"babajayne;c-18109478" wrote:
Sounds like your biggest issue is in playing separate households through the uni experience without harming anyone’s grades. I got you. Some of us have techniques for rotational play at uni that we have found work for us.
No it's the same household of a large sim family. e.g 4+ kids. I typically play legacy families of 4 kids and invite their potential high school sweethearts to attend Uni with them. As this expedites their friendly & romantic relationships after graduation. Because we all know how much of a grind careers have become in TS4. Especially with Get to Work & free lancer (like fashion photographer) type careers which are 100% hands on.
Even if I stick to my 3-4 legacy sims, they're all differently skilled in terms of being creative v logic. So they're a mix of socially challenged & genius archetype geek/nerds (Foxbury) and popular social butterflies (Briechester). So it's not possible for all my child turned YA sims to graduate with distinguished degrees unless I split up the family. :disappointed:
In which case, degree progression stagnation issue will happen. And I'm not wasting time keeping the Foxbury degree sims at home while freezing the sims aging while progressing the Liberal Arts minded sims at Briechester. That is a complete waste of time and unproductive. I mean I get the disadvantage of not being able to play in an open world like with TS3. But it's completely insane how this was never an issue in TS4's 18year old predecessor TS2. All of your YA sims in your legacy household would attend Uni and graduate together regardless of what major/degree they had. :disappointed:
"babajayne;c-18109478" wrote:
As for balancing a social life and studies, I don’t enroll in 4 classes anymore, I’ll do 3 tops. It takes an extra term but at least it’s more enjoyable for me and I turn aging off anyway.
Yes. Learned this the hard way. Which is why I created an adventure travel based club for my sims. This lets them develop the same skills they would pick up with electives by doing social activities in other hoods like Mt. Komorebi (skiing, hiking, rock climbing athletic based skills), Selvadora (archeology, charisma and other cultural related skills). Granite Falls (wellness skill) etc.
I don’t see how creating a custom hood will be the solution for your issues unless you put everyone in one household which you could do anywhere except the dorms, anyway. I understand where your frustration is coming from, though.
With a single Uni (either Foxbury or Briechester) in a single dedicated hood (Like Newcrest as it has the largest amount of lot build space) sims would be able to live anywhere. More specifically, a single custom Uni hood with a single custom Uni (that would grant BOTH regular AND distinguished degree options of regular based on sim's high school abilities) would solve the penalty of lost progression.
Finally I always play my families together in the same household. Regardless whether it's a dorm, on/off campus housing or apt dwelling. This is best way to maintain their social relationship statuses while at college.
Thanks for all your suggestions though. They're a few that I haven't tried so will give that a go. I suppose I'll temporarily quit and re-fire up TS3 if these aren't effective. Or if my patience for self trolling does me in. Whichever comes first. :lol:
