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Since I've been stuck at home for a while now, I finally sent some of my YA sims to University, and I can say without reservation that it is THE WORST expansion pack of all (the only one I don't own is Magic.)
First of all, so much is wrong right out of the gate. I got more Last Exception errors in the time my sims were in school than in my entire history of playing the game. Even though Seasons has been out forever since this pack, none of the buildings had thermometers, so sims were always freezing, and sims never changed their clothes when they went outdoors in the cold. Whims couldn't be fulfilled consistently, ESPECIALLY if I locked them.
I started with two sims, then added another to the same house. The third sim graduated before the other two. One of the first two somehow needed to take another class, even though he had signed up for and passed all the classes he should have needed. The other failed one of her classes even though she'd done all the work. I signed each of them up for one of the three organizations. IF I could remember to check the meetings regularly (why can't they sign up in advance? Why no reminders? Why can't it go on the calendar? Oh, wait - almost nothing from Seasons was integrated into this pack!) and get them to go, not only would they be in different places from where my sim had been sent, but sometimes none of the planned activities even happened. PLUS, just as with regular whims, I couldn't get the achievements ticked off no matter how I tried. PLUS PLUS, these activities were boring as anything. If I tried to liven things up, the way the actions were queued, my proposed action would age out before my sim got a chance to do it, over and over and over.
During regular home life, I constantly had to teleport sims out from behind furniture. I couldn't delete the problem furniture, either, like the coffee table that prevented sims from sitting on the sofa to watch TV. Random sims would show up, and my sims would not have the options "ask to leave" or "goodbye," and often had to sleep on chairs (couldn't get to the sofa, remember?) because the visitors would sit on their beds for hours at a time.
Towards the end, I mostly put the game on high speed and waited for it to be over so I could get out of there. I MIGHT send someone back to see if, say, the robotics major is less boring, or if Foxbury is less painfully dull than Britechester, but if it's still just as bad, that sim might just drop out and move back in with mom and dad.
First of all, so much is wrong right out of the gate. I got more Last Exception errors in the time my sims were in school than in my entire history of playing the game. Even though Seasons has been out forever since this pack, none of the buildings had thermometers, so sims were always freezing, and sims never changed their clothes when they went outdoors in the cold. Whims couldn't be fulfilled consistently, ESPECIALLY if I locked them.
I started with two sims, then added another to the same house. The third sim graduated before the other two. One of the first two somehow needed to take another class, even though he had signed up for and passed all the classes he should have needed. The other failed one of her classes even though she'd done all the work. I signed each of them up for one of the three organizations. IF I could remember to check the meetings regularly (why can't they sign up in advance? Why no reminders? Why can't it go on the calendar? Oh, wait - almost nothing from Seasons was integrated into this pack!) and get them to go, not only would they be in different places from where my sim had been sent, but sometimes none of the planned activities even happened. PLUS, just as with regular whims, I couldn't get the achievements ticked off no matter how I tried. PLUS PLUS, these activities were boring as anything. If I tried to liven things up, the way the actions were queued, my proposed action would age out before my sim got a chance to do it, over and over and over.
During regular home life, I constantly had to teleport sims out from behind furniture. I couldn't delete the problem furniture, either, like the coffee table that prevented sims from sitting on the sofa to watch TV. Random sims would show up, and my sims would not have the options "ask to leave" or "goodbye," and often had to sleep on chairs (couldn't get to the sofa, remember?) because the visitors would sit on their beds for hours at a time.
Towards the end, I mostly put the game on high speed and waited for it to be over so I could get out of there. I MIGHT send someone back to see if, say, the robotics major is less boring, or if Foxbury is less painfully dull than Britechester, but if it's still just as bad, that sim might just drop out and move back in with mom and dad.
