Rotational play and University

Foxbury is not harder than Britechester. The only thing I noticed was a routing issue with Foxbury because of the stairs outside. You DO NOT want to have a bike if your sim attends Foxbury. The stairs are a nightmare, Britechester does not have stairs so it is not an issue there.

As far as other households you are not playing and rotational play, the rest of the towns will keep progressing, getting older, and yes will die of old age. There are some workarounds for this though. You can either play on a long life span or turn off aging. Personally, I prefer to go with the long life span, this way sims will continue to age, but won't age out of their current life stage unless they were close to doing this anyway.

If you do play rotational, there is an option in the game that once your sim completes a semester, which lasts one week. You can have your sim go to school, for one week, but don't start up the next semester. Don't worry, once they complete their week semester, the game will keep their progress, but they will have to leave the dorm if they don't continue on to the next week.

Now there is also an option to allow your sims to live in the same household, but attend two different colleges, There is a couple of homes that don't have any household living in them already. It is set up between the two college towns.

If you play a sim who is currently in college, you can leave the household to play another family, but be warned that the college students, while in class, will keep progressing in their class sememster.

"NRowe;d-975837" wrote:
Can you tell me about rotational play and University please.

What happens to other families/neighbourhoods while at uni and vice versa?
Can you rotate between two (or more) university households? For example, one going to Britechester and one to Foxbury.


BTW, is Foxbury really harder than Britechester?

I don't play rotationally, but I believe I read that if you enroll a sim and then let them go, they'll graduate with a C average. But I'm not certain.

So I can't answer about rotational play, but I can (I think) answer about Foxbury v. Britechester.

If Foxbury is harder than Britechester, it's only because of the campus layout. Foxbury has stairs that make the bikes effectively useless, so it can take longer to get to class than at Britechester. That's it. Otherwise (based on going to both campuses while staying at home) it's effectively the same for either university.

Thanks. This is very helpful.

So, what I am seeing so far is that rotation is definitely possible, best on a week by week basis. That’s great because that is how I rotate anyway.
What I am potentially looking at doing is evicting the Pleasant and Elderberry households out of Gibbs Hill. Then I will set up a flat (or two) of University students. What I’d really like is two flats to split up the seven YAs I want to play. It would kinda be like my own dorms. I’d play one house/flat one week then swap to the other. Seasons on two weeks and played Sim aging on active household only.

Yes, I've had it explained to me that you can rotate on a weekly basis by exiting out after the final exam but before the offer to continue to the next semester. I'm trying this with a household but haven't rotated back to them yet.

I'm getting a bunch of sims ready to go to university together. You can send as many sims as you want to manage at a time together by admitting them all together on the same day before the semester actually starts. Then rotate after the exams. I'm planning to have more sims go to university by joining on a weekly basis in different households. I turn aging off for everyone when I'm playing a household in university. I like them to graduate as young YAs starting out their lives with more skills. University is just a chance for characters to develop more and to "find themselves". I'll see what it's like when I actually get a rotation going in university.

I started out by testing out sims who completed degrees at Britechester and Foxbury while I got familiar with the campuses. I don't send all of my sims but I like that some sims go and some don't.

I was wondering this myself and the posts here helped me! Thank you. I'm already tired of university life after playing a couple of sims through it for weeks on end.