University installation advice?
windy_moon:
I am being so anal about this, you'd think that I was trying to launch a space shuttle with real human beings or something. T -2 days to University Install, what's the check list now so we don't lose anybody during the mission? ::)
My children's games, under their own XP user names, complicate everything as they have their own downloads to be dealt with and neighborhoods to be backed up. At 11 and 13, they don't believe their mother that half the things they are doing right now can turn their games into a big firey ball visible from space but I assure you, when their game is FUBARd, Mom is the one who is going to have to pick up the pieces. >:(
Just chattering, please ignore if people on message boards who chatter, chatter, chatter drive you crazy:
So, my 11 year old, Adam, has been nagging me to buy Uni for several months now. I am sure it is annoying to have your mother bogart your computer and game and start putting out all kinds of mother rules and regulations for Your Own Good when you are 11 and just want to cram your computer with crap and push every button you see 10 times. What does this button do?
When I finally decided to go with a Uni install, he was thrilled and then completely apalled that I intended to install it this weekend, the same weekend that Dad is taking both boys camping, leaving Mom with the house to herself. Read, no children talking to her incessently while she is performing critical install tasks.
Uni arrived on Tuesday and the nagging/begging/pleading/cajoling macrotastics began with a call to me at work to just let me know, helpfully of course, that my Uni package had arrived and perhaps I would care for him to read the entire manual to me aloud over the phone. Lord God, that child has a future in used car sales!
This is what happens when geeks reproduce.
Anyway, you guys have been so helpful...and the most awesome of all has been awesome as expected. I wasn't sure which hacks and fixes I have that were Uni compatible so I've redownloaded everything, rather than sorting through versions. I've a huge honking folder of Pescado ready to go, my precious Inge shrubs (hugs! hugs! I love those shrubs!), and the Merola mirror & painting. I've backed up all of the kids' neighborhoods and cleaned their downloads.
Thanks muchly for the "put everybody to sleep or at least make sure they are home" advice, will do. Annoying that I will have to do it for the kid's neighborhoods too, but better safe than sorry as I will be left cleaning up messes should any occur. (My husband is a Non Geek and is no help whatsoever...I think he knows how to get his email on his own now but if somebody sends him a jpeg or PDF he yells to IT Mom for help.)
Thanks!
SciBirg:
Here's my advice: First make sure that you have all the CD's ready and that your second Uni CD has not been packed somewhere far, far away during your recent move. :o
I guess I should have followed that advice before uninstalling my game. Well, at least I found the CD's for the base game. :)
I can honestly say that one gets spoilt after using Macrotastic in the game. Everything is soooo hard now!
windy_moon:
Install sucessful, ;D , so far......tedious going into everybody's house to get them home and get them to bed, but well worth it for peace of mind.
I'm really unimpressed with the expansion pack, so far. I need to take a nap and read a Uni tutorial or something. I played a University unattached to my beloved neighborhood for a few hours and it was yawn boring. Perhaps when I know more what I am doing and have Sims I care about going through the process, I'll be more engaged.
Looking forward to using Pescado's clock. I want to learn how do it the long way, though, as I like to know what the rules are before I smash them to smithereens.
Thanks, everybody.
Baddmark:
That was the bit of installation advice we didn't give you - don't bother because it's boring. ;D
Your sims have LTW now, which is the main reason I got Uni. So you can have some fun with that. Getting a 4.0 GPA and 1200 simoleons a month is so easy (even with a CAS YA with no skills) that you'll soon have a dorm with all the skilling equipment, expensive beds and whatnot that your sims won't even have to leave the building except for the final exam.
Get the comm skilling hack BTW, so your dormies can gain skills sitting in front of the TV or playing chess. If you decide to make them playable later they won't appear to be quite so "retardo". ;)
dmchess:
Quote from: windy_moon on 2005 September 17, 13:23:21
I'm really unimpressed with the expansion pack, so far. I need to take a nap and read a Uni tutorial or something. I played a University unattached to my beloved neighborhood for a few hours and it was yawn boring.
I've heard that from other people, too, so you're definitely not alone! I really enjoy Uni, though, and playing YAs in college is one of my favorite things. Dunno why; maybe it depends what your main interest in the game is. My advice is to look on the YA years as a chance to have fun and get your characters into interesting stories before they get tied down with spouses and kids ;), rather than just a sort of side-trip from the "real" neighborhood.
'course maybe this just means that I'm nostalgic about my own college years, and Uni lets me live out various scurrilous fantasies through my Sims... ;D
DC
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