Not Enough time to get to class, EVER!

I only had one sim live on campus and didn't have any issues with her getting to class on time. A lot of times she autonomously went to class early but she went to Britechester. Perhaps Foxbury is the problem.

It’s pretty easy to get to class at UBrite if you live in the penthouse dorms. I recently tried living in that smaller dorm over behind the gym and there was significantly more trouble with getting to class on time.

Yes that's where she lived, in the penthouse dorms. The only time she was late to class was because I had a last exception on the way to class during her final term and it actually cost her her A+ GPA, I was livid! :D

I played first in an off campus lot and my Sim had an A+ average and graduated with honors. But then I played another Sim couple and moved them into one of the large Britechester dorms and they literally bombed the semester with 3 D’s and an F even though they did all the work. They were constantly late, losing their bikes, their homework and presentations would fall out of their inventory, it was chaos let me tell you, chaos, but they managed to graduate “without honours” lol it even says that on their degree “without honors”. I think they got less pay bumps and bonus in their careers.

I was wondering if maybe the bike was making them late somehow. I’m going to delete it next time.

I think the taking notes in class and studying for the exams bumps up the grades though

@logion Thank you so much for the link. I had no idea such a mod existed.

Have you tried making your sim a Master vampire? My sim gets to class almost instantly.

"Sindocat;c-17376153" wrote:
So, if you are CONSISTENTLY late, LEARN from that and get your Sim onto campus early. It's not hard to see "hm, I didn't have time for all that stuff I had queued before class. I will need to make sure to start earlier." Class is exactly like going to school or going to work. Being late once is all it should take to teach you to allow more time in your mornings.

In seven terms played, my Sims have been late for class (to the extent that it affected their performance) twice. That's on me, for trying to cram too much in, and delaying their departure.

This is not a particularly helpful comment.

Foxbury is particularly egregious, and it’s not just due to individual time management skills or even just the layout of the campus (although that doesn’t help). The worst thing with Foxbury is that 95% of the time, even when my sims have nothing else queued, and even when they get the prompt to leave for class an hour ahead of time, and I let them do it without interfering in any way with other actions, they will immediately leave the dorm and start walking toward class, but then just stop and the prompt disappears after the first set of stairs, just before they reach the central green.

Other times, I will have them leave for class two hours early and just have them stand outside the correct building. Even if I close out all other actions five to ten minutes before class starts, they will rarely go to class autonomously even if standing right next to the building. Instead, I have to click on the “go to Class” option in the jobs tab, which does not appear until class has already started, so they are always st least ten minutes late to class, even if I’m hyper-vigilant.

This does NOT happen with Britechester, only with Foxbury. So granted, yes, you can learn to be aware of these things and work around them, but it’s not simply a question of user error.

I thought the same thing @Amapola76 ....
I think the Sims should mimic life and not necessarily be just like the real world. Getting to class late has happen to quite a few simmers that play Foxbury. I started this thread to see if anyone was having the same prob and hopefully get a devs attention so we could get a 'go to class early' option.

I think this topic is great and I hope the developers read the forum like they say they do. I'm starting to think that if you play rotationally the University game will just glitch into pieces. I tried giving my University Britechester Sims absolutely no tasks to do in the morning, and even stood them outside the building, but when they got called to class, I zoomed in to follow and observed them walk up to the building and then just stare at it as if they didn't know how to open the door and go inside. There was no way I could click on the building and tell them, hurry up and go inside. While staring at the building, they became late. On another occasion, I observed my Sims get off their bikes, and then stand beside their bikes outside the building as if they had nothing to do and nowhere to go. They just skipped class to look at their bikes. That's understandable, why do the bikes keep disappearing?? Then, after these Sims graduated, and I'm just happy they did, I went to play the Pleasant twins and found that they had mysteriously graduated also, but with no degree, and are just stuck in the space between graduating and getting a job. They can't get a distinguished job, because there is no degree showing, and they can't re-enroll to try a different degree. And there is no way I can complete the graduation myself. I've clicked everywhere on campus.

Now I am playing with my Sims 2 Broke family in the poor neighbourhood in Willow Creek. Brandi was expecting a baby, but she gave birth to twin girls after eating too many strawberries and watching the kids channel with Beau. Because her family is so poor, I considered sending Skip to University since he was just working part time on the weekends anyway as a lawn mower and I found he got accepted into one distinguished program, the Biology one at Foxbury. Before, I didn't care about these issues for my other Sims, but now, I really want Skip to become a distinguished marine biologist, so there will be more tragic gameplay when he drowns mysteriously on Sulani island and becomes a ghost. Nothing I do can make him get to school on time. I gave Brandi a full time job and put the twins in daycare, and she disappears off the front step to get to work. When Skip goes to school, he just starts running through the whole neighborhood like he's jogging and then disappears to go to class when he reaches the furthest part of the neighborhood and by then he's late. I played another family in Willow Creek and they didn't have this issue, they just disappeared off the front step. When I try to take him to Foxbury Heights, it's just hard, it's just really hard. I don't play with mods, but I'm just praying for someone to make a mod called Foxbury Flat where the terrain is now all one level...

"Sindocat;c-17379660" wrote:
If you are AT the building when class starts, there is a "Go To Class" button enabled on their career pane, if they don't just go in automatically.

Yes. As I already noted above.

But let's say your class starts at 9 a.m.: the button does not appear until 9:00 sharp. So even if you have cougar-like reflexes, and click on it instantly, your sims are still slow AF, and by the time the homework notebook appears in their hands, and they actually walk into the building, it's 9:10 or 9:15 before they are actually in class.