I agree with those ladies!  What a waste!  My fiance has the most gorgeous full, shiny, silky hair ever and he can't stand it.  He's 29, but when it is short he looks like he's 12 because it's so curly and cute, so he keeps it long and wears it in a low pony.  He puts a hat on as soon as he's out of the shower to smash the curls against his head to flatten them out, then once dry it gets pulled back.  Why he feels the need to hide that beautiful hair is beyond me.  I'd kill to have it instead of my super fine, limpy straight locks.  Urghh, you men don't deserve it! 

Anyway, the hidden hair looks nice.  I'll try it, but if it doesn't animate right I won't use it.  I haven't found much custom hair that actually looks good in the game, so I don't use any. 

Sandilou, I use the same 1 day = 1 year at Uni for keeping my neighborhood up as well, but I can't sit through eight semesters of 72 hour each.  I usually go through each semester in about 24 hours of the semestser timer.  That even seems to long to me.

I applaud your father in his efforts.  I have started a small (very small at the moment) business in my home about 5 months ago, so I kinda know how that goes.  I'm trying to expand though, and the teeny tiny town that I live in just doesn't have the demand.  I wish I could work around the clock, but I just don't have the customers base (yet - being hopeful).

windy_moon, I play for realism as well, but a kind of a skewed realism.  I love the zombies and such, but I use them sparingly.  I want my game to seem real, but not too real, since is fantasy, and I like it like that.  I only let certain sims use certain rewards, like my science minded sims can use energizers and servos and cowplants, and my more freakish characters and undead sims can use aspiration suckers and ressurecto-thingies.  But most of my sims live life without the rewards and other odd-flavored aspects of the game.

I absolutely love the sign from simlogical.  It is wonderful for home businesses.  Does anyone know if it works on community lots as well?  Don't know why I haven't tried it there yet.  It bothers me that the business is automatically opened when you first arrive.  Sometimes I like to go in early and get things ready or build something new, and I can't do it because a bunch of idiot townies are milling all over the place by the time I get out of the taxi.

Hi all.  I've been lurking around here for months and months, but just thought I'd pop in on this and tell a bit about how I play my UNI sims.


I feel the same as you do about Uni.  I like the benefits of having a degree and meeting some new friends, but it takes waaaaaay to long to get through.  I let my sims work on a "learn at your own pace" basis.  They never get an extension of the 72 simhours, but if they get their grade bar at least half way up (sometimes not, depending on story) I use twojeffs college adjuster to set the hours to final.  It is usually about half the time it would normally take, and it doesn't seem like cheating since I am actually giving them less time to work on their grades.  If I let them go the full three days every sim would have a GPA of 4.0 without even trying.  Plus I would get bored.  I don't think that it's very realistic to have every sim graduate with honors.  Only a small percentage of sims graduate cum laude, and some dumass sims actually manage to flunk out.  And I only allow myself to use "influence to..." do schoolwork on other playable characters.  Feels less like cheating that way.

As far as OFB goes, I am still just playing around with it but once I start actually playing my CAS sims I'm going to have to figure out a way to get around the out of time sync thing.  That really bothers me.  For serious sims I suppose I can have them meditate while I play up the household time, but I don't know what to do about the non-meditative types.