Hi guys, Just wondering what you're doing with the University pack? The way it's set up... isn't necessarily good for rotational players. How many days do you play one particular family (I'm on a weekly schedule where I switch every Sunday). I may have to move my day to Saturdays....

I've never had a schedule for my rotations. Once I get bored with a household, I just switch to a different one.Currently, I have five Sims enrolled in university. One is staying at a Britechester dorm, two others (who are sisters and lived together with their father in San Myshuno) are staying at a Foxbury dorm. Then I have two other separate households who are attending from their apartments, one an aspiring actor who lives with their older sister, and the other a mother on a tight schedule.Even though I don't have a schedule for myself, I'll at least make sure to finish the term before I leave, if I'm say, halfway through the week already or so. But if I'm not bored with them yet, I'll go ahead and play through another. I won't enter into any other households who would be in the middle of their terms, though, but typically by the time I leave one household, the others would be finished their terms anyway.So far, I haven't experienced anything negative related to rotational play. I've noticed a lot of people who say they've returned to their household to find that they'd flunked or had been put on probation; that hasn't happened to me. So far, everyone has been passing with A+.

I'll probably just stick with playing a week per rotation as I usually do, but when sims go to university I'll make sure they complete the term with aging off, unless it's a save where a sim is meant to be studying a long course and living at home.

Only schedule I have is to get through half my 50+ households every calendar year. Some I play 5 sim hours, some I play 3-4 sim days. I play 14 days per season, making up for a total of 56 days every calendar year.My biggest challenge concerning Uni is to stay on route with the calendar. I need to play all 4 seasons for my run through. So, I plan to run an extra run through for anyone going to Uni. If 4 terms I'll play them for 28 simdays. Then I might run one more student (group) for the next 28 days, or I might play some favorite households. I play with aging off, and turn aging on for the New Year's Eve only. So playing Uni with aging off is no problem. I found it's better to start off playing the full graduation in one go, instead of rotating between terms and risk tech problems. For realism I'll just place those Uni sims in a Uni household before they return back home to their original hood 2-3 years after enrolling.I don't have this pack yet, but will hopefully get it next week.

What I do is focus most of my attention on the sim(s) that I want to succeed. I rotate for maybe a few hours to my other enrolled sim, just long enough to complete some coursework. That sim still passed the term with a B+, even though I wasn't playing her at the time. But she flunked the remaining two terms. So either I didn't play her enough, or her low skills were at fault.My guess is that the higher your sim's skills are, the less likely it is that they will do poorly when you rotate to another family. I'm going to test this theory a little more in my game.

I play my sim(s) going to uni for the full term (5-7 days depending when they started but it's really longer as they have to apply and wait for the letter so it can be 10 days). This is a bit longer than my normal rotation but they get top grades. Then I play the other family (I only have two families in rotation per game). Sometimes I have to do a bit of back and forth. Getting used to it. The uni sim doesn't re-enroll until I get back to them. Once I did 2 terms so my sim could learn robotics. I've tried the dorms and university housing and it was fun but most of the time I have my sims commute from home. I have more than one game. So far no one has graduated.

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

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kurimisarang
6 years ago
I'm waiting for a mod to freeze terms when switching played households before I'm even touching my rotation save file.
craterdweller
6 years ago
Chazzy - you can use the build tools and build a wall - place the extra diplomas on the wall and then use the hammer to destroy the wall with the extra diplomas - this deleted the extra diplomas from the 2 sims I had with the same issue - at least until they fix it.
simkonfetti
5 years ago
I hope this isn't considered necroposting, as November is not so long ago. Does anybody know if there's a mod around to pause Uni when changing households just like the pregnancy pause mod?
llrook
5 years ago
I play with aging on only for the active family for all but one household. That way the townies can age with my Sims. As long as your students are in off campus housing this still works. My sim weeks start at 6am Saturday morning so I'm not messing with anyone's work schedule with the added benefit my students have all weekend to knock out any presentations and term papers as well as get their first homework assignments done.

As there are several lots in Britechester you can pretty much make your own dorms. The graduation ceremony isn't that big a deal (rabbit hole) so I'm fine missing it. I haven't played any Sims in an actual dorm but from what I've read it sounds more annoying than anything else.

After final grades come out on Friday evening just cancel the window to re-enroll for the next term and your students get a casual Friday night to go out and celebrate end of term before you rotate back to your families.

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