The pack re-introduces the college experience to the game, along with the return of the Servo life state. Its new world of Britechester is home to two rival campuses: the University of Britechester and Foxbury Institute. Additional features include roommates, law, education, and engineering careers, toilet stalls, and bicycles. It is a spiritual successor to The Sims 2: University and The Sims 3: University Life, with minor elements from The Sims 2: Open for Business, The Sims 2: Apartment Life, The Sims 3: Ambitions, and The Sims 3: Into the Future. It is also the first university-themed pack that allows Sims to attend university off-campus and allows non-students to visit and live in the campus world.
The Sims 4: Discover University introduces thirteen degrees that are available at any university. Sims can take up to four classes per semester toward any normal degree, and each degree is associated with a few skills. Every full-time career benefits from at least one associated degree. There are also Distinguish degrees that will offer a higher career level than a normal degree, however, it requires more proficiency in skills and education than a normal degree to qualify.
Hi all. I recently purchased the University EP and I have a question about how and where to go to feed my Sims. There isn't anywhere for my Sim to get food and I have looked all over the campus. I have tried clicking on the different buildings and I either get guest lectures, a soccer game, or visit University Housing. There is a countertop in the bathroom and if I click on it, it has the blurred out option to "cook with" then says there is no available fridge. I also noticed build mode is disabled for the dorms. So how am I supposed to feed my Sim? This was not a well thought out EP at all. (Who thought it would be a good idea to hear 4 violins playing/practicing different songs at once in the dorms)
If my Sim can't eat I might as well have him drop out and send him back to his home lot so he won't die of starvation or is there a way to have my Sim still attend University from home after he's already been in the dorms?
c. Visit the Pleasants or the Elderberrys and use their stoves for cooking. Works best if you have the Always Welcome reward trait, which only costs 500 points. This can also be used while visiting other worlds. (You aren't required to spend all your time in Britechester.)
A work around I personally use is editing the dorms. I added the cafeteria that can be found in the commons to the dorm. A cafeteria worker is spawned at certain hours during the day. That way my sims could eat at the cafeteria in their dorm.
I know you asked this a while ago, so this is more for anybody else who made the same mistake we did: If you saved your game recently just recover your save file from the main menu and save yourself the time of waiting until the next term and re applying.
I tried changing the venue from university housing to residential in order to move my displaced sim student and plan to change it back to university housing again. And the only choices left for changing the venue are residential, tiny home r., and haunted house r.
In the future if you wish to edit university dorms which have sims living in them, open the cheats bar and enter "testingcheats true" and then press enter, and then type "bb. enablefreebuild". This should allow you to edit lots you are not usually able to edit, including university dorms.
As for Fletcher, you cannot move a sim when they have started a semester. To get Fletcher back into the dorm, you will have to place him on another lot and play him, manually enrolling him back in university. Since Fletcher is on probation when you first play him, that may add an issue to re-enrolling him.
I was able to enable cheats. Shift click my sim. Choose pack cheats > expansion packs > university > university debug menu > enroll in university.
This will allow you to choose the school, housing, degree, etc.
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The Sims 4 Discover University will release on November 15 for PC and Mac, with consoles receiving the new Expansion on December 17, 2019. The new pack revolves around a new campus and two competing schools - University of Britechester and the modern Foxbury Institute. Sims will be able to pursue a degree at one of the two. Here's a listing of gameplay features, my video covering the gameplay livestream, and miscellaneous info about the pack.
I've made a list of Frequently Asked Questions about Discover University's Gameplay you can read. It's got a lot of details about how roommates, dorms, and actually attending University in FAQ format.
Sims can either attend University off-campus, or live in a dorm. Players will be free to customize their dorm's appearance, though building space may be limited. There's a common area, library for study, and recreational areas. We will learn more in coming weeks and share everything we know.
Sims can have a roommate whether they attend university or not, by placing an ad. Multiple Sims will show up as applications, and you can select among them who you'd like to be a roommate. They will pay a portion of the household's bills each week. What they might not do, is clean up after themselves. Some roommates are hellish, while others are great to live with. They are added as a NPC to the household, meaning you won't have much (if any) control over their actions.
There are a total 13 degrees available in Discover University, with each university offering the same degrees in some form. However, each degree has a Distinguished variety. While you will never be turned down enrolling for a regular degree, Sims can indeed be rejected from distinguished degrees based on comments from the developer livestream.
Graduation Requirements: In order to graduate sims require a total of 12 course credits. You can pursue up to 4 credits in a term, with elective counting toward your degree. A term is one Sim week, with courses taking place on weekdays. You can take one elective per session - use this to boost a skill that helps your Sim in some way but isn't needed for their future career.
Bikes are making a comeback in this pack, allowing players to quickly get around the huge campuses of Britechester and Foxbury Institute. It would appear it'll be possible to use them everywhere, which is fantastic.
There are many classes in Discover University, many related to existing skills. You'll need to work to keep up your Sim's grades, with class attendance counting along with how they perform on various assignments like presentations and term papers. Time management will be a must.
Sims are given a course book in their inventory, which can be used to study and improve grades. They may be required to write a term paper before the week-long term is up. A term paper's quality is stated when you hover over it, so you can decide not to turn in a poorly-written paper. Similarly, with presentations you will receive a presentation board. This allows you to practice before ultimately going to do the presentation in a rabbit-hole style meeting.
There are Organizations on campus that provide extracurricular activities: robotics, art, and debate clubs as well as spirit clubs for each school's sports teams. We don't know a lot about them yet, but they are fully featured - meaning you can take your Sim and participate in them (not rabbit holes). Sims in the trailer are seen working on robots and debating one another.
The pack features a new robotics skill, which lets Sims build various types of robot - from basic household helpers like party bots, repair bots, and gardening bots, to Servo. Servo is the ultimate reward for pursuing the robotics skill and can join the household (consuming one of the max slots) upon activation. Servos require maintenance and to keep their batteries charged. They have a fun and social need, but no hunger or bladder.
There are Education, Law, and Engineering Careers in Discover University. These do not require you to attend school, you'd just start at the bottom like any other Sim career track. Education has the Professor and Administrative branches, while Law has Judge and Private Attorney branches. Engineers were shown in the deep dive livestream and have Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The Mechanical Engineer's reward of an exo-suit was shown briefly in that gameplay livestream.
Sims could also join careers in soccer and as an esports gamer (shown in the careers interface) and these required attendance at the University to participate, so we don't know much yet about how that ties in. They are clearly not typical careers, howwever.
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When you move into campus living, you are splitting from the household. I'm not sure what happens after graduation, but while you are attending you are in a separate household so your other sims will be idle.
I had the unfortunate experience of losing everything in my household when my sim split and went off to college. I might have accidentally clicked sell furniture, but I lost all my collections, plants, etc when the households combined again after college. I would definitely save a separate file before sending anyone off to college.
Ok, so can I do the roommate search thing to move into a dorm on campus? So that I don't have to buy the place, or join household with the existing tenants (which would then mean I have to control them). I am wondering how having NPC roomies will play out, seeing how stupid sims are if you don't give them commands. Especially the way they always want to go to bed too early, then get themselves into a vicious cycle of getting up too early, going to work/class already down to 50% energy, come home drop dead exhausted and go to bed immediately...
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