So some issues I'm already seeing with the new pack from watching the early access videos, is when you click a mailbox there's an option to pay bills. Why does a sim need to pay bills while living in university housing? Another thing I saw that your roommates income is added into your household. Once again, why is a sim able to collect from their roommates to cover the cost of bills. It makes sense on a residential lot but not university housing. The utilities bills should be the responsibility of the university not my sim. This is my first time ever playing university in any sim's title so forgive me if I get something wrong or if I'm unaware of something.

in sims 2 you had too pay bills at university

Usually when you move into university housing in real life you have to pay bills of some kind.

@Mariefoxprice83 That's not exactly true, or rather, not accurately explained. Any bills a student is responsible for, in respect to university housing, is factored into the housing expense and charged to the student at the beginning of the term, or year. The university doesn't send someone to your dorm door every Friday with a hydro bill in their hand looking for more money from the student.

"muzickmage;c-17312389" wrote:@Mariefoxprice83 That's not exactly true, or rather, not accurately explained. Any bills a student is responsible for, in respect to university housing, is factored into the housing expense and charged to the student at the beginning of the term, or year. The university doesn't send someone to your dorm door every Friday with a hydro bill in their hand looking for more money from the student.Oh I know that. But this is presumably the game's way of handling it. You have to pay for TV licences and food as a student, also personal expenditure such as clothing (which is free in the game unless you are using retail lots) and leisure activities. I guess it doesn't bother me.

I’ve just played my first week at Uni (living in the Drake Hall dorm in Britechester) and I was shocked to see I had to pay $5,114 for bills!! I couldn’t afford this, my roommates didn’t give me a penny and the power ended up being shut off. I had to cheat in the end, which I hate doing. I know the bills in TS4 are normally expensive anyway, but I feel like this isn’t right for living in a dorm at Uni... does anyone know if this is by design or if it’s a bug?

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MidniteHearts
New Spectator
6 years ago
"bandit5;c-17312350" wrote:
in sims 2 you had too pay bills at university

Why though? This is my first time playing university in any sims title and that just doesn't make sense to me. The sim's tuition and books etc is already paid for before they move into the dorms, so what extra cost is there to pay for? What "bills" is my sim supposed to be responsible for living in university housing that should be funded by the university?
victoriaFF1884
New Spectator
6 years ago
"Phantasi33;d-968841" wrote:
So some issues I'm already seeing with the new pack from watching the early access videos, is when you click a mailbox there's an option to pay bills. Why does a sim need to pay bills while living in university housing? Another thing I saw that your roommates income is added into your household. Once again, why is a sim able to collect from their roommates to cover the cost of bills. It makes sense on a residential lot but not university housing. The utilities bills should be the responsibility of the university not my sim. This is my first time ever playing university in any sim's title so forgive me if I get something wrong or if I'm unaware of something.

Did they not say on the live stream that there are info points outside the dorms,maybe that's how you can pay for your bills? Or maybe that's just for outside your dorms,I assume it will be different for a shared house off campus? Like a normal house that you pay bills for.
MidniteHearts
New Spectator
6 years ago
"Freckles1971;c-17312391" wrote:
"Phantasi33;d-968841" wrote:
So some issues I'm already seeing with the new pack from watching the early access videos, is when you click a mailbox there's an option to pay bills. Why does a sim need to pay bills while living in university housing? Another thing I saw that your roommates income is added into your household. Once again, why is a sim able to collect from their roommates to cover the cost of bills. It makes sense on a residential lot but not university housing. The utilities bills should be the responsibility of the university not my sim. This is my first time ever playing university in any sim's title so forgive me if I get something wrong or if I'm unaware of something.

Did they not say on the live stream that there are info points outside the dorms,maybe that's how you can pay for your bills? Or maybe that's just for outside your dorms,I assume it will be different for a shared house off campus? Like a normal house that you pay bills for.

The info kiosks you're talking about did not mention bills. I think the Gurus should have made this clear in the livestream and explained why paying bills is a thing while living in university housing.
AquaGamer1212
New Spectator
6 years ago
I wonder if it’s because they didn’t want to bother coding the roommate system to be different on university housing vs residential lots. Because that’s super weird to have bills on campus, I didn’t even have bills in off campus housing when I went....
simmyfroggy
6 years ago
Was the option to pay bills on a University Housing lot (penthouse or otherwise)? And did the Sim have student loans taken out?
As for the roommates, were they NPC roomies or household roommates?

If you live off-campus you'll have bills. I'm guessing that if you take out a loan, you'll have the "bills" option where you can start paying off before you graduate.

The NPC's household funds shouldn't be added to your Sim's funds but if you move into dorms where Sims already live (which a lot of the Sims Camp videos had), they'll be added to your household & their funds merged because they're not the same as NPC roommates.
grace18699
5 years ago
I'm actually unable to pay my bills for some reason and now my power is going to be shut off... I don't know how to fix it.
wiccanwonder
5 years ago
I was getting a message every Monday that mail had come but there was nothing in the mailbox, the flag wasn't even up. I just assumed it was still coded for the messages. I never got power shut off. Once I had to pay 3,000 in bills at one of the dorms but I think that was because I had auto bills from mccc. I turned that off and I didn't have to pay again.
popstarissa
5 years ago
I never received any mail or bills playing a dorm at Uni. Maybe it’s a mod conflict?
mariefoxprice83
Seasoned Hotshot
5 years ago
I had bills in my very first term but none since.
Ardentaversion
5 years ago
I lived in the dorms for all of my terms and never had to pay bills at all.