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Homeworld Uni students

Post by littlelambsy » May 27th, 2016, 2:41 am

I'm setting up another world and this time I'm putting in all the uni buildings. Now, my questions are:
1. How do I add a dorm and will that bring in random uni students?
2. How do I get other random students to attend the homeworld uni along with my sim?

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Post by brappl » May 27th, 2016, 11:45 am

Howdy littlelambsy .. good questions. Never played in the actual Uni World and have not played home world unis in some time but never got into setting up the dorms. I think J4Ks and igazor have as well as others in here will be better able to answer. In the meantime, check out the <a href="http://nraas.wikispaces.com/University+ ... University Tips</a> .. There are also links to the How To Set up. Might shed some light for you until you get more suggestions.

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Post by igazor » May 27th, 2016, 12:00 pm

I actually haven't, I just echo the information that I see from others who have shared when questions I recognize come up. Therefore I am in reality, as I (along with everyone else who like to help over on the EA forums as a Tech Responder) have been recently accused of being by an interesting troll character, a fraud. :)

1 - I don't think Dorms or Frat/Sorority Houses are meant to function in homeworlds. Sims are supposed to live at home and go to Uni as they would a regular job when so assigned.

2 - I know you can register inactives yourself using MC to give them the academic career and use Level 2 to assign professors. Not sure there if there is mechanism for auto-enrollment like there is in a regular Uni World. I know you are or were setting up a foreign (to you) world to act as if it's Uni World, but to the game it's still a regular homeworld. But I could be mistaken about this.
<a href="http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Careers+FAQ ... versity</a>

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Post by J4Ks » May 27th, 2016, 12:25 pm

1. - Dorms are actually similar too apartments in a regular Home World, which means an active needs to be renting there for the game to activate Roommate services. If they automatically are enrolled in your Home World UNI is a question you have to try out yourself as I don't bother with Dorms in Home Worlds.

2.- With SP v265 and up automatically enrollment of UNI students is possible within a Homeworld Uni. Chain added within the Caste System under Sim Type 2 specific classes for the system to look/assign Sims too:
<ul class="quotelist"><li>Degreeless, basically all Sims at the start of a game (unless you placed Sims from the Bin in your game that were saved with Degrees)</li><li>HasDegree, Sims that has gotten a degree.</li></ul>
You will have to tweak your Caste System a little to allow the career in your Home World though. Or you can simply remove within your Castes - Career Disallow: "Univeristy Student". I believe its set under Teens (which is correct, cause otherwise it will conflict with their School schedule) and other age groups castes (YA / A / E), use "(Reset To Defaults)" > Career: Disallow> University Student method to remove it.
This method though is pretty extensive as it pushes all Sims that are in age (YA / A / E) to all get a degree from the start of the game, regardless if they already have a job, they will quit it in preference getting a degree.
So the chance of them all becoming bankrupt is pretty much unavoidable as they have to follow a 2 weeks course (inactives maybe longer) and without receiving any income from a job they soon will be in the red due to admission fee they have to pay.

There is another route you can take, by making 2 Castes and preset some Caste requirements. This way your Homeworld Uni won't get overcrowded and your Sims population don't have to worry about funds.
If interested I can make a short guide, not at this moment as I am behind the stove (suppose to be......I smell something burning) and afterwards filling my belly, but ...yeah... let me know :P

Do think about it LL (hard), cause you will be making Castes in SP (not something you are eager to do :P).

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Post by brappl » May 27th, 2016, 12:27 pm

@igazor .. I saw that over there. The majority over there are very very appreciative for all the help you have consistently offered up. Kudos!!
I've never placed a dorm for use with homeworld and agree the concept of homeworld is that they live at home. What I was going to do but have not yet tried it, is place a dorm as a residential lot and have a bunch of students living at the dorm and play them from there.
Never experienced auto-enrollment either but have seen inactives attending classes. I'll have to take a closer look at that. One problem I had with enrolling a household member and rotating, was they often drop out and get another job. I have changed the caste settings to see if that will stop them from going elsewhere when I rotate. The jury is still out on that one :)

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Post by brappl » May 27th, 2016, 12:28 pm

Ahh...J4Ks Did not see your post before I posted. Awesome...thank you.

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Post by J4Ks » May 27th, 2016, 12:35 pm

@brappl; If you are still using the caste settings I once provided (ahem....) it includes automatically enrollment of residents to the homeworld UNI (if you have one in your town), but based on trait requirements.

As to them dropping out from Uni when you rotate, back then I didn't think about Rotating when building the settings. But more crucial, since the UNI code is borrowed from EP UL, you will have to play it out till that Sim received its degree, like the University Life World, you should not switch households till such course has ended.

When you do that in University Live World, the Sim will drop out and UL becomes your Homeworld to play in.

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Post by littlelambsy » May 27th, 2016, 12:46 pm

Great information here, thanks everyone. Ok, I decided the only way I can play in rotation and not drive myself crazy is to rotate via worlds. So I'll have my sims spread out over the sims universe and play them that way. The only problem with that, is I have to note their ages with each world when I leave and return because, even though I have worlds set to age - they don't. No big problem though.

Second, I like the idea of having a dorm as a residential lot and having a bunch of roommates in there all assigned to the university as students. I think that's the easiest way to do it. I can also assign townies as professors.

at J4Ks... (my at symbol has gone south) Thanks for the offer of casting but I prefer to avoid castes if possible. They make my head spin. LOL But you gave me great info Thanks. :)

at igazor... I was/am setting up different world uni's and like the idea of being able to assign professors from among the townies. My sim will live at his own house while attending uni but I didn't like the collage being so dead of students that's why I thought about having dorms. But, brappl gave me a good idea about that.

This has all been great info. Thanks :)

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Post by brappl » May 27th, 2016, 12:59 pm

@J4Ks .. Oh My ... I sure am. That gave me a great jump start with SP and I'm learning more as time goes on. Just not very good at giving much SP advice in here. I'll leave that to you experts :)
I'll take another look at the trait castes you mentioned above. Very likely I changed something when trying new things out. Thanks a million J4Ks.

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Post by igazor » May 27th, 2016, 1:06 pm

Guess it might help a little if the information I "echo" isn't outdated by three years (ahem).

But anyway, while I see the value in the auto by caste option, there is no way I would be brave enough to try it either until I got fully used to how a Homeworld Uni operates on manual enrollments first. I could otherwise see spending the rest of the year tweaking caste settings, giving tax breaks to students to they don't go bankrupt, etc. Loads of fun, but not really what I intended to be spending the rest of the year doing. :)

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