Custom-created dormies/Uni NPCs with the teleporter shrub
jsalemi:
I did it with most of the Maxis pre-made students that came with the University hoods -- just plop a teleporter shrub on the lot (doesn't matter if it's a dorm or rental house), adjust their personalities (I have the testing cheats on all the time), and then just turn them into a townie. They've been haunting my dorms (in some cases, literally :) ) ever since.
jolrei:
I do this all the time. In UNI-CAS, I use the household name "dormie" (anything works really, since they are not going to stay playable), and then create a batch of 8-10 dormies with their own first and last names (as per usual). It's better to make a mixed gender group, since dormies seem to enter dorms in the order they were created (see note below).
I usually create a "bus stop" residential lot for making dormies - move the group of new dormies into the lot (it doesn't have to have anything on it except your teleporter) and then make townies or make dormies (I usually use the Insim "family tree"), whichever command is available. When all are dormie/towniefied and off the lot, you can save and exit. Next time you move a playable into a dorm, the dormies should start showing up to fill empty rooms. (I think the reason you can't really use a dorm that well is that your group of new dormies may be too many for the number of dorm rooms available.)
Note: Because of the order of creation issue, if you make a group of 8 girls and then a group of 8 guys, the 8 girls will show up first to fill the dorm. In my current uni, my first playable moved in and the girl dormies started showing up to claim the other rooms. I realized in time that it was going to be all girls if I didn't do something. Using "moveobjects on" I trapped any new girl sim that showed up in the guys bathroom (they can't go through the door) until a guy dormie showed up and claimed the last room. Then I released the girls (moved them manually out of the guys bathroom into the common area) who just left the dorm.
jsalemi:
Quote from: jolrei on 2007 November 01, 15:03:56
Note: Because of the order of creation issue, if you make a group of 8 girls and then a group of 8 guys, the 8 girls will show up first to fill the dorm. In my current uni, my first playable moved in and the girl dormies started showing up to claim the other rooms.
You need TwoJeffs' Dormie Gender Controller (or Ste's version here that includes JMP's noundeaddormies functionality).
jolrei:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 November 01, 15:18:05
Quote from: jolrei on 2007 November 01, 15:03:56
Note: Because of the order of creation issue, if you make a group of 8 girls and then a group of 8 guys, the 8 girls will show up first to fill the dorm. In my current uni, my first playable moved in and the girl dormies started showing up to claim the other rooms.
You need TwoJeffs' Dormie Gender Controller (or Ste's version here that includes JMP's noundeaddormies functionality).
Cool. On the other hand, having a bunch of confused female dormies all wondering what they were doing in the guys bathroom was kinda funny. After a while (this took a few sim hours to finish after all) one or two of them sat down and did their assignments. Lots of socializing going on, but no ACR action - too bad. Outside the dorm, my playable student had just moved in and within 4 sim hours was ACR woohooing one of the female dormies (I think he had met her as a walk-by when he was a teen in the main hood - so there was some STR/LTR in existence already).
jsalemi:
The dormie controller lets you pick the gender (or just let it pick), so you could still have that. :)
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