Two questions about the University expansion

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Since searching the official BBS seems to be a useless activity, (I swear,
it seems as if I could put the words "Sim" and "University" in the search
field and get no returned matches), I'll ask these two questions here to see
if anyone might know the answer to either.

First, I know University introduces a new life stage called "Young Adult",
but what does that mean for custom hairstyles? Do young adults essentially
have the body of a teen or an adult, so the hairstyles from those lifestages
work for young adults, or are they a different size completely? I know that
in order to make a custom hairstyle, the creator has to make a style for
each lifestage, which often results in merely copying the default style the
creator used as a base for some lifestages (most commonly, toddlers). If
young adult is a new lifestage and can't use either the teen or the adult
hairstyle, I would suspect that that would somehow invalidate all custom
hairstyles, which would need a new young adult style added to the project.
Surely that can't be the case, can it?

Secondly, I was reading Gamespy's preview where the article is written from
the point of view of a young sim adult who was going to the University. She
noted early in the article that she had a choice of three universities to
attend, each seeming to correspond to each of the three default
neighborhoods. (A "typical" University, a university with a desert setting,
and a European styled university, corresponding to Pleasantview, Strangetown
and Veronaville, respectively) Does anyone know if that means that young
adults from all neighborhoods can attend any of the universities included
and those I might create, such that my Pleasantview teens could actually
meet and go to college with the teens who grew up in Veronaville? (Without
having to duplicate a sim family, of course, as can be done now)

Also, are the universities considered separate neighborhoods completely, or
can a student invite his parents to his graduation, or something similar?

Thanks in advance,
C

 

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"Charles Whitney" <cbillingsw@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if that means that young adults from all neighborhoods
> can attend any of the universities included and those I might create, such
> that my Pleasantview teens could actually meet and go to college with the
> teens who grew up in Veronaville? (Without having to duplicate a sim
> family, of course, as can be done now)

No I gahter there are three different kinds of university but you associate
them with a neighbourhood. If you have more than 3 you just get the same
kind of univeristy but not the same people there. That was covered in a chat
that Maxis had. The transcript is up on the site.
>
> Also, are the universities considered separate neighborhoods completely,
> or can a student invite his parents to his graduation, or something
> similar?

Students can invite their parents to visit and they can also be invited home
apparently.

Gareeth

 

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Charles Whitney wrote:
> Since searching the official BBS seems to be a useless activity, (I
> swear, it seems as if I could put the words "Sim" and "University"
in
> the search field and get no returned matches), I'll ask these two
> questions here to see if anyone might know the answer to either.
>
> First, I know University introduces a new life stage called "Young
> Adult", but what does that mean for custom hairstyles? Do young
> adults essentially have the body of a teen or an adult,
<snip>

Yes. Apparently either they are just teens, physically (the
screenshots indicate this), or possibly they have the body of a teen
and the head of an adult (I've heard someone say but can't confirm
it).

> Secondly, I was reading Gamespy's preview where the article is
> written from the point of view of a young sim adult who was going to
> the University. She noted early in the article that she had a
choice
> of three universities to attend, each seeming to correspond to each
> of the three default neighborhoods.
<snip>

Apparently you have multiple colleges per neighborhood. So, each
neighborhood is still separate.

> Also, are the universities considered separate neighborhoods
> completely, or can a student invite his parents to his graduation,
or
> something similar?

Apparently you can invite them for a visit.