Rotational Players - How are you making out with the University Pack?

I'm doing ok with it. I only have aging on for the active household, and it's on the long age span too. When I play a Uni student, I do not rotate until the sim has completed the term or graduated. If I've finished a term for one sim and want to play another family, I don't have them enroll for the next term until I rotate back to them.

I've just been playing through the one family right now while Dylan and Estelle, boyfriend and girlfriend, go through university. I'll probably keep playing them while they get established and then switch in the rotation.

I generally rotate based on events or completion of milestones rather than following a certain number of days per week. So, university adds another milestone to keep track of for those who will go through it.

I'll mostly play with aging off during university which increases the lifetime earning benefits of going. I think I will only send certain sims. I also very well might implement the prep school concept for the teens of certain elite sims in the game. (I think it's great and heartwarming for the parents to carefully raise their children and to stay close to them, but not everyone is like that.)

I like playing a lot of different sims. Anyway, the rotation is still going. It's still doable with university but requires more thought and planning, rather like real university.

I was able to successfully enroll multiple sims together. To do that, you basically want them all to be ready to go to university on the exact same day and time. You need to admit them one at a time but you can go back into Manage Households and continue admitting students to the same university and residence hall or living arrangement in order to merge them. I did this with them enrolling one right after another within about an hour of each other and it was smooth.

You do have to think about how many sims you actually want to manage through university at the same time.

"Cabelle1863;c-17325566" wrote:
I'm doing ok with it. I only have aging on for the active household, and it's on the long age span too. When I play a Uni student, I do not rotate until the sim has completed the term or graduated. If I've finished a term for one sim and want to play another family, I don't have them enroll for the next term until I rotate back to them.

This is what I do also. Right now I'm playing 4 students in 4 different saves and I'm rotating through them while they're in college. After they graduate, then I'll stick another set in college and play that way. I usually play a sim though a semester then rotate. I only have a few sims going to college, not all are going. Most of the time I have been fixing up the decor from EA. :#

I've changed my strategy slightly. Now I play the sim until right before the final. If all projects/homework is done they will do well on the final even when I'm not playing them. That gives me time to play someone else before going back to start a new semester.

Has any one attempted to use MCC to freeze the university term? I posted the information from the MCC site below about career freezing, I wonder if it will work for University? I don't have any sims ready at the moment for university so I haven't purchased the pack yet. I am kind of holding off to see if someone has a good way to manage the rotation with this pack.

Freeze Career flag:
In the Sim Flags menu, there is an option on Sims older than Teens to Freeze Career.
For NPC Sims, this flag will bypass the EA core functionality that reassigns an NPC Sim to different jobs. Whatever their current job is, they will keep that job. This prevents them leaving the job either by quitting or retiring. Note that if you flag an NPC Sim that has no job, the core processes will never give them a job so they will always be unemployed.
For active Sims, the flag just stops their career progression. They will neither gain nor lose progression in their career level as long as they have the flag.

I don’t have MCC, so playing rotationally was impossible. I switched households 1(!!) day and when I went back to play with my main household, they all failed two out of three classes... I don’t get it :(

I agree OP, that Uni isn't really good for some rotational players. I don't really keep a schedule for my rotational play. I normally play until I feel I get to a good stopping point and then rotate, so it's usually story driven, but if I had to guess on average, probably 2 Sim weeks per household. With Uni....I didn't rotate at all, because I had heard others say that their Sim got bad grades. So I just played until she graduated, with this one household of my Sim in Uni. She got pregnant while she was there, so that slowed me down a bit but it didn't keep me too off schedule, I don't think. Though I am excited to switch to another household. Uni wore me out lol

I do what @ChampandGirlie and @Sha2520032003 and rotate when my Simmies have reached a milestone or a good stopping point. For now, I’ve just turned aging off for inactive households when at Uni and played through until they graduate.

I only plan on sending a Simmie to Uni every once in awhile. Probably just the occasional one that I really like. If you’re planning to send a bunch of Sims to Uni, I could see how the above plan might throw the rest of your neighborhoods off balance.

Well, I should update what I wrote earlier. I'd recommend waiting to graduate any of your sims right now. The first sim I mentioned? Her diploma has shown up in the inventory of every household I rotated to after her graduation. Yet she didn't get her diploma, all she got was her graduation portrait. There's no other weirdness, it's just annoying seeing them in the other household's inventories. I don't know if it's a game breaking bug YET, I have no issues loading the save. I reported it at AHQ and wanted to let you all know since you're rotational players too.

"Cabelle1863;c-17326047" wrote:
Well, I should update what I wrote earlier. I'd recommend waiting to graduate any of your sims right now. The first sim I mentioned? Her diploma has shown up in the inventory of every household I rotated to after her graduation. Yet she didn't get her diploma, all she got was her graduation portrait. There's no other weirdness, it's just annoying seeing them in the other household's inventories. I don't know if it's a game breaking bug YET, I have no issues loading the save. I reported it at AHQ and wanted to let you all know since you're rotational players too.

Did you happen to notice if there is a last exception file in your Sims 4 folder? I keep getting them even with all my mods out. Then I noticed the degrees in everyone's household inventory even though none of the sims are in Uni. I noticed the last exception file mentions diploma creation so it must be a University bug. Not a big deal but I use MCCC which gives me a notification of last exceptions and I get one every time I rotate to a household.