Basically, I'm wondering whether it'd be possible to have two playable sims in the same dorm but only have one of them be active at a time. ie two seperate households in the same 'house' (dorm). An extensions of this would be two active households in the same residential lot and being able to switch who you are actively playing with and the other one becomes the roommate sim for the duration. Do ya'll think this'd be doable? I realize it might seem kinda weird/granular but sometimes I like not dictating every little thing about how a couple's relationship progresses, it's always an orchestration but sometimes I like to be the one responding to something instead of being in charge of initiation and response.I doubt it's going to be a thing because it seems like it would require underlying system changes (distinguishing households from the lots they're inhabiting) but I'd really like it.

I will try this out in a test-save before bringing my main-save online.

I’m trying to wrap my head around the concept of rotational play with uni students. From the Guru Q&A:There is some amount of progression that occurs for Sims already enrolled in university that are rotated away from. Unplayed Sims will finish their term and re-enroll, eventually graduating. Played Sims will finish their term but wait to re-enroll until the player rotates back to them. All Sims progressing in this way will earn an “average” grade while doing so.Let’s say I have 8 students to send. If I play them all together, I’ll be stressed out. I’d prefer to divide them into 2 groups of 4 and I want both groups to live in separate dorms. You have to be enrolled to live in dorms. If I play group 1 for a week, I want to have group 2 moved in so that they’re all able to visit each other in the dorm setting. So for that first term, group 2 will complete the term with an average grade. Will they be kicked out of the dorm at the end, since they can’t live there without being enrolled again? And where would I find them, in the played households bin? Is there an opportunity to get their things out of the dorm?Then if I swap households, I would have to re-enroll group 1 first, then re-enroll group 2 and start playing them while group 1 is progressing with an average grade. It shortens the time I’d get to play with them by forcing them to progress without me. I don’t know if I love that or hate that concept. Maybe their grade doesn’t matter as long as they pass. And how would this affect their memberships with organizations or secret societies if they get bumped out of being “enrolled”?This would be a logistical nightmare for someone wanting to send 20+ students to university simultaneously, right?

@babajayne Will they be kicked out of the dorm at the end, since they can’t live there without being enrolled again? I don't think so. They're still enrolled in university, just not taking specific classes. They should stay in the housing you've chosen, waiting for you to rotate back to them & choose the classes. An average grade is enough for passing and enough to graduate, as far as I'm aware. There are so many possible scenarios and set ups though that people will come up with, I think testing when you have the pack is probably the only way to get the answers you need for your specific one.

I'll definitely be testing out the rotational aspect before I use it in my BACC. As far as I can tell, as long as my Uni sim has finished their term, they should stay put when I rotate to someone else just not take classes? It sounds like that's what will happen which is fine for me because I don't want them progressing through their degree without me :D

@babajayne I was planning to send 29 sims across 4 households, but now, that seems like a terrible idea!

Roommates, dorms and rotational play.

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Simmerville
Legend
6 years ago
I'm a rotational player, so I was not very interested in this pack because it seemed too hectic and complex for my game. I just didn't find it worth the trouble playing 1 student for a very long time, while not being able to switch to other households and still keep my student on top of everything on campus. But then I learned that each term is only 5 days, and that a student (probably) won't lose any progress if I do a normal rotation between each of those 4 (?) terms.

So, now I'm a lot more interested in getting this pack. I'll just stick with my student for 5 simdays at the time, while I normally stop with a household only for 1-2 days. I can even group my local students to share accommodation on campus to make the rotation more rational. I understand it might be too hard playing several students in the same household though, so maybe 2 is enough. Or my more "serious" students can stay at home, just to avoid the dorm chaos that might take my attention away from the study itself.

I need to learn more about the terms/enrolling and if there is any limitations like how long they can wait between terms.
simtown15
6 years ago
@babajayne I was planning to send 29 sims across 4 households, but now, that seems like a terrible idea!
babajayne
6 years ago
"Simtown15;c-17309272" wrote:
@babajayne I was planning to send 29 sims across 4 households, but now, that seems like a terrible idea!

I hope I am just misunderstanding the dynamics of it. If necessary, they could individually move back home to Newcrest between terms, or just sit in limbo “not in world”, but it’s just more fun in my mind to be able to visit them at another dorm. If I get the EP it will be for the uni experience, and I don’t think I want them progressing while I am not playing them, either. (I can understand why unplayed students would progress, I don’t care about them anyway, I don’t want to see the same crowd every generation)

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