I am just wondering if anyone has tried rotational playing of families while one of their sims is at Uni , Does the sim already there finish and fail or just be in a waiting phase until played again . I ask because both my wife and I play on the same save and wondered what will happen to mine if i enrol them at Uni and then she plays hers before mine has finished there .I know if mine are on vacation and she plays hers then mine return from the vacation and are back home when i play mine again

I’m interested in finding out how this works as well. I don’t share a game but have several families I rotate around with. I usually change my family at 6am on a Sunday morning to try and avoid sims being late for work/school. I’ve seen a few comments on another thread but they didn’t really make much sense to me. I understand that if your sim is at uni when you rotate away they will continue to ‘go to class’ and you will only get the bare minimum reward from that enrolled term. So from what I was previously reading you need to complete your rotation with the sim whose enrolled at university for the whole term and then swap to a different household before you re enrol to stop this from happening.

The term continues even if it’s not the active household. In my experience, they automatically re-enrolled and got a B and B-. It seems to have given them a random number of classes. ** ETA: Sorry, I was confused about this. That is how it works for other playable sims, but not the sims you’ve played yourself. For the sims you’ve played yourself, I’ve experienced 2 different things when rotating back to them. In one, I was immediately given a chance to re-enroll, and it appeared he got an average grade because his GPA went from an A+ to an A. In the other household (another dorm), I returned to find them On Probation, but I get an option to enroll again and the Merit Scholarships are still there, so that’s weird. **So if you want your sims to graduate with honors, make sure you play them through their entire term each time. You will lose scholarships if you do not immediately re-enroll when the term ends, though I believe you can re-apply later, and you’ll be given 4 hours to pack up your things if you are living in Uni housing.

I'm interested, too. But from my understanding so far (without having the pack yet), I'm planning to play a full term (5-7 days) without rotating, and with aging turned off for everybody. Then the student must enroll again for the next term, but I think there is no problem to wait with the next enrolling. Game will not push a non-enrolled student forward, so next time playing the student I'll enroll + play through 1 term.This way I believe rotating between houses is no problem. It will even be cute if the student visits parents between terms. I need to find out what happens to their dorm room if they take a break to visit their hometown, though.Added: uhuuu, just read the post by @babajayne - if breaks are too complicated, I will rather play my students through the full thing with aging off, but limit how often I will send students. Would be so much easier if we could switch households between terms...

@Simmerville - It seems to me that a break in between terms is totally reasonable and a nice excuse to send them home, you can easily move them back to the same dorm and reclaim your preferred bed. You’ll lose any scholarships you have, but I don’t see why you can’t get them back, and it’s not prohibitively expensive to begin with. The roommate NPCs are going to change either way. I believe this is what I am going to do. Right now I’ve just been practicing with the premades. Just keep 1 household enrolled at a time if you want full control over their GPA and the classes they are signing up for.

University sounds awesome (I’m a console player so have to wait until it’s released) but the rotational play bit is a bit of a bummer now I’m used to that style of play. But you can’t have everything!

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joleaco
Seasoned Rookie
6 years ago
"telemwill;c-17315661" wrote:
I didn't know you could pause pregnancies with MCCC. That is good news. I bet eventually we will be able to pause Uni too.

I bet it is too early to be available yet.

I am hoping for a pause option with MCCC for uni too, I'm sure it can be done somehow.

I pause pregnancies with MCCC, and because I play quite a few households I see my poor "pregnant forever" sims waddling around all the time. I just know they hate me.
craterdweller
6 years ago
I’m trying out the “rotate after completing a term” but it sounds like it may have already been tested. I’m working with a relatively new save that I haven’t gotten too attached to yet as I ran into issues setting the neighborhood up using story mode (I didn’t know the “story” disappeared if you moved the family into the library instead of placing immediately onto a lot).

Crossing fingers but setting expectations low ...

Other than the possible rotation headaches I am quite enjoying the content.
keekee53
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
Any videos out there with people playing rotationally? There seems to be so much confusion.
eibashere
6 years ago
I learned this the hardway, I was playing two different sims. I enrolled my 1st sim to foxbury for 1 term then enrolled my 2nd sim in ubrite for another term. When I went back to my 1st sim, he got suspended.

I was under the impression that since aging was off the term for unplayed household would be paused too BUT it is not! So be careful in playing rotational play.

This is a struggle for me because I already have a storyline in mind. I hope EA will address this and give us an option to pause the term on the unplayed sim.
ksimmies
6 years ago
I think they need to do something about this.

I'm playing the Pleasants household and a Sim in the city rotationally. Well, the Pleasants got suspended while I was with the city sim, even though all of their homework was completed and studied on top of it. I don't know if they missed class or what.

I believe in Sims 2 the other sims got like average grades if you didn't play them. I think you should be able to pause households or something in this. The only other way I can think to play is to have all uni sims move in together. That's what I used to do in sims 2. But that defeats the purpose of being able to do uni at other world's.
susanleona
Seasoned Traveler
6 years ago
The way I'm playing rotationally is to have a family complete a full term before switching. When the enrollment question comes up I x it out and if in a dorm move back home. Then I can play another family. It's working out well. Uni is hard enough without leaving mid term. I'm playing each family a bit longer now but that's OK. I leave aging on and don't think it's a factor here but I'm only rotating between two families so perhaps if some rotate more families per game it will be.
SimsBarbie
New Spectator
6 years ago
"rudolpha;c-17316833" wrote:
The way I'm playing rotationally is to have a family complete a full term before switching. When the enrollment question comes up I x it out and if in a dorm move back home. Then I can play another family. It's working out well. Uni is hard enough without leaving mid term. I'm playing each family a bit longer now but that's OK. I leave aging on and don't think it's a factor here but I'm only rotating between two families so perhaps if some rotate more families per game it will be.

This way of playing makes more sense. Finishing up the term, then moving sims back into their own house before switching households. Thank you.
TheVagenius
6 years ago
I want to take multiple sims to school together. I made a whole new save of teens and got them all into friendships/relationships. This is a huge oversight by the devs and I won't buy the pack unless it is fixed or a modder at least figures out a fix. I was pretty pissed that I had to put all my sims in different dorms unless I wanted to play them all in one family (the dorms should have been more like apartments than a penthouse.) I've already had to redo a bunch of neighborhoods and turn them into college towns with dorms. I always wait a week or so to get a pack to see what people have to say and this is pretty much the worst part of the whole pack for me. University has always been my favorite ep next to Seasons and I am struggling to even want to buy it with news like this.
Erja888
Rising Novice
6 years ago
For me - who likes to micromanagement everything - this EP is a real bummer. Especially since I am such a hugh fan of university packs for "The Sims". However, at the moment I only see one "solution": Play one household in uni and complete the whole university experience and after that switch households.
Stina1701A
Seasoned Novice
6 years ago
Well. As a notorious rotational player with over 20 household in my main saved game I am experimenting with a fresh testing game. I have 2 played household in it at the moment both living on University grounds. One is attending Foxbury and lives in a dorm and the other, the Best Friends household (pre-mades that came with the new expansion) is in the other University and in their own dorm as well.

I started playing the Best Friends through a half a week and I did have them do a lot of work on their courses, finish term papers and do all their homework on time. They only needed to finish exams (for those courses that stipulated it) and one of them had a presentation to do. Then I left them and created a new Sim because I really wanted to try the Physics extinquished program in Foxbury because ROBOTS!! and my Lex Luthor got accepted and I am working on him now.

Reading this thread made me abit annoyed because I thought that those households that I enroll at start of term and leave alone will finish off their schooling (might only have to pop in once in a while to re-enroll them into the next term which is what I am testing.

Today, I went back into Best Friends and immediatly I get a pop up to re-enroll them, which I did, chose their courses, made sure they stayed put in their dorms and payed their intuition or got them a loan when needed (really have no accepted scholarships). I saw that they both got A+ for the finished term.

Now I am back to Lex and am going to play him throughout leaving the Best Friends alone for this term and see what will happen. I am hoping they will get a pass and at least an average grade and not a fail and a chuckout :/

I also noticed, may not be insignificant, but when I was in 'choose world' I noticed that by Britechester it only says that I have 1 played household even though I have both Best Friends household and Lex Luthor's household (2 seperate played households). In my other games whenever I have more than 1 played household in a world it says exactly how many households I have played in each world. For instance Willow Creek is 9 played, Oasis has 5, etc. Maybe a bug?