How do you make University more interesting?

And by this, I assume you mean, "...and I want it fixed."

Have you gotten the latest, shiniest version of the Romance mod?

 

JMP, don't you know I stalk your downloads? Today I got the Directors Cut, so I now have ALL your mods. I just haven't had a chance to try them all out at once. If I boot the game up, I may never shut it down now that it all works so well. LOL

 

It appears that I have an opposite philosophy. I think that it takes a lot more personal resources being angry about e.g. the mess made by other sims than it takes to clean it up or hire a maid. Furthermore, it appears to me that it is the sim (or person) getting angry who has the problem.

I have never moved any non-playable dormies in after graduation. All but one of my playable students happened to become best friends with other playable students of the opposite sex. That meant that all but one playable student moved in with another playable student after graduation. The last playable student stayed single, as she neither became best friends with a non-playable dormie of the opposite sex.

Best regards,
Boerge

 

What, me, angry? I'm not angry. I'm amused. It provides lots of entertainment to both me and my sims as they sit around having maxed their grade meters, and point and laugh at the dormies who piss their pants.

To actually clean up the mess would be a waste of my sims' time for a mess that is not my concern as it's not my building, and therefore not my problem, or a waste of my sims' money. Furthermore, the mess will just quickly reinstate itself since cleaning up the puddles of piss in no way addresses the fundamental underlying problem, that of dormie incontinence.

Right, see my view of "Not my chosen people". Thus, the fact that THEY are depressed by the squalor and filth is not my problem, nor does it bother my sims any, since they have permanently platinum mood from achieving their lifetime want as a teen and therefore are unaffected by such things.

AND IT IS FUNNY TO WATCH! Which in turn makes the experience slightly less dreary and boring.

I leave you now with this set of screenshots.

 

J.M.Pescado,

I am sorry that I have never had that much mess in my dorms. I only had the water from a few water balloons and sprinklers - mostly due to fire in the kitchen.
I normally have the students hire a maid, since most of the dirt is their own dirty dishes, books and dirty toilets and baths. I never had incontinence in dorms.

Best regards,
Boerge

 

All bow to the mighty Pescado ...

Platinum mood as teenagers. Snort. I have exactly one Sim with permanent platinum mood, and she started as an adult. I am working on a couple right now that also started as adults, my theory being once they hit platinum they can drink all the elixir they need, get married and have a couple of kids, and since they're knowledge Sims they'll be great parents. I'll work on having those kids achieve permanent platinum before college ... something for us humble "drunks" to aspire to.

IMHO, knowledge sims are better parents than family sims. I have more than one family Sim who has to be told twice to feed/change/potty train his/her brats. Knowledge Sims have no such problem. They get involved with their kids because they want them to succeed.

As for college, I'll just be glad if that bleeding cow ever leaves my dorm. She's been there for at least a week ... however it no longer matters since I moved everyone into group housing that they rented together.

My lowly non-platinum Sims can't stand the dorm environment. And I agree, why should they clean up someone else's mess?

 

1. Quite often it is a lot easier than struggling with others to make them clean up the mess.
2. The discomfort of cleaning up might be less than the discomfort of the low environments and discomfort of falling out with those who made the mess.
3. The sims can get cleaning points by cleaning - and they are needed for some majors.

Best regards,
Boerge

 

All very good points ...

I just like the rented housing better. My Sims can clean up after themselves instead of strange, hygiene-challenged incontinent pranksters. (Though I notice that *!%$ cow still visits ... perhaps it's time to arrange a little bovine "accident.")

Apparently, none of the townies were potty trained properly.

Oh, and BTW I noticed Pescado is a "super star." Hmmm ... just how random are those monikers? I was kind of getting attached to my "drunken" status, though ... it's so freeing when others' expectations are so low.

 

What's the problem with using up points to influence other sims to do the cleaning? There comes a point in my sims lives when their influence meters are full and their wants are all either influence based or else long term goals not immediately attainable. In such cases the using of a few points to make some poor sucker clean up is not just good management but also rewarding in its own right ... os long as you wait for the "influence someone to clean" want to roll up. Maybe I am just a bit too nerdy ... most of my sims carry around aspiration point totals in the 50-100 thousand range ...

 

It's even easier still to ignore the mess and laugh at the comical consequences it produces in the dormies as they navigate slowly around the mess in absurdly long paths to avoid stepping in it, in the process winding up someplace else where they piss themselves, forming another roadblock, while parts of the original roadblock evaporate....it's much more entertaining than it sounds.

Eh, low environment has no effect on my sims, since they have permanent platinum and thus are immune to the mood detraction. And "falling out with those who made the mess"? Pssh. They're townie/dormie scum. I didn't like them anyway, and discourage my sims to associate with them. In fact, I tend to have my sims insult them just for amusement. They have no value to my sims and their collection of 78 family friends.

They can, yes, which is certainly a good reason, but when you've already maxed out all their skills, this is an irrelevant reason.

Eh, most of my sims carry around aspiration point totals in the 150K+ range, and are almost assured to hit 327670 well before graduation. Really, when your only expenditure for aspiration points is (well, was) thinking caps and energizers, and having accomplished those goals, you no longer have need for these items, you start piling the stuff up en-masse. Plus, with "no influence obsession", the influence wants go away and cease with the tiresome "influence someone to do something completely useless that doesn't need doing". I tried influencing someone to repair once, but it was a pretty useless waste of a LOT of points, because he refused to actually repair it, instead simply looking inside, fiddling with it a bit, and then stopping with it unrepaired. What a waste of effort and resources.