University too hard/no fun ?

I tried it once. She took a full load, attended all the classes, did homework every day, completed the term papers and presentations and made sure they all were top notch, and still almost completely failed out. The most frustrating part was all the classes were related to skills she had already maxed out.

Then I stumbled upon something that might explain what happened. I haven't tested this myself yet, I probably will later today, but this does make sense to me as to what's causing people to fail out with no idea why.

As well as owning Discover University, I also own Seasons, which I believe most people that own Discover University also own, being Seasons is one of the most popular expansions. The problem is Seasons introduces holidays, and the game seems a bit confused on how to treat university classes in regards to holidays, because it treats them like a hybrid. To explain what I mean, I first need to address professions and how they work with holidays.

There are two types of professions; those that are rabbit holed and those that are active. Rabbit holed, for those unaware, are jobs like Astronaut where your sim will automatically attend when their time comes (unless you prevent them somehow), and they change into their work clothes (if any), walk to the edge of your property, and then disappear until the time is completed, where they then reappear on your property's edge ready for control. School for children/teens is considered like this, which also adds to the confusion as I will explain later.

Then there are active professions, like the Detective, where your sim actually attends work where you control the sim to perform certain actions in an allotted time frame to determine how successful that day was.

There technically is a third type of profession where you own your own business (veterinarian, retail, etc.), but that route gives you complete freedom to determine when you work, so it's not affected by this.

So, let's say a holiday is active where you normally would have the day off (Winterfest for example), rabbit holed professions get the day off no problem, but active professions do not. If you normally would have needed to work that day, for example the holiday falls on a Wednesday, then you still need to go to work. Because most holidays that offer a day off fall on weekend days, and most active professions mostly have these days off anyway, it doesn't become an issue for the most part, but you still missed a day if you normally would have gone to work. But, and here's were it starts to get weird, the game won't inform you that you need to go to work, and it won't automatically take you. On days that are a holiday that offers a day off work, sims with active professions normally scheduled to attend work that day are still expected to attend work, but you must manually select "go to work" from your career button at the time you are expected to go or you will get a penalty for missing work/being late. Most simply put; the active professions introduced with Get to Work don't mesh well with the holidays in Seasons.

With that said, attending university classes is considered an active profession to Seasons' holidays, even though it's rabbit holed. This is why I mentioned earlier that it's a hybrid. So, if you own both Discover University and Seasons, when your attending classes be very mindful that on holidays the game will not inform you that you need to go to class, that your missing class, or really anything regarding a profession that day. You will need to manually press the "go to class" button at the right time in order to attend class in time on that particular day, or the game will consider you skipping class, and it won't warn you that you're doing anything wrong.

This, I believe, is where most people are failing university and not having any clue as to why.

Certainly it seems that discover uni contradicts with holiday especially a holiday during exam ! Honestly I am so disappointed!
I haven’t explored robotics skill and engineering career , I hope these are good enough to salvage this awful pack.

isn't too hard did all four-course ones need wasn't too hard as long they study the right time moment come home ( i don't use dorms) make them buckle down have enough time something fun. have them get to class on time if enough time before next have them study a bit won't be hard.

"jimbbq;c-17460799" wrote:
Certainly it seems that discover uni contradicts with holiday especially a holiday during exam ! Honestly I am so disappointed!
I haven’t explored robotics skill and engineering career , I hope these are good enough to salvage this awful pack.

I still like DI, and consider it one of the better packs, but if you also have Seasons you just need to be mindful.

To be fair the CAS items are pretty good :) and studying from home is more playable than moving into the university as they have to blinking walk very so slowly to the lectures and always late causing big drop in grades. Studying from home you magically disappear into the lecture, on-time every single lecture :) kind of stupid studying from far away is more convenient than living on campus ;)

Yeah I’ve tried living in the dorm first term and did 4 classes.. failed.. all of them. Not a very smart move for first time. Especially since we have to move them out of their house into dorm and then you have to buy back your house (pretty ridiculous) but now I’m staying at home with 2 classes per term.. might take long I guess but it will help get a degree more smoother now. I like this pack. I love realism to the game.

I find a lot of frustration in the game play of UNI.. Which in return has made only about 3 of my sims actually complete college. Unfortunately, even with taking the max of 4 credits per term and entering college the day you age up to a Young Adult, you are in college the entire length of being a YA. And as you stated, they attend classes and are doing homework/term papers/etc the entire time they're home and even then they might not get things done (and in return not pass the class) depending on your sims personality and needs. I personally liked the style they had in TS2 much better where you had the option to attend after you completed your teenage years and then you aged as a Fresh/Soph/Jr/Senior. I think the courses and work wasn't as time consuming and you had a lot more time to enjoy the "college lifestyle".. Also - it didn't take away from your actual Adult years to attend university, it was simply a lifeline of it's own.. Maybe they can offer an update for UNI where as a teenager you can gain college credit while attending highschool if you're an A student?? And in return maybe you then would only need 4-8 credits in UNI to complete your degree instead of 12??

I like it

Maybe they want to bring back the sims 2 university spirit where the whole young adult stage is just for university. If you don’t go to uni they just turn right into adult :)

to be honest i am already looking forward to the next pack university is starting to get boring now at least to me as a player of the sims4