Campus of Death
Liz:
I *really* like the idea of the "dummy rooms" for them to claim while leaving other actual bedrooms open for use. This would definitely alleviate the problem of those stupid mascots following dormies into their rooms and then getting stuck in there for 2 semesters until I enable Buy/Build for something and notice them in there. Will give this a try when I send the next gen of YAs through!
If you don't mind being totally cheaty about getting access to the Secret Society lot, you can always, with cheats enabled, simply shift-click your sim and say "Add to Secret Society" if they aren't already a member, and they can call the limo (I haven't tried to resurrect any dormies not a member of the society, so I don't know if that's a necessary element of the SS Bone Phone route or not). Alternately, you could place Bone Phones in your occupied dorms via some simple cheatery: 'unlockcareerrewards' does exactly what it says (at least through FT - I'd say I can't imagine why AL would break that, but I think we all know better than to presume upon EA's sensibility in these matters). So once you have a sim living in a dorm it's easy enough to 'unlockcareerrewards' for a phone to plonk in the corner, and if you want to erase temptation to use the others, simply sell off the other rewards for §0.
Gus Smedstad:
I didn't know about UnlockCareerRewards, either. That's really the most direct solution to the problem, though I'll have to use the money cheats (which I dislike) to fix the damage to the dorm's funds after undoing dormie stupidity. I won't find it at all difficult to ignore the temptation of the other career rewards - I ordinarily ignore them, much as I ignore the aspiration rewards, as making the game easier than it needs to be.
- Gus
Liz:
Just had an idea, Gus! If you dislike money cheats and typically ignore the other rewards, it just occurred to me that you could actually put a couple of the other rewards to use... sort of cheat more to cheat less... and have a dorm "bake sale" with the chocolate station or make public speeches via the law podium to replenish the resurrection funds.
sewinglady:
Sorry, but I'd just leave 'em dead. But then, I never play Maxis created sims. Never. shudder.
When I do use the dorm concept, I tend to use it a little differently, I don't actually change the lot zoning to 'dorm'. I make a 6 or 8 bedroom 'house' and give it the amenities I want and move students in... one thing this does is that it makes the sims cook for themselves so they grow their cooking skill.
I also use TwoJeffs college adjuster and visitor controller (there just are no cheerleaders and mascots in my game...oops) to keep the unwanted off the premises.
Basically it looks like a dorm (or a greek house) and it plays like one save for the kitchen area... oh yeah - and I don't bother with the MyneDoors...sim students sleep in whatever bed I direct them, too.
Yes, I micro-manage my simmies.
Gus Smedstad:
These aren't game-generated Dormies, either. I created them in CAS and then turned them into Dormies with Inge's shrub. This avoids ugly hairstyles and clothes and iffy names. I have NoDormieRegen to avoid Maxis dormies.
The thing I like about a formal dorm as opposed to a dorm-style house is that if I only have a few active students, I have quite a few uncontrolled students with which to interact. I also like a certain amount of autonomy in the game, mainly to inject randomness. I'd never bother to form deliberate enemies if I were micro-managing everything, for example.
- Gus
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