"EnkiSchmidt;c-17383722" wrote:
From what you describe the numbers seem to get rolled even before the sim applies for uni the first time, probably upon loading the game for the first time after installing DU. Only after this set of numbers gets used during the first uni application does the rng list refreshed.
I think you are probably right, it is the only feasible explanation for running the exact same result each time you go back to the fresh and unplayed save. If there wasn't a static random number involved there would have to be at least a little variation in the results.
After running into the infamous "term paper doesn't count" bug I had another couple of tries to get back in to university with a new save, and to my surprise I kept rolling a complete undistinguished application time and again. Then I was thinking about it, and in the previous time I spent the (looooooong, yawn) day waiting for my results grinding the Research & Debate skill as much as I could to make her be able to do her homework faster. And this time I wanted to pick a Major that included R&D and level it during classes.
So that lead me to the conclusion that apparently skills gained AFTER application still count towards said application, which means that getting some skills before applying is NOT necessary to make them count!
It would be interesting to find out up to when or at what moment the actual skills are counted in, but right now I am more interested in getting my sim to retry the lost term, so if other people have tried this out please share it here as well!
