work.
Without needing any mods you can build functional student dorms and commons in any world, so I expect that will be the same for a custom world that is added through a mod.
Students can enroll in britechester or foxbury no matter where they live. I don't know what mod you want to use for a custom uni but since we can already enroll for any available degree while living in any world, you already have a lot of possibilities in an unmodded game (If you don't mind that the uni name is either britechester or foxbury) . If I understand correctly what is said in the link you shared, that simmer built dorms and commons in another world but technically still attended one of the two universities in the game.
With the two regular universities they can enroll, attend classes, do homework, write term papers,... no matter where they live. Sims can even stay on a normal residential lot and not move to student housing.
If students live outside of the university neighbourhood they will commute to university. The difference of commuting is that your Sims will go to uni the same way the go to a rabbit hole job, this means they will vanish at the end of the lot instead of walking to a building in the neighbourhood and vanish there.
I had two students enroll and attended uni while living in an apartment in evergreen harbour. One was enrolled in britechester while the other one was in foxbury. They progressed through uni and graduated without any problems. Another sim went to uni while living in sulani. I don't know how in real life one can commute on a daily basis from a tropical island to a British uni, in this case britechester, but she managed just fine . ;) For story purposes I just pretend the uni has a local faculty somewhere on a nearby island in sulani.
The MTS mod I was referring to is here:
http://modthesims.info/d/659091/empty-worlds-with-custom-names.html
Lets you create your own custom worlds.
What you said here:
"Students can enroll in britechester or foxbury no matter where they live. "
Yes. But you misunderstood me. I don't want my sims living at home off campus while attending Uni. I want them to be a part of an inclusive Uni experience that you got in TS2 & especially TS3. In TS3 you could designate an entire world as a Uni world. Then build whatever custom Uni you wanted based on that. And use a mod like Twallan's Traveller (based on WA) to let your sims attend it.
The problem is the custom Uni world name doesn't show up in the acceptance letter screen. So even if I were to rename Briechester world and/or it's vanilla Unis to some other custom names, my sims would still be forced to attend the vanilla game in the renamed Briechester world. And not attend say, the better design layout of my custom Uni world. Which for example, could be based on a vacant Newcrest world. Or even a Henford on Bagley world (for an agricultural degree based Uni school etc). So based on what you said, it doesn't seem possible that a custom world would show up in the admission screen. Which means the game doesn't realize your custom Uni hood even exists. Lol Ah well.
