University too hard/no fun ?

I hope the next pack is as good as get famous :)

"jimbbq;c-17428036" wrote:

The bike... all my club members show up in bikes!! Especially when I live in an apartment all the bikes are inside the building . It is a nightmare lol

Omg, what is it with clubs and bikes? I haven't formed clubs in ages but started doing them again in my new rotational game. And there's all these club members suddenly arriving en masse on bikes! WTH?

But, as for uni, I rather like it, which is unusual for me. I haven't liked any of the previous uni editions. I think I like the challenge of it.

I recently put 7 sims through Britechester together and 5 of them got an A+ grade and the other 2 got an A. I was so proud of them all lol.

Most of my uni students come from established households with quality furniture and family members that can help with the cooking and the chores. I've never ran into problems with them, even at a full courseload the worst they brought home was a B in classes requirering skills those sims hadn't started on at all before uni. I imagine it is harder in dorms, especially with routing issues.

But if the game got re-balanced to be easier for students fresh out of CAS, those sims from longer played households would it have even easier than they have it now. Finding a better middle ground than we have at the moment might be tricky.

It seems like the one drawback in DU is when you have Sims going to uni and you're playing a multi-household universe, you feel 'forced' to stay within the same household for at least three 'sim weeks' to ensure your student-sim does not suffer poor grades to delay graduation. Your game clock, ageing, and sub-plots in other households may be out of sync.

Is there any way to play other households whilst your household with a student-sim is in uni for a prolonged period without the latter suffering poor grades?

I've just bought this expansion and have one sim starting uni (she's yet at the middle of the first term). She's doing 4 credits. I find it hard but i like it. I don't want to have all my sims going to uni, but when one decides to go, i like that it's a challenge.

It needs to keep its difficulty for sure life’s not easy. I get it a video game is an escape for some but played for entertainment. Easy, predictable progression isn’t entertaining. I do agree it might need some balance and a check on those grade point averages. Unless I’m playing it wrong.

I do love the pack. I don't think it's difficult to graduate, what's difficult is to get a GPA of A+ in the shortest amount of time. Which I think is fair.

Some improvement points:
* Life span. If you consider that young adult is ~20-35, neither normal or long makes it a good fit for how long you actually stay in university. Also on that note it's weird that young adult is the same length as adult (Which I'd say should be about age 35-65). I have to use MCCC to modify my life span to be more realistic.

* There could be different difficulty and length depending on the major, and certain majors could open up careers not otherwise available. Also more degree-related projects. Right now all degrees feel the same only differing in which skills you build and what careers you get a boost in.

* Jfc add stoves to the dormitories and houses. I don't know if this is an american thing, do you guys not have kitchen in your dorms lol?

I think the default length of sims 3 Uni is 16 days. With sims 4 if you take 4 credits a week it is 21 days. 4 credit a week equals 4 *2 homework and potential 1 presentation + 1 edit , 1 term paper + 1 edit = 12 pieces of homework to do in one week. Plus attending lectures/exam. You will be just watching sims do work/study every single waking hour.

My sim has finished her degree in art history. While i won't repeat it soon, the benefits that she's getting are enought to be more than worth it!

She entered the art critic career at level 8. She got really good at writing and painting at uni (by only doing homework, the presentation and the term paper). She wrote her first book ever and it was a masterpiece. She started selling her paintings in festivals and she gets profits of 100% in excelent paintings.

@telmarina Whilst I agree that the benefit is huge for the sim I do like to play sim’s career from low rank to the highest, it gives me a great deal of satisfaction to level up their career from the humble beginning :)