Salutations and Greetings students, this is your Dean of Doom speaking and I need some students! Any volunteers?
This challenge is going to take you on a bumpy challenge with multiple endings! I would love to have some people help me test it, but let's first show you all the gears and cogs that makes this program run.
The Bare Basics
1. Start with a teen sim with no skills and whatever traits and aspiration you desire.
2. 1 Week = 1 Semester, basically the same as in Sims 2 and 3.
3. 2 Weeks = 1 Year, so every two weeks your Sim goes up a level unless they flunk out.
4. Their birthday party for their transition into official Adulthood is their graduation party.
5. You cannot play any other sims within the Household.
Adjustments and Patch Notes!
None yet
Testing Team of Tenacity
@CathyTea (you've been nominated, nominate another person!)
@Spacey72659 (super thank you!)
@SimPoseyYum (lots of hearts for you)
@SummerFalls
Links to UUC based Stories
Skill U by @CathyTea
Greenwood Dormitory by
@SummerFalls
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capturedmuse
May 2015 edited May 2015
THE SETUP
Any uploads for this challenge should be listed with #UUC for easy Gallery swimming.
1) Download or Create the Dorm, requires at least 5 bedrooms.
2) Download or Create the Dean, must be an Adult with all skills maxed. Completed aspirations are a plus but not mandatory. You cannot play this Sim no matter what.
3) Download or Create 6 students, including one for yourself. For harder difficulty have 7 students with you controlling two. All have to start as teens with no skills in this household.
4) Place your household and dorm and create other dorms as you see fit (or download) all non-dorm residential buildings must be removed from neighborhood of choice. Feel free to fill empty lots with anything but non-dorm residential lots. I.E. no houses in your neighborhood that aren't dorms.
5) It should go without saying no cheats should be used at all, ever, except for awarding the scholarship simoleons and the winning pot.
HOW TO PLAY IT
1) Pick your student or create it now and merge it into the correct/main dorm with adult dean character. You are only allowed to play that one character unless you're doing hard mode then you only play 2.
2) Pick a major. Attend the in-game school as normal for teen years, and make sure to level major skills to appropriate levels for grades.
3) You start the game with 1,200 simoleons. Each semester depending on performance you get additional simoleons:
A average = 5000
B average = 3,000
C Average = 1,500
D Average = 500
F Average = 0
Get an F average two semesters in a row and you lose the challenge.
4) Bills, give Dean a job when starting and bills will be paid through his or her paycheck. Spend wisely. If you come up short throw a fundraiser party or gather some rocks.
5) If your Sim rolls want to get married to a specific sim THREE times and you lose and have to drop out to get married. (Possible spin off can be made here) Raise your family as normal and send your child back. Child can have as many skills as it wants as long as it was raised from baby by an ex-University Student.
6) If your Sim gets pregnant or gets another sim pregnant you don't have to drop out, instead you have to buy your child a toy once a week along with their required things with no additional financial help from the school. (HARD) if your sim rolls wants for having a child THREE times and your household doesn't have room, kick out a roomie and get your sim or SO pregnant.
7) Once your sim is YA he or she may get a job, (others cannot) as a special paid internship. But only if you have a
C or higher in grades. If you get a D or F for a semester average you have to quit to focus on your studies.
capturedmuse
May 2015 edited May 2015
Drop by and pick your SCHEDULE
MAJORS
Pick One, you are allowed to switch Majors IF you want, ONLY during the transition into their Junior year which is their birthday transition into YA.
Fine Arts: Painting, Photography, Writing
Mathematics: Logic, Programming, Rocket Science
Performance Arts: Piano, Violin, Guitar, Comedy (pick 3)
Culinary Arts: Baking, Cooking, Gourmet, Mixology
Environmental Engineering: Fishing, Gardening, Herbalism, Photography (pick 3)
Computer Science: Logic, Programming, Video Games
Political Science: Charisma, Comedy, Mischief, Friend requirements, Reaping (pick 3)
Health and Physical Fitness: Fitness, Handiness, Herbalism.
Research and Experimental Science: Logic, Handiness, Rocket Science, Herbalism (pick 3)
IMPORTANT: Every skill in the game is contained above including those from expansions and packs. This will continue to be updated as needed.
GENERAL STUDIES You need to try to also level these skills.
Year 1: writing or fitness
Year 2: charisma or logic
Year 3: cooking or
Year 4: photography or instrument
GRADING keep track of your Sim's grades, you do not need to track other students.
A = Skill Level 3 or higher
C = Skill Level 2
F = Skill Level 1 or 0
capturedmuse
May 2015 edited May 2015
HOW TO SCORE IT
Grades:
Every general studies grade under the required level takes off a full letter grade for that year.
Year 1:
A = 9+ total skill points learned in major, each individually being 3 or higher.
B = 7+ total skill points learned in major, should be 2 2 3 minimum for a B.
C = 5+ total skill points learned in major, or 2 2 1 for the minimum for a C.
F = Any 0s or more than two ones is an F.
Year 2:
A = 18+ total skill points learned in major, each individually being 6 or higher.
B = 15+ total skill points learned in major, Need one 6 and no more than one 4.
C = 12+ total skill points learned in major, or 4 4 4 for the minimum for a C.
D = anything that falls between.
F = Any 2s or two 3s is an F.
Year 3:
A = 27+ total skill points learned in major, each individually being 9 or higher.
B = 21+ total skill points learned in major, No 6s
C = 18+ total skill points learned in major, No 5s
F = Any 3s or two or more 4s is an F.
Year 4:
A = 30+ total skill points learned in major, each individually being 10 or higher. And at least rank 3 at work.
B = Minus half a grade for every skill point below 10, no 7s
C = Minus half a grade for every skill point below 9, no 6s
D = Anything in between.
F = Any 0s or more than two ones is an F.
* For every work rank not met take off half a grade. So an A would now be A-, so on and so forth.
* For every work rank exceeded add half a grade to a maximum of one full letter grade.
Best of luck! Feel free to post your numbers if you need help scoring yourself!
Graduation:
Complete 1 aspiration by graduation and you graduate with honors (plum laude) if you have a B or higher. (30,000)
Complete 1 aspiration and get an A average you get a slightly higher honor (magna plum laude). (75,000)
Complete 2 or more aspirations with an A or higher and you graduate as valedictorian and highest honors (summa plum laude). (150,000)
Graduating without honors nets you 10,000 simoleons.
Then play the game however you want...
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ULTIMATE UNIVERSITY LIFE CHALLENGE MODE!
Once completed you can, if you choose, move onto the second level. With the money you received you are now hired to become a dean as the previous dean has passed away. You have big shoes to fill! Using the money you must build a new dorm from the ground up and fill it with students. 6 for normal mode. 7 for hard. You can only control your dean. Based on their traits pick a major for them and help them succeed as best as possible. Count up the points based on their skill points once they all reach the end of their time to see if you won!
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