"Thetford;c-17236335" wrote:
I don't think active schools should be in the game, and a school pack wouldn't be the same as a university one, given that in 2 and 3, very little focus is given on the actual academic side (pretty much non existent in 2) and focus is pretty much exclusively on campus life (greek life, toga parties, coffee shops, the quad, mascots, dorms, cheap living, being away from home etc), while schools would have to be the opposite so they would be schools (sat at a desk watching another sim talk in front of a white board) throughout the entire day. An actual equivalent of university foe teens and children would be packs focusing on the places they hang out outside of school (skateparks, arcades, playgrounds etc )
I sort of agree with this. The thing is kids' social life often IS at school. So it's that the "school" gameplay would need to be tempered with less desk-work and more Recess and Finding a Clique To Sit With At Lunch and Skipping To Hang Out Under The Bleachers.
Like I'm fine with them adding "schools" as lots and sending kids there as an active career. I really want that, actually. I would just hope that active career isn't all just sitting at their desk taking notes and stuff.