University is driving me crazy!

University life in sims 4 is definitely hard. Sims 3 was much easier. However, to do homework fast since it takes up much of the time you have to do this: You can give your university statue an offering for academic success which makes homework a little faster, you can level up in the research and debate skills, cheat on homework or other projects, organizing your time wisely (such as doing homework only for classes that are the next day), or even get mods to have homework faster. Honestly, 2 hours of homework is unrealistic. In the mod that I linked you can choose how long you want your sims' homework to be. 10, 25, 50 min. I personally like 50 min because it's the most realistic and it's the perfect amount of time I'm willing to dedicate to homework. Honestly, university is hard, and partying is pretty uncommon if you want good grades. This mod is a really great help though.
Mod Link: https://scarletsmods.com/2019/11/15/faster-homework-university-edition/

I find student from home easier as the sim just disappear at the front door instead of having walk slowly to the class building. It saves a lot of time especially if you study at foxbusry.

I rarely played University but when I do, I usually use UI cheats to ensure that my sims' needs are A1, other than that, I have them do their work with no sim contact EVER. I noticed that if my sim tries to interact with her roommates, she won't do her work at all, and there was one instance where she ended up failing a course because she was being so much of a chatterbox.

Things that I do:
- do ALL presentations as soon as they're put into the sims' inventory and have them present it the next day (preferably in the morning if their classes are later on in the day)
- If you are ok with using mods, use UI Cheats by Weerbesu to cheat your sim's needs, it'll make gameplay a whole lot easier
- lastly, my personal favorite, throw the whole game away! it leaves you and your sims stress-free :)

The best advice I can give is to study from home. There are no benefits to living on campus apart from being able to attend festivals on location without a loading screen, but if your sim has time for that, you're probably taking it slow anyway. I tried it once and hated every single day of it.

Studying from home grants you a fully functional kitchen and optional company by playable roommates/family that don't study and can take care of things like cooking and cleaning while your student focuses on university. It also means that when it's time to go to class, your student just steps out of the door and disappears, rather than having to walk all the way to the right building (which is especially painful in Foxbury with its many, many stairs, the bikes that came with the same pack are basically useless there).

Of course, being a vampire or spellcaster helps, as well as building the Research & Debate skill (level 3 means faster homework) or simply not cramming your schedule with four classes, but I always do the latter because as a rotational player, I don't want to be stuck with the same household for more than three consecutive weeks. So yeah, university is definitely a challenge that you have to learn how to handle first.

If you don't mind mods, there is a great one that reduces the amount of time it takes to do homework. It really makes a difference and gives sims loads more time to actually enjoy being at university. Highly recommended:

"muzickmage;c-17320090" wrote:
The issue mainly is the time factor to complete tasks. When it takes your sim over an hour to eat a bowl of cereal, or 30 minutes to walk down a flight of stairs, any interuptions to those tasks can really be taxing when your sim is on a tight time budget. Sims commnonly take over an hour just to shower. And don't even get me started on the minutes that fly by in between task commands when they are just standing there doing nothing while you wait for them to finally activate the next task in the queve.

Add to that the time management scheme of keeping your needs up to par. I had my sim's social down to a bit less than half. I used the microphone to tell jokes to raise her social and fun at the same time. It took nearly 5 sim hours to get her social bar back up to full. And that's with the microphone replenishing 2 arrows. By that time she was tired, and half starved. So I had her eat, then go to bed. By the time she woke back up she was a bit hungry again, her social need was down again a little, she needed a shower, and of course, by the end of fixing all of that, she was 10% on her way to needing more sleep.

Then EA/Maxis expect our sims to have 2 hours to do homework for each of 4 classes, plus term papers, presentations, research, time to go to classes, AND lets not forget the partying and relationship building. Lets all save time for that too.

Edit:
.....(correction) Actually, it just took my sim just 4 sim minutes to walk up a flight of stairs. So I was wrong on the 30 minute claim.

Honestly, this is what somewhat bothers me as well, especially if you have a lot of Mods and CC installed. The task bar is glitchy as well, even in a vanilla game it doesn't queue up the actions the way it ought to. I will be honest, it doesn't happen a lot in my game, but when it does the time sequences become even slower.

"SERVERFRA;c-17320711" wrote:
Getting ready for University.
1. Make Vampires sun restistant.
2. Have Spellcasters read all the magic books.
3. Choose Hardly Hungry, Seldom Sleepy, Long Lived, Carefree, Shameless, Heatproof, Iceproof, Waterproof & Storm Chaser Traits for Sims.
4. Maximize some skills, eg; Charisma, Handiness, Logic, Mischief & ResearchDebate.

Hehehe, this sounds like a pretty neat preparation, especially for Vampires and Spellcasters! I need to do them, too, in my own game.

"pepperjax1230;c-17321408" wrote:
Will now its driving me crazy because random sim have just been walking in the house . Its a residential lot on campus so I think it might just be a bug though I don't know. But Angela Pleasant decided to just random come in and clean my sims sink. :joy:
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I've had this problem too! Sims would just walk in uninvited and there was no option to ask them to leave. Although I had it before the patch and installing DU. It happened a lot in Sulani though, so not sure if it was something to do with the world or my game.

Same here. I tried the 4 classes the first time and it was horrible. My sim ended up being put on probation because he worked and went to school and was always tired. Next go round I'm choosing 2 classes.

"dearie_blossom;c-17320162" wrote:
They pushed realism hard with this pack, didn‘t they? If you want to be an A+ student you can kiss sleep and parties goodbye.

Same in the TS2 version. At least there one has the 'maxMotives' cheat in case of emergencies.