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SparklyB's avatar
6 years ago

University - things I've noticed, anyone else too?

Hey guys,

I got university, and have put one of my Sims through to graduation. Here are some things I noticed, just wondered whether they were happening for anyone else too?

So my Sims Mum kept appearing. At first it seemed like she would turn up for dorm parties, but then I noticed that sometimes she was just stood by the elevator for the dorm. This happened a lot. Why would your Mum just randomly show up at your dorm all the time? I'm wondering whether because my Sim was good friends with her, they treat that friendship as someone you'd like to see. But this is so unrealistic. You go to university, your parents don't randomly show up all the time. Really, no one should show up without you inviting them. That's the point of staying on campus and moving out. You get to control who you see.

I took too many classes - yep! My first semester I took all the classes, and there was hardly time to breath. In fact I found my first go with university a bit boring. I wanted my Sim to do really well. So I got him to study all the time and complete all the work. But even though he did that, one semester he got some C grades. Which meant he finished on an A- overall. But to get that he pretty much did nothing but work. There wasn't enough time for him to do anything else. I only found out how to join the debate club in his last semester. He never had a party, never did a keg stand, and I also wanted him to meet a girlfriend too, which he just managed to do at last minute. Which leads to......

Woohoo......there were no options for him to woohoo with his new girlfriend. No option for the bed and the showers in the dorm were too open. Yeah, you're not kidding too open, where are the shower curtains? Especially for a mixed dorm. Sometimes he'd get the embarrassed moodlet from showering, and I'm not surprised. I've never been to US dorm, but do they really have open mixed showers like that? This is university, you're on your own as a young adult, maybe for the first time. Surely there should have been more options for woohoo, or even making out. Maybe an option in your empty dorm room would be to lock the door for woohoo, or have a room mate walk in and then get really embarrassed.

So my Sim graduated. He's jumped forward in the attorney career but has to do a work from home assignment which is to guest lecture in law at university. It say's I can visit university and click on a classroom or do the task from my phone. But the only option is to visit the law class. I thought this might be it, but he's done it twice and that doesn't appear to be it. He's done it from his phone, and I got him to go in person and click on the classroom. I waited till 5pm to see whether he would have to do it within the guest lecture time, but no luck. I'm hoping the work from home assignments aren't broken like previous work from home jobs.

I did also report that when my Sim moved into his dorm, that he got bills for 3,070, which I had to cheat to pay. This seemed to only happen once luckily. But I have seen that others have reported this also.

So those are the things I've noticed so far, anyone have any others? :)