University Still Worth It?

"logion;c-18029226" wrote:
University was one of those packs that I enjoyed playing the first time for a while. But it hasn't aged well now.

I feel that you need to kinda make your own fun a lot with it because just playing it normally, going to class and going back to the dorms and doing all your homework and taking care of your needs while your roommates are failing at everything becomes very repetitive unless you try to do other stuff as well, but then university takes very long to complete so it doesn't play very well with rotational play or aging turned on.

I also feel that it's a pack that is limited a lot by the game's limitations. Playing University with multiple sims offer more of a challenge and is more fun but then it becomes very frustrating because you will have to travel with both sims all the time to make sure that they are going to class. Unless you are using mods you can't edit the dorms and have to visit the cafeteria sometime.

I had a hard time doing stuff with the organizations as well because it takes too long to visit them when they spawn outside.

So I had fun playing it, I got a lot of nice sims from that pack, the CAS items are very good, robotics offer a lot, but also takes very long because you have to keep crafting items all the time and they keep shocking you, unless you use mods. The careers are pretty good and the research and debate skill is very useful.

The world is not great, the town have very few lots and once I figured out how to get A+ I keep getting it every time so it has not aged well now. I'm hoping that future packs could make it more fun but Maxis keep making just kits which does nothing to improve this pack.

I would suggest two things. A. don't take kids through Uni back-to-back IE enter new students directly after a batch has just graduated. Allow yourself a cooling off period. And B. don't be a helicopter player. Allow some or all of your Sims to slack off a bit. Once in awhile don't have them take notes. Better still, if they were up all night working on projects or daily homework, have them fall asleep in class. This should lend itself to a more favorable gameplay, if you're tired of straight A+ grades across the board. Just sayin'.