This is when I want to throw the game in the bin

I was having this problem because my sims' house and inventory was full of photos they took and paintings plus all the "cd" cases from the uploaded music they created. Apparently, I learned recently that your sims being overloaded with stuff they made is one of the causes of them taking a long time to do things, staring into space etc. I now have a sim named Arthur Curator who lives in an art museum of sorts where I store my sims' self-portraits, photos, etc. This has all be completely fixed that problem.

"SimsLady2000;c-17691336" wrote:
I was having this problem because my sims' house and inventory was full of photos they took and paintings plus all the "cd" cases from the uploaded music they created. Apparently, I learned recently that your sims being overloaded with stuff they made is one of the causes of them taking a long time to do things, staring into space etc. I now have a sim named Arthur Curator who lives in an art museum of sorts where I store my sims' self-portraits, photos, etc. This has all be completely fixed that problem.

If two or more of my Sim's needs are in the red, they have a devil of a time deciding which to take care of first and need to be prompted with a command.

My sim has completed a couple of degrees. Both off campus. I'd have her head out to class about 30 minutes before it was scheduled to start.
She never missed class.

The best option is to have them live at home when attending university. Dorms are a huge mess in TS4.

"Babykittyjade;c-17691308" wrote:
At your sim's computer: MC Command Centre -> MCCC Settings -> Gameplay Settings -> Game Time Speed

Oh I saw you found it lol 35. Most people use that. Anything 50 and over might be too slow.
You can test out 35 and see how you like it. 45 if you want it a bit slower.
@Sablesasha

I have been using this for years. My sims have so much more time to get things done, go to class, have fun and stare off into the air. Lol

I might try that myself -- I've always been a bit nervous about messing with the time settings (I think there was an NRaas mod in Sims 3 that had similar effects) but sounds like a good deal. I've used MCCC to slow down need decay a small amount just so Sims have time to do things other than eat/sleep/pee. :|

"Sharonia;c-17691405" wrote:
The best option is to have them live at home when attending university. Dorms are a huge mess in TS4.

I like the dorm experience, plus it's a good way for my Sims to meet people especially potential romantic partners. My Sims are usually too busy building skills to socialize much, even my teens. And if they can get enough aspiration points to get the Observant trait that makes finding the right partner that much easier. :)

Class attendance takes a lot of monitoring in my game as well.

"Sablesasha;c-17691253" wrote:
Did both of those! Still didn't make a difference

@Sablesasha you probably already know this, but your sim needs to be standing for Teleport Here to work. What I do if they're sitting is cancel any action they're doing, click near them & choose Go Here (that gets them standing) then I do the Teleport Here command at the spot they need to be. I found a year or so ago that if you do Teleport Here while they're sitting the sim ended up either sitting in weird spots or taking forever to get where you want them to be.

I played discover university without mods recently because I wanted to check if a bug was still present (getting a class that you have to attend with less than 5 min to get to it in another building) and I was reminded why I play the game with mods, without mods that give your sim faster eating, removing environment animations and gets them to run to class it is very annoying to play Discover University...

The one thing I really dislike is the environment idle animation, every time my sim woke up in the dorm they just let out a "boooooring" animation over and over again.

Feel free to post me too on this Answer HQ post so they can get rid of it. I don't mind the environment buff, but the animations drives me nuts.

I don't have a problem getting to class on time. I wake them up 3 hours early, send them to school to eat at either the cafeteria or a food cart, then make them go stand in front of the classroom at least 1 and 1/2 hours early. I have them study or play with the soccer ball to keep them from running off to chat with a random, and I end whatever they are doing 15 minutes before class starts, since it can take that long for them to put their book or ball away. They walk right into class when it starts, and I set them to listen for half the class and then take notes for the rest, and I rarely have a problem. It takes a bit of work, but results in an A plus honor student every time. Oh, and should I have trouble getting them to eat or whatever, I have no guilt about use the cheat to fill there needs, because Uni is tough.