Sims 4 University question
What happens if I send my sim to University but do not play him and prefer to stay with the family back home? Do they complete courses/terms without having to control them?
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"aaronrulz;c-17465767" wrote:
I always keep aging on. I have never and will never play with it off. What if I don't want to rotate play? I just want to send off my sim to college and my hope is that he will finish and graduate on his own without me doing anything. So that is not possible?
No, sorry. You will need to actually play them in order to proceed with their University track.
University classes works like any other job, in that if you assign a job to a sim outside of the household you are playing, they will keep that job but will not advance in that job while they are not being played.
It kind of sucks, because if you're playing a family and their kid grows old enough to attend college, if you want them to have the full college experience of living in a dorm, etc., you have no choice but to separate them from their family and be on their own, which means you sacrifice being able to advance the original family (unless you rotate play).
So, it comes down to living in a dorm (and leaving your original family) or attending classes from home. Attending classes from home is simple enough (in fact it's easier than attending classes in a dorm imo), but then you also need to consider if you want that student to get involved with any other activity the university offers. Most of these other activities are active, so you'll be busy with this one sim only during that time.
So, if you choose to keep your sim home for university, then I also suggest making sure any other working sim in that household are only working rabbit-holed jobs. You don't want to try to juggle multiple active positions in the same household.
